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Luke Tierney

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
The University of Iowa


Research Interests

Bayesian Inference, Approximate Bayesian Methods, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Statistical Computing, Computing Environments for Statistics, Dynamic Graphics.


Some Recent Presentations

Code Analysis and Parallelizing Vector Operations in R; DSC 2007, Auckland, New Zealand, February 2007.

R: An Overview and Some Current Directions; Korean Statistical Society, Seoul, Korea, November 2006.

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Using the Ratio-of-Uniforms Transformation; IMS-ISBA MCMCSki 2005, Bormio, January 2005.

Some Issues in the Design of Statistical Languages; JSM 2004, Toronto, August 2004.

Some New Language Features in R; JSM 2003, San Fransisco, August 2003.

Simple Parallel Statistical Computing in R; Iowa City, March 2003.


Software

R software projects

xlispstat software projects


E-Mail: luke@stat.uiowa.edu
Office: 231 Schaeffer Hall
Office Hours: 9:30-10:32 MWF
Phone: (319)335-3386

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
241 Schaeffer Hall
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1419
(319)335-0712


Luke Tierney
March 02, 2007