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Mendel Fygenson
Associate Professor of Data Sciences and Operations

USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808

Phone: 
213-740-7206
mfygenson@marshall.usc.edu
Education: 
PhD, University of Michigan; MA, SUNY-Buffalo; BA, BS, Haifa University

Overview

Mendel Fygenson's research has been published in MIS Quarterly, Trends in Mathematics, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association. He received Marshall's Golden Apple Award for teaching, as well as the Professor of the year award from Gamma Sigma Alpha, and has consulted for a variety of organizations, including Millennium, Inc., Bristol-Meyers/Squibb, Pre-Clinical Group, and Nitinol Medical Technologies.

Research

"Inference for Censored Quantile Regression Models in Longitudinal studies" • 2009
Modeling and Predicting Extrapolated Probabilities with Outlooks • 2008
Understanding and Predicting Electronic Commerce Adoption: An Extension of the Theory of Planned Behavior • 2006
Risk Assessments of Low Dose Exposure to Carcinogens • 2001
Tests For Exponentiality Versus Increasing Failure Rate Alternatives • 2000
The Convexity Structure of the Logit Transform of Classical Distributions • 2000
Cross-Promotions Through Price Discrimination • 1998
A New Approach in Modeling a Categorical Response. Part I: The Binary Case • 1997
Tests for Increasing the Hazard Rate • 1995
Unbiased Testing of Treatments Against a Control • 1995
Monotone Estimating Equations for Censored Regression • 1994
Regression and Analysis with right Censored Data • 1994
Tension Control of Cellular Proliferation • 1994
Modification of the Koul Susarla & Van Ryzin Estimator for Linear Regression Models with Right Censoring • 1992
Optimal Sequential Estimation for Semi-Markov & Markov Renewal Processes • 1991
A Fundamental Matrix for Regular Semi-Markov Processes • 1989