My co-authors Ravi Bapna and Wolfgang Jank and I have just been notified that our paper Consumer Surplus in Online Auctions (ISR, 2008) was selected as one of the five best Information Systems papers published in 2008. We're all very excited about the news!

These Matlab modules below contain procedures for plotting control charts of different types, including ones that are based on wavelets. The functions are designed to be independent of specialized Matlab toolboxes. The code is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Prof Shmueli is visiting with the department of econometrics and business statistics at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia in Jan-Feb 2009.

I have been tackling some "big picture" questions related to using statistical methods in practice.

Present

• Inbal Yahav, Smith School of Business
• Thomas Lotze, Applied Math and Scientific Computation Program
  

Past

Runs and Scans in Industrial statistics

Early detection of disease outbreaks has been the focus of recent national efforts. I am currently working on exploring and evaluating univariate and multivariate monitoring methods that can be used to track multiple traditional and non-traditional time series for detecting an outbreak.

Shmueli et al. (2005) revived a useful discrete distribution called CMP (the Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution) and introduced its statistical and probabilistic properties. This distribution is a two-parameter extension of the Poisson distribution that generalizes some well-known discrete distributions (Poisson, Bernoulli and geometric).