Brian D. Marx Professor Department of Experimental Statistics

Room 141 Agriculture Administration Building
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5606 USA

Telephone:   +1 225 578-8366
Fax:              +1 225 578-8344
Email:            bmarx *at* lsu dot. edu

Research Interests

• Penalized B-spline smoothing: P-splines
  
• Signal Regression and Chemometrics
• Varying Coefficient Models
  
• Generalized Linear Models, Generalized Additive Models
• Ill-Conditioned Data, Biased Estimation, Penalized Likelihood
• Generalized Estimating Equations

Recent NSF Grant

From August 2003 to January 2010, Professor Marx was the Co-Principal Investigator of a large NSF-funded project on the profiling of terrorists and malicioius cyber transactions for counter terrorisms and crimes. For more detailed information about this project and its publications, please browse the webpage: www.csc.lsu.edu/~chen/NSF-Project.htm

Selected Publications

• P-spline varying coefficient models for complex data. (2010) : Statistical Modelling and Regression Structures– Festschrift in Honour of Ludwig Fahrmeir (Eds. T.Kneib & G.Tutz). Physica-Verlag. [PDF]
  
• Bilinear modulation models for seasonal tables of counts. Statistics and Computing, (2009) (with P. Eilers, J. Gampe, R.Rau). [PDF]
  
• Multivariate calibration with single-index signal regression. Chemometrics and Intelligent Lab Systems, 96 : 196-202, (2009) (with P. Eilers and B. Li). [PDF]
  
• Sharpening penalized signal regression. Statistical Modelling, 8 (4): 367-383, (2008) (with Bin Li). [PDF]
  
• Modulation models for seasonal incidence tables. Statistics in Medicine, 27 (17): 3430-3441, (2008) (with P. Eilers, J. Gampe, R. Rau). [PDF]
  
• Space-varying coefficient models for brain imaging. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51 : 6212-6228, (2007) (with S. Heim, L. Fahrmeir, P. Eilers). [PDF]
  
• Multidimensional penalized signal regression. Technometrics, 47 (1): 13-22, (2005) (with Paul Eilers). [PDF]
  
• Splines, knots, and penalties. Technical Report, Department of Experimential Statistics, LSU (2004) (with Paul Eilers). [PDF]
  
• Multidimensional calibration with temperature interaction using two-dimensional penalized signal regression. Chemometrics and Intell Lab Sys, 66: 159-174, (2003) (with P Eilers). [PDF]
• Generalized linear additive smooth structures. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 11(4), 758-783, (2002) (with Paul Eilers). [PDF]
• Multivariate calibration stability: a comparison of methods. Journal of Chemometrics, 16, 1-12, (2002) (with Paul Eilers). [PDF]
• Generalized linear regression for sampled signals or curves: A P-spline approach, Technometrics, 41(1): 1-13, (1999) (with Paul Eilers). [PDF]
• Direct generalized additive modeling with penalized likelihood, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 28(2): 193-209, (1998) (with Paul Eilers). [PDF]
• Flexible smoothing with B-splines and penalties (with comments and rejoinder), Statistical Science, 11(2): 89-121, (1996) (with Paul Eilers) [PDF]
• Iteratively reweighted partial least squares estimation for generalized linear regression, Technometrics, 38(4): 374-381, (1996). [PDF]
• Collinearity in generalized linear regression, Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 22 (7): 1933-1952, (1993) (with Emmanuel Lesaffre) [PDF]
• A continuum of principal component generalized linear regressions, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 13: 385-393. (1992). [PDF]
  
• Principal component estimation for generalized linear regression, Biometrika, 77(1): 23-31, (1990) (with Eric Smith). [PDF]
• Weighted multicollinearity in logistic regression: diagnostics and biased estimation techniques with an example from lake acidification, CJFAS, 47 (6): 1128-35 (1990) (with Eric Smith). [PDF]