Paul Switzer

Professor of Statistics
Contact Info: Department of Statistics Sequoia Hall 390 Serra Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4065 Phone: 650.723.2879 Fax: 650.725.8977 Email:

Research Interests
My research interests are in the development of statistical tools for the environmental sciences. Recent research has focused on the interpretation of environmental monitoring data, design of monitoring networks, detection of time trends in environmental and climatic paramenters, modeling of human exposure to pollutants, statistical evaluation of numerical climate models and error estimation for spatial mapping. After the Loma Prieta earthquake, I spent some time critically evaluating statistical earthquake prediction algorithms.