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35
Citations
7349
World Ranking
2725
National Ranking
109

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1988 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

James V. Zidek is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans several fields, primarily Environmental Science, Computer Science, and Engineering. Within these areas, their work focuses on a range of subfields, including Environmental Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability, Global and Planetary Change, and Building and Construction.

The main topics addressed in their research cover Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference, Statistical Methods and Inference, Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models, Wood Treatment and Properties, Tree Root and Stability Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications.

James V. Zidek has contributed to numerous publications. Recent papers include:

  • Composite empirical likelihood for multisample clustered data (2021), published in Journal of nonparametric statistics
  • Knots and their effect on the tensile strength of lumber: A case study (2023), published in Journal of Quality Technology
  • Permutation tests under a rotating sampling plan with clustered data (2022), published in The Annals of Applied Statistics
  • A Data Integration Approach to Estimating Personal Exposures to Air Pollution (2022), published in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
  • Canadian contributions to environmetrics (2022), published in Canadian Journal of Statistics

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Jiahua Chen
  • Yukun Liu
  • Shuxian Fan
  • Samuel W. K. Wong
  • Gavin Shaddick

James V. Zidek has published repeatedly in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of nonparametric statistics, Journal of Quality Technology, The Annals of Applied Statistics, and the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data).

Recognition of their career includes being named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 1988.

Best Publications

  • Combining Probability Distributions: A Critique and an Annotated Bibliography

    Christian Genest;James V. Zidek

  • ON SEGMENTED MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION

    Jian Liu;Shiying Wu;James V. Zidek

  • Marginalization Paradoxes in Bayesian and Structural Inference

    A. P. Dawid;M. Stone;J. V. Zidek

  • Improving on Equivariant Estimators

    J. F. Brewster;J. V. Zidek

  • Statistical Analysis of Environmental Space-Time Processes

    Nhu D. Le;James V. Zidek

  • Optimal monitoring network designs

    W.F. Caselton;J.V. Zidek

  • Multivariate spatial interpolation and exposure to air pollutants

    Philip J. Brown;Nhu D. Le;James V. Zidek

  • Interpolation with uncertain spatial covariances: a Bayesian alternative to Kriging

    Nhu D. Le;James V. Zidek

  • Data integration model for air quality: a hierarchical approach to the global estimation of exposures to ambient air pollution

    Gavin Shaddick;Gavin Shaddick;Matthew L. Thomas;Amelia Green;Michael Brauer

  • Simultaneous Estimation of the Means of Independent Poisson Laws

    M. Lawrence Clevenson;James V. Zidek

  • Adaptive Multivariate Ridge Regression

    P. J. Brown;J. V. Zidek

  • The weighted likelihood

    Feifang Hu;James V. Zidek

  • The weighted likelihood

    Feifang Hu;James V. Zidek

  • A Comparison of n Estimators for the Binomial Distribution

    Ingram Olkin;A. John Petkau;James V. Zidek

  • Designing and integrating composite networks for monitoring multivariate Gaussian pollution fields

    J. V. Zidek;Weimin Sun;N. D. Le

  • Bayesian Multivariate Spatial Interpolation with Data Missing by Design

    Nhu D. Le;Weimin Sun;James V. Zidek

  • Modeling Non-Stationary Processes Through Dimension Expansion

    Luke Bornn;Gavin Shaddick;James V. Zidek

  • CAUSALITY, MEASUREMENT ERROR AND MULTICOLLINEARITY IN EPIDEMIOLOGY

    James V. Zidek;Hubert Wong;Nhu D. Le;Rick Burnett

  • Asymptotic properties of maximum weighted likelihood estimators

    Xiaogang Wang;Constance van Eeden;James V. Zidek

  • Inference for a covariance matrix

    Philip J. Brown;James V. Zidek

  • Bayesian Spatial Prediction of Random Space-Time Fields With Application to Mapping PM2.5 Exposure

    B. M. Golam Kibria;Li Sun;James V Zidek;Nhu D Le

  • Efficient stabilization of crop yield prediction in the Canadian Prairies

    Luke Bornn;James V. Zidek

Frequent Co-Authors

Feifang Hu
Feifang Hu George Washington University
Chris Chatfield
Chris Chatfield University of Bath
Jiahua Chen
Jiahua Chen University of British Columbia
Christian Genest
Christian Genest McGill University
Howard H. Chang
Howard H. Chang Emory University
Michael Brauer
Michael Brauer University of British Columbia
Randall V. Martin
Randall V. Martin Washington University in St. Louis
J. Jason West
J. Jason West University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rita Van Dingenen
Rita Van Dingenen Ghent University
Aaron van Donkelaar
Aaron van Donkelaar Washington University in St. Louis

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