Alena Ixmocané Oetting Postdoctoral Research Fellow Quantitative Methodology Program Survey Research Center Institute for Social Research University of Michigan Office: ISR 2054 Office phone: 734-615-4032 Email: Postal address: 2054 ISR 426 Thompson St., P.O. 1248 Ann Arbor, MI 48106

Research Interests

I work with Susan Murphy on projects involving the use of reinforcement learning in the development of adaptive treatements with applications to substance abuse. I am also interested in the development of statistical methodology to evaluate dynamic treatment regimes.

Ph. D. research with David Scott, Department of Statistics, Rice University

Thesis:

Denoising by Wavelet Thresholding Using Multivariate Minimum Distance Partial Density Estimation