Kofi Placid Adragni, Ph.D.
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Dr. Adragni has a bachelor degree in Physics at the Université de Lomé (Togo, West Africa). He then completed a PhD in Statistics under the mentorship of Professor R. Dennis Cook at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. His research interests include dimension reduction in regression, linear and nonlinear regression models, statistical genomics and statistical computing. His dissertation focused on dimension reduction in large p small n context in the inverse regression framework.
Aside from the methodological aspect of his research, he is also interested in statistical applications in various fields including biology. He joined SSG in September 2009 as a post-doctoral fellow and will be working on various projects.
Publications
- 2009
- 2008
- Kofi Adragni and R Dennis Cook (2009), Sufficient Dimension Reduction and Prediction in Regressions. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A, to appear
- Kofi Adragni and R Dennis Cook (2008), Discussion on Jianqing Fan and Jinchi Lv (2007): Sure independence screening for ultrahigh dimensional feature space Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, 70, Part5, pp1:35
Acknowledgement and Disclaimer
The trainee's projects are supported by Grant Number T32HL072757 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute or the National Institutes of Health.
Years: 2009 -
Mentor(s): Hemant K. Tiwari, Ph.D. and Nianjun Liu, Ph.D.