Barbara Heller

  • Professor Emerita of Applied Mathematics

Publications

  • Special functions and characterizations of probability distributions by zero regression properties, Journal of Multivariate Analysis 13, 473-487 (1980).
  • Use of the hyperbolic differential operator to find a scalar statistic which hss constant regression on the mean of a sample of Wishart matrices, Journal of Multivariate Analysis 14, issue 1, pp. 101-104 (1984).
  • Posterior distributions on certain parameter spaces obtained by using group theoretic methods adopted from quantum physics, with M. Wang, Technical Report No. 546, The University of Âé¶¹APP, Department of Statistics, April, 2004.
  • Group invariant inferred distributions via noncommutative probability, with M. Wang, IMS Lecture Notes Monograph Series, Vol. 50 (2006), 1-19.
  • Posterior Distribution for Negative Binomial Parameter p Using a Group Invariant Prior, with M. Wang, Statistics and Probability Letters, 77, 1542-1548 (2007).
  • Coherent States and Bayesian Duality, with S.T. Ali and J.-P. Gazeau, (2008), Journal of Physics A Math. Theor. 41, (2008) 365302 (22pp).
  • POVM quantization, with J.P. Gazeau, 26 Aug. 2014
  • Positive-operator valued measure (POVM) quantization, with J. P. Gazeau, Axioms ISSN 2075-1680 (2015), 4,1-29.

Expertise

Inference problems in the field of Mathematical Statistics; the use of generalized coherent states for the purpose of creating parametric families of probability distributions; statistical modelling via group theoretic methods; posterior distributions via coherent states; operational approach to quantum physics; probability operator valued measures.