University of Manitoba - Department of Statistics

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Brad Johnson

Associate Professor

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Office: 322 Machray Hall

Telephone: 204-474-8162

probability, stochastic processes, mathematical statistics, distribution theory of runs and patterns, sampling theory

James C. Fu, Brad C. Johnson and Yung-Ming Chang (2012). Approximating the extreme right-hand tail probability for the distribution of the number of patterns in a sequence of multi-state trials. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 142 (2), 473-480.
Mohammad Jafari Jozani and Brad C. Johnson (2012). Randomized nomination sampling for finite populations. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 142 (7), 2103-2115.
Mohammad Jafari Jozani and Brad C. Johnson (2011). Design based estimation for ranked set sampling in finite populations. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 18 (4), 663-685.
Brad C. Johnson and Thomas M. Sellke (2010). On the number of i.i.d. samples required to observe all of the balls in an urn. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 12 (1), 139-154.
James C. Fu and Brad C. Johnson (2009). Approximate probabilities for runs and patterns in i.i.d. and Markov dependent multi-state trials. Advances in Applied Probability 41 (1), 292-308.

Randomized Nomination Sampling in Finite Populations. Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, June 12-15, 2011.
Randomized Nomination Sampling in Finite Populations. Statistics Seminar, Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba, March 23, 2011
Approximations for Runs and Patterns. International Workshop on Applied Probability. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Colmenarejo, Madrid, Spain. July 5-8, 2010 (Invited)
On the normal, Poisson and finite Markov chain imbedding approximations for runs and patterns. Fu-Fest 2009, A Symposium in Honour of James C. Fu. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. May 27-28, 2009.
A large deviation type approximation for the number of i.i.d. samples to see all of the balls in an urn. International Workshop on Applied Probability, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France. July 7-10, 2008. (Invited)
Coupon collecting in the presence of rare coupons. Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Ottawa, Canada. May 25-29, 2008. (Contributed Poster, Joint with Qiujing Zhou).
On the number of samples required to observe all of the balls in an urn. Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba, Nov. 28, 2008. (Invited)
On the expected number of i.i.d. samples to see all of the balls in an urn. International Workshop on Applied Probability, University of Connecticut. May, 2006. (Invited)

Ankit Doshi (Ph.D., Current, co-supervisedr with Theo Koulis)
Mohammad Nourmohammadi (Ph.D., Current, co-supervised with Mohammad Jafari Jozani)
Ayat Al-Meanazel (Ph.D., Current)
Qiujing (Julia) Zhou (M.Sc., 2013)
Carrie Paquette (M.Sc., 2009)
Milana Karaganis (M.Sc., 2009)

Upcoming Exams

STAT 1000 A03 Midterm 1
Thursday, May 23 at 7:00 p.m.

STAT 1000 A01 Midterm 1
Friday, May 24 at 8:30 a.m.

STAT 1000 A02 Midterm 1
Friday, May 24 at 8:30 a.m.

Upcoming Seminar

Chris Wild, Department of Statistics, The University of Auckland: “The Need for Speed in the Path of the Deluge”
Thursday, May 23 at 2:45 p.m.
316 Machray Hall