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Jeffrey Simonoff

Professor of Statistics and Andre Meyer Faculty Fellow, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

Professor of Statistics, holds a B.S. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1976. He received an M.Phil. in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1980 from Yale University. He has been at Stern since 1980. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. He is an Associate Editor of Statistical Modelling: An International Journal, a member of the Editorial Board of Foundations and Trends in Econometrics, a former Associate Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, and a former member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Statistics Education. His research interests include categorical data, outlier identification and robust estimation, smoothing methods, computer intensive statistical methodology, and applications of statistics to business problems. He has been a consultant to several organizations, including the New York Aquarium, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, Citicorp, the American Chiropractic Association, and the New York Public Library.

Contact Email: jsimonof@stern.nyu.edu  

Projects:

• Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
• Empirically Based Analysis of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems and Critical Infrastructures
• Urban Infrastructure in a Time of Crisis: Lessons From September 11th

Publications:

• A Spatial Analysis of Asthma Hospitalization Rates and Socioeconomic and Land Use Varibles in New York City
• Asthma Hospital Admissions and Ambient Air Pollutant Concentrations in New York City
• CREATE Electricity Case Main Report: Risk, Consequences, and Economic Accounting, Report 1
• CREATE Electricity Case: Economic Cost Estimation Factors for Economic Assessment of Terrorist Attacks, Report 2
• CREATE Electricity Case: Statistical Analysis of Electric Power Outages, Report 3
• Measures of Risks of Failure of Oil and Gas Facilities for Energy Risk Management
• Modeling Spatial Concentration of Transportation Systems to Assess Vulnerability to Natural Hazard and Terrorist Threats
• Risk Management and Risk Analysis-Based Decision Tools for Attacks on Electric Power
• Risks and Costs of a Terrorist Attack on the Electricity System
• Trends for Oil and Gas Terrorist Attacks
• Unraveling Geographic Interdependencies in Electric Power Infrastructure
• Vulnerabilities in the Oil and Gas Sector

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