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James V. Zidek

Professor Emeritus

Office: Room 3182 Earth Sciences Building
Phone: (604) 551-3469
Fax: (604) 822-6960
Email: jim at stat dot ubc dot ca

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Research Interests:

Bayesian decision analysis, monitoring network design, spatial prediction. More information about my research interests.


Books:

More about the textbook below about environmental epidemiology published in 2016 can be found on the publisher's webpage. It also has a webpage with a lot of additional material, R code and so on. Its preface describes how it may be used in courses for students with various backgrounds, e.g. those in environmental epidemiology.

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Book three cover
The reference work above is about environmental processes was published in 2006 and represented the state of spatio-temporal processes, especially those involving Gaussian processes, at the time of its publication. It includes a tutorial on the use of its accompanying software package called EnviroStat.


Degrees, positions:

B.Sc. (1961), University of Alberta
M.Sc. (1963), University of Alberta
Ph.D. (1967), Stanford

University of Alberta (1962-63)
     Sessional Lecturer,

Stanford University
    Teaching and Research Assistant (1962-67)

University of British Columbia
    Assistant Professor of Statistics (1967-1970)
    Associate Professor of Statistics (1971-1976)
    Professor of Statistics (1977-2004)
    Head of Statistics (1984-1989, 1997-2002)
    Professor Emeritus (2005-)

Australian Commonwealth Industrial and Scientific Organization and
    Imperial College
    Visiting Scientist and Professor (1975-76)

South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and
     Imperial College
     Visiting Scientist and Professor (1982-83)

University of Washington
    Professor of Statistics (1983-84)

University of Bath
     Visiting Professor (1989-90)

National University of Singapore and University of Kent
     Visiting Scientist and Professor (1982-83)

University of Bath/Statistical Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
    Visiting Professor(2002-2003)

University of Bath
     Global Chair for the Institute for Mathematical Innovation (2015-2016)


Honors:

1976: Elected Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

1979: Elected Member, International Statistical Institute

1988: Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association>

1987: President, Statistical Society of Canada

1989: Izaak Walton Killam Senior Fellowship

1999: Eugene Lukacs Symposium Distinguished Service Award

2000: Invited Presidential Address Statistical Society of Canada

2000: Gold Medal, Statistical Society of Canada

2000: Distinguished Achievement Medal, Environmental
    Statistics Section, American Statistical Association

2001: Izaak Walton Research Prize

2003: Hunter Lecture, International Environmetrics Society

2003: Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Canada

2004: Plenary Lecture, South African Statistical Association

2005: Honorary Membership Statistical Society of Canada

2005: Appointed to Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee for Ozone, US EPA

2007: PIMS Tenth Anniversary Distinguished Lecture, U Washington

2018: Statistician of the Month: September, Chapman and Hall/CRC Pres

2019: The David Rees Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, University of Exeter

2020: Inducted as an Officer of the Order of Canada

2021: Inaugural recipient of the UBC Emeritus College Award for
     Excellence in Innovative and Creative Endeavors



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