Presentation av Peter Guttorp  CF:s Professor i Miljövetenskap 2004-2005 ,
(University of Washington, Seattle)
 
Environmetrics - Combining Science and Statistics

Abstract
 
I present some of my research interests, with an emphasis on the
environment in a broad sense, and methodological tools that I and my
co-workers have been using. For example, some flavors of hidden models
have been used to describe stem cells for blood production and
rainfall, a Bayesian hierarchic model is used to combine different
types of rainfall measurements, nonstationary covariance modeling is
used to estimate exposure to air pollution.  I also discuss the
connection between health effect models and environmental standards
and more generally the relationship between scientists and decision
makers.