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Thomas R. Boucher

Thomas R. Boucher

Assistant Professor of Statistics
Director, Statistical Consulting Center

Office phone number: (603) 535-3236
e-mail: tboucher1@plymouth.edu
Homepage: oz.plymouth.edu/~tboucher1/T.Boucher Homepage.htm

Administrative contact: Dawn Boynton
Administrative contact phone number: (603) 535-2233

Profile

Thomas Boucher teaches both lower and upper level statistics classes. Dr. Boucher helped establish the Statistical Consulting Center, which is housed in the math department to support faculty and graduate statistics-related research throughout Plymouth State University and beyond. Dr. Boucher has aided the department in its efforts to offer a graduate degree in statistics at PSU, and he continues to pursue his personal research interests, grant and publication efforts.

Degrees and Education

  • PhD, Statistics, Texas A&M University, 2003; Dissertation: "V-Uniform ergodicity of threshold autoregressive nonlinear time series"
  • MS, Mathematics, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, 1998
  • BS, Mathematics, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, 1996

Research Interests

  • Nonlinear time series
  • Markov chains
  • Applied probability and stochastic processes
  • Ecological statistics/environmetrics
  • Applied statistics

Publications

  • Pingree, K.A., Doner, L.A., Morrill, C. and Boucher, T.R (2009). "CCSM3's Representation of the South Bipolar Seesaw during Heinrich Event 2". Under review
  • Boucher, T.R. (2008). "A Hoeffding inequality for Markov chains using a generalized inverse". Statistics and Probability Letters. To appear
  • Boucher, T.R., (2008). "An analysis of the New Hampshire common loon population counts using information-theoretic criteria". Technical report
  • Boucher, T.R., and Cline, D.B.H. (2008), "Piggybacking threshold processes with a finite state Markov chain". Stochastics and Dynamics. To appear
  • Roache, D., and Boucher, T.R. (2008), "On the relationship between Pacific Ocean SST anomalies and U.S. landfalling hurricanes". Under review
  • Meserve, B., Cleland, J., and Boucher, T.R., (2008). "A meta-analysis examining clinical test utilities for assessing meniscal injury". Journal of Clinical Rehabilitation 22, No.2, 143-161
  • Meserve, B., Cleland, J., and Boucher, T.R., (2008). "Assessing labral tear diagnosis". The American Journal of Sports Medicine. To appear
  • Contributor to Cooley, J., Taylor, K., and H. Vogel (2008). "Summary of Loon Preservation Committee Field Activities in New Hampshire in 2007" and Cooley, J., Taylor, K., and H. Vogel (2007). "Summary of Loon Preservation Committee Field Activities in New Hampshire in 2006". Loon Preservation Committee, Moultonborough, NH
  • Boucher, T.R., and Cline D.B.H., (2007). "Stability of cyclic threshold and threshold-like autoregressive time series models". Statistica Sinica 17, No.1, 43-62
  • Spitzner, D.J., and Boucher, T.R., (2007). "Asymptotic variance of functionals of discrete-time Markov chains via the Drazin inverse". Electronic Communications in Probability 12, 120-133
  • Meserve, B., Cleland, J., and Boucher, T.R., (2007). "Assessing meniscal injury: what works?". APTA-CSM 2007 Proceedings
  • Boucher, T.R., (2006). "A simple correction for long memory in ecological experiments". Technical report
  • Boucher, T.R., (2005). "Implications of exponentially boosting test functions of V- Uniformly ergodic Markov chains". Virginia Journal of Science VAS Proceedings
  • Boucher, T.R., (2004). "Stability of TAR models". JSM 2004 Proceedings
  • Boucher, T.R., (12/2003). "V-Uniform ergodicity of threshold autoregressive nonlinear time series". PhD dissertation. Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Associations, Boards and Committees

  • Director, PSU Statistical Consulting Center
  • PSU Math Assessment Committee
  • PSU Academic Integrity Committee
  • Loon Preservation Center Technical Committee

Academic Distinctions

  • Nominee, Ed and Marilyn Wixson Professorship (2007)
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Virginia Tech
  • Dean's Scholar, Texas A&M University
  • Merit Fellowship, Texas A&M University
  • Graduate Enhancement Fellowship, Texas A&M University
  • Mathematics Achievement Award, University of Massachusetts-Lowell





















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