Adele Cutler Ph.D.
Mathematics and Statistics
Emeritus Professor

Biography
My undergraduate degree is from the University of Auckland and my PhD is from UC Berkeley.
Teaching Interests
Introductory statistics for quantitative literacy. Statistical learning and data mining. Introduction to R. Statistical computing.
Research Interests
Data science, statistical learning, data mining, statistical computing, Random Forests, Archetypal Analysis.
Awards
Research Catalyst Award, 2009
Utah State University
College of Science Teacher of the Year, 1998
USU College of Science
Research Award, 1998
USU Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Teacher of the Year, 1998
USU Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Publications | Abstracts
- Wengreen, H., Corcoran, C.D, Cutler, A., Munger, R.G, Quach, A., Tschanz, J.T, Ward, R.E, (2012). Erythrocyte omega-3 fatty acid concentrations and cognitive function: The Cache County Study on Memory and Aging. Alzheimer’s & Dementia *
- Wengreen, H., Quach, A., Cutler, A., Munger, R.G, Corcoran, C.D, (2012). Whole-grain intake and risk of all-cause mortality among elderly men and women: the Cache, County Study on Memory, Health and Aging. The FASEB Journal *
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Books
- Cutler, A., Cutler, D., Stevens, J.R, (2012). Random Forests: Ensemble Machine Learning, Methods and Applications. Springer
- Cutler, A., Cutler, D., Stevens, J.R, (2009). Tree Based Methods: High-Dimensional Data Analysis in Oncology, Applied Bioinformatics and Biostatistics in Cancer Research. Springer
- Stevens, J.R, Cutler, A., (2006). Random Forests for Microarrays: DNA Microarrays, Part B: Databases and Statistics, (Methods in Enzymology). Academic Press
- Cutler, A., Corcoran, C.D, Toone, L., (2005). Bagging: Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science. Wiley & Sons *
- Cutler, A., (2005). Random Forests. Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science
Publications | Book Chapters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Gaona-Partida, P., Yeh, C., Sun, Y., Cutler, A., (2024). Random forests regression for soft interval data. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 1-20.
- Rhodes, J., Cutler, A., Moon, K., (2023). Geometry- and accuracy-preserving random forest proximities. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 45:9, 10947 - 10959.
- Zaman, T., Kulyukin, V.A, Cutler, A., (2016). Text Skew Detection in Printed Text Images Relying on 2D Haar Wavelets. Journal of Graphics, Vision and Image Processing (GVIP), 16:1, 41-50.
- Wengreen, H., Munger, R.G, Cutler, A., Quach, A., Bowles, A., Corcoran, C.D, Tschanz, J.T, Norton, M.C, Welsh-Bohmer, K., (2013). Prospective study of dietary approaches to stop hypertension- and mediterranean-style dietary patterns and age-related cognitive change: The Cache County Study on Memory, Health and Aging. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 98:5, 1263-1271. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.112.051276
- Cutler, A., (2010). Remembering Leo Breiman. Annals of Applied Statistics, 4:4, 1621–1633.
- Goldstein, B.A, Hubbard, A.E, Cutler, A., Barcellos, L.F, (2010). An application of Random Forests to a genome-wide association dataset: methodological considerations & new findings. BMC genetics, 11:1, 49.
- Cutler, D., Edwards, T.C, Beard, K.H, Cutler, A., Hess, K.T, Gibson, J., Lawler, J.J, (2007). Random Forests for Classification in Ecology. Ecology, 88:11, 2783-2792.
- Torres, A.R, Sweeten, T.L, Cutler, A., Bedke, B.J, Fillmore, M., Stubbs, E.G, Odell, D., (2006). The association and linkage of the HLA-A2 class I allele with autism. Human Immunology, 67:4-5, 346-351.
- Odell, D., Maciulis, A., Cutler, A., Warren, L., McMahon, W., Coon, H., Stubbs, G., Henley, K., Torres, A., (2005). Confirmation of the Association of the C4B Null Allele in Autism. Human Immunology, 66:2, 140-145.
- Truong, Y., Lin, X., Beecher, C., Cutler, A., Young, S., (2004). Learning a complex metabolomic dataset using random forests and support vector machines. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Xie, Y., Chou, L., Cutler, A., Weimer, B., (2004). Expression profiling Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis IL1403 during environmental stresses with DNA macroarray. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70:11, 6738-6747.
- Cutler, D., Brown, L., Powell, J.A, Bentz, B., Cutler, A., (2003). Identifying ‘Redtops’: Classification of Satellite Imagery for Tracking Mountain Pine Beetle Progression through a Pine Forest. Computing Science and Statistics, 35, 711–728.
- Xie, Y., Cutler, A., Weimer, B., Parfionovas, A., (2003). Statisical Methods for Spot Detection with Macroarray Data. Computing Science and Statistics, 35, 490–505.
- Torres, A.R, Maciulis, A., Stubbs, E.G, Lainhart, J., Cutler, A., Odell, J.D, (2002). The Transmission Disequilibrium Test suggests that HLA-DR4 is linked in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Human Immunology, 63:4, 311–316.
- Cutler, A., Zhao, G., (2001). PERT – Perfect Random Tree Ensembles. Computing Science and Statistics, 33, 490-497.
- Cutler, D., Cutler, A., (2000). Minimum Hellinger Distance Estimation for the Beta Distribution. Communications in Statistics, 29:7, 1487-1509.
- Stone, E., Cutler, A., (1996). Archetypal analysis of spatio-temporal dynamics. Physica D, 90, 209-224.
- Stone, E., Cutler, A., (1996). Introduction to archetypal analysis of spatio-temporal dynamics. Physica D, 96, 110-131.
- Cutler, A., Cordero–Brana, O., (1996). Minimum Hellinger Distance Estimation for Finite Mixture Models. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 91:436, 1716-1723.
- Cutler, A., Baritompa, W., (1994). Accelerations for Global Optimization Covering Methods Using Second Derivatives. The Journal of Global Optimiza- tion, 4, 329-341.
- Cutler, A., Breiman, L., (1994). Archetypal analysis. Technometrics, 36:4, 338-347.
- Cutler, A., (1993). A branch and bound algorithm for constrained least squares. Com- munications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 22:2, 305-321.
- Cutler, A., Breiman, L., (1993). A deterministic algorithm for global optimization. Mathematical Programming, 58:2, 179-199.
- Whindham, M., Cutler, A., (1992). Information Ratios for Validating Mixture Analysis. Am. Statistical Assoc, 87, 1–188.
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Technical Reports
Other Reports
- Moisen, G.G, Cutler, D., Cutler, A., (1990). Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Heteroscedastic Linear Models. Utah State University Department of Mathematics and Statistics Technical Report Series
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
Magazine/Trade Publications
- Cutler, D., Grange, E.V, Hampton, V.L, Cutler, A., Langdon, T.P, Ryan, M.T, (2005). Analysis of Factors Relating to Success on the CFP® Certification Examination. Financial Services Review
Other
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.