Alan E. Gelfand, Ph.D.
James B Duke Professor of Statistics & Decision Sciences
Director of Graduate Studies

Dr. Gelfand’s research interests are spatial statistics, modeling and
model determination, bayesian computation and bayes and empirical
bayes inference.
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Publications:
Gelfand, A.E. (with D. Agarwal) 2005. Slice Gibbs Sampling for Simulation
Based Fitting of Spatial Models. Statistics and Computing (to appear)

Gelfand, A.E. (with M. Short and B.P. Carlin) 2004. Covariate-adjusted
Spatial CDF’s for Air Pollutant Data. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and
Environmental Statistics (to appear)

Gelfand, A.E. (with S. Banerjee and D. Gamerman) 2004. Spatial
Process Modelling for Univariate and Multivariate Dynamic Spatial Data,
Environmetrics (to appear)

Gelfand, A.E. (with A.M. Schmidt, S. Wu, J.A. Silander, A. Latimer and A.G.
Rebelo) 2004. Explaining Species Diversity Through Species Level
Hierarchical Modeling. Applied Statistics (to appear)

Gelfand, A.E. (with A. Latimer, S. Wu and J.A. Silander, Jr.) 2004. Building
Statistical Models to Analyze Species Distributions, Ecological Applications
(to appear)