Marron’s Home Page

Contact:

• Email:     marron@unc.edu
• Office Phone:   +1-919-962-2188

Marron’s Research:

• Marron’s Matlab Software
• Liz Bullitt’s Brain Artery Tree Data
• After Dinner Talk at SLDS Meeting, 2016
• Current Ideas About Statistics
• Conversation with a Prospective Student (2014)
• Book on Object Oriented Data Analysis (with Ian Dryden)

Marron’s Teaching:

• Marron’s Teaching Material

Recommended Links

• Peter Hall Memorial Page
• Distance Weighted Discrimination (DWD)
• R version of DWD (written by Hanwen Huang)
• KDE Objects (XlispStat macros written by Frederic Udina)
• SiZer in R (written by Derek Sonderegger)
• SAMSI        

Data Integration Software

• Original JIVE (2014)  –  Joint and Individual Variation Explained,  GitHub – idc9/py_jive: A data analysis package for high-dimensional, multi-block data
• AJIVE (2018)  = Angle Based JIVE,  GitHub – idc9/mvdr: A python package for multi-view dimensionality reduction
• DIVAS (2024)  –  Data Integration Via Analysis of Subspaces,   https://github.com/jbprothero/DIVAS2021 (Started by Jack Prothero, currently hosted by Andrew Ackerman, https://atacker22dw.github.io/)

Some Early Web Postings

• Novel Data Analyses (smoothing, SiZer and others)
• Movies (smoothing and more)

 

Personal Info:

Education:

• AA – Orange Coast College – 1974
• BS – U. C. Davis – 1977
• PhD – U. C. L. A. – 1982

Faculty Positions:

• UNC-CH Department of Statistics (1982-2003)
• Cornell University, Mary Upson Professor of Engineering (2001-2002)
• UNC-CH Department of Statistics and Operations Research (2003-)
• UNC-CH Department of Computer Science Adjunct Professor (2003-)
• UNC-CH Lineberger Cancer Center, Member (2004-)
• UNC-CH Department of Biostatistics (2007-)

Honors and Awards:

• Fellow: Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• Fellow: American Statistical Association
• Elected Member: International Statistical Institute
• #15 on ISI List of Most Highly Cited Mathematicians (1991-2001)
• Amos Hawley Distinguished Professor, UNC-CH
• S. N. Roy Memorial Lecturer, University of Calcutta
• Ralph Bradley Lecturer, University of Georgia
• Saw Swee Hock Distinguished Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (2015)

Photographs:

Steve & Robert Avery Marron:     

(courtesy of Inge Koch)

An Interesting Restaurant on Kangaroo Island, Australia: 

(courtesy of Lina Sue Marron)

The Menu from the Marron Cafe: 

(courtesy of Lina Sue Marron)

A diner eating Marrons (with Alun Pope): 

(courtesy of Lina Sue Marron)

Check out this description = “Marron” on Wikipedia)

 

Other Material:

• Stylish guy in Gangnam

Acknowledgement of Financial Support:  Much of the research in the above pages was supported by the following NSF Grants, together with many grants from a wide range of collaborators:

• DMS-8902973
• DMS-9203135
• DMS-9504414
• DMS-9971649
• DMS-0308331
• DMS-0606577
• DMS-0854908
• IIS-1633074

 

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