MS Faculty - Dexter Cahoy

• Ph.D. in Statistics, Case Western Reserve University
  
• MS in Statistics, University of Alberta
  
• MS in Applied Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines
  
• BS in Statistics, Mindanao State University - Iligan
  

Basic Statistics
Calculus I
Calculus II
Statistical Methods
Statistics for Engineering and Science
Regression Analysis
Design of Experiments
Statistical Inference I
Statistical Inference II
Time Series Analysis
Multivariate Statistics

​Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis​

• 2017- Present: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Houston-Downtown
  
• 2015-2017: Coordinator, Statistical Consulting Lab, Louisiana Tech University
  
• 2013-2017: Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Louisiana Tech University
  
• 2007-2013: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Louisiana Tech University
  

Selected Publications

Cahoy D, Sedransk J. (2022).  Bayesian inference for asymptomatic COVID-19 infection rates. Statistics in Medicine, Accepted.  

Cahoy D, Di Nardo E, Polito F. (2021).  Flexible models for overdispersed and underdispersed count data. Statistical Papers, 62:2969–2990, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-021-01222-7.

Cahoy D, Sedransk J. (2019).  Inverse stable prior for exponential models. Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 13:29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42519-018-0027-2.

Fisk M, Apostol K, Ross-Davis A, Davis A. (2018). Informing native plant sourcing for ecological restoration: Cold hardiness dynamics, flowering phenology, and survival of Eriogonum Umbellatum. Restoration Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/rec.12912. 

Cahoy D, Woyczyński W. (2018). Log-moment estimators for the generalized Linnik and Mittag-Leffler distributions with applications to financial modeling. Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 14, 156-166.

Cahoy D, Minkabo S. (2017). Inference for three-parameter M-Wright distributions with applications. Model Assist Stat Appl, 12(2), 115-125.

Cahoy D. (2015). Some skew-symmetric distributions which include the bimodal ones. Commun Stat Theory Methods, 44(3), 554-563.

Cahoy D, Polito F. (2014). Parameter estimation for fractional birth and fractional death processes. Stat Comput, 24(2), 211-222.
 
Cahoy D, Polito F. (2013). Renewal processes based on generalized Mittag-Leffler waiting times. Commun Nonlinear Sci Numer Simul, 18(3), 639-650.

Cahoy D. (2012). An estimation procedure for the Linnik distribution. Statist. Papers, 53(3), 617-628.

Cahoy D, Polito F. (2012). Simulation and estimation of the fractional Yule process. Methodol Comput Appl Probab, 14(2), 383-403.
 
Cahoy D, Polito F. (2012). On a fractional binomial process. J Stat Phys, 146(3), 646-662.

Cahoy D. (2012). Moment estimators for the two-parameter M-Wright distribution. Comput Stat, 27(3), 487-497.
 
Cahoy D, Uchaikin V, Woyczynski W. (2010). Parameter estimation for fractional Poisson processes. J Stat Plan Inference, 140(11), 3106-3120.

Cahoy D. (2010). A bootstrap test for equality of variances. Comput Stat Data Anal, 54(10), 2306-2316.

Cahoy D, Sibatov R, Uchaikin V. (2008). Fractional processes: From Poisson to branching. Int J Bifurcat Chaos, 18(9), 2717-2725.

Awards

• Faculty Development Grant, University of Houston – Downtown, 2018
  
• Louisiana Board of Regents-Research Competitiveness Subprogram award,  Statistical methods for fractional birth-death processes, 2011-2014,  role: PI.
• Fellowship at Center for Secure Cyberspace, Louisiana Tech University, Summer 2012.
• Travel award to attend a conference and present a poster entitled Exploratory data mining and data requirements to support ToxCast goals in EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC, role: Presenter.​