Halima Bensmail
Associate Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics, Operation and Management Sciences
Faculty member at the Graduate school of Genome Sciences Technology http://gst.ornl.gov/
Teaching:
Stat 320: Regression analysis (Undergraduate level)
Stat 583: Principal of Data mining using Statistical tools (Master level and MBA)
Stat 578: Categorical Data Analysis (Master level)
Stat 201: Business Statistics, concepts and applications (Undergraduate level)
Stat 664: Advanced Inferential Statistics: Bayesian (PhD level)
Stat 579: Multivariate data analysis (Master level)
stat 574: Data mining and statistical tools for pattern recognition (Master and PhD level)
Teaching (
Spring 2006)| Stat 664 | Stat 664 |
| Stat 320 | Stat 320 |
Teaching (Spring 2005)
| Stat 320 | Stat 320 |
| Stat 474/574 | Stat 574 |
Teaching (Fall 2004):
| Stat 201 | Stat 201 |
| Stat 320 | Stat 320 |
Teaching (Spring 2004)
| Stat 664 | Stat 664 |
| Stat 578 | Stat 578 |
Research interest:
Data mining and knowledge discovery.
Statistical tools for Genomics and Proteomics
Bayesian analysis
Clustering and model-based cluster analysis
Mixture modeling for continuous, mixed data and
imputed data
Multidimensional scaling, Optimal scaling
Classification and Neural Network.
Some selected publications:
Bensmail, H., Buddana A., Semmes O. J. and Haoudi (2005) "A Functional Clustering Algorithm for High Dimensional Proteomics Data". Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology. In Press
Wang, C. H., Kuo, W, and Bensmail, H. (2005). "Application of Image Processing Techniques and EM Algorithm to Detect Defect Patterns in Wafer Maps". IEEE transactions. Submitted
Buddana, A, Bensmail, H and Ostrouchov, G (2005). Steering of Iterative Bayesian Clustering to Uncover Multiscale Structure in Massive Data Sets. Submitted to the Journal of Pattern recognition.
Bensmail, H and Bozdogan, H (2004). Bayesian Clustering of Imputed and Mixed Data. Submitted to the Journal of Royal Statistical Society (JRSS).
Liu Z., Dechang Chen, Bensmail, H and Ying Xu (2005). Gene Expression Data Clustering with Kernel Principal Component Analysis. Published in Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB).
Liu Z., Chen D., Bensmail, H., Reifman, J. and Xu, Y (2005) "Gene Expression Data Classification with Kernel Principal Component Analysis." Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology (JBB). In press.
Bensmail, H A, Semmens, J. and Haoudi, A. (2005). Bayesian Fast-Fourier Transform Based Clustering Method for Proteomics Data. Journal of Bioinformatics. In Press.
Kwon, Y. and Bensmail, H. (2004). Bayesian autoregressive-threshold model for forecasting. Statistics department Technical report. Download
Bensmail, H. Golek, H. M, Semmes, J. and Haoudi, A. (2004). Fourier-based bayesian clustering for proteomics data. Statistics department technical report, 2004. Download
Bensmail, H. and J. Meulman, J.J (2003). Inferences for model-based cluster analysis with noise. Journal of Classification (20), page 49-76. Download
Bensmail, H. and Haoudi, A. (2003). Post-Genomics and Proteomics Data analysis: J. Biomed. Biot., 4, 217-230. Download see://jbb.hindawi.com
Bensmail, H., and Bozdogan, H. (2004). Adaptive
Model-based Kernel Cluster analysis with optimal scaling. Submitted to JASA. Statistics department technical
report
Bensmail, H. Meulman, J.J (2000). Discriminant analysis with optimal scaling. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer-Verlag, page 60-67. Download
Bensmail, H. Celeux, G. Raftery, A. & Robert, C (1997). Inference in model-based cluster analysis, Computing and Statistics, 1, N10, pp.1-10. Download
Bensmail, H. & Celeux, G. (1996). Regularized discriminant analysis, Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), Vol. 91, No 436, pp. 1743-1748. Download
Statistical software produced:
KernDisc: Multivariate Kernel-Discriminant
Analysis, University of Tennessee, SPLUS, 2001.
KernMix: Multivariate Kernel mixture-model cluster analysis, University of Tennessee, SPLUS, 2002.
Metrounfold: Bayesian Unfolding model via metropolis and Gibbs sampler in Data Theory group, 1999.
EDDA: Eigenvalue Decomposition Discriminant Analysis (programmer) in R and S-Plus (INRIA) 1995.
IMBCA1: Inference in Model-Based Cluster Analysis for linear, spherical and proportional covariance matrices in clustering, (Department of Statistics, University of Washington), 1996.
PPCD: Prediction of Prostate Cancer Data (longitudinal data) using Gibbs
Sampler, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1996.
To read some articles on Clustering, visit this homepage
www.ece.northwestern.edu/~harsha/Clustering/clus.html
To view papers on Bayesian analysis, visit this homepage