Evelyn M. Crowley

My general research interests are Bayesian Analysis, Classification and Statistical Computing. One of my research projects involved developing a Bayesian method for modelling parameters when you have reason to believe that groups of the parameters are the same. A practical example of this is predicting baseball batting averages. Here, the groups correspond to the different leagues and divisions. I am currently extending this method to other types of data.

My other current project is concerned with statistical methods in genetics. All the cells of an individual contain exactly the same information in their DNA but these cells can have very different functions. This depends on what proteins they synthesize, which is controlled by specific sections of the DNA. These sections are called regulatory regions. I am working on a Bayesian model for locating regulatory regions in a DNA sequence.

Some Related Publications

Crowley, E. M. (1997). "Product Partition Models for Normal Means," Journal of the American Statistical Association, to appear.

Crowley, E. M., Roeder, K. and Bina, M. (1996). "A Statistical Model for Locating Regulatory Regions in Genomic DNA", submitted to Journal of Molecular Biology.