Mevin Hooten

Mevin Hooten

Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science, The University of Texas at Austin; ASA Fellow

Recent News

Research Summary (podcast):

Recent Publications:

  • New paper accepted in JABES:

Yoo, M., B. Ho, A. Feuka, C.B. Leach, L.L. Bailey, and M.B. Hooten. (In Press). Stochastic integro-differential models for animal trajectories. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics.

  • New paper published in MBE:

Goel, N., C.M. Bossu, S. Yi, T.M. Brown, E.C.N. Robertson, P.E. Bolton, B.J. Vernasco, R. Goljani Amirkhiz, E.S. Zavaleta, K.C. Ruegg, and M.B. Hooten. (2026). Identifying adaptive variation in spatially structured populations using low-coverage whole-genome sequencing data. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 43: 1-16.

  • New paper accepted in Bayesian Analysis:

Barreto, D.W. and M.B. Hooten. (In Press). Recursive adaptive importance sampling with optimal replenishment. Bayesian Analysis.

  • New paper published in The American Statistician:

Glazer, A.K., L. Parast, and Hooten, M.B. (2026). Beyond the yard line: Accommodating rounded sports data in statistical models. The American Statistician, 80: 443-452.

  • New paper published in Bayesian Analysis:

Koslovsky, M.D., A. Kaplan, V.A. Terranova, and M.B. Hooten. (2026). A unified Bayesian framework for modeling measurement error in multinomial data. Bayesian Analysis, 21: 453-483.