Stephen L. Rathbun

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Associate Head & Professor of Biostatistics
B.S. Miller Hall Room 206
Health Sciences Campus
University of Georgia
101 Buck Road
Athens, GA  30602
Phone: 
706.542.6302
Fax: 
706.583.0695
Educational Background: 
Ph.D., Statistics, Iowa State University
Research Interests: 
  • Point process models for event history data
  • Spatial epidemiology
  • Spatial statistics
  • Environmental statistics
  • Ecological Momentary Assessment
Professional Affiliations: 

American Statistical Association

Selected Publications: 

Pearce, J.L., Rathbun, S.L., Aguilar-Villalobos, M., and Naeher, L.P. (2009). Characterizing the spatiotemporal variability of PM_{2.5} in Cusco, Peru using kriging with external drift. Atmospheric Environment 43, 2060-2069.

Rathbun, S.L., Shiffman, S., and Gwaltney, C. 2007. Modeling the effects of partially observed covariates on Poisson process intensity.Biometrika 94, 153-165.

Rathbun, S.L. 2006. Spatial Prediction with Left-Censored Observations. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 11, 317-336.

Rathbun, S.L., and Black, B. 2006. Modeling and Spatial Prediction of Pre-Settlement Patterns of Forest Distribution using Witness Tree Data Environmental and Ecological Statistics 13, 427-448.

Rathbun, S.L., and Fei, S. 2006. A Spatial Zero-Inflated Poisson Regression Model for Oak Regeneration. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 13, 409-426.

Lin, H., and Rathbun, S.L. 2003. Hierarchical frameworks for multiscale bridging in hydropedology. In Y. Pachepsky, D. Radcliffe and H.M. Selim (eds.). Scaling Methods in Soil Physics, pp. 347-371. CRC Press, Baton Rouge, FL.

Singleton, D.R., Furlong, M.A., Rathbun, S., and Whitman, W.B. 2001. Quantitative comparisons of 16S rDNA sequence libraries from environmental samples. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67, 4374-4376.

Calvert, C.A., Jacobs, G.J. Smith, D.D., Rathbun, S.L., and Pickus, C.W. 2000. Association between results of ambulatory electrocardiography and development of cardiomyopathy during long-term follow-up of Doberman Pinschers. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 216, 34-39.

Rathbun, S.L. 1998. Spatial modeling in irregularly shaped regions: kriging estuaries. Environmetrics 9, 109-129.

Rathbun, S.L. 1996. Estimation of Poisson intensity using partially observed concomitant variables. Biometrics 52, 226-242.

Rathbun, S.L. 1996. Asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood estimator for spatio-temporal point processes. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 51, 55-74.