Wells, Martin Timothy

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Professional Affiliations:

  • Institute of Mathematical Statistics
  • American Statistical Association
  • American Mathematical Society
  • Royal Statistical Society
Also,
  • Editor in Chief, ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability
  • Co-Editor, The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
  • Editor, The Journal of the American Statistical Association-Reviews

background

educational background

  • Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California, 1987, Thesis: Contributions to the Theory of Goodness of Fit Testing under the supervision of Professor S. R. Jammalamadaka.
  • M.A., Mathematics and Statistics, University of California, 1984
  • B.A., Mathematics and Psychology, 1983, California State University

professional background

  • Professor and Chair, Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, 2001-Present
  • Professor, Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research, Weill Medical School, Cornell University, 2004-Present
  • Professor, Department of Social Statistics, Cornell University, 1999-Present
  • Professor, Cornell Law School, Cornell University, 1999-Present
  • Adjunct Professor, School of Operations Research, Cornell University, 1998-1999
  • Professeur Associé , Mathématiques, Université de Rouen, 1995-2003
  • Associate Professor, Department of Social Statistics, Cornell University, 1993-1999
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Social Statistics, Cornell University, 1987-1993

awards and distinctions

  • The Paramount Professor Award for Undergraduate Teaching
  • General Mills Foundation Prize for Exemplary Graduate Teaching

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

  • "Using Random Rather than Fixed Effects Models in Meta-Analysis: Implications for Situational Specificity and Validity Generalization" (with A. Erez and M. Bloom) ; Personnel Psychology 49, 275-306 ; 1996
  • "Jury Responsibility In Capital Sentencing: An Empirical Study" (with T. Eisenberg and S. Garvey) ; Buffalo Law Review 44, 339-380 ; 1996
  • "The Predictability of Punitive Damages" (with T. Eisenberg, J. Goerdt, B. Ostrom, D. Rottman) ; Journal of Legal Studies 26, 623-661 ; 1997
  • "Nonparametric Estimator of the Bivariate Survival Function Under Simplified Censoring Conditions" (with W. Wang) ; Biometrika 84, 863-880 ; 1997
  • "Accurate Confidence Limits for the Cumulative Hazard and Survivor Functions Under Random Censoring" (with R. Strawderman) ; Journal of the American Statistical Association 92, 1356-1374 ; 1997
  • "Accurate Confidence Limits for Quantiles Under Random Censoring" (with R. Strawderman and M. Parzen) ; Biometrics 53, 1399-1415 ; 1997
  • "Punitive Awards After BMW, a New Capping System, and the Reported Opinion Bias" (with T. Eisenberg) ; Wisconsin Law Review, 1, 387-425 ; 1998
  • "Ranking and Explaining the Scholarly Impact of Law Schools" (with T. Eisenberg) ; Journal of Legal Studies, 27, 373-413 ; 1998
  • "Larger Board Size and Decreasing Firm Value in Small Firms" (with T. Eisenberg and S. Sundgren) ; Journal of Finanicial Economics 48, 35-54 ; 1998
  • "Nonparametric Estimation Of Successive Duration Times Under Dependent Censoring" (with W. Wang) ; Biometrika, 85, 561-572 ; 1998
  • "On the Construction of Bayes Minimax Estimators" (with D. Fourdrinier and W. Strawderman) ; Annals of Statistics, 26, 660-671 ; 1998
  • "Approximately Exact Inference For The Common Odds Ratio In Several 2 X 2 Tables, With Discussion" (with R. Strawderman) ; Journal of the American Statistical Association, 93, 1294 - 1320 ; 1998
  • "But Was He Sorry? The Role of Remorse in Capital Sentencing" (with T. Eisenberg and S. Garvey) ; Cornell Law Review 83, 1599-1637 ; 1998
  • "The Predictability of Punitive Damages Awards in Published Opinions, the Impact of BMW v. Gore on Punitive Damages Awards, and Forecasting Which Punitive Awards Will be Reduced" (with T. Eisenberg) ; Supreme Court Economic Review, ; forthcoming
  • "Bayesian Estimation for Spherically Symmetric Distributions" (with D. Cellier and D. Fourdrinier) ; Journal of Multivariate Analysis, ; forthcoming
  • "Model Selection and Semiparametric Inference for Bivariate Failure-Time Data" (with W. Wang) ; Journal of the American Statistical Association, ; forthcoming
  • "Statistical Controversies in Census 2000" (with L. D. Brown, M. L. Eaton, D. A. Freedman, S. P. Klein, R. A. Olshen, K. W. Wachter and D. Ylvisaker) ; Jurimetrics ; forthcoming
  • "Inbreeding in Law School Hiring: Analyzing the Performance of Faculty Hired from Within" (with T. Eisenberg) ; Journal of Legal Studies, ; forthcoming
Keywords: bayesian statistics, decision theory, empirical finance, empirical legal studies, epidemiology, model selection, sampling theory, statistical genomics, statistics, survival analysis