This is the program for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Activity Details

82 Sun, 8/1/2010, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-14 (East)
Methodological Advances for Environmental Modeling — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics and the Environment
Chair(s): Mark C. Otto, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
4:05 PM A Power Comparison of Generalized Additive Models and the Spatial Scan Statistic in a Case-Control Setting Robin Young, Boston University ; Janice Weinberg, Boston University ; Veronica Vieira, Boston University ; Al Ozonoff, Boston University School of Public Health ; Thomas Webster, Boston University
4:20 PM Bayesian Empirical Orthogonal Function Method and Its Application Yiping Dou, The University of British Columbia ; Nhu Le, BC Cancer Agency ; Jim Zidek, The University of British Columbia
4:35 PM Nonparametric Variogram Estimation on the Sphere Chunfeng Huang, Indiana University ; Haimeng Zhang, Mississippi State University ; Scott Robeson, Indiana University
4:50 PM Dimension-Reduced Approach to Modeling of Two Interdependent Space-Time Processes Jenny Brynjarsdottir, The Ohio State University ; L. Mark Berliner, The Ohio State University
5:05 PM Semiparametric Estimation and Selection for Nonstationary Spatial Covariance Functions Nan-Jung Hsu, National Tsing-Hua University ; Hsin-Cheng Huang, Academia Sinica ; Ya-Mei Chang, CSIRO
5:20 PM Reporting Meaningful Environmental Data Barry D. Nussbaum, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
5:35 PM Floor Discussion



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