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THE SSES PROGRAM
Discussions In Spatial and Environmental Statistics (DISES)

The SSES Program organizes DISES on an occasional basis. DISES consists of brown-bag seminars and quarter-long discussion-groups in spatial and environmental statistics.

Recent DISES activities:

A seminar will be given on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 in McPherson 2019 at 9am, by SSES Postdoc Shannon LaDeau. Her talk is titled, "Spatial and temporal drivers for West Nile Virus amplification and its consequences for native birds".

The Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Statistics is organizing a DIscussion Group in Environmental Statistics (DIGES) during Spring Quarter 2005. This is a weekly gathering open to anyone who has an interest in environmental statistics.

Details of the Discussion Group
Dates: Wednesdays, April 6, 2005 to June 1, 2005 (inclusive)
Time: 11:30am-12:18pm
Where: Cockins Hall, Room 212, 1958 Neil Avenue
What: The DIGES topic for this quarter is "Statistical Methods in Environmental Health," and the discussions will be based on both presentations of important papers from the literature as well as on informal research presentations by people who work in the area.
Schedule:
Wed. 4/6: K. Calder Air Pollution, Exposure, and Health: An Overview
Wed. 4/13: P. Craigmile Modeling Air Pollution and Mortality Time-Series
Papers*
Dominici, F., Daniels, M., Zeger, S., and Samet, J.M. (2002). "Air Pollution and Mortality: Estimating Regional and National Dose-Response Relationships." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 97(457), 100-111.
Dominici, F., McDermott, A., and Hastie, T. (2004). "Improved Semi-Parametric Time Series Models of Air Pollution and Mortality." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 99(468), 938-948.
Wed. 4/20: H. Li and Y. Yao Disease Risk in Relation to Point Sources
Paper*
Morris, S.E. and Wakefield, J.C. (2000). "Assessment of Disease Risk in Relation to a Pre-Specified Source." In Spatial Epidemiology, Methods and Applications, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 153-184.
Wed. 4/27: T. Santner and C. Dong Ozone Exposure Risk Assessment
Paper*
Carroll, R.J., Chen, R., George, E.I., Li, T.H., Newton, H.J., and Schmiediche, H., and Wang, N. (1997). "Ozone Exposure and Population Density in Harris County, Texas." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 92(438), 392-404.
Wed. 5/4: W. Strauss (Battelle) Designing Exposure Assessment Studies
Wed. 5/11: N. Cressie and J. Zhang Modeling Exposure and Health Data at Disparate Resolutions
Paper*
Best, N.G, Ickstadt, K., and Wolpert, R. (2000). "Spatial Poisson Regression for Heath and Exposure Data Measured at Disparate Resolutions." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 95(452), 1076-1088.
Wed. 5/18: N. Xiao Geographically Masking Health Data
Paper*
Armstrong, M.P., Rushton, G., and Zimmerman, D.L. (1999). "Geographically Masking Health Data to Preserve Confidentiality." Statistics in Medicine, 18, 497-525.
Wed. 5/25: E. Lam and Y. Kim Dispersion Modeling in Studies of Air Pollution Exposure
Papers*
Colvile, R. and Briggs, D.J. (2000). "Dispersion Modelling." In Spatial Epidemiology, Methods and Applications, Oxford University Press, Oxford,375-392.
McBride, S.J. (2002). "A Marked Point Process Model for the Source Proximity Effect in the Indoor Environment." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 97(459) 683-691.
Wed. 6/1: M. Berliner Climate Change and Health
* To request a copy of any of these papers, please see Terry England in Cockins Hall 408 or send an email to sses@stat.osu.edu.