My publications are listed below. They are available upon request. Send e-mail to: rab@nauticom.net. See my web page for detailed information on my credentials.

Using spatial statistics to produce risk qualified maps. In Proceedings of the Sixth Annual SAS Users Group International Conference, 1981, 116-121.

Recent trends in acid preciptitation over New York State. Invited paper. In Proceedings, Second National Symposium on Acid Rain, Pittsburgh, October 6-7, 1982.

Temporal variations in acid precipitation over New York State - what the 1965-1979 USGS data reveal. Withe Duane G. Nichols, Conoco Coal Research Division. Atmospheric Environment, 17, 6, 1063-1072 (1983).

Risk qualified maps of hydrogen ion concentration for the New York State area for 1966-1978. Atmospheric Environment, 17, 12, 2513-2524.

Risk qualified maps for a long-term sparse network - mapping the USGS New York State data. In Geostatistics for Natural Resources Characterization, Part 2. Applications in pollution control and soil sciences, 851-862 (1984). Presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Geostatistics for Natural Resources Characterization, September 6-17, 1983.

The design and interpretation of mechanical sampler bias tests, Part I. The Journal of Coal Quality, 3, 4, 26-30 (1984).

Achieving statistical control in coal sampling. In Proceedings of the Fourth Annual International Coal Testing Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, September 11-13, 1984, 18-21 (1984).

The design and interpretation of mechanical sampler bias tests, Part II. Statistical analysis of bias test data. The Journal of Coal Quality, 4, 1, 29-34 (1985).

Using indicator kriging to evaluate aerial map quality. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference, Pittsburgh, April 25-26, 1985. Vol. I, Part 1, 1-7, 1985.

The sapce-time distribution of sulfate deposition in the northeastern United States. Atmospheric Environment, 19, 11, 1829-1845 (1986).

How far does Gy's theory go toward fulfilling the role of a general particulate material sampling theory? Presented at the SME Fall Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, September 7-10, 1986. Preprint no. 86-322. Society of Mining Engineers (1986).

Monthly hydrogen ion deposition maps for the northeastern U. S. from July, 1982 to September, 1984. Atmospheric Environment, 22, 9, 1909-1924 (1988).

Quantifying sampling precision for coal ash using Gy's discrete model of the fundamental error. Journal of Coal Quality, 8, 3, 33-39 (1989). (See related note in the Letters to the Editor below.)

Gy's particulate material sampling theory. In Statistical Sampling: Past, Present and Future - Theoretical and Practical, Milton J. Kowalewski and Josh B. Tye, editors. American Society for Testing and Materials, STP 1097, 75-92 (1990).

Computer animated 3-D stereoscopic statistical data analysis. In the 1991 Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Graphics, Papers presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, August 18-22, 1991.

Applied heat flux and soot blower effectiveness measurements in the CONSOL pilot and research combustors. With M. F. Abbott, Consolidataion Coal Research and Development. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Inorganic Transformation and Ash Deposition During Combustion, Edited by S. A. Benson. ASME.

Interlaboratory and intralaboratory variability in the analysis of mercury in coal. With John Lengyel, Jr. and Matthew S. DeVito. In Proceedings of the Air & Waste Management Association 1994 Annual Meeting, June 19-24, 1994.

Using Maple to design a complex mixture experiment. In Maple V: Mathematics and Its Application, Proceedings of the Maple Summer Workshop and Symposium, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, August 9-13, 1994.

Estimating trace element emissions using USGS coal data. With Prasad R. Tumati. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Associaton, 46, 58-65, 1996.

Interlaboratory and Intralaboratory Variability in the Analysis of Mercury in Coal. With John Lengyel, Jr. and Matthew S. DeVito. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 46, 317-326, 1996.

Rationalization of the national survey of air pollution monitoring network of the United Kingdom using spatial correlation analysis: a case study of the Greater London area by C. M. Handscombe and D. M. Elsom. Atmospheric Environment, 17, 5, 1029-1030 (1983).

Quality analysis of USGS precipitation chemistry data for New York by N. E. Peters and D. E. Troutman. Atmospheric Environment, 18, 2, 479 (1984).

The statistical confirmation of trends in autocorrelated data. Atmospheric Environment, 20, 1, 229-234 (1985).

Comment on "On the Estimation of Sulfur and Nitrogen Wet Depositon to the Great Lakes." Environmental Science and Technology, 24, 6, 925-926 (1990).

Sampling of Particulate Materials: Theory and Practice, by Pierre M. Gy. Technometrics, 26, 3, 293-294 (1984).

Sampling and Weighing of Bulk Solids, by J. W. Merks. Technometrics, 30, 1, 132-133 (1988).

Sampling of Powders and Bulk Material, by Karl Sommer. Technometrics, 30, 3, 349-351 (1988).

An Introduction to Applied Geostatistics, by Edward H. Isaaks and R. Mohan Srivastava. Technometrics, 33, 4 (1991).

Pierre Gy's Sampling Theory and Sampling Practice, by Francis F. Pitard. Technometrics, 34, 3, 363-364 (1992).

Sampling of Heterogeneous and Dynamic Material Systems: Theories of Heterogeneity, Sampling and Homogenizing, by Pierre M. Gy. Technometrics, 36, 2, 218-129 (1994).

Re: Quantifying sampling precision for coal ash using Gy's Discrete model of the fundamental error, Journal of Coal Quality, 8, 2, 33-39. Provides final precision estimates and the typical range of values of Z for 16 washed coals and 16 raw coals.