Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Faculty of Science
University of Calgary
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John Collins
- Professor
- Statistics and Actuarial Science
Office Hours
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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| 10a‑11a | - | 1p‑2p | - | - | - | - |
Research Interests
Currently Teaching
| W2012 - STAT 213 - Introduction To Statistics I | Syllabus | ||||||||||||||||
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| W2012 - STAT 723 - Theory Of Hypothesis Testing | Syllabus | ||||||||||||||||
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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..
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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