Peer Reviewed and Student Directed Publications:

Ecker, M.D., Isakson, H. and L. Kennedy (2021) "An Exposition of AVM Performance Metrics". Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education 22(1). pp 22-39. DOI Here

Isakson, H., Ecker, M.D. and L. Kennedy (2020) "Principles for Calculating AVM Performance Metrics". The Appraisal Journal. Winter 2020, 88(1). pp 14-29.

De Oliveira, V. and Ecker, M.D. (2019) “A Non-Stationary Non-Gaussian Hedonic Spatial Model for House Selling Prices". Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2019.1704418.

Isakson, H, and Ecker, M.D. (2018) “The Influence of Leaking Underground Storage Tanks on Nearby House Prices". Journal of Economic Insight. 44(1). pp 45-67.

Rosburg, A., Isakson, H., Ecker, M.D. and Strauss, T. (2017) "Beyond Test Scores: The Impact of a Public School Closure on House Prices". Journal of Housing Research. 26(2). pp 119-135.

Zhang, J., Kashef, A., Ecker, M.D. and Alicic, E. (2015) “Modeling and Analysis of Variables Affecting Performance of a Robotic Manufacturing Cell: An Industrial Case Study”. International Journal of Modern Engineering. 15(2). pp 57-66.

DeGroote, J., R. Sugumaran and Ecker, M.D. (2014) “Landscape, of demographic and climatic associations with human West Nile virus occurrence regionally in 2012 in the United States of America”. Geospatial Health 9(1). pp 153-168.

Ecker, M.D.,De Oliveira, V. and H. Isakson (2013) "Note on a Non-stationary Point Source Spatial Model". Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 20. pp 59-67.

Isakson, H. and Ecker, M.D. (2008) "An Analysis of the Impact of Swine CAFOs on the Value of Nearby Houses". Agricultural Economics. 39. pp 1-8.

Ecker, M.D. and V. De Oliveira (2008) "Bayesian Spatial Modeling of Housing Prices Subject to a Localized Externality". Communications in Statistics. 37. pp 2066-2078.

Ecker, M.D. and Isakson, H. (2005) "A Unified Convex-Concave Model of Urban Land Values". Regional Science and Urban Economics. 35. pp 265-277.

Ellyson, K. and Ecker, M.D. (2005) "Remote Sensing Calibration of Casey Lake and Silver Lake". American Journal of Undergraduate Research. 4(1). pp 19-25.

Gelfand, A.E., Ecker, M.D., Knight, J.R. and Sirmans, C.F. (2004) "The Dynamics of Location in Home Prices". Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. 29(2). pp 149-166.

Ecker, M.D. (2003) "Geostatistics: Past, Present and Future". In Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) . Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford ,UK. [http://www.eolss.net]

Florke, C.R. and Ecker, M.D. (2003) "NBA Draft Lottery Probabilities". American Journal of Undergraduate Research. 2(3). pp 19-29.

Ecker, M.D. and Gelfand, A.E., (2003) "Spatial Modeling and Prediction under Stationary Non-Geometric Range Anisotropy". Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 10. pp 165-178.

Carlson, E. and Ecker, M.D. (2002) "A Statistical Examination of Water Quality in Two Iowa Lakes". American Journal of Undergraduate Research. 1(2). pp 31-45.

De Oliveira, V. and Ecker, M.D. (2002) "Bayesian Hot Spot Detection in the Presence of Spatial Trend: Application to Total Nitrogen Concentrations in the Chesapeake Bay". Environmetrics. 13. pp 85-101.

Isakson, H. and Ecker, M.D. (2001) "An Analysis of the Influence of Location in the Market for Undeveloped Urban Fringe Land". Land Economics. 77(1). pp 30-41.

Gelfand, A.E., Ecker, M.D., Christiansen, C., McLaughlin, T. and Soumerai, S. (2000) "Conditional Categorical Response Models with Application to Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction". JRSS-C (Applied Statistics). 49(2). pp 171-186.

Gelfand, A.E., Ravishanker, N. and Ecker, M.D. (2000) "Modeling and Inference for Point-Referenced Binary Spatial Data". In Dey, D., Ghosh, S. and Mallick, B., editors, Generalized Linear Models: A Bayesian Perspective. Marcel Dekker, Inc. pp 381-394.

Ecker, M.D. and Gelfand, A.E., (1999) "Bayesian Modeling and Inference for Geometrically Anisotropic Spatial Data". Mathematical Geology. 31(1). pp 67-83.

Ecker, M.D. and Gelfand, A.E. (1997) "Bayesian Variogram Modeling for an Isotropic Spatial Process". Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics (JABES). 2(4). pp 347-368.

Ecker, M.D. and Heltshe, J.F. (1994) "Geostatistical Estimates of Scallop Abundance" In Lange, N., Ryan, L., Billard, L., Brillinger, D., Conquest, L., and Greenhouse, J., editors, Case Studies in Biometry. New York: John Wiley and Sons. pp 107-124.

Manuscripts:

Ecker, M.D. and H. Isakson (2021) "Cross-Validation Techniques for Resampled Housing Sales". Technical Report. Department of Mathematics. University of Northern Iowa. Forthcoming.

Kennedy. L., Ecker, M.D. and H. Isakson (2021) "AVM Testing and Evaluation using AVM Performace Metrics". Technical Report. Department of Mathematics. University of Northern Iowa.

Ecker, M.D. (2013) “The Spatial Product Normal Distribution". Technical Report. Department of Mathematics. University of Northern Iowa.

Isakson, H. and Ecker, M.D. (2013) "Housing Market Segmentation around Mild Disamenities". Technical Report. Department of Mathematics. University of Northern Iowa.

Ecker, M.D. (2012). “Geostatistical Analyses of Habcam Scallop Images from the Georges Bank”. Technical Report. Department of Mathematics. University of Northern Iowa.

Isakson, H. and Ecker, M.D. (2012) “Aversion to Living Near Mild Disamenities: The Case of Leaking Underground Storage Tanks". Technical Report. Department of Mathematics. University of Northern Iowa

Isakson, H. and Ecker, M.D. (2010) "The Effect of Leaking Underground Storage Tanks on the Values of Nearby Homes". Technical Report. Department of Mathematics. University of Northern Iowa.

Ecker, M.D., Kolsrud, B. and Funke, B. (2008) “Estimating the Weighted Labor Force for the Cedar Valley Laborshed” Technical Report. Department of Mathematics. University of Northern Iowa.

Ecker, M.D. and B. Funke (2007) "Temporal and Geographical Consistency Analyses using Iowa Laborshed Data". Technical Report, Department of Mathematics, University of Northern Iowa.

Ecker, M.D. and Funke, B. (2005) "Comparing Urban versus Rural Models for Iowa Laborsheds". Technical Report, Department of Mathematics, University of Northern Iowa.

Ellyson, K. and Ecker, M.D. (2004) "Statistical Analysis of Phosphorus Levels in West Lake". Technical Report, Department of Mathematics, University of Northern Iowa.

Williams, N. and Ecker, M.D. (2003) "Analysis of Black Hawk County Wetlands: West Land and Railroad Lake". Technical Report, Department of Mathematics, University of Northern Iowa.

Oelmann, A. and Ecker, M.D. (2002) "A Statistical Examination of Sediment Phosphorus from Silver Lake and Lake Casey in 2002". Technical Report, Department of Mathematics, University of Northern Iowa.

Ecker, M.D., Carpenter, M. and Broek, H. (2001) "Estimating the Potential Workforce for Iowa Laborsheds". Technical Report, Department of Mathematics, University of Northern Iowa.
Supporting files: Figure 3 , Table 6

Ecker, M.D. and Janssen, A. (2000) "Statistical Analysis of Water Quality Data from Lake Casey and Silver Lake". Technical Report, Department of Mathematics, University of Northern Iowa.

Ecker, M.D. and Janssen, A. (1999) "Water Quality in Lake Casey and Silver Lake, Iowa; Spatial Modeling and Prediction". Proceedings to the Ninth Annual Iowa Space Grant Conference. pp 1-10.

Ecker, M.D., Carpenter, M. and Quayle, N. (1999) "Statistical Analysis of the 1999 Ft. Dodge/Webster County Laborshed Data". Technical Report, Department of Mathematics, University of Northern Iowa.



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