Thaddeus Tarpey


Office address:

Wright State University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Dayton, Ohio 45435
Phone: (937) 775-2861
Fax: (937) 775-2081
e-mail: ttarpey@mail.wright.edu

Education:

Ph.D. Mathematics, May 1992, Indiana University Mathematics Department, Bloomington, Indiana. Dissertation: Principal Points. Advisor: Bernard Flury.

Major: Statistics, Minor: Analysis.

M.A. Mathematics, May 1987, Mathematics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

B.A. Mathematics, May 1983, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

Experience:

Wright State University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Dayton  Ohio, 45435
          Full Professor:            September 2006 to present
          Associate Professor:   September 2000 to August 2006
          Assistant Professor:     September 1994-August 2000

Senior Biostatistician, Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, New York 10032. September, 2001 -- August, 2002; summer 2003.

Statistical Consultant, Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Cincinnati, Ohio, Summer 1997.

National Research Council Postdoctorate Associate, The National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado. July 1992 - July 1994.

Statistical Consultant, Mathematics Department, Indiana University, August 1990 - June 1992.

Assistant Instructor in Mathematics Department, Indiana University, August 1986 -- July 1991.

Publications: (Click here to see  recent papers)

1. Flury, B. and Tarpey, T. (1993), "Representing a Large Collection of Curves: A Case for Principal Points,'' The American Statistician, 47, 304-306.

2. Tarpey, T. (1994), "Two Principal Points of Symmetric, Strongly Unimodal Distributions,'' Statistics and Probability Letters, 20, 253-257.

3. Tarpey, T. (1995), "Principal Points and Self--Consistent Points of Symmetric Multivariate Distributions,'' Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 53, 39--51.

4. Tarpey, T., Li, L. and Flury, B. (1995), "Principal Points and Self--Consistent Points of Elliptical Distributions,'' The Annals of Statistics, 23, 103--112.

5. Tarpey, T. and Flury, B. (1996), "Self--Consistency: A Fundamental Concept in Statistics,'' Statistical Science, 11, 229-243.

6. Tarpey, T. (1997), "Estimating Principal Points of Univariate Distributions,'' Journal of Applied Statistics, 24, 483-496.

7. Flury, B. and Tarpey, T. (1998), "Principal Points.'' In Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, Update Volume 2, Kotz, S., Read, C., and Banks, D. Eds. Wiley: New York, 545-548.

8. Tarpey, T. (1998), "Self--Consistent Patterns for Symmetric Multivariate Distributions,'' The Journal of Classification, 15, 57-79.

9. Tarpey, T. (1999), "Self--Consistency and Principal Component Analysis,'' Journal of the American Statistical Association, 94, 456--467.

10. Flury, B. and Tarpey, T. (1999), "Self--Consistency (Update),''  In Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, Update Volume 3, Kotz, S., Read, C., and Banks, D. Eds. Wiley: New York, 655-659, (1999, with Bernard Flury).

11. Tarpey, T. (1999),  "Self--Consistency Algorithms,'' Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics,  8, 889-905.

12. Tarpey, T. (2000), "A Note on the PRESS Statistic for Restricted Least Squares,'' The American Statistician, 54, 116-118.

13. Tarpey, T. and John Holcomb  (2000), "Spline Bottles,'' The American Statistician,54, 129-135.

14. Tarpey, T. (2000), "Parallel Principal Axes,'' Journal of Multivariate Analysis,  75, 295-313.

15. Tarpey, T., Acuna, C., Cobb, G. and DeVeaux, D. (2002), "Curriculum Guidelines for Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Statistical Science,'' Journal of Statistical Education, 10, July 2002.

16. Tarpey, T. (2003), "Estimating the Average Slope,''  Journal of Applied Statistics30, 389-396.

17. Tarpey, T. and Kinateder, K., (2003), "Clustering Functional Data,"  The Journal of Classification, 20, 93-114.

18. Tarpey, T., Petkova, E. and Ogden, R. T., (2003), "Profiling Placebo Responders by Self-Consistent Partitions of Functional Data,'' Journal of the American Statistical Association, 98, 850-858 .

19. Tarpey, T., and Sanders, R. D., (2004), ``Linear Conditional Expectation for Discrete Distributions,''  Journal of Applied Statistics, 31, 361-372.

20. Goldstein, G., Sanders, R. D., Forman, S. D., Tarpey, T., Gurklis, J.A., Van Kammen, D. P. & Keshavan, M. S., (2005), "The effects of antipsychotic medication on factor and cluster structureof neurologic examination abnormalities in schizophrenia,'' Schizophrenia Research, 75, 55-64.

21.  Sanders, R. D., Allen, D. N., Forman, S. D., Tarpey, T., Keshavan M. S. and Goldstein, G, (2005), "Confirmatory factor analysis of the Neurological Evaluation Scale in unmedicated schizophrenia,''  Psychiatry Research, 133, 65-71.

22. Ogden, R. T. and Tarpey, T.,  (2006), "Estimation in Regression Models with Externally Estimated Parameters,'' Biostatistics7, 115-129.

23. Tarpey, T. and Ivey, C. T., (2006), "Allometric Extension for Multivariate Regression Models,''  Journal of Data Science, 4, 479-495.

24. Tarpey, T., (2007),  "Linear Transformations and the k-Means Clustering Algorithm: Applications to Clustering Curves,''  The American Statistician, 61,       34-40.

25. Tarpey, T., (2007), "A Parametric k-Means Algorithm,"  Computational Statistics, 22, 71-89.


26. Tarpey, T., Yun, D., and Petkova, E., (2007), "Model Misspecification: Finite Mixture or Homogeneous?", Statistical Modelling, 7, 321-340.


27. Tarpey, T., and Petkova, E., "Latent Regression Analysis," submitted for publication.

28. Tarpey, T. and Petkova, E., "Principal Points for Linear Mixed Models:  Applications to Identifying Placebo Responders", submitted for publication.

 
Technical Reports:

Tarpey, T. and Krane, D., "Measuring Intraspecies Genetic Diversity Using RAPD-PCR Profiles," Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Wright State University, Technical Report \# M/S 05.02.

Unrefereed Publications:

Ogden, R.  T., Tarpey, T., Mann, J.  J., and Parsey, R.  V. (2003)., ``Standard Errors for Parameter Estimation in Kinetic
Modeling with an Input Function,'' Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 23\/: S672.

Principal Points, Joint Newsletter for the Physical and Engineering Sciences Section and the Quality and Productivity Section of the American Statistical Association, 2, 12--13 (1996).


Grants Funded:

NIMH Grant Number: 1 R01 MH068401-01A2, Principal Investigator
Project Title:  "Identifying Placebo Responders in Drug Treated Subjects"

Invited Talks:

"Curriculum Guidelines for Bachelor Degrees in Statistical Science," at the University of Dayton, April 22, 2005.

"Identification of Placebo Responders Among Drug Treated Subjects,'' 2003 Spring ENAR meeting in Tampa Florida, March 31, 2003.

"Identifying Placebo Responders Among Depressed Subjects Treated with Active Drug - A Functional Data Approach," at the 4th Annual Columbia-Penn Statistics in Psychiatry Symposium, April 30, 2002 at the University of Pennsylvania.

"Clustering Functional Data: Application to Identification of Placebo Responders,'' at Columbia University Department of Statistics, April 29, 2002.

"Clustering Functional Data,'' at Columbia University Biostatistics Department, October 18, 2001.

Invited Panelist at the session entitled "Implementing the USEI Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Statistics,'' during the Joint Statistics Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia, August 6, 2001 (organizer: Allan Rossman).

"Cluster Analsis for Functional Data", presented at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Miami University, November 2, 2000.

"Measuring Intraspecies Genetic Diversity Using RAPD-PCR Profiles," presented at Department of Statistics at Purdue University, September 14, 1999.

"Self--Consistency and Principal Components," presented at the Carnegie Mellon University Statistics Department, December 2, 1998.

"Self--Consistency and Principal Components," presented at Indiana University Mathematics Department, September 11, 1997.

"The Statistical Analysis of Multiple Endpoints in Clinical Trials,"<> presented at the 1997 Procter & Gamble Symposium, October 6, 1997 (with Michael Meredith).

"Self--Consistency: A Unified Theoretical Framework for Principal Components, Principal Curves, and Principal Points,"<> Ohio State University Statistics Department, January 14, 1997.

"Introductory Statistics Courses in the Current Climate of Change," presented to the 1996--1997 Class of Project NExT Fellows at the Summer Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, August 9, 1996.

"Self--Consistency: A Fundamental Concept in Statistics," Indiana University -- Purdue University at Indianapolis, Department of Mathematical Sciences, March 27, 1996.

"Principal Points and Self--Consistent Points of Elliptical Distributions," Joint Statistics Meetings, San Francisco, California, August 10, 1993.

Other Talks:

"A Modelling Controversy: Finite Mixture or Homogeneous,'' presented at the Joint Statistics Meetings in Salt Lake City, July 31, 2007.


"Latent Regression Analysis," contributed talk at the Joint Statistics Meetings, Seattle, Washington, August 2006.


"Functional Data Analysis Issues for Identifying Placebo Response in Drug Treated Subjects,'' presented at ENAR Biometric Society Meetings, Austin, Texas, March 22, 2005.

"Identification of Placebo Responders Among Drug-Treated Subjects,'' presented at the Joint Meetings of the ASA in San Francisco, CA, August 6, 2003.

"Allometric Extension for Multivariate Regression,'' contributed paper at the Joint Statistics Meetings in New York City, August 14, 2002.

"Cluster Analysis for Functional Data,'' contributed paper at the Joint Statisitics Meetings in Indianapolis, Indiana, August 13, 2000.

"Curriculum Guidelines for Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Statistical Science,'' presented at the Undergraduate Statistics Education Symposium during the Joint Statistics Meetings in Indianapolis, Indiana, August 12, 2000.

"Spline Bottles,'' presented at a special contributed session of the Joint Statistics Meetings in Baltimore,
Maryland
, August 8, 1999.

"Characterization Results on Self--Consistency for Elliptical Distributions,'' presented at the Joint Statistics Meetings in Anaheim, California, August 11, 1997.

"Self--Consistency and Orthant Symmetry,'' contributed talk at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Orlando Florida, August 16, 1995.

'Self--Consistency: A Unified Theoretical Framework for Principal Components, Principal Curves, and Principal Points,'' contributed talk at WNAR, Los Angeles, California, June 1994.

'Self--Consistent Patterns -- Approximating Multivariate Distributions by Representative Points,'' contributed talk at the ASA Winter Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 1994.

"A Comparison of Estimators for Principal Points of Univariate Distributions,'' contributed talk at the 4th Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies, Paris, France, September 4, 1993.

"Two Principal Points for Symmetric, Strongly Unimodal Distributions,'' contributed talk at WNAR 1993 Meeting, Laramie, Wyoming, June 30, 1993.

Seminars and Colloquium at WSU:

"A Modeling Controversy: Homogeneous or Mixture?" (with Dong Yun), October 25, 2006.

"Remarks on k-Means Clustering of Functional Data," May 4, 2006.

"Parametric k-means Algorithm," November 8, 2005.

"Latent Regression Analysis," October 21, 2005.

"Estimation in Regression Models with Externally Estimated Parameters,"  November 18, 2004.


"The Exaggeration Effect: Students’ Estimation of Exam Performance," with Doug Andrews, Fall 2003.

"Allometric Extension for Multivariate Regression Models,'' October 4, 2002.

"Identifying Placebo Responders Among Subjects Treated with an Active Drug,'' September 27, 2002 (Deparment of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium).

"Curriculum Guidelines for an Undergraduate Major in Statistics,'' January 10, 2001.

"Estimating the Average Slope of a Polynomial,'' May 15, 2000.

"Principal Points for Functional Data,'' April 10, 2000.

"Measuring Intraspecies Genetic Diversity Using RAPD-PCR Profiles,''  September 27, 1999 (with Dan Krane).

"The Self-Consistency Algorithm,'' April 19, 1999.

"The PRESS Statistic for Restricted Least Squares and Spline Bottles,'' October 21, 1998.

"Parallel Principal Components Revisited: Borel's Paradox and Allometric Extension,'' October 7, 1998.

"Self--Consistency and Principal Components II,'' January 13, 1998.

"The EM Algorithm for Elliptical Distributions,'' January 27, 1998.

"Adjusted p--values and Proc MULTTEST,'' October 15, 1997.

"Multiple Endpoints,'' October 1, 1997.

"The Disappearance of .400 Hitting in Baseball -- A Discussion of S. J. Gould's Book `Full House','' April 17, 1997.

"Parallel Principal Axes,'' February 10, 1997.

"Self--Consistency and Principal Components,'' October 15, 1996.

"Asymptotic Results on Principal Points,'' October 17, 1995.

"A Look at Symmetric Multivariate Distributions,'' January, 24, 1995.

"Self--Consistency: A Unified Approach to Principal Components, Principal Curves and Principal Points,'' September 1994.

Paper Refereeing:

Associate Editor of The American Statistician (2005 - present)

I have refereed papers for the following journals:

The Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics,
The Annals of Statistics,
Biometrika,
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis,
Communications in Statistics,
Geosphere,
Journal of the American Statistical Association,
Journal of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis,
Journal of Multivariate Analysis,
Journal of Statistical Education,
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference,
Statistics and Computing,
Statistics Education Research Journal,

Awards and Honors:

Phi Beta Kappa (1983)

National Research Council Postdoctorate Associate (1992)

Project NExT Fellow (1995) -- attended Joint Mathematics meetings in Burlington, Vermont (August 1995), in Orlando, Florida (January 1996), and in Seattle Washington (August 1996) as a Project NExT fellow.

Professional Organizations:

American Statistical Association

Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Teaching:

Topics in Linear Models (STT 762), Applied Regression Analysis (STT 767), Applied Multivariate Analysis (STT 744), Sampling Design (STT 721),
Statistical Modeling for Environmental Data (ES and STT 714), Theory of Statistics (STT 661/662), Statistical Methods (STT 466/666 and STT 467/667),
Biostatistics (STT 430/630), Elementary Statistics (STT 264, STT 265), Engineering Statistics (STT 363), Applied Statistics (STT 360/561 and STT 361/561),
Introduction to SAS (STT 367/567), Introductory Statistics (Indiana University), College Algebra (Indiana University), Business Calculus (Indiana University),
Finite Mathematics (Indiana University).

Professional Activities:

Elected President of the Dayton Chapter of the American Statistical Association for 1996, 1997, 2004, 2005 and elected secretary-treasurer
of the Dayton Chapter  2002-2004.

Judge at Western District Ohio Science Day (April 5, 1997, March 30, 1996 and April 1, 1995).

Last updated August 31, 2007