Alastair Young's publications.
Book:
(with R.L. Smith) `Essentials of Statistical Inference'. Advanced
undergraduate text. Cambridge
University Press (2005).
Refereed Journal Papers:
- [1] (with D.G. Kendall) `Indirectional
statistics and the significance of an asymmetry discovered by Birch', Mon.
Not. RAS, 207, 637-647 (1984).
- [2] `Conditioned data-based
simulations: some examples from geometrical statistics', Int. Stat. Rev., 54,
1-13 (1986).
- [3] (with B.W. Silverman)
`The bootstrap: to smooth or not to smooth?', Biometrika, 74,
469-479 (1987).
- [4] `A note on
bootstrapping the correlation coefficient', Biometrika, 75, 370-373
(1988).
- [5] `Alternative smoothed
bootstraps'. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B, 52, 477-484 (1990).
- [6] (with H.E. Daniels)
`Bootstrap bias'. Biometrika, 77, 179-185 (1990).
- [7] (with D. De Angelis)
`Un esempio di perequazione empirica del bootstrap'. Quaderni di Statistica
e Econometria, 12, 163-170 (1990).
- [8] (with H.E. Daniels)
`Saddlepoint approximation for the studentized mean, with an application
to the bootstrap'. Biometrika, 78, 169-179 (1991).
- [9] (with T.J. DiCiccio and
M.A. Martin) `An invariance property of marginal density and tail
probability approximations for smooth functions'. Statistics and
Probability Letters, 12, 249-255 (1991).
- [10] (with D. De Angelis)
`Bootstrapping the correlation coefficient: a comparison of smoothing
strategies'. J. Statist. Comput. Simul., 40, 167-176 (1992).
- [11] (with D. De Angelis)
`Smoothing the bootstrap'. Int. Stat. Rev., 60, 45-56 (1992).
- [12] (with T.J. DiCiccio
and M.A. Martin) `Analytic approximations for iterated bootstrap
confidence intervals'. Statistics and Computing, 2, 161-171 (1992).
- [13] (with T.J. DiCiccio
and M.A. Martin) `Fast and accurate approximate double bootstrap
confidence intervals'. Biometrika, 79, 285-295, (1992).
- [14] (with D. De Angelis
and P.G. Hall) `A note on coverage error of bootstrap confidence intervals
for quantiles'. Math. Proc. Cam. Philo. Soc., 114, 517-531 (1993).
- [15] (with D. De Angelis
and P.G. Hall) `Analytic and bootstrap approximations to estimator
distributions in L^1 regression'. J. Am. Statist. Assoc., 88,
1310-1322 (1993).
- [16] (with T.J. DiCiccio
and M.A. Martin) `Analytical approximations to conditional distribution
functions'. Biometrika, 80, 781-790 (1993).
- [17] (with T.J. DiCiccio
and M.A. Martin) `Analytic approximations to bootstrap distribution
functions using saddlepoint methods'. Statistica Sinica, 4, 281-295
(1994).
- [18] (with S.M.-S. Lee)
`Practical higher-order smoothing of the bootstrap'. Statistica Sinica, 4,
445-459 (1994).
- [19] `Bootstrap: more than
a stab in the dark?' (with discussion) Statistical Science, 9,
382-415 (1994).
- [20] (with S.M.-S. Lee)
`Asymptotic iterated bootstrap confidence intervals'. Ann. Statist., 23,
1301-1330 (1995).
- [21] (with T.J. DiCiccio,
M.A. Martin and S.E. Stern) `Information bias and adjusted profile
likelihood'. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B, 58, 189-203 (1996).
- [22] (with S.M.-S. Lee)
`Sequential iterated bootstrap confidence intervals'. J. Roy. Statist.
Soc. B, 58, 235-251 (1996).
- [23] (with S.M.-S. Lee)
`Estimation of the distribution function of a standardized statistic'. J.
Roy. Statist. Soc. B, 59, 383-400 (1997).
- [24] (with B.M. Brown and
P.G. Hall) `On the effect of inliers on the spatial median'. J. Mult.
Anal., 63, 88-104 (1997).
- [25] (with D. De Angelis
and S. Fachin) `Bootstrapping unit root
tests'. Applied Economics, 29, 1155-1161 (1997).
- [26] (with S.M.-S. Lee) `The
effect of Monte Carlo approximation on
coverage error of double bootstrap confidence intervals'. J. Roy. Statist.
Soc. B, 61, 353-366 (1999).
- [27] (with S.M.-S. Lee)
`Nonparametric likelihood ratio confidence intervals'. Biometrika, 86,
107-118 (1999).
- [28] (with P.G. Hall and
S.M.-S. Lee) `Importance of interpolation when constructing double
bootstrap confidence intervals'. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B, 62,
479-491 (2000).
- [29] (with B.M. Brown and
P.G. Hall) `The smoothed median and the bootstrap'. Biometrika, 88,
519-534 (2001).
- [30] (with H. Putter) `On
the effect of covariance function estimation on the accuracy of kriging
predictors'. Bernoulli, 7, 421-438 (2001). (pdf, 187K)
- [31] (with S. Sjostedt-de
Luna) `The bootstrap and kriging prediction intervals'. Scandinavian
Journal of Statistics, 30, 175-192 (2003). (pdf,
249K)
- [32] (with S.M.-S. Lee)
`Prepivoting by weighted bootstrap iterations'. Biometrika, 90,
393-410 (2003). (pdf, 241K)
- [33] (with J. Robinson and E. Ronchetti) `Saddlepoint approximations and tests
based on multivariate M-estimates'. Ann. Statist., 31, 1154-1169
(2003). (pdf, 292K)
- [34] `Better bootstrapping
by constrained prepivoting'. Metron, 61, 227-242 (2003).
- [35] (with A.C. Davison and
D.V. Hinkley) `Recent developments in bootstrap methodology'. Statistical
Science, 18, 141-157 (2003). (pdf,
255K)
- [36] (with S.M.-S. Lee)
`Parametric bootstrapping with nuisance parameters'. Statistics and
Probability Letters 71, 143-153 (2005). (pdf, 221K)
- [37] (with K.Y. Cheung and S.M.-S.
Lee) `Iterating the m out of n bootstrap in nonregular smooth function
models'. Statistica Sinica, 15, 945-967
(2005). (pdf, 415K)
- [38] (with K.Y. Cheung and
S.M.-S. Lee) `Minimax Stein estimation based on non- iterated and iterated
m out of n parametric bootstraps'. Statistica Sinica, 16, 45-75 (2006). (pdf, 446K)
- [39] (with T.J. DiCiccio
and A.C. Monti) `Variance stabilization for a scalar parameter’. J. Roy.
Statist. Soc. B, 68, 281-303
(2006). (pdf, 788K)
- [40] (with T.J. DiCiccio)
`Conditional properties of
unconditional parametric bootstrap procedures for inference in
exponential families’. (To appear in Biometrika). (pdf, 240K)
Invited Discussions:
- [1] (with S.M.-S. Lee) `On
the use of bootstrap calibration'. (Invited commentary on a paper by
DiCiccio and Efron). Statistical Science, 11, 221-223 (1996).
- [2] (with S.M.-S. Lee)
Comment on `Hybrid resampling methods for confidence intervals', by C.-S.
Chuang and T.-L. Lai. Statistica Sinica, 10, 43-46 (2000).
Invited Conference Papers:
- [1] `Data-smoothing and
bootstrap resampling'. In `Model-oriented Data Analysis', V. Fedorov, H.
Lauter (eds.), 144-149. Springer-Verlag,
Berlin (1988).
- [2] (with S.M.-S. Lee)
`Approximate iterated bootstrap confidence intervals'. Computing Science
and Statistics, 26, 464-471 (1994).
- [3] (with S.M.-S. Lee)
`Asymptotics and resampling methods'. Computing Science and Statistics, 28,
221-227 (1997).
- [4] (with S.M.-S. Lee)
`Bootstrapping and improved nonparametric likelihood ratio confidence
intervals'. Proceedings of the Statistical Computing Section, ASA, 18-23
(1997).
Contributed Conference Papers:
- [1] `Non-parametric
smoothing of the bootstrap'. In `Proceedings of the 1st World Congress of
the Bernoulli Society', Yu. Prohorov, V.V. Sazonov (eds.), Volume 2,
105-108. VNU Science Press, Utrecht
(1987).
- [2] `Resampling tests of statistical
hypotheses'. In `Compstat 88: Proceedings in Computational Statistics', D.
Edwards, N.E. Raun (eds.), 233-238. Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg (1988).
Other Publications:
- [1] (with D.L. Banks)
Discussion of the paper by Jones and Sibson. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. A, 150,
23-24 (1987).
- [2] Discussion of the
papers by Hinkley and by DiCiccio and Romano. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B, 50,
358 (1988).
- [3] Discussion of the paper
by Efron. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B, 54, 113-114 (1992).
- [4] (with D. De Angelis) `Bootstrap
method'. In `Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, Volume 1', P. Armitage, T.
Colton (eds.), 426-433. Wiley, New
York (1998). [Reproduced in `Encyclopedia of
Human Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology', R. Elston, J. Olson, L. Palmer
(eds.), 2002].