James Flegal
Email: jflegal (AT sign) ucr (DOT or PERIOD) edu
Office: STAT COMP 2670
Mail: 2626 Statistics-Computer Building, Riverside, CA 92521
Voice: (951) 827-2247, Fax: (951) 827-3286
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, subsampling, and Monte Carlo standard errors. The following is a list of recent publications.
- Flegal, J.M. (2008). Monte Carlo Standard Errors in Markov Chain Monte Carlo; University of Minnesota Thesis. pdf
- Flegal, J.M., Haran, M., and Jones, G.L (2008). Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Can We Trust the Third Significant Figure? Statistical Science, Vol. 23, No. 2, 250-260. arXiv
- Flegal, J.M. and Jones, G.L (2009). Batch Means and Spectral Variance Estimators in Markov Chain Monte Carlo; to appear in Annals of Statistics. arXiv
- Flegal, J.M. and Jones, G.L (2009). Quantile estimation via Markov chain Monte Carlo; in progress.
- Flegal, J.M. and Jones, G.L. (2009). Output Analysis for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulations, Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Editors, Brooks,S.P., Gelman,A.E., Jones, G.L., and Meng,X.L., CRC, submitted. pdf, Sweave file for calculations, .Rnw, .pdf