2007: Environmental and Environmental Health Statistics

January 12-13, 2007

The Department of Statistics at the University of Florida will host its Ninth Annual Winter Workshop:  Workshop on Environmental and Environmental Health Statistics. The workshop is dedicated to exploring emerging statistical methods for analyzing and interpreting data related to pressing environmental problems. There will be twelve invited talks by leading statistical researchers.  Tentative topics include extreme value theory as applied to hurricane winds; point process modeling of fire outbreaks; spatial modeling of environmental health data; causal inference in studies of disease risk; and, using dirichlet processes to model precipitation.

2007 Conference Program (PDF)

Invited Speakers – Abstracts

Francesca Dominici, Johns Hopkins University – Dominici Abstract
James Elsner, Florida State University – Elsner Abstract
Alan Gelfand, Duke University – Gelfand Abstract
Marc Genton, Texas A&M University – Genton Abstract
Peter Guttorp, University of Washington – Guttorp Abstract
Tom Lumley, University of Washington – Lumley Abstract
Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research – Nychka Abstract
Walt Piegorsch, University of Arizona – Piegorsch Abstract
Richard Smith, University of North Carolina – Smith Abstract
Paul Switzer, Stanford University – Switzer Abstract
Mark van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley – van der Laan Abstract

Organizers

Mary Christman, Babette Brumback, Mike Daniels, Yongsung Joo, and Xueli Liu

Conference Photo