Murali Haran *

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Penn State University
Office : 421B Thomas (Center for Ecology and Environmental Statistics)
Mail : 326 Thomas, University Park, PA 16802.
Phone: 814-863-8126

Teaching

  • Stat 200(Honors) Elementary Statistics, fall 2008 (also fall 2004-2007).
  • Advances in Ecology (ECLGY 597B), fall 2008 (also fall 2006,2007)
  • Stochastic Processes and Monte Carlo (STAT 515), spring 2008 , (also spring 2005-2007).
  • Spatial Models (STAT 597A) fall 2006, 2007.
  • MCMC Tutorial for Center for Astrostatistics Summer School, June 2005-2007.
  • Elementary Statistics (STAT 200), fall 2004.
    Research

    I received my Ph.D. from the School of Statistics at the University of Minnesota. My research interests include statistical computing (Markov chain Monte Carlo) and spatial modeling (primarily involving Bayesian hierarchical models), with applications to problems in Ecology, Geosciences, Geography and Epidemiology. I have also worked on statistical techniques for applications in software engineering. For more, please see: background and research interests.

  • Haran, M., Bhat, K.S., Molineros, J, and De Wolf, E. (2008) Estimating the risk of a crop epidemic from coincident spatiotemporal processes , under revision for Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics .

  • Flegal, J.M., Haran, M., and Jones, G.L. (2008) Markov chain Monte Carlo: Can we trust the third significant figure? to appear in Statistical Science. Code that implements the consistent batch means procedure for MCMC standard errors as described in the paper: R function and C function for consistent batch means

  • Haran, M. and Tierney, L., Exact and approximate sampling for Markov random field models, Under Revision .

  • Haran, M., Karr,A.F., Last,M., Orso,A. Porter,A., Sanil, A.P. and Fouche, S. (2007) Techniques for Classifying Executions of Deployed Software to Support Software Engineering Tasks, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , 33,5:287-304.

  • Jones, G.L., Haran, M., Caffo, B.S. and Neath, R. (2006) Fixed Width Output Analysis for Markov chain Monte Carlo , Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101:1537--1547 .

  • Haran, M., Karr, A.F., Orso, A., Porter, A. and Sanil, A.P. (2005) Applying Classification Techniques to Remotely-Collected Program Execution Data in ESEC/FSE-13: Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering

  • Haran, M., Hodges, J.S., and Carlin, B.P., (2003) Accelerating computation in Markov random field models for spatial data via structured MCMC,, Journal of Comp. and Graph. Statistics , 12, 249-264.

  • Haran, M., Carlin, B.P., Adgate, J.L., Ramachandran, G., Waller, L.A., and Gelfand, A.E., Hierarchical Bayes models for relating particulate matter exposure measures,, Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics, Volume VI, eds. C.Gatsonis, et al., New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002.

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    * pronunciation guide: "u" is pronounced as in the first "u" in "aluminum" ("aluminium" if you are not American); pretend the "a" in "Murali" is silent.