Galin Jones

Contact Me

galin@umn.edu

Statistics
347 Ford Hall

224 Church St SE

Affiliations

• Statistics, School of

Links

• http://www.stat.umn.edu/~galin

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• PhD: Statistics, University of Florida, 2001.

Specialties

• Markov Chain Monte Carlo methodology
• Biological and environmental applications
• Bayesian statistics
• Mathematical Statistics
• Decision Theory

Publications

• Steve Brooks, Andrew Gelman, Galin Jones and Xiao-Li Meng, (2011). Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo. CRC Press. Link
• James M. Flegal and Galin L. Jones (2010). Batch means and spectral variance estimators in Markov chain Monte Carlo. The Annals of Statistics, 38, 1034-1070. Link
• Morris L. Eaton, James P. Hobert, Galin L. Jones and Wen-Lin Lai (2008). Evaluation of formal posterior distributions via Markov chain arguments. The Annals of Statistics, 36, 2423-2452. Link
• Brian S. Caffo, Wolfgang Jank, and Galin L. Jones (2005). Ascent-based Monte Carlo Expectation-Maximization. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 67, 235-251. LinkDownload
• Advances in Modern Statistical Theory and Applications: A Festschrift in honor of Morris L. Eaton. Jones, Galin, Xiaotong Shen, Co-Editor. Link

Awards

• Fellow, American Statistical Association