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<h2><span class="header-section-number">0.1</span> Stephen Berg</h2>
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<h2><span class="header-section-number">0.2</span> About Me</h2>
<p>I am an assistant professor of statistics at Penn State University. I joined Penn State in 2020 after receiving my PhD in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I was advised by Jun Zhu and Murray Clayton.</p>
<p>My research focuses on statistical computing problems, particularly related to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), as well as spatial and spatial-temporal statistics.</p>
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<li><p>Statistical computing</p>
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<li>MCMC</li>
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<li><p>Environmental and ecological statistics</p>
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<li>I have worked on some statistics applications in landscape ecology and in modeling chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Wisconsin deer. Generally, I am interested in constructing realistic models of natural phenomena for inference and forecasting, particularly using differential equations or partial differential equations.</li>
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<li><p>Spatial and spatial-temporal statistics</p></li>
<li><p>Nonparametric statistics
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