Recent Publications and Technical Reports

by Xu-Feng Niu

• McGee, D.L., et al, (2004), ``Smoking, Body Weight, and CHD Mortality in Diverse Populations," Preventive Medicine , 38:834-840.

• Elsner, J.B., Niu, X-F., and Jagger, T., (2004), ``Markov Chain Monte Carlo Change-Point Analysis: An Application in Hurricane Climatology," Journal of Climate , Vol. 17, 2652-2666.

• Zhang, S., Niu, X-F., and Ang, J. S. (2003), ``Building Tracking Portfolios Based on a Generalized Information Criterion," Statistica Sinica , Vol. 13, No. 4, 1075-1096.

• Niu, X-F., McKeague, I. W. and Elsner, J. B. (2003), Seasonal Space-Time Models for Climate Systems, Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes, Vol. 6, 111-133.

• Jagger, T., Niu, X-F. and Elsner, J. B. (2002), A Space-Time Model for Seasonal Hurricane Prediction, International Journal of Climatology, Vol. 22, 451-465.

• Applequist, S. Gahrs, Gregory E., Pfeffer, Richard L. and Niu, X-F. (2002), ``Comparison of Methodologies for Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting," Weather and Forecasting, Vol. 17, 783-799.

• Jagger, T., Elsner, J. B., and Niu, X-F. (2001), A Dynamic Probability Model of Hurricane Winds in Coastal Counties of the United States, the Journal of Applied Meteorology, Vol. 40, 853-863.

• Elsner, J. B., Jagger, T., and Niu, X-F. (2000), Changes in the Rates of North Atlantic Major Hurricane Activity During the 20th Century, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 27, NO. 12, 1743-1746.

• Livingston, R. J., Howell, R. L. IV, Niu, X-F., Lewis, F. G. III, and Woodsum G. C. (1999), Recovery of Oyster Reefs (Crassostrea Virginica) in a Gulf Estuary Following Disturbance By Two Hurricanes, Bulletin of Marine Science, 64(3): 465-483.

• Niu, X-F. (1998), Estimating Integrals of Stochastic Processes Using Space-Time Data, The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 26, No. 6, 2246-2263.

• Niu, X-F., Edmiston, H. L. and Bailey, G. O. (1998), Time Series Models for Salinity and Other Environmental Factors in the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Sciences, 46, 549-563.

• Livingston, R. J., Niu, X-F., Lewis, F. G. and Woodsum, G. C. (1997), Freshwater Input to a Gulf Estuary: Long-term Control of Trophic Organization, Ecological Applications, 7(1), 277-299.

• Edward, F. C., Hosfield, E. Meeter, D. A. and Niu, X-F. (1997), Tests for Aggregation and Size-Based Sample-Unit Selection When Sample Units Vary in Size, Technical Report No. 903, Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Ecology, 78(4): 1238-1249.

• Niu, X-F. (1997), Extreme Value Theory for a Class of Nonstationary Time Series with Applications, The Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 7, No. 2, 508-522.

• Niu X-F. (1996), Nonlinear Additive Models for Environmental Time Series, with Applications to Ground-Level Ozone Data Analysis, Technical Report No. 899, Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 91, No, 435, 1310-1321.

• Niu, X-F. and Tiao G. C. (1995), Modeling Satellite Ozone Data, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 90, No. 431, 969-983.

• Niu, X-F (1995), Asymptotic Properties of Maximum Likelihood Estimates in a Class of Space-Time Models, Technical Report No. 874, Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Vol. 55, No. 1, 82-104.

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