Department of Statistics


Research by staff

A wide range of research areas are represented by academic staff in the Department of Statistics. Research students and postdoctoral fellows contribute to this research at all levels and publish their research in a wide range of well known international scientific journals.

Areas of current research activity Research staff
Analysis of circular and spherical data Alan Lee
Bioinformatics Stéphane Guindon
Chris Triggs
Case-control sampling and extension Alan Lee
Thomas Lumley
Alastair Scott
Chris Wild
Experimental design Arden Miller
Chris Triggs
Fitting statistical models to population density data  Rachel Fewster
Brian McArdle
Russell Millar
James Russell
Forensic statistics James Curran
Chris Triggs
Improvement and industrial statistics Arden Miller
Peter Mullins
Chris Wild
Longitudinal data and correlated responses Alan Lee
Thomas Lumley
Alastair Scott
Thomas Yee
Markov chain Monte Carlo methods Stéphane Guindon
Renate Meyer
Russell Millar
Wiremu Solomon
Yong Wang
Ilze Ziedins
Medical Statistics Alan Lee
Thomas Lumley
Roger Marshall
Patricia Metcalf
Renate Meyer
Alastair Scott
Chris Wild
Thomas Yee
Mixed models

Russell Millar
Yong Wang

Multivariate analysis and modelling Brian McArdle
Renate Meyer
Russell Millar
Chris Triggs
Nonparametric methods and regression Alan Lee
Thomas Lumley
Yong Wang
Thomas Yee
Operations research Geoffrey Pritchard
Wiremu Solomon
Ilze Ziedins
Probability and statistical physics Mark Holmes
Ilze Ziedins
Sampling and the analysis of survey data Thomas Lumley
Alastair Scott
Statistical computing and the "R" statistical programming language

James Curran
Ross Ihaka
Alan Lee
Thomas Lumley

Russell Millar
Paul Murrell
David Scott
Chris Triggs

Yong Wang

Thomas Yee

Statistical ecology and animal abundance Rachel Fewster
Stéphane Guindon
Brian McArdle
Russell Millar
James Russell
Nick Shears
Thomas Yee
Statistics education Stephanie Budgett
Maxine Pfannkuch
Matt Regan
Chris Wild
Stochastic processes / applied probability Stéphane Guindon
Mark Holmes
Geoffrey Pritchard
David Scott
Wiremu Solomon
Ilze Ziedins
Time series analysis Ross Ihaka
Alan Lee


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