Francis Bilson Darku
Assistant Professor
IT, Analytics, and Operations
574-631-5276
361 Mendoza College of Business
- Biography
- Background
- Publications
- Presentations
- Awards
Francis Bilson Darku is a Research Assistant Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations at the Mendoza College of Business. His research interests include sequential analysis, nonparametric statistics and econometrics. He focuses on developing sequential methodologies under a distribution-free environment with applications in economics, psychology and other areas. Francis obtained a BSc in Actuarial Science from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi – Ghana, and afterwards an MSc and a PhD in Statistics from University of Texas at Dallas.
Education
Ph D, University of Texas at Dallas
MS, University of Texas at Dallas
BS, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
Areas of Expertise
Sequential Analysis
Non-Parametrics
Econometrics
Editorial Boards
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Sequential Analysis
January 31, 2021
Sequential Analysis
January 31, 2021
Ad Hoc Reviewer
MIS Quaterly
November 2, 2020
MIS Quaterly
November 2, 2020
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Journal of Applied Statistics
July 14, 2020
Journal of Applied Statistics
July 14, 2020
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Psychological Methods
January, 2019
Psychological Methods
January, 2019
"Comparison of Gini Indexes of Two Populations Using Sequential Approach", Sequential Analysis, 42, 2023
"Gini Index Estimation Within Pre-Specified Error Bound Applied to Indian Household Survey Data", (With Frank Konietschke, Bhargab Chattopadhyay), Econometrics, 8, 2020
"Sequential Accuracy in Parameter Estimation for Population Correlation Coefficients", (With Ken Kelley, Bhargab Chattopadhyay), Psychological Methods, 24, 2019
"Accuracy in Parameter Estimation for a General Class of Effect Sizes: A Sequential Approach", (With Ken Kelley, Bhargab Chattopadhyay), Psychological Methods, 23, 2018
"Shapley-Value-Based Feature Attribution for Data Privacy Protection", INFORMS 2021, 2021
"Crowdfunding and Community Rebuilding", UTSA Workshop for ISR SI on: Unleashing the Power of IT for Strategic Management of Disasters, 2021
"Shapley-Value-Based Feature Attribution for Risk-Utility Tradeoff in Data Privacy", Joint Statistical Meeting 2021, 2021
"Bounded-Width Confidence Interval for Gini Index under Complex Survey", The 7th International Workshop in Sequential Methodologies, 2019
"Bounded-Width Confidence Interval for Gini Index under Complex Survey", Joint Statistical Meetings, 2017
"Bounded-Width Confidence Interval for Gini Index under Complex Survey", Conference of Texas Statisticians, 2017
"Accuracy in Effect Size Estimation for IID Observations", Joint Statistical Meetings, 2016
"Accuracy in Effect Size Estimation for IID Observations", Conference of Texas Statisticians, 2016
"Accuracy in Effect Size Estimation for IID Observations", UNCG Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference, 2015
Award
"Outstanding Teaching Assistant of the Year Award", Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, 2018
"Student Travel Award", Quality & Productivity Section, American Statistical Association, 2017
"Betty & Gifford Johnson Scholarship Award", University of Texas at Dallas, 2017
"Finalist for Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition", University of Texas at Dallas, 2017
"Best Poster in Interdisciplinary and Applied Statistics Category for Doctoral Students", Conference of Texas Statisticians, 2017