Karunarathna B Kulasekera

Position:
Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Coordinator of Graduate Studies

Education:
PhD, Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1988
MA, Statistics, University of New Brunswick-Fredericton, Canada, 1984
BS, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sri Lanka, 1980

Professional Interests:
Nonparametric Regression, Multivariate Methods, Survival Analysis, Reliability

Professional Activities:
Associate Editor, Journal of Statistical Computing and Simulation; Associate Editor, Involve

Selected Publications:

• K.B. Kulasekera and W.J. Padgett, 2006, ``Bayes Bandwidth Selection in Kernel Density Estimation with Censoring", Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, pp 123-149.
• Wei Lin and K.B. Kulasekera, 2007, ``Uniqueness of a Single Index Model ", Biometrika, Vol 94, pp 496-501.
• K.B. Kulasekera and Meng Zhao, 2008, ``A Pointwise Bayes Type Estimator of The Survival Probability with Censored Data", To Appear in Statistics & Probability Letters.

Related Web Sites:
Personal homepage.
Department of Mathematical Sciences.