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Jerome H. Klotz

Professor Emeritus
Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1300 University Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Telephone: (608) 262-6197
Fax: (608) 262-0032
E-mail: klotz@stat.wisc.edu

Book

A Computational Approach to Statistics (Acrobat .pdf file of 492 pages, 1,963,303 bytes).

Software (in compressed (.zip) format) :

Two sample Mann-Whitney Wilcoxon rank sum c.d.f.(for Windows) Wilcox.zip
One sample Wilcoxon signed rank c.d.f. (for Windows) sRank.zip
Likelihood ratio test of independence for an RxC contingency table (DOS FORTRAN program of Seung-ho Kang) LRTexact.zip
Number of RxC contingency tables with fixed margins (for Windows) HSize.zip
Kruskal Wallis H Test for counts (for Windows) HTest.zip
K sample Mood And Brown Median Test (for Windows) Mood.zip
P-value program for some discrete uniformly most powerful unbiased tests (for Windows) Pval.zip

Degrees:

A.B. Math (1956), Ph.D. Statistics (1960), University of California at Berkeley.

Areas of Interest and Selected Publications:

Nonparametrics

(1962) Nonparametric tests for scale. Annals of Mathematical Statistics 33 498-512.
(1965) Alternative efficiencies for signed rank tests. Annals of Mathematical Statistics 36 1759-1766.
(1977) with J.Teng. One-way layout for counts and the exact distribution of the Kruskal-Wallis H distribution with ties Journal of the American Statistical Association 72 165-169.

Analysis of variance

(1969) with J. Putter. Maximum likelihood estimation of multivariate covariance components for the balanced one-way layout. Annals of Mathematical Statistics 40 1100-1105.
(1978) with S.H. Li. Components of variance estimation for the split plot design. Journal of the American Statistical Association 73 147-152.
(1989) with H.S. Jorn. The contrast algorithm for unbalanced multifactor ANOVA Journal of the American Statistical Association 84 318-324.

Biostatistics

(1977) with F. Ansfield and the Central Oncology Group. A phase III study comparing the clinical utility of four dosage regimens of 5-fluorouracil. Cancer 39 34-40.
(1978) Testing a linear constraint for multinomial cell frequencies and disease screening. Annals of Statistics 6 904-909.
(1978) Maximum entropy constrained balance randomization for clinical trials. Biometrics 34 283-287.

Statistical Computing

(1991) Exact computation of the Wilcoxon signed rank distribution with zeros and ties. Computer Science and Statistics, Proceedings of the 22nd Symposium on the Interface. Springer, New York.
(1992) with S.Y. Ho. Sparse matrix methods for unbalanced multifactor analysis of variance and covariance. Journal of Computation and Simulation 41 55-72.
(1995) with Y.K. Cheung. The Mann Whitney Wilcoxon distribution using linked lists. Statistica Sinica 7 805-813 .
(1998) A linked list for the Wilcoxon signed rank test. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics 9 87-93.

Theory of Gambling

(1995) with R. Johnson. Estimating hot numbers and testing uniformity for the lottery. Journal of the American Statistical Association 88 662-668.
(2000) A winning strategy for roulette. Finding the Edge: Mathematical Analysis of Casino Games. 397-411 .
Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming. University of Nevada, Reno (Acrobat .pdf file of 14 pages, 2001 bytes).

Plan:

To bicycle the backroads of the world.