Research Project
Under a cooperative agreement with the EPA, NISS provided the EPA rapid access to the national statistics community, which in turn furnished statistical input and commentary on environmental issues in a timely basis to policy and decision makers, other officials and researchers. This project provided rapid, accurate, and informed responses by statistical experts to inquiries about issues important to the EPA.
Technical Report(s):
Technical Report 1: Accounting for Meteorological Effects in Measuring Urban Ozone Levels and Trends
Technical Report 5: Rural Ozone and Meteorology:Analysis and Comparison with Urban Ozone
Technical Report 6: Modeling High Threshold Exceedances of Urban Ozone
Technical Report 7: Multivariate Threshold Methods
Technical Report 8: On High Level Exceedance Modeling and Tail Inference
Technical Report 9: On Exceedance Based Environmental Criteria Part I: Basic Theory
Technical Report 10: A Spatially Correlated Hierarchical Random Effects Model for Ohio Corn Yield
Technical Report 11: Environmental Equity: Statistical Issues - Report of a Forum
Technical Report 12: Combining Environmental Information: Environmetric Research in Ecological Monitoring, Epidemiology, Toxicology, and Environmental Data Reporting
Technical Report 13: Analysis of Loggerhead Turtle Strandings from South Carolina and Estimation of the Effect of Turtle-Excluder Device Use in Shrimp Nets
Technical Report 14: Predicting the Urban Ozone Levels and Trends with Semiparametric Modeling
Technical Report 15: Hierarchical Image Reconstruction Using Markov Random Fields
Technical Report 16: A Point Process Approach to Modeling Trends in Tropospheric Ozone Based on Exceedances of a High Threshold
Technical Report 17: Evaluation of Data from Three Meteorologic Stations for the Parametric Modeling of Rural Ozone
Technical Report 18: An Illustration of the Use of Generalized Linear Models to Measure Long-Term Trends in the Wet Deposition of Sulfate
Technical Report 19: The Effect of Temporal Aggregation in Models to Estimate Trends in Sulfate Deposition
Technical Report 20: The Ability of Wet Deposition Networks to Detect Temporal Trends
Technical Report 21: Shrinking a Wet Deposition Network
Technical Report 22: Description of the Gulf States Ozone Monitoring Network and Decomposition into Subnetworks
Technical Report 24: Scaled Link Functions and Generalized Likelihood Inferences for Heterogeneous Binary Response Data
Technical Report 25: Interval Censoring and Marginal Analysis in Ordinal Regression
Technical Report 26: Stratified Ordinal Regression: A Tool for Combining Information from Disparate Toxicological Studies
Technical Report 27: Hierarchical Bayes Linear Models for Meta-Analysis
Technical Report 28: The Effect of Airborne Particulate Matter on Daily Death Counts
Technical Report 32: Model Selection in Environmental Statistics
Technical Report 37: A Bayesian Model for the Fate and Transport of Polychlorinated Biphenyl in the Upper Hudson River
Technical Report 42: Design Interface: A graphical tool for analyzing and constructing spatial designs
Technical Report 43: Regression Modeling of Ordinal Data with Nonzero Baselines
Technical Report 45: Bayes Methods for Combining Disease and Exposure Data in Assessing Environmental Justice
Technical Report 55: Airborne Particulate Matter and Daily Mortality in Birmingham, Alabama
Technical Report 72: Meteorologically-dependent Trends in Urban Ozone
Help the U.S. Environmental Agency by providing rapid and accurate responses from statistical experts on issues that are important to the EPA.
Principal Investigator(s): Jerome Sacks, NISS
Senior Investigator(s): Richard Smith, UNC-CH; Jerry Davis, NCSU; Patricia Styer; Lawrence Cox, EPA
Post Doctoral Fellow(s): Nancy Salzman, Minge Xie