Associate Professor M Liliana Gonzalez

Education

Employment

Teaching

University of Rhode Island

Undergraduate level:

Introductory Statistics

Statistical Methods in Research I

Graduate Level:

Spatial Data Analysis

Analysis of Variance and Variance Component

Regression Analysis

Categorical Data Analysis

The College of Continuing Education of the University of Rhode Island

Introductory Statistics

University of Otago

Business Statistics

Business Mathematics

Business Data Analysis

Introductory Econometrics

Experimental Design

Industrial Statistics

Regression Analysis

Time Series Analysis and Business Forecasting

Universidad Piloto de Colombia

Calculus

Differential Equations

Computer Languages (Basic, Cobol, Fortran, Pascal)

Numerical Analysis

Universidad de los Andes

Numerical Analysis

Short Courses at Research and Tertiary Teaching Institutions

Remedial Mathematics and Statistics for the Master of Business Administration

Environmental Statistics

Spatial Statistics

Computer Intensive Statistics

Design and Analysis of Ecological Studies

Biostatistics

Consulting

I have worked as a statistical consultant on a variety of projects, involving quality control, simulations, time series modelling and forecasting, survey designs, sample size requirements for quality surveys, estimation and simulation of biological populations, environmental monitoring, impact assessment and biostatistics.

Organizations I have consulted with:

• Cadbury's (New Zealand, 1989, 1990)
• Environmental Protection Agency, (USA, 1991)
• Robin MBS Loss Adjusters (NZ, 1991)
• Electricorp (NZ, 1991)
• Bachy Ltd (NZ, 1991)
• Clement and Associates Ltd (NZ, 1992)
• Natural Gas Corporation (NZ, 1992)
• Accident Compensation Corporation (NZ, 1993)
• Business Research Centre (NZ, 1993)
• New Zealand Post (NZ, 1994)
• Western EcoSystem Technology (USA, 1992, 1994)
• Ecopetrol (Colombian state owned oil company, 1994 - 1995)
• New Zealand Aluminium Smelters (NZ, 1995)
• BOLFOR-Bolivian Forestry (Bolivia, 1996)
• INVEMAR - Colombian Marine Research Institute (Colombia, 1995 - 1997)
• ISAGEN - Electricity Company of Colombia (Colombia, 1997-1998)
• Iguazu National Park (Argentina, 1998), University of Otago Medical School (NZ, 1998)
• University of Tucuman (Argentina, 1999)
• Department of Neuropathology at Rhode Island Hospital (USA, 2002-Present)
• Women and Infants at Rhode Island Hospital (USA, 2002-Present)
• Braceland Center for Mental Health and Aging (CT, USA, 2003-2004)

Contract Research and Consulting Reports:

• Borgman, L. and González, L. Probability for Extremes of Dependent Events. Report prepared for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Santa Barbara, California, USA (1987). Principal Investigator: Borgman, L.; Research Assistant: González, L.
• Shive, P., Borgman, L., Easley, D., González, L. and Lowry, T. Geophysical Methods for Cavity Detection. Report prepared for The Geotechnical Laboratory US Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA (1987). Principal Investigators: Shive, P. and Borgman, L.; Research Assistants: Easley, D., González, L. and Lowry, T.
• Borgman, L. and González, L. Ocean Wave Data Analysis from Southern California. Report for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Santa Barbara, California, USA (1988). Principal Investigator: Borgman, L.; Research Assistant: González, L.
• Borgman, L., Easley, D. and González, L. An Investigation of Local-Scale, Geostatistical, Groundwater Modelling of Contaminant Movement, and of Associated Problems in Estimation and Hypothesis Testing. Report prepared for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (1991). Principal Investigator: Borgman, L.; Research Assistants: Easley, D. and González, L.
• González, L. and Manly, B.F.J. Metering Errors: Three, Six and Fifteen Phases. Report prepared for ELECTRICORP, Twizel, New Zealand (1991).
• González, L. and Manly, B.F.J. Metering Errors: One, Two and Five Phases. Report prepared for ELECTRICORP, Twizel, New Zealand (1991).
• González, L. and Manly, B.F.J. Business Interruption Claim. Report prepared for Robins MBS, Dunedin, New Zealand (1991).
• González, L. Kernel Estimation as a Method for Estimating Selection Functions. Report prepared for WEST (Western EcoSystems Technology) as part of the US Environmental Protection Agency Contract 68 CO-0021, Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA (1992). Principal Investigators: McDonald, L.L. and Manly, B.F.J.
• González, L. Temperature Effect on Gas Volumes. Report prepared for Natural Gas Corporation, Hamilton, New Zealand (1992).
• Manly, B.F.J. and González, L. A Confidence Interval for the Number of Pathological Gamblers in New Zealand. Report prepared for the Business Research Centre, Wellington, New Zealand (1993).
• Manly, B.F.J. and González, L. Sample Size Requirements for an Accident Compensation and Insurance Corporation Survey of the Importance of Service Factors. Report prepared for the Accident Compensation Corporation, Wellington, New Zealand (1993).
• Manly, B.F.J. and González, L. Adjustment of Linear Counts for Postal Volumes Using Audit Data. Report prepared for New Zealand Post, Dunedin, New Zealand (1994).
• Manly, B.F.J. and González, L. On the Design and Analysis of Experiments on Smelter Cells. Report prepared for New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Ltd, Southland, New Zealand (1995).
• González, L. Statistical Analysis of Fish Data: Catatumbo River - February 1995. Report prepared for Ecopetrol-DCC, Cúcuta, Colombia (1995).
• González, L. Statistical Analysis of Fish Data in the Catatumbo River. Report prepared for Ecopetrol-DCC, Cúcuta, Colombia (1995).
• González, L. Cholesterol, Diabetes, Hypertension and Smoking as Determinants of Stenosis. Report prepared for Isabelle Möbs, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand (1998).
• Passmore, L., Goodside, J., Hamel, L., González, L., Silverstein, T. and Trimarchi., J. Assessing Decision Tree Models for Clinical In-Vitro Fertilization Data. Technical Report TR03-296, Department of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI (2003).
• González, L., Hanumara, C., Overdeep, C. and Church, S. C. 2003 Bicycle Transportation User Survey; Developing Intermodal Connections for the 21^st Century. Report prepared for the University of Rhode Island Transportation Center (URITC), Kingston, RI (2003).

Research

My research interests are mainly in the areas of environmental modelling and monitoring, spatial statistics, computer intensive methods, time series analysis and biostatistics.

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

• Premachandra, L.M. and González, L. An Exact Solution to a Class of Queuing Systems with Multipurpose Counters. Journal of Computers and Operations Research, 21, 9:969-977 (1994).
• McDonald, L.L., González, L. and Manly, B.F.J. Using Selection Functions to Describe Changes in Environmental Variables. Journal of Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 2, 225-237 (1995).
• Premachandra, L.M. and González, L. A Simulation Model Solved the Scheduling Problem of Drilling Rigs at Clyde Dam. Interfaces, 26, 2:80-91 (1996).
• González, L. and Manly, B.F.J. Analysis of Variance by Randomization with Small Data Sets. Environmetrics, 9, 1:53-65 (1998).
• González, L., Powell, J. and Stump R. Predicting Stock Market Returns Using TENZ Prices and NZSE Index Futures Prices. New Zealand Investment Analyst Journal, 19, 13-17 (1998). Awarded "Best Paper", New Zealand Investment Analyst Journal Competition, 1998.
• Bhabra, G.S., González, L., Myeong, S.K. and Powell, J. Volatility Prediction During Prolonged Crises: Evidence from Korean Index Options. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 9, 2:147-164 (2001).
• Hollister, J. W., González, L., Paul, J. F., August, P. V. and Copeland, J. L. Assessing the Accuracy of the National Land Cover Dataset Area Estimates at Multiple Spatial Extents. Journal of Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 70, 4:405-414 (2004).
• Chick, G. and González, L. Case Studies in Cultural Control: John M. Roberts' Four Southwestern Men. Journal of Cross Cultural Research. Forthcoming.
• González, L., Powell, J.G., Shi, J. and Wilson, A. Two Centuries of Bull and Bear Market Cycles. International Review of Economics & Finance. Forthcoming.
• González, L., Hoang, P., Powell, J.G. and Shi, J. Defining and Dating Bull and Bear Markets: Two Centuries of Evidence. Multinational Finance Journal. Forthcoming.
• Silberstein, T., Trimarchi, J.R., González, L., Keefe, D.L. and Blazar, A. Pregnancy Outcome in In-vitro Fertilization Decreases to a Plateau with Repeated Cycles. Fertility & Fertility. Forthcoming.
• Akhlaghi, F., González, L. and Trull, A. K. Association Between Cyclosporine Concentrations at Two Hours Post Dose (C-2) and Clinical Outcomes in De Novo Lung Transplant Recipients. Transplantation. Forthcoming.

Refereed Proceedings Articles

• González, L. Iterative Fitting of a Regression Model for Spatially Correlated Data. In Proceedings of the Second Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 87-99 (1990).
• González, L. and Benwell, G.L. Stochastic Models of the Behaviour of Scrubweeds in Southland and Otago. In Proceedings of the Statistics in Ecology and Environmental Monitoring Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 111-123 (1993).
• Jeong, J. and González, L. Day-of-the-Week Effect: Selection Function Approach. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, Maui, Hawaii, Volume 1, 236-239 (1994).
• Bhabra, G.S., González, L., Myeong, S.K. and Powell, J. Did Option Traders Predict the Korean Financial Crisis of 1997? Proceedings of the 8th Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets, CD (1999).
• Bardsley, W. E. and González, L. Revisiting "On Counting by Weighing". In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute, Providence, RI, 387-392 (2003).

Non-Refereed Proceedings Articles

• González, L. and Manly, B.F.J. Bootstrapping for Sample Design with Quality Surveys. In Proceedings of the Section on Quality and Productivity, American Statistical Association, Detroit, MI, 262-265 (1993).
• González, L and Auda, H. Re-sampling Methods in Regression: Which Method to Use Under Non-normality? In Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Non-Parametric Section, New York, NY, 1192-97 (2002).

Book Chapters

• Manly, B.F.J. and González, L. Statistical Methods for Detecting and Describing Changes in Monitored Water Quality Variables. Trends in Hydrology, Council of Scientific Research Integration, T.C. 28/408 (3) Vilayil Gardens, Kaithamukku, Trivandrum-695024, India, Vol 1: 49-67 (1994).

Book Reviews

• Webster, R. and Oliver, M. A. Geostatistics for Environmental Scientists, Wiley. Review carried out for the Environmetrics Newsletter, published by the Environmetrics Society (2003).

Grants

• Bicycle Transportation User Survey Developing - Intermodal Connections for the 21^st Century, URITC (URI Transportation Center), 2002-2003. PI's: R. Choudary Hanumara and Liliana González; Co-PI: Steven C. Church; Collaborator: Carol Overdeep.
• Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network, BRIN, Bioinformatics Core, University of Rhode Island NIH grant awarded for 2001-2004. Statistician for BRIN for the years 2003 and 2004.
• Geospatial Statistical Analysis Seminar, A Cooperative Training Project Between the University of Rhode Island and the US EPA NHEERL, US EPA NHEERL Grant, June 2003. PI's: P. August, L. González; Co-PI's: R. Sand, J. Opaluch, J. Hollister, and D. Grossman-Garber.
• Linking Increases in Seagrass Habitat with Changes in Water Quality and the Fish Community in the Assateague Island National Seashore, National Park Services, 2004-2006. PI's: Nixon, S. and González, L.
• Cordyceps Sinensis Evaluation in IgA Nephropathy Model, NIH NCCAM, 2004-2006. PI: Rifai, A., Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Brown University. Consultant: González, L.
• 3D Group for Interactive Visualization, URI Partnership Grant, 2004-2007. PI's: Hervé, J.Y., Hutt, R. and Henry, T. Collaborators URI: Chichester, C., Goldsmith, M., González, L., Heppner, F., Hollinshead, M., Kowalski, J., Lucia, A., Martin, L., Peckham, J., Sodhi, M., Thomas, N. and Zawia, N. Collaborators IMEDIA: Encarnação, M. and Stephenson, P.