Interdisciplinary Activities and Research

 

1. Actuarial Sciences

    Papers

Multivariate Analysis of Pension Plan Mortality Data (with Vinsonhaler, C., Vadiveloo, J. and Rasoanaivo, G.), North American Actuarial Journal, 2001, 5:2, 126-138.

Multivariate Analysis of Pension Plan Mortality Data (with Rasoanaivo, G., Vinsonhaler, C. and Vadiveloo, J.), Contingencies, 2001, 80-83.

Analysis of the Error in using Insurance Mortality to Price Long Term Care Products (with Vinsonhaler, C., Vadiveloo, J. and Rasoanaivo, G.), 2002.pdf file

Pricing for Volatility Risk in Long Term Care Insurance (with Vinsonhaler, C., Vadiveloo, J. and Rasoanaivo, G.), 2002. pdf file

    Extramural Grants

Multivariate Analysis of Pension Plan Mortality Data, May 1998, Society of Actuaries, (with Charles Vinsonhaler, Department of Mathematics and J. Vadiveloo, Aetna).

    Ph.D. Associate Advising

Guy Rasonaivo (2001); Peng Zhou (2003); Sudath Ranasinghe (2007)


2. Environmental Engineering

    Papers

Predicting On-Road Particle Number Concentrations of Light-Duty Gasoline Vehicles from Gas Concentrations with Time-Series Cross-Section Regression (with Qu, Y. and Holmen, B. A.), Transportation Research Record 2058, 2008, 97-105.





3. Marketing

    Papers

Modeling Customer Lifetime Value (with Gupta, S., Hanssens, D., Hardie, B., Kahn, W., Kumar, V., Lin, N. and Sriram, S.), Journal of Service Research, 2006, 9(2), 139-155.

Multichannel Shopping - Causes and Consequences (with Venkatesan, R. and Kumar, V.) Journal of Marketing, 2007, 71, 114-132.

The role of customer attitudes in CRM activities (with Venkatesan, R. and Reinartz, W.), 2008.

Customer Segmentation Using Frequency Domain Analysis of Multivariate Categorical Time Series (with Venkatesan, R. and Hu, S.), 2009.




4. Psychology

    Papers

The efficacy of terrorism and counter-terrorism in the second intifada: An intergroup approach (with Pratto, F., Fox, A. B., Pitpitan, E. V., Tan, J., Huntington, A., Santos, E.E., and Pearson, A. R.), 2009.




5. Transportation Engineering

    Papers

Investigating Variations in Hourly Volume proportions on Freeways: Part I - Methodology. (with Zhao, M. and Ivan, J. N.), 2000.

Investigating Variations in Hourly Volume Proportions on Freeways: Part II - Implementation. (with Zhao, M. and Ivan, J. N.), 2000.

Selecting exposure measures in crash rate prediction for two-lane highway segments (with Qin, X. and Ivan, J. N.), Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2004, 36, 183-191.

Hierarchical Bayesian Estimation of Safety Performance Functions for Two-Lane Highways Using MCMC Modeling (with Qin, X., Ivan, J. N. and Liu, J.), ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, May 2005, 131, 345-351.

Bayesian Estimation of Hourly Exposure Functions by Crash Type and Time of Day (with Qin, X., Ivan, J. N., Liu, J. and Tepas, D.), Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2006, 38, 1071-1080.

Vehicle Time Spent in Following: New Exposure Measure for Predicting Same- Direction Collisions on Two-Lane Rural Roads (with Zhang, C. and Ivan, J. N.), Transportation Research Record 2083, 2008, 162-169.

Study of the Effect of Friction on Expected Crash Counts on Connecticut Roads (with Ivan, J. N., Aronov, B., Guo, A. and Jackson E.), 2009.


    Extramural Grants

Using Multiple Response Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling to Select Exposure Measures for More Accurate Highway Crash Prediction", Aug. 2000-Aug. 2001, U.S. Department of Transportation.

CT Cooperative Highway Research Program: "Incorporating Wet Pavement Friction into Traffic Safety Analysis", 2007-2008 (co P.I. with John Ivan, Civil and Environmental Engineering).


    Ph.D. Associate Advising

Ming Zhao (2000); Xiao Qin (2004); Chen Zhang (2007); Gilbert Hansen (2009 - expected); Hongmei Zhou (2009 - expected)