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Department of Statistics Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122 Phone: 215-204-8459 or 267-468-8359 Fax: 215-204-1501 or 267-468-8355 |
Dr. Wei is Professor of Statistics at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He has been on the faculty since 1974. He earned his B.A. in Economics from the National Taiwan University (1966), B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Oregon (1969), and M.S. (1972) and Ph.D. (1974) in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. From 1982-87, he was the Chair of the Department of Statistics at Temple University. His research interest includes time series analysis, forecasting methods, statistical modeling, and applications of statistics in business and economics. He has developed new methodology in seasonal adjustment, aggregation and disaggregation, outlier detection, robust estimation, and vector time series analysis. Some of his most significant contributions include extensive research on the effects of aggregation, methods of measuring information loss due to aggregation, new stochastic procedures of performing data disaggregation, model-free outlier detection techniques, robust methods of estimating autocorrelations, and statistics for analyzing multivariate time series. He is a Fellow of the ASA, a Fellow of the RSS, an Elected Member of the ISI, and the 2002 President of ICSA. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Forecasting and the Journal of Applied Statistical Science.
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