James B. MacQueen

Address:
Anderson School of Management
UCLA
405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1481
e-mail: james.b.macqueen@anderson.ucla.edu

Educational Background

• Ph.D. (Psychology), 1958, and M.S. (Psychology) 1954, University of Oregon
• B.S. (Psychology), 1952, Reed College

Research Interests

• Mathematical and statistical analysis of human processes.
• Clustering algorithms, especially using K-means.
• Optimal stopping rules
• Estimation of relative densities on metric spaces
• Markov processes

Selected Publications

• "Optimal Persistance Policies", (with R. G. Miller), Operations Research, 8, 362-380, 1960. PDF File.
• "A Problem in Survival", Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 32, 605-610, 1961. PDF File.
• "Optimal Policies for a Class of Search and Evaluation Problems", Management Science, 10, 746-759, 1964.PDF File.
• "A Mathematical Approach to the Problem of Achieving Selective Biological Effects", Biometrics, 20, 130-142, 1964. PDF File.
• "A Problem in Making Resources Last", Management Science, 11, 341-347, 1964. PDF File.
• "Some Applications of Monotone Operators in Markov Processes", (with R. M. Redheffer) Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 36, 1421-1425, 1965. PDF File.
• "A Test for Suboptimal Actions in Markovian Decision Problems", Operations Research, 15, 559-561, 1967. PDF File.
• "An Intrinsically Determined Markov Chain", Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 38, 934-936, 1967. PDF File.
• "Ferguson Distributions Via Polya Urn Schemes", (with D. Blackwell) Annals of Statistics, 1, 353-355, 1973. PDF File.
• "A Linear Extension of the Martingale Convergence Theorem", Annals of Probability, 1, 263-271, 1973. PDF File.
• "Circuit Processes", Annals of Probability, 9, 604-610, 1981. PDF File.
• "Some Time-Invariant Stopping Rule Problems", (with T. S. Ferguson), Optimization, 23, 155-169, 1992. PDF File.
• "Markov Sculpture" in Statistics, Probability and Game Theory, Papers in Honor of David Blackwell, Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series, Vol. 30, 1996. PDF File.
• "Estimating Relative Density on a Metric Space", in Game Theory, Optimal Stopping, Probability and Statistics, Papers in Honor of Thomas S. Ferguson, Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series, Vol. 35, 2000. PDF File.

Unpublished Papers

• "On the Average Length of Visits to an Ergodic Set", 1977. PDF File.
• "K-Optimal Randomization Tests for Association in Practical Metric Spaces Using Nearest Neighbor Methods", (with Jan Stallaert), 1999. PDF File.