Erol Peköz

Working in the area of Quantitative Methods, Professor Peköz studies stochastic problems in Finance and Operations Management. His work appears in academic journals such as Journal of Applied Probability, Statistics and Probability Letters, Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, and Statistics in Medicine.

He has conducted research funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, as well as by the the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has also worked as a consultant. Prior to coming to Boston University in 1999, Professor Peköz taught at UCLA and also at UC Berkeley, where he received an award for outstanding instruction. At Boston University he was awarded the 2001 Broderick Prize for Teaching, and was awarded tenure in 2003.

EDUCATION PhD, University of California Berkeley, 1995 MS, University of California Berkeley, 1989 BS, Cornell University, 1987 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Peköz, E., Röllin, A., Ross, N. (In Press). "Joint degree distributions of preferential attachment random graphs", Advances in Applied Probability Pekoz, E., Smith, A., Tucker, A., Zheng, Z. (2020). "COVID-19 Symptom Web Search Surges Precede Local Hospitalization Surges", Singpurwalla, N., Volovoi, V., Brown, M., Peköz, E., Ross, S., Meeker, W. (2019). "Is reliability a new science? A paper from the panel session held at the 10th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability", Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 35 (2), 260-269 McKeague, I., Peköz, E., Swan, Y. (2019). "Stein's method and approximating the quantum harmonic oscillator.", Bernoulli (Andover), 25 (1), 89-111 Pekoz, E., Röllin, A., Ross, N. (2019). "Pólya urns with immigration at random times", Bernoulli : official journal of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, 25 (1), 189-220 Adler, I., Cao, Y., Karp, R., Peköz, E., Ross, S. (2017). "Random Knockout Tournaments", Operations Research, 65 (6), 1589-1596 Pekoz, E., Rollin, A., Ross, N. (2016). "Generalized gamma approximation with rates for urns, walks and trees", Annals of Probability, 44 (3), 1776-1816 Shwartz, M., Pekoez, E., Burgess, J., Christiansen, C., Rosen, A., Berlowitz, D. (2014). "A Probability Metric for Identifying High-Performing Facilities An Application for Pay-for-Performance Programs", Medical Care, 52 (12), 1030-1036 Pekoez, E., Roellin, A., Ross, N. (2013). "Degree asymptotics with rates for preferential attachment random graphs", Annals of Applied Probability, 23 (3), 1188-1218 Pekoez, E., Roellin, A., Ross, N. (2013). "Total variation error bounds for geometric approximation", Bernoulli, 19 (2), 610-632 Pekoez, E., Roellin, A. (2011). "New Rates For Exponential Approximation And The Theorems Of Renyi And Yaglom", Annals of Probability, 39 (2), 587-608 Peköz, E., Röllin, A. (2011). "Exponential Approximation for the Nearly Critical Galton-Watson Process and Occupation Times of Markov Chains", Electronic Journal of Probability, 16 (0), 1381-1393 Pekoz, E., Shwartz, M., Christiansen, C., Berlowitz, D. (2010). "Approximate models for aggregate data when individual-level data sets are very large or unavailable", Statistics in Medicine, 29 (21), 2180-2193 Pekoz, E. (2009). "The Manager's Guide to Statistics", Pekoz, E. (2007). "A Second Course in Probability", Pekozbooks Shwartz, M., Pekoz, E., Ash, A., Posner, M., Restuccia, J., Iezzoni, L. (2005). "Do variations in disease prevalence limit the usefulness of population-based hospitalization rates for studying variations in hospital admissions?", Medical Care, 43 (1), 4-11 Pekoz, E. (2003). "Some memoryless bandit policies", Journal of Applied Probability, 40 (1), 250-256 Pekoz, E., Righter, R., Xia, C. (2003). "Characterizing losses during busy periods in finite buffer systems", Journal of Applied Probability, 40 (1), 242-249 Pekoz, E., Joglekar, N. (2002). "Poisson traffic flow in a general feedback queue", Journal of Applied Probability, 39 (3), 630-636 Pekoz, E. (2002). "Optimal policies for multi-server non-preemptive priority queues", Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, 42 (1), 91-101 Pekoz, E., Lapre, M. (2001). "Inequalities for queues with a learning server", Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, 37 (4), 337-347 Pekoz, E. (1999). "A note on reliability bounds via conditional inequalities", Journal of Applied Probability, 36 (4), 1251-1254 Pekoz, E. (1999). "Ignatov's theorem and correlated record values", Statistics and Probability Letters, 43 (2), 107-111 Pekoz, E. (1999). "On the number of refusals in a busy period", Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 13 (1), 71-74 Pekoz, E. (1999). "More on using forced idle time to improve performance in polling models", Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 13 (4), 489-496 Pekoz, E. (1996). "Stein's method for geometric approximation", Journal of Applied Probability, 33 (3), 707-713 Pekoz, E., Ross, S. (1995). "A Simple Derivation Of Exact Reliability Formulas For Linear And Circular Consecutive-k-of-n-f Systems", Journal of Applied Probability, 32 (2), 554-557 Pekoz, E., Akkas, A."Batching for Perishable Products", Pekoz, E., Fang, X., Gan, H., Holmes, S., Huang, H., Rollin, A., Tang, W."Arcsine laws for random walks generated from random permutations with applications to genomics", Electronic Journal of Probability Pekoz, E., Ross, S., Zeyu, Z."Dueling bandit problems", Mathematics of Operations Research Pekoz, E., Shwartz, M., Chan, J., O'Brien, W., Gupta, K., Strymish, J., Rosen, A."Feasibility of Surveying Frontline Providers to Estimate Harm-Based Weights for use in Creating a Composite Measure from Individual Quality Indicators", Health Services Research Pekoz, E., Ross, N., Rollin, A."Exponential and Laplace approximation for occupation statistics of branching random", Electronic Journal of Probability McKeague, I., Peköz, E., Swan, Y."Stein's method, many interacting worlds and quantum mechanics", SELECTED RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS Pekoz, E. Workshop on cryptocurrencies, Opal Alternative Investing Summit, Dana Point, CA, 2019 Pekoz, E. Workshop on cryptocurrencies, Opal Endowment and Foundation conference, Boston, MA, 2019 Pekoz, E. Arcsine laws for random walks generated from random permutations with applications to genomics, Columbia University Seminar for Mark Brown, Columbia University, 2019