Candace Berrett

My current research areas include spatial and spatio-temporal models, computation, Bayesian methods, and statistics education.

Currently, my advisor, Kate Calder, and I are developing Bayesian spatial probit regression models for categorical data.

I am also working as a research assistant for Kate Calder and Tao Shi on the FLAMES project. On this project we are developing a spatio-temporal model to analyze aerosols over Southeast Asia using a combination of two sources of data: numerical model output, MOZART, and satellite aerosol and emissions measurements, MISR and MODIS.

Publications

Xiao, N., Shi, T., Calder, C.A., Munroe, D.K., Berrett, C., Wolfinbarger, S., and Li, D. (2008) Spatial Characteristics of the Difference between MISR and MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals over Mainland Southeast Asia. Accepted for publication in Remote Sensing of Environment.

Presentations

"Data Augmentation Methods for Bayesian Modeling of Spatially-Dependent Categorical Data"
Oral presentation at the Joint Statistical Meetings. Washington, DC, August, 2009.

"Learning to teach statistics: A TA's perspective"
Invited panelist and oral presentation in "Training TAs To Teach in Graduate School and Beyond" at the Joint Statistical Meetings. Denver, CO. August, 2008.

"Characterizing the dependence structure of space-time processes using computer-model output and sparse observations"
Oral presentation at the Joint Statistical Meetings. Salt Lake City, UT. August, 2007.

Posters

"Data Augmentation Algorithms for the Bayesian Spatial Probit Regression Model"
Poster presentation at the SAMSI Program on Space-time Analysis for Environmental Mapping, Epidemiology and Climate Change Opening Workshop. Research Triangle Park, NC, September, 2009.

"Kernel-Based Space-Time Modeling of Computer Simulated Aerosol Optical Depth Data"
Oral presentation at the Midwest Statistics Research Colloquium. Chicago, IL, March, 2009.

"Spatial Characteristics of the Difference between MISR and MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals over Mainland Southeast Asia"
Poster presentation at the ENVR Workshop on Environmetrics. Boulder, CO. October, 2008.

"A statistical framework for synthesizing MISR AOD data and MOZART output"
Poster presentation at the MISR Data Users Science Symposium. Pasadena, CA. December, 2007.