University of Toronto

 Department of Statistics

Ye Sun

 Tel: 416-978-1063

Email: ysun@utstat.utoronto.ca

  Office: SS5027

  Mail address

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

Degrees

2007 Ph.D. in Statistics, York University

2003 M.Sc. in Applied Math, Nankai University

2000 B.S. in Applied Math, Hebei University of Technology

Honors

2008, May: York University, dissertation prize.

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

1. N. Reid, Y. Sun (2008). Assessing sensitivity to priors using higher order approximations. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods. To appear.

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

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

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

5. J. Wu, A. Wong and Y. Sun (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.

Article submitted

D. A. S. Fraser, A. Wong, Y. Sun (2007). “Bayes frequentist and enigmatic examples.”

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

Department

Statistical Theory

Applied Statistics

Software

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