32th Spring Lecture Series, University of Arkansas

Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Statistics

Fayetteville, April 12-14, 2007


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April 12 - 14, 2007

The Center for Continuing Education

2 East Center St, Fayetteville, AR 72701

 

Thursday, April 12, 2007

 

Morning Session Chair: Giovanni Petris 

Afternoon Session Chair: Victor DeOliveira

 

8:00-8:45am

Registration

8:45-9:00am

Welcome by Department Chair

9:00-10:00am

Principal Lecture #1: Noel Cressie

Spatial Statistics in the Presence of Location Error

10:00-10:45am

Invited Speaker: Victor DeOliveria

Objective Bayesian Analysis of Spatial Data with Measurement Error

10:45-11:00pm

Break

11:00-12:00pm

Contributed Session #1

1.      Sujit Sahu: High Resolution Space-Time Ozone Modeling

2.      Ali Arab: Semiparametric Zero-Inflated Poisson Models for Spatio-Temporal Environmental Processes

3.       Murali Haran: Crop disease: Estimating the risk of an FHB epidemic

 

12:00-1:30pm

Lunch

1:30-2:30pm

Principal Lecture #2: Noel Cressie

Modeling Dynamic Controls on Ice Streams: A Bayesian Statistical Approach

2:30-3:15pm

Invited Speaker: Alan Gelfand

Stochastic Space-Time Modelling Using Differential Equations

3:15-3:30pm

Break

3:30-4:15pm

Invited Speaker: James Zidek

Using a Multivariate Approach to Model Univariate Environmental Space Time Processes

4:15-5:15pm

Contributed Session #2

1.     Ateq Al-Ghamedi: Variance of Trimmed Mean for Symmetric Stable Distributions

2.     Dan Nordman: An Empirical Likelihood Method for Variogram Inference

3.     Gavino Puggioni: Spatio-temporal modeling using Stochastic Differential Equations

 

7:15-9:15pm

Poster Session

 

 

 

Friday, April 13, 2007

 

Morning Session Chair: Hedibert Lopes

Afternoon Session Chair: Sujit Ghosh

 

 

9:00-10:00am

Principal Lecture #3: Noel Cressie

Relating Rates in Space through Hierarchical Statistical Modeling

10:00-10:45am

Invited Speaker: Marc Genton

Modeling and Testing Properties of Space-Time Covariance Functions

10:45-11:00am

Break

11:00-12:00pm

Contributed Session #3

1.      Petrutza Caragea: Exploring Dependence with Spatial Lattice Data

2.      Gentry White: A spline based conditionally autoregressive model for spatial data

3.      Ranga Vatsavai: Comparison of MRF and SAR Models for Multi-class Classification of Remote Sensing Imagery

 

12:00-1:30pm

Lunch

1:30-2:30pm

Principal Lecture #4: Noel Cressie

Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Satellite Data Processing

2:30-3:15pm

Invited Speaker: Christopher Wikle

Nonlinear Spatio-Temporal Dynamic Models

3:15-3:30pm

Break

3:30-4:15pm

Invited Speaker: Jay Ver Hoef

Space-Time Zero-Inflated Count Models of Harbor Seals

4:15-5:15pm

Contributed Session #4

1.      Hedibert Lopes: Spatial Dynamic Factor Models

2.      Gunter Spoeck: Noninformative Priors with special Application to Spatial Prediction

3.      Mevin Hooten: Characterizing invasions with hierarchical rule-based systems

 

6:00-10:00pm

Conference Dinner (Ozark Mountain Smokehouse, 215 West Dickson, Fayetteville, AR, 479-442-2154)

 

 

 

Saturday, April 14, 2007

 

Morning Session Chair: Jeffery Picka

Afternoon Session Chair: Murali Haran

 

 

9:00-10:00am

Principal Lecture #5: Noel Cressie

Loss-Based Prediction of Spatial Exceedances of Spatial Exceedances and Spatial Exceedance Regions

10:00-10:45am

Invited Speaker: Jun Zhu

Markov Chain Monte Carlo for a Spatial-Temporal Autologistic Regression Model

10:45-11:00am

Break

11:00-11:45pm

Invited Speaker: Sujit Ghosh

A Class of Kernel-Based Conditionally Autoregressive Models for Spatial Data

11:45-1:30pm

Lunch

1:30-2:15pm

Invited Speaker: Richard Smith

Extreme Precipitation Trends over the Continental United States

2:15-3:15pm

Contributed Session #5

1.     Richard Gunst: Spatial Modeling and Analysis of SPECT Brain Imaging Data

2.     Jeffery Picka: Classification of Non-Poisson-Based Random Patterns

3.     Michael Porter: Anomaly Detection in Space-Time (and higher dimensional) Point Processes

 

 

Poster Session:

1.     Dipankar Bandyopadhyay: Bayesian modeling of multivariate spatial binary data: application to dental epidemiology

2.     Wassim Kamoun: Comparing Switching Model and Space-Time Autoregressive Model for Forecasting Ozone Concentration

3.     Jong-Min Kim: Application of Spatial Copula

4.     Jiexiang Li: Hazard rate estimation on random fields

5.     Andy Radomski: Spatio-temporal movement patterns of wintering Double-crested Cormorants in the southeastern states

6.     Brain Reich: A multivariate semiparametric Bayesian spatial modelling framework for hurricane surface wind fields

7.     Changxiang Rui: Point and Block Prediction in Log-Gaussian Random Fields:  The Non-Constant Mean Case