Anthony Y. C. Kuk  

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Education:

B.A. in Mathematics,               Rutgers University, U.S.A. 
Ph.D in Statistics,                    Stanford University, U.S.A. 

 

 

Research Interests:   

 

Editorial Service: 

Associate editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association

 

Selected Publications:

  1. Kuk, A.Y.C. (1984) All subsets regression in a proportional hazards model. Biometrika, 71, 587-592. 

  2. Kuk, A.Y.C. (1988) Estimation of distribution functions and medians under sampling with unequal probabilities. Biometrika, 75, 97-103.

  3. Kuk, A.Y.C. and Mak, T.K. (1989) Median estimation in the presence of auxiliary information. J. R. Statist. Soc. B, 51, 261-269.

  4. Kuk, A.Y.C. (1990) Asking sensitive questions indirectly. Biometrika, 77, 436-438.

  5. Kuk, A.Y.C. and Chen, C.H. (1992) A mixture model combining logistic regression with proportional hazards regression. Biometrika, 79, 187-200.

  6. Kuk, A.Y.C. (1993) A kernel method for estimating finite population functions using auxiliary information. Biometrika, 80, 385-392.

  7. Kuk, A.Y.C. (1995) Asymptotically unbiased estimation in generalized linear models with random effects. J. R. Statist. Soc. B, 57, 395-407. 

  8. Chan, J.S.K. and Kuk, A.Y.C. (1997) Maximum likelihood estimation for probit-linear mixed models with correlated random effects. Biometrics, 53, 86-97.

  9. Lam, K.F. and Kuk, A.Y.C. (1997) A marginal likelihood approach to estimation in frailty models. J. Am. Statist. Assoc., 92, 985-990.

  10. Kuk, A.Y.C. and Cheng, Y.W. (1999) Pointwise and functional approximations in Monte Carlo maximum likelihood estimation. Statistics and Computing, 9, 91-99.

  11. Kuk, A,Y.C. and Nott, D.J. (2000) A pairwise likelihood approach to analyzing correlated binary data. Statistics & Probability Letters, 47, 329-335.

  12. Kuk, A.Y.C. and Welsh, A.H. (2001) Robust estimation for finite populations based on a working model. J. R. Statist. Soc. B., 63, 277-292.

  13. Yau, K.K.W. and Kuk, A.Y.C. (2002) Robust estimation in generalized linear mixed models. J. R. Statist. Soc. B., 64, 101-117.

  14. Cheng, Y.W. and Kuk, A.Y.C. (2002) Determination of the unknown age at first capture of western rock lobsters (Panulirus cygnus) by random effects model. Biometrics, 58, 459-462.

  15. Kuk, A.Y.C. (2003) A generalised estimating equation approach to modelling foetal response in developmental toxicity studies when number of implants is dose-dependent. Applied Statistics, 52, 51-61.

  16. Kuk, A.Y.C. (2003) Automatic choice of driving values in Monte Carlo likelihood approximation via posterior simulations. Statistics and Computing, 13, 101-109.

  17. Kuk, A,Y.C. (2004) A litter-based approach to risk assessment in developmental toxicity studies via a power family of completely monotone functions. Applied Statistics, 53, 369-386.

  18. Kuk, A.Y.C. (2004) Permutation invariance of alternating logistic regression for multivariate binary data. Biometrika, 91, 758-761.

  19. Kuk, A. Y. C. and Ma, S. (2005) The estimation of SARS incubation distribution from serial interval data using a convolution likelihood. Statistics in Medicine, 24, 2525-2537.

  20. Nott, D.J., Kuk, A.Y.C. and H. Duc. (2005) Efficient sampling schemes for Bayesian MARS models with many predictors. Statistics and Computing, 15, 93-101.

  21. Pang, Z. and Kuk, A.Y.C. (2005) A shared response model for clustered binary data in developmental toxicity studies. Biometrics, 61, 1076-1084..

  22. Pang, Z. and Kuk, A.Y.C. (2007) Test of marginal compatibility and smoothing methods for exchangeable binary data with unequal cluster sizes. Biometrics, 63, 618-27.

  23. Nott, D.J. and  Kuk, A.Y.C. (2007) Coefficient sign prediction methods for model selection. J. R. Statist. Soc. B., 69, 447-61.

  24. Kuk, A.Y.C. (2007)  A hybrid pairwise likelihood method. Biometrika, 94, 939-52.

  25. Kuk, A.Y.C. (2008)  Discussion on "Sampling bias and logistic models" by Peter McCullagh. J. R. Statist. Soc. B., 70, 670-71.

  26. Kuk, A.Y.C. and Tan, C.C. (2009)  Estimating the time varying rate of transmission of SARS in Singapore and Hong Kong under two environments. To appear in J. Am. Statist. Assoc.

  27. Kuk, A.Y.C., Zhang, H. and Yang, Y. (2009) Computationally feasible estimation of haplotype frequencies from grouped DNA with and without Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Bioinformatics, 25, 379-386.

  28. Kuk, A.Y.C. and Xu, J. (2009) Relative efficiency of the fuzzy p-value approach to hypothesis testing. To appear in International Statistical Review.

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