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Alan Gelfand

Alan Gelfand

James B. Duke Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences

Primary Appointment

ISDS

Secondary Appointment

Environmental Science & Policy Division

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Ahn, S, Chertkov, M, Gelfand, AE, Park, S, and Shin, J. "Maximum weight matching using odd-sized cycles: Max-product belief propagation and half-integrality." March 1, 2018.

Wang, F, Wang, J, Gelfand, A, and Li, F. "Accommodating the ecological fallacy in disease mapping in the absence of individual exposures." Statistics in medicine 36, no. 30 (December 2017): 4930-4942.

White, P, Gelfand, A, and Utlaut, T. "Prediction and model comparison for areal unit data." Spatial Statistics 22 (November 2017): 89-106.

Paci, L, Beamonte, MA, Gelfand, AE, Gargallo, P, and Salvador, M. "Analysis of residential property sales using space–time point patterns." Spatial Statistics 21 (August 2017): 149-165.

Shirota, S, and Gelfand, AE. "Approximate Bayesian Computation and Model Assessment for Repulsive Spatial Point Processes." Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 26, no. 3 (July 3, 2017): 646-657.

All Publications

Recent Grants

EAGER-NEON: Probabilistic forecasting of biodiversity response to intensifying drought: A proposal to combine NEON with national climate, species, and trait data bases awarded by National Science Foundation

EMSW21-RTG: Geometric, Topological awarded by National Science Foundation

Collaborative Research: Climate Change Impacts on Forest Biodiversity: Individual Risk to Subcontinental Impacts awarded by National Science Foundation

CDI-Type II: Integrating Algorithmic and Stochastic Modeling Techniques for Environmental Prediction awarded by National Science Foundation

Space-time Modeling for Linking Climate Change, Pollutant Exposure, Built Environments, and Health Outcomes awarded by North Carolina State University

Courses

STA 944: Spatial Statistics (STA 944: Spatial Statistics)

STA 493: Research Independent Study (STA 493: Research Independent Study)

MATH 342D: Statistics (MATH 342D: Statistics)

STA 250D: Statistics (STA 250D: Statistics)

Contact Information

223A Old Chem Bldg

Durham, NC 27708

Box 90251

Durham, NC 27708-0251

Education

Ph.D., Stanford University (1969)

M.S., Stanford University (1967)

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