Our Faculty

Baruch College/ Mount Sinai School of Medicine Graduate Program in Health Care Adminsirtation

Ann Cohen Brandwein
Professor of Statistics
Department Of Statistics

Email: Ann_Brandwein@baruch.cuny.edu

Ted Joyce

Raymond Cornbill

Richard Kopelman

Joseph Onochie

Ann Cohen Brandwein

Paula Walter

Lauren Block

Dr. Ann Cohen Brandwein is a tenured full professor in the Department of Statistics/CIS in the Zicklin School of Business. She teaches graduates courses for and actively participants in the MBA Program in Healthcare Administration, the Full-Time Honors MBA Program, and the Executive MBA Program. In addition, she is a member of the Baruch Ph.D. faculty and has taught several courses for the Baruch Ph.D. students.

Professor Brandwein received the Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2002 and the Presidential Excellence Award for Service in 2005. Her research work in the area of multivariate point estimation for spherically symmetric distributions is quite well known, with numerous citations in the statistical literature.

From 1993 – 2006 Professor Brandwein was an Associate Editor for the Theory and Methods Section of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, which is one of the most prestigious journals in the field of statistic.

Education
BS City College
MS, PhD, Rutgers University

Selected Publications
Brandwein, Ann Cohen, and W. E. Strawderman “Bayesian Estimation of Multivariate Location Parameters,” Handbook of Statistics – Vol. 25: Bayesian Thinking, Modeling and Computation, pp 225 - 248, Fall 2005.

Brandwein, A.C., S. Ralescu, and W. E. Strawderman "Shrinkage estimators of the location parameter for certain spherically symmetric distributions," Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Vol. 45, No. 3, 1993, pp. 551-565.

Ralescu, S., Ann Cohen Brandwein, and W. E. Strawderman "Stein estimation for non-normally spherically symmetric location families in 3 dimensions," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Vol. 42, No.1, July 1992, pp. 35-50.

Brandwein, Ann Cohen, and W. E. Strawderman "Improved estimates of location in the presence of an unknown scale," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Vol. 39, No. 2, November, 1991, pp. 305-314.

Brandwein, Ann Cohen, and W. E. Strawderman "Generalizations of James-Stein estimators under spherical symmetry," Annals of Statistics, Vol. 19, No. 3, September, 1991, pp. 1639-1650.

Brandwein, Ann Cohen, and W. E. Strawderman "Stein estimation: the spherical symmetric case," Statistical Science, August,1990, pp. 356-369.

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