CURRICULUM VITAE OF JAMES O. RAMSAY

PERSONAL

Date of birth: 5th September, 1942,

Place of birth: Prince George, B.C., Canada

Citizenship: Canadian

Marital status: Married to Maureen Tighe, five children.

EDUCATION

B.Ed. University of Alberta at Edmonton, 1964.

(Major in English Teaching, Minor in Mathematics Teaching)

Ph.D. PrincetonUniversity, 1966 (Psychology with

specialization in Psychometrics)

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND APPOINTMENTS

19661967Lecturer in Psychology, UniversityCollegeLondon

19671971 Assistant Professor of Psychology, McGillUniversity

19711978 Associate Professor of Psychology, McGillUniversity

1978present Professor of Psychology, McGillUniversity

19731974 Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge

19801981 Visiting Professor, University of Grenoble

1986present Associate Member, Department of Mathematics

and Statistics, McGillUniversity

198990 Visiting Consultant, Educational Testing Service

19961997 Visiting Professor, Université Paul Sabatier,

Toulouse, France

2004-2007 Adjunct Professor, Department of Statistics,

University of British Columbia

ACADEMIC HONOURS AND AWARDS

Alberta Hotel Association Scholarship

University of Alberta Honour Prize

University of Alberta First Class Standing Prize (3 times)

James McNish Chalmers Memorial Prize (for student of

outstanding promise in firstyear statistics)

Province of Alberta Undergraduate Scholarship (2 times)

Educational Testing Service Psychometric Fellowship

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APA Creative Talent Award Program (Honourable Mention)

Gold Medal, Statistical Society of Canada, 1998

David Johnston Award of Alma Mater Society

Canadian Journal of Statistics Award for Best Paper in 2000, Statistical

Society of Canada

National Council on Measurement and Evaluation: 2003 Technical

Achievement Award

TEACHING

Undergraduate:

Introduction to Psychological Statistics

Psychological Measurement

Psychological Statistics

Measurement of Psychological Processes

Modern Psychology in Historical Perspective

Statistical Analysis of Examination and Testing Data

Experimental Design

Correlational Techniques

Graduate:

PSYCH 651B, Advanced Statistics I and II

PSYCH 650A, Experimental Design

Seminar on Multidimensional Scaling (also at U. of Chicago)

Seminar on Loglinear Models

Seminar on Functional Data Analysis (Dept. of Mathematics and

Statistics, Department of Psychology)

Seminar on Test Theory

Seminar on Multilevel Models

Ph.D. Students Graduated:

Lorcan Scanlon, Consultant

Stuart McElvie, BishopsUniversity

Ruth Corbin, Statistics Canada

Peter Pashley, LawSchool Admission Council

Moo Chung, University of Wisconsin

Ph.D Theses examined as External Examiner:

Ian Spence, University of Toronto

Dennis Domoney, University of Toronto

William Krane, YorkUniversity

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KyungSunBay, University of Alberta at Edmonton

David Chan, University of WesternOntario

Clement Dassa, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

James Goffin, University of WesternOntario

Sonia Mazzi, University of British Columbia

Cheikh Diack, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse

Herve Cardot, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse

Louis Ferre, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (habilitation)

JeanFrancois Durand, Universite de Montpellier II, Montpellier (habilitation)

Masters Students Graduated:

Carl Brewer

Marion McGlynn

Timothy Hammond

Xiaohui Wang

Nicole Malfait

Natasha Rossi

Szu-shen (Wen) Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Michal Abrahamowicz, McGillUniversity

Raymond Baillargeon, Universite de Montreal

Nadia Ghazzali, LavalUniversity

Xiaochun Li, Eli Lilly Company

Regina Nuzzo

Giles Hooker

Theodoro Koulis

DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES

Psychology Department Chairman, 19861989

Psychology Department Director of Graduate Studies, 19841986

Psychology Department Curriculum Committee (Chairman)

Psychology Department Graduate Program Committee

Psychology Department Executive Committee (19761978, 19811983, 19841986)

Committee on the Teaching of Statistics at McGill (Chairman)

Computer Policy Committee

SubCommittee on Graduate Computing and Research

Computer Users Committee (Chairman, 19711973)

Executive Committee of Center for Developing Area Studies

ELPSI Articulation Committee on Statistics (Chairman)

Academic Committee of the Faculty of Science

Tenure Committee of the Faculty of Education

Senate Committee on Computing

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Faculty of Science Committee on Computing (Chairman)

Committee on Timetabling and Scheduling

Chair, Board of Directors, Gault Estate

Chair, Cyclical Review Committee for Dept. of Meteorology

Cyclical Review Committees, Dept. of Economics, Computing Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Co-Chair, Faculty and Staff Fundraising Committee

McGill Centraide Campaign Committee

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Psychometric Society (Board of Trustees, Editorial Board (Chair), Book Review Editor, President)

Canadian Psychological Association (Fellow)

Classification Society (Editorial Board)

Statistical Society of Canada (Board of Directors, President Elect, President, Past-Presdent)

Society For Mathematical Psychology

American Statistical Association

American Psychological Association

Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Member, Centre de Recherche Mathematique, 2006-2011

PROFESSIONALSERVICESOUTSIDEUNIVERSITY

Editorial Consultant:

Psychometrika

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Annals of Statistics

Biometrika

Educational and Psychological Measurement

British Journal of Statistical and Mathematical Psychology

Psychological Review

Canadian Psychologist

Canadian Journal of Psychology

Chairman, Editorial Council, Psychometric Society

Editorial Council, Classification Society

Journal of Education Statistics

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Grant Reviewer:

Canada Council

National Research Council

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

National Science Foundation

National Institute of Health

Natural Sciences and Engineering Psychology Grant Selection

Committee (19831985, Chairman, 19851986)

American Mathematical Society

Consulting Activities:

Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada

Datalabs Inc.

Canadair

Transport Development Agency

Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry

IBM Corporation

Educational Testing Service

International Paper

Canadian Securities Institute

Ford Motor Company

MathSoft, Insightful Corp.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Analysis of functional data

Multidimensional scaling

Robust estimation

Monotonic transformations in statistical analysis

Fundamental measurement

Bayesian estimation techniques

Psychophysics

Exploratory multivariate analysis

History of Psychology

Factor analysis

Discrete data analysis

Test theory

Functional data analysis

RESEARCH GRANTS

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NRC Interim Grant 1968 $600

Transportation Development Agency 1972 500

McGill Graduate Faculty 1972 500

NRC Operating Grant 19721975 4,500 p.a.

NRC Travel Grant 1973 2,275

Canada Council Leave Fellowship1973

NRC Operating Grant 19751978 6,000 p.a.

NRC Operating Grant 19781980 12,000 p.a.

SSHRC Leave Fellowship 19801981 18,500

NSERC Operating Grant 19811984 17,000 p.a.

NSERC Operating Grant 19841987 29,000 p.a.

NSERC Operating Grant 19871990 30,000 p.a.

NSERC Equipment Grant 1986 57,312

FCAR Grant 19901993 40,000

NSERC Operating Grant 19901993 29,000 p.a.

NSERC Operating Grant 19931996 29,000 p.a.

FCAR Team Grant 19941996 38,000 p.a.

NIH Grant 19941996 42,000 p.a.

NSERC Operating Grant 19972000 31,000 p.a.

FCAR Team Grant 19972000 38,000 p.a.

NIH Grant 19982002 188,645

NSERC Operating Grant 20012005 38,000 p.a.

MITACS Grant2002-2003 15,000

FRSQ 2002-2003 66,000 p. a.

NATEQ 2004-2005 66,000 p. a.

CIHR Operating Grant2003-2006 65,000 p.a.

MITACS Grant2002-2005 15,000 p. a.

MITACS Grant2006-2009 56,000

NSERC Operating Grant 20062010 40,000 p.a.

PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Ramsay, J.O. (1966). The measurement of cognitive processes using the distance or curvefitting model. Journal of General Psychology, 74, 3944.

Ramsay, J.O. (1968). Economical method of analyzing perceived color differences,. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 58, 1922.

Ramsay, J.O. (1968). A scoring system for multiple choice test items. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 21, 247250.

Ramsay, J.O. (1969). Some statistical considerations in multidimensional scaling. Psychometrika, 34, 167182.

Ramsay, J.O. and Case, B. (1970). Attitude measurement and the linear model. Psychological Bulletin, 74, 185192.

Ramsay, J.O. (1970). A family of gradient methods for optimization. The Computer Journal, 13, 413417.

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Ramsay, J.O. (1971). True score theory: A paradox. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 31, 715719.

Ramsay, J.O. (1973). The effect of number of categories in rating scales on precision of estimation of scale values. Psychometrika, 28, 513532.

Ramsay, J.O. (1975). Implicit equations in psychological data analysis. Psychometrika, 40, 257262.

Ramsay, J.O. (1976). Algebraic representation in the physical and behavioral sciences. Synthese, 33, 419453.

Ramsay, J.O. (1977). A comparative study of several robust regression estimates. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 42, 241266.

Ramsay, J.O. (1977). Maximum likelihood estimation in multidimensional scaling. Psychometrika, 42, 241266.

Ramsay, J.O. (1977). Monotonic weighted power transformations to additivity. Psychometrika, 72, 83109.

Ramsay, J.O. (1978). Confidence regions for multidimensional scaling analysis. Psychometrika, 43, 145160.

Bruneau, T., Jorgenson, J., and Ramsay, J.O. (1978). C.I.D.A.: The Organization of Canadian Development Assistance. Center for Developing Area Studies Working Paper. McGillUniversity.

Ramsay, J.O. (1979). Intra and Interindividual variation in the power law exponent for area summation. Perception & Psychophysics, 26, 495500.

Ramsay, J.O. and Novick, M.R. (1980). PLU robust Bayesian decision theory: Point estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 75, 901908.

Winsberg, S. and Ramsay, J.O. (1980). Monotonic transformations to additivity using splines. Biometrika, 67, 669774.

Winsberg, S. and Ramsay, J.O. (1981). Analysis of pairwise preference data using integrated Bsplines. Psychometrika, 46, 171186.

Ramsay, J.O. (1980). Some small sample results for maximum likelihood estimation in multidimensional scaling. Psychometrika, 45, 139144.

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Ramsay, J.O. (1980). The joint analysis of direct ratings, pairwise preferences, and dissimilarities. Psychometrika, 45, 149165.

Ramsay, J.O. (1982). Some statistical approaches to multidimensional scaling data (with discussion). The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 145, 285312.

Ramsay, J.O. (1982). When the data are functions, Psychometrika, 47, 379396.

Winsberg, S. and Ramsay, J.O. (1983). Monotonic spline transformations for dimension reduction, Psychometrika, 48, 575595.

Ramsay, J.O. (1983). MULTISCALE: A multidimensional scaling program, American Statistician, 1983, 37, 326327.

Ramsay, J.O., Styan, G.P.H., & ten Berge, J. (1984). Matrix correlation, Psychometrika, 49, 403424.

Besse, P. & Ramsay, J.O. (1986). Principal components analysis of sampled functions. Psychometrika, 51, 285311

Ramsay, J.O. (1986). A PROC MATRIX program for preferencedissimilarity multidimensional scaling. Psychometrika, 51, 163170.

Ramsay, J.O. (1988). Monotone splines in action (with discussion). Statistical Science, 425461.

Ramsay, J.O. (1989). A comparison of three simple test theory models. Psychometrika, 54, 487499.

Ramsay, J.O. and Abrahamowicz, M. (1989). Bionomial regression with monotone splines: A psychometric application. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 84, 906915.

Ramsay, J.O. (1990). MATFIT: A FORTRAN subroutine for comparing two matrices in a subspace. Psychometrika, 55, 551553.

Ramsay, J.O. and Dalzell, C. (1991). Some tools for functional data analysis (with discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B,53, 539572.

Ramsay, J.O. and Winsberg, S. (1991). Maximum marginal likelihood estimation in semiparametric data analysis. Psychometrika, 56, 365380.

Abrahamowicz, M.; Tamblyn, R.M.; Ramsay, J.O.; Klass, D.K.; and Kopelow, M.L. (1990). Detecting and correcting for raterinduced differences in standardized patient tests of clinical competence. Academic Medicine, Vol. 65, 9, S25S26.

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Ramsay, J.O. (1991). Kernel smoothing approaches to nonparametric item characteristic curve estimation. Psychometrika, 56, 611630.

Abrahamowicz, M. and Ramsay, J.O. (1992). Multicategorical spline model for item response theory. Psychometrika, 57, 528.

Abrahamowicz, M., Ciampi, A., & Ramsay, J.O. (1992). Density estimation for censored survival data: A regression spline approach, Canadian Journal of Statistics, 20, 171185.

Dalzell, C. and Ramsay, J.O. (1993). Computing reproducing kernels with arbitrary boundary constraints. SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, 14, 511518.

Ramsay, J.O., Altman, N. & Bock, R.D. (1994). Variation in height acceleration in the Fels growth data. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 22, 89102.

Santor, D.A., Ramsay, J.O., & Zuroff, D.C. (1994). Nonparametric item analyses of the Beck Depression Inventory: Evaluating gender item bias and response option weights. Psychological Assessment, 6, 255270.

Ramsay, J.O. (1995). A similaritybased smoothing approach to nondimensional item analysis. Psychometrika, 60, 323339.

Ramsay, J.O., Flanagan, R. and Wang, X. (1995). The functional data analysis of pinch force. Applied Statistics, 44, 1730.

Ramsay, J.O. (1995). Principal differential analysis: Data reduction by differential operators. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 58, 495508.

Ramsay, J.O., Bock, R. Darrell, and Gasser, T. (1995). Comparison of height acceleration curves in the Fels, Zurich and Berkeley growth data. Annals of Human Biology, 22, 413426.

Santor, D. A., Zuroff, D. C., Cervantes, P., Palacios, J, and Ramsay, J. O. (1995) Examining scale discriminability in the BDI and CESD as a function of depressive severity. Psychological Assessment, 7, 131139.

Ramsay, J.O., Munhall, K.G., Gracco, V.L. and Ostry, D.J. (1996). Functional data analyses of lip motion. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 23, 37183727.

Ramsay, J.O. (1996). A geometrical approach to item response theory. Behaviormetrika, 23, 317

Ramsay, J.O., Heckman, N. and Silverman, B. W. (1997) Spline smoothing with modelbased penalties. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 29, 99106.

Ramsay, J.O. and Li, X. (1998). Curve registration. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B., 60, 351363.

Ramsay, J.O. (1998). Estimating smooth monotone functions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B., 60, 365375.

Ramsay, J. O. and Silverman, B. W. (1998). Invited comment on: Brumbeck, B. A. and Rice, J. A. Smoothing spline models for the analysis of nested and crossed samples of curves. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 93, 988991.

Dechevsky, L., MacGibbon, B. and Ramsay, J. O. (1998). On smooth bijections between subsets of Rn. Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, CRM2570.

Santor, D. A. and Ramsay, J. O. (1998). Progress in the technology of measurement: Applications of item response models. Psychological Assessment. 10, 345-359.

Ramsay, J. O. and Heckman, N. (2000). Some theory for Lspline smoothing. CRM Proceedings and Lecture Notes, 18, 371380.

Kneip, A., Li, X., MacGibbon, B. and Ramsay, J. O. (2000). Curve registration by local regression. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 28, 19-30.

Heckman, N. E. and Ramsay, J. O. (2000). Penalized regression with modelbased penalties. Canadian Journal of Statistics. 28, 241-258.

Ramsay, J. O. (2000). Functional components of variation in handwriting. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 95, 915.

Ramsay, J. O. (2000). Differential equation models for statistical functions. Canadian Journal of Statistics. 28, 225-240.

Sadeghi, H., Allard, P., Shafie, K., Mathieu, P. A., Sadeghi, S., Prince, F.

and Ramsay, J. O. (2000) Reduction of gait data variability using curve registration. Gait and Posture. 12, 257264.

Ramsay, J. O. and Ramsey, J. B. (2001) Functional data analysis of the dynamics of the monthly index of nondurable goods production. Journal of Econometrics, 107, 327344.

Ramsay, J. O. and Ramsay, T. (2001) Invited comments on Glasbey, C. A. and Mardia, K. V. A penalized likelihood approach to image warping (with discussion.) Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 63, 465-514.

Ramsay, J. O. (2001) Invited comments on Ke, C. and Wang, Y. Semiparametric nonlinear mixed-effects models and their applications. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 96, 1272-1298.

Laurencelle, L., Ramsay, J.O. (2001). À la recherche de l' « unité de mesure » en psychométrie : réflexions sur la mesure en sciences humaines.Mesure et évaluation en éducation, 24, 41-52.

Samson, S., Zatorre, R. J. and Ramsay, J. O. (2002) Deficits of musical timbre perception after unilateral temporallobe lesion revealed with multidimensional scaling. Brain, 125, 511523.

Rossi, N., Wang, X. and Ramsay, J. O. (2002) Nonparametric item response function estimates with the EM algorithm. Journal of the Behavioral and Educational Sciences, 27, 291-317.

Malfait, N. and Ramsay, J.O. (2004). The historical functional linear model, Canadian Journal of Statistics,31, 115-128.

Hutchinson, R.A., P.J. McLellan, J.O. Ramsay, H. Sulieman, and D.W. Bacon, (2004).

Investigating the impact of operating parameters on molecular weight distributions using

functional regression, Macromolecular Symposia, Wiley, Weinheim, Germany, 495-508.

Poyton, A. A., Varziri, M. S., McAuley, K. B., McLellan, P. J. and Ramsay, J. O. (2006)

Parameter estimation in continuous-time dynamic models using principal differential analysis. Computational Chemical Engineering. 30, 698-708.

BOOKS

Ramsay, J. O. and Silverman, B. W. (1997) Functional Data Analysis. New York: Springer.

Ramsay, J. O. and Silverman, B. W. (2002) AppliedFunctional Data Analysis. New York: Springer.

Ramsay, J. O. and Silverman, B. W. (2005) Functional Data Analysi. Second Edition. New York: Springer.

Clarkson, D. B., Fraley, C., Gu, C. C. and Ramsay, J. O. (2005) S+Functional Data Analysis User’s Guide. New York: Springer.

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CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS

Ramsay (1977). Multidimensional scaling. International Encyclopedia of Neurology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Ramsay (1981). MULTISCALE Schiffman, S. S., Reynolds, M. L., and Young, F.W. Introduction to Multidimensional Scaling: Theory, Methods, and Applications. New York: Academic Press.

Ramsay, J.O. (1988). The analysis of replicated spatial functions of time. Coppi, R., and Bolasco, S., (Eds.). Multiway Data Analysis. Elsevier Science Publishers.

Ramsay, J. O. (1989). The data analysis of vectorvalued functions. E. Diday (Ed.) Data Analysis, Learning Symbolic and Numeric Knowledge. Commack, New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Ramsay, J.O. (1995). Some tools for the multivariate analysis of functional data. In W. Krzanowski (Ed.) Descriptive Multivariate Analysis. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.

Ramsay, J.O. (1997). A functional approach to modeling test data. In W.J. van der Linden and R.K. Hambleton (Eds.) Handbook of Modern Item Response Theory, New York: Springer Verlag, 381394.

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Ramsay, J.O. (1997). Functional data analysis. In S. Kotz, C.B. Read and D.L. Banks (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, New York: Wiley.

Ramsay, J.O. (1997). Principal differential analysis. In S. Kotz, C.B. Read and D.L. Banks (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, New York: Wiley.

Ramsay, J.O. and Gribble, P. (1999). Functional data analysis in action. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association. 30-36.

Ramsay, J. O. (2001) Psychometrics. In N. J. Smelser andP. B. Baltes (Eds) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

B. W. Silverman and Ramsay, J. O. (2001) Functional data analysis. In N. J. Smelser and P. B. Baltes (Eds) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Ramsay, J. O. (2002) Multilevel modeling of longitudinal and functional data. In D. S. Moskowitz and S. L. Hershberger (Eds.) Modeling Intraindividual Variability with Repeated Measures Data: Methods and Applications. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. 87-102.

Ramsay, J. O. (2005) The control of behavioral input/output systems. In J. L. Schafer and T. A. Walls (Eds.) Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.

BOOK REVIEWS

D.H. Krantz, R.D. Luce. P. Suppes, and A. Tversky. (1975). Foundations of measurement, Vol. 1. In Psychometrika, 40, 257262.

D.N.M. de Gruijter and L.J.T. van der Kamp. Advances in Psychological and Educational Measurement. In Psychometrika.

R. Gnanadesikan. (1977). Methods for Statistical Analysis of Multivariate Observations. In Psychometrika, 42, 455.

G.D. Bechtel (1978). Multidimensional Preference Scaling. In Psychometrika, 43, 585. J.W. Tukey. Exploratory Data Analysis. In Applied Psychological Measurement. (With J. de Leeuw) F. Cailliez and Pages, J.P. (1983). Introduction a l'Analyse des Donnees. In Psychometrika, 48,147151.

F.W. Young and R.M. Hamer (Editor). (1988). Multidimensional Scaling: History, Theory, and Applications. In Contemporary Psychology, 33, 874875.

P. Suppes, D.H. Krantz, R.D. Luce and A. Tversky. (1991). Foundations of measurement. Volumes II and III. In Psychometrika, 56, 355358.

A., Gifi. (1992). Nonlinear multivariate analysis. In Psychometrika, 57, 156157.

T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani and J. Friedman (2002) Elements of Statistical Learning. In

Psychometrika, 68, 611.

L. Hubert, P. Arabie, J. Meulman. (2001) Combinatorial Data Analysis. In Psychometrika, 69, 499.

COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

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MLSCALE. Distributed by SAS Users Group International as part of the SAS Supplemental Library, 1986.

MULTISCALE. Distributed by International Educational Services, Chicago, Ill., 1978.

MLMDS1, MLMDS2 and MLMDS4. Distributed by McGill Computing Centre.

TESTGRAF. Distributed by author.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

J. O. Ramsay (2003) Matlab, R and S-PLUS Functions for Functional Data Analysis.

RECENT CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS

2001 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Osaka, Japan. Invited to present two talks:

Functional Data Analysis in Psychometrics

Nonparametric Item Response Theory

2002 Journees de Statistique of l’Association Francais de Statistique, l’Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, May 13-16, Invited plenary speaker to present a paper titled Curve Registration

2002 Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, University ofNorth Carolina, Chapel Hill, June 20-23. Invited to present a full day work shop on Functional Data Analysis

16th Australian Statistical Conference, Canberra, Australia, July 7-12 2002. Invited as plenary speaker to present a paper titled Parameter Flow

65th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Banff Centre, July 28-31, Invited to Organize a session on Functional Data Analysis.

The 6th International Statists Conference, TarbiatModarresUniversity, Tehran, Iran. August 26-28, 2002. Invited as a Special Invited Guest to present two talks:

Parameter Flow

Principal Differential Analysis and Process Control

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Mini Meeting on Functional Data Analysis, Invited keynote speaker, Gainesville, Florida, January 12-13, 2003.

The 2003 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Caia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy, July 7-10, 2003. Invited plenary speaker to present “Psychometrics, Dynamics, and Differential Equations.”

Banff International Research Station Workshop on Regularization Methods in Statistics, September 7-10, 2003. Invited participant, presented “From Data to Differential Equations.”

19th Workshop on Item Response Theory at the University of Twente, Netherlands, October 15-17, 2003, keynote invited international speaker to present three talks.

Meetingof the Vereniging Voor Statisiek en Operationele Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, October 20, 2003, keynote invited talk, “From Data to Differential Equations.”

Hutchinson, R.A., H. Sulieman, J.O. Ramsay and P.J. McLellan, “Investigating the Impact of Operating Parameters on Molecular Weight Distributions Using Functional Regression”, poster presented at the United Engineering Foundation Conference on Polymer Reaction Engineering V, Quebec City, May, 2003.
R.A. Hutchinson, McLellan, P.J. and J.O. Ramsay, “Empirical Polymer Process Investigation Using Functional Regression”, poster presented at the Jacques Cartier Conference on Polymer Reaction Engineering, Modeling, Optimization and Control, Lyon, France, December 2003.