Department of Statistics

Staff Research Interests

Ayse Bilgin

  • Data Mining
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Total Qualty Management
  • Quality Improvement in Hospitals (NSW)

Stephen Brown

  • Biostatistics
  • Bioinformatics

David Bulger

  • Stochastic global optimisation
  • Quantum computation
  • Bioinformatics

KJ Byun

  • Modelling of Housing Market
  • Prediction and Comparison of Sporting Performances
  • Analysis of Financial Surveys

Susan Crowe

  • Biostatistics

Petra Graham

  • Meta-analysis
  • Generalized linear modelling
  • The application of Bayesian methods in medicine and health
  • Biostatistics
  • Nonparametric statistics
  • Statistical computing

Hilary Green

  • Analysis of survey data
  • Statistical graphics
  • Web Technology

Sibba Gudlaugsdottir

  • Bioinformatics

Gillian Heller

  • Generalized linear modelling
  • Biostatistics
  • Survival analysis
  • Mixed outcomes

Malcolm Hudson

  • Medical Imaging
  • Clinical trials research
  • Medical decision methods

Andrzej Kozek

  • M-estimators of Quantiles
  • Gauss Quadratures and Partial Cross Validation
  • Nonparametric Statistics
  • Statistical Methods in Finance

Julian Leslie

  • Automatic handwriting recognition

Kehui Luo


  • Statistical applications in epidemiological, biological, health and medical science areas

Jun Ma

  • Smoothing parameter selection in medical image reconstructions.
  • Mixture models
  • Multiplicative iterative methods for positive constrained maximum penalized likelihood image reconstruction in emission tomography
  • Iterative Bayes algorithms for positive linear inverse problems

Don McNeil

  • Statistical Graphics
  • Epidemiological Research
  • Web Technology

Jenny Middledorp

  • Psychological Profiling
  • Biostatistics
  • Statistical Graphics

Ruth Penman

  • Correlated Data Analysis - Hearing Loss Data

Michael Petersons

  • Student paid work and its effect on their studies
  • The effects of technology on student satisfaction and performance

Peter Petocz

  • Medical and health statistics
  • Statistics and mathematics learning

Tania Prvan

  • Programming of generalised smoothing splines

Barry Quinn

  • Asymptotic analysis of eigenvalue techniques for the estimation of bearing
  • Estimation of frequencies of sinusoids in autoregressive noise
  • Testing whether two time series have been generated by the same stochastic and deterministic mechanisms.

Graham Wood

  • Bioinformatics

    i) Origin of introns
    ii) Imputation in microarrays
    iii) Protein structure prediction
    iv) Optimal animal nutrition

  • Traffic Accident Modelling