John W. Emerson (Jay)

Department of Statistics
Yale University

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

   

    Telephone: (203) 432-0638
    Office: 24 HH, Room B06

    Mailing addresses

Assistant Professor of Statistics

Faculty Affiliate, Center for
Environmental Law and Policy

Fellow, Jonathan Edwards College
Secretary of the Senior Common Room

Yale University

Of interest...

bigmemory: R package available now! For massive matrices in R, including support for shared memory.

SmudgeKit: R package available soon! For studying and correcting spatial distortion on microarrays.

YaleToolkit: R package now available! Includes gpairs(), barcode(), whatis(), sparkmat() and more!

bcp: R package for Bayesian change point analysis (JSS paper).

Summer 2009: Statistics in Beijing


In The News... Wall Street Journal 6/20/2008: World's Greatest Athlete: How we did it
Wall Street Journal 4/24/2008: citation by The Numbers Guy
Chance, On and Off the Ice (CHANCE, Spring 2007)
Stock Options Backdating wins Pulitzer Prize (4/16/2007)
Wall Street Journal 3/31/07: Reservations at Top Restaurants
The Game: Yale-Harvard Football
Figure Skating Results and Analysis from the 2006 Olympic Games
Wall Street Journal 3/23/06: The Perfect Bracket (basketball predictions)
Wall Street Journal 3/18/06: The Perfect Payday
          (stock options backdating: citation in methods)
March Madness '05 Predictions

Links

    Google!
    New Classes Server
    Sports Illustrated
    CNN
    Yale Directory
    Course selection site

Courses

    100b: Introductory Statistics
    128b: Real-World Statistics
    230/530b: Introductory Data Analysis
    242/542b: Theory of Statistics
    361/661a: Advanced Data Analysis
    625a: Statistical Case Studies
    626b: Practical Work
    627b: Statistical Consulting
    662a: Computational Statistics


Oxford University
 
R Stuff (S-Plus, too!)

    Generalized pairs() plots
    Data Examination
    Mosaic Plots
    Barcode Plots

Distractions

   Fiero ('95-'00)
   Miata ('99-'01)
   Blue Jag ('01-'03)
   Red Jag ('03-'04)
   Mustang ('05-'07)


Williams College
 
Other

Peking University

Yale University

REvolution login Fantasy Football

"To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of." - Sir Ronald A Fisher

"The plural of anecdote is not data." - Roger Brinner

"The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data." - John Tukey