National Research Center for Statistics and the Environment

Technical Reports

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TRS number 82
A Hierarchical Bayes Model for Combining Precipitation Measurements from Different Sources
Tamre P. Cardoso and Peter Guttorp

TRS number 81
On the Whittle-Matern correlation family
Peter Guttorp and Tilmann Gneiting

TRS number 80
Using transforms to analyze space-time processes
Peter Guttorp, Montserrat Fuentes and Paul D. Sampson

TRS number 79
New Developments involving the Stream Health Index for the Puget Sound Lowland
Grace Chiu and Peter Guttorp

TRS number 78
Stream Health Index for the Puget Sound Lowland
Grace Chiu and Peter Guttorp

TRS number 77
Wavelet-Based Parameter Estimation for Trend Contaminated Fractionally Differenced Processes
Peter F. Craigmile, Peter Guttorp and Donald B. Percival

TRS number 76
Statistical assessment of numerical models
Montserrat Fuentes, Peter Guttorp and Peter Challenor

TRS number 75
Variance Modeling for Nonstationary Spatial Processes with Temporal Replications
Doris Damian, Paul D. Sampson and Peter Guttorp

TRS number 74
Environmental Statistics - A Personal View
Peter Guttorp

TRS number 73
A Recursive Algorithm for Markov Random Fields
Francesco Bertolucci and Julian Besag

TRS number 72
A Critique of Ecological Studies
Jonathan Wakefield

TRS number 71
Locating Nearby Sources of Air Pollution by Nonparametric Regression of Atmospheric Concentrations on Wind Direction
Ronald C. Henry, Yu-Shuo Chang and Clifford H. Spiegelman

TRS number 70
Modelling Daily Multivariate Pollutant Data at Multiple Sites
Gavin Shaddick and Jon Wakefield

TRS number 69
Stochastic models which separate fractal dimension and Hurst effect
Tilmann Gneiting and Martin Schlather

TRS number 68
Journal Quality, Effect Size and Publication Bias in Meta-analysis
Paul Murtaugh

TRS number 67
On Rejection Rates of Paired Intervention Analysis
Paul Murtaugh

TRS number 66
Comments on the Criteria Document for Particulate Matter Air Pollution
Richard Smith, Peter Guttorp, Lianne Sheppard, Thomas Lumley and Naomi Ishikawa

TRS number 65
Interpretation of North Pacific Variability as a Short and Long Memory Process
Donald B. Percival, James E. Overland and Harold O. Mofjeld

TRS number 64
A Markov Chain Model of Tornadic Activity
Caren Marzban and Peter Guttorp

TRS number 63
Nonseparable, Stationary Covariance Functions for Space-Time Data
Tilmann Gneiting

TRS number 62
Application of POMAC to the Multiobjective 0/1 Knapsack Problem
Rie Komuro and E. David Ford

TRS number 61
Advances in Modeling and Inference for Environmental Processes with Nonstationary Spatial Covariance
Paul Sampson, Doris Damian and Peter Guttorp

TRS number 60
Multivariate Receptor Models and Model Uncertainty
Eun Sug Park, Man-Suk Oh and Peter Guttorp

TRS number 59
Statistical Hypothesis Testing Formulations for U.S. Environmental Regulatory Standards for Ozone
Mary Lou Thompson, Lawrence H. Cox, Paul D. Sampson and David C. Caccia

TRS number 58
Bayesian Uncertainty Assessment in Deterministic Models for Environmental Risk Assessment
Samantha Bates, Adrian E. Raftery and Alison Cullen

TRS number 57
Simulating a Class of Stationary Gaussian Processes Using the Davies-Harte Algorithm, with Application to Long Memory Processes
Peter F. Craigmile

TRS number 56
Analogies and Correspondences Between Variograms and Covariance Functions
Tilmann Gneiting, Zolt�n Sasv�ri and Martin Schlather

TRS number 55
Influence of Large Scale Circulation Measures on Precipitation at Local Stations in the South East of the US
Claudia Tebaldi

TRS number 54
Estimating the Association Between Ambient Particulate Matter and Elderly Mortality in Phoenix and Seattle Using Bayesian Model Averaging
Erin M. Sullivan

TRS number 53
The Method of Synthesis in Ecology
E. David Ford and Hiroaki Ishii

TRS number 52
Limitations to Empirical Extrapolation Studies: The Case of BMD ratios
Kevin P. Brand, Paul J. Catalano, James K. Hammitt, Lorenz Rhomberg and John S. Evans

TRS number 51
Compositional Receptor Modeling
Dean Billheimer

TRS number 50
A Comparison on Consistency of Parameter Estimation Using Optimization Methods for a Mixture
Marianne C. Turley and E. David Ford

TRS number 49
The Impact of Wavelet Coefficient Correlations on Fractionally Differenced Process Estimation
Peter F. Craigmile, Donald B. Percival and Peter Guttorp

TRS number 48
Setting environmental standards: A statistician's perspective
Peter Guttorp

TRS number 47
Wavelet-Based Parameter Estimation for Trend Contaminated Fractionally Differenced Processes
Peter F. Craigmile, Donald B. Percival and Peter Guttorp
Replaced by TRS number 77

TRS number 46
ORCA: A Visualization Toolkit for High-Dimensional Data
Peter Sutherland, Anthony Rossini, Thomas Lumley, Nicholas Lewin-Koh, Dianne Cook, Zach Cox

TRS number 45
Compactly Supported Correlation Functions
Tilmann Gneiting

TRS number 44
Developing an Efficient Surveillance Scheme for Assessing Compliance with Air Quality Standards
Ronit Nirel

TRS number 43
Multivariate Receptor Modeling for Temporally Correlated Data by Using MCMC
Eun Sug Park, Peter Guttorp and Ronald C. Henry

TRS number 42
Quality Assurance of Environmental Models
Alice Shelly, E. David Ford and Bruce Beck

TRS number 41
Statistical Issues in the Study of Air Pollution Involving Airborne Particulate Matter
Lawrence H. Cox

TRS number 40
Effects of Ambient Fine and Coarse Particles On Mortality In Phoenix, Arizona
Merlise A. Clyde, Peter Guttorp and Erin Sullivan

TRS number 39
Bayesian Estimation of Semi-Parametric Non-Stationary Spatial Covariance Structures
Doris Damian, Paul D. Sampson and Peter Guttorp

TRS number 38
Mathematical Background for Wavelet Estimators of Cross-Covariance and Cross-Correlation
Brandon Whitcher, Peter Guttorp and Donald B. Percival

TRS number 37
MCMC in I x J x K contingency tables
Florentina Bunea and Julian Besag

TRS number 36
Ecological Indices and Graphical Modeling of Factors Influencing Benthic Populations in Streams
Florentina Bunea, Peter Guttorp and Thomas Richardson

TRS number 35
Estimating Short-term PM Effects Accounting for Surrogate Exposure Measurements from Ambient Monitors
Lianne Sheppard and Doris Damian

TRS number 34
Determining the Number of Major Pollution Sources in Multivariate Air Quality Receptor Models
Eun Sug Park, Ronald C. Henry and Clifford H. Spiegelman

TRS number 33
Interpolating Vancouver's Daily Ambient PM10 Field
Li Sun, James V. Zidek, Nhu D. Le and Haluk Ozkaynak

TRS number 32
Environmental Statistics
Peter Guttorp

TRS number 31
Bias in the Case--Crossover Design: Implications for Studies of Air Pollution
Thomas Lumley and Drew Levy

TRS number 30
Assessing Seasonal Confounding and Model Selection Bias in Air Pollution Epidemiology Using Positive and Negative Control Analyses
Thomas Lumley and Lianne Sheppard

TRS number 29
Timing and Scope of Emission Reductions for Airborn Particulate Matter: A Simplified Model
Michael J. Phelan

TRS number 28
A Poisson Process Approach for Recurrent Event Data with Environmental Covariates
Anup Dewanji and Suresh H. Moolgavkar

TRS number 27
Model Uncertainty and Health Effect Studies for Particulate Matter
Merlise Clyde

TRS number 26
A review of statistical methods for the meteorological adjustment of tropospheric ozone (Revised)
Mary Lou Thompson, Joel Reynolds, Lawrence H. Cox, Peter Guttorp and Paul D. Sampson

TRS number 25
Meteorological Adjustment of Chicago, Illinois, Regional Surface Ozone Observations with investigation of Trends
Joel H. Reynolds, David Caccia, Paul D. Sampson and Peter Guttorp

TRS number 24
Wavelet analysis of covariance with application to atmospheric time series
Brandon Whitcher, Peter Guttorp and Donald Percival

TRS number 23
A Comparison of Methods for Measuring Water Clarity
E. Ashley Steel and Steve Neuhauser

TRS number 22
Examination of U.S. Environmental Regulatory Criteria for Ozone from a Statistical Perspective
Lawrence H. Cox

TRS number 21
A hidden Markov model for downscaling synoptic atmospheric patterns to precipitation amounts
Enrica Bellone, James P. Hughes, Peter Guttorp

TRS number 20
Identifiablility for Non-Stationary Spatial Structure
Olivier Perrin and Wendy Meiring

TRS number 19
Bilinear estimation of pollution source profiles in receptor models
Eun Sug Park, Clifford H. Spiegelman and Ronald C. Henry

TRS number 18
Operational Evaluation of Air Quality Models
Peter Guttorp and Paul D. Sampson

TRS number 17
Ranked Set Sampling for Ecological Research: Accounting for the Total Costs of Sampling
Nicolle A. Mode, Loveday L. Conquest and David A. Marker

TRS number 16
A Preliminary Statistical Examination of the Effects of Uncertainty and Variability on Environmental Regulatory Criteria for Ozone
Lawrence H. Cox, Peter Guttorp, Paul D. Sampson, David C. Caccia and Mary Lou Thompson

TRS number 15
Meteorological Adjustment of Western Washington and Northwest Oregon Surface Ozone Observations with investigation of Trends
Joel H. Reynolds, Barnali Das, Paul D. Sampson and Peter Guttorp

TRS number 14
Modeling Juvenile Salmon Migration Using a Simple Markov Chain
E. Ashley Steel and Peter Guttorp

TRS number 12
Environmental Health Policy Decisions. The Role of Uncertainty in Economic Analysis
Michael J. Phelan.

TRS number 11
Statistical Analysis and Interpretation of Discrete Compositional Data
Dean Billheimer, Peter Guttorp, and William F. Fagan

TRS number 10
Multi-Criteria Assessment of Ecological Process Models
Joel H. Reynolds and E. David Ford

TRS number 9
Testing for Homogeneity of Variance in Time Series: Long Memory, Wavelets and the Nile River
Brandon Whitcher, Simon D. Byers, Peter Guttorp and Donald B. Percival

TRS number 8
On the Validity and Identifiability of Spatial Deformation Models for Heterogeneous Spatial Correlation Structure
W. Meiring, P. Guttorp and Paul D. Sampson

TRS number 7
Space-time Estimation of Grid-cell Hourly Ozone Levels for Assessment of a Deterministic Model
W. Meiring, P. Guttorp, and P. D. Sampson

TRS number 6
Computational Issues in Fitting Spatial Deformation Models for Heterogeneous Spatial Correlation
W. Meiring, P. Guttorp, and P. D. Sampson

TRS number 5
Modelling Risk from a Disease in Time and Space
Leonhard Knorr-Held and Julian Besag

TRS number 4
A Nonhomogeneous Hidden Markov Model for Precipitation
J. P. Hughes, P. Guttorp, and S. P. Charles

TRS number 3
Discussion of the paper by Carroll et al
P. Guttorp, W. Meiring, and P. D. Sampson

TRS number 2
Analysis of Spokane CO data
Peter Guttorp

TRS number 1
Natural variability of benthic species in the Delaware Bay
D. Billheimer, T. Cardoso, E. Freeman, P. Guttorp, H.W. Ko and M. Silkey