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Iain M. Johnstone's Degrees

Bachelors Mathematics University of Adelaide
Masters Statistics University of Adelaide
PhD Statistics University of Adelaide

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According to Wikipedia, Iain Murray Johnstone is an Australian born statistician who is the Marjorie Mhoon Fair Professor in Quantitative Science in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University. Education Johnstone was born in Melbourne in 1956. In 1977 he graduated in mathematics at the Australian National University, specializing in pure mathematics and statistics. Later he obtained an M.S. and a Ph.D. in statistics from Cornell University in 1981 under Lawrence D. Brown with the dissertation titled, Admissible Estimation of Poisson Means, Birth–Death Processes and Discrete Dirichlet Problems.

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Iain M. Johnstone's Published Works

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Least angle regression (2004) (8257)
Ideal spatial adaptation by wavelet shrinkage (1994) (8163)
Adapting to Unknown Smoothness via Wavelet Shrinkage (1995) (4910)
On the distribution of the largest eigenvalue in principal components analysis (2001) (1940)
Wavelet Shrinkage: Asymptopia? (1995) (1705)
Minimax estimation via wavelet shrinkage (1998) (1108)
REJOINDER TO "LEAST ANGLE REGRESSION" BY EFRON ET AL. (2004) (967)
Wavelet Threshold Estimators for Data with Correlated Noise (1997) (948)
Effects of intensive multiple risk factor reduction on coronary atherosclerosis and clinical cardiac events in men and women with coronary artery disease. The Stanford Coronary Risk Intervention Project (SCRIP). (1994) (910)
Prostate specific antigen in the diagnosis and treatment of adenocarcinoma of the prostate. II. Radical prostatectomy treated patients. (1989) (883)
Density estimation by wavelet thresholding (1996) (854)
On Consistency and Sparsity for Principal Components Analysis in High Dimensions (2009) (814)
Biological determinants of cancer progression in men with prostate cancer. (1999) (654)
Adapting to unknown sparsity by controlling the false discovery rate (2005) (459)
Needles and straw in haystacks: Empirical Bayes estimates of possibly sparse sequences (2004) (455)
Ideal denoising in an orthonormal basis chosen from a library of bases (1994) (380)
Maximum Entropy and the Nearly Black Object (1992) (374)
Empirical Bayes selection of wavelet thresholds (2005) (356)
The anatomy of the posterior communicating artery as a risk factor for ischemic cerebral infarction. (1994) (355)
Medical care costs and quality of life after randomization to coronary angioplasty or coronary bypass surgery. Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI) Investigators. (1997) (331)
A preliminary study of diltiazem in the prevention of coronary artery disease in heart-transplant recipients. (1993) (315)
Normalization, testing, and false discovery rate estimation for RNA-sequencing data. (2012) (303)
Sure independence screening for ultrahigh dimensional feature space Discussion (2008) (297)
Risk factors for the development of obliterative bronchiolitis after lung transplantation. (1996) (283)
Statistical challenges of high-dimensional data (2009) (281)
Threshold selection for wavelet shrinkage of noisy data (1994) (274)
High dimensional statistical inference and random matrices (2006) (216)
Sparse Principal Components Analysis (2009) (195)
Wavelet deconvolution in a periodic setting (2004) (187)
Preoperative serum prostate specific antigen levels between 2 and 22 ng./ml. correlate poorly with post-radical prostatectomy cancer morphology: prostate specific antigen cure rates appear constant between 2 and 9 ng./ml. (2002) (184)
MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS AND JACOBI ENSEMBLES: LARGEST EIGENVALUE, TRACY-WIDOM LIMITS AND RATES OF CONVERGENCE. (2008) (177)
Prostate cancer is highly predictable: a prognostic equation based on all morphological variables in radical prostatectomy specimens. (2000) (176)
Accurate Prediction of Phase Transitions in Compressed Sensing via a Connection to Minimax Denoising (2011) (172)
MINIMAX BOUNDS FOR SPARSE PCA WITH NOISY HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA. (2012) (170)
Optimal Shrinkage of Eigenvalues in the Spiked Covariance Model. (2013) (169)
Speed of Estimation in Positron Emission Tomography and Related Inverse Problems (1990) (153)
Minimax Risk over l p-Balls for l q-error (1994) (149)
Minimax risk overlp-balls forlp-error (1994) (148)
Projection-Based Approximation and a Duality with Kernel Methods (1989) (143)
WAVELET SHRINKAGE FOR CORRELATED DATA AND INVERSE PROBLEMS: ADAPTIVITY RESULTS (1999) (141)
On the distribution of the largest principal component (2000) (116)
Prediction of prostate cancer volume using prostate-specific antigen levels, transrectal ultrasound, and systematic sextant biopsies. (1995) (113)
FISHER'S INFORMATION IN TERMS OF THE HAZARD RATE' (1990) (109)
Helicobacter pylori Eradication and Gastric Preneoplastic Conditions (2004) (97)
On Asymptotic Posterior Normality for Stochastic Processes (1979) (97)
Hotelling's Theorem on the Volume of Tubes: Some Illustrations in Simultaneous Inference and Data Analysis (1990) (94)
Exact Risk Analysis of Wavelet Regression (1998) (92)
Radiation-induced damage, repair and exchange formation in different chromosomes of human fibroblasts determined by fluorescence in situ hybridization. (1994) (92)
Cognitive function 5 years after randomization to coronary angioplasty or coronary artery bypass graft surgery. (1997) (88)
Augmented sparse principal component analysis for high dimensional data (2012) (84)
EbayesThresh: R Programs for Empirical Bayes Thresholding (2005) (78)
Variation Diminishing Transformations: A Direct Approach to Total Positivity and its Statistical Applications (1981) (78)
Innate immune response to homologous rotavirus infection in the small intestinal villous epithelium at single-cell resolution (2012) (78)
PCA in High Dimensions: An Orientation (2018) (78)
Empirical functionals and e cient smoothing parameter selection (1992) (77)
Chi-square oracle inequalities (2000) (72)
Minimax Bayes, Asymptotic Minimax and Sparse Wavelet Priors (1994) (71)
ASYMPTOTICALLY OPTIMAL PROCEDURES FOR SEQUENTIAL ADAPTIVE SELECTION OF THE BEST OF SEVERAL NORMAL MEANS (1982) (69)
Maximum entropy reconstruction of complex (phase-sensitive) spectra (1990) (68)
Neo-classical minimax problems, thresholding and adaptive function estimation (1996) (67)
Does the maximum entropy method improve sensitivity? (1990) (61)
Detection of colonic polyps in a phantom model: implications for virtual colonoscopy data acquisition. (1998) (58)
Discretization effects in statistical inverse problems (1991) (57)
Universal Near Minimaxity of Wavelet Shrinkage (1997) (56)
ASYMPTOTIC MINIMAXITY OF WAVELET ESTIMATORS WITH SAMPLED DATA (1999) (55)
The influence of volumetric tumor doubling time, DNA ploidy, and histologic grade on the survival of patients with intracranial astrocytomas. (1995) (54)
Prostate-specific antigen doubling times in patients who have failed radical prostatectomy: correlation with histologic characteristics of the primary cancer. (1997) (54)
Serum prostate-specific antigen and the biologic progression of prostate cancer. (1995) (52)
APPROXIMATE NULL DISTRIBUTION OF THE LARGEST ROOT IN MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS. (2010) (50)
High dimensional Bernstein-von Mises: simple examples. (2010) (50)
The Resistant Line and Related Regression Methods (1985) (50)
Periodic boxcar deconvolution and diophantine approximation (2004) (49)
Testing in high-dimensional spiked models (2015) (47)
On Inadmissibility of Some Unbiased Estimates of Loss (1988) (46)
On Hotelling's Formula for the Volume of Tubes and Naiman's Inequality (1989) (45)
Borrowing Strength: Theory Powering Applications – A Festschrift for Lawrence D. Brown (2010) (40)
FAST APPROACH TO THE TRACY-WIDOM LAW AT THE EDGE OF GOE AND GUE. (2011) (35)
On Minimax Estimation of a Sparse Normal Mean Vector (1994) (35)
Wavelets and the theory of non-parametric function estimation (1999) (33)
Roy’s largest root test under rank-one alternatives (2013) (31)
Empirical Bayes approaches to mixture problems and wavelet regression (1998) (28)
MINIMAX ESTIMATION OF A CONSTRAINED POISSON VECTOR (1992) (28)
Admissibility, Difference Equations and Recurrence in Estimating a Poisson Mean (1984) (28)
Compressed Sensing over ℓp-balls: Minimax mean square error (2011) (26)
Initial functional and economic status of patients with multivessel coronary artery disease randomized in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI). (1995) (26)
Asymptotics of eigenstructure of sample correlation matrices for high-dimensional spiked models. (2018) (23)
Speed of Estimation in Positron Emission Tomography (1987) (21)
EXACT MINIMAX ESTIMATION OF THE PREDICTIVE DENSITY IN SPARSE GAUSSIAN MODELS. (2012) (19)
EbayesThresh: R and S-Plus programs for Empirical Bayes thresholding (2005) (19)
Effects of Intensive Multiple Risk Factor Reduction on Coronary Atherosclerosis and Clinical Events in Men and Women With Coronary Artery Disease: The Stanford Coronary Risk Intervention Project (SCRIP) (1995) (18)
Dicussion on the meeting on ‘Statistical approaches to inverse problems’ (2004) (18)
Detection performance of Roy's largest root test when the noise covariance matrix is arbitrary (2011) (17)
Discussion: Projection Pursuit (1985) (17)
Economic evaluation in long‐term clinical trials (2002) (16)
Admissible estimation, Dirichlet principles and recurrence of birth-death chains on ℤ+p (1986) (16)
Efficient Scores, Variance Decompositions, and Monte Carlo Swindles (1985) (16)
EIGENVALUE DISTRIBUTIONS OF VARIANCE COMPONENTS ESTIMATORS IN HIGH-DIMENSIONAL RANDOM EFFECTS MODELS. (2016) (14)
Boundary coiflets for wavelet shrinkage in function estimation (2004) (14)
Local Asymptotic Normality of the Spectrum of High-Dimensional Spiked F-Ratios (2014) (14)
Wald Lecture I: Counting Bits with Kolmogorov and Shannon (2007) (13)
Effect of Ageing on Morphologic and Clinical Predictors of Prostate Cancer Progression (2000) (13)
Neo-Classical Minimax Problems , Thresholding , and Adaptation (1994) (12)
ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF ROY'S LARGEST ROOT TEST IN MANOVA AND IN SIGNAL DETECTION IN NOISE (2011) (11)
Spiked covariances and principal components analysis in high-dimensional random effects models (2018) (11)
Compressed Sensing over $\ell_p$-balls: Minimax Mean Square Error (2011) (10)
Long-term cost-effectiveness of alternative management strategies for patients with life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. Electrophysiologic Study versus Electrocardiographic Monitoring (ESVEM) Investigators. (1997) (10)
THRESHOLDING FOR WEIGHTED χ 2 (2001) (9)
On Projection Pursuit Measures of Multivariate Location and Dispersion (1984) (8)
Joint density of eigenvalues in spiked multivariate models (2014) (8)
Semi-realistic simulations of natural hyperspectral scenes (2015) (7)
TRACY-WIDOM AT EACH EDGE OF REAL COVARIANCE AND MANOVA ESTIMATORS. (2017) (7)
Semi-realistic Simulations of Natural Hyperspectral Scenes (2016) (6)
On minimax optimality of sparse Bayes predictive density estimates (2017) (6)
Tracy-Widom at each edge of real covariance estimators (2017) (6)
Adaptation in some linear inverse problems (2014) (6)
EDGEWORTH CORRECTION FOR THE LARGEST EIGENVALUE IN A SPIKED PCA MODEL. (2017) (5)
DENSITY ESTIMATION BY WAVELET THRESHOLDING 1 (4)
Asymptotically minimax estimation of a constrained Poisson vector via polydisc transforms (1993) (4)
Fast and Accurate Binary Response Mixed Model Analysis via Expectation Propagation (2018) (4)
Larry Brown’s Work on Admissibility (2019) (3)
Spin glass to paramagnetic transition in Spherical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model with ferromagnetic interaction (2021) (3)
Threshold Selection in Transform Shrinkage (2003) (3)
Problems in limit theory for martingales and posterior distributions from stochastic processes (1978) (3)
On independent statistical decision problems and products of diffusions (1984) (3)
Notes on asymptotics of sample eigenstructure for spiked covariance models with non-Gaussian data (2018) (3)
A moment inequality for Lq estimation (1991) (3)
An edge CLT for the log determinant of Gaussian ensembles. (2020) (2)
Asymptotic Risk and Bayes Risk of Thresholding and Superefficient Estimates and Optimal Thresholding (2014) (2)
A Program for Estimating Uncertainties in Quantile Estimates Derived from Empirical Pearson Fits. (1986) (2)
Tail sums of Wishart and Gaussian eigenvalues beyond the bulk edge (2018) (2)
Wavelets and Optimal Nonlinear Function Estimates (2008) (2)
An edge CLT for the log determinant of Wigner ensembles (2020) (2)
Adaptation in a class of linear inverse problems (2013) (2)
233: Multiparametric high dimensional analysis of normal & VZV infected human tonsil T cells at a single cell resolution by mass cytometry (2013) (1)
Tail sums of Wishart and GUE eigenvalues beyond the bulk edge (2017) (1)
Measuring verification device error rates (1987) (1)
A probabilistic study of linear elliptic-parabolic equations of second order (1979) (1)
Spatially Adaptive Image Denoising using Undecimated Directionlet Transform (2020) (1)
Modern Nonparametric Statistics: Going Beyond Asymptotic Minimax (2010) (1)
Lead pollution and the Roman economy (2020) (1)
On the within-family Kullback-Leibler risk in Gaussian Predictive models (2012) (1)
The Uniform Prior Bayes Estimate (2012) (0)
FPGA Implementation of Hearing Aids using Stationary Wavelet-Packets for Denoising (2015) (0)
549 A Novel Approach to Understanding Viral Pathogenesis: Defining in-Vivo Rotavirus Infection of Intestinal Enterocytes At the Single Cell Level by Comparing Infected Cells, Bystanders, and Uninfected Cells (2013) (0)
N ov 2 00 6 High Dimensional Statistical Inference and Random Matrices (2006) (0)
A Hybrid Image Denoising Method (2016) (0)
Rejoinder (2009) (0)
Large Covariance Matrices: Estimation and Inference in High Dimensions (2006) (0)
A TECHNIQUE FOR EXAMINING INTERCORRELATIONS BETWEEN MULTIPLE VARIABLES THAT DETERMINE CURE OF PROSTATE CANCER BY RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY (1999) (0)
Discussion: An Ancillarity Paradox which Appears in Multiple Linear Regression (1990) (0)
Understanding of the New Statistics: Expanding Core Statistical Theory (2008) (0)
Comparison of REML methods for the study of phenome-wide genetic variation (2022) (0)
Risk bounds for sparse sequences (2000) (0)
Comment (2009) (0)
Universal Near Minimaxity of (1997) (0)
Long-term cost of alternative management strategies for life threatening ventricular arrhythmias in the ESVEM trial (1994) (0)
Draft : 8 November 951 Universal Near Minimaxity ofWavelet (2007) (0)
How Far Are Automatically Chosen Regression Smoothing Parameters From Their Optimum?: Comment (1988) (0)
Acknowledgment of referees, 1995 (2009) (0)
1 Universal Near Minimaxity of Wavelet Shrinkage (1999) (0)
Submitted to the Annals of Statistics TESTING IN HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SPIKED MODELS By (2018) (0)

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