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55
Citations
15447
World Ranking
780
National Ranking
377

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1998 - Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award, American Statistical Association (ASA)
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1984 - Wald Memorial Lecturer
  • 1974 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

David Siegmund is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and specializes primarily in the field of Mathematics, with a focus on Statistics and Probability. Their research extends into subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Genetics, Finance, and General Health Professions.

The main topics that characterize Siegmund's work comprise Statistical Methods and Inference, Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models, and Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling. Additional topics of interest include Gene expression and cancer classification, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, as well as Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock and Genetics and Plant Breeding.

Siegmund's recent publications include:

  • "Segmentation and estimation of change-point models: False positive control and confidence regions," 2020, The Annals of Statistics
  • "Ghost QTL and hotspots in experimental crosses: novel approach for modeling polygenic effects," 2021, Genetics
  • "Detection and Estimation of Local Signals," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Change: detection, estimation, segmentation," 2020, Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques
  • "Sequential Detection of Transient Signals in High Dimensional Data Stream," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Siegmund include Xiao Fang, Jian Li, Jonas Wallin, Małgorzata Bogdan, and Piotr Szulc. The most common venues for Siegmund's publications are arXiv (Cornell University), The Annals of Statistics, Genetics, Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, and Chemie Ingenieur Technik.

Throughout their career, Siegmund has received several honors: Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2002), Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award from the American Statistical Association (1998), Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994), Wald Memorial Lecturer (1984), and Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1974).

Best Publications

  • Strong control, conservative point estimation and simultaneous conservative consistency of false discovery rates: a unified approach

    John D. Storey;Jonathan E. Taylor;David Siegmund

  • Great expectations: The theory of optimal stopping

    Yuan Shih Chow;Herbert Ellis Robbins;David Siegmund

  • Sequential Analysis: Tests and Confidence Intervals

    David Siegmund

  • Maximally Selected Chi Square Statistics

    Rupert Miller;David Siegmund

  • A Convergence Theorem for Non Negative Almost Supermartingales and Some Applications

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  • A modified Bayes information criterion with applications to the analysis of comparative genomic hybridization data.

    Nancy R. Zhang;David O. Siegmund

  • Using the Generalized Likelihood Ratio Statistic for Sequential Detection of a Change-Point

    D. Siegmund;E. S. Venkatraman

  • Statistical Methods for Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci From a Dense Set of Markers

    Josée Dupuis;David Siegmund

  • Importance Sampling in the Monte Carlo Study of Sequential Tests

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  • Gaussian models for genetic linkage analysis using complete high-resolution maps of identity by descent.

    E Feingold;P O Brown;D Siegmund

  • Boundary Crossing Probabilities and Statistical Applications

    David Siegmund

  • Tests for a change-point

    Barry James;Kang Ling James;David Siegmund

  • The likelihood ratio test for a change-point in simple linear regression

    Hyune Ju Kim;David Siegmund

  • Sequential multi-sensor change-point detection

    Yao Xie;David Siegmund

  • Change-point problems

    Edward G. Carlstein;Hans-Georg Müller;David Siegmund

  • A diffusion process and its applications to detecting a change in the drift of Brownian motion

    Moshe Pollak;David Siegmund

  • A Nonlinear Renewal Theory with Applications to Sequential Analysis II

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  • Testing for a Signal with Unknown Location and Scale in a Stationary Gaussian Random Field

    David O. Siegmund;Keith J. Worsley

  • Estimation following sequential tests

    D. Siegmund

  • Boundary Crossing Probabilities for the Wiener Process and Sample Sums

    Herbert Robbins;David Siegmund;David Siegmund

  • CORRECTED DIFFUSION APPROXIMATIONS IN CERTAIN RANDOM WALK PROBLEMS

    D. Siegmund

  • Detecting simultaneous changepoints in multiple sequences.

    Nancy R. Zhang;David O. Siegmund;Hanlee Ji;Jun Z. Li

  • Sequential medical trials.

    T. L. Lai;Bruce Levin;Herbert Robbins;David Siegmund

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert Robbins
Herbert Robbins Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Josée Dupuis
Josée Dupuis McGill University
Patrick O. Brown
Patrick O. Brown Stanford University
Jianxin Shi
Jianxin Shi National Institutes of Health
Tze Leung Lai
Tze Leung Lai Stanford University
Eleanor Feingold
Eleanor Feingold University of Pittsburgh
Emelia J. Benjamin
Emelia J. Benjamin Boston University
Hua Tang
Hua Tang Stanford University
Michael Levitt
Michael Levitt Stanford University
Bruce G. Lindsay
Bruce G. Lindsay Pennsylvania State University

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