Publications: Dawn Woodard

D.B. Woodard, A. E. Gelfand, W. E. Barlow, and J. G. Elmore (2007). Performance Assessment for Radiologists Interpreting Screening Mammography. Statistics in Medicine. 26:1532-1551. preprint(pdf) , published (pdf)

D.B. Woodard, S.C. Schmidler, M.L. Huber. Conditions for rapid mixing of parallel and simulated tempering on multimodal distributions. Accepted, Annals of Applied Probability. pdf

D.B. Woodard, S.C. Schmidler, M.L. Huber. Conditions for torpid mixing of parallel and simulated tempering on multimodal distributions. Submitted to Stochastic Processes and their Applications. pdf

M. O'Connell, D.B. Woodard, J. Hoffman, and A. Jack (2007). Bayesian modeling with S-PLUS and the S+flexBayes library. Pharmaceutical Users Software Exchange Proceedings . Microsoft Word (.doc) , flawed .ps translation

D.B. Woodard (2007). Conditions for rapid and torpid mixing of parallel and simulated tempering on multimodal distributions. Thesis, Duke U. pdf

D.B. Woodard (2008). Detecting poor mixing of posterior samplers due to multimodality. Technical report, Duke University. pdf

D.B. Woodard and S.C. Schmidler. Slow mixing of the equi-energy sampler on the mean-field Potts model. In preparation.