Research interests

My general research interest lie in areas of applied, computational statistics, and biostatistics.
I have long interested in topics in developing model selection criteria in various models. I had worked on model selection in weibull regression model, logistic regression model, and nonlinear regression model.

I am also interested in interdiciplinary undergraduate research in biology and statistics area. I currently worked on model averaging, model selection criteria and model validation, logistic regression, discriminant analysis, repeated measure analysis, kernel density estimation in ecology application. 

Publications:

· Rauleen Caballas, Stephanie Fore, and Hyun-Joo Kim, “Will the Real Host Please Stand-up? Regional model for identifying Peromyscus species", under preparation.

· Will Petry, Stephanie Fore, Laura Fielden-Rechav, Hyun-Joo Kim “A Quantitative Analysis of the Efficacy of Two Sample Methods for Collecting All Stages of Amblyomma americanum and Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae) in Adair County, Missour”, under preparation.

· Hyun-Joo Kim and Joseph E. Cavanaugh, “Model Selection Criteria Based on Kullback Information Measures for Nonlinear Regression", the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 134, 332-349, 2005

· Hojin Moon, Hyun-Joo Kim, Ralph L. Kodell, and James J. Chen, “Model Averaging Using the Kullback Information Criterion in Estimating Effective Doses for Microbial Infection and Illness", Risk Analysis, Vol. 25, No. 5, 1147-1159, 2005.

· Hyun-Joo Kim, “Teachers' manual for 3rd grade Korean mathematics", Translation, Truman State University, 2002.

· Hyun-Joo Kim, Predicting an Individual Retention Rate Using Logistic Regression Analysis, 2003 Truman State university

Selected student presentations:

· Interdisciplinary undergraduate research cooperated with Dr. Stephanie Fore and Laura Fielden-Rechav, Research-focused Learning Communities (RLC) in Mathematical Biology, NSF grant, 2007-present.

· Advise a several Capstone project: “Discriminant Analysis", “Analysis of A Longitudinal Data Set Concerning the Federally Threatened Plant Species Missouri Bladderpod Using Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance”, “Analysis of Truman State Retention Using Logistic Regression", “Analysis of Covariance", “Performance of the Akaike Information Criterion and Corrected Akaike Information Criterion in Linear Regression Model Selection" .

· Rauleen Caballas*, Stephanie Fore, and Hyun-Joo Kim, “Will the Real Host Please Stand-up? Regional Model for Identifying Peromyscus Species", Society for Vector Ecology 38th Annual Conference, Springfield, IL, Sept., 2007.

· Interdisciplinary undergraduate research cooperated with Dr. Michael Kelrick, RLC in Mathematical Biology, NSF grant, 2004-2007.

· Corey Elledge*, James Franklin*, Hyun-Joo Kim, and Michael Kelrick, “Habitat suitability modeling of a rare winter annual: Is one model better than another?" Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, San Josè, CA, August, 2007.

· William Leeds*, Elizabeth Bobzien, Hyun-Joo Kim, and Michael Kelrick, invited talk, “Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Abundance of Missouri Bladderpod (Lesquerella filiformis): conservation of a rare plant species on federal land", The Society for Mathematical Biology, San Jose, CA, August, 2007.

· Corey Elledge*, James Franklin*, Hyun-Joo Kim, and Michael Kelrick, “The Federally Threatened Plant Species, Lesquerella filiformis: Evaluation of Modeling Methodology.", National Conferences for Undergraduate Research (NCUR). Dominican University, CA, April, 2007.

· William Leeds*, Corey Elledge*, James Franklin, Hyun-Joo Kim, and Michael Kelrick, “The Federally Threatened Plant Species, Missouri Bladderpod: Model Selection and Validation", Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM). Seattle, WA, August, 2006.

· William Leeds*, Elizabeth Bobzien, Hyun-Joo Kim, and Michael Kelrick, “Spacial and Temporal Analysis on Missouri Bladderpod", Eastern North American Region/International Biometric Society, Tampa, FL, April, 2006.

· Elizabeth Bobzien*, William Leeds*, Hyun-Joo Kim, and Michael Kelrick, “Habitat Suitability Modeling of a Federally Threatened Plant Species, Missouri Bladderpod (Lesquerella filiformis): Evaluation of model selection criteria and model validation", National Conferences for Undergraduate Research (NCUR). Asheville, NC, April, 2006.

· William Leeds, Elizabeth Bobzien*, Hyun-Joo Kim, and Michael Kelrick, “Predicting Occurrence of Missouri Bladderpod (Lesquerella filiformis): Modeling over Space and Time", The United States Regional Chapter of the International Association of Landscape Ecology, San Diego, CA, March, 2006.

· Bill Leeds*, Elizabeth Bobzien*, Michael Kelrick, and Hyun-Joo Kim “Occurance of Missouri bladderpod: time and space", MAKO undergraduate mathematics conference, Spring field, MO, Nov. 2005.

· Miju Kim*, Laura Varney, Hyun-Joo Kim, and Michael Kelrick, “Development of Habitat Suitability Model of Missouri Bladder-pod", National Conferences for Undergraduate Research (NCUR). Washington, April, 2005.

· Paula sternimann* and Hyun-Joo Kim (Advisor), “Performance of the Akaike Information Criterion and Corrected Akaike Information Criterion in Linear Regression Model Selection ", Undergraduate Woman in Mathematics Conference, Lincoln, NE, November, 2003.

Presentations:

· Hyun-Joo Kim*, Stephanie Fore, Laura Fielden, Tad Dallas, Georgia Mueller, and Will Petry, "Why ticks like my dog?" Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Denver, CO, August, 2008.

· Hyun-Joo Kim*, William Leeds, Elizabeth Bobzien, and Michael Kelrick, “Temporal and Spatial analysis of the Missouri Bladder-pod: Ecological Statistics Undergraduate Research", Invited Presentation, Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) South Western Regional Technology Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March, 2006.

· Hyun-Joo Kim*, William Leeds, Elizabeth Bobzien, and Michael Kelrick, “Development of habitat suitability models of the federally treated, rare plant species, Missouri Bladderpod, Undergraduate research project", Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Minneapolis, Missouri, August, 2005.

· Hojin Moon*, Hyun-Joo Kim, James J. Chen, and Ralph L. Kodell., “Model Averaging using the Kullback Information Criterion in Estimating Effective Doses for Microbial Infection and Illness", Invited Presentation, Eastern North American Region/International Biometric Society (ENAR) conference, April, 2005.

· Miju Kim, Laura Varney, Hyun-Joo Kim*, and Michael Kelrick, “Development of habitat suitability models of the federally treated, rare plant species, Missouri Bladderpod (Lesquerella filiformis)", Mathematics Association of America (MAA) Missouri Meeting, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, April, 2004.

· Hyun-Joo Kim* and Joseph E. Cavanaugh, “Model Selection in Logistic Regression", Mathematics Association of America (MAA) Missouri Meeting, Truman State University, April, 2002.

· Hyun-Joo Kim* and Joseph E. Cavanaugh, “Model Selection Based on Kullback's Directed and Symmetric Divergences in Nonlinear Regression", Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Atlanta, GA., August, 2001.

· Hyun-Joo Kim* “How to Select the Best Model in Nontraditional Regression Setting", Duksung Woman's University, Seoul, S. Korea, June, 2001.

· Hyun-Joo Kim* and Joseph E. Cavanaugh, “Using Model Selection Criteria in Nonlinear Regression" Korean Statistics Society (KSS) conference, Pusan, S. Korea, May, 2001.