George Yanev, Ph.D.


George Yanev George Yanev, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Education: 

 • Ph.D. in Statistics, University of South Florida, 2001
 • Ph. D. in Mathematics, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 1991
 • M.S. in Mathematics, Univesity of Sofia, Bulgaria, 1986
 • B.S. in Mathematics and Math Education, University of Sofia, 1984

Research Interest:
Branching sotchastic processes: regeneration, extrema, trees, and statistics; characterizations of probability distributions using records; statistical modeling in biology and ecology; applied statistics.
Recent Selected Publications:
 •  Characterizations of Probability Distributions via Bivariate Regression of Record Values, Metrika, 68(2008), 1:51-64, with M. Ahsanullah and M.I. Beg.
 •  Number of complete N-ary subtrees on Galton-Watson family trees, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 8(2006), 2:223-233, with L. Mutafchiev.
 •  Extremes of Geometric Variables with Applications to Branching Processes, Statist & Probab Letters, 65(2003), 4:379-388, with K. Mitov and A. Pakes.
E-mail: yanevgp@utpa.edu
Phone: (956) 381-3632
Office: MAGC 3.424
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