Research

My research centers on developing and applying statistical methods to better understand complex ecological and environmental systems. I am especially interested in geospatial data analysis, non-parametric methods, and Bayesian modeling, which provide powerful tools for capturing spatial structure and uncertainty in ecological processes. My work often engages with real-world data from environmental and agricultural contexts, where flexible modeling and thoughtful inference are essential.

I am currently working with Dr. Jarad Niemi for my Ph.D.

See my Github for research materials and fun projects!

Talks

  1. Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2025

Measuring Spatial Consistency in Simulated Crop Yield with Tensor-Product Splines and Interclass Correlation

Payton Miloser\(^{1}\), Philip Dixon2

🏆 Award: 1st Place in Graduate Student Oral Competition

  1. Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference (eUSR), 2021

Bio-Surveillance of COVID-19 Data using Statistical Process Control,

Payton Miloser1 , Paul Stephenson2

🏆 Award: 1st Place in Student Oral Competition

https://www.causeweb.org/usproc/eusr/video-competition

  1. Miloser, P., Layman, N., & Roberts, A., Student Scholars Day (SSD), “Prime Labeling of Friendship Graphs”, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, USA. (April 10, 2019).

Papers & Manuscripts

Masters Thesis: “Assessing Spatial Consistency using Spatio-Temporal Interactions with Generalized Additive Models”. Miloser \(^1\), Dixon \(^2\). June 2024.

McNair Thesis: “Bio-Surveillance of Covid-19 Data using Statistical Process Control”. Miloser \(^1\), Stephenson \(^2\). 2022.

Posters & Collaborations

  1. Emily Lopez, Jaanve Mehta, Karin Dorman Ph.D., Ethan Bush, Payton Miloser. “Assessing uniformity of coverage in PCR-amplified nanopore sequencing to diagnose avian infectious bronchitis virus in chickens”. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA. (August 3, 2023)

  2. Hazer Becic, Lavion Sumerlin, Emily Berg Ph.D., Zirou Zhou, Payton Miloser. “Small Area Estimation for Poverty Rate Indicators”. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA. (August 3, 2023).

  3. Cathryn Barbour, Blanca Parker, Heike Hoffman Ph.D., Alicia Carriquiry Ph.D., Payton Miloser. “Estimating Probability of True Hits”. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA. (August 3, 2023).

  4. Miloser, P. McNair Scholars Program. “Bio-Surveillance of Covid-19 Data using Statistical Process Control”, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, USA. (July 16, 2021). ##

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