Université Paris Dauphine CEREMADE, Room B 617 Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny 75775 PARIS CEDEX 16 phone +33 1 44 05 48 83 email   fadoua at ceremade dot dauphine dot fr     Current Position Assistant Professor (Maitre de Conferences) at CEREMADE Université Paris Dauphine     Education 1999 Diplome d'Ingenieur Civil, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France 2004 PhD in Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA     Teaching Exploratory Statistics (Fall 2006 - MIDO) Statistics (Spring 2007, Spring 2009 - MIDO) Solutions du CC 2 : pdf Mathematical Statistics (Spring 2007, Spring 2009 - MIDO) Polycopie de Statistique Mathematique : pdf Frequently Asked Questions (in French): pdf On the convergence in distribution (in French): pdf Solution de l'exo 10 du TD1 : pdf Feuille du TD5 : pdf Solutions TD4 et TD5 : pdf Real Analysis (Fall 2009 - DUGEAD) Solution de l'exercice 63 : pdf Solution de l'exercice 67 : pdf Solution de l'exercice 68 : pdf Solution de l'exercice 69 : pdf Solution de l'exercice 111 : pdf     Research Interests Nonparametric estimation under shape constraints Approximation theory - Splines Empirical processes Inverse problems Testing problems in noninferiority trials

Service to the scientific community Associate Editor for the Electronic Journal of Statistics

Working Papers Inference for ordered isotonic k regression curves. (With K. Rufibach)

Submitted Papers F. Balabdaoui, H. Jankowski and K. Rufibach (2011). Maximum likelihood estimation and confidence bands for a discrete log-concave distribution N. Akakpo, F. Balabdadoui and C. Durot (2011). Testing monotonicity via local least concave majorants S. Khazaei, J. Rousseau and F. Balabdaoui (2010). Nonparametric Bayesian density estimation under shape constraints

Publications and Accepted Papers F. Balabdaoui and K. Filali (2011). Efficient computation of the cdf of the distribution of the maximal difference between a Brownian bridge and its concave majorant. (accepted for publication in Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation ). F. Balabdaoui and J. Pitman (2011). The distribution of the maximal difference between Brownian bridge and its concave majorant. (accepted for publication in Bernoulli ) L.Held, K. Rufibach and F. Balabadaoui (2010). A score regression approach to assess calibration of continuous probabilistic predictions. (accepted for publication in Biometrics-Practice Section) F. Balabdaoui, K. Rufibach and F. Santambrogio (2010). Least Squares estimation of two ordered monotone regression curves. (accepted for publication in Journal of Nonparametric Statistics) F. Balabdaoui, H. Jankowski, M. Pavlides, A.Seregin and J. A. Wellner (2010). On the Grenander estimator at zero, accepted for publication in Statistica Sinica . Balabdaoui, F. and Wellner J. A. (2010). Estimation of a k-monotone density: characterizations, consistency and minimax lower bounds, Statistica Neerlandica 64, 45-70. Balabdaoui, F., Bissantz, K., Bissantz, N. and Holzmann, H. (2010). Demonstrating single- and multiple currents through the E. coli-SecYEG-pore: Testing for the number of modes of noisy observations, to appear in JASA and Case Studies ) F. Balabdaoui, M. Mielke and A. Munk (2009). The likelihood ratio test for non-standard hypotheses near the boundary on the null-with application to the assessment of non-inferiority, Statistics and Decisions 24, 75-92. Balabdaoui, F., Rufibach, K. and Wellner, J. A. (2009). Limit distribution theory for maximum likelihood estimation of a log-concave density, Annals of Statistics 37, 1299-1331. Balabdaoui, F. and Rufibach, K. (2008). A second Marshall inequality in convex estimation, Statistics and Probability Letters 78(2), 118-126. Balabdaoui, F. and Wellner, J. A. (2007). Estimation of a k-monotone density: limit distribution theory and the Spline connection, Annals of Statistics 35, 2536-2564 . Balabdaoui, F. and Wellner, J. A. (2007). A Kiefer-Wolfowitz theorem for convex densities, IMS Lecture Notes 55, 1-31 . Balabdaoui, F. (2007). Consistent estimation of a convex density at the origin, Mathematical Methods of Statistics 16, 77-95 . Tilmann Gneiting, Fadoua Balabdaoui and Adrian E. Raftery (2007). Probabilistic forecasts, calibration and sharpness, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B 69, 1-26 . Raftery, A., Gneiting, T., Balabdaoui, F. and Polakowski, M. (2005). Using Bayesian Model Averaging to Calibrate Forecast Ensembles, Monthly Weather Review 133, 1155-1174 . Balabdaoui,F., Bocquet-Appel, J.-P., Lajaunie C. and Irudaya Rajan S. (2001). Space-time evolution of the fertility transition in India, 1961-1991, International Journal of Population Geography 7, 129-148.

Software and Code Balabdaoui, F. and K. Filali (2010). Programs in C++ and Python for Computing the CDF of the maximal difference between a Brownian bridge and its convave majorant : here Balabdaoui, F., Rufibach, K. and Santambrogio, F. (2009). OrdMonReg: Compute least squares estimates of one bounded or two ordered antitonic regression curves. R package version 1.0.0. available from CRAN

Current Coworkers Cécile Durot (Universite Paris-Sud 11, France) Hajo Holzmann (Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany) Nicolai Bissantz (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany) Axel Munk (Institut fuer Mathematische Stochastik, Goettingen, Germany) Judith Rousseau (Universite Paris-Dauphine, France) Kaspar Rufibach (Universitaet Zuerich, Switzerland) Abdul J. Sankoh (Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, USA) Filippo Santambrogio (Universite Paris-Dauphine, France) Jon A. Wellner (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)