Selected Preprints and Publications

  • T.-J. Huang, A. Luedtke and I. W. McKeague (2023)
    Efficient Estimation of the Maximal Association between Multiple Predictors and a Survival Outcome
    The Annals of Statistics, 51(5), 1965-1988 [with an online supplement of 87 pages] [pdf] [arXiv link]

  • I. W. McKeague and Y. Swan (2023)
    Stein's Method and Approximating the Multidimensional Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
    Journal of Applied Probability, 60(3), 855-873. [arXiv link]

  • H.-W. Chang and I. W. McKeague (2022)
    Empirical Likelihood-based Inference for Functional Means with Application to Wearable Device Data
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society -- Series B, 84(5), 1947-1968, [online supplement of 37 pages] [pdf]

  • I. W. McKeague (2021)
    Non-Commutative Probability and Multiplicative Cascades
    Statistical Science, 36, 256-263. [pdf]

  • H.-W. Chang, I. W. McKeague and Y.-J. Wang (2021)
    A Case Study of Non-inferiority Testing with Survival Outcomes
    Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government Statistics, 8, 1-13. [pdf] [Code and data]

  • I. W. McKeague and X. (Henry) Zhang (2022)
    Significance Testing for Canonical Correlation Analysis in High Dimensions
    Biometrika, 109(4), 1067-1083 [pdf] [arXiv link]

  • D. Gyllenberg, I. W. McKeague, A. Sourander and A.S. Brown (2020)
    Robust Data-driven Identification of Risk Factors and their Interactions: A Simulation and a Study of Parental
    and Demographic Risk Factors for Schizophrenia
    International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 2020;29:e1834. [pdf]

  • I. W. McKeague, E. Pekoz and Y. Swan (2019)
    Stein's Method and Approximating the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
    Bernoulli, 25, 89-111. [pdf]

  • T.-J. Huang, I. W. McKeague and M. Qian (2019)
    Marginal Screening for High-Dimensional Predictors of Survival Outcomes
    Statistica Sinica, 29, 2105-2139. [pdf] [supplement]

  • H.-W. Chang and I. W. McKeague (2019)
    Nonparametric Testing for Multiple Survival Functions with Non-Inferiority Margins.
    The Annals of Statistics, 47, 205-232. [pdf] [supplement]

  • I. W. McKeague (2019)
    Introduction to Empirical Likelihood (Lecture Notes)
    First prepared for a Workshop at Université catholique de Louvain, May 2002. [pdf]

  • I. W. McKeague and M. Qian (2019)
    Marginal Screening of 2x2 Tables in Large-Scale Case-Control Studies
    Biometrics, 75, 163-171 [pdf] [supplement][R code]

  • H. J. Wang, I. W. McKeague and M. Qian (2018)
    Testing for Marginal Linear Effects in Quantile Regression
    JRSS-B, 80, 433-452. [pdf] [supplement] [R code] [Help and Example] [HIV-EFV data (csv file)]

  • N. L. Hjort, I. W. McKeague and I. Van Keilegom (2018)
    Hybrid Combinations of Parametric and Empirical Likelihoods
    Statistica Sinica (special issue in honor of Peter Hall), 28, 389-2407. [pdf]

  • H.-W. Chang, H. El Barmi and I. W. McKeague (2016)
    Tests for Stochastic Ordering under Biased Sampling
    Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 28, 659-682. [pdf of preprint]

  • H.-W. Chang and I. W. McKeague (2016)
    Empirical Likelihood Based Tests for Stochastic Ordering under Right Censorship
    Electronic Journal of Statistics, 10, 2511-2536. [pdf]

  • I. W. McKeague and B. Levin (2016)
    Convergence of Empirical Distributions in an Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
    Annals of Applied Probability, 26, 2540-2555. [pdf] [arXiv]

  • H. El Barmi and I. W. McKeague (2016)
    Testing for Uniform Stochastic Ordering via Empirical Likelihood
    Annals of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 68, 955-976. [pdf of preprint]

  • D. J. Eck and I. W. McKeague (2016)
    Central Limit Theorems under Additive Deformations
    Statistics and Probability Letters, 118, 156-162. [pdf]

  • I. W. McKeague and M. Qian (2015)
    An Adaptive Resampling Test for Detecting the Presence of Significant Predictors
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 110 1422-1433.
    JASA-T&M Special Invited Paper for 2015 (with discussion). [pdf of paper] [pdf of rejoinder]

  • I. W. McKeague (2015)
    Central Limit Theorems under Special Relativity
    Statistics and Probability Letters, 99, 149-155 (2015) [pdf]

  • I. W. McKeague, A. S. Brown, Y. Bao, S. Hinkka-Yli-Salomaki, J. Huttunen, Sourander, A. (2015)
    Autism with Intellectual Disability Related to Dynamics of Head Circumference Growth during Early Infancy
    Biological Psychiatry, 77, 833-840 (2015). [pdf] [supplement]

  • M. Zhao, Y. Zhao and I. W. McKeague (2015)
    Empirical Likelihood Inference for the Odds Ratio of Two Survival Functions under Right Censoring.
    Statistics and Probability Letters, 107, 304-312. [pdf]

  • I. W. McKeague and M. Qian (2014)
    Estimation of Treatment Policies based on Functional Predictors
    Statistica Sinica, 24, 1461-1485 (2014) [pdf]

  • Z. Li and I. W. McKeague (2013)
    Power and Sample Size Calculations for Generalized Estimating Equations via Local Asymptotics
    Statistica Sinica, 23, 231-250 (2013). [pdf] [supplement]

  • H. El Barmi and I. W. McKeague (2013)
    Empirical Likelihood Based Tests for Stochastic Ordering
    Bernoulli, 19, 295-307 (2013). [pdf]

  • M. A. A. Boon, J. H. J. Einmahl and I. W. McKeague (2013)
    Visualizing Multiple Quantile Plots
    Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 22, 69-78. [pdf]

  • Lopez-Pintado, S. and McKeague, I. W. (2013)
    Recovering Gradients from Sparsely Observed Functional Data
    Biometrics, 69, 396-404 (2013). [pdf] [pdf of preprint]
    R package. growthrate: Bayesian reconstruction of growth velocity (version 1.3) [on CRAN]

  • I. W. McKeague, S. Lopez-Pintado, M. Hallin and M. Siman (2011)
    Analyzing Growth Trajectories
    Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 2, 322-329 (2011) [pdf]

  • A. El Gouch, I. Van Keilegom and I. W. McKeague (2010)
    Empirical Likelihood Confidence Intervals for Dependent Duration Data
    Econometric Theory, 27, 178-198. [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W. and Sen, B. (2010)
    Fractals with Point Impact in Functional Linear Regression
    Annals of Statistics, 38, 2559-2586. [pdf]

  • Lindquist, M. A. and McKeague, I. W. (2009)
    Logistic Regression with Brownian-like Predictors
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 104, 1575-1585. [pdf]

  • Herbei, R. and McKeague, I. W. (2009)
    Hybrid Samplers for Ill-posed Inverse Problems.
    Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 36, 839-853. [pdf]

  • Hjort, N. L., McKeague, I. W. and I. Van Keilegom (2009)
    Extending the Scope of Empirical Likelihood
    Annals of Statistics, 37, 1079-1111. [pdf]

  • Sun, Y, Gilbert, P. B. and I. W. McKeague (2009)
    Proportional Hazards Models with Continuous Marks
    Annals of Statistics, 37, 394-426. [pdf]

  • Herbei, R., McKeague, I. W. and Speer, K. (2008)
    Gyres and Jets: Inversion of Tracer Data for Ocean Circulation Structure.
    Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38, 1180-1202. [pdf]

  • Banerjee, M. and McKeague, I. W. (2007)
    Estimating Optimal Step-function Approximations to Instantaneous Hazard Rates
    Bernoulli, 13, 279-299. [pdf]

  • Banerjee, M. and McKeague, I. W. (2007)
    Confidence Sets for Split Points in Decision Trees
    Annals of Statistics, 35, 543-574. [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W. and Y. Zhao (2006)
    Width-Scaled Confidence Bands for Survival Functions.
    Statistics and Probability Letters, 76, 327-339. [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W., Nicholls, G., Speer, K. and R. Herbei (2005)
    Statistical Inversion of South Atlantic Circulation in an Abyssal Neutral Density Layer
    Journal of Marine Research, 63, 683-704. [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W. (2005)
    A Statistical Model for Signature Verification
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 100, 231-241 (2005). [pdf]

  • Bunea, F. and McKeague, I. W. (2005)
    Covariate Selection for Semiparametric Hazard Function Regression Models.
    Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 92, 186-204. [pdf]

  • A. Antoniadis, G. Gregoire and McKeague, I. W. (2004)
    Bayesian Estimation in Single-Index Models.
    Statistica Sinica, 14, 1147-1164. [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W. and Y. Zhao. (2002)
    Simultaneous Confidence Bands for Ratios of Survival Functions via Empirical Likelihood.
    Statistics and Probability Letters, 60, 405-415. [pdf]

  • Talk at WNAR/IMS Meeting, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2002.
    Comparison of Treatments via Empirical Likelihood
    [pdf]

  • Talk at Eighth Summer Workshop, New Zealand Mathematics Research Institute, Napier, January 2002.
    Illustrations of MCMC in Nonlinear Regression, Survival Analysis and Spatial Statistics
    [pdf]

  • Talk at Harvard School of Public Health, December 2001.
    Comparison of Treatments and Competing Risks in Clinical Trials.
    [pdf]

  • Gilbert, P. B., McKeague, I. W. and Sun, Y.
    Tests for Comparing Mark-Specific Hazards and Cumulative Incidence Functions.
    Lifetime Data Analysis, 10, 5-28 (2004). [pdf] [Abstract]

  • Einmahl, J. H. J. and McKeague, I. W.
    Empirical Likelihood based Hypothesis Testing.
    Bernoulli, 9, 267-290 (2003). [pdf]

  • P. Gilbert, I. W. McKeague, G. Eisen, C. Mullins, A. Gueye-NDiaye, S. Mboup and P. Kanki (2003)
    Comparison of HIV-1 and HIV-2 Infectivity from a Prospective Cohort Study in Senegal
    Statistics in Medicine, 22, 573--593.[pdf]

  • Niu, X-F., McKeague, I. W. and Elsner, J. B. (2003).
    Seasonal Space-Time Models for Climate Systems.
    Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes 6, 111-133. [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W. and Loizeaux, M. A.
    Perfect Sampling for Point Process Cluster Modelling.
    Chapter 5 of Spatial Cluster Modelling (A. Lawson and D. Denison, eds.), Chapman and Hall (2002), pages 87-107. [pdf]

  • Loizeaux, M. A. and McKeague, I. W.
    Perfect Sampling for Posterior Landmark Distributions with an Application to the Detection of Disease Clusters.
    IMS Lecture Notes - Monograph Series, Vol. 37, 321-331 (2001). [pdf] [Abstract]

  • McKeague, I. W., Gilbert, P. B. and Kanki, P.
    Omnibus Tests for Comparison of Competing Risks with Adjustment for Covariate Effects.
    Biometrics, 57, 818-828 (2001). [pdf] [Abstract]

  • McKeague, I. W., Subramanian, S. and Sun, Y.
    Median Regression and the Missing Information Principle.
    Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 13, 709-727 (2001). [pdf] [Abstract]

  • Amir, C. and McKeague, I. W. (August 2000)
    Identifying a Time-dependent Covariate Effect in the Additive Risk Model.
    [PostScript] [Abstract]

  • McKeague, I. W. and Tighiouart, M.
    Bayesian Estimators for Conditional Hazard Functions.
    Biometrics, 56, 1007-1015 (2000). [pdf] [Abstract]

  • McKeague, I. W. and Wefelmeyer, W.
    Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Rao-Blackwellization.
    Statistical Planning and Inference, 85, 171-182 (2000). [pdf] [Abstract]

  • Einmahl, J. H. J. and McKeague, I. W.
    Confidence Tubes for Multiple Quantile Plots via Empirical Likelihood.
    The Annals of Statistics, 27, 1348-1367 (1999). [pdf] [Abstract]

  • Greenwood, P. E., McKeague, I. W. and Wefelmeyer, W.
    Von Mises Type Statistics for Single Site Updated Local Interaction Random Fields.
    Statistica Sinica, 9, 699-712 (1999). [pdf] [Abstract]

  • Greenwood, P. E., McKeague, I. W. and Wefelmeyer, W.
    Information Bounds for Gibbs Samplers.
    The Annals of Statistics, 26, 2128-2156 (1998). [pdf] [Abstract]

  • Laan, M. van der, and McKeague, I. W. (1996)
    Efficient Estimation from Right-Censored Data when Failure Indicators are Missing at Random.
    The Annals of Statistics, 26, 164-182 (1998). [pdf] [Abstract]

  • McKeague, I. W. and Subramanian, S.
    Product-Limit Estimators and Cox Regression with Missing Cause-of-Failure Information.
    Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 25, 589-601 (1998). [pdf] [Abstract]

  • Hollander, M., McKeague, I. W. and Yang, J.
    Likelihood Ratio-Based Confidence Bands for Survival Functions.
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 92, 215-226 (1997). [pdf]

  • Greenwood, P. E., McKeague, I. W. and Wefelmeyer, W.
    Outperforming the Gibbs Sampler Empirical Estimator for Nearest Neighbor Random Fields.
    The Annals of Statistics, 24, 1433-1456 (1996). [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W. and Sun, Y. (1996)
    Transformations of Gaussian Random Fields to Brownian Sheet and Nonparametric Change-point Tests.
    Statistics and Probability Letters, 28, 311-319. [pdf]

  • Li, G., Hollander, M., McKeague, I. W. and Yang, J. (1996)
    Nonparametric Likelihood Ratio Confidence Bands for Quantile Functions from Incomplete Survival Data.
    The Annals of Statistics, 24, 628-640. [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W. and Sun, Y. (1996)
    Towards an Omnibus Distribution-free Goodness-of-fit Test for the Cox Model.
    Statistica Sinica, 6, 579-588 (1996). [pdf]

  • I. W. McKeague, A. M. Nikabadze and Y. Sun (1995)
    An Omnibus Test for Independence of a Survival Time from a Covariate.
    The Annals of Statistics, 23, 450-475 (1995). [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W. and M.-J. Zhang (1994)
    Identification of Nonlinear Time Series from First Order Cumulative Characteristics.
    The Annals of Statistics, 22, 495-514. [pdf]

  • I. W. McKeague and P. D. Sasieni (1994)
    A Partly Parametric Additive Risk Model
    Biometrika, 81, 501-514 [pdf]

  • A. Antoniadis, G. Gregoire and I. W. McKeague (1994)
    Wavelet Methods for Curve Estimation
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89, 1340-1353 [pdf]

  • A. A. Aly, S. C. Kochar and I. W. McKeague (1994)
    Some Tests for Comparing Cumulative Incidence Functions and Cause-Specific Hazard Rates
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89, 994-999 [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W. and Utikal, K. J. (1990).
    Identifying nonlinear covariate effects in semimartingale regression models.
    Probability Theory and Related Fields, 87, 1-25 (1990). [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W. and Utikal, K. J. (1990).
    Inference for a Nonlinear Counting Process Regression Model.
    Annals of Statistics, 18, 1172-1187 (1990). [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W. and Utikal, K. J. (1990)
    Stochastic Calculus as a Tool in Survival Analysis: A Review.
    Applied Mathematics and Computation, 38, 23-49 (1990). [pdf of preprint]

  • McKeague, I. W. (1988)
    Asymptotic Theory for Weighted Least Squares Estimators in Aalen's Additive Risk Model.
    Contemporary Mathematics, 80, 139-152 . [pdf]

  • Huffer, F. W. and McKeague, I. W. (1987, 1991).
    Survival Analysis using Additive Risk Models. [pdf of preprint]
    Subsequently appeared in revised form as:
    Weighted Least Squares Estimation for Aalen's Additive Risk Model
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 86, 114-129 (1991). [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W. (1986)
    Estimation for a Semimartingale Regression Model Using the Method of Sieves.
    The Annals of Statistics, 14, 579-589. [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W. (1984)
    Estimation for Diffusion Processes under Misspecified Models
    Journal of Applied Probability, 21, 511-520. [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W. (1984)
    On the Stability of Bayes Estimators for Gaussian Processes.
    The Annals of Statistics, 12, 1310-1323. [pdf]

  • McKeague, I. W. (1981)
    On the Capacity of Channels with Gaussian and Non-Gaussian Noise.
    Information and Control, 51, 153-173. [pdf]

  • C. R. Baker and McKeague, I. W. (1981)
    Compact Covariance Operators.
    Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 83, 590-593. [pdf]