William F. Christensen
Professor
Department
of Statistics
Brigham
Young University

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Department of Statistics
Brigham Young University
230
TMCB
Provo,UT 84604
Tel:801-422-7057
email: william “at” stat “dot” byu “dot” edu
Teaching
Education
Research
Interests
- Pollution
source apportionment
- Multivariate
analysis
- Spatial
and environmental statistics
- Resampling methods
- Climate
and paleoclimate
- Applications
of statistics in politics and law
Honors
- Distinguished
Achievement Award, ASA Section on Statistics and the Environment, 2009
- John
and Susan Wierman Lecturer in Air Quality Data
Analysis, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University,
2008
- Young
Scholar Award, Brigham Young University, 2005-2008
- Chair’s
Outstanding Paper Award, 2002, 2004
Selected
Publications
- Williams B, Christensen WF, and
Reese CS. (2011)
“Pollution source direction identification: Embedding
dispersion models to solve an inverse problem,” to appear in Environmetrics, DOI: 10.1002/env.1124.
- Christensen
WF. (2011). “Filtered kriging
for spatial data with heterogeneous measurement error variances,” Biometrics, 67, 947-957, DOI:
10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01563.x.
- Thomas AM, Rupper S, Christensen WF. (2011).
“Characterizing the statistical properties and interhemispheric
distribution of Dansgaard-Oeschger events,” Journal of Geophysical Research --
Atmospheres, 116, D03103, doi:10.1029/2010JD014834.
- Christensen
WF and Sain
SR. (2011) “Latent variable modeling for
integrating output from multiple climate models,” to appear in Mathematical Geosciences,
DOI:10.1007/s11004-011-9321-1.
- Heaton MJ, Reese CS, and Christensen
WF. (2010). “Incorporating time-dependent source profiles using the Dirichlet distribution in multivariate receptor
models,” Technometrics, 52, 67-79.
- Christensen
WF, and Schauer JJ. (2008). “Quantifying and
manipulating species influence in positive matrix factorization,” Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory
Systems, 94, 140-148.
- Christensen
WF, and Schauer JJ. (2008). “Impact of species uncertainty
perturbation on the solution stability of positive matrix factorization of
atmospheric particulate matter data,” Environmental
Science & Technology, 42, 6015-6021.
- Lingwall JW, Christensen WF, and Reese
CS. (2008). “Dirichlet
based Bayesian multivariate receptor modeling,” Environmetrics, 19,
618-629.
- Christensen
WF, Schauer JJ, and Lingwall
JW. (2006). “Iterated confirmatory factor analysis for pollution
source apportionment,” Environmetrics, 17,
663-681.
- Christensen
WF. (2004). “Chemical mass balance
analysis of air quality data when unknown pollution sources are present,” Atmospheric
Environment, 38, 4305-4317.
- Christensen
WF,
and Gunst RF. (2004). “Measurement error
models in chemical mass balance analysis of air quality data,” Atmospheric
Environment, 38, 733-744.
- Christensen
WF,
and Amemiya Y. (2002). “Latent variable
analysis of multivariate spatial data,” Journal of the American
Statistical Association, 97, 302-317.
- Christensen
WF,
and Sain SR. (2002). “Accounting for
dependence in a flexible multivariate receptor model,” Technometrics,
44, 328-337.
Curriculum
vitae (.pdf format)
Not-so-serious
stuff

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