Associate Professor, Statistics
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

Bayesian Methods, Astrostatistics, MCMC, Statistical Computation, Hierarchical Models, EM Algorithm

www.ics.uci.edu/~dvd

Professor van Dyk's scholarly work focuses on methodological and computational issues involved with Bayesian analysis of highly structured statistical models and emphasizes serious interdisciplinary research. He is particularly interested in improving the efficiency of computationally intensive methods involving data augmentation, such as EM-type algorithms and various Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. Professor van Dyk's primary area of interdisciplinary work is Astro-statistics; he coordinates the California-Harvard Astrostatisics Collaboration, The group includes Astronomers and Statisticians and provides an open forum for discussing statistical issues that arise in astrophysical research, for example at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The group's current work focuses on constructing and fitting highly structured models for data obtained with the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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Last updated
01/15/2004