Professor Chris Wild

City Room: 303.214 Science Centre Extn: 88797 Email: c.wild@auckland.ac.nz

Chris Wild did his undergraduate and Master's degrees at Auckland and then completed a PhD at the University of Waterloo in Canada before joining what was then the Statistics Unit of the Department of Mathematics in 1979. He has been here ever since except for visiting appointments at the University of Waterloo (1996, 1993 and 1989), the University of Washington (1983) and Birkbeck College, University of London (1983).

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Currently, his main research interests are in developing methods for modelling response-selective data (e.g. case-control studies) and missing data problems, and in additive model extensions to multivariate regression techniques. A long term interest in the teaching of statistics has also developed into a research interest with particular emphasis on statistical thinking and reasoning processes.

He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, a Council member of the International Statistical Institute, and was President of the International Association for Statistics Education (IASE) from 2003 to 2005. He is currently an Associate Editor of the International Statistical Review, and has been an Associate Editor of Biometrics , the Statistics Education Research Journal (SERJ), and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics. He was Head of Auckland's Department of Statistics 2003-2007 and co-led the University of Auckland's first-year statistics teaching team to a national Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award in 2003.
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Books

• Seber, G.A.F. and Wild, C.J. "Nonlinear Regression", Pub: Wiley, New York, 1989, 768 pages.
• Wild, C.J. and Seber, G.A.F. "Chance Encounters: A first course in data analysis and inference," Pub: Wiley, New York, 2000, 611 pages.

Some Selected Papers

• Jiang, Y., Scott, A.J. and Wild, C.J., Case-control analysis with a continuous outcome variable, Statistics in Medicine, 28, 194-204, 2009.
• Scott, A.J., Lee, A.J and Wild, C.J., On the Breslow-Holubkov estimator. Lifetime Data Analysis, 13, 545-563, 2007.
• Wild, Chris, "Virtual Environments and the Acceleration of Experiential Learning", International Statistical Review, 75, 322-335, 2007.
• Scott, A. and Wild, C., "Methods for stratified cluster sampling with informative stratification", Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, vol. 2007, Article ID 56372, 12 pages, 2007. doi:10.1155/2007/56372.
• Lee, A.J, Scott, A.J. and Wild, C.J., “Fitting binary regression models with case-augmented samples”, Biometrika, 93, 385–397, 2006.
• Neuhaus, J., Scott, A.J. and Wild, C.J., “Family-specific approaches to the analysis of retrospective family data", Biometrics, 62, 488-494, 2006.
• Wild, Chris (2006). “The concept of distribution", Statistics Education Research Journal, 5(2), 10-26.
• Scott, A.J. and Wild, C.J., “Calculating efficient semiparametric estimators for a broad class of missing-data problems,” In Festschrift for Tarmo Pukkila on his 60th Birthday. E. P. Liski, J. Isotalo, J. Niemelä, S. Puntanen, and G. P. H. Styan (Eds), Dept. of Mathematics, Statistics and Philosophy, Univ. of Tampere, ISBN 978-951-44-6620-5, 301-314, 2006.
• Jiang, Y., Scott, A.J. and Wild, C.J., “Secondary analyses of case-control sampled data”, Statistics in Medicine, 25, 1323-1339, 2006.
• Pfannkuch, M. and Wild, C.J., "Towards an understanding of statistical thinking" In D. Ben-Zvi and J. Garfield (eds.), The Challenge of Developing Statistical Literacy, Reasoning, and Thinking. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Chapter 2, 17–46, 2004.
• Scott, A.J. and Wild, C.J., "The analysis of multi-stage case-control studies." In Analysis of Complex Surveys II, R. Chambers and C.J. Skinner (eds). John Wiley and Sons: New York, 109-121, 2003.
• Scott, A.J. and Wild, C.J., "On the robustness of weighted methods for fitting models to case-control data", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B, 64, 207-219, 2002.
• Neuhaus, J., Scott, A.J. and Wild, C.J., "The Analysis of Retrospective Family Studies ", Biometrika, 89, 23-37, 2002.
• Scott, A.J. and Wild, C.J., "Fitting Logistic Regression Models in Case-control Studies with Complex Sampling", Applied Statistics, 50, 389-401, 2001.
• Scott, A.J. and Wild, C.J., "Maximum likelihood for generalised case-control studies", Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 96, 3-27, 2001.
• Pfannkuch, M. and Wild, C.J., "Statistical Thinking and Statistical Practice: Themes gleaned from interviews with professional statisticians," Statistical Science, 15, 132-152, 2000.
• Lawless, J.F., Wild, C.J., and Kalbfleisch, J.D "Estimation for Response-selective and Missing Data Problems in Regression", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 61, 413-438, 1999.
• Wild, C.J. and Pfannkuch, M., "Statistical thinking in empirical enquiry" (with discussion). International Statisitical Review, 67, 221-266, 1999.
• Scott, A.J. and Wild, C.J., "Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Case-Control Data", Biometrika, 84, 57-71, 1997.
• Yee, T.W. and Wild, C.J., "Vector Generalised Additive Models", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 58, 481-493, 1996.
• Wild, C.J. and Yee, T.W., "Additive Extensions to Generalized Estimating Equation Methods", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 58, 711-712, 1996.
• Wild, C.J., "Continuous improvement of teaching: Case Study in a large statistics course", International Statistical Review, 63, 49-68, 1995.
• Wild, C.J., "On embracing the wider view of statistics", The American Statistician, 48, 163-171, 1994.
• Wild, C.J. "Fitting prospective egression models to case-control data", Biometrika, 78, 705-717, 1991.
• Scott, A.J. and Wild, C.J. "Fitting logistic regression models in stratified case-control studies", Biometrics, 47, 497-510, 1991.
• Scott, A.J. and Wild, C.J. “Fitting logistic models under case-control or choice based sampling”, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B 48, 170-182, 1986.
• Wild, C.J., “Failure time models with matched data”, Biometrika, 70, 633-641, 1983.
• Wild, C.J. and Kalbfleisch, J.D. “A note on a paper by Ferguson and Phadia”, Annals of Statistics, 9, 1061-1065, 1981.