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Submitted/preprints

Paciorek, C.J. The importance of scale for spatial-confounding bias and precision of spatial regression estimators. Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper 98. Submitted to Statistical Science.

Brochu, P.J., Yanosky, J.D., Paciorek, C.J., Schwartz, J., Chen, J.T., Herrick, R.F., and H.H. Suh. Particulate air pollution and socioeconomic position in rural and urban areas of the northeastern United States. In submission.

Published

Puett, R.C., Hart, J.E., Yanosky, J.D., Paciorek, C.J., Schwartz, J., Suh, H., Speizer, F.E., and F. Laden. 2009. Chronic fine and coarse particulate exposure, mortality and coronary heart disease in the Nurses' Health Study. Environmental Health Perspectives 117:1697-1701. doi:10.1289/ehp.0900572. PMCID: PMC2679594.

Paciorek, C.J., and Y. Liu. 2009. Limitations of remotely-sensed aerosol as a spatial proxy for fine particulate matter. Environmental Health Perspectives 117:904-909. doi:10.1289/ehp.0800360. PMCID: PMC2702404.

Paciorek, C.J., and J.S. McLachlan. 2009. Mapping ancient forests: Bayesian inference for spatio-temporal trends in forest composition. Journal of the American Statistical Association 104:608-622. PMCID: PMC2744074.

Liu, Y., Paciorek, C.J., and P. Koutrakis. 2009. Estimating regional spatial and temporal variability of PM2.5 concentrations using satellite data, meteorology, and land use information. Environmental Health Perspectives 117:886–892. doi:10.1289/ehp.0800123. PMCID: PMC2702401.

Baxter, L.K., Wright, R.J., Paciorek, C.J., Laden, F., Suh, H.H., and J.I. Levy. 2009. Effects of exposure measurement error in the analysis of health effects from traffic-related air pollution. In press in Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. doi: 10.1038/jes.2009.5.

Paciorek, C.J., Yanosky, J.D., Puett, R.C., Laden, F., and H.H. Suh. 2009. Practical large-scale spatio-temporal modeling of particulate matter concentrations. Annals of Applied Statistics 3:370-397.

Gryparis, A., Paciorek, C.J., Zeka, A., Schwartz, J., and B.A. Coull. 2009. Measurement error caused by spatial misalignment in environmental epidemiology. Biostatistics 10:258-274. doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxn033. PMCID: PMC Journal - In Process.

Yanosky, J.D., Paciorek C.J. and H.H. Suh. 2009. Predicting chronic fine and coarse particulate exposures using spatio-temporal models for the northeastern and midwestern US. Environmental Health Perspectives 117:522-529. doi:10.1289/ehp.11692.

Puett, R.C., Schwartz, J., Hart, J.E., Yanosky, J.D., Speizer, F.E., Suh, H.H., Paciorek, C.J., Neas, L. and F. Laden. 2008. Chronic particulate exposure, mortality and cardiovascular outcomes in the Nurses' Health Study. American Journal of Epidemiology 168:1161-1168. doi:10.1093/aje/kwn232.

Paciorek, C.J., Liu, Y., Moreno-Macias, H. and S. Kondragunta. 2008. Spatio-temporal associations between GOES aerosol optical depth retrievals and ground-level PM2.5. Environmental Science and Technology 42:5800-5806. doi:10.1021/es703181j.

Yanosky, J.D., Paciorek, C.J., Schwartz, J., Laden, F., Puett, R., and H.H. Suh. 2008. Spatio-temporal modeling of chronic PM10 exposure for the Nurses' Health Study. Atmospheric Environment 42:4047-4062. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.01.044.

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Paciorek, C.J. 2007b. Bayesian smoothing with Gaussian processes using Fourier basis functions in the spectralGP package. Journal of Statistical Software 19(2). PMCID: PMC2156645.

Paciorek, C.J. 2007a. Computational techniques for spatial logistic regression with large datasets. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 51:3631-3653. doi:10.1016/j.csda.2006.11.008. PMCID PMC2350194.

Baxter, L.K., Clougherty, J.E., Paciorek, C.J., Wright, R.J., and J.I. Levy. 2007. Predicting residential indoor concentrations of nitrogen dioxide, fine particulate matter, and elemental carbon using questionnaire and geographic information system based data. Atmospheric Environment 41:6561-6571.

Paciorek, C.J. and M.J. Schervish. 2006. Spatial modelling using a new class of nonstationary covariance functions. Environmetrics 17:483-506. PMID 18163157.

Paciorek, C.J. 2006. Misinformation in the conjugate prior for the linear model with implications for free-knot spline modelling. Bayesian Analysis 1:375-383. PMID 18185854.

Ickes, K., C.J. Paciorek, and S. Thomas. 2005. Impacts of nest construction by native pigs (Sus scrofa) on saplings in a lowland Malaysian rain forest. Ecology 86:1540-1547.

Ventura, V., C.J. Paciorek, and J.S. Risbey. 2004. Controlling the proportion of falsely-rejected hypotheses when conducting multiple tests with climatological data. Journal of Climate 17:4343-4356.

Paciorek, C.J., and M.J. Schervish. 2004. Nonstationary covariance functions for Gaussian process regression. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16:273-280.

Paciorek, C.J., J.S. Risbey, V. Ventura, and R.D.Rosen. 2002. Multiple indices of Northern Hemisphere Cyclone Activity, Winters 1949-1999. Journal of Climate 15:1573-1590.

Paciorek, C.J., R. Condit, S.P. Hubbell, and R.B. Foster. 2000. The demographics of resprouting in tree and shrub species of a moist tropical forest. Journal of Ecology 88(5):765-777.

Paciorek, C.J., Moyer, B.R., Levin, R.A., and Halpern, S.L. 1995. Pollen consumption by hummingbird flower mite Proctolaelaps kirmsei and possible fitness effects on Hamelia patens. Biotropica 27:258-262. (author order determined by lot)

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