Epidemiology and Biostatistics


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Stephen L. Rathbun

Interim Head & Associate Professor of Biostatistics
rathbun@uga.edu

N132B Paul D. Coverdell Center
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
706.542.6302 (voice)
706.583.0695 (fax)



Educational Background

Ph.D., Statistics, Iowa State University




Research Interests

  • Point process models for event history data
  • Spatial epidemiology
  • Spatial statistics
  • Environmental statistics

Selected Publications

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.