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Key Note Speakerheadline bar  Jay Ver HoefJay Ver Hoef National Marine Mammal Laboratory Jay Ver Hoef is a statistician with the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Mammal Laboratory, where he is responsible for survey design and data analysis for a variety of marine mammals. From 1991 until 2005 he was a biometrician with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and an adjunct professor of statistics at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and is currently chair for the Statistics and the Environment Section of the ASA. He has served as an associate editor for the journal Ecology and Ecological Monographs and the Encyclopedia of Environmetrics. He was a consultant to ESRI, makers of ArcView and ArcMap, where he helped develop the Geostatistical Analyst. His fields of major statistical activities are in spatial statistics, sampling, and Bayesian statistics. He has developed an applied course on spatial statistics that he has taught throughout the United States and Europe. **Keynote Address:****"An Introduction to Statistical Models for Spatial Data in Ecology"** What are Statistical Models of Spatial Data?The Many Faces of AutocorrelationPitfalls in Spatial Statistics: Valid Models of AutocorrelationAn Introduction to Geostatistics, Lattice Models, and Spatial Point PatternsExamples of Spatial Models for MappingExamples of Spatial Regression ModelsExamples of Spatial Models for Designed ExperimentsExamples of Spatial Models for SamplingSpatial SoftwareNew Directions in Spatial Statistics


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