Blair Sterba-Boatwright Associate Professor of Mathematics PhD: University of Texas, 1987 MS: Texas A&M University, 2007 BA: Swarthmore College, 1980
CI 303 6300 Ocean Drive Corpus Christi, TX 78412-5825	Phone: 361-825-2459 Fax: 361-825-2795 blair.sterbaboatwright@tamucc.edu http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~sterba/

Research Interests:
Spatial Statistics, Temporal Statistics, Statistical Consulting, Statistical Education

Selected Publications:

• Heinz, K. and Sterba-Boatwright, B., “The When and Why of Using Proportions”,

Mathematics Teacher, to appear, 2008.

• Sterba-Boatwright, B. “Evaluating the Utility of Using Evolutionary Monte Carlo

Model Fitting Techniques to Predict Texas Gulf Coast Water Levels”. Unpublished Master’s Pro ject in Statistics, Texas A&M University, May, 2007.‘

• Tarazaga, P., B. Sterba-Boatwright, K. Wijewardena. “Euclidean Distance Matrices:

Special Subsets, Systems of Coordinates and Multibalanced Matrices”, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 26, No. 3 (2007), pp. 415-438.

• Sterba-Boatwright, Blair. Modeling for the Millions. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead

Press, 2004

Recent Presentations:

• “Modeling Point Processes with spatstat”, South Texas Mathematics Consortium, TAMU-Kingsville, Feb. 9, 2008.
• “Recent Advances in Modeling Point Processes”, seminar talk, TAMU-CC, Nov. 14, 2007
• “Optimization of ’Complicated’ Functions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods”, seminar

talk, TAMU-CC, Oct. 4, 2006

• Sadovski, Zimmer, Steidley, Sterba-Boatwright, and Tissot, "Coastal and Estuarine Water Levels as

a Random Signal", in Programa y Resumenes de XV Simposio Internacional de Metodes Matematicos Aplicados a las Ciencias, Universidad de Costa Rica, February 21-24, 2006.

• “State Space Models of the Comal Data”, seminar talk, TAMU-CC, Feb. 25, 2005