Hemant Ishwaran
Research InterestsCancer staging, Forests, Bayesian and frequentist variable selection, High throughput genomic data, Mixture models, Nonparametric Bayes
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External Activities
Associate Editor, JASA, Theory and Methods, 05-11
Associate Editor, Electronic Journal of Statistics, 07-13
Associate Editor, Statistics and Probability Letters, 07-10
Web Editor, Inst. of Mathematical Statistics, 03-05
Brief Biography
PhD Statistics, Yale University, 1993
MSc Applied Statistics, Oxford University, 1988
BSc Mathematical Statistics, Univ. of Toronto, 1987
Some Recent Papers
Ishwaran H., Kogalur U.B., Chen X. and Minn A.J. (2010). Random survival forests for high-dimensional data. Submitted.
Ishwaran H. and Rao J.S. (2010). Generalized ridge regression: geometry and computational solutions when p is larger than n. Submitted.
Ishwaran H., Kogalur U.B., Gorodeski E.Z., Minn A.J. and Lauer M.S. (2009). High-dimensional variable selection for survival data. J. Amer. Stat. Assoc. (in press).
Ishwaran H., Blackstone E.H., Hansen. C.A. and Rice T.W. (2009). A novel approach to cancer staging: application to esophageal cancer. Biostatistics, 10, 603-620. pdf
Ishwaran H., James L.F. and Zarepour M. (2009). An alternative to the m out of n bootstrap. J. Stat. Plann. Inference, 139, 788-801. pdf
Ishwaran H., Kogalur U.B., Blackstone E.H. and Lauer M.S. (2008). Random survival forests. Ann. Appl. Statist., 2, 841-860. pdf
Weichselbaum R.R., Ishwaran H., Yoon T., Nuyten D.S.A., Baker, S.W., Khodarev N., Su A.W., Shaikh, A.Y., Roach P., Kreike B., Roizman B., Bergh, J., Pawitan, Y., van de Vijver M.J. and Minn A.J. (2008). An interferon-related gene signature for DNA damage resistance is a predictive marker for chemotherapy and radiation for breast cancer. PNAS (Medical Sciences), 105(47) 18490-18495. pdf
Ishwaran H. and Rao J.S. (2005). Spike and slab variable selection: frequentist and Bayesian strategies. Ann. of Stat., 33, 730-773. pdf


