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John Collins

Professor

Statistics and Actuarial Science

+1 (403) 220-3960

MS 570

collins@ucalgary.ca

Office Hours

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
10a‑11a	-	1p‑2p	-	-	-	-

Research Interests

Currently Teaching

F2012 - STAT 213 - Introduction To Statistics I

Details

	LEC 7	TR 15:30 - 16:45	SA 104
	Notes: STUDENTS IN LEC 07 MUST REGISTER IN one of the labs among LAB B29 to B32 and one of Tutorials T01 through T13.

F2012 - STAT 507 - Applied Probability

Details

LEC 1

MWF 15:00 - 15:50

W2013 - STAT 213 - Introduction To Statistics I

Details

	LEC 4	MWF 14:00 - 14:50	ST 143
	Notes: LEC 04 MUST REGISTER IN LAB B17 OR LAB B18 and one of Tutorials T01, T02, T03, T04 or T05,

W2013 - STAT 217 - Introduction To Statistics II

Details

	LEC 3	MWF 12:00 - 12:50	SA 104
	Notes: LEC 03 MUST REGISTER IN LAB B13 OR LAB B14 OR LAB B15 OR LAB B16 and one of Tutorials T01, T02, T03, T04, T05, T06, or T07.

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Publications

Journal Paper

Szatmari-Voicu, D. and Collins, John. M-estimators of scale with minimum gross errors sensitivity. 36.11 2007. 2037-2048.
Collins, John and Szatmari-Voicu, Daniela. Maximal asymptotic biases of M-estimators of location with preliminary scale estimates 33.8 2004. 1877 - 1886..
Collins, John. Bias-robust L-estimators of a scale parameter 37.4 2003. 287 - 303..
Collins, John. Robustness comparisons of some classes of location parameter estimators 52.2 2000. 351 - 366..
Collins, John. Robust M-estimators of scale: Minimax bias versus maximal variance 27.1 1999. 81 - 96..
Collins, John and Wu, Boll. Comparisons of asymptotic biases and variances of M-estimators of scale under asymmetric contamination. 27.7 1998. 1791 - 1810..
Collins, John and Liu, Shawn. Asymptotic relative efficiency comparisons for some robust location estimators. 25.1 1996. 63 - 82..
Collins, John. Maximal asymptotic biases and variances of symmetrized interquantile ranges under asymmetric contamination. 22.3 1991. 379 -402..
Collins, John and Wiens, Douglas. Minimax properties of M-, R-, and L-estimators of location in Levy neighborhoods. 17.1 1989. 327 - 336..
Collins, John, Sheahan, J. N. and Zheng, Z.. Robust estimation in the linear model with asymmetric error distributions. 20.2 1986. 220 - 243..
Collins, John. Maximal asymptotic variances of trimmed means under asymmetric contamination. 14.1 1986. 348 -354..
Collins, John and Wiens, Douglas. Minimax variance M-estimators in epsilon-contaminated models. 13.3 1985. 1078 - 1096..
Collins, John. On the minimax property for R-estimators of location. 11.4 1983. 1190 - 1195..
Bickel, P. J. and Collins, John. Minimizing Fisher information over mixtures of distributions. 45.1 1983. 1 - 19..
Collins, John. Robust M-estimators of location vectors. 12.4 1982. 480 -492..
Collins, John and Portnoy, Stephen L.. Maximizing the variance of M-estimators using the generalized method of moment spaces. 9.3 1981. 567 - 577..
Collins, John. Upper bounds on asymptotic variances of M-estimators of location. 5.4 1977. 646 - 657..
Collins, John. Robust estimation of a location parameter in the presence of asymmetry. 4.1 1976. 68 -85..
Schafer, R. E., Finkelstein, J. M. and Collins, John. On a goodness of fit test for the exponential distribution. 59.1 1972. 222 - 224..

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Degrees

1966 - B.Sc. - University of California at Los Angeles
1968 - M.Sc. - University of Southern California
1973 - Ph.D. - University of California at Berkeley

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