photo

Kalimuthu Krishnamoorthy
Professor

Contact:
Office: 425 Maxim Doucet
Phone: 337-482-5283
E-mail: krishna@louisiana.edu
Home page: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~kxk4695/
Degrees:
Ph.D. (Statistics) 1985 Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, India
M.Sc. (Statistics) 1978 Madras University, India
B.Sc. (Statistics) 1976 Madras University, India
Statement:
My research interests are in developing statistical methodologies for occupational exposure data analysis, inference with missing data, meta analysis, tolerance regions, data analysis with multiple detection limits, and statistical calibration.
Books:
  • Handbook of Statistical Distributions with Applications, Chapman & Hall/CRC (2006).
  • Statistical Tolerance Regions: Theory, Applications and Computation (co-author: Thomas Mathew), Wiley (2009).
Selected research publications:
  • Confidence limits for lognormal percentiles and for lognormal mean based on samples with multiple detection limits (with Z. Xu), Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 55 (2011), 495-509.
  • Inference for the lognormal mean and quantiles based on samples with nondetects (with A. Mallick and T. Mathew), Technomterics, 53 (2011), 72-83.
  • Improved closed-form prediction intervals for binomial and Poisson distributions (with J. Peng), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 141 (2011), 1709-1718.
  • Inference for functions of parameters in discrete distributions based on fiducial approach: binomial and Poisson cases (with M. Lee), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 140 (2010), 1182-1192.
  • Normal based methods for a gamma distribution: prediction and tolerance interval and stress-strength reliability (with T. Mathew and S. Mukherjee), Technometrics, 50 (2008), 69-78.
  • Sample Size Calculation for Estimating or Testing a Nonzero Squared Multiple Correlation Coefficient (with Xia, Y.), Multivariate Behavioral Research, 43, 382-410.
  • Inferences on Correlation Coefficients: One-Sample, Independent and Correlated Cases (with Xia, Y.), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inferences, 137 (2007), 2362-2379.
  • Inference on Reliability in Two-Parameter Exponential Stress-Strength Model (with Mukherjee, S. and Guo, H.), Metrika, 65 (2007), 261-273.
  • Two-sample inference for normal mean vectors based on monotone missing data (with Jianqi Yu and M. K. Pannala), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 97 (2006), 2162-2176.
  • A multivariate test for similarity of two dissolution profiles (with H. Saranadasa), Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 15 (2005), 265-278.
  • Modified Nel and Van der Merwe test for the multivariate Behrens-Fisher problem (with Jianqi Yu), Statistics & Probability Letters, 66 (2004), 161-169.
  • One-Sided tolerance limits in balanced and unbalanced one-way random models based on generalized confidence limits (with Thomas Mathew), Technometrics, 46 (2004), 44-52.
  • A more powerful test for comparing two Poisson means (with Jessica Thomson), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 119 (2004), 23-35. [one of 25 most downloaded articles from JSPI 2002-04]
  • Inferences in Multivariate-Univariate Calibration Problems (with Denise Benton and Thomas Mathew), The Statistician (JRSS-D), 52 (2003), 15-39.
  • Inferences on the common mean of several normal populations based on the generalized variable method (with Yong Lu), Biometrics, 59 (2003), 237-247.
  • Computing discrete mixtures of continuous distributions: noncentral chisquare, noncentral t and the distribution of the square of the sample multiple correlation coefficient (with Denise Benton), Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 43 (2003), 249-267.
  • Inferences on the means of lognormal distributions using generalized p-values and generalized confidence intervals (with Thomas Mathew), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 115 (2003), 103-121. [one of 25 most downloaded articles from JSPI 2002-04]
  • Assessing occupational exposure via the one-way random effects model (with Thomas Mathew), Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 7, (2002), 440-451.
  • Inferences in multivariate-univariate calibration problems (with D. Benton, T. Mathew), The Statistician (JRSS-D), 52 (2002), 15-39.
  • Hypothesis testing about proportions in two finite populations (with J. Thomson), The American Statistician, 56 (2002), 215-222.
  • Inferences on normal covariance matrix and generalized variance with incomplete data (with Jian Hao), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 78 (2001), 62-82.
  • Comparison of Approximation Methods for Computing Tolerance Factors for a Multivariate Normal Population (with Thomas Mathew), Technometrics, 41 (1999), 234-249.
  • Some Simple Test Procedures for Normal Mean Vector with Incomplete Data (with Maruthy K. Pannala), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 50, 531-542.
  • Combining independent studies in a calibration problem (with Darren Johnson), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 91 (1996), 1707-1715.
  • Exact confidence intervals for the common mean of several normal populations (with Scott M. Jordan), Biometrics, 52 (1996), 78-87.
  • Simultaneous estimation of independent normal mean vectors with unknown covariance matrices (with S. K. Sarkar), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 47 (1993), 329-338.
  • On a shrinkage estimator of a normal common mean vector, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 40 (1992), 109-114.
  • Improved estimators of eigenvalues of \Sigma_1\Sigma_2^{-1} (with A. K., Gupta), Statistics and Decisions, 8 (1990), 247-263.
  • Optimal integration of two or three PPS surveys with common sample size n > 1 (with S. K. Mitra), Sankhya, Ser. B, 49 (1987), 283-306.
  • Empirical Bayes estimators of normal covariance matrix (with Sharma, D.), Sankhya, Ser. A, 24 (1985), 247-254.