The Statistics Group consists of

• Amanda Hering,
• William Navidi, and
• Luis Tenorio.

Professor William Navidi received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986. He has published papers dealing with such diverse topics as adjusting the U.S. Census, methods for forensic DNA typing, models for predicting indoor levels of air pollution, estimating the risk of brain tumors from exposure to magnetic fields, determining evolutionary relationships among species, calibration of instruments for measuring pulmonary function, on optimal methods for positioning equipment in an open pit mine, and many others. He is currently working on the development of statistical methods for analyzing the performance of mobile computer networks, modeling the causes of variability in permeability coefficient measurements of chemical penetration of aqueous solutions across skin, and on the development of efficient methods for sampling in case-control studies.

Professor Luis Tenorio received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992. He has published papers on such topics as the statistics of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, denoising of gravity gradiometry data, and many others. He is currently working on geophysical inverse problems and on the development of seismic data processing methods. He is also working on statistical methods to analyze data from future CMB satellite measurements.

Professor Mandy Hering received her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. She has published papers on such topics as wind speed forecasting, modeling wildfire patterns, and methods of comparing the accuracy of forecasts from competing spatial models, and many others. Her research interests include spatial and spatio-temporal modeling, forecasting, model validation, multivariate time series, and applications of statistics to the environment.