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BENJAMIN REISER Sept. 2013

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Details

Name: Benjamin Reiser

Place and Date of Birth: Bad Reichenhall, Germany February 16, 1947

Marital Status: Married + 3

Citizenship : Israeli and Canadian

Permanent Home Address: 238 Moriah, Moreshet, M.P. Misgav, 20186, Israel.

Home Telephone Number: 972-4 -9998829

Office Address and Phone: Dept. of Statistics, University of Haifa,

Haifa, 31905, Israel.

972-4-8240177

Electronic Address: [email protected]

Fax Number: 972-4-8253849

Higher Education

Date of Period

Degree Field Institution of Study

1967 Mathematics B.Sc. (Honours Math.) 1963-67

McGill University

1968 Statistics M.Math., University of Waterloo 1967-68

1972 Statistics Ph.D. University of Waterloo 1968-72

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Academic Ranks and Visiting Positions

DATES NAMES OF INSTITUTION AND DEPARTMENT RANK

2012(May-June) Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Visiting Professor

York University

2001-2002 Dept. of Biostatistics, University of Michigan Visiting Professor

2000 -present Dept. of Statistics, University of Haifa Professor

2000 summer IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Academic Visitor




1995-96 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Visiting Scientist

1994-2000 Dept. of Statistics, University of Haifa Associate Professor




1991 summer Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University Visiting Professor

1989-1990 Dept. of Statistics, Temple University Visiting Associate

Professor

1987-1994 Dept. of Statistics, University of Haifa Senior Lecturer

(tenured)

1984-1987 Dept. of Statistics, University of Haifa Adjunct Senior

Lecturer

1983-1984 Dept. of Statistics, University of Toronto Visiting Associate

Professor

1980-1982 Dept. of Statistics, University of Haifa Adjunct Senior

Lecturer

1979-1983 Faculty of Industrial and Management Engineering Adjunct Senior

Technion Lecturer

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1975-1979 Faculty of Industrial and Management Engineering Lecturer

Technion

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Professional Experience

1979-1987 Senior Research Scientist, Rafael, Israel

Defense Department (statistical consulting

and research with emphasis on reliability and quality

control)

1985-1987 Leader of Reliability Group in Rafael.

1974-1975 Senior Statistician, Road and Motor

Vehicle Safety Branch, Canada Department

of Transport.

1972-1974 Research Scientist, Statistical Research

Service, Research Branch, Canada

Department of Agriculture.

Offices in University Academic Administration

Faculty of Social Sciences Research Committee (1987-1989)

Faculty of Social Sciences Education Committee (1998- 2001)

Faculty of Social Sciences Appointments Committee (2002-2004)

Managing Committee of the Statistical Consulting Unit

(1988-89), (1993-1999),(2006-present)

Elected member of University Senate (2002-2005, 2006-2010)

Member of the Steering Committee of the Senate (2002-2005)

University Tenure and Promotion Committee (2004- 2007, 2008-2011)

Various departmental committees

University representative on the Public Council for Statistics (1991-97).

Chairman, Managing Committee of the Statistical Consulting

Unit (1990-1992).

Committee for Fees Reductions (1996-2001)

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Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University

Member of the American Statistical Association, The Institute of Mathematical Statistics

The Israel Statistical Association and the International Biometrics Society

Secretary of the Israel Statistical Association

(1981-1983).

Controller of the Israel Statistical Association

(1987-1989).

Member, Organizing Committee, Annual Conference of the Israel Statistical Association

1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995.

Head, Organizing Committee, Annual Conference of the Israel Statistical Association,

1989, 1997.

Member, Professional Committee (Statistics), Israel Science Foundation, 1998, 1999.

Member, Executive Committee of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the International

Biometric Society, 2001 –2005.

Co-organizer of the Inaugural Euroconference of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of

the International Biometric Society, Athens, 2001

Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee for the Third International Conference of the

Eastern Mediterranean Region of the International Biometric Society, Corfu, 2005

Member, Editorial Advisory Committee of the International Biometric Society, 2002 –

2005.

Member, International Biometric Society Ad Hoc Publications Review Committee,

2005-2007.

Member, International Biometric Society Ad Hoc Search Committee for a Co-Editor of

Biometrics, 2007.

Member of the Scientific Committee for the Sixth International Conference of the

Eastern Mediterranean Region of the International Biometric Society ,Crete,2011

Member of the Scientific Committee for the Seventh International Conference of the

Eastern Mediterranean Region of the International Biometric Society ,Tel-Aviv,2013

Member of the Local Organizing Committee for the International Biometric Conference

to be held in Florence, Italy, in 2014

Member, Representative Council of the International Biometric Society (2010-)

Member, Nominating Committee of the International Biometric Society (2013-)

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Associate Editor Biometrics (2005-present)

Editorial Advisory Board Statistical Methods in Medical Research (2007-present)

Referee for IEEE Transactions of Reliability, IAPQR Transactions, Communications in

Statistics, Biometrics, Biometrika, International Journal of Production Research,

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Statistical Papers, Australian Journal

of Statistics, Statistics and Probability Letters, Journal of Statistical Planning and

Inference, Technometrics, Lifetime Data Analysis, Applied Statistics, Statistics in

Medicine , Statistical Methods in Medical Research, American Journal of Epidemiology,

Statistics ,Biometrical Journal

Reviewer of Grant Proposals for the

National Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada, the Israel Academy of

Science and Humanities, the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and the

German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development.

Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences

Conference Place and Date Title of Presentation

XIX International New Delhi, Cheddar Cheese made with

Dairy Congress India, 1974 Bovine Pepsin (with D.B.

Emmons, R.N. Giroux

and D.W. Stanley)

69th Annual Meeting Guelph, Canada Bovine Pepsin for Cheese-

of the American 1974 making (with D.B. Emmons,

Dairy Science R.N. Giroux and D.W.

Association Stanley)

70th Annual Meeting Wisconsin, Cheddar Cheese Trials

of the American USA, 1975 with Muro Miehei Enzyme

Dairy Science (with N. Dineson, D.B.

Association Emmons, D. Beckett, D.N.

Irvine)

Annual Meeting of Bar Ilan Another Look at Statisti-

the Israel University, cal Inference for

Statistical Israel, 1978 Stochastic Processes

Association (with P. Feigin)

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8th Conference on Canberra, Another Look at Statistical-

Stochastic Processes Australia, Inference for Stochastic

1978 Processes (with P. Feigin)

3rd International Tel Aviv, MIL STD 105Dvs.LQL

Conferences of the Israel, 1980 Indexed Acceptance Plans

Society for Quality (with A. Halevy)

Assurance

10th International Boston Modal Analysis of

Optical Computing U.S.A Randomly Vibrating

Conference 1983 Objects via Holographic

Spectroscopy (with J.

Politch and Z. Sherf)

5th International Tel Aviv, Statistical Inference for

Conferences of the Israel, 1984 Reliability from Stress

Israel Society for Strength Relationships

Quality Assurance (with I. Guttman)

Annual Meeting of Technion, Statistical Inference for

the Israel Israel, 1985 Reliability from Stress

Statistical Strength Models with

Association Covariates (with I.

Guttman)

1985 Joint Las Vegas, The Analysis of Stress

Statistical USA, 1985 Strength Relationships

Meetings from Discretized Data

(with J. Simonoff, Y.

Hochberg)

4th International Tel Aviv, Confidence Limits for

Conference of Israel, 1986 Reliability of Stress

Industrial Strength Relationships

Engineering and with Covariates (with I.

Management Guttman)

7th International Tel Aviv, Demonstrated Reliability

Conference of the Israel, 1988 for Complex Systems based

Israel Society for on Component Data (with

Quality Assurance M. Jaeger)

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Annual Meeting of University of A Comparison of Several

the Israel Haifa, Israel Methods for Sequential

Statistical 1989 Treatment Allocation with

Association Balancing for Prognostic

Factors in Clinical

Trials (with D. Farragi)

1990 Joint Anaheim Confidence Intervals for

Statistical USA, Pr(X<Y) with Censored

Meetings 1990 Observations (with D.F.

Moore)

International Tel Aviv, Inference for

Conference on Israel, Stress Strength Problems

Statistics in 1991 under the Gamma

Industry Distribution (with D.Rocke)

1992 Regional Tel Aviv Probabilistic Approach to

Symposium on Israel, the Problem of Crosstalk

Electromagnetic 1992 between Wires (with S.

Compatibility Shiran and H. Cory).

7th Annual Conf. Lisbon, Valuing a Natural Resource

of the European Portugal (with M. Shechter, N. Zaitzev

Assoc. of Environ- 1996 and S. Nevo)

mental and Resource

Economists

2nd World Congress Athens, Statistical Inference for Masked

of Nonlinear Greece Data (invited paper, with B.J.

Analysis 1996 Flehinger and E. Yashchin)

8th

Annual Conference Tilberg, Incorporating Zero Responses in

of the European Holland the Analysis of CVM Valuations

Assoc.of Environ- 1997 (with M. Shechter)

mental and Resource

Economists.

4th

National Jerusalem, Statistical Inference on Component

Conference of the Israel Reliability for Series Systems

Israel Assoc. for 1997 with Incomplete Cause of

Quality Failure Information

Joint CSNA/PS Urbana, Criticality of Predictors in Multiple

Annual Meeting USA Regression (with R. Azen and D.

1998 Budescu)

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Joint Statistical Dallas, Survival Analysis with Partially

Meetings USA Resolved Failures (Invited Talk

1998 with B.J.Flehinger and E.Yashchin)

Inaugural Athens The effect of misclassification on

Euroconference of 2001 Parameter Estimates in Logistic

The Eastern Regression (with O.Davidov and

Mediterranean Region D.Faraggi)

Of the IBS

Joint Statistical New York, Reliability Models with Competing

Meetings USA Risks and Incompletely Identified

2002 Causes of Failure (with E. Yashchin

and B.J. Flehinger}

2nd

International Antalya, Parametric Modeling of ROC

Biometric Society Turkey Curves (Invited Talk with

Conference of the 2003 David Faraggi)

Eastern Mediterranean

Region

Third International Corfu, Estimation of the ROC Curve

Biometric Society Greece under Verification Bias (with R.Fluss,

Conference of the 2005 D.Faraggi and A. Rotnitzky)


Region

Fourth International Eilat Regression Adjustment of ROC Curves

Biometric Society Israel in the presence of Verification Bias

Conference of the 2007 (with R.Fluss,D.Faraggi ,A.Rotnitzky)


Region

Fifth Conference of the Istanbul, Nonparametric Covariate Adjustment

Eastern Mediterranean Turkey for Receiver Operating Characteristic

Region of the 2009 Curves (Invited Talk with R.V. Craiu,

International Biometrics F. Yao)

Society

The First Institute of Seoul, Nonparametric Covariate Adjustment

Mathematical Statistics South Korea for ROC curves (Invited Talk with R.V.

Asia Pacific Rim 2009 Craiu, F. Yao)

Meeting

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7th Conference of the Tel Aviv, Construction of Confidence Regions in

Eastern Mediterranean Israel the ROC Space After the Estimation of

Region of the 2013 the Optimal Youden Index-Based Cut-,

International Biometrics Off Point (with L. Bantis, C. Nakas)

Society

Scholarships, Awards , Research Grants, etc.

1964 Birks Medal, High School of Montreal

1964-1965 McGill University Entrance Scholarship

1967-1968 Province of Ontario Graduate Fellowship

1968-1971 National Research Council Bursary

1971-1972 University of Waterloo Graduate Bursary

1998-1999 Technion-University of Haifa Research Cooperation Grant (with

S.K. Bar-Lev and D. Bshouty) $5000

2000-2001 European Union Grant for organizing Euro-Conference entitled:

Inaugural Euroconference: Eastern Mediterranean Region of the

International Biometric Society (with David Faraggi) Euro 35000

2003-2006 United States Israel Binational Science Foundation Grant:

Performance of Diagnostic Markers in the Presence of Verification

Bias (with David Faraggi and Andrea Rotnitzky) $60,000.

2006-2012 NICHD Branch, NIH, Contract # HHSN-267200603426: The

Effects of Aspirin in Gestation and Reproduction (EAGeR): Data

Coordinating Center (with Noya Galai and David Faraggi)

$2,171,238

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Teaching

A. Courses Taught in Recent years:

Title Level

Design of Experiments undergraduate

Project in Statistics undergraduate

Categorical Data Analysis undergraduate

Analysis of Variance undergraduate

Multivariate Analysis graduate

Survival Analysis graduate

Research Seminar graduate

M.A. Project graduate

Linear Models graduate

Generalized Linear Models graduate

Case Studies graduate

B. Supervision of graduate students

Student’s Name Title of Thesis/Dissertation Degree Date Place

S.K. Bar- Lev Likelihood Inference as MSc. 1977 Technion

Applied to Life Test

Problems

R. Ramras Ridge Regression: De- MSc. 1977 Technion

scription Evaluation and

Criticism (together with

A. Cohen)

S.K. Bar- Lev Conditional Inference for Ph.D. 1980 Technion

the Extended Exponential

Family of Distributions:

Asymptotic and Exact

Results

E. Alcoby Statistical Inference for MA 1990 U. of Haifa

Reliability from Stress,

Strength Models: The

Gamma Case

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S. Dror Design of Clinical Trials MA 1992 U. of Haifa

for many treatments with,

balancing for prognostic

factors (with D. Faraggi)

I. Lavi Statistical Inference for MA 1993 U. of Haifa

the Non Homogeneous,

Poisson Process (with

S.K. Bar Lev).

E. Aronovich Improved Interval MA 1996 U. of Haifa

Estimation in Logistic

Regression

N. Barkan Statistical Inference for Ph.D. 2001 U. of Haifa

the ROC curve(with

D. Faraggi)

R. Elad-Yarom Statistical Inference for the MA 2001 U. of Haifa

turning point in quadratic

Poisson regression

(with D. Faraggi)

J. Atias-Vider Confidence Intervals for MA 2001 U. of Haifa

the Area under the ROC

curve

(with D. Faraggi)

Z. Porat Confidence Intervals for MA 2002 U. of Haifa

Reliability of Extreme Value

Stress-Strength Models

R.Fluss Estimation of the MA 2003 U. of Haifa

Youden Index and the

associated cut-off point

(with D. Faraggi)

K.Molodianovitch Comparing the Areas under MA 2005 U. of Haifa

Two Correlated ROC Curves

(with D. Faraggi)

R.Fluss Estimation of the ROC Ph.D. 2006 U. of Haifa

Curve and its associated

Indices under verification bias

(with D. Faraggi)

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O.Buberman Construction of pointwise MA 2007 U. of Haifa

Confidence regions for

ROC curves

(with D. Faraggi)

I. Dattner Nonparametric estimation Ph.D. 2012 U. of Haifa

of some smooth functionals

in measurement errors models

(with A. Goldenshluger)

V.Griskin Competing Risk Models Ph.D. in U. of Haifa

with Incomplete Information progress

on Failure Cause

II. PUBLICATIONS

Ph.D. DISSERTATION,

"Structural Inference in Multivariate Autoregressive Series." English, 144 pages,

July 1972, University of Waterloo. Supervisor: G.W. Bennett.

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS:

Reiser, B., (1975), "Structural Inference for Linear

Regression with Autocorrelated Errors,"

Statistische Hefte, 16, 85-104.

Nass, H.G. and Reiser, B., (1975), "Grain Filling

Period and Grain Yield Relationships in Spring

Wheat," Canadian Journal of Plant Science, 55,

673-678.

Emmons, D.B., Reiser, B., Giroux, R.R. and Stanley, D.W.,

(1976), "Cheddar Cheese made with Bovine

Pepsin, I. Yield and Quality of Cheese," Canadian

Institute of Food Science and Technology, 9, 189-199.

Hunsaker, W.G., Reiser, B., and Wolynetz, M., (1976),

"Vaginal Temperature Rhythms in Sheep,"

International Journal of Chronobiology, 4, 151-162.

Emmons, D.B., Reiser, B., Giroux, R.N. and Stanley, D.W.,

(1978), "Experience with Bovine Pepsin in Canadian

Cheddar Cheese," Dairy Industries International, 43, 27-29.

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Sinha, R.N., Wallace, H.A.H., Reiser, B., Lefkovitch, L.P.,

(1979), "Interrelationships of Arthropods and

Microorganisms in Damp Bulk Stored Wheat A

Multivariate Study," Researches on Population

Ecology, 21, 40-67

Feigin, P.D., and Reiser, B., (1979), "On Asymptotic

Ancillarity and Inference for Yule and Regular

Non Ergodic Processes," Biometrika, 66, 279-283.

Reiser, B., and Bar -Lev, S.K., (1979), "Likelihood

Inference for Life Test Data," IEEE Transactions on

Reliability, R 28, 38-43.

Shechter, M., Enis, R., Reiser, B., and Tzamir, Y., (1981),

"Evaluation of Landscape Resources for Recreation

Planning," Regional Studies, 15, 373-390.

Bar -Lev, S.K., and Reiser, B., (1982), "An Exponential

subfamily which admits UMPUB Tests based on a

Single Test Statistic,” Annals of Statistics, 10, 979-989.

Bar Lev, S.K., and Reiser, B., (1983), "A Note on

Maximum Conditional Likelihood Estimation for the

Gamma Distribution," Sankhya, 45, 300-302.

Reiser, B., (1985), "A Remark on Ichikawa's Upper Bound of

Probability Failure," Reliability Engineering, 13, 181-183.

Reiser, B., (1985), "There is no such thing as a Free

Lunch: A Comment on a New Method for Reliability

Demonstration," Reliability Engineering, 13, 175-180.

Reiser, B., and Guttman, I., (1986), "Statistical Inference

for P(Y<X): The Normal Case," Technometrics,

28, 253- 258.

Simonoff, J., Hochberg, Y., and Reiser, B., (1986),

“Alternative Estimation Procedures for P(X<Y) in

Categorized Data”, Biometrics, 42, 895-907.

Reiser, B., and Guttman, I., (1987), “A comparison of

three point estimators for P(Y<X) in the Normal

Case”, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis,

5, 59-66.

Guttman, I., Bhattacharyya, G.K., Johnson, R.A., and

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Reiser, B., (1988), “Confidence Limits for Stress-

Strength Models with Explanatory Variables”.

Technometrics, 30, 161-168.

Reiser, B. and Guttman, I. (1989), “Sample Size Choice for

Reliability Verification in Strength Stress Models”,

The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 17,253-259.

Guttman, I., Reiser, B., Bhattaharyya, G.K., and

Johnson, R.A. (1990), “Bayesian Inference for

Stress-Strength Models with Explanatory Variables”.

Gujarat Statistical Review, Professor C.G. Khatri

Memorial Volume, 53-67.

Reiser, B., and Jaeger M.(1991). “A comment on Buehler

Optimal Confidence Bounds for Series Systems Reliability."

Statistics and Probability Letters, 11 65-67.

Faraggi, D., and Reiser, B. (1991), "A General Scheme for

Sequential Treatment Allocation with Balancing for

Prognostic Factors in Clinical Trials”, Communications in

Statistics. Simulation and Computation, 20(1), 243-253.

Reiser, B., Guttman, I., and Faraggi, D. (1992), "Choice, of Sample Size

for Testing the P(x>y)", Communications in Statistics. Theory and

Methods, 21(3), 559-569.

Bar-Lev, S.K., Lavi, I., and Reiser, B. (1992), "Bayesian Inference

for the Power Law Process", Annals of the Institute of

Statistical Mathematics, 44, 623-639.

Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B. (1993), "Incorporating Prior Beliefs

in Treatment Allocation for Clinical Trials". Biometrical Journal,

35, 143-149.

Reiser,B and Rocke,D.(1993), "Inference for Stress Strength

problems under the Gamma Distribution", Journal of the Indian

Association for Productivity. Quality and Reliability, 18, 1-22.

Shiran, S., Reiser, B. and Cory, H. (1993), "A ' Probabilistic Model for the

Evaluation of Coupling between Transmission Lines", IEEE

Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 35, 387-393.

Reiser, B., and Faraggi, D., (1994), "Confidence Bounds for Pr(a'x>b'y)".

Statistics, 25, 107-111.

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Reiser, B., Guttman, I., Lin, D.K.J., Guess, F., and Usher, J.S., (1995).

"Bayesian Inference for Masked System Life Time Data",Journal of

the Royal Statistical Society (Series C), 44, 79-90.

Guttman, I., Lin, D.K.J., Reiser, B., and Usher, J.S., (1995). "Dependent

Masking and System Life Data Analysis: Two-Component Systems".

Lifetime Data Analysis, 1, 87-100.

Dror, S., Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B., (1995)."Dynamic Treatment Allocation

Adjusting for Prognostic Factors for More than Two Treatments".

Biometrics, 51, 1338-1343.

Flehinger, B. J., Reiser, B., and Yashchin, E., (1996) "Inference about

Defects in the Presence of Masking". Technometrics, 38, 247-255.

Reiser, B., Flehinger, B.J. and Conn, A.R., (1996) "Estimating

Component Defect Probability from Masked System

Success/Failure Data". IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 45,

238-243.

Blumenfeld, A., Ben Abraham, R., Stein, M., Shapira, S., Reiner, A.,

Reiser, B., Rivkind, A. and Shemer, J., (1997). “The accumulated

experience of the Israel ATLS program”, Journal of the American

College of Surgeons, 185, 8-12.

Reiser, B. and Faraggi, D., (1997).“Confidence Intervals for the

Generalized ROC Criterion”. Biometrics, 53, 644-652.

Nevo, S., Zaitsev, N., Shechter, M. and Reiser, B. (1997), “Existence

Value of an Enviromental Asset”, (in Hebrew), The Economic

Quarterly, 44, 263-283.

Blumenfeld, A., Ben Abraham, R., Stein, M., Shapira, S., Reiner, A.,

Reiser, B., Rivkind, A., and Shemer, J. (1998), “Cognitive

knowledge decline after Advanced Trauma Life Support Courses”,

Journal of Trauma, 44, 513-516.

Flehinger, B.J., Reiser, B. and Yashchin, E., (1998). “Survival with

Competing Risks and Masked Causes of Failures”, Biometrika, 85,

151-164.

Shechter, M. , Reiser, B. and Zaitsev, N., (1998). “Measuring Passive Use

Value: Pledges, Donations and CV Responses in Connection with an

Important Natural Resource”, Environmental and Resource

Economics, 12,457-478.

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Bar-Lev, S.K. and Reiser, B.,(1999).“On Confidence Intervals for

Nonmonotone Parametric Functions and an Application to the

Squared Mean of the Normal Distribution”, Statistical Papers, 40,89-

98.

Reiser, B. and Shechter, M., (1999). “Incorporating Zero Values in the

Economic Evaluation of Environmental Program Benefits”,

Environmetrics, 10, 87-101.

Kramar, A. ,Faraggi, D. ,Ychou, M., Reiser, B. and Grenier, J. (1999) .

“Criteres ROC generalises pour l’evaluation de plusiers marqueurs

tumoraux”, Revue d’Epidemiologie et de Sante Publique, 47,376-383

Reiser, B. and Faraggi, D., (1999). “Confidence Intervals for the

Overlapping Coefficient: The Normal Equal Variance Case”, Journal

of the Royal Statistical Society (Series D), 48,413-418.

Reiser, B., (2000). “Measuring the effectiveness of diagnostic markers in

the presence of measurement error through the use of ROC curves”,

Statistics in Medicine, 19, 2115-2129.

Bar-Lev, S.K., Bshouty, D. and Reiser, B., (2000).“Upper bounds for

coverage probabilities of confidence intervals for nonmonotone

parametric functions”, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference,

89,109-118.

Bar-Lev, S.K, Langberg, N.A. and Reiser, B.,(2001) “Limiting

distributions for statistics based on different samples”, Advances and

Applications in Statistics, 1, 27-48.

Reiser, B., (2001) “Confidence Intervals for the Mahalanobis Distance”,

Communications in Statistics. Simulation and Computation, 30, 37-

45.

Kramar, A. ,Faraggi, D. ,Fortune , A. Reiser, B.,(2001) “mROC: a

computer program for combining tumour markers in predicting

disease rates”, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine,

66,199-207

Schisterman, E., Faraggi, D., Reiser,B. and Trevisan, M.,(2001).

“Statistical Inference for the Area Under the ROC Curve in the

Presence of Random Measurement Error”, American Journal of

Epidemiology , 154, 174-179

Flehinger, B.J., Reiser, B. and Yashchin, E.,(2001). “Statistical Analysis

for Masked Data” Handbook of Statistics, Vol 20: Advances in

Reliability Eds N. Balakrishnan and C.R. Rao, 499-522.

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Azen , R. , Budescu , D.V. and Reiser, B.(2001),”Criticality of predictors

in multiple regression” British Journal of Mathematical and

Statistical Psychology ,54, 201-225.

Schisterman E., Faraggi D, Browne R, Freudenheim J, Dorn J,

Muti, P.,Armstrong ,D., Reiser,B. and Trevisan, M., (2001) “TBARS

and Cardiovascular Disease in a Population-based Sample”.

European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation,

8 ,219-225

Flehinger, B.J., Reiser, B. and Yashchin, E.,(2002)“Parametric Modeling

for Survival with Competing Risks and Masked Failure Causes”

Lifetime Data Analysis,8,177-203.

Faraggi, D., and Reiser, B., (2002) ” Estimation of the area under the

ROC curve” Statistics in Medicine, 21, 3093-3106.

Schisterman E., Faraggi D, Browne R, Freudenheim J, Dorn J , Muti,

P.,Armstrong ,D., Reiser,B. and Trevisan, M.,(2002) “ Minimal

and Best Linear Combination of Oxidative Stress and

Antioxidants Biomarkers to Discriminate Cardiovascular

Disease” Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases,

12,259-266.

Faraggi, D., Izikson, P., and Reiser, B., (2003) “Confidence Intervals for

the 50% Response Dose” Statistics in Medicine, 22, 1977-1988.

Faraggi, D., Reiser, B. and Schisterman, E., (2003) “ROC curve analysis

for biomarkers based on pooled assessments” Statistics in Medicine,

22, 2515-2527.

Davidov, O., Faraggi D. and Reiser, B., (2003) “Misclassification in

logistic regression with discrete covariates” Biometrical Journal, 45,

541-553.

Schisterman, E., Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B.(2004) “Adjusting the

generalized ROC curve for covariates” Statistics in Medicine, 23,

3319-3331.

Fluss, R., Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B. (2005) “Estimation of the Youden

Index and it’s associated cutoff point“, Biometrical Journal, 47,458-

472.

Schisterman, E., Reiser, B. and Faraggi, D., (2006) "ROC analysis for

markers with mass at zero”, Statistics in Medicine, 25, 623-638

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Craiu R.V. and Reiser, B., (2006). "Inference for the dependent competing

risks model with masked causes of failure" Lifetime Data Analysis,

12, 21-33

Molodianovitch, K., Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B. (2006) “Comparing the

areas under two correlated ROC curves: parametric and non-

parametric approaches”, Biometrical Journal, 48,745-757

Schisterman, E., Faraggi, D., Reiser, B. and Hu, J. (2008) “Youden Index

and the optimal threshold for markers with mass at zero” Statistics in

Medicine, 27,297-315

Fluss R., Reiser, B., Faraggi, D., and Rotnitzky, A. (2009) “Estimation of

the ROC Curve under Verification Bias”, Biometrical Journal,

51,475-490.

Yao F., Craiu R.V. and Reiser, B.(2010) “Nonparametric Covariate

Adjustment for Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves”,

Canadian Journal of Statistics, 38,27-46.

Fluss R., Reiser, B. and Faraggi, D. (2012) “Adjusting ROC Curves for

covariates in the presence of verification bias” Journal of Statistical

Planning and Inference 142,1-11.

Portnov ,B.A., Reiser, B. and Schwartz, M.(2012) “Does Gibrat's Law for

Cities Hold when Location Counts?” The Annals of Regional

Science ,48,151-178.

Portnov B.A., Reiser B., Karkabi K., Cohen-Kastel O. and Dubnov,J.

(2012) “High Prevalence of Childhood Asthma in Northern Israel

is Linked to Air Pollution by Particulate Matter:Evidence from

GIS Analysis and Bayesian Model Averaging” International

Journal of Environmental Health Research , 22,249-269.

Dattner, I. and Reiser, B.(2013) “Estimation of distribution functions in

measurement error models” Journal of Statistical Planning and

Inference 143 , 479-493

Bantis ,L.E., Nakas,C.T. and Reiser,B.(2013) "Construction of confidence

regions in the ROC space after the estimation of the optimal

Youden index-based cut-off point," Biometrics to appear

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ARTICLES IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

PUBLISHED

Emmons, D.B., Reiser, B., Giroux, R.N. and Stanley, D.W., (1974), "Cheddar

Cheese made with Bovine Pepsin," Proceedings of the XIX

International Dairy Congress, IE, 721-2.

Politch, J. Reiser, B., and Sherf, Z., (1983), "Modal Analysis of Randomly

Vibrating Objects via Holo- graphic Spectroscopy," Proceedings of

the Tenth International Optical Computing Conference, 122-123.

Shiran S., Reiser, B. and Cory, H. (1992), "A Probabilistic Approach to the

Problem of Crosstalk between Wires, Proceedings of the 1992

Regional Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 6.1.4, 1-4.

Reiser, B., Yashchin, E. and Flehinger, B.J., “Statistical Inference for Masked

Data”, (1997), Proceedings of the 2nd

World Congress of NonLinear

Analysts, 4423-4432.

Reiser, B., Flehinger, B.J. and Yashchin, E., “Survival Analysis with Partially

Resolved Failures”, (1998), 1998 ASA Proceedings of the Section on

Physical and Engineering Sciences, 29-35.

OTHER SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

Reiser, B. (1985), Letter to the Editor, Micro- electronics and Reliability, 26,

393

Simonoff, J., Hochberg, Y., and Reiser, B. (1988), Response to "Estimating

Pr(X<Y) in Categorized Data Using 'ROC' Analysis,” Biometrics, 44,

621.

Reiser, B. (1988), “Stress Strength Models” Encyclopedia of Statistical

Science.9.15-16

Reiser, B. (1994). Review of "Farnum, N.R., Modern Statistical Quality

Control and Improvement", The American Statistician, 48, 348.

Reiser, B. (1997), Letter to the Editor, Reliability Engineering and System

Safety, 56, 95.

Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B. (2005), "Area under the Curve (AUC),"

Encyclopaedic Companion to Medical Statistics 12-13. Reprinted in

2nd

Edition, 2011, Wiley, 16-17.

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Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B. (2005), "Competing Risks" Encyclopaedic

Companion to Medical Statistics 65- 66. Reprinted in 2nd

Edition,

2011, Wiley, 86-87.

Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B. (2005), "Frailty" Encyclopaedic Companion to

Medical Statistics 140-141. Reprinted in 2nd

Edition, 2011, Wiley,

176.

Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B. (2005), "Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC)

Curve” Encyclopaedic Companion to Medical Statistics 295-296.

Reprinted in 2nd

Edition, 2011, Wiley, 389-391.

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