Jacob Bruce Colvin

News

• I'm going to the SAMSI Program on Sequential Monte Carlo Methods in September.

Academics

• CV
• Behrens Distribution information http://jbcolvin.fastmail.fm/behrens/
  The Behrens distribution is similar to the t distribution, however in the two sample problem the Behrens distribution can handle unequal variance situations while the t distribution relies on various kinds of kludges to approximate unequal variances.  As noted in the readme, I was able to find an efficient method for calculating this distribution and have been made mention on Peter M. Lee's website for his book on Bayesian Statistics.
• Boxplots and outlier detection http://jbcolvin.fastmail.fm/JSM2006/
  I went to Seattle in August of 2006 for a statistics conferences and presented a poster with Prof Trumbo from CSUEB on boxplots that analyzed the outlier detection rate for boxplots.

Education

• M.S. Statistics
  California State University, East Bay
  Spring 2007
• B.S. Computer Science and Statistics, Minor Philosophy
  University of California, Davis
  Fall 2003

Interests

• Bayesian Point Process Spatial-Temporal Models
• Sequential Monte Carlo Methods
• Statistical Process Control

TA Activities

• AMS 5 Fall 2007
• AMS 5 Winter 2008
• AMS 5 Spring 2008
• AMS 7 Fall 2008

"Truth [probability] is subjective." --Soren Kierkegaard