Recent Publications

Papers

  • Simultaneous multifactor DIF analysis and detection in item response theory. Technical report #207, LES/IM-UFRJ, with Flavio B. Gonçalves and Tufi M. Soares, 2006 (submitted).
  • On computational aspects of Bayesian spatial models. Technical report #202, LES/IM-UFRJ, with Vinicius D. Mayrink, 2007 (submitted).
  • Transfer functions in dynamic generalized linear models. Technical report #198, LES/IM-UFRJ, with Mariane B. Alves and Marco A. R. Ferreira, 2006.
  • An integrated Bayesian model for DIF analysis. Technical report #197, LES/IM-UFRJ, with Tufi M. Soares and Flavio B. Gonçalves, 2006 (submitted).
  • Spatial dynamic factor models. Technical report #193, LES/IM-UFRJ, with Hedibert Lopes and Esther Salazar, 2006 (submitted).
  • Bayesian Dynamic Models for Survival Data with a Cure Fraction. Lifetime Data Analysis, 13, 17-35, with Kim, S. D., Chen, M.-H. and Dey, D. K., 2007.
  • Spatially-varying dynamic coefficient models. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, with M. S. Paez, F. Landim and E. Salazar, 2007 (accepted).
  • Dynamic survival models with spatial frailty. Lifetime Data Aanlysis, 12, 441-460, with Leonardo S. Bastos, 2006.
  • Comparison of sampling schemes for dynamic linear models. International Statistical Review, 74, 203-214, with Edna A. Reis and Esther Salazar, 2006.
  • Bayesian methodology for modeling parameters in the two parameter exponential family. Estadística, 57, 93-105, with Edilberto Cepeda, 2005.
  • Interpolation Performance of a Spatio-temporal Model with Spatially Varying Coefficients: Application to PM10 Concentrations in Rio de Janeiro. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 12, 169-193, with Marina S. Paez and Victor de Oliveira, 2005.
  • Spatial process modelling for univariate and multivariate dynamic spatial data. Environmetrics, 16, 465-479, with Alan Gelfand and Sudipto Banerjee, 2005.
  • Bayesian analysis of extreme events with threshold estimation. Statistical Modeling, 4, 227-244, with Cibele N. Behrens and Hedibert F. Lopes, 2004.
  • Multivariate spatial regression models. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 91, 262-281, with Ajax R. B. Moreira, 2004.
  • Bayesian modeling of joint regressions for the mean and covariance matrix. Biometrical Journal, 46, 430-440, with Edilberto Cepeda, 2004.
  • Study of the space-time effects in the concentration of airborne pollutants in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro. Environmetrics, 14, 387-408, with Marina S. Paez, 2003.
  • Space-varying regression models: specifications and simulation. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 42, 513-533, with Moreira, A. R. B. and Rue, H., 2003.

Books

  • Statistical Inference: an Integrated Approach, Arnold: London, com Migon, H. S., 1999.
  • Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Stochastic Simulation for Bayesian Inference, Chapman and Hall: London, 1997 (1st. edition); 2006 (2nd edition, with Hedibert F. Lopes)

Conference Papers