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Yaming Yu is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at UC Irvine. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and his B.S. in Mathematics from Beijing University. A picture of Yaming can be found here

Research Interests

Some Papers

• To Center or Not to Center, That is Not the Question: An Ancillarity-Sufficiency Interweaving Strategy (ASIS) for Boosting MCMC Efficiency (with X.-L. Meng) Preprint, 2009

• Monotonic Convergence of a General Algorithm for Computing Optimal Designs To appear, Annals of Statistics, 2010+

• Monotonic Convergence in an Information-Theoretic Law of Small Numbers IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 55 (2009) 5412-5422

• Squeezing the Arimoto-Blahut Algorithm for Faster Convergence Preprint, 2009

• D-optimal Designs via a Cocktail Algorithm Preprint, 2009 User's guide R code R demo matlab code matlab demo

• On the Entropy of Compound Distributions on Nonnegative Integers IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 55 (2009) 3645--3650

• Some Stochastic Inequalities for Weighted Sums Preprint, 2009

• Confirming Two Conjectures of Su and Wang on Binomial Coefficients Advances in Applied Mathematics 43 (2009) 317--322

• A Bit of Information Theory, and the Data Augmentation Algorithm Converges IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 54 (2008) 5186--5188

More Papers

Courses:

• Statistics 295 (Fall 2008): Stochastic Processes Syllabus.

• Statistics 67 (Fall 2008): Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Computer Science. Syllabus.

• Statistics 200C (Spring 2008): Intermediate Statistics.

• Statistics 67 (Fall 2007): Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Computer Science, Syllabus.

• Statistics 201 (Fall 2007): Statistical Methods for Data Analysis I, Syllabus.

• Statistics 260 (Spring 2007): Statistical Inference with Missing Data, Syllabus.

• Statistics 200B (Winter 2007): Intermediate Statistics, Syllabus.

Other Interests

He likes Russian literature.