Merlise A Clyde, Associate Professor of Statistical Science

Contact Info:

223E Old Chemistry Bldg.

(919) 681-8440

clyde@stat.duke.edu

Personal Web Page:

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

Office Hours:

Monday/Wednesday after 3-4 pm, or by appointment

Education:

PhD, University of Minnesota, 1993

MS, University of California, Riverside, 1988

MS, University of Alberta, 1986

BS, Oregon State University, 1985

Research Interests: Model Choice, Experimental Design, Proteomics, Environmental Statistics

Model uncertainty and choice in prediction and variable selection problems for linear, generalized linear models and multivariate models. Bayesian Model Averaging. Prior distributions for model selection and model averaging. Wavelets and adaptive kernel non-parametric function estimation. Spatial statistics. Experimental design for nonlinear models. Applications in proteomics, bioinformatics, astro-statistics, air pollution and health effects, and environmental sciences.

Curriculum Vitae
Teaching (Fall 2009):   (typical courses)

• STA 290.01, Modern Statistical Data Analys Synopsis

  Soc/psych 126, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Clyde, M., Ghosh, J. and Littman, M.. "Bayesian Adaptive Sampling for Bayesian Variable Selection."   (Preprint, 2008).
2. Liang, F. and Paulo, R. and Molina, G. and Clyde, M. and Berger, J.O.. "Mixtures of g-priors for Bayesian Variable Selection." Journal of the American Statistical Association 103 (2008): 110-123. [pdf]  [abs]
3. Clyde, M. A. and George, E. I.. "Model Uncertainty." Statistical Science 19 (2004): 81--94. [pdf]
4. Clyde, Merlise and George, Edward I.. "Flexible empirical Bayes estimation for wavelets." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, Methodological 62.4 (2000): 681--698.
5. Clyde, Merlise. "Model uncertainty and health effect studies for particulate matter." EnvironMetrics 11.6 (2000): 745--763.
6. Dominici, Francesca and Sheppard, Lianne and Clyde, Merlise. "Health Effects of Air Pollution: A Statistical Review." International Statistical Review 71.2 (2003): 243--276.
7. Clyde, Merlise. "Bayesian model averaging and model search strategies (with discussion)." Bayesian Statistics 6 -- Proceedings of the Sixth Valencia International Meeting (1999): 157--185.
8. MacEachern, Steven N. and Clyde, Merlise and Liu, Jun S.. "Sequential importance sampling for nonparametric Bayes models: The next generation." The Canadian Journal of Statistics 27 (1999): 251--267.
9. Clyde, Merlise and Parmigiani, Giovanni and Vidakovic, Brani. "Multiple shrinkage and subset selection in wavelets." Biometrika 85 (1998): 391--401.
10. Clyde, Merlise and George, Edward I.. "Empirical Bayes estimation in wavelet nonparametric regression." Bayesian Inference in Wavelet Based Models. Ed. P. M\"uller and B. Vidakovic Springer-Verlag, 1999: 309--322.
11. Clyde, M. A.. "Experimental design: Bayesian designs." International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. 2001: 5075--5081.
12. Clyde, Merlise and Chaloner, Kathryn. "The equivalence of constrained and weighted designs in multiple objective design problems." Journal of the American Statistical Association 91 (1996): 1236--1244.

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