Veronica Berrocal, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

M4525 SPH II      
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029

Office: 734-763-5965

E-mail: berrocal@umich.edu

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Professional Summary

Veronica J. Berrocal is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington in 2007. In 2008, Veronica was a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Associate at the US Environmental Protection Agency developing new approaches to spatially model and predict air pollution. In 2009, she joined the Department of Statistical Sciences at Duke University as a Postdoctoral fellow. In the same year she started collaborating with researchers at the Children's Environmental Health Initiative (CEHI) to develop statistical methods to characterize and relate maternal personal exposure and birth outcomes. In 2010, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) while still being affiliated with the Department of Statistical Sciences at Duke University.

Courses Taught

BIOSTAT682: Applied Bayesian Inference    Syllabus (PDF)
BIOSTAT696: Spatial Statistics    Syllabus (PDF)
BIOSTAT896: Spatial Statistics    Syllabus (PDF)

Education

Ph.D. , Statistics, University of Washington, 2007
M.Sc. , Statistics, Michigan State University, 2002

Research Interests & Projects

Veronica's main research interests are in: spatial, spatio-temporal, Bayesian and environmental statistics, as well as developing statistical methods to characterize environmental exposure and its relationship with health outcomes.

Selected Publications

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Berrocal, VJ, Gelfand, AE, and Holland, DM. (2010). A bivariate space-time downscaler under space and time misalignment. Annals of Applied Statistics, In press.

Berrocal, VJ, Gelfand, AE, Holland, DM, Burke, J, and Miranda, ML (2010). On the use of a PM_2.5 simulator to explain birthweight. Environmetrics, In press

Berrocal, VJ, Raftery AE, Gneiting, T, and Steed, R. (2010). Probabilistic weather forecasting for winter road maintenance. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 105, 522-537..

Berrocal, VJ, Raftery AE, and Gneiting, T. (2008). Probabilistic quantitative precipitation field forecasting using a two-stage spatial model. Annals of Applied Statistics, 2, 1170-1193..