Anton Westveld
Assistant Professor of StatisticsDepartment of Mathematical Sciences
University of Nevada Las Vegas
anton dot westveld at unlv dot edu
Info:
I recently graduated from the Statistics Department at the University of Washington in Seattle where I was also part of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. My Ph.D. advisor was Peter Hoff and my secondary advisor was Kevin Quinn. I then spent 6 months (starting January '07) as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Empirical Research in the Law and the Center for Applied Statistics at Washington University in St Louis where Andrew Martin was my mentor.
Currently I am interested in statistical methodology for relational/interaction data which include social network data and game theoretic data. Additional topics of interest include: Bayesian data analysis, decision theory, Bayesian inference for structured covariance matrices, methodology for dependent data in general, environmental statistics, graphical models, and causal modeling.
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I recently graduated from the Statistics Department at the University of Washington in Seattle where I was also part of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. My Ph.D. advisor was Peter Hoff and my secondary advisor was Kevin Quinn. I then spent 6 months (starting January '07) as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Empirical Research in the Law and the Center for Applied Statistics at Washington University in St Louis where Andrew Martin was my mentor.
Currently I am interested in statistical methodology for relational/interaction data which include social network data and game theoretic data. Additional topics of interest include: Bayesian data analysis, decision theory, Bayesian inference for structured covariance matrices, methodology for dependent data in general, environmental statistics, graphical models, and causal modeling.
- Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
- 2008 JSM Invited Session: Political Science, Statistical Science, and Graphics
- I organized this session on behalf of the Chair on Statistical Graphics (David Hunter).
- Speakers:
- Burt Monro --- Pennsylvania State University --- Department of Polticial Science and the director of the Quantative Social Science Initiative.
- A Picture is Worth
a Billion Words:
Visualizing Mega-Parameter Models from Giga-Scale Textual Data
- Michael Ward --- University of Washington, Seattle --- Department of Political Science and the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences.
- Ceci
N'Est Pas Une Carte
- Chris Adolph --- University of Washington, Seattle --- Department of Political Science and the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences.
- Tufte Without Tears
Teaching:
Other Links:
- R-project for
Statistical Computing
- Scythe Statistical Library -- an open source C++ library for statistical computation with functionality similar to R.
- OpenBUGS (Bayesian Inference Using Gibbs Sampling)
- Discovery Channel feature presentation on
Bayesian Statistics [mp3]