Richard L. Smith

Department of Statistics and Operations Research,
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3260.

Office: 303 Hanes Hall
Phone: 919-962-2660
Fax: 919-962-1279
Email: rls at email.unc.edu

Richard L. Smith

Mark L. Reed III Distinguished Professor

Richard L. Smith has been Professor of Statistics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1991, and became Mark L. Reed III Distinguished Professor in July, 2004. Since 2008, he also holds the position of Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health. He obtained his PhD from Cornell University in 1979 and has previously held academic positions at Imperial College (London), the University of Surrey (Guildford, England) and Cambridge University. His principal areas of research are spatial statistics, time series analysis, extreme value theory and Bayesian statistics. Specific areas of expertise include spatial and time series modeling of environmental pollutants, the health effects of atmospheric pollution, the statistics of global climate change, and extreme values in insurance and finance. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, and has won the Guy Medal in Silver of the Royal Statistical Society, and the Distinguished Achievement Medal of the Section on Statistics and the Environment, American Statistical Association. In 2004 he was the J. Stuart Hunter Lecturer of The International Environmetrics Society (TIES). He is also a Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society.

Teaching for 2009/2010:

STOR 664: Applied Statistics I, Fall 2009.

STOR 940: SAMSI course on Spatial Epidemiology, Fall 2009.

STOR 151 (Basic Concepts of Statistics), Spring 2009.

Links to older teaching webpages:

STOR 654 (Time Series and Multivariate Analysis), Fall 2008.

STOR 890 (Environmental Statistics), Spring 2009.

STOR 356, Spring 2008.

Statistics 174: Applied Statistics I, Fall 2004

Research:

Recent Publications

E.C. Mannshardt-Shamseldin, R.L. Smith, S.R. Sain, L.D. Mearns and D. Cooley (2009), Downscaling extremes: A comparison of extreme value distributions in point-source and gridded precipitation data. Accepted for Annals of Applied Statistics. Preprint - Supplemental Appendix

R.L. Smith, B. Xu and P. Switzer (2009), Reassessing the relationship between ozone and short-term mortality in U.S. urban communities. Inhalation Toxicology; in press. Preprint

R.L. Smith, C. Tebaldi, D. Nychka and L.O. Mearns (2009), Bayesian Modeling of Uncertainty in Ensembles of Climate Models. Journal of the American Statistical Association 104 , 97-116.

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