Publications: Dawn Woodard

D.B. Woodard and M. Goldszmidt. Model-Based clustering for online crisis identification in distributed computing. Submitted, J. of the American Statistical Association. pdf

P. Bodik, M. Goldszmidt, A. Fox, D.B. Woodard and H. Andersen. Fingerprinting the datacenter: automated classification of performance crises. Submitted, EuroSys 2010.

D.B. Woodard, R.L. Wolpert and M.A. O'Connell. Spatial inference of nitrate concentrations in groundwater. In press, J. of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics. pdf

D.B. Woodard, S.C. Schmidler, M.L. Huber (2009). Conditions for rapid mixing of parallel and simulated tempering on multimodal distributions. Annals of Applied Probability, 19:617-640. pdf , Journal website.

D.B. Woodard, S.C. Schmidler, M.L. Huber (2009). Sufficient conditions for torpid mixing of parallel and simulated tempering. Electronic Journal of Probability, 14:780-804. preprint(pdf)

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

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 (2007). Conditions for rapid and torpid mixing of parallel and simulated tempering on multimodal distributions. Thesis, Duke U. 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 and S.C. Schmidler. Bounds on the mixing time of adaptive MCMC techniques. In preparation.