University of Toronto

Department of Statistics

Ye Sun

 Tel: 416-978-1063

Email: ysun@utstat.utoronto.ca

 Office: SS5027

Department of Statistics
University of Toronto
100 St George Street, Toronto
Canada M5S 3G3

Post-doctoral Fellowship in the STAT department between Sep 1, 2007 – Aug 31, 2009. Please visit my new web site at the Mount Sinai Hospital.

Research

Likelihood asymptotics theories, default priors for Bayesian analysis, mixed models, generalized linear models, mixture models.

Teaching

1. PRACTICE OF STAT I (FALL-2008-STA220H1-F-LEC0201)

2. Statistical Concepts: STA250H1F(2007)

3. Statistical Theory:  STA 255H1S (2007)

Publications in refereed journals

1. Fraser, D.A.S. and Sun, Y. (2009). Some corrections for Bayes curvature. To appear.

2. N. Reid, Y. Sun (2009). Assessing sensitivity to priors using higher order approximations. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods. To appear.

3. Fraser, D. A. S. , Wong, A. and Sun, Y. (2009). “Bayes frequentist and enigmatic examples.” Canadian Journal of Statistics, 31, 161-181.

4. Rekkas, M., She, Y. , Sun, Y. and Wong, A. (2008). An Interesting Application of a Likelihood-Based Asymptotic. Journal of Applied Probability & Statistics 3, 275-285.

5. Rekkas, M., Sun, Y. and Wong, A. (2008). Testing for Autocorrelation using Likelihood Analysis. Journal of Time Series Analysis, 29 (3), 513-532, 2008.

6. Sun, Y. and Wong, A. (2007). Interval inference of Normal correlation coefficient. Probability and Statistics Letters , 77, 1652-1661.

7. Wu, Y., Wong, A. and Sun, Y. (2006). Interval Estimation of Exponentiated Exponential Distribution. Far East J. Theo. Stat.. 19,   141 - 161.

Conference paper

Day, D. M., Bevc I.,Duchesne, T., Rosenthal, J. S., Sun, Y., & Theodor, F. (in press). Criminal trajectories from adolescence to adulthood in an Ontario sample of offenders. In G. Bourgon, R.K. Hanson, J.D. Pozzulo, K.E. Morton Bourgon, & C.L. Tanasichuk (Eds.), The Proceedings of the 2007 North American Correctional & Criminal Justice Psychology Conference (User Report). Ottawa: Public Safety Canada.

Some quotes

	"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." -- James Thurber
	"It is much more important to be clear than to be correct." -- Blair Wheaton.
	"All models are wrong but some are useful" -- George E. P. Box
	"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- Mark Twain with attribution to Benjamin Disraeli
	"It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it." --Andrejs Dunkels
	"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." -- Albert Einstein

Last updated – Aug 31, 2009.