David Hunter

I received my Ph.D. in 1999 from the Department of Statistics
at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

During the 2007-8 academic year, I am on sabbatical at the University of Orléans, France, partially supported by le Studium, an agency of the CNRS (basically the French version of NSF) that supports researchers visiting the Centre region of France from abroad.

Courses

In past semesters, I've taught:

• PSU 016, Statistics first-year seminar (fall 2006 and fall 2005)
• Stat 100, Statistical concepts and reasoning (spring 2004 and spring 2005 and fall 2005)
• Stat 200H, Honors Elementary Statistics (fall 1999 and fall 2002)
• Stat 220, Basic Statistics for Quantitative Students (spring 2006)
• Stat 250H, Honors Biostatistics (spring 2003 and spring 2002)
• Stat 401, Experimental Methods (spring 2004 and spring 2000)
• Stat 460, Intermediate Applied Statistics (fall 2001 and spring 2000)
• Stat 553, Asymptotic Tools (fall 2006 and fall 2004 and fall 2003 and fall 2002 and fall 2001 and fall 2000)
• Stat 597D, Statistical genetics and bioinformatics (spring 2001)

Some recent talks / tutorials

• ERGMs for networks, March 2006, along with supporting files and beamer user guide.
• Generalizing Hodges-Lehmann, ENAR 2006
• MM algorithms, UCLA 2007
• R tutorial for astronomers
• ERGMs for social networks, Society for Political Methodology 2007; et presque la même chose en français, Université d'Orléans 2007 (with many thanks to Didier Chauveau for help with the translation)
• Nonparametric mixture models, Séminaire Parisien de Statistiques 2008
• A few illustrative examples in R

Papers

• Hunter DR, Goodreau SM, and Handcock MS (2008), Goodness of fit of social network models, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103: 248-258.
• Handcock MS, Hunter DR, Butts CT, Goodreau SM, and Morris M (2008), statnet: Software Tools for the Representation, Visualization, Analysis and Simulation of Network Data, Journal of Statistical Software, 24(1). URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v24/i01
• Hunter DR, Handcock MS, Butts CT, Goodreau SM, and Morris M (2008), ergm: A Package to Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks, Journal of Statistical Software, 24(3). URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v24/i03
• Morris M, Handcock MS, and Hunter DR (2008), Specification of Exponential-Family Random Graph Models: Terms and Computational Aspects, Journal of Statistical Software, 24(4). URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v24/i04
• Goodreau SM, Handcock MS, Hunter DR, Butts CT, and Morris M (2008), A statnet Tutorial, Journal of Statistical Software, 24(9). URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v24/i09
• Benaglia T, Chauveau D, and Hunter DR (2007), An EM-like algorithm for semi- and non-parametric estimation in multivariate mixtures. (an earlier version exists as Penn State Department of Statistics Technical Report 07-01.)
• Hunter DR, Wang S, and Hettmansperger TP (2007), Inference for mixtures of symmetric distributions, Annals of Statistics, 35: 224-251.
• Hunter DR (2007), Curved exponential family models for social networks, Social Networks, 29: 216-230.
• Hunter DR and Handcock MS (2006), Inference in curved exponential family models for networks, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 15: 565-583.
• Hunter DR and Li R (2005), Variable selection using MM algorithms, Annals of Statistics, 33: 1617-1642.
• Hunter DR (2005), Teaching computing in statistical theory courses, The American Statistician, 59: 327-333.
• Hunter DR (2004), MM algorithms for generalized Bradley-Terry models, Annals of Statistics , 32: 386-408.
• Hunter DR and Lange K (2004), A Tutorial on MM Algorithms, The American Statistician, 58: 30-37.
• Hunter DR (2003), On the geometry of EM algorithms, Penn State Department of Statistics Technical Report 0303.
• Hunter DR and Lange K (2002), Computing estimates in the proportional odds model, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 54: 155-168.
• Lange K, Hunter DR, Yang I (2000), Optimization transfer using surrogate objective functions, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 9: 1-20.
• Hunter DR and Lange K (2000), Rejoinder to discussion of "Optimization transfer using surrogate objective functions", Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 9: 52-59.
• Hunter DR and Lange K (2000), Quantile regression via an MM algorithm, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 9: 60-77.