Yadolah Dodge

Yadolah Dodge

Biography	Books
Current Situation	Articles
Research Interests	Editorial Experience
Courses Taught	Educational Contribution
Member of …	Development Of Statistics
Directed Master and Ph.D. Dissertations	Favorite links…

BIOGRAPHY

Yadolah Dodge obtained his master in applied Statistics from the Utah State University in 1970 and a Ph.D in Statistics with minor in Biometry from the Oregon State University in 1973. He is currently professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

He is a statistical consultant to several industrial companies. His area of expertise includes design and analysis of experiments, regression analysis and mathematical programming. He has numerous published articles and authored or co-authored and edited seventeen books.

Dr Dodge has served on editorial board of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, and is founder of the statistics Journal Student and Data and Statistics. He is a member of the International Statistical Institute and a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

CURRENT SITUATION

Honorary Professor From 2004

POSITION HELD

	Director of Postgrade in Statistics From 1989 - to 2004
	Head of the Department of Statistics From 1987 - to 2004
	Professor of Statistics and Operations Research From 1983 - to 2004
At :		· Université de Neuchâtel

RESEARCH INTERESTS

	Computational Statistics
	Regression Analysis
	Optimization Techniques in Statistics
	Design and Analysis of Experiments
	Statistical Data Analysis based on L₁-Norm

COURSES TAUGHT

Computational Statistics	Regression Analysis	Nonparametric Statistics
Simulation	Linear Algebra	Mathematical Statistics
Elementary Statistics	Linear Models	Data Analysis
Elements of Probability	Linear Programming	Sampling
Calculus	Design and Analysis of Experiments

MEMBER OF…

International Statistical Institute

Bernoulli Society

International Association for Statistical Computing

American Statistical Association

Royal Statistical Society

Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Association pour la Statistique et ses Utilisations

Association Suisse de Statistique

DIRECTED Ph. D. DISSERTATIONS

Athanassios Kondylis	2006	Partial Least Squares and its extensions
Valentin Rousson	1998	Adaptive confidence interval for the mean of non symmetric population
Jean-Pierre Renfer	1997	Multicolinearity and outliers detection in Linear Regression.
Thiru Santharam	1997	A study on optimality of NNBBD University of Matras (outside expert)
Sandrine König	1995	Estimation of the Consumer Price Index variance.
Sylvie Gonano	1994	Computational and optimality of Minimally Connected Designs.
Nicole Rebetez	1993	Concepts and Methodology for the development of a system for learning by computer.
Thierry Gafner	1991	Mathematical programming approach to classification.
Bijan Bidabad	1989	Discrete and continuous L₁ Norm regression.

Dissertations in preparation:

Christophe Beuret	Estimation of world unemployement with missing data
Thierry Murier	On the measure of poverty

DIRECTED MASTER DISSERTATIONS

Elkin Herbert R.	1990	Identification of outliers by regional classification in least absolute values regression
Renfer Jean-Pierre	1990	Studies on least absolute deviations regression
Ispir Ismail	1991	A statistical analysis of the federal votations in Switzerland (1950-1987)
Malignon Béatrice	1991	Positionnement de produits : application de l'analyse en composantes principales et classification hiérarchique
Rebetez Nicole	1991	Consultation interactive des tables statistiques
Lanz Adrian	1992	Two phase sampling for forest inventory
Müller Martin	1992	A comparative study of L1-norm based simple and multiple regression algorithms
Alliata Roberta	1993	Analyse de données portant sur l'évaluation de de la nouvelle méthodologie du français dans le canton de Vaud
Frey Béatrice	1993	Forecast of unemployment in Switzerland
Pfluger Dominique H.	1993	A mortality study of lung cancer among swiss Chauffeurs Accounting for smoking related fraction by a multivariate approach
Pury Pierre	1993	Régression Pi ou régression linéaire du produit maximum
Altpeter E.S.	1994	MEASUREMENT ERROR MODELS . An Application in Epidemiology
Rousson Catherine	1994	Histoire de la production des données statistiques, en Suisse et en Europe
Rousson Valentin	1994	Axiomatique et Statistique descriptive
Zahnd Edy	1994	Analyse et prévision de l'évolution de produit intérieur réel en Suisse
Crombez John	1996	The value of the Blume-indicator
Murier Thierry	1996	Empirical Evidence of randomness of p decimal digits: an application on the first 200'000'000 digits
Bersier Marc	1997	L'évolution de la complexité d'un système : Comparaison d'un Indice de complexité sur des Séquences temporelles variées.
Careem Michael	1997	Stochastic volatility and value at risk
Geiser Gérard	1997	Une analyse des ventes Tissot
Pastor Elisabeth	1998	Analyse en composantes principales
Vaucher Steve	1998	Auto-estimation et mesure du taux d'alcoolémie
Beuret Christophe	1999	Méthodes Adaptatives Robustes
Giuseppe Melfi	2001	Rear events in continued fractions of Pi
Lykiardopol, Aline	2002	Une estimation robuste du variogramme
Athanassios Kondylis	2003	Partial reweighted Least Squares
Sevrine Vancolen	2004	A Survey On PLS
Christoph Lehmann	2005	Classification of algorithms for recognition of Alzheimer's Disease in electrical brain activity (EEG)

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Editor-in-Chief :
Statistics and Applied Probability, a series of new book publications in statistics, Springer-France, 2003-present: http://www.springer.com/series/5538 This series was created by Yadolah Dodge and has a Board of Directors: Aurore Delaigle (Belgium), Christian Genest ( Canada), Marc Hallin (Belgium), Ludovic Lebart ( France), Christian Mazza ( Switzerland), Stephan Morgenthaler (Switzerland), Louis-Paul Rivest (Canada), and Gilbert Saporta ( France).
Associate Editor :
Journal of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 1984-1988
Founder and Co-Editor :
Swiss Statistical Newsletter (SSTAT), 1983-1987
Founder and Editor :
	*Student* : (ISSN 1420-1011) International Statistics Journal for Graduate Students, 1995.
	*Data & Statistics* : (ISSN 1420-3308) International statistics journal incorporated in Student, 1996. From 2000 will be a separate journal.
	Both Journals are member of Current Index of statistics. They are also described in Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Update Volume 2, Kotz, Read & Banks),John Wiley, 1998.
Guest Editor :
	Journal of *Computational Statistics and Data Analysis*.
	Three Special Issues on : Statistical Data Analysis based on the L₁-norm and Related Methods
		Vol. 5, No. 4, 1987
		Vol. 6, No. 3, 1988
		Vol. 6, No. 4, 1988
Special Issues Editor : (1988-1992)
	Journal of *Computational Statistics and Data Analysis*.
	Two special issues on : Optimal Design and Analysis of Experiments
		Vol. 8, No 1, 1989
		Vol. 9, No 1, 1990
	Two special issues on : Statistical Data Analysis and Inference in Non-standard Settings
		Vol. 12, No. 1, 1991
		Vol. 12, No. 2, 1991
	Two special issues on : Optimization Techniques in statistics
		Vol. 14, No 3, 1992
		Vol. 14, No 4, 1992

EDUCATIONAL CONTRIBUTION

	Founder :
		Master of Science program in Statistics, beginning fall 1989, University of Neuchâtel. This is the first time such a program is established in Switzerland. From 1989 to 1997, 170 students graduated from this program.

DEVELOPMENT OF STATISTICS

Organizer : International conferences

	First International Conference on Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L₁-Norm and Related Methods, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 31 August-4 September 1987. 250 participants from 41 countries.
	First International Conference-Workshop on Optimal Design and Analysis of Experiments, Neuchâtel, 25-28 July 1988. 150 participants from 37 countries.
	International Conference on Recent Developments in Statistical Data Analysis and Inference. In Honor of C.R.Rao, Neuchâtel, 21-24 August 1989. 300 participants from 47 countries.
	Second International Conference on Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L1-Norm and Related Methods, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 17-20 August 1992. 70 participants, from 25 countries.
	COMPSTAT 92, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 24-28 August 1992. 430 participants, from 70 countries.
	ASU 94, XXVIème Journées de statistique. Association de Statistique et ses Utilisations, 24-27 May, 1994, Neuchâtel, 400 participants.
	Third International Conference on Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L1-Norm and Related Methods;Neuchatel Switzerland, August 11-15,1997. 200 participants from 40 countries.