E-mail: jemays@vcu.edu

VCU departmental affiliation:
Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research

Degrees:
Ph. D. (Statistics) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1996
M.S. (Statistics) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991

Courses taught at VCU:
• ENVS 603 Environmental Research Methods
• STAT 644 Advanced Regression
• STAT 208 Statistical Thinking

Research interests:
• Nonparametric and semiparametric regression analysis
• Classical regression analysis
• Statistical modeling in forestry applications
• Bioassay (biological statistics)

Recent publications/abstracts/presentations:
Mays, J.E. and Birch, J.B., “Smoothing for Small Samples with Model Misspecification: Nonparametric and Semiparametric Concerns.” Accepted for publication by the Journal of Applied Statistics.

Mays, J.E. (2001), “Capturing Nonconformity Points in Regression,” InterStat, published online at http://interstat.stat.vt.edu/interstat/ARTICLES/2001/abstracts/G01003.html-ssi, August 2001 #3, 1-25.

Mays, J.E., Birch, J.B., and Starnes, B.A. (2001), “Model Robust Regression – Combining Parametric, Nonparametric, and Semiparametric Methods,” Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 13, 245-277.