Associate Professor

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Office: 324 Machray Hall

Telephone: 204-474-6273

Office hours for the Winter 2012 Term:

Monday:	10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Thursday:	1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Recent Publications

• Desgagné, A., Lafaye De Micheaux, P. and Leblanc, A. (2011). Test of normality against generalized exponential power alternatives. Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods, 18 pages. (accepted for publication)
• Leblanc, A. (2011). On estimating distribution functions using Bernstein polynomials. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 32 pages. (accepted for publication)
• Leblanc, A. (2010). A Bias-reduced approach to density estimation using Bernstein polynomials. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics 22 (4), 459–475.
• Leblanc, A. (2009). Chung-Smirnov property for Bernstein estimators of distribution functions. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics 21 (2), 133–142.
• Wang, L. and Leblanc, A. (2008). Second-order nonlinear least-squares estimation. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 60 (4), 883–900.

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Biography

Alex Leblanc joined the Dept. of Statistics in July 2003. Before coming to Winnipeg, he did all of his studies at the Université de Montréal, in the Département de Mathématiques et de Statistique, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics in the fall of 2002. He worked under the supervision of J.-F. Angers, which makes him an academic grandson of James O. Berger. His thesis focused on the use of wavelets in Bayesian calculation and empirical Bayes estimation.

Alex was an un-tenured Assistant Professor from July 2003 to March 2010. He was promoted to Associate Professor on March 30, 2010 and tenured on July 1 of the same year.

Technical Reports (since 2005)

• Leblanc, A. & Johnson, B.C. (2006). A family of inequalities related to binomial probabilities. Technical Report, Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba, 5 pages.
• Leblanc, A. (2006). A note on the L¹ consistency of Bernstein polynomial density estimators. Technical Report, Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba, 8 pages.

Graduate Student Supervision

• Armin Hatefi, Ph.D. in Statistics, co-advisor: M. Jafari Jozani (current).
• Monsur Ahmed Chowdhury, Ph.D. in Statistics, co-advisor: A. Thavaneswaran (current).
• Mark Stinner, M.Sc. in Statistics (current).
• Mingming Hu, M.Sc. in Statistics, co-advisor: A. Thavaneswaran (2010).
• Phongsack Manivong, M.Sc. in Statistics (2009).
• Say Pham Hong, M.Sc. in Statistics (2007).

Conference Presentations (since 2005)

• Jafari Jozani, M., Leblanc, A. & Marchand, E. [speaker] (2011). On estimating a distribution function and the choice of the loss function. SSC Annual Meeting, Wolfville, June 2011.
• Leblanc, A. (2010). On the boundary effects of Bernstein polynomial estimators of density and distribution functions. Conference on Nonparametric Statistics and Statistical Learning, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, May 2010.
• Leblanc, A. (2010). On the boundary effects of Bernstein polynomial estimators of density and distribution functions. SSC Annual Meeting, Québec, May 2010.
• Leblanc, A. [speaker] & Jafari Jozani, M. (2010). Minimax invariant estimation of continuous distribution functions. Fourth Annual PNRMS Meeting, Winnipeg, May 2010.
• Leblanc, A. (2009). Chung-Smirnov property for Bernstein estimators of distribution functions. ASA-IMS Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington D.C., August 2009.
• Leblanc, A. (2008). Some asymptotic properties of Bernstein estimators of distribution functions. SSC-SFDS Joint Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 2008.
• Desgagné, A. [speaker], Lafaye de Micheaux, P. & Leblanc, A. (2008). Tests de normalité contre les alternatives de type GEP. SSC-SFDS Joint Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 2008.
• Leblanc, A. (2007). Chung-Smirnov property for Bernstein estimators of distribution functions. SSC Annual Meeting, St. John's (Nfld), June 2007.
• Leblanc, A. (2006). A Bias-corrected approach to density estimation using Bernstein polynomials. Conference on Nonparametric Statistics and Related Topics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Sept. 2006.
• Desgagné, A., Lafaye de Micheaux, P. [speaker] & Leblanc, A. (2005). Test de normalité contre les alternatives de type GEP: une étude de simulations. Annual Meeting of the SFDS, Pau (France), June 2005.
• Leblanc, A. [speaker] & Wang, L. (2005). Second-order nonlinear least-squares estimation. SSC Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, June 2005.

Seminar Presentations (since 2005)

• Leblanc, A. (2011). Weierstrass, Bernstein, Kantorovitch and Nonparametric Statistical Function Estimation. Statistics seminar, University of Toronto, January 2011.
• Leblanc, A. (2010). Weierstrass, Bernstein, Kantorovitch and Nonparametric Statistical Function Estimation. Statistics seminar, University of Western Ontario, November 2010.
• Leblanc, A. [speaker] & Jafari Jozani, M. (2010). Minimax invariant estimation of continuous distribution functions. Statistics seminar, University of Manitoba, April 2010.
• Leblanc, A. (2008). Asymptotic Deficiency and inadmissibility of empirical distribution functions. Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar, University of Manitoba, December 2008.
• Leblanc, A. (2007). Weierstrass, Bernstein, Kantorovitch and the estimation of distribution and density functions. Statistics seminar, University of Manitoba, November 2007.
• Leblanc, A. (2007). Chung-Smirnov property for Bernstein estimators of distribution functions. Montreal Joint Statistical Colloquium, McGill University, October 2007.
• Leblanc, A. (2006). Polynômes de Bernstein et estimation non-paramétrique d'une fonction de densité. Statistics seminar, Université de Sherbrooke, September 2006.
• Leblanc, A. (2006). Polynômes de Bernstein et estimation non-paramétrique d'une fonction de densité. Statistics seminar, Université Laval, September 2006.
• Leblanc, A. [speaker] & Wang, L. (2005). Second-order least-squares estimation. Statistics seminar, University of Manitoba, November 2005.