Modeling and Structural Inference for Dynamic Multivariate Data

SAMSI Technical Report. 2007; #2007-4.
Geodesic Markov chains on covariance matrices.
Makram Talih

Working Paper. JSM 2006 Topic-Contributed Paper (8/2006).
Online estimation of a variance-covariance matrix varying along geodesics.
Makram Talih

Working Paper. JSM 2005 Contributed Paper (8/2005).
Online learning of dynamic graphical models via particle filters.
Makram Talih

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology). 2005; 67 (3), 321­-341.
Structural learning with time-varying components: tracking the cross-section of financial time series.
Makram Talih, Nicolas Hengartner

Doctoral Dissertation. 2003. Yale University Department of Statistics.
Markov random fields on time-varying graphs, with an application to portfolio selection.
Makram Talih. Committee: Nicolas Hengartner (Advisor), John A. Hartigan, Joseph Chang

Modeling Spatial/Temporal Population Dynamics to Assess Environmental Inequity Cases

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society). 2002; 165 (2), 375­-397.
Effects of neighborhood demographic shifts on findings of environmental injustice: a New York City case-study.
Makram Talih, Ronald D. Fricker Jr

Modeling Spatial/Temporal Dispersion of Particulate Matter

Journal of Environmental Monitoring. In Review.
Time-series analysis to study the impact of an intersection on dispersion along a street canyon.
J. Richmond-Bryant, A.D Eisner, I. Hahn, C.R. Fortune, Z.E. Drake-Richman, L.A. Brixey, M. Talih, W.D. Ellenson, R.W Wiener

Modeling Dynamic Dyadic Data Arising in Developmental Psychology

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 2007; 38 (6), 729-749.
The Socialization of autonomy and relatedness: Sequential verbal exchanges in Japanese and U.S. mother–preschooler dyads.
Tracy A. Dennis, Makram Talih, Pamela M. Cole, Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, Ichiro Mizuta

Modeling Time-Dependent Stress Response Data in Cocaine Addicts

Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2005;30:880-891.
Frequency of recent cocaine and alcohol use affects drug craving and associated responses to stress and drug-related cues.
Helen C Fox, Makram Talih, Robert Malison, George M Anderson, Mary Jeanne Kreek, Rajita Sinha

Annual meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Puerto Rico, June 2004 (Poster).
Significant association between neurobiological and cognitive responses to stress and cocaine relapse.
Rajita Sinha, Makram Talih, Robert Malison, George M Anderson, Mary Jeanne Kreek
Published as: Archives of General Psychiatry. 2006;63:324-331.
Stress-induced cocaine craving and HPA responses predict cocaine relapse outcomes.
Rajita Sinha, Miguel Garcia, Prashni Paliwal, Mary Jeanne Kreek, Bruce Rounsaville


Psychopharmacology. 2003;170 (1):62-72.
Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and sympatho-adreno-medullary responses during stress-induced and drug cue-induced cocaine craving states.
Rajita Sinha, Makram Talih, Robert Malison, Ned Cooney, George M Anderson, Mary Jeanne Kreek

Constructing Brownian Motion on Fractals via Resistance Networks

Masters Thesis. 1998. McGill University Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
Time-Truncation Approximation of Brownian Motion on Fractals: A Dirichlet Forms Approach.
Makram Talih. Committee: William J. Anderson (Advisor), John C. Taylor
The web page of Prof. Martin Barlow is a rich source of references and great pictures!

Other

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Submitted.
Speech Perception and Lexical Effects in Specific Language Impairment.
F. Scheffler, R. Schwartz, M. Talih