Los Alamos National Laboratory's Distinguished Performance Award, 2017
Member of winning team for DTRA signal processing data challenge, 2016
NNSA Defense Program's Award of Excellence, 2015
Lloyd S. Nelson Award, American Society for Quality Statistics Division, 2014
Professional Societies
American Statistical Association
International Astrostatistics Association
Publications
Weaver, B.P., Meeker, W.Q. "Bayesian Methods for Planning Accelerated Repeated Measures Degradation Tests." Accepted to Technometrics.
Varela, J.J., Anderson-Cook, C.M., Weaver, B.P., Ticknor, L.O., and Skidmore, C.B. "Predicting Historical Indoor Temperatures from Available Local Weather Data"
Weaver, B.P., Hamada, M.S., Wilson, A.G., and Bakerman, J.E. "Bayesian Assurance Tests Using Degradation Data." Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 33, 2699-2709 (2017).
Collins, D.H., Weaver, B.P., and Hamada, M.S. "Panning for Gold: Enhancing the Precision of Sensitivity Test Data." Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 10, 166-181 (2017).
Fugate, M.L., Hamada, M.S., and Weaver,B.P. "Analyzing Degradation Data with a Random Effects Semiparametric Regression Model." Quality Engineering, 29, 358-365 (2017).
Weaver, B.P., Williams, B., Anderson-Cook, C., and Higdon, D. Computational Enhancements to Bayesian Design of Experiments Using Gaussian Processes." Bayesian Analysis, 11, 191-213 (2016).
Weaver, B.P., Warr, R. L., Anderson-Cook, C., and Higdon, D. Visualizing Discrepancies from Nonlinear Models and Computer Experiments." Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 8, 274-286 (2015).
Weaver, B. P. and Meeker, W. Q. "Methods for Planning Accelerated Repeated Measures Degradation Studies (with discussion)." Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 30, 658-671 (2014).
Hamada, M.S., Wilson, A.G., Weaver, B.P., Griffths, R.W., Martz, H.F. "Bayesian Binomial Assurance Tests for System Reliability Using Component Data." Journal of Quality Technology, 46, 24-32 (2014).
Vander Wiel, S., Weaver, B.P., Stepan, T. "Discussion of `More Pit- falls of Accelerated Tests' by Meeker, Sarakakis, and Gerokostopoulos." Journal of Quality Technology, 45, 238-239 (2013).
Collins, D.H., Freels, J. K., Huzurbazar, A.V., Warr, R.L.,Weaver, B. P. "Accelerated Test Methods for Reliability Prediction." Journal of Quality Technology, 45, 244-259 (2013). Selected for the 2014 Lloyd S. Nelson Award.
Weaver, B. P., Meeker, W. Q., Escobar, L. A., Wendelberger, J. "Methods for Planning Repeated Measures Degradation Studies." Technometrics, 55, 122-134 (2013).
Burr, T., Hamada, M.S., Skurikhin, M., and Weaver, B. P. "Pattern Recognition Options to Combine Process Monitoring and Material Accounting
Weaver, B. P., Hamada, M. S., Wilson, A. G., Vardeman, S. B. "A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Gauge R & R Data." Quality Engineering, 24, 486-500 (2012).
Burr, T., and Weaver, B.P. "Bayesian Options for Computer Model Calibration with Examples in Astronomy." Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 40, 1-30 (2012).
Burr, T., Croft, S., Hamada, M.S., Vardeman, S.,Weaver, B. "Rounding Error Effects in the Presence of Underlying Measurement Error." Accreditation and Quality Assurance, (2012).
Burr, T., Hamada, M. S., Cremers, T., Howell, J., Croft, S., Weaver, B. P., Vardeman, S. "Measurement Error Models and Variance Estimation in the Presence of Rounding Error Effects." Accreditation and Quality Assurance, 16, 347-359 (2011).
Weaver, B. P., and Hamada, M. S., "A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Industrial Experiments: an Illustration with Binomial Count Data." Quality Engineering, 20, 269-280 (2008).
Robbins S.J., Watters, W.A., Chappelow, J.E., Bray, V.J., Daubar, I.J., Craddock, R.A., Beyer, R.A., Landis, M. and Ostrach, L.R., Tornabene, L., Riggs, J.D., and Weaver, B.P. "Measuring Impact Crater Depth Throughout the Solar System." Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 53, 583-637 (2017).
Osthus, D., Caragea, P., Higdon, D., Morley, S., Reeves, G., and Weaver, B.P. "Dynamic Linear Models for Forecasting of Radiation Belt Electrons and Limitations on Physical Interpretation of Predictive Models." Space Weather, 12, 426-445 (2014).
Burr. T., Hamada, M. S., Howell, J., Skuikhin, M., Ticknor, L., and Weaver, B.P. "Estimating Alarm Thresholds for Process Monitoring Data Under Different Assumptions About the Data Generating Mechanism." Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations, (2013).
Burr, T., Budlong-Sylvester, K., Hamada, M.S., Longo, C.,Weaver, B.P. "Strengthened Nuclear Safeguards: A Statistical View in the Context of Combining Process Monitoring and Nuclear Material Accounting Data." Journal of Nuclear Materials Management, 40, 115-130 (2012).
Book Reviews: Weaver, B.P. "Programming Graphical User Interfaces in R." The American Statistician,67, 110-111 (2013).
Picard, R., William, B., and Weaver, B.P. "Estimating Normalizing Constants for Posterior Densities via Ex Post Facto Sampling." Submitted to Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.
Larsen, B.A., Weaver, B.P., Olson, K.D., Funsten, H.O., Harper, R.W., and Skoug, R.M. "Uncertainty Analysis in Absolute Detection Efficiency of Space- Based Coincident Particle Instrumentation." Intended for Journal of Geophysical Research.
Weaver, B. P. and Vander Wiel, S. "Accelerated Events with Multiple Thresholds."
"A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Gauge R & R Data." Institute of Nuclear Material Management Annual Meetings. Palm Desert, CA. July 2011.
"Applying Bayesian Statistical Methods to Applications in Safeguards." Institute of Nuclear Material Management Annual Meetings. Palm Desert, CA. July 2011.
Weaver, B. P. "Solving for Beta, Gamma, and Weibull Parameters Given Two Quantiles: A Program In R." Los Alamos National Laboratory: July 15, 2006 (LA-UR-07-5529).