U.S.-Mexico Cooperative Research: Simulation Based Sequential Design: Species Diversity

0203207穆勒美国-墨西哥奖将支持德克萨斯大学医学博士彼得·穆勒博士。安德森癌症中心，在与墨西哥瓜纳华托CIMAT的安德烈斯·克里斯滕博士的研究合作中。 研究人员打算在抽样设计的背景下研究序贯设计方法，以估计物种多样性和推断高栖息地潜力的区域。适用于这些应用的概率模型将涉及最优顺序设计策略，使用缩减行动空间和蒙特卡罗模拟的混合策略。合作者将为项目带来互补的技能，墨西哥合作者将贡献生物多样性推理的专业知识，美国合作者将贡献基于模拟的最优贝叶斯设计的研究重点和经验。两位研究人员在贝叶斯数据分析、建模和模拟方面也有丰富的研究经验。研究生的参与将扩大合作的基础。

0203207MuellerThis U.S.-Mexico award will support Dr. Peter Mueller of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, in a research collaboration with Dr. Andres Christen of CIMAT in Guanajuato, Mexico. The researchers intend to work on sequential design approaches in the context of sampling designs for estimating species diversity and for inference about areas of high habitat potential. Appropriate probability models for these applications will involve optimal sequential design strategies, using a hybrid strategy of reduced action spaces and Monte Carlo simulations.The collaborators will bring complementary skills to the project with the Mexican collaborators contributing expertise in inference for biodiversity, and the U.S. collaborators contributing research focus and experience in simulation-based optimal Bayesian design. Both investigators also have extensive research experience in Bayesian data analysis, modeling, and simulation. The involvement of graduate students will broaden the basis of the collaboration.