Richard Berk
Current Research Focus:
Water resources in large cities, multilevel models
for ecological data, and the statistical calibration and evaluation of
complex computer models.
Some Recent Papers:
"Public Perceptions of Climate Change: A Willingness to Pay Assessment" (with Robert Fovell),
Climatic Change, Volume 41, Numbers 3/4: 413-446, 1999.
"Computer Simulations as Experiments: Using Program Evaluation Tools to Assess
the Validity of Interventions in Virtual Worlds," (with Jason Bond, Rong Lu, Richard
Turco, and Robert Weiss), in L. Bickman (ed.), Donald Campbell's Legacy (Volume II):
Contributions to Research Design, Sage Publications, 2000.
“The Use of Statistical tools for Evaluating Computer Simulations,” (with Robert G. Fovell, Frederic Schoenberg, and Robert E. Weiss). Climatic Change, 51:119-130, 2001.
“Workshop on Statistical Approaches for the Evaluation of Complex Computer Models,”
(with Peter Bickel, Katherine Campbell, Sallie Keller-McNulty, Elizabeth Kelly, and Jerome Sacks),
Statistical Science, 17: 173-192, 2002.
"Water Resources in Asia Pacific Cities." (with Sarah Rothenberg), UCLA Department
of Statistics Working Paper, 2003.
Frederic Paik Schoenberg
Research Focus: Point processes, especially methods for evaluating
multi-dimensional point process models and applications to the study of
wildfires and
earthquakes.
Nicolas Christou
Research focus: Spatial regression models, with emphasis on
locating
hot spots and spatial prediction.