Eric Vance

Eric Vance

Assistant Research Professor, 2008
Director of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA)

A.B., University of California, Berkeley, 1997 (Mathematics; Economics; Statistics)
M.S., Duke University, 2005 (Statistics and Decision Sciences)
Ph.D., Duke University, 2008 (Statistical Science)

Office:  212 Hutcheson Hall
Phone: (540) 231-4597
E-mail: ervance@vt.edu

Research areas:

  • Social Network models

  • Agent-based models

  • Streaming Data

  • Bayesian Methods

Publications and Presentations:

Eric A. Vance, Elizabeth A. Archie, and Cynthia J. Moss, "Social Networks in African Elephants", Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory, DOI - 10.1007/s10588-008-9045-z, http://www.springerlink.com/content/enpk5g428272927m

Julie A. Hollister-Smith, Joyce H. Poole, Elizabeth A. Archie, Eric A. Vance, Nicholas J. Georgiadis, Cynthia J. Moss and Susan C. Alberts, "Age, musth and paternity success in wild male African elephants, Loxodonta africana", Animal Behaviour Volume 74, Issue 2, August 2007, Pages 287-296. Download

Ian H. Dinwoodie and Eric A. Vance, "Moment estimation in delay tomography with spatial dependence", Performance Evaluation Volume 64, Issues 7-8, August 2007, Pages 613-628. Download

Eric Vance, David Banks, and Tamraparni Dasu, "Statistical Approaches to Mining Multivariate Data Streams." Paper presented at 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings.

Eric Vance, "Social Networks within Calling Networks." Paper presented at 2006 Army Conference on Applied Statistics.

Eric Vance and David Banks, "Agent-Based Methods for Dynamic Social Networks." Paper presented at 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings.

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