Yancey, Thomas

YEARS IN THE DEPARTMENT:

1952-1991

RESEARCH INTEREST:

Econometrics

BIOSKETCH:

Thomas Alexander Yancey came to the University of Illinois in 1952, as a part-time Assistant Professor for the Department of Economics. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1957 and was named Associate Professor the following year. He would achieve full professorship in 1972.

His teachings and scholarly studies would span a diverse range of topics, including Operations Research, Statistics, Econometrics, and Mathematical Economics. Central to his research was the study of methodology. With the advent of the Illiac computer in the 1950's, economic models generated with varying data samples could be analyzed using standard methods of econometrics for the first time. Professor Yancey was one of the first researchers to conduct such studies.

In addition to the many articles he would write for statistical journals, Professor Yancey published one book in 1986 entitled, “Improved Methods in Econometrics,” examining cutting-edge methods of inference.

From 1969 to 1988, he would serve summer appointments as Associate Director of the Economics Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Financed by the Ford Foundation, the Institute’s mission was to prepare international students for successful graduate study in the field of economics.

In 1980, he was named the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Commerce and Business Administration, a position which he would hold for four years. After 39 years of distinguished service to his department and university, Thomas A. Yancey retired from teaching in 1991, becoming Professor Emeritus.

PHD:

University of Illinois, 1957

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Yancey, Thomas A. A Monte Carlo Comparison of Traditional and Stein-Rule Estimators Under Squared Error Loss. Urbana, Ill.: College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1974. Internet resource.
Judge, George G, and Thomas A. Yancey. Improved Methods of Inference in Econometrics. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1986. Print.
Yancey, Thomas A, George G. Judge, and M E. Bock. Wallace's Weak Mean Square Error Criterion for Testing Linear Restrictions in Regression: A Tighter Bound. Urbana: College of Commerce and Business Administration, Bureau of Economic and Business Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1973. Internet resource.
Bohrer, Robert, Kunjung Lai, and Thomas A. Yancey. Preliminary Test Estimation for the Second Order Autoregression. , 1992. Print.
Yancey, T A. A Weak Mean Square Error Test for Stochastic Restrictions in Regression. Champaign, Ill: University of Illinois, 1971. Print.

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