Alan E. Gelfand, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Contact Info:

223A Old Chem Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

alan@stat.duke.edu

Personal Web Page:

http://www.stat.duke.edu/~alan

Education:

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1969

M.S., Stanford University, 1967

B.S., City College of New York, 1965

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. A.E. Gelfand (with P. Diggle, M. Fuentes, P. Guttorp). The Handbook of Spatial Statistics.. Chapman Hall (forthcoming), 2009.
2. A.E. Gelfand (with Clark, J.S.). Hierarchical Modeling for Environmental Data; Some applications and Perspectives.. Oxford University Press., 2006.
3. A.E. Gelfand (with S. Banerjee and B.P. Carlin). Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Spatial Data. Chapman Hall, Boca Raton., 2004.
4. Gelfand, AE; Latimer, A; Wu, S; Silander Jr, JA. "Building Statistical Models to Analyze Species Distributions." Ecological Applications 16.1 (2006): 33-50. [doi]  [abs]
5. Gelfand, AE; Kottas, A; Maceachern, SN. "Bayesian nonparametric spatial modeling with dirichlet process mixing." Journal of the American Statistical Association 100.471 (September, 2005): 1021-1035. [doi]  [abs]
6. Majumdar, A; Gelfand, AE; Banerjee, S. "Spatio-temporal change-point modeling." Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 130.1-2 (March, 2005): 149-166. [doi]  [abs]
7. Agarwal, DK; Gelfand, AE. "Slice sampling for simulation based fitting of spatial data models." Statistics and Computing 15.1 (January, 2005): 61-69. [doi]  [abs]
8. Gelfand, AE; Short, M; Carlin, BP. "Covariate-adjusted Spatial CDF's for Air Pollutant Data." Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics 10 (2005): 259-275.
9. Gelfand, AE; Agarwal, D; Silander, J; Mickelson, J; Dewar, R. "Relating Tropical Deforestation and Population Pressure through spatially Explicit Misaligned Bivariate Regression Models." Ecological Modelling 185 (2005): 105-131.
10. Gelfand, AE; Valenti, J; Wu, S; Sirmans, CF. "Apartment Rent Predictions Using Spatial Modeling." Journal of Real Estate Research 27.27 (2005): 1, 105-136.
11. Gelfand, AE; Banerjee, S; Gamerman, D. "Spatial Process Modelling for Univariate and Multivariate Dynamic spatial Data." Environmetrics 16.16 (2005): 1-15. [doi]  [abs]
12. Gelfand, AE; Schmidt, AM; Wu, S; Silander, JA; Latimer, A; Rebelo, AG. "Explaining Species diversity Through species Level Hierarchical Modeling.." Applied Statistics 65 (2005): 1-20.
13. Gelfand, AE; Silander Jr, JA; Wu, S; Latimer, A; Lewis, PO; Rebelo, AG; Holder, M. "Explaining Species Distribution Patterns Through Hierarchical Modeling." Bayesian Analysis 1.1 (2005): 1; 41-92. [doi]  [abs]
14. Latimer, AM; Silander, JA; Gelfand, AE; Rebelo, AG; Richardson, DM. "Quantifying threats to biodiversity from invasive alien plants and other factors: A case study from the Cape Floristic Region." South African Journal of Science 100.1-2 (January, 2004): 81-86.  [abs]
15. Gelfand, AE; Schmidt, AM; Banerjee, S; Sirmans, CF. "Nonstationary Multivariate Process Modelling through Spatially Varying Coregionalization (with discussion)." Test 13 (2004): 2; 1-50.
16. Gelfand, AE. "Discussion to: Statistical Research: Some Advice for Beginners." The American Statistician 58 (2004): 197-199.
17. Gelfand, AE; Banerjee, S; Knight, JR; Sirmans, CF. "Nonstationary Spatial Modeling through Normalized Distance-Weighted Sums of Stationary Processes." Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 22 (2004): 206-213.
18. Gelfand, AE; Ecker, MD; Knight, JR; Sirmans, CF. "The Dynamics of Location in Home Price." Journal of Real Estate and Financial Economics 29.29 (2004): 149-166. [doi]  [abs]
19. Banerjee, S; Gelfand, AE; Sirmans, CF. "Directional Rates of Change under Spatial Process Models." Journal of the American Statistical Association 98.464 (December, 2003): 946-954. [doi]  [abs]
20. Zhu, L; Carlin, BP; Gelfand, AE. "Hierarchical regression with misaligned spatial data: Relating ambient ozone and pediatric asthma ER visits in Atlanta." Environmetrics 14.5 (August, 2003): 537-557. [doi]  [abs]
21. Vlachos, PK; Gelfand, AE. "On the calibration of Bayesian model choice criteria." Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 111.1-2 (February, 2003): 223-234. [doi]  [abs]
22. Trevisani, M; Gelfand, AE. "Inequalities between expected marginal log-likelihoods, with implications for likelihood-based model complexity and comparison measures." Canadian Journal of Statistics 31.3 (January, 2003): 239-250. [doi]  [abs]
23. Gelfand, AE; Kottas, A. "Bayesian Semiparametric Regression for Median Residual Life." Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 30.4 (January, 2003): 651-665. [doi]  [abs]
24. Banerjee, S; Gelfand, AE. "On smoothness properties of spatial processes." Journal of Multivariate Analysis 84.1 (January, 2003): 85-100. [doi]  [abs]
25. Vounatsou, P; Smith, T; Gelfand, AE. "Spatial modelling of gene frequencies in the presence of undetectable alleles." Journal of Applied Statistics 30.1 (January, 2003): 49-62. [doi]  [abs]
26. Gelfand, AE; Vounatsou, P. "Proper multivariate conditional autoregressive models for spatial data analysis.." Biostatistics (Oxford, England) 4.1 (January, 2003): 11-25. [doi]  [abs]
27. Gelfand, A.E.. "Some Comments on Model Criticism." Highly Structured Stochastic Systems (2003): 449-453.
28. Gelfand, A.E., P. Vlachos. "On the Calibration of Bayesian Model Choice Criteria." Journal of Satistical Planning and Inference 111 (2003): 223-234.
29. Gelfand, AE; Kim, HJ; Sirmans, CF; Banerjee, S. "Spatial Modeling with spatially varying Coefficient Processes." Journal of the American Statistical Association 98.98 (2003): 387-396. [doi]  [abs]
30. Gelfand, AE; Fu, R; Holsinger, K. "Exact Moment Calculations for Genetic Models." Journal of Theoretical Population Biology 63 (2003): 231-243.
31. Gelfand, AE; Schmidt, AM. "A Bayesian Coregionalization Approach for Multivariate Pollutant Data." Journal of Geophysical Research Atmosphere.108 (2003): D24, 8783. [doi]  [abs]
32. Gelfand, AE; Ecker, MD. "Spatial Modeling and Prediction Under Range Anisotropy." Environmental and Ecological Statistics 10 (2003): 165-178.
33. Kottas, A; Branco, MD; Gelfand, AE. "A nonparametric Bayesian modeling approach for cytogenetic dosimetry.." Biometrics 58.3 (September, 2002): 593-600. [doi]  [abs]
34. Agarwal, DK; Gelfand, AE; Silander, JA. "Investigating tropical deforestation using two-stage spatially misaligned regression models." Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 7.3 (September, 2002): 420-439. [doi]  [abs]
35. Gelfand, A; Kottas, A. "A Computational Approach for Full Nonparametric Bayesian Inference in Single and Multiple Sample Problems." Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 114 (2002): 289-305.
36. Gelfand, AE; Carlin, CP; Mugglin, AS; Zhu, L. "Modeling spatiotemporally misaligned areal and point process environmental data.." Quantitative Methods for Current Environmental Issues 1 (2002): 150-151.
37. Sfiridis, J; Gelfand, A. "A survey of sampling-based Bayesian analysis of financial data." Applied Mathematical Finance 9.4 (2002): 273-291. [doi]  [abs]
38. Gelfand, AE; Clapp, JM; Kim, HJ. "Spatial Prediction of House Prices Using LPR and Bayesian Smoothing." Real Estate Economics 30 (2002).
39. Gelfand, A; Agarwal, D; Pousty, S. "Zero-inflated regression models for spatial count data." Environmental and Ecological Statistics (2002).
40. Gelfand, A; Banerjee, S. "Prediction, interpolation and regression for spatially misaligned data points." Sankhya A 64 (2002): 227-245.
41. Gelfand, A; Trevisani, M. "Discussion to "Bayesian measures of model complexity and fit." J. Royal Statistical Soc. B (2002): 631.
42. Gelfand, A; Wang, F. "A simulation based approach to sample size determination under a given model and for separating models." Statistical Science 17.2 (2002): 193-208. [doi]  [abs]
43. Gelfand, AE; Kottas, A. "Nonparametric Bayesian modeling for stochastic order." Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 53.4 (December, 2001): 865-876. [doi]  [abs]
44. Kottas, A; Gelfand, AE. "Bayesian semiparametric median regression modeling." Journal of the American Statistical Association 96.456 (December, 2001): 1458-1468. [doi]  [abs]
45. Gelfand, AE; Carlin, BP; Trevisani, M. "On computation using Gibbs sampling for multilevel models." Statistica Sinica 11.4 (October, 2001): 981-1003.  [abs]
46. Gelfand, A; Zhu, L; Carlin, BP. "On the Change of Support Problem for Spatio-Temporal Data." Biostatistics 20 (2001): 31-45.
47. Gelfand, A; Kottas, A. "Modeling Variability Order: A Semiparametric Bayesian Approach." Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 31 (2001): 427-442.
48. Gelfand, A; Carlin, BP; Zhu, L. "Accommodating Scale Misalignment In Spatio-Temporal Data In: Bayesian Methods with Applications to Science." Policy and Official Statistics (2001): 81-90.
49. Gelfand, AE. "Gibbs Sampling." Journal of the American Statistical Association 95.452 (December, 2000): 1300-1304. (Reprinted in Statistics In the 21st Century, Edited by A.E. Raftery, M.A. Tanner and M.T. Wells, Chapman and Hall/CRC 2001, 341-350) [doi]
50. Christiansen, CL; Wang, F; Barton, MB; Kreuter, W; Elmore, JG; Gelfand, AE; Fletcher, SW. "Predicting the cumulative risk of false-positive mammograms.." Journal of the National Cancer Institute 92.20 (October, 2000): 1657-1666. [doi]  [abs]
51. Banerjee, S; Gelfand, AE; Polasek, W. "Geostatistical modelling for spatial interaction data with application to postal service performance." Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 90.1 (September, 2000): 87-105. [doi]  [abs]
52. Gelfand, A; Ghosh, SK; Christiansen, C; Soumerai, SB; McLaughlin, TJ. "Proportional Hazards Models: A Latent Risks Approach." Applied Statistics 49.3 (2000): 385-397. [doi]  [abs]
53. Gelfand, AE; Wang, F. "Modelling the cumulative risk for a false-positive under repeated screening events." Statistics in Medicine 19.14 (2000): 1865-1879. [doi]  [abs]
54. Gelfand, A; Mugglin, A; Carlin, BP. "Fully Model Based Approaches for Misaligned Spatial Data." Journal American Statistical Association 95.451 (2000): 877-887.  [abs]
55. Gelfand, A; Vounatsou, P; Smith, T. "Modeling of Multinominal data with latent structure: application to geographical mapping of human gene and haplotype frequencies." Biostatistics 10 (2000): 177-189.
56. Gelfand, A. "Discussion to Bayesian Backfitting." Statistical Science 15.3 (2000): 217-218.
57. Gelfand, A; Ecker, MD; Christiansen, C; Soumerai, SB; McLaughlin, TJ. "Conditional Categorical Response Models with Application to Treatment Compliance for and Survival of AMI Patients." Applied Statistics 49 (2000): 171-186.
58. Gelfand, A; Sahu, S. "Gibbs Sampling, Identifiability and Improper Priors in Generalized Linear Mixed Models." Journal American Statistical Association 94.445 (1999): 247-253.  [abs]
59. Carlin, BP; Kadane, JB; Gelfand, AE. "Approaches for optimal sequential decision analysis in clinical trials.." Biometrics 54.3 (September, 1998): 964-975. [doi]  [abs]
60. Knight, JR; Sirmans, CF; Gelfand, AE; Ghosh, SK. "Analyzing real estate data problems using the Gibbs sampler." Real Estate Economics 26.3 (January, 1998): 469-492. [doi]  [abs]
61. Gelfand, AE; Ghosh, SK; Knight, JR; Sirmans, CF. "Spatio-temporal modeling of residential sales data." Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 16.3 (January, 1998): 312-321. [doi]  [abs]
62. Gelfand, AE; Ghosh, SK. "Model choice: A minimum posterior predictive loss approach." Biometrika 85.1 (January, 1998): 1-11. [doi]  [abs]
63. Gelfand, AE; Dey, D; Swartz, T; Vlachos, P. "Simulation Based Model Checking for Hierarchical Models." Test 7.2 (1998): 325-346.  [abs]
64. Gelfand, AE; Ecker, MD. "Modeling and Inference for Geometrically Anisotropic Spatial Data." Mathematical Geology 31 (1998): 67-83.
65. Gelfand, AE; Ghosh, SK. "Latent Waiting Time Models for Bivariate Event Times with Censoring." Sankhya B 60 (1998): 31-47.
66. Gelfand, AE; Ghosh, SK. "A Latent Risk Approach for Modeling Individual Level Data Consisting of Multiple Event Times." Journal of Statistical Research 32 (1998): 23-39.
67. Dey, DK; Gelfand, AE; Peng, F. "Overdispersed generalized linear models." Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 64.1 (October, 1997): 93-107. [doi]  [abs]
68. Gelfand, AE; Mallick, BK; Polasek, W. "Broken biological size relationships: A truncated semiparametric regression approach with measurement error." Journal of the American Statistical Association 92.439 (September, 1997): 836-845. [doi]  [abs]
69. Waller, LA; Carlin, BP; Xia, H; Gelfand, AE. "Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Mapping of Disease Rates." Journal of the American Statistical Association 92.438 (June, 1997): 607-617. [doi]  [abs]
70. Mukhopadhyay, S; Gelfand, AE. "Dirichlet Process Mixed Generalized Linear Models." Journal of the American Statistical Association 92.438 (June, 1997): 633-639. [doi]  [abs]
71. Ecker, MD; Gelfand, AE. "Bayesian Variogram Modeling for an Isotropic Spatial Process." Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 2.4 (January, 1997): 347-369. [doi]  [abs]
72. Mallick, BK; Gelfand, AE. "Semiparametric errors-in-variables models: A Bayesian approach." Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 52.3 (July, 1996): 307-321. [doi]  [abs]
73. Gelfand, AE; Vlachos, P. "Issues in Bayesian Clinical Trial Design for Categorical Endpoint Models." Proceedings of the Biometrics Section (1996).
74. Gelfand, AE; Sfiridis, J. "Bayesian Analysis of Financial Event Study Data." Advances in Econometrics 11 (1996): 25-62.
75. Gelfand, AE. "Discussion to Empirical methods for combining likelihoods." J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 91.434 (1996): 551-552. [doi]
76. Gelfand, AE; Sahu, SK; Carlin, BP. "Efficient parametrisations for normal linear mixed models." Biometrika 82.3 (September, 1995): 479-488. [doi]  [abs]
77. Gelfand, AE; Mukhopadhyay, S. "On Nonparametric Bayesian Inference for the Distribution of a Random Sample." Canadian Journal of Statistics 23.4 (1995): 411-420. [doi]  [abs]
78. Gelfand, AE; Carlin, BP. "Comment on Bayesian Computation and Stochastic Systems." Statistical Science 10.1 (1995): 43-46. [doi]
79. Gelfand, AE; Mallick, B. "Bayesian analysis of semiparametric proportional hazards models." Biometrics 51.3 (1995): 843-852. [doi]  [abs]
80. Geland, AE; Mallic, B; Dey, D. "Modeling expert opinion: likelihoods under incomplete probabilistic specification." J. Amer Statist. Assoc. 90.430 (1995): 598-604. [doi]  [abs]
81. Gelfand, AE; Sahu, S. "On Markov chain Monte Carlo acceleration." Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 3.3 (1995): 261-276. [doi]  [abs]
82. Gelfand, AE; Mallick, B. "Discussion to Assessment and Propagation of Model Uncertainty." J. Royal Stat. Soc. B 57 (1995): 82-83.
83. Mallick, BK; Gelfand, AE. "Generalized linear models with unknown link functions." Biometrika 81.2 (June, 1994): 237-245. [doi]  [abs]
84. Gelfand, AE; Pai, J; Ravishanker, N. "Bayesian analysis of concurrent time series with application to regional IBM revenue data." Journal of Forecasting 13.5 (1994): 463-479. [doi]  [abs]
85. Gelfand, AE; Dey, D. "Bayesian model choice: asymptotic and exact calculations." Journal Royal Statistical Society B 56 (1994): 501-514.
86. Carlin, BP; Gelfand, AE. "Parametric likelihood inference for record breaking problems." Biometrika 80.3 (September, 1993): 507-515. [doi]  [abs]
87. Gelfand, AE; Carlin, B. "Meximum likelihood estimation for constrained or missing data models." Canadian Journal of Statistics 21.3 (1993): 303-311. [doi]  [abs]
88. Gelfand, AE. "Discussion to Approximate Bayesian Inference with the Weighted Likelihood Bootstrap." J. Royal Statistical Society B 56 (1993): 36-37.
89. Gelfand, AE; Racine Poon, A; Smith, AFM; Wakefield, J. "Bayesian analysis of population models using the Gibbs sampler." Applied Statistics 43 (1993): 201-221.
90. Gelfand, AE. "Discussion to "Inference from Iterative Simulation using Multiple Sequences" and "Practical Markov Chain Monte Carlo"." Statistical Science 7 (1993): 486-487.
91. Gelfand, AE. "Discussion to the papers of Smith and Roberts, Besag and Green, and Gilks et al.." J. Royal Statistical Society B 55 (1993): 70-71.
92. Gelfand, AE. "Discussion to Constrained Monte Carlo maximum likelihood for dependent data." Journal Royal Statistical Society B 54 (1992): 690-691.
93. Gelfand, AE; Lange, N; Carlin, B. "Hierarchical Bayes models for the progression of HIV infection using longitudinal CD4+ counts (with discussion)." Journal Amer. Stat. Assoc. 87.419 (1992): 615-632. (JASA applications paper of the year) [doi]  [abs]
94. Gelfand, AE; Smith, AFM; Lee, TM. "Bayesian analysis of constrained parameter and truncated data problems." Journal Amer. Stat. Assoc. 87.418 (1992): 523-532. [doi]  [abs]
95. Gelfand, AE; Smith, AFM. "Bayesian statistics without tears: a sampling-resampling perspective." American Statistician 46.2 (1992): 84-88. [doi]  [abs]
96. Gelfand, ; E, A; Glaz, J; Kuo, L; Lee, T-M. "Inference for the maximum cell probability under multinomial sampling." Naval Research Logistics 39.1 (1992): 97-114. [doi]  [abs]
97. Gelfand, AE; Crabtree, B; Zyzanski, S; Miller, WL; O'Connor, PJ; Winsemius, D. "Data analysis in primary care research: log linear models." Family Medicine 24.2 (1992): 145-151.  [abs]
98. Gelfand, AE; Carlin, B; Smith, AFM. "Hierarchical Bayesian analysis of change point problems." Applied Statistics 41 (1992): 389-405.
99. Wakefield, JC; Gelfand, AE; Smith, AFM. "Efficient generation of random variates via the ratio-of-uniforms method." Statistics and Computing 1.2 (December, 1991): 129-133. [doi]  [abs]
100. Carlin, BP; Gelfand, AE. "An iterative Monte Carlo method for nonconjugate Bayesian analysis." Statistics and Computing 1.2 (December, 1991): 119-128. [doi]  [abs]
101. Gelfand, AE; Kuo, L. "Nonparametric Bayesian bioassay including ordered polytomous response." Biometrika 78.3 (September, 1991): 657-666. [doi]  [abs]
102. Gelfand, AE; Smith, AFM. "Gibbs sampling for marginal posterior expectations." Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods 20.5 and 6 (1991): 1747-1766. [doi]  [abs]
103. Gelfand, AE; Hills, SE; Racine-Poon, A; Smith, AFM. "Illustration of Bayesian Inference in Normal Data Models Using Gibbs Sampling." Journal of the American Statistical Association 85.412 (December, 1990): 972-972. [doi]  [abs]
104. Gelfand, AE; Dalal, SR. "A note on overdispersed exponential families." Biometrika 77.1 (December, 1990): 55-64. [doi]  [abs]
105. Gelfand, AE; Smith, AFM. "Sampling-based approaches to calculating marginal densities." Journal of the American Statistical Association 85.410 (January, 1990): 398-409. (Reprinted in "Breakthroughs in Statistics") [doi]  [abs]
106. Gelfand, AE; Dey, DK. "On measuring Bayesian robustness of contaminated classes of priors." Statistics and Decisions 9 (1990): 63-80.
107. Gelfand, AE; Carlin, B. "A Sample Reuse Method for Accurate Parametric Empirical Bayes Confidence Intervals." Journal Royal Stat. Soc. Ser. B 53 (1990): 189-200.
108. Gelfand, AE; Carlin, B. "Approaches for Empirical Bayes Confidence Intervals." Journal Amer. Stat. Assoc. 85.409 (1990): 105-114. [doi]  [abs]
109. Dey, DK; Gelfand, AE. "Improved estimation of a patterned covariance matrix." Journal of Multivariate Analysis 31.1 (January, 1989): 107-116. [doi]  [abs]

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