• Ph.D. 1987 Statistics The Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.

• M.A. 1982 Statistics The University of Poona, Pune, India.

• B.A. 1979 Statistics The University of Poona, Pune, India.

• B.Com. 1976 Business The University of Poona, Pune, India.

• Statistics for Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Public Health
• Theory and applications of estimating functions and composite likelihood methods
  
• Inference for and applications of hierarchical models
• Statistical methods for Population dynamics models, dynamical systems
  
• Spatial data analysis: Models and Inference
• Foundations of statistical inference, Statistical evidence and implications to society
• Statistical analysis of forms and shapes with applications in medicine

• Associate Editor, Journal of American Statistical Association, Theory and Methods section. 1998-1999.
• Associate Editor, Ecology and Ecological Monographs 2002-2004
• Editorial Board, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 2004-

• National Research Council, U.S. National Academy of Sciences panel on "Global Climate Change, Ecosystems, Infectious Diseases and Human Health", 1999-2001.
• Institute of Medicine, U.S. National Academy of Sciences committee on ' Assessment of the NIOSH Head and Face Anthropometric Survey of U.S. Respirator users. 2004-2006

1. Lele, S.R. (2008) A new algorithm and computer program for the estimation of the resource selection probability function under the use versus available study design. Journal of Wildlife Management (under revision)
2. Proffitt, K.M., R.A. Garrott , J. J. Rotella and S R Lele (2008) Using form analysis techniques to improve photogrammetric mass-estimation methods. Marine Mammal Science 24: 147-158.
3. Codeço, C.T., S. R. Lele, M. Pascual, M. Bouma, A. Ko (2008) A stochastic model for ecological systems with strong nonlinear response to environmental drivers: application to two waterborne diseases. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 5 (19): 247-252.
4. Krkosec, M., J.S. Ford, A. Morton, S. R. Lele, R.A. Myers and M.A. Lewis (2007) Declining wild salmon populations in relation to parasites from farm salmon. Science 318: 1772-1775.
5. Lele, S.R., B. Dennis and F. Lutscher (2007) Data cloning: easy maximum likelihood estimation for complex ecological models using Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. Ecology Letters 10:551-563.
6. Lele, S.R. and Jonah L. Keim (2006) Weighted distributions and estimation of resource selection probability functions. Ecology 87(2) 3021-3028.  
7. Dennis B., J.M. Ponciano, S.R. Lele, M.L. Taper and D.F. Staples (2006) Estimating density dependence, process noise and observation error. Ecological Monographs 76(3) 323-341.
8. Lele, S.R. (2006) Sampling variability and estimates of density dependence: A composite likelihood approach. Ecology 87(10) 189-202.
9. Lele S.R. and K.L Allen (2006) On using expert opinion in ecological analyses: a frequentist approach. Environmetrics 17:683-704.
10. Richtsmeier JT, Lele SR & Cole TM III.  2005  Landmark morphometrics and the analysis of variation.  In B Hallgrimsson & B Hall (eds.): Variation: A General Concept in Biology. New York : Elsevier Academic Press, pp. 49-69.
11. Richtsmeier, J.T., T. Cole and S.R. Lele (2005) An invariant approach to the study of fluctuating asymmetry: Developmental instability in a mouse model for down syndrome. Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology, Dennis E. Slice (Ed.) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum publishers. Pp. 187-207.  
12. Friar, J., S Nielson, E Merrill, SR Lele, M Boyce, R Munroe, G Stenhouse and H Beyer (2003)  “Removing GPS collar bias in habitat selection studies.”  Journal of Applied Ecology 41 201-212.
13. Piellat, A. M, Lewis, M., Lele S.R. and Beck, de Camino Tomas (2006) Optimal sampling designs for seed dispersal experiments. Ecological Modelling 190:205-222.
14. Boyce, M., S.R. Lele and B.Johns (2005) Whooping crane recruitment is enhanced by egg removal. Biological Conservation 126: 395-401.
15. Lele, S.R. (2003) Bootstrap, Jackknife and estimating functions. Statistical Science 18: 185-190.
16. Taper, M.L. and S.R. Lele (2004) “The nature of scientific evidence:  A forward looking synthesis.”  The nature of scientific evidence (eds. ML Taper and SR Lele), University of Chicago Press .  (2004): pp. 525 – 551.
17. Lele, S.R. (2004) “Elicit data, not prior: On using expert opinion in ecological studies.” The nature of scientific evidence (eds. ML Taper and SR Lele), University of Chicago Press .  (2004): pp. 410 – 436.
    
18. Taper, M.L.and S.R.Lele (2004) “Dynamical models as paths to evidence in ecology.” The nature of scientific evidence (eds. ML Taper and SR Lele), University of Chicago Press . (2004): pp. 275 – 297.
19. Lele, S.R. (2004) “Evidence functions and the optimality of the law of likelihood.”  The nature of scientific evidence (eds. ML Taper and SR Lele), University of Chicago Press . (2004): pp 191 - 216.  
20. Lewin-Koh N., ML Taper and S.R Lele (2004) ”A brief tour of statistical concepts.”  The nature of scientific evidence (eds. ML Taper and SR Lele), University of Chicago Press . (2004): pp 3 -16.  
21. Florio, E.N., Lele, S.R., Chang, Y.C., Sterner, R. and G.E. Glass (2003) Land Surface temperature prediction using AVHRR satellite data and NOAA ground observations: A statistical approach. International Journal of Remote Sensing vol. 24, issue 17, pp. 3369-3379.
22. Patz, J. A., M. Hulme, C. Rosenzweig, T. D. Mitchell, R. A. Goldberg, A. K. Githeko, S.R. Lele, A. McMichael & D. LeSueur (2002) Increasing incidence of malaria since 1970 parallels regional warming in African Highlands. Nature 420:627-628.
23. Lele, S.R. (2003) Discussion of “Can Jeffereys, Fisher and Neyman have agreed?” by Jim Berger. Statistical Science 18(1): 18-19.
24. Richtsmeier J.T., DeLeon V. and Lele S. (2002) The promise of geometric morphometrics  Yearbook in Physical Anthropology 45:63-91.
25. Lele, S. and McCulloch, C. E. (2002) Invariance, Identifiability and Morphometrics. Journal of American Statistical Association 97:796-806.
26. Cole TM III, Lele S and Richtsmeier JT. (2002) A parametric bootstrap approach to the detection of phylogenetic signals in landmark data.  In MacLeod N & Forey P (eds.): Morphometrics, Shape, and Phylogenetics.  London : Taylor and Francis. Pp. 194-219.
27. Lele, S.R. and Taper, M.L. (2002) Discussion: What shall we teach in environmental statistics? Journal of Ecological and Environmental Statistics 9(2): 145-146.
28. A. Das, Lele, S.R., Glass, G.E.G., Shields, T., and Patz, J.A. (2002) Modeling a Discrete Spatial Response using Generalized Linear Mixed Models: Application to Lyme Disease Vectors. International Journal of Geographic Information Science 16(2): 151-166.  
29. Curriero, FC, Hohn , ME , Liebhold, AM, Lele, SR (2001). A Statistical Evaluation of Non-Ergodic Variogram Estimators.  Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 9:89-110.
30. Curriero, FC, Patz, JA, Rose, JB, Lele, S (2001). Analysis of the Association between Extreme Precipitation and Wterborne Disease Outbreaks in the United   States, 1948-1994.  American Journal of Public Health (91): 1194-1199.
31. Lele, S. and Taper, M.L. (2002) A composite likelihood approach to estimation of (co)variance components. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference Vol. 103 (1-2)  pp. 117-135.  
32. McMichael, A.J., Martens, W.J.M., Kovats, R.S. and Lele, S. (2000) Climate Change and Human Health: Mapping and Modelling Potential Impacts. Spatial Epidemiology, Methods and Applications, Elliot, P., Wakefield, J.C., Best, N.G. and D.J. Briggs (eds.) Oxford University Press, U.K., pp. 444-461.
33. Bunnel, J.E., Dumler, J.S., Lele, S.R., Shields, T.M. and Glass, G.E. (1999) Molecular ecological analysis of Ixodes scapularis, Borrelia burdorferi and the HE agent in the middle atlantic region of the USA . In Rickettsiae and rickettsial diseases at the turn of the third millennium (D.Raoult and P. Brougui, eds.) Elsevier, Amsterdam pp. 432-435.
34. Das, A., Lele, S., Gurri-Glass,G., Shields, Timothy and Patz, J. (1999) Spatial modeling of vector abundance using generalized linear mixed models with application to Lyme disease. Heuvelink, G.B.M. and Lemmens, M.J.P.M., eds. Accuracy 2000. Delft University Press, The Netherlands , pp. 125-133.
35. Lele, S. and Das, A. (2000) Elicited Data and incorporation of expert opinion for statistical inference in spatial studies. Mathematical Geology 32(4) 465-487.   PDF
36. Rose J, Daeschner S, Easterling, D., Curriero FC, Lele S., Patz J (2000): Applying a geographic information system (GIS) to assess the relationship between weather and water-borne diseases in the US : 1972-1994. Journal of the American Water Works Association 92(9): 77-87  
37. Lele, S. (1999) Invariance and morphometrics: A critical appraisal of statistical techniques for landmark data analysis. On Growth and Form: Spatio-temporal Patterning in Biology. Chaplain, M.A.J., Singh, G.D. and J. McLachlan (eds.) John Wiley, NY. 325-336.
38. Lele, S. (1999) Book review Morphometric tools for landmark data, Geometry and Biology by F.L. Bookstein. Journal of American Statistical Association 94: 340-341.
39. Curriero, F. and Lele, S. (1999) A composite likelihood approach to semivariogram estimation. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics 4(1) 9-28.
40. Patz, J., Strzpek, K. Lele, S., Hedden, M., Green S., Noden, B., Kalkstein, L. and Beier, J. (1998) Predicting key malaria transmission factors, biting and entomological inoculation rates, using modeled soil moisture in Kenya . Tropical Medicine and International Health 3 (10) 818-827.
41. Valeri, C., Cole, T. C., Lele, S. and Richtsmeier, J.T (1998) Capturing data from three dimensional surfaces using fuzzy landmarks. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 107:113-124.
42. Richtsmeier, J.T., Cole, T.M., Krovitz, G., Valeri, C. J. and Lele, S. (1998) Preoperative morphology and development in sagittal synostosis. Journal of Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology 18:64-78.
43. Lele, S. (1998) Discussion of “Model-based geostatistics” by Diggle et al. Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Ser. C.  
44. Heagerty, P. and Lele, S.(1998) A composite likelihood approach to binary data in space. Journal of American Statistical Association 93:1099-1111.
45. Gilbert, P., Lele, S. and Vardi, Y. (1999) Semiparametric inference for selection bias models with application to AIDS vaccine trials. Biometrika 86, 27-43.  
46. Simon, B., Fung, M, Marcucci, C., and Lele, S. (1998) Parameter estimation and confidence intervals for Xe-CT ventilation studies: A monte carlo approach. Journal of Applied Physiology 84:709-716.
47. Lele, S., Taper, M. and Gage, S. (1998) Statistical analysis of population dynamics in space and time using estimating functions. Ecology 79:1489-1502.
48. Lele, S. (1997) Estimating functions for semivariogram estimation. (Selected Proceedings of the Conference on Estimating Functions (eds. Basawa, I.V., Godambe, V.P. and Taylor , R.L.) IMS Lecture Series Monographs, 381-396.  
49. Yasui, Y. and Lele, S. (1997). A regression method for spatial disease rates: An estimating function approach. Journal of American Statistical Association 92(437): 21-32.
50. Lele, S. and Cole, T. (1996) Testing for shape differences when the covariance matrices are unequal. Journal of Human Evolution 31:193-212.
51. Lele, S. and Cole, T. (1995). Euclidean Distance Matrix Analysis: A statistical review. Proceedings of the International Conference on Current Issues in Statistical Shape Analysis. University of Leeds , England (Edited by Mardia, K.V.,Gill C.A. ) 49-53.  
52. Lele, S. (1995). Inner product matrices, Kriging and nonparametric estimation of variogram. Mathematical Geology 27(5): 673-692.
53. Lele, S. and Richtsmeier, J.T. (1995). Euclidean Distance Matrix Analysis: Confidence intervals for form and growth difference. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 98(1): 73-86.
54. Carlstein, E. and Lele, S. (1994) Nonparametric change-point estimation for data from an ergodic sequence. Theory of Probability and its Applications. 726-733.
55. Lele, S. (1994). Estimating functions in chaotic systems. Journal of American Statistical Association. 89:512-516.
56. Richtsmeier, J.T. and Lele, S. (1993). A coordinate free approach to the analysis of growth patterns: Models and theoretical considerations. Biological Reviews 68:381-411.
57. Lele, S. (1993). Euclidean Distance Matrix Analysis of landmark data: Estimation of mean form and mean form difference. Mathematical Geology 25:573-602.
58. Stone, M. and Lele, S. (1992). Representing tongue surface with curve fits. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Banff , Canada .
59. Richtsmeier, J.T., Cheverud, J., Danahey, S., Corner, B. and Lele, S.R. (1992). Sexual dimorphism of ontogeny in the crab eating macaque (Macaca Fascicularis). Journal of Human Evolution. 25:1-30.
60. Richtsmeier, J.T., Cheverud, J. and Lele, S.R. (1992). Advances in Anthropological Morphometrics. Annual Reviews in Anthropology 21:283-305.
61. Corner, B., Lele, S., Richtsmeier, J.T. (1992). Measuring precision of three-dimensional landmark data. Journal of Quantitative Anthropology 3:347-359.
62. Cressie, N.A.C. and Lele, S.R. (1992). Some new models for Markov random fields. Journal of Applied Probability 29:877-884.  
63. Lele, S.R. and Richtsmeier, J.T. (1992). On comparing biological shapes: Detection of influential landmarks. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 87:49-65.  
64. Lele, S. and Richtsmeier, J.T. (1991). Euclidean Distance Matrix Analysis: A coordinate free approach for comparing biological shapes using landmark data. American Journal of Physical Anthropology  86:415-427.
65. Lele, S. (1991). Some comments on coordinate free and scale invariant methods in morphometrics. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 85:407-418.
66. Lele, S. (1991). Discussion of Goodall's paper on ''Procrustes methods in the analysis of shape''. Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Ser. B.53(2):334.
67. Lele, S. (1991). Resampling using estimating equations. Estimating Functions, Godambe V.P. (Ed.) Oxford University Press, pp. 295-304.
68. Lele, S. (1991). Jackknifing linear estimating equations: Asymptotic theory and applications in stochastic processes. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Ser. B 53:253-268.
69. Richtsmeier, J.T. and  Lele, S. (1990) Growth in Crouzon syndrome. Journal of Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology 10:39-62.
70. Lele, S. and Richtsmeier, J.T. (1990) Statistical models in morphometrics: Are they realistic?  Systematic Zoology 39:60-69.

Books:

1. Lele, S. and Richtsmeier, J.T. (2001) An invariant approach to statistical analysis of shapes. London: Chapman and Hall/CRC Pres, Interdisciplinary Statistics series.
2. Taper, M.L. and Lele, S.R. (eds.) (2004) The Nature of Scientific Evidence: Empirical, Philosophical and Statistical Perspectives. University of Chicago Press.

Coauthored reports published as books:

1. Under the weather: Climate. Ecosystems and Infectious Diseases (2001) U.S. National Academy Press, Washington D.C.
2. Assessment of the NIOSH Head and Face Anthropometric survey of US respirator users (2006) U.S. National Academy Press, Washington D.C.