Penalty, Shrinkage and Pretest Strategies: Variable Selection and Estimation

Ejaz Ahmed is a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Math and Science at Brock University. Prior to joining Brock, he was a professor and head of Mathematics at the University of Windsor and University of Regina, having previously held a faculty position at the University of Western Ontario. His areas of expertise include statistical inference, shrinkage estimation, high dimensional data and asymptotic theory. He has published over 135 articles in scientific journals, been thesis advisor of eleven Ph.D. students, held over 150 scholarly presentations and reviewed over 100 books. Further, he has authored/coauthored six books and served as a Board of Director and Chairman of the Education Committee of the Statistical Society of Canada and VP Communication for ISBIS. His research activities and work have been recognized in his election as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, selection as member of an Evaluation Group, Discovery Grants and the Grant Selection Committee, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and by serving as an editor/associate editor of many statistical journals, including SPL and CSDA and as a book review editor for Technometrics.