Talks

NMMAPS

1998

NATIONAL MORTALITY, MORBIDITY AND AIR POLLUTION STUDY: STATISTICAL CHALLENGES [ps] [pdf]

BAYESIAN SEMI-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICOLOGY DATA (presented at the Joint Statistical Meeting, Dallas August 1998) [ps] [pdf]
1999
NMMAPS-APHEA COLLABORATION: A SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS [ps] [pdf]
why are results sensitive to the inclusion of the harmonics in the model? (presented at the workshop on statistical models for air pollution and mortality, Paris France July 1999) [ps] [pdf]

2000
A HIERARCHICAL MODELING STRATEGY FOR COMBINING EVIDENCE ON AIR POLLUTION AND DAILY MORTALITY: THE EXAMPLE OF THE TWENTY LARGEST US CITIES (presented at the Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society January 12 2000) [ps] [pdf] our rejoinder to the discussants [ps] [pdf]
A MEASUREMENT ERROR MODEL FOR TIME-SERIES STUDY OF AIR POLLUTION AND MORTALITY (presented at the International Biometric Society Meeting, San Francisco July 2000 and at the International Environmental Epidemiology Meeting, Buffalo August 2000) [ps] [pdf]
STATISTICAL MODELS OF AIR POLLUTION EFFECTS ON MORTALITY IN URBAN AMERICA (presented at the Joint Statistical Meeting, Indianapolis August 2000) [ps] [pdf]
2001
AIR POLLUTION AND MORTALITY: ESTIMATING REGIONAL AND NATIONAL DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS (presented at the Department of Biostatistics, Emory University, Atlanta, April 2001) [ps] [pdf]
Smooth QUAntile Ratio Estimation (SQUARE) Smoking, Disease, and the Cost of Medical Expenditures in the U.S. (presented at the Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, May 2001) [ps] [pdf]
TOBACCO CONTROL: STATISTICAL ISSUES IN COMBINING INFORMATION (presented at the Worskshop on Tobacco Control, SantaFe New Mexico, June 2001) [ps] [pdf]
HIERARCHICAL MODELS FOR MULTI-SERIES DATA: APPLICATIONS FROM THE NATIONAL MORBIDITY, MORTALITY AIR POLLUTION STUDY (NMMAPS) (presented at the Congress of Epidemiology, Toronto, Canada June 2001) [ps] [pdf]
NATIONAL MAPS OF THE EFFECTS OF PM ON MORTALITY: A BAYESIAN MODELING APPROACH INCORPORATING SPATIAL CORRELATION (presented at the Joint American Statistical Assiciation Meeting, Atlanta, August 2001) [ps] [pdf]
NATIONAL MODELS FOR ESTIMATING THE EFFECT OF PARTICULATE MATTER ON MORTALITY IN US CITIES (presented at the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2001) [ps] [pdf]
2002
STATISTICAL ISSUES IN TIME SERIES: UPDATES OF THE NMMAPS ANALYSES (presented at the Clean Air Act Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) EPA RTP Campus, Durham NC July 2002) [pdf]
HEALTH RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH ACUTE AND CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO AIR POLLUTION (presented at the Joint Statistical Meeting NY August 2002) [pdf]
HEALTH EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION: STATISTICAL CHALLENGES, FINDINGS, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS (presented at Department of Health Research and Policy Stanford University Palo Alto CA and Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of California San Francisco October 2002) [pdf]
SEMI-PARAMETRIC REGRESSION IN TIME SERIES ANALYSES OF AIR POLLUTION AND MORTALITY (presented at the EPA Workshop on Generalized Additive Models, Environmental Protection Agency Raleigh, NC November 2002) [pdf]
UPDATES ON NMMAPS RE-ANALYSES: PM10 AND OTHER POLLUTANTS, EXPOSURE-RESPONSE, AND MORTALITY DISPLACEMENT (presented at the EPA Workshop on Generalized Additive Models, Environmental Protection Agency Raleigh, NC November 2002) [pdf]
HEALTH EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION: STATISTICAL CHALLENGES, FINDINGS, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS (to be presented at a meeting of the Royal Statistical Society on Environment and Health, November 12 2002 London UK) [pdf]
SHORT COURSE ON STATISTICAL CHALLENGES IN AIR POLLUTION RISK ESTIMATION presented at the Department of Statistics, University of Padova Italy November 14 and 15 2002 lecture 1 [pdf] lecture 2 [pdf]
2003
MORTALITY IMPACT OF AIR POLLUTION FROM DAILY TIME SERIES AND COHORT STUDIES presented at the Annual Meeting of the Health Effects Institute Boulder CO May 2003 [pdf]
MODEL UNCERTAINTY IN TIME SERIES STUDIES OF AIR POLLUTION AND HEALTH presented at SAMSI Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Models Boulder CO June 2003 [pdf]
JOINT CHRONIC ACUTE AIR POLLUTION STUDY presented at the EPA STAR Meeting Washington DC June 2003 [pdf]
IMPROVED SEMI-PARAMETRIC TIME SERIES MODELS OF AIR POLLUTION AND MORTALIY presented at the International Meeting of Environmental Statistics and Health Santiago de Campostela Spain, July 2003 [pdf]
ESTIMATING THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION FROM TIME SERIES AND COHORT STUDIES presented at the National Cancer Institute May 2003 and at the Division of Biostatistics Yale University September 2003 [pdf]
AIR POLLUTION AND HEALTH: INTEGRATING NATIONAL DATA BASES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SURVEILLANCE presented at the Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University, NIEHS Directors Metting October 2003 [pdf]
WOMEN IN SCIENCE: WHAT ARE THE DATA SAYING ABOUT GENDER-BASED ISSUES? presented at the Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University November 2003 [pdf]