Malwane M.A. Ananda, Ph.D., Professor 

Department of Mathematical Sciences 

University of Nevada, Las Vegas 

Las Vegas, Nevada, 89154-4020, USA 

 

 

 

 

Office Phone # (702) 895-0395

Fax # (702) 895-4343 

Office: CBC B-510

 

 

 

E-mail: malwane.ananda@unlv.edu

Education

  • Ph.D (Statistics),  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, May 1989
  • M.Sc (Statistics),  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, May 1986
  • B.Sc (Mathematics Special - First Class Honors),  University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, 1982

Professional Experience

  •   Professor, 2001-present, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV

        Interim Chair:  2005 February – 2006 June;

        Associate Chair: 2004 May – 2005 February

              Graduate Coordinator:  2002 Fall – 2003 Summer

  •   Associate Professor,  1995 -2001,   University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
  •   Assistant Professor,  1990 -1995,   University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
  •   Visiting Assistant Professor,  1989 -1990,  University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
  •   Assistant Lecturer,  1982 -1983,   University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

Research Interests

  • Statistical Inference
  • Reliability

Teaching (Fall, 2007)

  • Office hours
    • Mon,Wed ,  Fri:
  • Classes
    • STA 491, STA 691:  Tu, Th  2.30-3.45
    • STA 767:  Tu, Th 1:00 - 2.15.

Publications

 

1.      Rukhin,A.L. and Ananda, M.M.A. (1989), Estimating exponential reliability function and exponential density, Statistics and Decisions, 7, 277-296 (1989).

2.       Rukhin,A.L. and Ananda, M.M.A. (1992), The risk behavior of estimators of normal variance in linear models, Statistics and Probability Letters, 13, 159-166 (1992).

3.      Ananda, M.M.A. (1992), Estimating the exponential reliability function for a system in series with type II censored data. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 21(11), 3219-3227.

4.      Ananda, M.M.A. and Singh, A.K. (1993), Estimation of a composite hazard-rate model , Microelectronics and Reliability, 33(13), 2013-2019 (1993).

5.      Singh, A.K. , Ananda, M.M.A. and Sparks, A.R. (1993), Superfund site characterization using non-parametric variogram, Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 277, Issue No. 2, 255-266 (1993).

6.      Goertzel, B. and Ananda, M.M.A. (1993), Evolutionary dynamics: Behavior of the locally expected path of the genetic algorithm , In ``The Evolving Mind'' by Ben Goertzel, The world futures general evolution studies, Volume 6 -- pages 204-229 (1993).

7.      Dalpatadu, R., Singh, A. and Ananda, M.M.A. (1993), An alternative method for least-squares fitting of parametric survival models, Actuarial Research Clearing House, 1993.1, 313-1320 (1993).

8.      Singh, A.K., Dalpatadu, R. and Ananda, M.M.A. (1993), Bayesian estimation of tabular survival models for complete samples, Actuarial Research Clearing House, 1993.1, 335-342 (1993).

9.      Ananda, M.M.A., Dalpatadu, R. and Singh, A.K. (1993), Estimating parameters of the force of mortality in Actuarial studies, Actuarial Research Clearing House, 1993.1, 129-141 (1993).

10.  Ananda, M.M.A.,Singh, A.K. and Flueck, J. (1993),Reliability modeling of an engineered barrier system, High-Level Radioactive Waste Management, Volume 2, 1326-1330 (1993).

11.  Goertzel, B. andAnanda, M.M.A. (1993), Evolutionary mutation on uncorrelated fitness landscapes (with Ben Goertzel), In ``The Evolving Mind'' by Ben Goertzel, The world futures general evolution studies, Volume 6 -- pages 141-147 (1993).

12.  Ananda, M.M.A., Singh, A.K. and Flatman, G.T. (1993), Bayesian confidence intervals for the product of three normal means, Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 277, Issue No. 2, 503-510 (1993).

13.  Goertzel, B., Ikle, M. andAnanda, M.M.A. (1994), On the dynamics of genetic algorithms (and other evolving systems), Complex Systems: Mechanism of Adaptation, IOS Press, pages 141-147 (1994).

14.  Goertzel, B. andAnanda, M.M.A. (1994), Simulated annealing on uncorrelated energy landscapes, International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 17, No. 4, pages 791-798 (1994).

15.  Ananda, M.M.A. (1994), Reliability modeling of an engineered barrier system: A conditional approach, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 34, 7, pages 1221-1225 (1994).

16.  Ananda, M.M.A. (1995), Generalized F-tests for unbalanced nested designs under heteroscedasticity, Annals of Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Vol. 47, No. 4, pages 731-742 (1995). The methods introduced in this paper are already available world wide in statistical packages  (check Xpro software in www.dataxiom.com ).

17.  Ananda, M.M.A.and Weerahandi, S. (1996), Testing the difference of two exponential means using generalized p-values, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 25(2), 521- 532 (1996).

18.  Ananda, M.M.A., Dalpatadu, R. and Singh, A.K. (1996), Adaptive Bayes estimators for parameters of the Gompertz survival model, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 75, pages 167-177 (1996).

19.  Ananda, M.M.A. (1997), Bayesian Methods for Mark-Resighting Surveys; Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 26(3), 685 - 697 (1997).

20.  Ananda, M.M.A.and Weerahandi, S. (1997),  Two-Way ANOVA with Unequal Cell Frequencies and Unequal variances, Statistica Sinica, 7, 631 - 646 (1997).  The methods introduced in this paper are already available world wide in statistical packages  (check Xpro software in www.dataxiom.com ).

21.  Singh, A.K. and Ananda, M.M.A. (1998), “Rank kriging for superfund site characterization”, Risk, Resource, and Regulatory Issues – Editors: Wickramanayake, G. and Hinchee, R.E.; Battelle Press; pages: 91-97 (1998).

22.  Ananda, M.M.A. (1998), Review of the book ‘Exact Statistical Methods for Data Analysis’,Metrika, 47 (2), 180-181 (1998).

23.  Ananda, M.M.A. (1998),  Bayesian and Non-Bayesian Solutions to Analysis of Covariance Models Under Heteroscedasticity;Journal of Econometrics, 86, 177-192 (1998).

24.  Ananda, M.M.A. and Singh, A.K. (1999), Performance assessment of multiple engineered barrier systems, Applied Mathematics and Computations, Vol. 102, 25-33 (1999)

25.  Ananda, M.M.A. (1999), Estimation and Testing of Availability of a Parallel System with Exponential Failure and Repair Times, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference; Vol. 77, 237-246 (1999).

26.  Bao, P. (one of my M.S. students) and  Ananda, M.M.A. (2001),  Performance of two-way anova procedures when cell frequencies and variances are unequal, Journal of Communications in Statistics, Vol. 30, no.4, 805-829 (2001).

27.  He, W. (one of my M.S. students) and Ananda, M.M.A. (2002);  Estimation of population size in closed animal populations from mark-resighting surveys, Applied Mathematics and Computations, Vol. 125, 387-398 (2002).

28.   Ananda, M.M.A. and Weerahandi, S. (2002); Generalized p-values; appeared in Encyclopedia of Environmetrics (2002).

29.  Ananda, M.M.A. (2003), Confidence intervals for a steady state availability of a system with exponential operating time and lognormal repair time, Applied Mathematics and Computations, Vol. 137, 499-509 (2003).

30.  Singh A.K. and Ananda, M.M.A. (2002), Rank kriging for characterization of mercury contamination at the east fork pop creek, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Journal of Environmetrics, Vol. 13, 679-691 (2002).

31.  Ananda, M.M.A. and Gamage, J.; On steady state availability of a system with repair time , Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computations, Vol. 150 409-416 (2004).

32.  Cooray, K.  and Ananda, M.M.A., Modeling Actuarial Data with a Composite Lognormal-Pareto Model, Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 5, 321-334 (2005).

33.  Cooray, K., Gunasekera, S. and Ananda, M.M.A. (2004); The folded logistic distribution, Accepted to Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods, Vol. 35, No. 1-3, 385-393 (2006).

34.  Gamage, J.  and  Ananda, M.M.A.; “An exact test for testing the equality of parameter matrices in multivariate linear models”,  Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 418, 882-885 (2006).

35.  Cooray, K.  and  Ananda, M.M.A. (2005);   Analyzing Survival Data with Highly Negatively Skewed Distribution: The Gompertz-sinh Family; Submitted for publication.

36.  Cooray, K. and Ananda, M.M.A. (2005), A generalization of the half-normal distribution with applications to lifetime data, Submitted for publication.

 

 

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

  • Estimating exponential reliability function and exponential density (with Andrew Rukhin), 2nd New England Statistics Symposium held in Amherst, Massachusetts, April, 1988.
  • Bayesian confidence intervals for the product of three normal means (with Ashok Singh and George Flatman, presented by A. Singh), 5th International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry held in Montreal, Canada, July 14-17, 1992.
  • Rank Kriging: An Alternative Nonparametric Geostatistical Method (with Ashok Singh and Allen Sparks, presented by A. Singh), 5th International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry held in Montreal, Canada, July 14-17, 1992.
  • Adaptive Bayesian Estimators for Parameters of the Gompertz and Weibull Survival Models (with Rohan Dalpatadu and Ashok Singh), 27th Annual Actuarial Research Conference held in Iowa City, August 6-8, 1992.
  • Bayesian Estimation of Tabular Survival Models for Complete Samples (with Ashok Singh and Rohan Dalpatadu), 27th Annual Actuarial Research Conference held in Iowa City, August 6-8, 1992.
  • An Alternative Method for Least-Squares Fitting of Parametric Survival Models (with Rohan Dalpatadu and Anita Singh), 27th Annual Actuarial Research Conference held in Iowa City, August 6-8, 1992.
  • Reliability modeling for an engineered barrier system (with Ashok Singh and John Flueck), 4th Annual International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference held in Las Vegas, April 26-30, 1993.
  • Reliability modeling of an engineered barrier system: A conditional approach -- This paper was presented in absence in the Ninth International Conferenceon Systems Engineering which was held in Las Vegas, June 15-17, 1993 and the paper was published in the conferenc proceedings: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Systems Engineering, 621-625, 1993. 
  • Review of Statistical Issues in Assessing Environmental Compliance (with John A. Flueck and Ashok Singh), 153rd Annual meeting of the American Statistical Association, San Francisco, August 8 - 12, 1993.
  • Alternative approaches to reliability modeling of a multiple engineered barrier system, (with Ashok Singh), 5th Annual International High-Level Raadioactive Waste Management Conference, Las Vegas, May 22-26, 1994. The paper was published in the conference proceedings:High-Level Radioactive Waste Management, Volume 2, 1030-1036.
  • Bayesian estimation in exposure assessment, (with Ashok Singh), Environmetrics Conference, Berlington, Canada, August 11-15, 1994.
  • ANOVA under heteroscedasticity, The First Mini-Symposium of the Southwest Actuarial Education and Research Consortium, Las Vegas, December 02, 1994.
  • Two-Way ANOVA with unequal cell frequencies and unequal variances, 154th Annual meeting of the American Statistical Association (special contributed paper), Toronto, Canada, August 14 - 18, 1994.
  • Nested designs under heteroscedasticity, The Second Mini-Symposium of the Southwest Actuarial Education and Research Consortium, Las Vegas, December 08, 1995.
  • Generalized F-tests for unbalanced nested designs under heteroscedasticity, 155th Annual meeting of the American Statistical Association , Olando, Florida, August 13 - 17, 1995.
  • Capture-recapture models and mark-resighting surveys, Winter Mini-Conference of the Southwest Actuarial Education and Research Consortium, Las vegas, December 05, 1997.
  • Rank Kriging for superfund site characterization (with A.K. Singh and A. Singh; presented by A.K. Singh), First International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated & Recalcitrant Compounds, Monterey, California, May 18-21, 1998.
  • Analysis of covariance models under heteroscedasticity, Joint StatisticalMeetings, Baltimore, Aug. 8-12, 1999.

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