Recent Publications 

2007

• On the uniqueness of matching priors with Ana-Maria Staicu. submitted for publication.
• Applied Asymptotics: Case studies in small sample statistics. A.R. Brazzale, A.C. Davison and N. Reid, Cambridge University Press.

2006

• Statistical issues arising in PhyStat2005. in Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Coxmology, L. Lyons and M. Unel, Eds. World Sicentific, London.

2005

• Improved likelihood inference for discrete data. (2006) with A.C. Davison and D.A.S. Fraser, JRSS B 68 , 495--508.

2004

• Theoretical statistics and asymptotics. Based on talk given at Neuchatel, July 2004. Appeared in A Celebration of Statistics: Papers in Honour of D.R. Cox, eds. A.C. Davison, Y.Dodge, N. Wermuth, pp. 73--85 OUP 2005.
• Assessing a vector parameter. joint with D. Fraser. in Student 5, 247-256 (2006).

2003

• A note on pseudolikelihood constructed from marginal densities. with David Cox. appeared in Biometrika 91,729--737 in 2004.
• Likelihood inference with nuisance parameters. based on talk given at PhyStat 2003. Paper joint with Don Fraser appeared in Proc. PHYSTAT2003, L.Lyons, R. Mount, R. Reitmeyer, eds. SLAC e-Conf C030908, 265--271.
• Inference for bounded parameters. with Augustine Wong and Don Fraser. appeared in Phys. Rev. D 69, 033002.

2002

• Asymptotics and the theory of inference. Annals of Statistics , 31, 1695--1731.
• Some aspects of matching priors. with Rahul Mukerjee and Don Fraser. in Mathematical Statistics and Applications: Festschrift for C. VanEeden (M. Moore, S. Froda, C. L\'eger, eds.) 31--44. Lecture Notes Monograph Series 42, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Hayward.

2001

• Approximate posterior quantiles of parametric function with application to Bayesian tolerance limits. with Rahul Mukerjee. Final version appeared in Biometrika, 88 587-592.
• On the Bayesian approach for frequentist computations. with Rahul Mukerjee. Braz. J. Statist. 14, 159--166.

2000

• Likelihood. This appeared in JASA Vol. 95, 1335-1340 in a series of vignettes on theory and methods.

1999

• Strong matching of frequentist and Bayesian inference. with Don Fraser (1999). presented by Don at the International Workshop on Objective Bayesian Methodology in Valencia, June 9-11, 1999. Appeared in J. Statist. Plann. Infer. (2002; 263--285). PDF version
• On a property of matching priors: matching the alternative coverage probabilities. with Rahul Mukerjee (1997). Appeared in Biometrika, June, 1999.
• On confidence intervals associated with the usual and adjusted likelihoods. with Rahul Mukerjee (1997). (compressed postscript) appeared in JRSSB, December, 1999
  
• Comparison of test statistics via expected lengths of confidence intervals. with Rahul Mukerjee (1996). Appeared in J. Statist. Planning Infer. (2001, 141--151).
• A simple general formula for tail probabilities for frequentist and Bayesian inference. with Don Fraser and Jian Rong Wu. Implementation of third order tail probability formula in Maple, with examples. Biometrika, June, 1999.
  The programs are provided and described in a latex file .

1998

• Estimating functions and higher order significance. with Don Fraser (1996). in Selected Proceedings of the Symposium on Estimating Functions, I.V. Basawa, V.P. Godambe and R.L. Taylor, eds. 105--114. held in Athens, Georgia, March 1996.
• Local Lyapunov exponents. with Yodit Seifu (1996). Canad. J. Statist., December 1997.
• Higher order results on the likelihood ratio statistic under model misspecification. with Kalyanee Viraswami (1996). Canad. J. Statist., January, 1998.

1997

• Asymptotic theory and the foundations of statistics. (1995) Title page: Paper. This is the Krieger-Nelson lecture and appeared in 1997 in the Canadian Math. Bulletin.
  
• Asymptotic expansions. (1996) pdf version. Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (Update Volume).