Program Affiliations

Department of Soil Science
Department of Statistics

Education

BA Mathematics and Computer Science, 1994, Knox College
MSE Mathematical Sciences, 1995, The Johns Hopkins University
PhD Statistics, 2000, Iowa State University

Awards and Honors

Teaching and Research Overview

I am responsible for teaching Statistical Methods for Bioscience and Spatial Statistics.

My current research concerns spatial statistical inference and its application to environmental and ecological studies, such as ecological health monitoring and remote sensing of the environment.

Selected Publications

Zhu, J., and W. Yue. 2005. A multiresolution tree-structured spatial linear model. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 14:168-184.

Tracey, J.A., J. Zhu, and K. Crooks. 2005. A set of nonlinear regression models for animal movement in response to a single landscape feature. J. Agric., Biol., Environ. Stat. 10:212-225.

Zhu, J., J.E. Eickhoff, and P. Yan. 2005. Generalized linear latent variable models for repeated measures of spatially correlated multivariate data. Biometrics 61:674-683.

Anderson, D.A., M.G. Turner, J.D. Forester, J. Zhu, M.S. Boyce, H. Beyer, and L. Stowell. 2005. Scale-dependent summer habitat use for reintroduced elk (Cervus canadensis) in Wisconsin, USA. J. Wildlife Management 69:298-310.

Magle, S.B., J. Zhu, and K. Crooks. 2005. Behavioral responses to repeated human intrusion by black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys Ludovicianus). J. Mammalogy 86:524-530.

Ingham, S.C., M.A. Fanslau, R. Engel, J.R. Breuer, J.E. Breuer, T.H. Wright, J.K. Reith-Rozelle, and J. Zhu. 2005. Evaluation of fertilization-to-planting and fertilization-to-harvest intervals for safe use of non-composted bovine manure in Wisconsin vegetable production. J. Food Protection 68:1134-1142.

Ingham, S.C., R.A. Engel, M.A. Fanslau, E.L. Schoeller, G.A. Searls, D.R. Buege, and J. Zhu. 2005. Fate of Staphylococcus aureus on vacuum-packaged read-to-eat meat products stored at 21°C. J. Food Protection 68:1911-1915.

Smithwick, E.A.H., M.C. Mack, M.G. Turner, F.S. Chapin III, J. Zhu, and T.C. Balser. 2005. Spatial heterogeneity of ecosystem processes after severe fire in a black spruce (Picea mariana) forest, Alaska. Biogeochem. 76:517-537.

Zhu, J., R.P. Wolkowski, W. Yue, and R. Xu. 2005. On spatial lattice modeling of soil properties. p. 393-416. In S. Grunwald (ed.) Geographic Information Technologies for Environmental Soil-Landscape Modeling. Marcel Dekker.

Zhu, J., and G.D. Morgan. 2004. Comparison of spatial variables over subregions using a block bootstrap. J. Agric., Biol., Environ. Stat. 9:91-104.

Zhu, J., and G.D. Morgan. 2004. A nonparametric procedure for analyzing repeated-measures of spatially correlated data. Env. Ecol. Stat. 11:431-443.

Eickhoff, J.C., J. Zhu, and Y. Amemiya. 2004. On the simulation size and the convergence of the Monte Carlo EM algorithm via likelihood-based distances. Statistics and Probability Letters 67:161-171.

Ingham, S.C., L.L. VIvio, J.A. Losinski, and J. Zhu. 2004. Manual shaking as an alternative to mechanical stomaching in preparaing ground meats for microbiological analysis. Food Protection Trends 24:253-256.

Zhu, J., C.L.S. Morgan, J.M. Norman, W. Yue, and B. Lowery. 2004. Combined mapping of soil properties using a multi-scale tree-structured spatial model. Geoderam 118:321-334.

Zhu, J., J.C. Eickhoff, and M.S. Kaiser. 2003. Modeling the dependence between number of trials and success probability in a beta-binomial-Poisson mixture distribution. Biometrics 59:957-963.

Zhu, J., S.N. Lahiri, and N. Cressie. 2002. Asymptotic inference for spatial CDF's over time. Statistica Sinica 12:843-861.

Morgan, G.D., A.E. MacGuidwin, J. Zhu, and L.K. Binning. 2002. Root lesion nematode (Pratylenchus penetrans) population dynamics over a three-year crop rotation. Agron. J. 94:1146-1155.

Morgan, G.D., W.R. Stevenson, A.E. Macguidwin, K.A. Kelling, L.K. Binning, and J. Zhu. 2002. Plant pathogen population dynamics in potato fields. J. Nematology 34:189-193.

Zhu, J., S.N. Lahiri, and N. Cressie. 2000. Asymptotic distribution of the empirical CDF predictor under nonstationarity. p. 1-26. In M. Moore (ed.) Spatial Statistics: Methodological Aspects and Some Applications. Springer, New York.

Cressie, N., J. Zhu, A.J. Baddeley, and M.G. Nair. 2000. Directed Markov point processes as limits of partially ordered Markov models. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 2:1, 5-21.