Chih-Hsiang Ho

Co-PI (with Jeffery Q. Shen and Roy Ogawa) for the project "Development of an Interdisciplinary Bioinformatics Research/Education Program at UNLV," funded by the UNLV 2004-05 Planning Initiative Awards, August 2004 - December 2005, $30,000.

Principal Investigator for the project "Statistical Analysis of Episodic Patterns of Volcanism: Implications for Volcanic Hazard Assessment at Yucca Mountain, Nevada," funded by a contract from the Agency for Nuclear Projects, State of Nevada, July 2003 - June 2004, $40,000.

Principal Investigator for the project "Statistical Analysis of Episodic Patterns of Volcanism: Implications for Volcanic Hazard Assessment at Yucca Mountain, Nevada," funded by a contract from the Agency for Nuclear Projects, State of Nevada, July 2002 - June 2003, $34,000.

Principal Investigator for the project "Statistical Analysis of Episodic Patterns of Volcanism: Implications for Volcanic Hazard Assessment at Yucca Mountain, Nevada," funded by a contract from the Agency for Nuclear Projects, State of Nevada, January 2002 - June 2002, $17,000.

Statistical Consultant for the project "The Effects of Substance Abuse on Child Welfare Families and Children" and "Levels of Intervention with Positive Toxicology Newborns and Related Family Outcomes" funded by State of Nevada Division of Children and Family Services, July 2000 - June 2001, $50,000. (PI: An-Pyng Sun)

Principal Investigator for the project "A Report Summarizes the Statistical Modeling of Nuclear Waste Repository Site," funded by a grant from the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada, February 1996 - December 1996, $15,000.

Principal Investigator for the project "Sensitivity Analysis on Smith's AMRV Model," funded by a grant from the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada, October 1994 - September 1995, $35,000.

Principal Investigator for the project "A Compound Power-Law Model for Volcanic Eruptions: Implications for Risk Assessment of Volcanism at Proposed Nuclear Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada," funded by a grant from the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada, October 1993 - September 1994, $35,000.

Principal Investigator for the project "Sensitivity in Risk Assessment for the Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Site: The Model and the Data," funded by a grant from the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada, October 1992 - September 1993, $30,000.

Principal Investigator for the project "Risk Assessment for the Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Site," funded by a grant from the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada, October 1991 - September 1992, $30,000.

Principal Investigator for the project "Time Trend Analysis of Basaltic Volcanism near the Yucca Mountain Site," funded by a grant from the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada, October 1991 - September 1992, $25,000.

Principal Investigator for the project "The Mathematical Model of Volcanism at Yucca Mountain," funded by a grant from the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada, October 1989 - September 1990, $20,000.

Co-PI for the project "Infrastructure Development for a Bioinformatics Program," submitted (November 2007) to UNLV for $99,890.

Co-PI (with S. Qian, Y. Jiang, J. Q. Shen, and M. Yang at UNLV, and H. M. Gash, B. Freeman, and Y. Ma at NVCI) for the project "BBSI - Nevada Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institute" submitted (November 29, 2005) to NSF for $431,749, January 1, 2006 - December 31, 2008.

Principal Investigator for the project "Fingerprinting International Decade Volcanoes," submitted to NASA, 03/01/04 - 02/28/05, $16,000.

Principal Investigator for the project "Fingerprinting and Time-Series Models for International Decade Volcanoes," submitted to NSF EPSCoR, 01/01/04 - 12/31/04, $20,000.

Principal Investigator for the project "3-D Poisson Process for Volcanic Hazard Assessment," submitted to NSF, 01/01/96 - 12/31/97, $79,512.

Principal Investigator for the project "Studies Determining the Usefulness of a Compound Weibull Process Model in Volcanology," submitted to NSF, 07/01/95 - 06/30/98, $55,905.

Bhaduri, M. and Ho, C.-H. 2018. On a Temporal Investigation of Hurricane Strength and Frequency, Environmental Modeling & Assessment, DOI 10.1007/s10666-018-9644-0.

Ho, C.-H. and Bhaduri, M. 2017. A Quantitative Insight into the Dependence Dynamics of Kilauea and Mauna Loa Volcanoes, Hawaii, Mathematical Geosciences, 49 (7): 893-911.

Ho, C.-H., 2016. Forecasting a Point Process with an ARIMA Model, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 45(17): 5066-5076.

Ho, C.-H, Zhong, G., Cui, F. and Bhaduri, M., 2016. Modeling Interaction between Bank Failure and Size, Journal of Finance and Bank Management, 4(1): 01-10.

Ho, C.-H. and Bhaduri, M., 2015. On a Novel Approach to Forecast Sparse Rare Events: Applications to Parkfield Earthquake Prediction. Natural Hazards, 78: 669-679.

Tan, S., Bhaduri, M. and Ho, C.-H., 2014. A Statistical Model for Long-term Forecasts of Strong Sand Storms, Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 2: 16-26. DOI: 10.4236/gep.2014.23003.

Sun, A.P., Ho, C.-H., and Ashley, L., 2012. Addiction and substance abuse among Nevada youths. In "The Social Science of Nevada," edited by D. N. Shalin, UNLV Center for Democratic Culture.

Amei, A., Fu, W., and Ho, C.-H., 2012. Time series analysis for predicting the occurrences of large scale earthquakes, International Journal of Applied Science and Technology, 2(7): 64-75.

Leyngold, M.M., Stutman, R.L., Khiabani, K.T., Shah, H., Fong, E., Ho, C.-H, and Zamboni, W.A., 2012. Contributing variables to post mastectomy tissue expander infection, The Breast Journal, 18(4): 351-356.

Ho, C.-H, 2010. Hazard area and recurrence rate time series for determining the probability of volcanic disruption of the proposed high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA , Bulletin of Volcanology, 72: 205-219.

Ho, C.-H., 2008. Empirical recurrence rate time series for volcanism: Application to Avachinsky volcano, Russia , Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 173: 15-25.

Ho, C.-H., Smith, E.I., and Keenan, D. 2006. Hazard area and probability of volcanic disruption of the proposed high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA, Bulletin of Volcanology, 69: 117-123.

Sun, A.P., Maurer, A., and Ho, C.-H., 2003. Predictors of College Students’ Binge Drinking: Experience of an Urban University in the Southwest, Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 21 (4): 17-36.

Chen, L., Cha, J., and Ho, C.–H., 2002. A Three-Point-Translation Technique for Root Coverage: With Four–Year Follow-Up, Dentistry Today, 21(10):112-115.

Murray, K.D., Ho, C.-H., Hsia, J.Y.J., and Little, A.G., 2002. The Influence of Pulmonary Staple Line Reinforcement on Air Leaks, Chest, 122:2146-2149.

Li, X., Ho, C.-H., and Chen, C.S., 2002. Computational Test of Approximation of Functions and Their Derivatives by Radial Basis Functions, Neural, Parallel, and Scientific Computation, 10:25-46.

Li, X., Ho, C.-H., and Chen, C.S., 2001. Construction of Radial Basis Functions for Approximation, Advances in Computational Engineering & Sciences, Eds: Atluri, S.N., Nishioka, T., and Kikuchi, M. Paper #76.

Karch, S.B., Stephens, B., and Ho, C.-H., 1999. Methamphetamine Related Deaths in San Francisco: Demographic, Pathologic, and Toxicology Profiles, Journal of Forensic Sciences, 44:359-368.

Ho, C.-H. 1998. Repeated Significance Tests on Accumulating Data of Repairable Systems, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 27:1181-1200.

Ho, C.-H., and Smith, E.I. 1998. A Spatial-Temporal/3-D Model for Volcanic Hazard Assessment: Application to the Yucca Mountain Region, Nevada, Mathematical Geology, 30:497-510.

Karch, S.B., Stephens, B., and Ho, C.-H., 1998. Relating Cocaine Blood Concentrations to Toxicity - an Autopsy Study of 99 Cases, Journal of Forensic Sciences, 43:41-45.

Karch, S. B., Graff, J., Young, S., and Ho, C.-H., 1998. Response Times and Outcomes for Cardiac Arrests in Las Vegas Casinos, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 16:249-253.

Ho, C.-H., and Smith, E.I. 1997. Volcanic Hazard Assessment Incorporating Expert Knowledge: Application to the Yucca Mountain Region, Nevada, U.S.A., Mathematical Geology, 29:615-627.

Ho, C.-H. 1996. Volcanic Time Trend Analysis, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 74: 171-177.

Karch, S.B., Lewis, T., Young, S., Hales, D., and Ho, C.-H. 1996. Field Incubation of Trauma Patients: Complications, Indications, and Outcomes, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 14: 617-619.

Ho, C.-H. 1995. A Simulation Study of a Change-Point Poisson Process Based on Two Well-known Test Statistics, in Niederreiter H. and P.J.-S. Shiue (editors), Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Method in Scientific Computing, Springer, Lecture Notes in Statistics, 106: 228-238.

Karch, S.B., Lewis, T., Young, S., and Ho, C.-H. 1995. Surgical Delays and Outcomes in patients Treated with Pneumatic Anti-Shock Garments: A Population-Based Study, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 13:401-404.

Ho, C.-H. 1995. Sensitivity in Volcanic Hazard Assessment for the Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Site: The Model and the Data, Mathematical Geology, 27:239-258.

Ho, C.-H. 1993. Forward and Backward Tests for an Abrupt Change in the Intensity of a Poisson Process, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 48:245-252.

Tate, J.S., and Ho, C.-H. 1993. The Use of the Inspiratory Pause "Hold" in Increasing Oxygenation in Post Surgical Patients, Journal of the National Medical Association, 85:598-600.

Ho, C.-H. 1992. Statistical Control Chart for Regime Identification in Volcanic Time Series, Mathematical Geology, 24:775-787.

Ho, C.-H. 1992. Risk Assessment for the Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Site: Estimation of Volcanic Disruption, Mathematical Geology, 24: 347-364.

Ho, C.-H. 1992. Predictions of Volcanic Eruptions at Mt. Vesuvius, Italy, Journal of Geodynamics, 15: 13-18.

Ho, C.-H. 1991. Stopping Rules for Clinical Trials Implicitly Incorporating Safety Information, Biometrical Journal, 33:817-827.

Tippie, D., Deacon, J.E., and Ho, C.-H. 1991. Effects of Convict Cichlids on Growth and Recruitment of White River Springfish, Great Basin Naturalist, 51:256-260.

Ho, C.-H. 1991. Some Frequentist Properties of a Bayesian Method in Clinical Trials, Biometrical Journal, 33:735-740.

Ho, C.-H. 1991. Time Trend Analysis of Basaltic Volcanism near the Yucca Mountain Site, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 46:61-72.

Ho, C.-H., Smith, E.I., Feuerbach, D.L., and Naumann, T.R. 1991. Eruptive Probability Calculation for the Yucca Mountain Site, U.S.A.: Statistical Estimation of Recurrence Rates, Bulletin of Volcanology, 54:50-56.

Ho, C.-H. 1991. Nonhomogeneous Poisson Model for Volcanic Eruptions, Mathematical Geology, 23: 167-173.

Little, A.G., Wu, H.-S., Ferguson, M.K., Ho, C.-H., Bowers, V.D., Segalin, A., and Staszek, V.M. 1990. Preoperative Blood Transfusion Adversely Affects Prognosis of Patients with Stage I Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer, American Journal of Surgery, 160:630-633.

Gentilello, L.M., Cortes, V., Mougaes, S., Viamonte, M., Malinin, T.L., Ho, C.-H., and Gomez, G.A. 1990. Continuous Arteriovenous Rewarming: Experimental Results and Thermodynamic Model Simulation of Treatment for Hypothermia, Journal of Trauma, 30:1436-1449.

Ho, C.-H. 1990. Bayesian Analysis of Volcanic Eruptions, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 43:91-98.

Berry, D.A. and Ho, C.-H. 1988. One-Sided Sequential Stopping Boundaries for Clinical Trials: A Decision-Theoretic Approach, Biometrics, 44:219-227.

Hazard area and probability of volcanic disruption of the proposed high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain,” annual report to the Agency for Nuclear Projects, State of Nevada (September 2004).

“Statistical Analysis of Episodic Patterns of Volcanism: Implications for Volcanic Hazard Assessment at Yucca Mountain, Nevada,” annual report to the Agency for Nuclear Projects, State of Nevada (August 2003).

“Statistical Analysis of Episodic Patterns of Volcanism: Implications for Volcanic Hazard Assessment at Yucca Mountain, Nevada,” annual report to the Agency for Nuclear Projects, State of Nevada (June 2002).

“A Report Summarizes the Statistical Modeling of Volcanic Risk Studies at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository Site,” three quarterly progress reports to the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada (1996).

“Sensitivity Analysis on Smith's AMRV Model," three quarterly progress reports and a final report to the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada (1995).

"A Compound Power-Law Model for Volcanic Eruptions: Implication for Risk Assessment of Volcanism at the Proposed Nuclear Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada," three quarterly progress reports and a final report to the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada (1994).

"Sensitivity in Risk Assessment for the Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Site: The Model and the Data," three quarterly progress reports and a final report to the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada (1993).

"Risk Assessment for the Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Site,” three quarterly progress reports and a final report to the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada (1992).

"Time Trend Analysis of Basaltic Volcanism near the Yucca Mountain Site," three quarterly progress reports and a final report to the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada (1991).

"The Mathematical Model for Volcanism at Yucca Mountain," three quarterly progress reports and a final report to the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada (1990).

“A Smoothing Technique for Point Process,” presented at the 8th ICSA International Conference, held in Guangzhou, China, December 19 - 22, 2010.

“A Nonparametric Approach to Forecast a System of Poisson Type in Geosciences,” presented at the 33rd International Geological Congress, held in Oslo, Norway, August 6-14, 2008.

“A method for estimating intensity of a Poisson process,” poster presentation (joint with S. Gunti and H.–W. Cheng) at 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, July 29 - August 2, 2007.

“ARIMA models for forecasting Poisson process observations: reliability and quality control,” presented at the 2007 Taipei International Statistical Symposium and ICSA International Conference, held in Taipei, Taiwan, June 25-27, 2007.

“Empirical recurrence rate time series and hazard area for probability of volcanic disruption of the proposed high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA,” invited talk at Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, China, May 28, 2007.

“An ARIMA-model-based approach with hazard area for the probability of volcanic disruption of the proposed high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA,” presented at the the 15th International Conference of Forum for interdisciplinary mathematics on interdisciplinary mathematical & statistical techniques, held in Shanghai, China, May 20-23, 2007.

“Hazard area and probability of volcanic disruption of the proposed high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA,” invited presentation at the NV-ASA Fall Symposium, held at UNLV, November 19, 2005.

“Volcanism at Yucca Mountain,” presented at State of Nevada Yucca Mountain Project Expert Conference, held in Washington D.C., December 10-12, 2003.

“A Decision-Theoretic Approach for the Performance Assessment of the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository Site, U.S.A.,” presented at the International Conference on Information Technology and Disaster Management, held in London, England, September 21 - 24, 1998.

“Forward & Backward Control Chart for Repairable Systems,” presented at the 4th ICSA Statistical Conference, held at Yunnan University, Kunming, China, August 19 - 21, 1998.

“Statistical Methods for Volcanic Time-Trend,” invited presentation at Colima Volcano: 6th International Meeting held in Colima, Mexico, January 26 - 31, 1998.

“A Spatial-Temporal/3-D Model for Volcanic Hazard Assessment,” presented at the 97th International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior Congress held in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico, January 19 - 24, 1997.

“Volcanic Hazard Assessment Incorporating Multiple-Expert Knowledge (Ho, C.-H., Smith, E.I., and G. Yogodzinski),” presented at the 30th International Geological Congress, held in Beijing, China, August 8 - 14, 1996.

“A 3-D Volcanic Hazard/Risk Assessment Model: Application to the Yucca Mountain Region, Nevada, U.S.A. (Ho, C.-H., and Smith, E.I.),” presented at the 30th International Geological Congress, held in Beijing, China, August 4 - 14, 1996.

“Volcanic Hazard Analysis at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository Site,” invited presentation at the DOE/Geomatrix workshop on Alternative Hazard Models for the Probabilistic Volcanic Hazard Analysis (PVHA) project held on March 30 - 31, 1995 at Las Vegas, NV.

"Repeated Significance Tests on Accumulating Data of Repairable Systems," presented at the 1994 Joint Statistical Meetings held in Toronto, Canada, August 13 - 18, 1994.

"A Simulation Study of a Change-Point Poisson Process Based on Two Well-known Test Statistics," presented at the conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing, held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, June 23 - 25, 1994.

"The Role of the Bayesian Prior in Volcanic Risk Calculations at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository Site, U.S.A.," presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis held in Alicante, Spain, June 10 - 11, 1994.

"Volcanism at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository Site, U.S.A.: A Decision Analysis Perspective," presented at the 5th Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics held in Alicante, Spain, June 5 - 9, 1994.

“Alternative Geologic Models: Their Significance with Respect to Calculation of Volcanic Hazard at Yucca Mountain,” Invited presentation (with E.I. Smith) in the meeting of the United States Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board’s Panel on structural geology and geo-engineering, held on March 8 - 9, 1994 at San Francisco.

“Sensitivity in Risk Assessment for the Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Site: The Model and the Data,” invited speaker at the Fourth International Meeting and A Decade Volcano Workshop held in Colima, Mexico, January 24 - 28, 1994.

“Sensitivity in Risk Assessment for the Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Site,” presented, as an invited discussant, in the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards, held on November 9 - 10, 1993 in Las Vegas, NV.

“Comments on the Preliminary Draft of Los Alamos National Laboratory on the Status of Volcanic Hazard Studies for the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project,” presented at the meeting of DOE-NRC Technical Exchange on Volcanism Studies held in Las Vegas on June 9, 1993.

"Risk Assessment for the Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Site: Estimation of Volcanic Disruption," presented at the U.S. Technical Review Board's Panel on Structural Geology and Geo-engineering in Las Vegas on September 14 - 15, 1992.

"Volcanic Risk Assessment for the Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Site," presented at the 29th Geological Congress, held in Kyoto, Japan, August 25 - September 4, 1992.

"Application of Bayesian Concepts to Clinical Research," invited speaker for Hoechst-Roussel Pharmaceuticals Inc., April 16, 1992.

"Prediction of Explosive Eruptions at Volcan de Colima, Mexico," invited speaker at the 2nd International Reunion on Volcanology held in Colima, Mexico, January 20 - 24, 1992.

"Prediction of Volcanic Eruptions: An Application to the Yucca Mountain Site, U.S.A.," presented at the International Conference on Active Volcanoes and Risk Mitigation, held in Napoli, Italy, August 27 - September 1, 1991.

"Statistical Analysis of Basaltic Volcanism Near the Yucca Mountain Site," presented to the United States Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board at the March 1, 1991 meeting on volcanism in Tucson.

"Volcanic Risk Assessment Studies for the Proposed High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA (Smith, E.I., Feuerbach, D.L., Naumann, T.R., and Ho, C.-H.),” poster presentation at the International Conference on Active Volcanoes and Risk Mitigation, held in Napoli, Italy, August 27 - September 1, 1991.

"Group Sequential Clinical Trials Based on the Posterior Probabilities: The Role of the Bayesian Prior," at the Annual Meeting of American Statistical Association, held in New Orleans, LA, August 21 - 25, 1988.

"An Asymmetric Testing Procedure for Clinical Trials," presented at 1986 International Statistical Symposium, held in Taipei, Republic of China.