Publications in VIVO

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Nychka, Douglas William Professor Adjoint

Positions

Professor Adjoint, Applied Mathematics

Publications

selected publications

chapter
- Data Assimilation. 477-492. 2010
conference proceeding
- Functional ANOVA and regional climate experiments: a statistical analysis of dynamic downscaling. Environmetrics. 700-711. 2009
- A framework to understand the asymptotic properties of Kriging and splines. Journal of the Korean Statistical Society. 57-76. 2006
- Statistical models for monitoring and regulating ground-level ozone. Environmetrics. 535-546. 2003
- Winds from a Bayesian hierarchical model: Computation for atmosphere-ocean research. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 781-807. 2002
- A GENERALIZED LINEAR CLASSIFICATION MODEL WITH A SMOOTH LINK FUNCTION AND PREDICTORS OBTAINED FROM QUANTILE SPLINE FITS TO HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 153-164. 1993
- FINDING CHAOS IN NOISY SYSTEMS. Journal- Royal Statistical Society Series B. 399-426. 1991
journal article
- Modeling spatial data using local likelihood estimation and a Matern to spatial autoregressive translation. Environmetrics. 2020
- Rapid numerical approximation method for integrated covariance functions over irregular data regions. Stat. 2020
- A Case Study Competition Among Methods for Analyzing Large Spatial Data. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics. 398-425. 2019
- Interpretable Deep Learning for Spatial Analysis of Severe Hailstorms. Monthly Weather Review. 2827-2845. 2019
- Data-optimized Coronal Field Model. I. Proof of Concept. The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics. 2019
- A Bayesian Model for Quantifying the Change in Mortality Associated with Future Ozone Exposures under Climate Change. Biometrics. 281-288. 2016
- A comparison of automated statistical quality control methods for error detection in historical radiosonde temperatures. International Journal of Climatology. 28-42. 2016
- ROAM: A Radial-Basis-Function Optimization Approximation Method for Diagnosing the Three-Dimensional Coronal Magnetic Field. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. 2016
- Equivalent kriging. Spatial Statistics. 31-49. 2015
- A Multiresolution Gaussian Process Model for the Analysis of Large Spatial Datasets. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 579-599. 2015
- Probabilistic reconstructions of local temperature and soil moisture from tree-ring data with potentially time-varying climatic response. Climate Dynamics. 791-806. 2015
- The emerging anthropogenic signal in land-atmosphere carbon-cycle coupling. Nature Climate Change. 796-800. 2014
- Constructing valid spatial processes on the sphere using kernel convolutions. Environmetrics. 2-15. 2014
- Nonstationary Positive Definite Tapering On The Plane. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 848-865. 2013
- Nonstationary modeling for multivariate spatial processes. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 76-91. 2012
- Spatially and temporally consistent prediction of heavy precipitation from mean values. Nature Climate Change. 544-547. 2012
- Exact fast computation of band depth for large functional datasets: How quickly can one million curves be ranked?. Stat. 68-74. 2012
- Specification of wet-day daily rainfall quantiles from the mean value. Tellus Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 2012
- Fast Nonparametric Quantile Regression With Arbitrary Smoothing Methods. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 510-526. 2011
- Nonstationary covariance modeling for incomplete data: Monte Carlo EM approach. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 2059-2073. 2011
- Comment: Hierarchical Statistical Modeling for Paleoclimate Reconstruction Rejoinder. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 910-911. 2010
- The Value of Multiproxy Reconstruction of Past Climate. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 883-895. 2010
- Forecasting skill of model averages. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 633-638. 2010
- Testing Theories to Explore the Drivers of Cities' Atmospheric Emissions. Ambio. 236-244. 2009
- Bayesian Modeling of Uncertainty in Ensembles of Climate Models. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 97-116. 2009
- TRACKING OF MULTIPLE MERGING AND SPLITTING TARGETS: A STATISTICAL PERSPECTIVE. Statistica Sinica. 1-31. 2009
- Covariance Tapering for Likelihood-Based Estimation in Large Spatial Data Sets. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 1545-1555. 2008
- Development and greenhouse gas emissions deviate from the 'modernization' theory and 'convergence' hypothesis. Climate Research. 17-29. 2008
- INTERPOLATING FIELDS OF CARBON MONOXIDE DATA USING A HYBRID STATISTICAL-PHYSICAL MODEL. Annals of Applied Statistics. 1231-1248. 2008
- PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR COMPUTATIONALLY INTENSIVE NONLINEAR REGRESSION WITH AN APPLICATION TO CLIMATE MODELING. Annals of Applied Statistics. 1217-1230. 2008
- Consistency of modelled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere. International Journal of Climatology. 1703-1722. 2008
- Local eigenvalue analysis of CMIP3 climate model errors. Tellus Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 992-1000. 2008
- Semi-parametric discrete choice measures of willingness to pay. Economics Letters. 91-94. 2008
- Spatial Analysis to Quantify Numerical Model Bias and Dependence: How Many Climate Models Are There?. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 934-947. 2008
- A multi-resolution census algorithm for calculating vortex statistics in turbulent flows. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics. 293-312. 2008
- An investigation into the application of an ensemble Kalman smoother to high-dimensional geophysical systems. Tellus Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 97-112. 2008
- The role of pseudo data for robust smoothing with application to wavelet regression. Biometrika. 893-904. 2007
- The 'hockey stick' and the 1990s: a statistical perspective on reconstructing hemispheric temperatures. Tellus Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 591-598. 2007
- Bayesian spatial modeling of extreme precipitation return levels. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 824-840. 2007
- Multivariate Bayesian analysis of atmosphere - Ocean general circulation models. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 249-266. 2007
- Spatial patterns of probabilistic temperature change projections from a multivariate Bayesian analysis. Geophysical Research Letters. 2007
- A multivariate spatial model for soil water profiles. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics. 462-480. 2006
- Covariance tapering for interpolation of large spatial datasets. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 502-523. 2006
- Sensitivity of ecological models to their climate drivers: Statistical ensembles for forcing. Ecological Applications. 99-116. 2006
- A state-space model for ocean drifter motions dominated by inertial oscillations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 2005
- A comparison of a GCM response to historical anthropogenic land cover change and model sensitivity to uncertainty in present-day land cover representations. Climate Dynamics. 581-609. 2005
- Quantifying uncertainty in projections of regional climate change: A Bayesian approach to the analysis of multimodel ensembles. Journal of Climate. 1524-1540. 2005
- Changes in frost days in simulations of twentyfirst century climate. Climate Dynamics. 495-511. 2004
- Period analysis of variable stars by robust smoothing. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics. 15-30. 2004
- Toward a nonlinear ensemble filter for high-dimensional systems. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2003
- Mesoscale correlation length scales from NSCAT and Minimet surface wind retrievals in the Labrador Sea. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 513-533. 2003
- Multi-resolution time series analysis applied to solar irradiance and climate reconstructions. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar: Terrestrial Physics. 191-201. 2003
- Flexible discriminant techniques for forecasting clear-air turbulence. Environmetrics. 859-878. 2002
- Multiresolution models for nonstationary spatial covariance functions. Statistical Modelling: An International Journal. 315-331. 2002
- Modes of high-latitude electric field variability derived from DE-2 measurements: Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis. Geophysical Research Letters. 2002
- Spatiotemporal hierarchical Bayesian modeling: Tropical ocean surface winds. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 382-397. 2001
- Confidence intervals for nonparametric curve estimates: Toward more uniform pointwise coverage. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 233-246. 2001
- Changes in surface air temperature caused by desiccation of the Aral Sea. Journal of Climate. 284-299. 2001
- A nonparametric multiple choice method within the random utility framework. Journal of Econometrics. 207-225. 2000
- Statistical significance of trends and trend differences in layer-average atmospheric temperature time series. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 7337-7356. 2000
- A comparison of regional oxidant model (ROM) output with observed ozone data. Atmospheric Environment. 2413-2423. 2000
- Some statistical considerations associated with the data assimilation of precipitation observations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 339-359. 2000
- Smoothing hazard functions for telemetry survival data in wildlife studies. Bird Study. 47-54. 1999
- Modeling the effects of meteorology on ozone in Houston using cluster analysis and generalized additive models. Atmospheric Environment. 2505-2520. 1998
- An algorithm for the construction of spatial coverage designs with implementation in SPLUS. Computers and Geosciences. 479-488. 1998
- Noise and nonlinearity in measles epidemics: Combining mechanistic and statistical approaches to population modeling. The American Naturalist. 425-440. 1998
- A nonparametric regression approach to syringe grading for quality improvement. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 1171-1178. 1995
- SPLINES AS LOCAL SMOOTHERS. Annals of Statistics. 1175-1197. 1995
- TEMPLATE-BASED MOSFET DEVICE MODEL. IEEE Transactions on Computer - Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 924-933. 1995
- NONPARAMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS FOR BOTH SIDES OF A REGRESSION-MODEL. Journal- Royal Statistical Society Series B. 519-532. 1995
- EXPLORING FITNESS SURFACES. The American Naturalist. 597-616. 1994
- NONPARAMETRIC-ESTIMATION OF RATE-EQUATIONS FOR NUTRIENT-UPTAKE. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 602-614. 1993
- CLIMATE SPECTRA AND DETECTING CLIMATE CHANGE. Climatic Change: an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change. 275-287. 1992
- CHOOSING A RANGE FOR THE AMOUNT OF SMOOTHING IN NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 653-664. 1991
- CONVERGENCE-RATES AND DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR JACOBIAN-BASED ESTIMATES OF LYAPUNOV EXPONENTS FROM DATA. Physics Letters A: General Physics, Nonlinear Science, Statistical Physics, Atomic, Molecular and Cluster Physics, Plasma and Fluid Physics, Condensed Matter, Cross-disciplinary Physics, Biological Physics, Nanosciences, Quantum Physics. 357-363. 1991
- THE AVERAGE POSTERIOR VARIANCE OF A SMOOTHING SPLINE AND A CONSISTENT ESTIMATE OF THE AVERAGE SQUARED ERROR. Annals of Statistics. 415-428. 1990
- SOME PROPERTIES OF ADDING A SMOOTHING STEP TO THE EM ALGORITHM. Statistics and Probability Letters. 187-193. 1990
- A SMOOTHED EM APPROACH TO INDIRECT ESTIMATION PROBLEMS, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO STEREOLOGY AND EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY. Journal- Royal Statistical Society Series B. 271-324. 1990
- CONVERGENCE-RATES FOR REGULARIZED SOLUTIONS OF INTEGRAL-EQUATIONS FROM DISCRETE NOISY DATA. Annals of Statistics. 556-572. 1989
- BAYESIAN CONFIDENCE-INTERVALS FOR SMOOTHING SPLINES. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 1134-1143. 1988
- SEMI-NONPARAMETRIC MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD-ESTIMATION. Econometrica: journal of the Econometric Society. 363-390. 1987
- CROSS-VALIDATED SPLINE METHODS FOR THE ESTIMATION OF 3-DIMENSIONAL TUMOR SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS FROM OBSERVATIONS ON TWO-DIMENSIONAL CROSS-SECTIONS. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 832-846. 1984
- OPTIMAL USE OF SAMPLED TISSUE-SECTIONS FOR ESTIMATING THE NUMBER OF HEPATOCELLULAR FOCI. Cancer Research. 178-183. 1984
- PRESENCE OF ALPHA-FETOPROTEIN-POSITIVE CELLS IN HEPATOCELLULAR FOCI AND MICROCARCINOMAS INDUCED BY SINGLE INJECTIONS OF DIETHYLNITROSAMINE IN INFANT MICE. Cancer Research. 702-708. 1983
- RELIABLE STEREOLOGICAL METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE NUMBER OF MICROSCOPIC HEPATOCELLULAR FOCI FROM THEIR TRANSECTIONS. Cancer Research. 1261-1268. 1983
- STATISTICAL-ANALYSIS OF STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DATA FOR THE DETECTION OF TRENDS. Atmospheric Environment. 1569-1577. 1981

Background

awards and honors

ENVR Distinguished Achievement Award (Medal), conferred by American Statistical Association, 2013
ASA Fellow, conferred by American Statistical Association, 2002