Faculty

michael tarterMichael Tarter, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
PHONE: (510) 642-4601
FAX: (510) 642-5815
LOCATION: 779 University Hall
E-MAIL: tarter@berkeley.edu

 

Courses

  • Risk and Demographic Statistics
  • Biometrical Data Analysis
  • Pathological & Incomplete Data Analysis

Research Interests

  • Viticulture
  • The Analysis of Animal Experiment Data
  • Basic Biostatistical Conceptualizations
  • Sampling and Forecasting Procedures
  • Curve Estimation
  • Anti-smoothing
  • The Statistical Applications of Fourier Series

Publications

Tarter ME, Keuter SE. Shoot-based sampling of Vitis Vinifera slusters, Am Jour Enology & Viticulture, 2008. 59(1):55-60.

Tarter ME. Censored data. In S. Boslaugh (Ed.), Enc. Epidemiology (pp. 162–164). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2008.

Tarter ME. Data transformations. In S. Boslaugh (Ed.), Enc. Epidemiology (pp. 249–254). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2008.

Brown JP, Tarter ME, Salmon AG. A method for order statistic-based time-to-tumor analysis, J Stat Proceedings (2007 AREMA), 4061-4067.

Tarter ME, Brown JP. A nonparametric animal-survival-density estimator, J Stat Proceedings (2007 AREMA), 1825-1835.

Tarter ME, Keuter SE. Rachis Position Affects the Size and Maturity of Cabernet Sauvignon Berries, Am Journal of Enology and Viticulture, 56: 86-89, 2005.

Zuniga, M., Tarter, M., Scolari, R., Olshefsky, Hayes, K., & Organista, K. C. Border crossing behavior and health care utilization practices of HIV+ Latinos living along the Southern California border with Mexico. 31st Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. November 15-19; San Francisco, 2003.

Zuniga, M, Tarter, ME, Scolari, R., Olshefsky, Hayes, K., & Organista, KC. Trans-border health care utilization behavior of HIV+ persons. 61st Annual meeting of the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Association. May 27-30; San Diego, 2003.

Tarter, ME. Nonparametric Estimation, Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, ISBN 047 1 899976, Volume 1 (El-Shaarawi, AH; Piegorsch, WW eds.), Chichester: Wiley, pp. 497-504, 2002.

Tarter, ME. Kernel Estimation, Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, ISBN 047 1 899976, Volume 2 (El-Shaarawi, A H; Piegorsch, W W eds.), Chichester: Wiley, pp. 1105-1109, 2002.

Tarter ME. Statistical Curves and Parameters-Choosing an Appropriate Approach, ISBN 1-56881-105-5, AK Peters, Ltd., Natick Mass, 2000. (386 pages.)

Other Interests

  • Chair, Section on Risk, American Statistical Association (ASA)
  • Member, University of California, Berkeley, Committee on Research (COR), Past Member; UC Berkeley, Human Subjects, Computer, Library, and COR
  • Council for the International Exchange of Scholars - Fulbright Awards in Statistics Committee, 1995-present

Profile updated: May 9, 2008