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Gail Ivanoff


Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Ottawa
109 - 585 King Edward Avenue

Board of Directors, LRSP

Email: givanoff@science.uottawa.ca


Mailing address:

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, PO Box 450, Stn. A, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, CANADA

email: givanoff@science.uottawa.ca

telephone: (613) 562-5800 extension 3501

fax: (613) 562-5776


Research Interests:

Probability theory and stochastic processes: in particular, stochastic processes indexed by sets, martingales, Markov processes, point processes, survival analysis, exchangeability, limit theory

Recent publications

1. Research monographs:

B.G. Ivanoff and E. Merzbach (2000). Set-Indexed Martingales. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Boca Raton.
L. Gorostiza and B.G. Ivanoff (2000), eds. Stochastic Models, Proceedings of the International Conference on Stochastic Models, June 1998. Canadian Mathematical Society Conference Proceedings 26.

2. Articles in refereed journals:

B.G. Ivanoff and N.L. Weber (2004), Spreadable arrays and martingale structures. Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (Series A), in press.
B.G. Ivanoff and E. Merzbach (2004). Random Clouds and an application to censoring in survival analysis. Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, in press.
B.G. Ivanoff and E. Merzbach, (2002). Random consoring in set-indexed survival analysis. Annals of Applied Probability, 12, 944-97.
B.G. Ivanoff and P. Sawyer (2002). Local times for processes indexed by a partially ordered set. To appear, Statistics and Probability Letters, 61, 1-15.
B.G. Ivanoff and E. Merzbach (2002). Random censoring in set-indexed survival analysis. Annals of Applied Probability, in press.
R.M. Balan and B.G. Ivanoff (2002). A Markov property for set-indexed processes. Journal of Theoretical Probability 15, 553-558.
B.G. Ivanoff and E. Merzbach (2000). A Skorokhod topology for a class of set-indexed functions. Skorokhod's Ideas in Probability Theory, V. Korolyuk, N. Portenko, H. Syta, eds. Proceedings of the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 32, 172-178.
B.G. Ivanoff and N.C. Weber (1998). Tail probabilities for weighted sums of products of normal random variables. Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society 58, 239-244.
B.G. Ivanoff and E. Merzbach (1997). Poisson convergence for set-indexed empirical porcesses. Statistics and Probability Letters 32, 81-86.
B.G. Ivanoff, Y-X. Lin and E. Merzbach (1996). Weak convergence of set-indexed point processes. Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics 55, 46-58.
B.G. Ivanoff and E. Merzbach (1996). A martingale characterization of the set-indexed Brownian motion. Journal of Theoretical Probability 9, 903-913.
A. Dabrowski, Y. Fang and B.G. Ivanoff (1996). Strong approximations for multiparameter martingales. Stochastics and Stochastics Reports 56, 241-270.
B.G. Ivanoff and N.C. Weber (1996). Some characterizations of partial exchangeability. Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society Series A 61, 345-359.
B.G. Ivanoff (1996). Stopping times and tightness for multiparameter martingales. Statistics and Probability Letters 28, 111-114.

3. Articles in refereed conference proceedings:

B.G. Ivanoff and E. Merzbach (2000). Set-indexed Markov processes. In Stochastic Models, Canadian Mathematical Society Conference Proceedings 26, 217-232.
B.G. Ivanoff and N.C. Weber (1998). A maximal inequality and tightness for multiparameter stochastic processes. In Asymptotic Methods in Probability and Statistics, B. Szyszkowicz, ed. Elsevier Science, 359-369.

Recent Ph.D. theses supervised:

D. Slonowsky (1998). Central Limit Theory for Set-Indexed Martingales
R. Balan (2001). Set-Indexed Markov Processes
M. Plante (2001). Point Processes: Distributions, Partial Orders and Compensators