Statistics

Statistics Members

Academic Staff

Primary Research Interests

Professor Byron Morgan
Head of Group

Biometry; cluster analysis; stochastic population processes; psychological applications of statistics; multivariate analysis; simulation; analysis of quantal assay data; medical statistics; ecological statistics; over-dispersion; estimation using transforms.

Dr Lothar Breuer
Reader in Statistics

Stochastic processes, queueing theory, risk theory, Markov-additive processes.

Professor Philip Brown
Professor of Statistics

Multivariate Analysis; medical statistics; Bayesian methods; chemometrics; electoral prediction and polling.

Dr Diana Cole
Lecturer in Statistics

Branching processes in biology; cell division models; ecological statistics; generalised linear mixed models; Identifiability. Parameter redundancy.

Dr Jim Griffin
Senior Lecturer in Statistics

Bayesian non-parametric regression; Volatility estimation; High-dimensional regression; Stochastic frontier analysis; Inference for
stochastic processes; MCMC methodology.

Dr Efang Kong
Lecturer in Statistics

Semi and non-parametric modeling and related subset selection; Robust regression and Bahadur representation; Empirical likelihood.

Dr Alfred Kume
Lecturer in Statistics

Shape analysis, directional statistics, image analysis, stochastic geometry, multivariate analysis, computational statistics.

Dr Owen Lyne
Lecturer in Statisics

Stochastic epidemic models, applied probability, simulation, statistical inference, goodness of fit, branching processes, martingales, medical education.

Dr Alexa Laurence
Lecturer in Statistics

Medical Statistics and Applied Statistics

Professor Martin Ridout
Professor of Statistics

Analysis of discrete data in biology; generalized linear models; overdispersion; stochastic models; statistical analysis of ion channel data.

Professor Stephen Walker
Professor of Statistics

Bayesian inference; Bayesian nonparametric methods; Time series; Survival analysis; MCMC; Matrix algebra.

Professor Jian Zhang
Professor of Statistics

Non-parametric statistics and high-dimensional statistics, bioinformatics and computational biology, statistical genetics, neuroimaging methods, and Bayesian modelling.

Dr Xue Wang
Lecturer in Statistics

Nonparametric regression and multiscale methods.

 

 

Research Staff

Primary Research Interests

Dr. Rachel McCrea

Ecological statistics; state space modelling; integrated population models; multisite mark-recapture models.

Dr. Vasilesios Giagos

Inference for diffusion processes with applications to Systems Biology, Computational Statistics

Mr Christopher Eves
KTP associate


Postgraduate Students

Supervisor

Mr Fadhaa Ali

Professor Jian Zhang

Miss Isadora Antoniano

Professor Stephen Walker

Miss Lini Cao

Professor Jian Zhang

Miss Gurutzeta Guillera Arroita

Professor Byron Morgan and Professor Martin Ridout

Miss Eleni-Ioanna Delatola

Dr Jim Griffin

Miss Vasiliki Dimitrakapoulou

Professor Phil Brown

Mr Ben Hubbard

Professor Byron Morgan and Dr Diana Cole

Mr Jose Lahoz-Monfort

Professor Byron Morgan

Mr Chao Liu

Professor Jian Zhang

Miss Beth Norris

Professor Byron Morgan and Professor Martin Ridout

Miss Lauren Oliver

Professor Byron Morgan and Professor Tim Coulson

Mr Antonio Ortiz

Professor Stephen Walker

Mr Carlos Erwin Rodriguez

Professor Stephen Walker

Mr Fei Xiang

Professor Stephen Walker

Mr Cristiano Villa

Professor Stephen Walker

 

 

Affiliated Staff

Primary Research Interests

Dr Eryl Bassett
Honorary Lecturer in Statistics

Theory of Inference; life testing; applied statistics; statistical computing.

Dr Takis Besbeas
Honorary Lecturer in Statistics

Ecological statistics.

Dr Phil Brain
Honorary Reader in Statistics

Analysis methods for high dimensional data (eg microarray data, microneurography data, EEG data); nonlinear regression and modelling.

Dr Ted Catchpole
Honorary Senior Research Fellow

Modelling the spread of bushfires; capture-recapture methodology; biometry; sports science.

Mr Geoff Clarke
Honorary Reader In Applied Statistics

Design and analysis of scientific experiments; biometry; statistical education.

Mrs Flavia Jolliffe
Honorary Lecturer in Statistics

Statistical education - research, theory and practice; social statistics (particularly sample survey design and analysis); applications of statistical methods in the social sciences and medicine; statistical consulting.

Professor Ian Jolliffe
Honorary Professor of Statistics

Multivariate analysis; Forecast verification; Applications of statistics to climatology, meteorology and ecology.

Professor Jean-Dominique Lebreton
Visiting Professor of Biometry

Biometry and ecological statistics; capture-recapture methodology.

Mr Mike Bremner
Honorary Lecturer in Statistics

Statistical Inference under order restrictions; linear and generalized linear models; selection and ranking; statistical computing.

Professor Donald Preece
Honorary Professor of Combinatorial Mathematics

Combinatorics: designs, especially as follows: Latin squares and complete sets of pairwise orthogonal Latin squares. Youden squares. Non-orthogonal Graeco-Latin designs, particularly double Youden rectangles and Freeman-Youden rectangles. Neighbour designs. Single-change covering designs.

 

School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, Cornwallis Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF.

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Last Updated: 22/03/2012