• Part of the 2009 SAMSI Program on Space-Time Analysis for Environmental Mapping, Epidemiology and Climate Change
• Meeting time/location: Thursday, 3:00 pm - 4:45pm, SAMSI, Room 203
• Leaders: Montse Fuentes, Amy Herring, Kate Calder, and Brian Reich
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• (11/09) Two papers on interactions in air pollution epi suggested by Amy Nail. (1) Kaufman 2009 Epidemiology pdf and (2) Ito 2007 JESEE pdf
• (11/03) A note on balancing different data sources by Jim Crooks pdf
• (10/26) Goals and Outcomes Posted! pdf
• (09/30) A paper on variable selection for spatial covariate fields is added under references pdf.
• (09/29) Tentative presentation schedule is available under Meeting Summary. Please email Howard if you would like share any methodological problems or datasets with the working group.

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• Berrocal, V.J., Gelfand, A.E., and Holland, D.M. (2009). A Spatio-Temporal Downscaler for Output from Numerical Models. To appear in Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics. [pdf]
• Craigmile, P.F., Calder, C.A., Li, H., Paul R., and Cressie N. (2009). Hierarchical Model Building, Fitting, and Checking: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Bayesian Analysis of Arsenic Exposure Pathways, Bayesian Analysis, 4(1), 1-62. [bib | pdf ]
• Engel, S.M., Janevic, T.M., Stein, C.R., and Savitz D.A., (2008). Maternal Smoking, Preeclampsia, and Infant Health Outcomes in New York City, 1995–2003. American Journal of Epidemiology, 169(1), 33-40. [bib | pdf ]
• Kim, J., Lawson, A.B., McDermott S., Aelion C.M. Bayesian spatial modeling of disease risk in relation to multivariate environmental risk fields. To appear in Statistics in Medicine [pdf ]
• Savitz D.A, Janevic T.M.,Engel, S.M., Kaufman, J.S, and Herring, A.H. (2008). Ethnicity and gestational diabetes in New York City, 1995–2003. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 115(8), 969-78. [bib | pdf ]

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