Ephraim M. Hanks

Associate Professor of Statistics

W-250 Millennium Science Complex
He/Him
emh30@psu.edu
814-865-2956

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Research Summary

Spatio-Temporal Statistics. Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling. Optimal Sampling. Animal Movement. Landscape Genetics.

Huck Affiliations

Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics

Center for Mathematical Biology

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Animals Model Telemetry Movement Prediction Spatial Data Animal Sars Virus Population Autocorrelation Epidemics Connectivity Resource Selection Sampling Continuous Time Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Pathogens Power Plant Geostatistics Ecology Vaccines Methodology Statistical Models Simulation Model Based

Most Recent Publications

A practical guide to understanding and validating complex models using data simulations

Graziella V. DiRenzo, Ephraim Hanks, David A.W. Miller, 2023, Methods in Ecology and Evolution on p. 203-217

SARS-CoV-2 Attack Rate and Population Immunity in Southern New England, March 2020 to May 2021

T Tran, N Wikle, F Yang, H Inam, S Leighow, B Gentilesco, P Chan, E Albert, E Strong, Justin R. Pritchard, W Hanage, Ephraim Hanks, F Crawford, Maciej F. Boni, 2022, JAMA network open on p. e2214171

A flexible movement model for partially migrating species

Elizabeth Eisenhauer, Ephraim Hanks, Matthew Beckman, Robert Murphy, Tricia Miller, Todd Katzner, 2022, Spatial Statistics

A Mechanistic Model of Annual Sulfate Concentrations in the United States

Nathan B. Wikle, Ephraim M. Hanks, Lucas R.F. Henneman, Corwin M. Zigler, 2022, Journal of the American Statistical Association on p. 1082-1093

SARS-CoV-2 epidemic after social and economic reopening in three U.S. states reveals shifts in age structure and clinical characteristics

Nathan B. Wikle, Thu Tran, Thu Nguyen-Anh Tran, Emily Strong, Bethany Gentilesco, Ephraim Hanks, Scott M. Leighow, Emmy Albert, Emily R. Strong, Karel Brinda, Haider Inam, Fuhan Yang, Sajid Hossain, Philip Chan, William P. Hanage, Maria Messick, Justin R. Pritchard, Maciej F. Boni, 2022, Science advances on p. eabf9868

Optimal SARS-CoV-2 vaccine allocation using real-time attack-rate estimates in Rhode Island and Massachusetts

Thu Nguyen Anh Tran, Nathan B. Wikle, Emily Strong, Emmy Albert, Haider Inam, Emily Strong, Karel Brinda, Scott M. Leighow, Fuhan Yang, Sajid Hossain, Justin R. Pritchard, Philip Chan, William P. Hanage, Ephraim M. Hanks, Maciej F. Boni, 2021, BMC Medicine

Social fluidity mobilizes contagion in human and animal populations

Ewan Colman, Vittoria Colizza, Ephraim M. Hanks, David P. Hughes, Shweta Bansal, 2021, eLife

A Sample Covariance-Based Approach For Spatial Binary Data

Sahar Zarmehri, Ephraim Zarmehri, Ephraim Hanks, Lin Lin, 2021, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

A novel quantitative framework for riverscape genetics

Shannon L. White, Ephraim M. Hanks, Tyler Wagner, 2020, Ecological Applications

A lattice and random intermediate point sampling design for animal movement

Elizabeth Eisenhauer, Ephraim Hanks, 2020, Environmetrics

Most-Cited Papers

Spatial autoregressive models for statistical inference from ecological data

Jay M. Ver Hoef, Erin E. Peterson, Mevin B. Hooten, Ephraim M. Hanks, Marie Josèe Fortin, 2018, Ecological Monographs on p. 36-59

Continuous-time discrete-space models for animal movement

Ephraim M. Hanks, Mevin B. Hooten, Mat W. Alldredge, 2015, Annals of Applied Statistics on p. 145-165

Circuit theory and model-based inference for landscape connectivity

Ephraim M. Hanks, Mevin B. Hooten, 2013, Journal of the American Statistical Association on p. 22-33