Luke Tierney

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
The University of Iowa

Research Interests

Bayesian Inference, Approximate Bayesian Methods, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Statistical Computing, Computing Environments for Statistics, Dynamic Graphics.

Courses

• STAT:4580 Data Visualization and Data Technologies

Some Recent Presentations

Some Thoughts on Languages for Statistical Computing and Graphics; Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, July 2019.

The R Bytecode Compiler and VM; Riot 2019, Toulouse, France, July 2019.

ALTREP: Alternate Representations of Basic R Objects; University of Iowa, September 2018.

ALTREP: Alternate Representations of Basic R Objects; plenary talk at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Statistical Association, Auckland, New Zealand, December 2017.

Dynamic and Interactive Graphics in Lisp-Stat; Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, July/August 2017 (code).

Some Performance Improvements for the R Engine; DSC 2014, Brixen, Italy, June 2014.

Software

R software projects; the R byte code compiler

xlispstat software projects

E-Mail: luke-tierney@uiowa.edu
Office: 231 Schaeffer Hall
Office Hours: 9:30-10:20 MWF
Phone: (319)335-3386

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
241 Schaeffer Hall
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1419
(319)335-0712