Dr Thomas William Yee

Biography

After graduating from Auckland with a PhD Thomas spent two years at the medical school as a research fellow. He then took up a half-time lectureship in Statistics at the Albany Campus of Massey University, before becoming a lecturer at The University of Auckland.

Research | Current

Thomas' research interests are nonparametric regression and generalized linear models, with particular application to medical studies and ecology. Statistical computing is also a strong interest.

Here are some links:

• For my personal homepage
• My VGAM package for R
• A pre-beta release of my VGAM package
• The smart prediction library
• Updated information about some of my research papers

Teaching | Current

In 2018 I will be teaching STATS 782 and STATS 784, both in Semester 2.

Postgraduate supervision

Current students: Victor Miranda (PhD student), Miriam Chou (Masters by research).

Distinctions/Honours

Elected Member of the ISI (2014--)

Responsibilities

I am a Graduate Officer, as well as Scholarships Officer.

Areas of expertise

Generalized regression, statistical ecology, computational statistics