George G. Roussas

Professor of Statistics Department

EDUCATION/TRAINING

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

YEAR(s)

FIELD OF STUDY

University of Athens, Greece

B.A.

1956

Mathematics (with high honors)

University of California, Berkeley, CA

Ph.D.

1964

Statistics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A.      Positions and Honors

Positions and Employment

Professorial Appointments

1985-present         Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis: Professor

1984-1985                          Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis: Visiting Professor

1972-1984                          School of Mathematics and Sciences, University of Patras, Greece: Professor

1972-1976                          Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Professor

1968-1972                          Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Associate Professor

1966-1968                          Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison:  Assistant Professor

1964-1966                          Department of Statistics, California State University, San Jose: Assistant Professor

Administrative Appointments

1985-1999                          Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis: Associate Dean

1985-1999              Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis: Chair, Graduate Group in Statistics

1981-1985             University of Crete, Greece: Vice President – Academic Affairs         

Between 1972       School of Mathematics & Sciences, University of Patras, Greece: Dean

University of Patras, Greece: Vice Chancellor

      And 1983               University of Patras, Greece:  Chancellor

Honors

Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis

Fellow, Royal Statistical Society

Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Fellow, American Statistical Association

Elected Member, International Statistical Institute

A Festschrift for G.G. Roussas: Asymptotic in Statistics and Probability: Papers in Honor of George Gregory Roussas, Madan L. Puri (Ed.), VSP International Science Publishers (2000), 429 pages. The Volume includes 25 papers by 48 contributors from 13 countries.

A two-day Workshop in honor of G.G. Roussas with thirty distinguished invitees from seven countries was hosted by the Department of Statistics on May 19-20, 2001.

 

 

 

B.  Editorial Work, Recent Papers, Books and Edited Volumes

Editorial Work

1)        Statistics & Probability Letters, Associate

Editor since its inception

2)        Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Associate Editor since its inception

3)        Stochastic Modelling and Applications, Associate Editor since its inception

4)        Inference for Stochastic Processes, Member of the Editorial Board since its inception

Research Papers

1)      2000 Roussas, G.G. Contiguity of Probability measures. Invited contribution to the Kluwer Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Supplement II, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 123-130.

2)      2000 Roussas, G.G. Asymptotic normality of the kernel estimate of a probability density function under association. Statistics and Probability Letters 50:1-12.

3)      2000 Roussas, G.G. Prediction under association. In Recent Advances in Reliability Theory: Methodology, Practice and Inference (N. Limnios and M. Nikulin, Eds.) Birkhäuser, Boston, 451-475.

4)      2001 Roussas, G.G. An Esseen-type inequality for probability density functions, with an application.  Statistics and Probability Letters 51:397-408 [see also 54(2001): 449].

5)      2001 Roussas, G.G. Fixed design regression under association. In Selected Proceedings on Inference for Stochastic Processes (I.V. Basawa, C.C. Heyde and R.L. Taylor, Eds.) Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes-Monograph Series 37:71-90.

6)      2001 Roussas, G.G. Some probabilistic results and aspects of estimation under mixing and association.  In Proceedings of 1st Conference in Actuarial Science and Finance, University of the Aegean, Greece (a 74 page invited contribution).

7)      2001 Bhattacharya, D. and G.G. Roussas.  Exponential approximation for randomly stopped locally asymptotically mixture of normal experiments. Stochastic Modelling and Applications 4:56-71.

8)      2002 Roussas, G.G. Some aspects of statistical inference in a Markovian and mixing framework.  In Modeling Uncertainty: An Examination of Stochastic Theory, Methods, and Applications (Moshe Dror, Pierre L’Ecuyer and Ferenc Szidarovszky, Eds) Kluwer Academic Publishers, 555-606.

9)      2002 Roussas, G.G. and D. Bahttacharya. Exponential approximation of distributions.  Teoriya Imovirnostey ta Matematichna Statystika 66:108-120

Books and Edited Volumes

1)        Roussas, G.G. 1972. Contiguity of Probability Measures: Some applications in statistics (248 pages). Cambridge University Press.

Translation of the book in Russian by M.I.R. House in 1975.

2)    Roussas, G.G. 1973.  A First Course in Mathematical Statistics (506 pages).  Addison Wesley.    Also issued by the MEI YA Publishing House in Taiwan, R.O.C.  

3)      Roussas, G.G. 1991 (Ed.) Nonparametric Functional Estimation and Related Topics (708 Pages).  Kluwer Academic Publishers.

4)      Roussas, G.B. 1997. A Course in Mathematical Statistics (572 pages), 2nd revised edition. Academic Press.

5)      Roussas, G.G. 2003. An Introduction to Probability and Statistical Inference (523 pages).  Academic Press.

6)      Roussas, G.G. 2003. An Introduction to Probability and Statistical Inference: Answers Manual (190 pages). Academic Press.

7)      Roussas, G.G., P.G. Hall and M. Hallin (Eds.) Madan Lal Puri Selected Collected Works, Volume 1: Nonparametric Methods in Statistics and Related Topics (797 pages). VSP International Science Publishers.

8)      Roussas, G.G., P. G. Hall and M. Hallin (Eds.). Madan Lal Puri Selected Collected Works, Volume 2: Probability Theory and Extreme Value Theory (753 pages). VSP International Science Publishers.

9)      Roussas, G.G., P. G. Hall and M. Hallin (Eds.). Madan Lal Puri Selected Collected Works, Volume 3: Time Series, Fuzzy Analysis and Miscellaneous Topics (783 pages). VSP International Science Publishers.

10)  Roussas, G.G. 2005. An Introduction to Measure-Theoretic Probability (443 pages). Academic Press.

11)  Roussas, G.G. 2005. An Introduction to Measure-Theoretic Probability: Answers Manual(145 pages). Academic Press.

C.     Area of Expertise, Current Research Interests

Asymptotic parametric and nonparametric inference in stochastic processes, including Markovian, mixing and associated processes; contiguity.

D.  Completed Research Support

            FRG                                                    2002-2004

            Title - Local Polynomial Fitting Under Association – Postgraduate Researcher

E.   Ranking of Statistical Research Productivity at UC-Davis

During my tenure in the leadership positions of the Division of Statistics (Associate Dean; Chair,   Graduate Group in Statistics (1985-1999)), the statistical research productivity was rated twice as indicated below:

Period: 1986-1990

Source: National Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC)

Institutions ranked worldwide: 300

Basis of ranking: 16 peer-reviewed journals of high international repute

UC-Davis ranked:

14-th among the 300 institutions worldwide (top 4.7%)

11-th within USA institutions among the 300 (top 3.7%)

3-rd within California institutions (UC- Berkeley, Stanford University, UC-Davis)

2-nd within the UC System (UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis)

Period: 1986-2000

Source: Follow-up Ranking Undertaken by Christian Genest and Mireille Guay:

      Worldwide research output in probability and statistics: an update

In: The Canadian Journal of Statistics, Volume 30, No. 2, 2002, pages 392-442

Basis of ranking: The same (statistical) journals used in the previous ranking, plus 9 probability journals.

The same 300 worldwide institutions are ranked on the basis of several criteria.

One the basis of, perhaps, the most comprehensive criterion, UC-Davis is ranked 4-th among 202 institutions satisfying the criterion used (top 2%).