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Martin Timothy Wells

People/Faculty
Professor
Social Statistics
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129 Garden Ave
1190 Comstock Hall

Ithaca, NY 14853
United States

Areas of Expertise

Health Care Industry

Other expertise

Bayesian Statistics, Combinatorics, Decision Theory, Empirical Finance, Empirical Legal Studies, Function Estimation, Model Selection, Sampling Theory, Survival Analysis

Publications

Journal Articles

  • , , & . . A Bivariate Model for Simultaneous Testing in Bioinformatics Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 109(506), 537-547. (DOI:10.1080/01621459.2014.884502)
  • , & . . Improved Loss Estimation for Shrinkage Estimators. Statistical Science, 27, 61-81.
  • , & . . Reference Priors for Linear Models with General Covariance Structures. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 142, 2473-2484.
  • , , , , , , , , , & . . Folate network genetic variation predicts cardiovascular disease risk in non-hispanic white males. Journal of Nutrition, 142(7), 1272-1279. (DOI:10.3945/jn.111.157180)(PubMed Central:PMC3374665)
  • , , & . . Return Dynamics with Lévy Jumps: Evidence from Stock and Option Prices. Mathematical Finance.
  • , , , , , , & . . Use of pedometers to measure the relationship of dog walking to body condition score in obese and non-obese dogs. British Journal of Nutrition, 106, S85-S89. (DOI:10.1017/S0007114511001814)
  • , , , , , , , , , , & . . Folate Network Genetic Variation, Plasma Homocysteine, and Global Genomic Methylation Content. BMC Medical Genetics, 12(1), 150. (DOI:10.1186/1471-2350-12-150)
  • . . A Bayesian Hierarchical Regression Approach to Clustered and Longitudinal Data. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 7, 634-663.
  • , & . . Failure to differentiate between men and women in primary prevention. Annals of internal medicine, http://www.annals.org/content/152/2/69/reply#annintmed_el_123978.
  • , , , & . . Laplace approximated EM microarray analysis: an empirical Bayes approach for comparative microarray experiments. Statistical Science, 25(3), 388-407. (DOI:10.1214/10-STS339)
  • , & . . Letter regarding article, "Statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular events in women with elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein or dyslipidemia: results from the Justification for the Use of Statins in Prevention: An Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin (JUPITER) and meta-analysis of women from primary prevention trials". Circulation, 122, 23.
  • , , & . . MM algorithms for minimizing nonsmoothly penalized objective functions. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 4, 1258-1299. (DOI:10.1214/10-EJS582)
  • , , , , & . . Small Steps Are Easier Together: An Ecological Goal-Based Intervention To Increase Walking By Women In Rural Worksites. Preventive Medicine, 5, 230-234.
  • , & . . Statins and risk of incident diabetes. Lancet, 375, 2140-2141.
  • , , , & . . The Decision to Award Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study. Journal of Legal Analysis, 2, 577-619.
  • , , , & . . A multivariate variance components model for analysis of covariance in designed experiments. Statistical Science, 24(2), 223-237. (DOI:10.1214/09-STS294)
  • . . The Exact Distribution of the Condition Number of a Gaussian Matrix. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 31, 1125-1130.
  • , , , , , & . . Extreme value theory in analysis of differential expression in microarrays where either only up- or down-regulated genes are relevant or expected. Genetics Research, 90, 347-361.
  • , , , & . . Profiling pharmacy expenditures in managed health care: Bayesian inference for a two-part hierarchical model. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101, 934-945.
  • , , , , & . . Multiple endoplasmic reticulum-to-nucleus signaling pathways coordinate phospholipid metabolism with gene expression by distinct mechanisms. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 281(33), 24070-24083.
  • , , , & . . Genome Wide Analysis Reveals Inositol, Not Choline, as the Major Effector of Ino2p-Ino4p and Unfolded Protein Response Target Gene Expression in Yeast. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280(10), 9106-9118. (PubMed Central:PMC1352320)
  • , , , & . . Mathematical model of Listeria monocytogenes cross-contamination in a fish processing plant. Journal of Food Protection, 67, 2688-2697.
  • , & . . Model Selection and Semiparametric Inference for Bivariate Failure-Time Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 95(449), 62-72.
  • , & . . Inbreeding in Law School Hiring: Assessing the Performance of Faculty Hired from within. Journal of Legal Studies, 29(1), 369-388.
  • , , & . . Bayesian Estimation for Spherically Symmetric Distributions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 70(1), 95-117.
  • , , , , , , & . . Statistical Controversies in Census 2000. Jurimetrics, 39(4), 347-375.
  • , & . . 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. Supreme Court Economic Review, 7, 59-86.
  • , & . . Approximately exact inference for the common odds ratio in several 2 x 2 tables (with discussion and rejoinder). Journal of the American Statistical Association, 93, 1294-1306.
  • , , & . . But Was He Sorry? The Role of Remorse in Capital Sentencing. Cornell Law Review, 83(6), 1599-1637.
  • , , & . . Larger Board Size and Decreasing Firm Value in Small Firms. Journal of Financial Economics, 48(1), 35-54.
  • , & . . Punitive Awards After BMW, a New Capping System, and the Reported Opinion Bias. Wisconsin Law Review, 1, 387-426.
  • , & . . Nonparametric Estimation Of Successive Duration Times Under Dependent Censoring. Biometrika, 85(3), 561-572.
  • , & . . Ranking and Explaining the Scholarly Impact of Law Schools. Journal of Legal Studies, 27(2), 373-413.
  • , , & . . On the Construction of Bayes Minimax Estimators. Annals of Statistics, 26(2), 660-671.
  • , & . . Nonparametric Estimator of the Bivariate Survival Function Under Simplified Censoring Conditions. Biometrika, 84(4), 863-880.
  • , & . . Accurate bootstrap confidence limits for the cumulative hazard and survivor functions. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 92, 1356-1375.
  • , , & . . Accurate confidence limits for quantiles under random censoring. Biometrics, 53, 1399-1415.
  • , , , , & . . The Predictability of Punitive Damages. Journal of Legal Studies, 26(2), 623-661.
  • , , & . . Jury Responsibility In Capital Sentencing: An Empirical Study. Buffalo Law Review, 44, 339-380.
  • , , & . . Practical small sample asymptotics for regression problems. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 91, 643-655.
  • , , & . . Using Random Rather than Fixed Effects Models in Meta-Analysis: Implications for Situational Specificity and Validity Generalization. Personnel Psychology, 49, 275-306.

Book Chapters

  • , & . . On hierarchical prior specifications and penalized likelihood. In Contemporary Developments in Bayesian Analysis and Statistical Decision Theory: A Festschrift for William E. Strawderman. (pp. 154-180). Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
  • , , , , , , & . . Method Development and Preliminary Examination of Dog Walking as a Form of Human and Canine Physical Activity. In The Health Benefits of Dog Walking for Pets and People: Evidence and Case Studies. Purdue Univ. Press.
  • , , & . . Model selection error rates in nonparametric and parametric model comparisons. In Borrowing Strength: Theory Powering Applications – A Festschrift for Lawrence D. Brown. (pp. 166-183). IMS Collections.
  • . . Optimality results for mid p–values. In In Borrowing Strength: Theory Powering Applications – A Festschrift for Lawrence D. Brown. (pp. 184-198). IMS Collections .

Books

  • , & . . Advances in Directional and Linear Statistics. Springer.

Conference Proceedings

  • , & . . Organic Agriculture Grows at Cornell.
  • , , , , & . . Background correction and normalization for cDNA microarray data.

Magazine Publications

  • , & . . Organic Agriculture Grows at Cornell.

Technical Report

  • , , , & . . Profiling pharmacy expenditures in managed health care: Bayesian inference for a two-part hierarchical model.
  • , , , & . . The Effect of Telephone Follow-up Calls on Sensitive Survey Non-respondents.

Professional activities

  • Choice of Regression Models. Presented to Society for Empirical Legal Studies. Yale University. 2010.