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Publications by James V. Zidek FRSC, O.C.

2023

Fan S, Wong SW;K, Zidek JV. Knots and their effect on the tensile strength of lumber. Journal of Quality Technology. 2023. pp. 1-13.
Lee TYoon, Zidek JV, Heckman N. Nondimensionalizing physical and statistical models: a unified approach. Statistical Science. 2023. p. Submitted.
Shaddick G, Zidek JV, Schmidt AM. Spatio–Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology with R. CRC Press; 2023.

2022

Chen J, Liu Y, Taylor CG, Zidek JV. Permutation tests under a rotating sampling plan with clustered data. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 2022; 16: 936–958.
Dean CB, El-Shaarawi AH, Esterby SR, Flemming JMills, Routledge RD, Taylor SW, et al. Canadian contributions to environmetrics. Canadian Journal of Statistics [Internet]. 2022; n/a. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cjs.11743 URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cjs.11743

2021

Pan S, Fan S, Wong S, Zidek JV, Rhodin H. Ellipse detection and localization with applications to knots in sawn lumber images. 2021 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). 2021. pp. 3892-3901.
Chen J, Li P, Liu Y, Zidek JV. Composite empirical likelihood for multisample clustered data. J Nonparametric Statistics. 2021;: Accepted Apr 2021.
Chen J, Li P, Liu Y, Zidek JV. Permutation tests under a rotating sampling plan with clustered data. Journal of nonparametric statistics. 2021; 33: 60-81.
Wang Y, Le ND, Zidek JV. Approximately Optimal Subset Selection for Statistical Design and Modelling. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 2021;: 1-13.

2020

Wang Y, Le ND, Zidek JV. Approximately Optimal Spatial Design: How Good is it?. Spatial Statistics. 2020; 37: 100409.
Thomas ML, Shaddick G, Simpson D, de Hoogh K, Zidek JV. Spatio-temporal downscaling for continental scale estimation of air pollution concentrations. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C. 2020;: Submitted.
Pan S, Fan S, Wong SWK, Zidek JV, Rhodin H. Ellipse Detection and Localization with Applications to Knots in Sawn Lumber Images. arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.04844. 2020 .
Lee TYoon, Zidek JV, Heckman N. Dimensional Analysis in Statistical Modelling. Statistical Science. 2020;: Submitted.
Lee TYoon, Zidek JV. Scientific versus statistical modelling: a unifying approach. arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.11259. 2020 .

2019

Thomas ML, Shaddick G, Simpson D, de Hoogh K, Zidek JV. Data integration for high-resolution, continental-scale estimation of air pollution concentrations. arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.00093. 2019;.
Thomas ML, Shaddick G, Simpson D, de Hoogh K, Zidek JV. Data integration for high-resolution, continental-scale estimation of air pollution concentrations. arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.00093. 2019;.
Watson J, Zidek JV, Shaddick G. A General Theory for Preferential Sampling in Environmental Networks. Annals of Applied Statistics. 2019;: Accepted.
Yang C-H, Zidek JV, Wong SWK. Bayesian analysis of accumulated damage models in lumber reliability. Technometrics. 2019; 61: 1-14.
Wong SWK, Zidek JV. The duration of load effect in lumber as stochastic degradation. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 2019;: 410-419.
Jun S-H, Wong SWK, Zidek JV, Bourchard-Cote A. Sequential decision model for inference and prediction on non-uniform hypergraphs with application to knot matching from computational forestry. Annals of Applied Statistics. 2019; 13: 1678-1707 .

2018

Liu Y, Salibian-Barrera M, Zamar R, Zidek JV. Using artificial censoring to improve extreme tail quantile estimates. Applied Statistics. 2018;: Accepted Dec 4, 2017.
Shaddick G, Thomas M, Jobling A, Brauer M, van Donkelaar A, Burnett R, et al. Data Integration Model for Air Quality: A HierarchicalApproach to the Global Estimation of Exposures to Ambient Air Pollution. Applied Statistics. 2018; 67: 231-253.
Kondo Y, Zidek JV, Taylor CG, van Eeden C. Subset selection procedures with an application to lumber strength properties. Sanhkya Ser B. 2018; 80: 146-172.
Resende-Casquilho C, Le ND, Zidek JV. Design of Monitoring Networks using k-Determinantal Point Processes. Environmetrics. 2018; 29: Accepted Oct 14, 2017.
Zidek JV, LUM CONROY. Statistical challenges in assessing the engineering properties of forest products. Annual review of statistics and its application - invitation only. 2018; 5: 237-264.
Kondo Y, Zidek JV, Taylor CG, van Eeden C. Bayesian subset selection procedures with an application to lumber strength properties. Sankhya Ser A. 2018;: Accepted Aug 08, 2018.
Wong S, Zidek JV. Dimensional and statistical foundations for accumulated damage models. Wood Science and Technology. 2018; 52: 45-65.

2017

Casquilho-Resende CM, Le ND, Zidek JV. Spatio-temporal modelling of temperature fields in the Pacific Northwest. Environmetrics. 2017;: Resubmitted.
Jun S-H, Bouchare-Cote A. Sequential graph matching with sequential monte carlo. Wonlg SWK. 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. Fort Lauderdale, Florida: AISTATS; 2017.

2016

Shaddick G, Zidek JV, Liu Y. Mitigating the effects of preferentially selected monitoring sites for environmental policy and health risk analysis. Spatial and Spatio-temporal epidemiology. 2016; 18: 44-52.
Cai Y, Zidek JV. Estimating the damage caused by proof loading lumber products. 2016 . Report No.: 277.
Cheng L, Wu L, Lum C, Zidek JV, Yu T. Wood Property Relationships and Survival Models in Reliability. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry. 2016; 32: 792-803.
Liu Y, Zidek JV, Trites A, Battaile B. Bayesian Data Fusion Approaches to Predicting Spatial Tracks: Application to Marine Mammals. Annals of Applied Statistics. 2016;: Accepted.

2015

Zidek JV, others . Discussion of ``Optimal design in geostatistics under preferential sampling '' Ferreira and Gamerman. Bayesian Analysis. International Society for Bayesian Analysis; 2015; 10: 749–752.
Shaddick G, Zidek JV. Spatio-Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology. CRC Press; 2015.
Cai S, Chen J, Zidek JV. Hypothesis testing in the presence of multiple samples under a density ratio model. Statistica Sinica. 2015;: Accepted.
Wong SWK, LUM CONROY, WU LANG, Zidek JV. Quantifying uncertainty in lumber grading and strength prediction: a Bayesian approach. Technometrics. Taylor and Francis; 2015; 58: 236-243.
Liu Y, Shaddick G, Zidek JV. incorporating high-dimensional exposure modelling into studies of air pollution and health. Statistics in Biosciences. 2015;: Accepted.
Liu Y, Battaile BC, Trites AW, Zidek JV. Bias correction and uncertainty characterization of Dead-Reckoned paths of marine mammals. Animal Biotelemetry. BioMed Central; 2015; 3: 1.

2014

Shaddick G, Zidek JV. A case study in preferential sampling: Long term monitoring of air pollution in the UK. Spatial Statistics. Elsevier; 2014; 9: 51–65.
Zidek JV, Shaddick G, Taylor CG, others . Reducing estimation bias in adaptively changing monitoring networks with preferential site selection. The Annals of Applied Statistics. Institute of Mathematical Statistics; 2014; 8: 1640–1670.
Cai S, Zidek JV, Newlands NK, Neilsen D. Statistical modeling and forecasting of fruit crop phenology under climate change. Environmetrics. Wiley Online Library; 2014; 25: 621–629.
Liu Y, Battaile BC, Zidek JV, Trites AW. Bayesian melding of the dead-reckoned path and GPS measurements for an accurate and high-resolution path of marine mammals. arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6683. 2014.

2013

WANG BRADJIANHE, ZHANG HONGBIN, WU LANG, HUANG SUYONG, Zidek JV, LU JIANXIONG. Property Modeling of Changbai Larch Veneers in Relation to Stand and Tree Variables. Vancouver, BC: Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia; 2013.
Cai S, Chen J, Zidek JV. Hypothesis testing in the presence of multiple samples under density ratio models. Statistica Sinica. 2013;: To appear.

2012

van Eeden C, Zidek JV. Subset selection–extended Rizvi–Sobel for unequal sample sizes and its implementation. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics. Taylor and Francis; 2012; 24: 299–315.
Zidek JV, Shaddick G. Unbiasing estimates from preferentially sampled spatial data. Relatorio Technico. 2012; 268.
ZHAI YONGLIANG, Heckman N, LUM CONROY, PIRVU CIPRIAN, WU LANG, Zidek JV. Stochastic models for the effects of duration of load on lumber properties. Vancouver, BC: Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia; 2012.
Bornn L, Zidek JV. Efficient stabilization of crop yield prediction in the Canadian Prairies. Agricultural and forest meteorology. Elsevier; 2012; 152: 223–232.
van Eeden C, Zidek JV. Contemporary Developments in Bayesian Analysis and Statistical Decision Theory: A Festschrift for William E. Strawderman. In: E. Forurndrinier MD, Rukhin AL. Institute of Mathematical Statistics Collections; 2012. pp. 131-153.

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