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Booth, James
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- Professor, Biological Statistics and Computational Biology (BSCB), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)
- Department Chairperson, Biological Statistics and Computational Biology (BSCB), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)
- Professor, Statistical Science (STSCI), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)
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Affiliations
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- Director of Undergraduate Studies
member of graduate field
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Research
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Publications
individual publications
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academic article
- A mixture model approach for parallel testing for unequal variances. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. 11:1-21. 2012
- Integrative model-based clustering of microarray methylation and expression data.. Annals of Applied Statistics. 6:1327-1347. 2012
- A Bayesian approach to analysis of covariance in balanced randomized block experiments. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 81:1449-1460. 2011
- A Bayesian mixture model for comparative spectral count data in shotgun proteomics. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics. 10. 2011
- Laplace approximated EM microarray analysis: an empirical Bayes approach for comparative microarray experiments. Statistical Science. 25:388-407. 2010
- A multivariate variance components model for analysis of covariance in designed experiments. Statistical Science. 24:223-237. 2009
- Counting tables using the double saddlepoint approximation. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 18:915-929. 2009
- The Link Between Voter Choice and Religious Identity in Contemporary Society: Bringing Classical Theory Back In. Social Science Quarterly. 90:927-944. 2009
- Clustering using objective functions and stochastic search. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 70:119-139. 2008
- Model-based Bayesian clustering (MBBC). Bioinformatics. 24:874-875. 2008
- Open Access Publishing, Article Downloads, and Citations: Randomised Controlled Trial. British Medical Journal. 337:343-345. 2008
- Simple sequence repeats in Neurospora crassa: distribution, polymorphism and evolutionary inference. BMC Genomics. 9:31. 2008
- Simulation-assisted saddlepoint approximation. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 79:731-745. 2008
- Normalization of dye bias in microarrays using the mixture of splines model. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. 6. 2007
- Simple sequence repeats provide a substrate for phenotypic variation in the Neurospora crassa circadian clock. PLoS One. 2. 2007
- The effect of pre-smoothing functional data on cluster analysis. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 77:1043-1055. 2007
- Improved estimation of dissimilarities by smoothing functional data. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 101:211-222. 2006
- Exact conditional p-value calculation for the quasi-symmetry model. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 14:716-725. 2005
- Efficiency of Monte Carlo EM and simulated maximum likelihood in generalized linear mixed models. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 12:214-229. 2003
- Local influence of predictors in multiple linear regression. Technometrics. 45:326-332. 2003
- Monte Carlo conditional tests for log-linear and logistic models: a survey of current methodology. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 12:1-15. 2003
- Negative binomial loglinear mixed models. Statistical Modelling. 3:179-191. 2003
- Empirical sup rejection sampling. Biometrika. 89:745-754. 2002
- Unequal sampling for Monte Carlo EM algorithms. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 39:261-270. 2002
- A Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for approximating exact conditional tests. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 10. 2001
- A survey of Monte Carlo algorithms for maximizing the likelihood of a two-stage hierarchical model. Statistical Modelling. 1. 2001
- Random effects modeling of categorical response data. Sociological Methodology. 30:27-80. 2000
- An importance sampling algorithm for exact conditional tests in log-linear models. Biometrika. 86:321-332. 1999
- Maximizing generalized linear mixed model likelihoods with an automated Monte Carlo EM algorithm. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B. 61:265-285. 1999
- On the probable error of the ratio of two gamma means. Biometrika. 86:439-452. 1999
- Allocation of Monte Carlo resources for the iterated bootstrap. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 7. 1998
- Monte Carlo approximation of bootstrap variances. American Statistician. 52:354-357. 1998
- Standard errors of prediction in generalized linear mixed models. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 93. 1998
- The statistical analysis of standard costing variances. IMA Journal of Mathematical Applications in Business and Industry. 8:167-179. 1996
- An example in which the lugannani-rice saddlepoint formula fails. Statistics and Probability Letters. 23:53-61. 1995
- Saddlepoint approximations for p-values of some tests of covariance matrices. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 53:165-180. 1995
- Bootstrap methods for finite populations. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 89:1282-1289. 1994
- Monte Carlo approximation and the iterated bootstrap. Biometrika. 81:331-340. 1994
- On the validity of edgeworth and saddlepoint expansions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 51:121-138. 1994
- An improvement of the jackknife distribution function estimator. Annals of Statistics. 21:1476-1485. 1993
- Balanced importance resampling for the bootstrap. Annals of Statistics. 21:286-298. 1993
- Bootstrap confidence regions for functional relationships in errors-in-variables models. Annals of Statistics. 21:1780-1791. 1993
- Saddlepoint approximations for tests of block independence, sphericity, and equal variances and covariances. Journal of the Royal Statistics Society, B. 55:171-184. 1993
- Saddlepoint approximations to the cdf of some statistics with nonnormal limit distributions. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 88. 1993
- Simple and efficient resampling methods for constructing bootstrap confidence intervals. Computational Statistics. 8:333-346. 1993
- A note on a one compartment model with clustering. Journal of Applied Probability. 29:535-542. 1992
- Bootstrap estimation of conditional distributions. Annals of Statistics. 20. 1992
- Saddlepoint approximations for the bartlett–nanda–pillai trace statistic in multivariate analysis. Biometrika. 79:705-715. 1992
- Saddlepoint approximations to the generalized variance and wilk’s statistic. Biometrika. 79. 1992
- A note on the estimation of rate parameters in stochastic compartmental models. Communications in Statistics, B. 20:391-397. 1991
- Randomization distributions and saddlepoint approximations in generalized linear models. Biometrika. 77. 1990
- On the limiting behavior of downton’s carrier epidemic in the case of a general infection mechanism. Journal of Applied Probability. 26:625-630. 1989
- A general solution for the epidemic with carriers. Strategic Management Journal. 4:9-15. 1986
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conference paper
- Resampling Methods for Sample Surveys. Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, 52nd Session Proceedings. 1999
- Bootstrap methods for generalized linear mixed models with applications to small area estimation. Proceedings of the 10th InternationalWorkshop on Statistical Modelling, Lecture Notes in Statistics Series. 1995
- A note of the accuracy of two saddlepoint tail probability approximations. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association – Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences. 1994
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review
- Review of Odds Ratios in the Analysis of Contingency Tables, by Tamas Rudas. 657. 1999
- Review of Series Approximation Methods in Statistics, 2nd Edition, by J. E. Kolassa. 343. 1999
- Contribution to the discussion of “Approximately exact inference for the common odds-ratio in several 2 × 2 tables,” by Strawderman, R.L. and Wells, M.T.. 1310-1313. 1998
- Review of Resampling-Based Multiple Testing by P.H. Westfall and S.S. Young. 354-355. 1994
- Contribution to the discussion of “Practical use of higher order asymptotics for multiparameter exponential families,” by Pierce, D.A. & Peters, D. J. Roy. 701-738. 1992
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Teaching
teaching overview
- Since I am trained as a statistician, and a faculty member in the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, my teaching mission is to enhance and support the graduate program in statistics, the undergraduate program in biometry and statistics, and more broadly, statistics education at Cornell. In statistics, as in other fields of study, different topics and levels of instructions present vastly different challenges. Thus, a range of approaches are necessary to be a successful instructor. Courses for statistics Ph.D. students typically emphasize foundational issues, and mathematical theory, as well as the latest methodological developments. In contrast, courses for non-majors tend to emphasize a wide variety of real life applications, traditional statistical methods, and their implementation using modern computer software. It is therefore important to constantly broaden ones range of interests, and to be abreast of new developments in the field both at a theoretical and a practical level. This is both a major challenge and a key attraction of an academic career.
teaching activities
- BTRY-4950: Statistical Consulting - Spring 2013
- BTRY-6970: Individual Graduate Study in Biometry and Statistics - Spring 2013
- BTRY-7900: Graduate-Level Dissertation Research - Spring 2013
- BTRY-7980: Graduate Supervised Teaching - Spring 2013
- BTRY-8900: Master's Level Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- BTRY-9900: Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research - Spring 2013
- STSCI-5999: Applied Statistics MPS Data Analysis Project - Spring 2013
- STSCI-9999: Doctoral Level Dissertation Research - Spring 2013
- BTRY-4030: Applied Linear Statistical Models via Matrices - Fall 2012
- BTRY-4950: Statistical Consulting - Fall 2012
- BTRY-6970: Individual Graduate Study in Biometry and Statistics - Fall 2012
- BTRY-7900: Graduate-Level Dissertation Research - Fall 2012
- BTRY-7950: Statistical Consulting - Fall 2012
- BTRY-7980: Graduate Supervised Teaching - Fall 2012
- BTRY-8900: Master's Level Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- BTRY-9900: Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research - Fall 2012
- STSCI-4030: Applied Linear Statistical Models via Matrices - Fall 2012
- BTRY-6020: Statistical Methods II - Spring 2012
- BTRY-6970: Individual Graduate Study in Biometry and Statistics - Spring 2012
- BTRY-7900: Graduate-Level Dissertation Research - Spring 2012
- BTRY-7980: Graduate Supervised Teaching - Spring 2012
- BTRY-8900: Master's Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- BTRY-9900: Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research - Spring 2012
- BTRY-4030: Applied Linear Statistical Models via Matrices - Fall 2011
- BTRY-6970: Individual Graduate Study in Biometry and Statistics - Fall 2011
- BTRY-7900: Graduate-Level Dissertation Research - Fall 2011
- BTRY-7950: Statistical Consulting - Fall 2011
- BTRY-7980: Graduate Supervised Teaching - Fall 2011
- BTRY-8900: Master's-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- BTRY-9900: Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research - Fall 2011
- STSCI-4030: Applied Linear Statistical Models via Matrices - Fall 2011
Service
service to the profession
- Executive Committee, Statistical Modeling Society Committee Member 2006 - 2012
- Department of Statistics, University of Florida Associate Chair 2001 - 2003
- Department of Statistics, University of Florida Chairperson - 2002
- Department of Statistics, University of Florida Graduate Coordinator 1997 - 2001
- Department of Statistics, University of Florida Graduate Coordinator 1995 - 1996
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Kentucky 1987
- M.S. in Statistics, University of Kentucky 1984
- University of Leeds, England 1982
- University of Leeds, England 1981