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

0203207-这个美国-墨西哥奖将支持德克萨斯大学安德森癌症中心的彼得·穆勒博士与墨西哥瓜纳华托CIMAT的安德烈斯·克里斯滕博士合作进行的研究。研究人员打算在抽样设计的背景下研究顺序设计方法，以估计物种多样性，并对高生境潜力地区进行推断。适合这些应用的概率模型将包括最优顺序设计策略，使用缩减动作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，墨西哥合作者提供生物多样性推理方面的专业知识，美国合作者在基于模拟的最优贝叶斯设计方面贡献研究重点和经验。两位研究人员在贝叶斯数据分析、建模和模拟方面也都有丰富的研究经验。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.