David M. Rocke

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University of California, Davis
College of Engineering
Applied Science
ProfessorAppointed: 2000
University of California, Davis
School of Medicine
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
ProfessorAppointed: 1997
University of California, Davis
Office of Research
Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing
Co-DirectorAppointed: 1996

Mailing Address

3001 Engineering III
University of California, Davis
Davis, California 95616
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (916) 752-0360
Fax: (916) 752-2444
dmrocke@ucdavis.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, Mathematics, 1972.
M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago, Mathematics, 1968.
A.B., Shimer College, Mathematics and Physics, 1966.
Supplemental Coursework, University of Chicago, Statistics, -2.

Expertise and Research Interests

Current research interests and areas of expertise include:
Statistical theory and methodology;
robust statistics;
environmental statistics;
statistics in biotechnology;
statistical computing;
statistics and quality control;
mathematical modeling in international relations.

Other Expertise

Academic Experience: Youden Prize from the Chemical Division, American Society for Quality Control for 'Are Robust Estimators Really Necessary?' 1982;
Award for Interlaboratory Testing from the American Statistical Association for 'Robust Statistical Analysis of Interlaboratory Studies,' 1985;
Shewell Award from the Chemical and Process Industries Division, American Society for Quality Control for 'Robust Variation Measures for Quality Control and Improvement (Robust Control Charts),' 1987;
Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 1995;
Associate Editor, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 1986-present
Reviewer for: American Journal of Political Science; Annals of Statistics; Applied Statistics; Australian Journal of Statistics;
Biometrics; Biometrika; BIT; Canadian Journal of Statistics; Communications in Statistics; Computational Statistics and Data Analysis; International Studies Quarterly; Irwin; John Wiley; Journal of Applied Statistical Science; Journal of Conflict Resolution; Journal of Immunological Methods; Journal of Forecasting; Journal of Multivariate Analysis; Journal of Nonparametric Statistics; Journal of Quality Technology; Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation; Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference; Journal of the American Statistical Association; Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B; National Science Foundation (NSF); Naval Research Logistics; SIAM; Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing; The Statistician; Technometrics; University of Michigan Press; West; World Politics

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Bioinformatics, Biometry, Biostatistics, Biotechnology, Computational Biology, Computer Applications, Data Analysis, Data Mining, Environmental Sciences, Quality Or Product Control, Statistics.

Additional Terms:

Bioinformatics, Biometry, Computational Biology, Data Analysis.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)

Memberships

American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Mathematical Society
American Society for Quality Control
American Statistical Association
Association for Computing Machinery
Bernoulli Society
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
International Association for Statistical Computing
International Biometric Society
International Society for Computational Biology
International Statistical Institute
Mathematical Association of America
Royal Statistical Society
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Honors and Awards

2000-2000, Distinguished Service Award, Division of Molecular Orthopaedics, University of Pennsylvania
1997-1997, Statistics in Chemistry Award, American Statistical Association
1997, Elected to Membership, International Statistical Institute
1995-1995, Fellow, American Statistical Association
1987-1987, Shewell Award, Chemical and Process Industries Division, American Society for Quality Control
1985-1985, Award for Interlaboratory Testing, American Statistical Association
1982-1982, Youden Prize, Chemical Division, American Society for Quality Control
1979-1979, Fellow, Royal Statistical Society
1968-1971, Graduate Fellowship, National Science Foundation
1964-1966, National Merit Scholarship,

Previous Positions

1997-2000, Acting Director of Biostatistics, University of California, Davis
1996-2000, Professor, University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management
1995-1999, Director, University of California, Davis, Center for Statistics in Science and Technology
1987-1988, Academic Visitor, Imperial College, London, Mathematics
1980-1986, Associate Professor, University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management
1974-1980, Professor of Business Administration, Governors State University
1972-1974, Lecturer, Visiting, University of Illinois, Mathematics
1965-1969, Scientific Computer Programmer, Argonne National Laboratory

Funding Received

  • National Science Foundation, Center for Statistics in Science and Technology, Group Infrastructure Grant, 1995-98
  • National Science Foundation, Outlier and Cluster Identification for Multivariate Process Data (with David Woodruff and William Fellner), 1996-98
  • E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Experimental Design and Empirical Modeling (with David Woodruff), 1995-97
  • National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Statistical Analysis of Toxics Measurement Data, 1988-2000
  • California Air Resources Board, Temporal, Spatial, and Ambient Temperature Emissions Effects, 1995-97

Publications

  • Leistikow BN, Martin DC, Jacobs J, Rocke DM, Smoking as a risk factor for injury death: a meta-analysis of cohort studies., Preventive Medicine, 27(6), 871-8, November 1998 Abstract
  • Sawyer J R, Klimkiewicz J J, Iannotti J P, Rocke D M, Mechanism for superior subluxation of the glenohumeral joint in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva., Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 130-3, Jan 1998 Abstract
  • Zasloff M A, Rocke D M, Crofford L J, Hahn G V, Kaplan F S, Treatment of patients who have fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva with isotretinoin., Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 121-9, Jan 1998 Abstract
  • Glaser D L, Rocke D M, Kaplan F S, Catastrophic falls in patients who have fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva., Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 110-6, Jan 1998 Abstract
  • Kaplan F, Sawyer J, Connors S, Keough K, Shore E, Gannon F, Glaser D, Rocke D, Zasloff M, Folkman J, Urinary basic fibroblast growth factor. A biochemical marker for preosseous fibroproliferative lesions in patients with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva., Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 59-65, Jan 1998 Abstract
  • Jones G, Wortberg M, Kreissig S B, Hammock B D, Rocke D M, Application of the bootstrap to calibration experiments., Analytical Chemistry, 68(5), 763-70, 1 Mar 1996 Abstract
  • Luchetti W, Cohen R B, Hahn G V, Rocke D M, Helpin M, Zasloff M, Kaplan F S, Severe restriction in jaw movement after routine injection of local anesthetic in patients who have fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva., Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology and Endodontics, 81(1), 21-5, January 1996 Abstract
  • Lanchoney T F, Cohen R B, Rocke D M, Zasloff M A, Kaplan F S, Permanent heterotopic ossification at the injection site after diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis immunizations in children who have fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva., Journal of Pediatrics, 126(5 Pt 1), 762-4, May 1995 Abstract
  • Jones G, Wortberg M, Kreissig S B, Bunch D S, Gee S J, Hammock B D, Rocke D M, Extension of the four-parameter logistic model for ELISA to multianalyte analysis., Journal of Immunological Methods, 177(1-2), 1-7, 28 Dec 1994 Abstract
  • Rocke D M, Zasloff M, Peeper J, Cohen R B, Kaplan F S, Age- and joint-specific risk of initial heterotopic ossification in patients who have fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva., Clinical Orthopaedics, April 1994 Abstract
  • Rocke D M, Robustness and balance in the mixed model., Biometrics, 47(1), 303-9, March 1991 Abstract
  • Bunch D S, Rocke D M, Harrison R O, Statistical design of ELISA protocols., Journal of Immunological Methods, 132(2), 247-54, 14 Sep 1990 Abstract
  • George W. Downs and David M. Rocke, "Optimal Imperfection? Domestic Uncertainty and Institutions in International Relations," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995
  • David M. Rocke and Blythe Durbin, ''Measurement Errors in DNA array data,'' submitted for publication. 2000
  • Danh Nguyen and David M. Rocke, ''Prediction of Gene Expression using Partial Least Squares,'' submitted for publication. 2000
  • Danh Nguyen and David M. Rocke, ''Classification of Acute Leukemia: Discriminant Analysis using Partial Least Squares Components,'' submitted for publication. 2000
  • Machelle Wilson, David M. Rocke, and Henry Kahn, ''Application to Environmental Monitoring of a Two-Component Model for Chemical Analytical Error,'' submitted for publication. 2000
  • David M. Rocke and David L. Woodruff, ''A Synthesis of Outlier Detection and Cluster Identification,'' submitted for publication. 2000
  • Johanna Hardin and David M. Rocke, ''Robust Distances,'' submitted for publication. 2000
  • David M. Rocke and Jian Dai, ''Sampling and Subsampling for Cluster Analysis in Data Mining, with Applications to Sky Survey Data,'' submitted for publication. 2000
  • Geoffrey Jones and David M. Rocke ''Multivariate Survival Analysis with Doubly Censored Data: Application to the Assessment of Accutane Treatment for Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva,'' submitted for publication. 2000
  • Geoffrey Jones and David M. Rocke, ''Analyte Identification in Multivariate Calibration,'' Biometrics, in press. 2000
  • Jian Dai and David M. Rocke, ''A GIS-Based Approach to Spatial Allocation of Area Source Solvent Emissions,'' Environmental Modelling and Software, 15, 293-302. 2000
  • Jian Dai and David M. Rocke, ''Modeling Spatial Variation in Area Source Emissions-A Poisson Regression Approach,'' Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 5, 7-21. 2000
  • Bruce N. Leistikow, Daniel C. Martin, Jeffrey Jacobs, David M. Rocke, and Kyle Noderer, ''Smoking as a Risk Factor for Accident Death: A Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies,'' Accident Analysis and Prevention, 32, 397-405. 2000
  • Dan Coleman Xiaopeng Dong, Johanna Hardin, David M. Rocke, and David L. Woodruff, ''Some Computational Issues in Cluster Analysis with No A Priori Metric,'' Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 31, 1-12. 1999
  • Geoffrey Jones and David M. Rocke ''Bootstrapping in Controlled Calibration Experiments,'' Technometrics, 41, 224-233. 1999
  • David M. Rocke, ''Constructive Statistics: Estimators, Algorithms, and Asymptotics,'' Computing Science and Statistics, 30, 3-14. 1998
  • Kelli Hoover, Susan A. Alaniz, Julie L. Yee, David M. Rocke, Bruce D. Hammock, and Sean S. Duffey, ''Dietary Protein and Chlorogenic Acid Effect on Baculoviral Disease of Noctuid (lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Larvae,'' Environmental Entomology, 27, 1264-1272.1998
  • George W. Downs, David M. Rocke, and Peter N. Barsoom, ''Managing the Evolution of Multilateralism,'' International Organization, 52, 397-419. 1998
  • David M. Rocke, ''A Perspective on Statistical Tools for Data Mining Applications,'' Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Practical Application of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 313-318. 1998
  • Kelli Hoover, Julie L. Yee, Christine M. Schultz, David M. Rocke, Bruce D. Hammock, and Sean S. Duffey, ''Effects of Plant Identity and Chemical Constituents on the Efficacy of a Baculovirus Against Heliothis Virescens,'' Journal of Chemical Ecology, 24,221-252. 1998
  • David M. Rocke, ''Laboratory Quality Control,'' in Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, New York: John Wiley. 1998
  • David M. Rocke and David L. Woodruff, ''Robust Estimation of Multivariate Location and Shape,'' Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 57, 245-255. 1997
  • Geoffrey Jones, Monika Wortberg, David M. Rocke, and Bruce D. Hammock, ''Immunoassay of Cross-Reacting Analytes,'' in Immunochemical Technology for Environmental Applications, D. S. Aga and E. M. Thurman, eds., ACS Symposium Series No. 657, 331-342, Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society Publications. 1997
  • Geoffrey Jones, Monika Wortberg, Bruce D. Hammock, and David M. Rocke, ''A Procedure for the Immunoanalysis of Samples Containing One or More Members of a Group of Cross-Reacting Analytes,'' Analytica Chimica Acta, 336, 175-183. 1996
  • George W. Downs, David M. Rocke, and Peter N. Barsoom, ''Is the Good News about Compliance Good News for Cooperation?'' International Organization, 50, 379-406. 1996
  • Monika Wortberg, Geoffrey Jones, Sabine B. Kreissig, David M. Rocke, and Bruce D. Hammock, ''An Approach to the Construction of an Immunoarray for Differentiating and Quantitating Cross Reacting Analytes,'' Analytica Chimica Acta, 319, 291-303. 1996
  • Geoffrey Jones, Monika Wortberg, Sabine B. Kreissig, Bruce D. Hammock, and David M. Rocke, ''Sources of Experimental Variation in Calibration Curves for Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay,'' Analytica Chimica Acta, 313, 197-207. 1995
  • David M. Rocke and Michelle Pallas ''Prediction of Automotive Emissions from Gasoline Composition,'' Proceedings of the 1994 Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology, American Statistical Association. 1995
  • David M. Rocke, ''Optimal Design of Quantitative Immunoassay Protocols,'' in New Frontiers in Agrochemical Immunoassay, David Kurtz, ed., Washington, DC: Association of Official Analytical Chemists, 251-259. 1995
  • Monika Wortberg, Sabine B. Kreissig, Geoffrey Jones, David M. Rocke, and Bruce D. Hammock, ''An Immunoarray for the Simultaneous Determination of Multiple Triazine Herbicides,'' Analytica Chimica Acta, 304, 339-352. 1995
  • Lawrence M. Kauvar, Deborah L. Higgins, Hugo O. Villar, J. Richard Sportsman. Åsa Engqvist-Goldstein, Robert Bukar, Karin E. Bauer, H. Dilley and David M. Rocke, ''Predicting Ligand Binding to Proteins by Affinity Fingerprinting,'' Chemistry and Biology,2, 107-118. 1995
  • David M. Rocke and David L. Woodruff, ''Multivariate Outlier Detection,'' in Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, 392-400. 1994
  • David L. Woodruff and David M. Rocke, ''Computable Robust Estimation of Multivariate Location and Shape using Compound Estimators,'' Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89, 888-896. 1994
  • George W. Downs and David M. Rocke, ''Conflict, Agency, and Gambling for Resurrection: The Principal-Agent Problem Goes to War'' American Journal of Political Science, 38, 362-80. 1994
  • David Woodruff and David M. Rocke, ''Heuristic Search Algorithms for the Minimum Volume Ellipsoid,'' Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2, 69-95. 1993
  • David M. Rocke, ''Almost-Exact Parametric Bootstrap Calculation via the Saddle-Point Approximation,'' Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 15, 451-460. 1993
  • David M. Rocke and David L. Woodruff, ''Computation of Robust Estimates of Multivariate Location and Shape,'' Statistica Neerlandica, 47, 27-42. 1993
  • David M. Rocke, ''On the Beta Transformation Family,'' Technometrics, 35, 72-81. 1993 David M. Rocke and David L. Woodruff, ''Computation of High-Breakdown Estimates of Multivariate Location and Shape,'' Proceedings of the ASA Statistical Computing Section, 34-39. 1992
  • David M. Rocke, '' and Charts: Robust Control Charts,'' The Statistician, 41, 97-104. 1992 David M. Rocke, ''Estimation of Variation after Outlier Rejection,'' Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 13, 9-20. 1992
  • George W. Downs and David M. Rocke, Tacit Bargaining, Arms Races, and Arms Control, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1990 David M. Rocke, ''The Adjusted p-Chart and u-Chart for Varying Sample Sizes,'' Journal of Quality Technology, 22, 206-209.1990
  • Rudolph Grübel and David M. Rocke, ''On the Cumulants of Affine Equivariant Estimators in Elliptical Families,'' Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 35, 203-222. 1990
  • David M. Rocke, ''Robust Control Charts,'' Technometrics, 31, 173-184. 1989
  • David M. Rocke, ''Bootstrap Bartlett Adjustment for Seemingly Unrelated Regression,'' Journal of the American Statistical Association, 84, 598-601. 1989
  • Richard Green, David M. Rocke, and William Hahn, ''Standard Errors for Elasticities: A Comparison of Bootstrap and Asymptotic Standard Errors,'' Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 5, 145-149. 1987
  • George W. Downs and David M. Rocke, ''Tacit Bargaining and Arms Control,'' (1987) World Politics, 39, 297-325. 1986
  • David M. Rocke and David F. Shanno, ''The Scale Problem in Robust Regression M?Estimates,'' Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 1986, 24, 47-69. 1986
  • David M. Rocke, ''Outlier Resistance in Small Samples,'' Biometrika, 73, 175-181. 1986
  • David F. Shanno and David M. Rocke, ''Numerical Methods for Robust Regression: Linear Models,'' SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, 7, 86-97. 1986
  • George W. Downs, David M. Rocke, and Randolph Siverson, ''Arms Races and Cooperation,'' World Politics, 38, 118-146, reprinted in Cooperation under Anarchy, Princeton University Press. 1985
  • David M. Rocke, ''On Testing for Bioequivalence,'' Biometrics, 40, 225-230. 1984
  • George W. Downs and David M. Rocke, ''Theories of Budgetary Decisionmaking and Revenue Decline,'' Policy Sciences, 16, 329-347. 1984
  • George W. Downs and David M. Rocke, ''Municipal Budget Forecasting with Multivariate ARMA Models,'' Journal of Forecasting, 2, 377-387. 1983
  • George W. Downs and David M. Rocke, ''Designed Experiments for Classification Problems,'' Journal of the Operational Research Society, 34, 1069-1077. 1983
  • George W. Downs and David M. Rocke, ''Multivariate ARIMA Models and Municipal Finance,'' in Applied Time Series Analysis of Economic Data, ed. Arnold Zellner, Bureau of the Census. 1983
  • David M. Rocke, ''Robust Statistical Analysis of Interlaboratory Studies,'' Biometrika, 70, 421-431. 1983
  • David M. Rocke, ''Inference for Response?Limited Time Series Models,'' Communications in Statistics, A11, 2587-2596. 1982
  • David M. Rocke, George W. Downs and Alan J. Rocke ''Are Robust Estimators Really Necessary?'' Technometrics, 24, 95-102. 1982
  • George W. Downs and David M. Rocke, ''Ceteris Paribus Revisited,'' Political Methodology, 43-54. 1982
  • David M. Rocke and George W. Downs, ''Estimating the Variance of Estimators of Location: Influence, Curve, Jackknife and Bootstrap,'' Communications in Statistics, B10, 221-248. 1981
  • George W. Downs and David M. Rocke, ''Complexity, Interaction and Policy Research,'' Policy Sciences, 13, 281-295. 1980
  • George W. Downs and David M. Rocke, ''Bureaucracy and Juvenile Corrections,'' in Determinants of Public Policy, Thomas Dye and Virginia Gray, eds., Lexington MA: Heath?Lexington. 1980
  • David M. Rocke and George W. Downs, ''Time Series with Episodic Disruptions'' in Analysing Time Series, ed. O.D. Anderson, New York: North?Holland. 1980 George W. Downs and David M. Rocke, ''Interpreting Heteroscedasticity,'' American Journal of Political Science, 23, 816-828. 1979
  • David M. Rocke, ''p?Groups with Abelian Centralizers,'' Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 3, 30, 55-75. 1975
  • David M. Rocke and Geoffrey Jones, "Optimal Design for ELISA and Other Forms of Immunoassay," Technometrics, in press
  • David M. Rocke and David L. Woodruff, "Identification of Outliers in Multivariate Data," Journal of the American Statistical Association, in press
  • David M. Rocke, "Robustness Properties of S-Estimators of Multivariate Location and Shape in High Dimension," Annals of Statistics, in press
  • David M. Rocke and Stefan Lorenzato, "A Two-Component Model for Measurement Error in Analytical Chemistry," Technometrics, 37, 176-184

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