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].