Welcome to Dave Zes's UCLA Statistics Page

Data on Dave:

Height: 6’
Weight: 13 stone (and a few pebbles).
Average Attention Span: 5 seconds
Average Attention Span (interesting subject matter): 3 seconds
Career goals: Doing cool stuff.
Sounds (Right Now!): Chavelle, Stavesacre, Killswitch*, Zao, Sleeping Giant, Prong, Mudvayne, Emery, Iced Earth, In Flames, Autolux, Project 86, POD, Celtic Frost, Becoming The Archetype..., n
Sounds (Been and Gone (boo-hoo)): Soundgarden, Zep, Rush, CCR, ..., n
Cine (the awesomest movies ever): Dr. Strangelove, Man Bites Dog.
Cine (movies you should see): (above), The Yes Men, Idiocracy, Three O'Clock High, Suffering Bastards.
Books: Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut), Blood Meridian (McCarthy), The Peter Principle (Dr. Peter), A Man in Full (Wolfe), Picture This (Heller).
Turn ons: Complete, properly formatted data.
Turn offs: Third-World death squads. Lint.

*Killswitch Engage's song "My Last Serenade" is perhaps the all-time most significant contribution to the metal lexicon.

Seventh Day Slumber's "My Only Hope" rules as well.

Good riddance to Bill Frist.

I am extremely fortunate to have the amazing Yingnian Wu as my Ph.D. advisor (!!), and to be working with our dazzling Department Chair, Jan de Leeuw in the CES group (!!). And, as if all that's not sick awesome, I'm many-fold fortunate to have the stupendous Dr. Robert W. Bass as my personal consultant (!!) as I pursue spacio-temporal modeling.

Research Papers & Stuff:
A Brief Look at Dynamic Textures
Discrete Cosine Transform -- for images
Baseball Over-Unders (pdf)
Baseball Fielding Strength & Filters (pdf)
Environment: CA Ozone Estimation by ALS (pdf)
Environment: Video, CA Ozone, then versus now
Dynamic Desnity Estimation (pdf)
Facile Spacio-Temporal Modeling: Forecasting with Adaptive Least Squares and the Kalman Filter (pdf)
Facile Spacio-Temporal Modeling: WIDALS: Weighting by Inverse Distance with Adaptive Least Squares (pdf)
Facile Spacio-Temporal Modeling: FRKALS: Fixed Rank Kriging with Adaptive Least Squares (pdf)
A Non-Measurable Set (pdf)
Human Vision & Textures
An R package, "SSsimple", for simple state space modeling. --- Install instructions.

Here's Some Software, Resources:
The ChanceMaster 1000. A freeware program for some basic combinatorics and conversions.
Yarn Dog. A freeware application for typesetting movie spec scripts.
Gambling Units Conversions
Traveling Salesman Problem
Joke Optimization (pdf)

Educational Stuff & Junk:
Hypothesis Tests & Confidence Intervals (pdf)
Hypothesis Testing (pdf)
Hypothesis Testing Step-by-Step
2-Factor Probability Formula Lookup Sheet (pdf)

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