Selected Publications

• Borrell, L.N., M. Talih (2011). A Symmetrized Theil index measure of health disparities: An example using dental caries in U.S. children and adolescents Statistics in Medicine, 30 (3), pp. 277–90. First published online 5 November 2010. DOI: 10.1002/sim.4114.[ISI JCR 2010 Impact Factor = 2.328; Rank = 8/110 Statistics & Probability, 4/22 in Medical Informatics.]
• Lym, B., L. Yannotta, H. Grossman, M. Talih (2010). Assessing the Assessment: How institutions administered, interpreted, and used SAILS. Reference Services Review, 38 (1), pp. 168–86. DOI: 10.1108/00907321011020806.
• Richmond-Bryant, J., A. Eisner, I. Hahn, C. Fortune, Z. Drake-Richman, L. Brixey, M. Talih, W. Ellenson, R. Wiener (2009). Time series analysis to study the impact of an intersection on dispersion along a street canyon. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 11, pp. 2153–62. DOI: 10.1039/b907134m. [ISI JCR 2009 Impact Factor = 2.225; Rank = 58/181 in Environmental Sciences.]
• Dennis, T.A, M. Talih, P. Cole, C. Zahn-Waxler, I. Mizuta (2007). The Socialization of autonomy and relatedness: sequential verbal exchanges in Japanese and US mother-preschooler dyads. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 38 (6), pp. 729–49. [ISI JCR 2007 Impact Factor = 1.524; Rank = 15/47 in Psychology, Social.]
• Talih, M. (2007). Geodesic Markov chains on covariance matrices. Statistical & Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Tech Report 2007-4.
• Talih, M. and N. Hengartner (2005). Structural learning with time-varying components: Tracking the cross-section of financial time series. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology), 67 (3), pp. 321–41. [ISI JCR 2005 Impact Factor = 1.961; Rank = 5/81 in Statistics & Probability.]
• Fox, H., M. Talih, R. Malison, G. Anderson, M.J. Kreek, R. Sinha (2005). High frequency and binge pattern of cocaine abusers enhance responses to stress and drug related cues. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 30 (9), pp. 880–91. [ISI JCR 2005 Impact Factor = 4.381; Rank = 32/200 in Neurosciences; ISI WoS Times cited: 37.]
• Sinha, R., M. Talih, R. Malison, S. O’Malley, N. Cooney, G. Anderson, M.J. Kreek (2003). Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and sympathoadreno-medullary responses during stress-induced and drug cue-induced cocaine craving states. Psychopharmacology, 170, pp. 62–72. [ISI JCR 2003 Impact Factor = 3.420; Rank = 49/198 in Neurosciences; ISI WoS Times cited: 116.]
• Talih, M. (2003). Markov random fields on time-varying graphs, with an application to portfolio selection. Thesis (Ph.D.). Yale University, 2003. UMI Publication no 3084377.
• Talih, M. and R. Fricker Jr. (2002). Effects of neighbourhood demographic shifts on findings of environmental injustice: a New York City case-study. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 165 (2), pp. 375–97. [ISI JCR 2002 Impact Factor = 1.315; Rank = 7/71 in Statistics & Probability.]
• Talih, M. (1998). Time-truncation approximation of Brownian motion on fractals: A Dirichlet forms approach. Thesis (M.Sc.). McGill University.

Education

• B.Sc., Mathematics (Honours), McGill University (1996)
• M.Sc., Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University (1998)
• M.A., Statistics, Yale University (1999)
• Ph.D., Statistics, Yale University (2003)