Mathematician:Alan Enoch Gelfand

Mathematician

American statistician whose research includes substantial contributions to the fields of Bayesian statistics, spatial statistics and hierarchical modeling.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: April 17, 1945 in Bronx, New York

Publications

• 1990: Sampling-Based Approaches to Calculating Marginal Densities (JASA Vol. 85, no. 410: pp. 398 – 409) (with Adrian F.M. Smith)  www.jstor.org/stable/2289776

• 1990: Illustration of Bayesian inference in normal data models using Gibbs sampling (JASA Vol. 85, no. 412: pp. 972 – 985) (with Susan E. Hills, Amy Racine-Poon and Adrian F.M. Smith)  www.jstor.org/stable/2289594

• 1994: Bayesian model choice: asymptotics and exact calculations (J. R. Stat. Soc. Ser. B Vol. 56: pp. 501 – 514) (with D.K. Dey)  www.jstor.org/stable/2346123

• 1997: Hierarchical spatio-temporal mapping of disease rates (JASA Vol. 92, no. 438: pp. 607 – 617) (with Lance A. Waller, Bradley P. Carlin and Hong Xia)  www.jstor.org/stable/2965708

• 2003: Spatial modeling with spatially varying coefficient processes (JASA Vol. 98, no. 462: pp. 387 – 396) (with Hyon-Jung Kim, C.F. Sirmans and Sudipto Banerjee)  www.jstor.org/stable/30045248

• 2004: Nonstationary multivariate process modeling through spatially varying coregionalization (TEST Vol. 13, no. 2: pp. 263 – 312) (with Alexandra M. Schmidt, Sudipto Banerjee and C.F. Sirmans)

• 2005: Bayesian nonparametric spatial modeling with Dirichlet process mixing (JASA Vol. 100, no. 471: pp. 1021 – 1035) (with Athanasios Kottas and Steven N. MacEachern)  www.jstor.org/stable/27590632

• 2006: Bayesian Wombling: Curvilinear Gradient Assessment Under Spatial Process Models (JASA Vol. 101, no. 476: pp. 1487 – 1501) (with Sudipto Banerjee)

• 2008: Gaussian predictive process models for large spatial data sets (J. R. Stat. Soc. Ser. B Vol. 70, no. 4: pp. 825 – 848) (with Sudipto Banerjee, Andrew O. Finley and Huiyan Sang)  www.jstor.org/stable/20203857

• 2010: Handbook of spatial statistics (as editor, with P. Diggle, P. Guttorp and M. Fuentes)

• 2010: A Spatio-temporal Downscaler for Output from Numerical Models (Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics Vol. 14: pp. 176 – 197) (with V.J. Berrocal and D.M. Holland)

• 2012: Hierarchical Modeling for Spatial Data Problems (Spatial Statistics Vol. 1: pp. 30 – 39)

• 2014: Hierarchical modeling and analysis for spatial data (with Sudipto Banerjee and Bradley P. Carlin)