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Professor of Social Statistics and Elected Member of the Law Faculty
Working Papers
" The Delaware Death penalty: An Empirical Study," (with Sheri Lynn Johnson, John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, Valerie P. Hans) Iowa Law Review (forthcoming) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-24 (2012).
“A Bayesian Hierachical Regression Approach to Longitudinal Data in Empirical Legal Studies” (with W. Anderson), Cornell University-School of Operations Research and Information Engineering and Cornell University-School of Law (2009).
“Numerical Analysis in Least Squares Regression with an Application to the Abortion-Crime Debate” (with W. Anderson), 2nd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper (2007).
Contributions to Books
"The Relation Between Punitive and Compensatory Awards: Combining Extreme Data with the Mass of Awards" (with Theodore Eisenberg and Valerie P. Hans), in Civil Juries and Civil Justice (New York: Springer, 2008).
"Victim Characteristics and Victim Impact Evidence in South Carolina Capital Cases," in Wounds That Do Not Bind: Victim-Based Perspectives on the Death Penalty 297-321 (J. Acker & D Karp eds. 2006) (with T. Eisenberg & S. Garvey).
Articles
"The Decision to Award Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study" (with Theodore Eisenberg, Michael Heise, and Nicole L. Walters), 2 Journal of Legal Analysis 2 (2010).
"Variability in Punitive Damages: An Empirical Assessment of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker," (with T. Eisenberg, & M. Heise), 166 Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics 5 (2010).
"Statins, Cholesterol, Women and Primary Prevention: Evidence-Based Medicine or Wishful Thinking?" (with T. Eisenberg), 5 Future Cardiology 1 (2009).
"Statins and Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Moderate-Risk Females: A Statistical and Legal Analysis With Implications for FDA Preemption Claims" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 5 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 507 (2008).
“A Bayesian Analysis of Return Dynamics with Levy Jumps" (with H. Li and C. Yu), 21(5) The Review of Financial Studies 2345 (2008).
“Judges, Juries, and Punitive Damages: Empirical Analyses Using the Civil Justice Survey of State Courts 1992, 1996, and 2001 Data,” (with T. Eisenberg, P. Hannaford-Agor, M. Heise, N. LaFountain, G.T. Munsterman, and B. Ostrom) 3 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 263 (2006).
“The Significant Association Between Punitive and Compensatory Damages in Blockbuster Cases: A Methodological Primer” (with T. Eisenberg), 3 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 175 (2006).
“Judge-Jury Agreement in Criminal Cases: A Partial Replication of Kalvern and Zeisel’s The American Jury” (with T. Eisenberg, P. Hannaford-agar, V. Hans, N. Waters, G.T. Munsterman and S. Schwab), 2 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 171 (2005).
“The Fate of Firms: Explaining Mergers and Bankruptcies” (with C. Bergstrom, T. Eisenberg, and S. Sundgren), 2 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 49 (2005).
"Juror First Votes in Criminal Trials" (with S. Garvey, P. Hannaford-Agor, V. Hans, and others), 1 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 371-98 (2004).
"Explaining Death Row's Population and Racial Composition" (with J. Blume and T. Eisenberg), 1 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 165-207 (2004).
"Victim Characteristics and Victim Impact Evidence in South Carolina Capital Cases" (with T. Eisenberg and S. Garvey), 88 Cornell Law Review 306 (2003).
"Judges, Juries, and Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study," (with T. Eisenberg, N. LaFountain, B. Ostrom, and others), 87 Cornell Law Review 743 (2002).
"Trial Outcomes and Demographics: Is There a Bronx Effect?" (with T. Eisenber), 80 Texas Law Review 1839 (2002).
"Reconciling Experimental Incoherence with Real-World Coherence in Punitive Damages" (with T. Eisenberg and J. Rachlinski), 54 Stanford Law Review 1239 (2002).
"Forecasting Life and Death: Juror Race, Religion, and Attitude Toward the Death Penalty" (with T. Eisenberg and S. Garvey), 30 Journal of Legal Studies 277 (2001).
"The Deadly Paradox of Capital Jurors" (with T. Eisenberg and S. Garvey), 74 Southern California Law Review 371 (2001).
"Inbreeding in Law School Hiring: Analyzing the Performance of Faculty Hired From Within" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 29 Journal of Legal Studies 369 (2000).
"The Predictability of Punitive Damages Awards in Published Opnions, the Impact of BMW v. Gore on Punitive Damages Awards, and Forecasting Which Punitive Awards Will Be Reduced" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 7 Supreme Court Economic Review 59 (1999).
"Punitive Awards after BMW, a New Capping System, and the Reported Opinion Bias" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 1998 Wisconsin Law Review 387-425 (1998).
"Ranking and Explaining the Scholarly Impact of Law Schools" (with Theodore Eisenberg), 27 Journal of Legal Studies 373-413 (1998).
"Larger Board Size and Decreasing Firm Value in Small Firms" (with Theodore Eisenberg and S. Sundgren),  48 Journal of Financial Economics 35-54 (1998).
"But Was He Sorry? The Role of Remorse in Capital Sentencing" (with Stephen P. Garvey and Theodore Eisenberg), 83 Cornell Law Review 1599-1637 (1998).
"The Predictability of Punitive Damages" (with T. Eisenberg, J. Goerdt, B. Ostrom, D. Rottman), 26 Journal of Legal Studies 623-61 (1997).
"Jury Responsibility in Capital Sentencing: An Empirical Study" (with T. Eisenberg and S. Garvey), 44 Buffalo Law Review 339-80 (1996).
"Deadly Confusion: Juror Instructions in Capital Cases" (with T. Eisenberg), 79 Cornell Law Review 1-17 (1993).
Miscellaneous
"Bayesian Estimation for Spherically Symmetric Distributions" (with D. Cellier and D. Fourdrinier), __Journal of Multivariate Analysis __ (Forthcoming).
"Robust Shrinkage Estimation for Elliptically Symmetric Distributions with Unknown Covariance Matrix" (with D. Fourdrinier and W.E. Strawderman), 85 Journal of Multivariate Analysis 24 (2003)
"Power Analysis for Linear Models with Spherical Errors" (with W. Wang), 108 Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 155 (2002).
"A Martingale Approach to the Copula-Graphic Estimator for the Survival Function under Dependent Censoring" (with L-P Rivest), 79 Journal of Multivariate Analysis 138 (2001).
"General--Statistics in the Year 2000: Vignettes" (with A. Raftery and M. Tanner), 95 Journal of the American Statistical Association 281 (2000).
"Theory and Methods--Model Selection and Semiparametric Inference for Bivariate Failure-Time Data" (with W.Wang), 95 Journal of the American Statistical Association 62 (2000).
"Statistical Controversies in Census 2000" (with L.D. Brown, M.L. Eaton, D.A. Freedman, S.P. Klein, R.A. Olshen, K.W. Wachter, and D. Ylvisaker),  39 Jurimetrics 347 (1999).
"Estimation robuste pour des lois a symetrie elliptique a matrice de covariance inconnue" (with D. Fourdriner and W. Strawderman), Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie I, Mathematique. 326, no. 9 (1998): 1135.
"Nonparametric Estimation of Successive Duration Times Under Dependent Censoring" (with W. Wang), 85 Biometrika 561-572 (1998).
"Nonparametric Estimator of the Bivariate Survival Function Under Simplified Censoring Conditions" (with W. Wang), 84 Biometrika 863-80 (1997).
"On the Construction of Bayes Minimax Estimators" (with D. Fourdrinier and W. Strawderman), 26 Annals of Statistics 660-71 (1998).
"Approximately Exact Inference for the Common Odds Ratio in Several 2 X 2 Tables, with Discussion" (with R. Strawderman), 93 Journal of the American Statistical Association 1294-1320 (1998).
"Accurate Bootstrap Confidence Limits for the Cumulative Hazard and Survivor  Functions Under Random Censoring" (with R. Strawderman), 92 Journal of the American Statistical Association 1356 (1997).
"Accurate Confidence Limits for Quantiles Under Random Censoring" (with R. Strawderman and M. Parzen), 53 Biometrics 1399-1415 (1997).
"Using Random Rather than Fixed Effects Models in Meta-Analysis: Implications for Situational Specificity and Validity Generalization" (with A. Erez and M. Bloom), 49 Personnel Psychology 275-306 (1996).
"Quantile Comparison Functions in Two-Sample Problems, With Application to Comparisons of Diagnostic Markers" (with G. Li and R. Tiwari) 91 Journal of the American Statistical Association  689 (1996).
"Density Estimation with Bivariate Censored Data" (with K.P. Yeo) 91 Journal of the American Statistical Association 1566 (1996).
"Practical Small-Sample Asymptotics for Regression Problems" (with R. Strawderman and G. Casella), 91 Journal of the American Statistical Association 643 (1996).
"Comment: Alternative Aspects of Conditional Inference" (with G. Casella and T. DiCiccio), 10 Statistical Science: A Review Journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics 179 (1995).
"Inference for Shift Functions in the Two-Sample Problem with Right-Censored Data: With Applications" (with H. Lu and R. Tiwari), 89 Journal of the American Statistical Association 1172 (1994).
"Correlation Among Unconstrained Variables in a Pooled Model" (with A. Hadi), 7 Econometric Theory 545 (1991).
"Simulaneous Confidence Ellipsoids" (with A. Hadi), 6 Econometric Theory 408 (1990).
"Estimation of Accuracy in Testing" (with T.H. Tzon. G. Casella, R. Christian, and others), 20 The Annals of Statistics 490-509 (1992).
"Assessing the Effects of Multiple Rows on the Condition Number of a Matrix" (with A. Hadi), 85 Journal of the American Statistical Association 786-92 (1990).
"Goodness-of-Fit Tests for System Components with Random Redundancy Levels" (with R. Tiwari), 27 Opsearch 125-29 (1990).
"The Relative Efficiency of Goodness-of-Fit Statistics in the Simple and Composit Hypothesis-Testing Problem," 85 Journal of the American Statistical Association 459-63 (1990).