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Robert W. Keener

Professor of Statistics


458 West Hall
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
1085 South University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107

Phone: (734)-936-3628
Fax: (734)-763-4676
E-Mail: keener@umich.edu
Website: http://www.stat.lsa.umich.edu/~keener/


Research Interests

Sequential Design and Analysis, Renewal Theory, Asymptotic Expansions, Industrial Design

Courses Taught

Statistics 125
Statistics 426
Statistics 610
Statistics 611

Editorial Boards

Sequential Analysis

Education

Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979
B.S. Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975

Selected Publications

Keener R. (1984) Second order efficiency in the sequential design of experiments. The Annals of Statistics 12 510-532

Keener R. (1985) Further contributions to the "two-armed bandit" problem. The Annals of Statistics 13 418-422

Keener R. (1986) Multi-armed bandits with simple arms. Advances of Applied Mathematics 7 199-204

Keener R., Rothman E. & Starr N. (1987) Distributions on partitions. The Annals of Statistics 15 1466-1481

Keener R. & Woodroofe M. (1987) Asymptotic expansions in boundary crossing problems. The Annals of Probability 15 102-114

Keener R. (1990) Asymptotic expansions in multivariate renewal theory. Stochastic Processes and Their Applications 34 137-153

Keener R. (1992) Limit theorems for random walks conditioned to stay positive. The Annals of Probability 20 801-824

Keener R. (1994) Quadrature routines for ladder variables. Annals of Applied Probabability 4 570-590

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