Directory of Academic Statisticians 2007 (Research Interests)


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Gambling

Dr S. Salter SHEFFIELD HALLAM
Probabilistic and Statistical Modelling especially in area of gambling and commercial gaming
Dr J. Haigh SUSSEX
Applied probability, especially with biological connotations. Games and gambling

Game theory

Dr G. Simpson ASTON
Knowledge Management, Spreadsheets in Business Modelling and Decision Support Systems, Applications of Game Theory in Economic Modelling, Decision Support Systems in the National Health Service
Dr E.J. Collins BRISTOL
Markov decision processes; stochastic optimization and game theory; applications in queueing and behavioural biology; reinforcement learning.
Professor J.M. McNamara BRISTOL
Markov decision theory, applications of probability theory to behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology, including evolutionary game theory
Dr J.V. Howard LONDON
Decision theory, foundations of statistical inference, the definition of random sequences, game theory, social choice theory
Dr P.G. Blackwell SHEFFIELD
Stochastic modelling and simulation, Bayesian inference for stochastic processes, applications in ecology and archaeology, evolutionary game theory.
Dr M. Broom SUSSEX
Mathematical biology, in particular evolutionary game theory
Professor J.Q. Smith WARWICK
Bayesian forecasting, game theory, decision analysis, foundations of statistics, influence diagrams, finite additivity, environmental statistics

Games of chance

Dr K.R. Mosurski DUBLIN
Probability modelling, applications to sports, games of chance, multivariate analysis

Gender

Professor R.D. Penn LANCASTER
Work/life history analysis, labour markets and training, sociological applications including social class, ethnicity and gender

Generalized additive models

Dr R.A. Rigby LONDON
Bayesian Methods, multivariate analysis, prediction, generalised additive models

Generalized latent variable models

Dr M. Green LANCASTER
Generalized linear models, statistical computing, social statistics, generalized latent variable models

Generalized linear mixed models

Dr D.J. Cole KENT
Stochastic models, branching processes, cell division models, generalized linear mixed models
Dr J. Pan MANCHESTER
Medical Statistics, generalised linear mixed models, longitudinal data analysis, growth curve modelling, LMMs & GLMMs randomised controlled trials
Professor R. Thompson NOTTINGHAM
Estimation of variance components, generalised linear mixed models, genetic statistics, biometry
Mr P. Hewson PLYMOUTH
Hierarchical models, latent structure models, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, multivariate generalised linear mixed models and additive models

Generalized linear models [GLMs]

Ms M. Wiseman BRIGHTON
Generalized linear models, analysis of survival data
Dr B.D.M. Tom CAMBRIDGE
Survival analysis, generalised linear models, analysis of event history data, modelling longitudinal data, efficiency, bioinformatics
Dr P.M.E. Altham CAMBRIDGE
Analysis of discrete data, multivariate analysis, generalized linear modelling, Splus graphical methods, statistical consulting
Professor J.P. Hinde GALWAY
Generalized linear models, overdispersion, random effects, finite mixtures, statistical computing, DNA microarray data, applied statistical modelling
Mr M.S. Ridout KENT
Analysis of discrete data in biology; generalised linear models; over-dispersion; stochastic models; statistical analysis of ion channel data; statistical genetics.
Dr E. Ackerley LANCASTER
Statistical software, social and criminological statistics, generalized linear models, structural equation modelling
Dr M. Green LANCASTER
Generalized linear models, statistical computing, social statistics, generalized latent variable models
D.C. Greenwood LEEDS
Medical Statistics, Hierarchical and Generalised Linear Models, Bayesian and MCMC Methods, Nutrition Epidemiology, Meta-analysis, Measurement Error, Missing Data
Dr S.O.M. Manda LEEDS
Bayesian and MCMC Methods, Hierarchical and Generalised Linear Models, Statistical Methods in Spatial Epidemiology, Medical and Social Statistics
Professor J.A. Nelder, FRS LONDON
Generalized linear models, statistical methods and theory, statistical computing
Professor R. Gilchrist LONDON
Generalised linear models, diagnostics, statistical computing, social sciences
Dr D. Stasinopoulos LONDON
Statistical modelling, generalized linear models, mean and dispersion additive models
Dr C. Yang LONDON
Climate change analysis, modelling and prediction, applications of generalized linear models in climatology and hydrology.
Dr A.J. Scallan MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN
Generalised linear models
Mr J. Gallagher READING
Multivariate analysis, generalised linear models, random variate generation.
Dr Kostas Triantafyllopolous SHEFFIELD
Time series and forecasting, Bayesian inference and prediction, state space models, dynamic generalized linear models, statistical process control, control charts, wavelet methods in statistics.
Dr D. Houghton SHEFFIELD HALLAM
Generalised Linear Models
Dr J.W. McDonald SOUTHAMPTON
Demography and social statistics, multi-level models for infant and child mortality in the developing world, discrete-time event history models with unobserved heterogeneity, analysis of current status data, generalized linear models with parameter constraints, categorical data analysis, particularly with multivariate categorical responses, exact conditional tests for log-linear and logistic models, MCMC methods, association/marginal models, model for social networks.
Dr P.W.F Smith SOUTHAMPTON
Graphical modelling, exact inference, Monte Carlo methods, MCMC methods, generalised linear models, models for social networks, contingency tables with missing data, Bayesian methods, for missing data, models for longitudinal data, multivariate binary responses, association/marginal models.
Dr A.D. Mayer SWANSEA
Generalized linear models, statistical computer graphics, computer-assisted learning, APL programming, SAS programming.

Genetic algorithms

Dr N. A. Sheehan LEICESTER
Genetic analyses on complex pedigrees, MCMC methods, probabilistic expert systems, genetic mapping, genetic algorithms

Genetic epidemiology

Mr R.M. Harbord BRISTOL
Medical statistics; epidemiology; meta-analysis; design and analysis of studies of medical diagnosis; genetic epidemiology.
Dr F. Dudbridge CAMBRIDGE
Statistical genetics; genetic epidemiology; bioinformatics; multiple testing.
Mr A. Bhaniani CAMBRIDGE
Statistical methods in nutritional and genetic epidemiology, logistic regression, generalised linear regression, haplotype analysis, gene-gene and gene-environment interaction studies and epidemiological studies (cohort & case-control studies).
Professor D.F. Easton CAMBRIDGE
Genetic epidemiology, particularly of common cancers, Methodological problems in statistical genetics, Cancer epidemiology.
Dr J. Luan CAMBRIDGE
Statistical analysis for genetic epidemiology, gene-gene and gene-environment interaction, haplotype analysis, logistic regression, mixed model and longitudinal data analysis.
Dr D.J. Thompson CAMBRIDGE
Genetic epidemiology of breast, ovarian and other common cancers. Statistical methodology for association studies and family based analyses.
Dr Z. YE CAMBRIDGE
Genetic epidemiology in cancer and heart disease, meta-analysis, microarray data analysis, bioinformatics.
Professor T. Bishop LEEDS
Genetic epidemiology of cancer
J. Barrett LEEDS
Statistical methods in genetic epidemiology
F. Turner LEEDS
Medical statistics, genetic epidemiology
Professor P.R. Burton LEICESTER
Genetic epidemiology, Bayesian Methods, survival analysis
Dr C. Minelli LEICESTER
Meta-analysis, Bayesian methods, genetic epidemiology
Professor J.R. Thompson LEICESTER
Epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, medical statistics, statistical computing, ophthalmology
Dr O. Fletcher LONDON
Statistical methods in epidemiology, particularly genetic epidemiology.
Professor J Whittaker LONDON
Genetic epidemiology, bioinformatics, quantitative genetics, Bayesian modelling
Professor D. Balding LONDON
Statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, bioinformatics, Markov chain Monte Carlo methodology, Bayesian inference, DNA profile evidence
Dr R.J.Q. McNally MANCHESTER
Epidemiology of cancer, genetic epidemiology, disease mapping, disease clustering, analysis of time trends, stochastic modelling, biostatistics.
Dr R.J.Q. McNally NEWCASTLE
Cancer epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, disease mapping and clustering, analysis of time trends, stochastic modelling.
Dr D. Teare SHEFFIELD
Genetic epidemiology, analysis of complex diseases, linkage disequilibrium, loss of heterozygosity
Dr K. Walters SHEFFIELD
Genetic epidemiology, analysis of complex diseases, model free linkage, mathematical problems in genetics

Genetics

Dr M.A. Hurn BATH
Markov chain Monte Carlo methods and stochastic optimisation. Bayesian modelling and inference in particular in image analysis, mixture modelling and genetics.
Dr C.C. Patterson BELFAST
Medical statistics, diabetes epidemiology, statistical genetics
Dr R. Thomson BRIGHTON
Estimation; Statistical genetics
Dr V. Didelez BRISTOL
Various aspects and uses of graphical models (computational issues, model search, applications in genetics), event history analysis, causality, optimal dynamic treatments, bio-medical applications
Dr F. Dudbridge CAMBRIDGE
Statistical genetics; genetic epidemiology; bioinformatics; multiple testing.
Professor D.F. Easton CAMBRIDGE
Genetic epidemiology, particularly of common cancers, Methodological problems in statistical genetics, Cancer epidemiology.
Dr C.A. Hackett DUNDEE
Statistical genetics, chromosome mapping, tetraploid analysis
Dr K.M. MacKenzie DUNDEE
Statistical genetics, linkage disequilibrium mapping
Dr F. Wright DUNDEE
Computational molecular biology, DNA and protein sequence analysis, phylogenetics, bacterial genomics
Mrs J. Sales EDINBURGH
Application of statistics in biological, agricultural and genetics research
Dr. J. D. McClure GLASGOW
Microarray analysis, statistical genetics, clustering
Dr V.A. Macaulay GLASGOW
Statistical genetics, population genetics, Bayesian statistics, computer-intensive inference, phylogenetics
Professor A.S. Macdonald HERIOT-WATT
Genetics and insurance, stochastic modelling of insurance business, survival analysis.
Professor J. Peto INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH.
Cancer epidemiology, clinical trials, human genetics
Mr M.S. Ridout KENT
Analysis of discrete data in biology; generalised linear models; over-dispersion; stochastic models; statistical analysis of ion channel data; statistical genetics.
Dr J. Zhang KENT
Bioinformatics; semi- and non-parametric statistics; statistical genetics; phylogenetics; Bayesian computation; robustness; multivariate data analysis; statistical quality control.
Dr M. Bhattacharjee LANCASTER
Modelling and analysis of heterogeneous data: bioinformatics, statistical genetics, biostatistics, econometrics; Bayesian Integrated modelling:genome mapping data, microarray data; Parametric and Non-Parametric Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes.
Dr P. Fearnhead LANCASTER
Computational statistics, coalescent theory, applications in population genetics, sequential Monte Carlo methods
Dr L. Meligkotsidou LANCASTER
Statistical Genetics, MCMC methods and Mixture Models.
Dr R.B. Newson LONDON
Medical statistics, pharmacoepidemiology, asthma epidemiology, genetics, statistical computing, robust and rank-based confidence intervals, multiple test procedures, false discovery rates, propensity scores
Professor J. Peto LONDON
Cancer epidemiology, cancer genetics,clinical trials.
Professor J Whittaker LONDON
Genetic epidemiology, bioinformatics, quantitative genetics, Bayesian modelling
Professor D. Balding LONDON
Statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, bioinformatics, Markov chain Monte Carlo methodology, Bayesian inference, DNA profile evidence
Dr J. Whittaker LONDON
Statistical applications in genetics, generalized estimating equations, Bayesian modelling via MCMC
Dr D.A. Stephens LONDON
Bayesian theory and methods, statistical genetics, changepoint problems
Dr H.M. Wilkinson-Herbots LONDON
Applied probability, stochastic processes, mathematical genetics, forensic science
Professor A. Pickles MANCHESTER
Statistical methods for longitudinal studies (especially developmental psychopathology), behaviour genetics, latent variable models, survival and frailty models, survey analysis.
Dr P.J. Avery NEWCASTLE
Statistical problems in molecular biology, population genetics, design and analysis of taste panel studies, analysis of ordinal data, stochastic modelling, design and analysis of family studies investigating complex human diseases.
Dr I.J. Wilson NEWCASTLE
Population genetics, statistical genomics, computer intensive methods, human evolution, statistical ecology.
Dr D. Bennett OXFORD
Meta-analysis, missing-values, statistical education for medical researchers, statistical methods as applied to public health, epidemiology and clinical trials, cardiovascular disease, stroke, obesity, neuroscience, nutrition, genetics and mental health.
Miss E. Link OXFORD
Medical statistics, causes of cancer and heart disease, clinical trials in cancer and heart disease, genetics, overviews of randomized trials, epidemiology, power and sample size calculations.
Professor P.J. Donnelly OXFORD
Stochastic modelling, applications of probability and statistics in genetics, gene mapping early human evolution, population genetics; measure-valued diffusions, statistical issues in DNA profiling
Dr A.M. Etheridge OXFORD
Infinite-dimensional stochastic processes, probabilistic techniques in analysis - especially in the study of non-linear partial differential equations, stochastic models in genetics
Professor R.C. Griffiths OXFORD
Applied stochastic processes, stochastic processes in population genetics, computational algorithms for evolutionary inference in population genetics
Professor J. Hein OXFORD
Molecular Evolution, Molecular Population Genetics and Bioinformatics
Dr C.N. Laws OXFORD
Stochastic processes and optimization, stochastic networks, models and inference in population genetics
Dr K.L. Ayres READING
Statistical genetics, DNA profiles, relatedness testing, molecular evolution.
Emeritus Professor R.N. Curnow READING
Quantitative and population genetics, inheritance of disease, statistical problems in molecular biology.
Professor C. Cannings, SHEFFIELD
Mathematical theory in biology, population, molecular and human genetics; evolutionary games, dynamical systems
Dr K. Walters SHEFFIELD
Genetic epidemiology, analysis of complex diseases, model free linkage, mathematical problems in genetics
Dr J.R. Lynn WARWICK (HRI)
Biometrical genetics, sequential sampling schemes

Geographical statistics

Professor G.J.G. Upton ESSEX
Modelling weather-related data, Log-linear models, geographical statistics, political statistics, spatial statistics, directional data analysis, model selection, outliers, cartograms
Mr B.J. Rowlingson LANCASTER
Spatial statistics, geographical information systems, statistical software
Dr A. Abakuks LONDON
Statistical aspects of the synoptic problem, that is, the study of the various hypotheses concerning the relationships among the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. Applied statistics, for example, various problems arising from geographical survey data. Applied stochastic processes and Markov decision processes.
Professor S. Richardson LONDON
Bayesian modelling of complex biomedical data, hierarchical models, spatial and space-time analyses, geographical epidemiology, measurement error models, modelling of heterogeneity, mixtures of distributions, clustering models for microarray data
Dr J.F. Bithell OXFORD
Medical statistics, stochastic processes, Monte Carlo inference, density estimation, mathematical and geographical epidemiology, radiation epidemiology, childhood cancer and leukaemia
Dr J.F. Bithell OXFORD
Medical statistics, stochastic processes, Monte Carlo inference, density estimation, mathematical and geographical epidemiology, radiation epidemiology, childhood cancer and leukaemia

Geology

Dr M.L. Burt ST ANDREWS
Estimating animal abundance, geological statistics, volcanic time series.
Dr E.C. Stillman SHEFFIELD
Particle size distributions, stereology, pollen classification, optimal experimental design, detection of fraud in designed studies, applications in geology, botany and materials science.

Geometric measure theory

Dr A. Megeney MIDDLESEX
Convexity and geometric measure theory; applied stochastic modelling and probability theory; development and evaluation of resource-based learning material.

Geometric probability and statistics

Professor M D Penrose BATH
Geometric probability, random graphs, interacting particle systems, extreme value theory, stochastic analysis.
Dr R. Coleman LONDON
Applied stochastic processes, geometrical probability, stereology, image analysis
Professor G.A. Young LONDON
Bootstrap methods, geometrical statistics, data-based simulation inference, density estimation, exploratory data-analysis
Dr M. Jones MIDDLESEX
Complex Analysis: geometric function theory, conformal mappings, Riemann surfaces and Teichmuller theory; Functional Analysis: composition operators, function spaces and operator theory.
Dr A. Megeney MIDDLESEX
Convexity and geometric measure theory; applied stochastic modelling and probability theory; development and evaluation of resource-based learning material.
P.W.M. Marsh YORK
Econometric theory, asymptotic expansions (Edgeworth and saddlepoint) higher-order likelihood theory, applications to time series and structural models. Applied mathematics: differential geometric analysis of statistical models, partial differential equations.

Geometry of inference

Dr P.E. Jupp ST ANDREWS
Directional statistics, differential geometry of inference, multivariate analysis, quantum statistics.

Geophysics

Dr R.G. Aykroyd LEEDS
Bayesian methods, image analysis, inverse data problems, spatial-temporal modelling, computational techniques, MCMC methods, electrical tomography, archaeological geophysics

Geostatistics

Dr A.J. Baczkowski LEEDS
Geostatistics, spatial statistics, testing for isotropy, locating outliers, simulation techniques

Gibbs sampling

Dr A. Thomas LONDON
Bayesian inference using Gibbs Sampling (BUGS)

Goodness of fit

Dr O.D. Lyne KENT
Stochastic epidemic models, applied probability, simulation, statistical inference, goodness of fit, branching processes, martingales, medical education
Dr C.P. Farrington OPEN
Statistics of infectious diseases, models in epidemiology, survival analysis, goodness of fit.

Graduation

Professor S. Haberman CITY
Insurability and underwriting, graduation of actuarial data, sickness and disability insurance, mathematics of pension funding

Graph theory

Dr A. Robinson BATH
Graph theory and multivariate analysis, Classification and Clustering, Applications of statistical methods in education.
Mr K. Walker KEELE
Graph theory, combinatorial problems in design
Dr T. Bending MIDDLESEX
Combinatorics and graph theory; computing in statistics and mathematics; assessment methods.

Graphical methods

Dr S.C. Shaw BATH
Bayes (linear) methods, Bayesian methods for software testing, graphical models
Dr V. Didelez BRISTOL
Various aspects and uses of graphical models (computational issues, model search, applications in genetics), event history analysis, causality, optimal dynamic treatments, bio-medical applications
Dr D.J. Spiegelhalter CAMBRIDGE
Bayesian methods, clinical trials, graphical models, medical technology evaluation, software for Markov Chain Monte Carlo, institutional comparisons, performance monitoring
Dr P.M.E. Altham CAMBRIDGE
Analysis of discrete data, multivariate analysis, generalized linear modelling, Splus graphical methods, statistical consulting
Mr D.A. Wooff DURHAM
Bayes linear methods, statistical computing, industrial statistics, graphical models, applied statistics
Professor G.J.G. Upton ESSEX
Modelling weather-related data, Log-linear models, geographical statistics, political statistics, spatial statistics, directional data analysis, model selection, outliers, cartograms
Professor W.J. Krzanowski EXETER
Multivariate methodology, especially discriminant analysis, principal component analysis and canonical variate analysis; graphical representation of multivariate data; projection pursuit; analysis of distance; use of data re- sampling methods
Dr M.J. Cottee HERTFORDSHIRE
Multivariate statistics, graphical techniques, statistical methods in behavioural sciences.
Mr B.J. Rowlingson LANCASTER
Spatial statistics, geographical information systems, statistical software
Dr J. Whittaker LANCASTER
Multivariate statistics, conditional independence, graphical models and the statistics of credit scoring
Dr K. Hayes LIMERICK
Spatial data, diagnostics for the General Linear Model, Graphical Models
Dr A. Abakuks LONDON
Statistical aspects of the synoptic problem, that is, the study of the various hypotheses concerning the relationships among the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. Applied statistics, for example, various problems arising from geographical survey data. Applied stochastic processes and Markov decision processes.
Professor S. Richardson LONDON
Bayesian modelling of complex biomedical data, hierarchical models, spatial and space-time analyses, geographical epidemiology, measurement error models, modelling of heterogeneity, mixtures of distributions, clustering models for microarray data
Dr V. Didelez LONDON
Graphical models, multivariate event history analysis, causality, methods for incomplete data.
Mr D. Jarrett MIDDLESEX
Statistical modelling; graphical models; applications to transport, road accident data, environmental and business problems.
Dr D.J. Wilkinson NEWCASTLE
Bayes linear methods, Bayesian computation, dynamic and graphical models, MCMC, Markov processes, statistical bioinformatics, statistical computing, stochastic models in molecular biology.
Dr A.E. Faria OPEN
Bayesian modelling, environmental models, graphical models in multivariate analysis, combination of expert judgements, group decision making, time series forecasting
Dr C. Queen OPEN
Multivariate time series and forecasting, dynamic models, graphical models, Bayesian statistics
Dr J.F. Bithell OXFORD
Medical statistics, stochastic processes, Monte Carlo inference, density estimation, mathematical and geographical epidemiology, radiation epidemiology, childhood cancer and leukaemia
Dr J.F. Bithell OXFORD
Medical statistics, stochastic processes, Monte Carlo inference, density estimation, mathematical and geographical epidemiology, radiation epidemiology, childhood cancer and leukaemia
Dr P.W.F Smith SOUTHAMPTON
Graphical modelling, exact inference, Monte Carlo methods, MCMC methods, generalised linear models, models for social networks, contingency tables with missing data, Bayesian methods, for missing data, models for longitudinal data, multivariate binary responses, association/marginal models.
Dr J.E.H. Shaw WARWICK
Bayesian inference numerical and graphical methods, medical statistics

Graphics

Dr H. Mashhoudy COVENTRY
Survival analysis, information graphics, medical statistics
Professor A.W. Bowman GLASGOW
Non-parametric smoothing, three-dimensional surface modelling, graphics, statistical computing, environmental applications
Dr P.R. Marchant LEEDS
Statistical education, statistical computing, statistical graphics, statistical applications.
Dr C. Hurley MAYNOOTH
Statistical computing, graphics and data analysis. Combinatorial methods for improved data visualisation. Enhanced scatterplot matrix and parallel coordinate displays. Algorithms for generating improved arrangements of their component displays leading to improved data visualisations.
Professor F. Critchley OPEN
Diagnostics and influence analysis, multivariate analysis, applications of differential geometry, regression graphics, robust statistics.
Dr A.D. Mayer SWANSEA
Generalized linear models, statistical computer graphics, computer-assisted learning, APL programming, SAS programming.

Graphs

Professor M D Penrose BATH
Geometric probability, random graphs, interacting particle systems, extreme value theory, stochastic analysis.
Dr A. Ganesh BRISTOL
Large deviations and applications to queueing theory and statistics. Random graphs and applications to communication networks and epidemic modelling. Decentralised algorithms for networks
Dr A.T. Brint SALFORD
Maintenance modelling, asset management of distribution networks, applications for electricity networks. Auctions, particularly with regard to electricity pricing. Heuristic algorithms for analysing graphs.
Dr J.H. Jordan SHEFFIELD
Probability theory, random fractals, random graphs, hierarchical probabilistic structures.

Groups

Dr M.S. Bingham HULL
Probability theory and stochastic processes on topological groups and similar structures
Professor D.B. Applebaum SHEFFIELD
Probability and stochastic processes, Livy processes, stochastic calculus, stochastic flows, probability on groups, quantum probability.
Dr M. Hennink SOUTHAMPTON
Contraceptive use dynamics, family planning amongst minority groups (Asian women, seasonal workers, travelling people), sexual behaviour of young people and provision of sexual health services, population ageing.
Professor N. Jacob SWANSEA
Levy-type processes and pseudo-differential operators: pseudo-differential operators with continuous negative definite functions as symbols, Lp-theory of sub-Markovian semigroups, function spaces related to Markov processes, fractional derivatives as generators of jump processes, nonlinear analysis for pseudo-differential operators generating Markov process: balayage theory, construction of branching processes. Mathematics of Finance.

Gynaecology

Mrs A. Fitzmaurice ABERDEEN
Applications of statistics in obstetrics and gynaecology

Hausdorff dimension and measure

Dr Z. Kazim MIDDLESEX
Hausdorff and Box Dimension; Dimension of fractals.

Health

Professor M.K. Campbell ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in health services research; clinical trials; cluster randomised trials
Dr J. Cook ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in health services research; learning curves in health technology assessment; Bayesian methods; meta-analysis
Mr G. MacLennan ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in health services research; implementation research; clinical trials
Dr C. Ramsay ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in health services research; learning curves in health technology assessment; implementation research; surgical trials
Mr J. Norrie ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of randomised controlled trials in healthcare
Mr D. Braunholtz ABERDEEN
Maternal Health: Bayesian Methods; Causal Modelling; evidence synthesis
Dr V. Bourne ABERDEEN
Applications of statistics in Mental Health
Dr L.S. Aucott ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in public health and health services research; analysis of Obesity epidemiology.
S. Fielding ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in public health and health services research. Dealing with missing data in quality of life research.
Dr S. Fonseca ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in public health and health services research
Ms K. Harrild ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in public health and health services research.
Dr G. Prescott ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in public health; recall bias in reproductive health; the Scottish Renal Registry
Mr N. Scott ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in public health and health services research; clinical trials; meta-analysis; quality of life
Dr J.A. Townend ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in public health and health services research; surveys for public health research in developing countries
Dr T. Macfarlane ABERDEEN
Dental Health Statistics, Epidemiology of oral diseases
Dr G. Simpson ASTON
Knowledge Management, Spreadsheets in Business Modelling and Decision Support Systems, Applications of Game Theory in Economic Modelling, Decision Support Systems in the National Health Service
Dr G.W. Cran BELFAST
Medical statistics; health, physical activity, fitness and nutrition in children
Dr A. Marshall BELFAST
Survival analysis, Phase-type distributions, Statistical models relating to healthcare applications and Bayesian Belief Networks.
Professor P.W. Thomas BOURNEMOUTH
Health care statistics, Epidemiology.
Mrs D. Copley BRIGHTON
Statistical modelling, analysis of finance and health data
Professor T.J. Peters BRISTOL
Medical statistics, health services and primary care research, validity and efficiency of study design, cluster randomised controlled trials.
Dr A.A. Montgomery BRISTOL
Medical statistics, health services and primary care research, cluster randomised controlled trials, decision analysis.
Dr N.J. Wiles BRISTOL
Medical statistics, epidemiology, mental health, health services research.
Dr S. Ayis BRISTOL
Statistics; health services research; statistical modelling with applications in health and social survey data.
Ms S.T. Brookes BRISTOL
Medical statistics; health services research; randomised controlled trials; individualisation of treatment; subgroup analyses; n-of-1 trials.
Dr C. Metcalfe BRISTOL
Medical statistics; health services research; social epidemiology; analysis of recurrent events; evaluation of psychotherapy.
Dr N. Middleton BRISTOL
Medical statistics, health services, decision analysis, mental health
Ms R. Rooney BRISTOL
Medical statistics, health services research, epidemiology, analysis of longitudinal data
Dr K. Tilling BRISTOL
Medical statistics; epidemiology; health services research; analysis of longitudinal data; multilevel models; capture-recapture.
Professor S.M. Bird CAMBRIDGE
Survival (non-proportional hazards), design of clinical trials, statistics in medical journals, statistical methods for public health and criminal justice, epidemiology of blood borne viruses (HIV and Hepatitis C), vCJD and of injection drug use including in prisons, projection of severe sequelae of injection-related Hepatitis C, appraisal of cost-effectiveness, and performance monitoring in the public services
Dr N. Demiris CAMBRIDGE
Bayes methods, Stochastic Epidemic Models, Health Economics
Dr R.M. Nixon CAMBRIDGE
Cluster randomisation, meta-analysis, health economics, cost-effectiveness, MCMC.
Dr L.D. Sharples CAMBRIDGE
Bayesian methodology, applied Markov models, health technology assessment, cardiothoracic transplantation
Professor A.J. Macfarlane CITY
FAX: 0207 040 5866 Health service and vital statistics, perinatal epidemiology, inequalities in health, history of vital and health service statistics.
Dr J.R.M. Ameen GLAMORGAN
Theory of time series analysis and forecasting, dynamic Bayesian models with special attention to intervention and modelling discontinuities. General applications of Statistics in health care research and construction engineering.
Dr A.H. Leyland GLASGOW
Multi-level modelling, routine health data, analysis of survey data
Dr B. Torsney GLASGOW
Non-parametric inference, optimisation, optimal experimental design, multiple comparisons, health economics, paired comparisons and ranking experiments
Ms S. Hagen GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY
Women's health, cancer and urogenital interventions,development and use of health outcome measures, application of statistical modelling in health services research.
Professor H.R. Waters HERIOT-WATT
Actuarial science, risk theory, permanent health insurance.
Mr S. Selvaraj INVERNESS
Clinical trials; Statistical methods in Ophthalmology; Surveys; Epidemiology; Health services research; Quality of life
Mr J.M. Bevan KENT
Comparative logistics, health services management, the application of "soft" OR techniques.
Ms R. McNiece KINGSTON
Educational statistics, health statistics
Dr D.J. Worthington LANCASTER
Stochastic processes, statistical modelling, health services
Professor M.S. Gilthorpe LEEDS
Multi-level Modelling, Bayesian Modelling, Bioinformatics, Health Services Research
Professor D.R. Jones LEICESTER
Medical statistics, generalised synthesis of evidence, meta-analysis, clinical trials, health services research methodology, Bayesian methods, quality of life assessment
Dr L.K. Smith LEICESTER
Medical statistics, deprivation measurement, use of routine data for monitoring health inequalities, survival analysis
Dr A.J. Sutton LEICESTER
Medical statistics, meta-analysis, Bayesian methods, health services research methodology, statistical aspects of economic evaluation
Professor R.A. Carr-Hill LONDON
Jobbing social statistician (crime, education, health, poverty, race); in Europe and LDCs.
Professor H. Joshi LONDON
ONS Longitudinal Study (LS); Changing homes: outcomes for children; Dimensions of health variations; Living arrangements and livelihoods over the life-cycle.
Dr R.L. Hooper LONDON
Statistics in medical research, health surveillance and screening, prescribing and medicines use, foundations of statistics.
Mr T. Clayton LONDON
Clinical trials particularly in cardiovascular disease, tropical health
Ms S.R.A. Huttly LONDON
Statistical methods in epidemiology, epidemiology of tropical child health
Professor B.R. Kirkwood LONDON
Statistical methods in epidemiology, epidemiology of international child health
Dr N. Maconochie LONDON
Statistics and epidemiology, epidemiology of reproduction and child health
Mr T.F. de C. Marshall LONDON
Statistical methods in epidemiology of maternal and child health in developing countries
Mr S.N. Cousens LONDON
statistical methods in epidemiology, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, malaria, child health in developing countries
Mr S. Jaffar LONDON
Epidemiology of tropical health
Mr A. Hutchings LONDON
Health services research
Dr Colin Sanderson LONDON
Quantitative methods in health services research and microsimulation modelling
Dr J.H.P. van der Meulen LONDON
Quantitative methods in health services research
Dr R.W. Morris LONDON
Evaluation of health services, survival data, statistics in medical journals
Professor D. Cook LONDON
Epidemiology of cardiovascular and respiratory disease, social inequalities in health, the determinants of blood pressure and of lung function in early life, utilisation of routinely collected data to examine the provision of health care and its relation to health outcomes locally.
Dr J. Peacock LONDON
Use of sound methodology in Health Service research; the effects of air pollution on lung function, the epidemiology of pregnancy and its outcome.
Ms F. Reid LONDON
Creating profiles of general practice populations using 1991 census data to predict variations in health care needs and outcomes.
Dr D.R. Boniface LONDON
Statistical methods for health surveys, structural equation models, elicitation of expert knowledge, index construction, integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches, extension of the Venn diagram, dietary epidemiology
Ms J. Head LONDON
Longitudinal studies of health
Professor G. Dunn MANCHESTER
Statistical evaluation of measurement errors, exposure measurement, design and analysis of epidemiological surveys, healthcare trials methodology
Dr.P.McElduff MANCHESTER
Medical statistics, coronary heart disease, public health
Dr C. Roberts MANCHESTER
Statistical evaluation of measurement errors and diagnostic agreement, healthcare trial methodology
Dr.S.Roberts MANCHESTER
Quantitative clinical radiobiology, biostatistical modelling, health services research
Dr S. St Leger MANCHESTER
Integrating health services research into change- management process
Dr C. Minett-Smith MIDDLESEX
Time series: co-integration and its applications in econometrics; health effects of pollution. Development and evaluation of resource based and distance learning material for Mathematics and Statistics.
Mrs E.M.M. McColl NEWCASTLE
Application to health services research, survey methods
Dr I.N. Steen NEWCASTLE
Application to health services research
Dr D. Walshaw NEWCASTLE
Extreme values, Bayesian models for environmental processes, Bayesian Inference for health care indicators, Medical statistics
Dr H.O. Dickinson NEWCASTLE
Systematic review/meta-analysis, development of clinical guidelines; Epidemiology of childhood cancer, stillbirths, transgenerational effects, inequalities in health, childhood determinants of adult health.
Mrs E.M.M. McColl NEWCASTLE
Health services research, survey methods
Dr I.N. Steen NEWCASTLE
Design & analysis of behaviour change studies, structural equation modelling, assessment of validity, reliability and responsiveness to change of health outcome measures
Dr B.A. Gregson NEWCASTLE
Applications to health services research, survey methods, clinical trials, medical statistics
Dr D. Bennett OXFORD
Meta-analysis, missing-values, statistical education for medical researchers, statistical methods as applied to public health, epidemiology and clinical trials, cardiovascular disease, stroke, obesity, neuroscience, nutrition, genetics and mental health.
Dr J. Mollison OXFORD
Medical statistics, cluster randomised trials, clinical trials, health services research
Professor R.D. Baker SALFORD
Applications of statistics to healthcare, epidemiology, maintenance, and finance.
Dr J Freeman SHEFFIELD
Growth curves, child health
Professor J. Nicholl SHEFFIELD
Health Services Research
A. O'Cathain SHEFFIELD
Health Services Research, qualitative methods
Dr G. Parry SHEFFIELD
Intensive care, scoring systems, Health Services Research
Dr S.J. Walters SHEFFIELD
Sample size, quality of life, bootstrap methods, clinical trials, health services research and technology assessment, economic evaluation alongside clinical trials.
Dr S.A. Kharroubi SHEFFIELD
Theoretical statistics, asymptotic theory, Bayesian statistics, health economics.
Dr J.E. Oakley SHEFFIELD
Bayesian inference, prior elicitation, uncertainty in deterministic computer models, health economics.
Professor A. O'Hagan SHEFFIELD
Bayesian inference and modelling, Bayesian statistics in health economics, inference for computer models, fractional Bayes factors, elicitation, outliers, uncertainty analysis, environmental statistics.
Dr P.R. Harper SOUTHAMPTON
Healthcare modelling, simulation, OR for developing countries
Mrs S.E. Meacock SOUTHAMPTON
Teaching statistics, statistics in health and transportation
Dr G. Yadegarfar SOUTHAMPTON
Multilevel modelling for different outcomes (continuous, binary or survival time), clinical trials & other epidemiological studies including case-referent studies, Methodological problem in Epidemiological studies including Healthy Worker Effect.
Dr M. Hennink SOUTHAMPTON
Contraceptive use dynamics, family planning amongst minority groups (Asian women, seasonal workers, travelling people), sexual behaviour of young people and provision of sexual health services, population ageing.
Dr Z. Matthews SOUTHAMPTON
Demography: mortality, morbidity, safe motherhood, reproductive health, evaluation of interventions, provision of services; India: reproductive health, health service utilisation, quality of care, urban poverty, caste, child health, nutrition and mortality, migration, sex ratio, household structure, kinship; Sub-Saharan Africa: child immunisation and nutrition, analysis of survey data, sexual and reproductive health in the UK, marginalised communities especially travellers.
Mr P. Williams SURREY
Medical statistics, clinical trials, analysis of health statistics, statistical computing, nonparametric statistics
Professor S.I. McClean ULSTER
Statistical models of manpower planning, estimation for incomplete data, diet and health applications, statistical databases and data mining.
Professor D. Firth WARWICK
Statistical theory and methods, including design and computation. Generalized linear and non-linear models. Applications, especially in the social and health sciences.
Professor J.L. Hutton WARWICK
Statistical methods in health care and law, particularly survival or lifetime data analysis and meta-analysis, philosophy of statistics and evidence, ethics
Mr D.F. Goda WOLVERHAMPTON
Statistics in the Social and Health Sciences. Survey Design and Analysis.
Professor A.M. Nevill WOLVERHAMPTON
Modelling health related performance indices, assessing measurement agreement (reliability), and the home advantage.
K. Claxton YORK
Health economics, decision analysis, Bayesian decision theory.
Professor A.M. Jones YORK
Health economics, applied microeconomics, health econometrics.
P.C. Smith YORK
Health care policy, productivity analysis and fiscal federalism.
Professor R.A. Carr-Hill YORK
Jobbing social statistician (crime, education, health, poverty, race)

Health care

Professor P.W. Thomas BOURNEMOUTH
Health care statistics, Epidemiology.
Dr J.R.M. Ameen GLAMORGAN
Theory of time series analysis and forecasting, dynamic Bayesian models with special attention to intervention and modelling discontinuities. General applications of Statistics in health care research and construction engineering.
Professor D. Cook LONDON
Epidemiology of cardiovascular and respiratory disease, social inequalities in health, the determinants of blood pressure and of lung function in early life, utilisation of routinely collected data to examine the provision of health care and its relation to health outcomes locally.
Ms F. Reid LONDON
Creating profiles of general practice populations using 1991 census data to predict variations in health care needs and outcomes.
Dr D. Walshaw NEWCASTLE
Extreme values, Bayesian models for environmental processes, Bayesian Inference for health care indicators, Medical statistics
Professor J.L. Hutton WARWICK
Statistical methods in health care and law, particularly survival or lifetime data analysis and meta-analysis, philosophy of statistics and evidence, ethics
P.C. Smith YORK
Health care policy, productivity analysis and fiscal federalism.

Health econometrics

Dr N. Demiris CAMBRIDGE
Bayes methods, Stochastic Epidemic Models, Health Economics
Dr R.M. Nixon CAMBRIDGE
Cluster randomisation, meta-analysis, health economics, cost-effectiveness, MCMC.
Dr B. Torsney GLASGOW
Non-parametric inference, optimisation, optimal experimental design, multiple comparisons, health economics, paired comparisons and ranking experiments
Dr S.A. Kharroubi SHEFFIELD
Theoretical statistics, asymptotic theory, Bayesian statistics, health economics.
Dr J.E. Oakley SHEFFIELD
Bayesian inference, prior elicitation, uncertainty in deterministic computer models, health economics.
Professor A. O'Hagan SHEFFIELD
Bayesian inference and modelling, Bayesian statistics in health economics, inference for computer models, fractional Bayes factors, elicitation, outliers, uncertainty analysis, environmental statistics.
K. Claxton YORK
Health economics, decision analysis, Bayesian decision theory.
Professor A.M. Jones YORK
Health economics, applied microeconomics, health econometrics.

Health service research

Professor M.K. Campbell ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in health services research; clinical trials; cluster randomised trials
Dr J. Cook ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in health services research; learning curves in health technology assessment; Bayesian methods; meta-analysis
Mr G. MacLennan ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in health services research; implementation research; clinical trials
Dr C. Ramsay ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in health services research; learning curves in health technology assessment; implementation research; surgical trials
Dr L.S. Aucott ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in public health and health services research; analysis of Obesity epidemiology.
S. Fielding ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in public health and health services research. Dealing with missing data in quality of life research.
Dr S. Fonseca ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in public health and health services research
Ms K. Harrild ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in public health and health services research.
Mr N. Scott ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in public health and health services research; clinical trials; meta-analysis; quality of life
Dr J.A. Townend ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in public health and health services research; surveys for public health research in developing countries
Dr G. Simpson ASTON
Knowledge Management, Spreadsheets in Business Modelling and Decision Support Systems, Applications of Game Theory in Economic Modelling, Decision Support Systems in the National Health Service
Professor T.J. Peters BRISTOL
Medical statistics, health services and primary care research, validity and efficiency of study design, cluster randomised controlled trials.
Dr A.A. Montgomery BRISTOL
Medical statistics, health services and primary care research, cluster randomised controlled trials, decision analysis.
Dr N.J. Wiles BRISTOL
Medical statistics, epidemiology, mental health, health services research.
Dr S. Ayis BRISTOL
Statistics; health services research; statistical modelling with applications in health and social survey data.
Ms S.T. Brookes BRISTOL
Medical statistics; health services research; randomised controlled trials; individualisation of treatment; subgroup analyses; n-of-1 trials.
Dr C. Metcalfe BRISTOL
Medical statistics; health services research; social epidemiology; analysis of recurrent events; evaluation of psychotherapy.
Dr N. Middleton BRISTOL
Medical statistics, health services, decision analysis, mental health
Ms R. Rooney BRISTOL
Medical statistics, health services research, epidemiology, analysis of longitudinal data
Dr K. Tilling BRISTOL
Medical statistics; epidemiology; health services research; analysis of longitudinal data; multilevel models; capture-recapture.
Professor A.J. Macfarlane CITY
FAX: 0207 040 5866 Health service and vital statistics, perinatal epidemiology, inequalities in health, history of vital and health service statistics.
Ms S. Hagen GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY
Women's health, cancer and urogenital interventions,development and use of health outcome measures, application of statistical modelling in health services research.
Mr S. Selvaraj INVERNESS
Clinical trials; Statistical methods in Ophthalmology; Surveys; Epidemiology; Health services research; Quality of life
Mr J.M. Bevan KENT
Comparative logistics, health services management, the application of "soft" OR techniques.
Dr D.J. Worthington LANCASTER
Stochastic processes, statistical modelling, health services
Professor M.S. Gilthorpe LEEDS
Multi-level Modelling, Bayesian Modelling, Bioinformatics, Health Services Research
Professor D.R. Jones LEICESTER
Medical statistics, generalised synthesis of evidence, meta-analysis, clinical trials, health services research methodology, Bayesian methods, quality of life assessment
Dr A.J. Sutton LEICESTER
Medical statistics, meta-analysis, Bayesian methods, health services research methodology, statistical aspects of economic evaluation
Mr A. Hutchings LONDON
Health services research
Dr Colin Sanderson LONDON
Quantitative methods in health services research and microsimulation modelling
Dr J.H.P. van der Meulen LONDON
Quantitative methods in health services research
Dr R.W. Morris LONDON
Evaluation of health services, survival data, statistics in medical journals
Dr J. Peacock LONDON
Use of sound methodology in Health Service research; the effects of air pollution on lung function, the epidemiology of pregnancy and its outcome.
Dr.S.Roberts MANCHESTER
Quantitative clinical radiobiology, biostatistical modelling, health services research
Dr S. St Leger MANCHESTER
Integrating health services research into change- management process
Mrs E.M.M. McColl NEWCASTLE
Application to health services research, survey methods
Dr I.N. Steen NEWCASTLE
Application to health services research
Mrs E.M.M. McColl NEWCASTLE
Health services research, survey methods
Dr B.A. Gregson NEWCASTLE
Applications to health services research, survey methods, clinical trials, medical statistics
Dr J. Mollison OXFORD
Medical statistics, cluster randomised trials, clinical trials, health services research
Professor J. Nicholl SHEFFIELD
Health Services Research
A. O'Cathain SHEFFIELD
Health Services Research, qualitative methods
Dr G. Parry SHEFFIELD
Intensive care, scoring systems, Health Services Research
Dr S.J. Walters SHEFFIELD
Sample size, quality of life, bootstrap methods, clinical trials, health services research and technology assessment, economic evaluation alongside clinical trials.
Dr M. Hennink SOUTHAMPTON
Contraceptive use dynamics, family planning amongst minority groups (Asian women, seasonal workers, travelling people), sexual behaviour of young people and provision of sexual health services, population ageing.
Dr Z. Matthews SOUTHAMPTON
Demography: mortality, morbidity, safe motherhood, reproductive health, evaluation of interventions, provision of services; India: reproductive health, health service utilisation, quality of care, urban poverty, caste, child health, nutrition and mortality, migration, sex ratio, household structure, kinship; Sub-Saharan Africa: child immunisation and nutrition, analysis of survey data, sexual and reproductive health in the UK, marginalised communities especially travellers.

Health statistics

Dr T. Macfarlane ABERDEEN
Dental Health Statistics, Epidemiology of oral diseases
Ms R. McNiece KINGSTON
Educational statistics, health statistics
Mr P. Williams SURREY
Medical statistics, clinical trials, analysis of health statistics, statistical computing, nonparametric statistics

Heart disease

Dr Z. YE CAMBRIDGE
Genetic epidemiology in cancer and heart disease, meta-analysis, microarray data analysis, bioinformatics.
Miss C.A. Bray GLASGOW
Cancer registration, survival and other patient- centred outcomes. Coronary heart disease statistics, record linkage
Dr A.R. Rudnicka LONDON
Ophthalmology, epidemiology, coronary heart disease, antenatal screening
Dr.P.McElduff MANCHESTER
Medical statistics, coronary heart disease, public health
Ms L. Blackwell OXFORD
Medical statistics, causes of cancer and heart disease, multistage models, epidemiology of tobacco, clinical trials in cancer and heart disease, overviews of randomized trials, epidemiology
Mrs G. Buck OXFORD
Medical statistics, causes of cancer and heart disease, multistage models, epidemiology of tobacco, clinical trials in cancer and heart disease, overviews of randomized trials, epidemiology
Ms J. Burrett OXFORD
Medical statistics, causes of cancer and heart disease, multistage models, epidemiology of tobacco, clinical trials in cancer and heart disease, overviews of randomized trials, epidemiology
Dr R. Clarke OXFORD
Medical statistics, causes of cancer and heart disease, multistage models, epidemiology of tobacco, clinical trials in cancer and heart disease, overviews of randomized trials, epidemiology
Professor S.C. Darby OXFORD
Medical statistics, causes of cancer and heart disease, multistage models, epidemiology of tobacco, clinical trials in cancer and heart disease, overviews of randomized trials, epidemiology
Dr C. Davies OXFORD
Medical statistics, causes of cancer and heart disease, multistage models, epidemiology of tobacco, clinical trials in cancer and heart disease, overviews of randomized trials, epidemiology
Dr J. Emberson OXFORD
Medical statistics, causes of cancer and heart disease, multistage models, epidemiology of tobacco, clinical trials in cancer and heart disease, overviews of randomized trials, epidemiology
Miss E. Link OXFORD
Medical statistics, causes of cancer and heart disease, clinical trials in cancer and heart disease, genetics, overviews of randomized trials, epidemiology, power and sample size calculations.
Dr P. McGale OXFORD
Medical statistics, causes of cancer and heart disease, multistage models, epidemiology of tobacco, clinical trials in cancer and heart disease, overviews of randomized trials, epidemiology
Dr S. Parish OXFORD
Medical statistics, causes of cancer and heart disease, multistage models, epidemiology of tobacco, clinical trials in cancer and heart disease, overviews of randomized trials, epidemiology
Professor R. Peto OXFORD
Medical statistics, causes of cancer and heart disease, multistage models, epidemiology of tobacco, clinical trials in cancer and heart disease, overviews of randomized trials, epidemiology
Dr M. Smith OXFORD
Medical statistics, causes of cancer and heart disease, multistage models, epidemiology of tobacco, clinical trials in cancer and heart disease, overviews of randomized trials, epidemiology

Heat kernels

Dr J.R. Norris CAMBRIDGE
Stochastic analysis, coagulation, Malliavin calculus, stochastic differential geometry, heat kernels, homogenization.

Hepatitis

Professor S.M. Bird CAMBRIDGE
Survival (non-proportional hazards), design of clinical trials, statistics in medical journals, statistical methods for public health and criminal justice, epidemiology of blood borne viruses (HIV and Hepatitis C), vCJD and of injection drug use including in prisons, projection of severe sequelae of injection-related Hepatitis C, appraisal of cost-effectiveness, and performance monitoring in the public services
Dr B. Fu CAMBRIDGE
Longitudinal data, time series, median regression, medical statistics, Hepatitis C study
Dr D. Greenhalgh STRATHCLYDE
Models for disease systems, epidemic models with age-structure, density dependence, hepatitis modelling

Heuristic methods

Dr A. Clark BRISTOL UWE
Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimisation. Mathematical Modelling of Production Planning and Scheduling
Professor C.R. Reeves COVENTRY
Neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, heuristics, bio-informatics
Dr N.A. Wassan KENT
Optimization, metaheuristics, vehicle scheduling
Mr V. Kwasnica LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES
Operations Research, Financial Modelling, Heuristics for Complex Problem Solving
Dr A.T. Brint SALFORD
Maintenance modelling, asset management of distribution networks, applications for electricity networks. Auctions, particularly with regard to electricity pricing. Heuristic algorithms for analysing graphs.

Hierarchical models

Dr G. Holtrop ABERDEEN
Application of statistics in agricultural and fisheries research, hierarchical modelling, tracer kinetic modelling
Mrs M. May BRISTOL
Medical statistics; epidemiology; modelling longitudinal data; prognostic modelling; hierarchical models; neural networks.
Professor S.G. Thompson CAMBRIDGE
Statistical methodology in clinical trials, meta- analysis, cluster randomised trials, cost-effectiveness, hierarchical models, Bayesian methods
Dr R.M. Turner CAMBRIDGE
Cluster randomised trials, hierarchical models, Bayesian methods, evaluation of complex interventions.
Dr O. Papaspiliopoulos LANCASTER
Inference, simulation and computation for stochastic processes, Markov chain theory and methodology for MCMC, hierarchical modelling non-parametric statistics
Dr N. Best LONDON
Bayesian methods, (BUGS), small area studies, hierarchical models, spatial epidemiology
Dr C. Marshall LONDON
Bayesian model criticism and comparison, hierarchical models, dynamic models for infectious disease transmission, animal population dynamics.
Professor S. Richardson LONDON
Bayesian modelling of complex biomedical data, hierarchical models, spatial and space-time analyses, geographical epidemiology, measurement error models, modelling of heterogeneity, mixtures of distributions, clustering models for microarray data
Professor G.M. Raab NAPIER
Medical and social statistics, Bayesian methods, AIDS prediction methods, hierarchical models, missing data, survey methodology.
Mr P. Hewson PLYMOUTH
Hierarchical models, latent structure models, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, multivariate generalised linear mixed models and additive models

Historical data

Dr E. Ball MIDDLESEX
Historical demography; the value of feedback to students.
Dr P.R.A. Hinde SOUTHAMPTON
Modelling of complex longitudinal data; historical demography of England and Wales in the 19th and early 20th centuries, especially the decline of fertility, and migration from and within the English countryside; demography of modern Africa, especially eastern and southern countries.

Horticultural statistics

Dr A.G. Lynch CAMBRIDGE
Medical statistics, statistical consulting, applications to process control, applications to horticulture.
Dr S.G. Gilmour LONDON
Design of experiments, response surface methods, model selection in regression, process control, applications in biotechnology, industry and horticulture.

Housing statistics

Dr J. Rougier BRISTOL
Model-based inference for complex systems: combining observational data, evaluations of models, and expert judgements. Model-imperfection. Climate prediction, transient forcing from greenhouse gas emissions. Uncertainty and probability in science and public policy.
Dr J.S. Dagpunar EDINBURGH
Maintenance and replacement policies, statistical simulation, optimization and housing association finance, stochastic modelling, operational research, option pricing.
Dr J.I. Ansell EDINBURGH
Risk, reliability, indices, housing markets, financial statistics, business statistics, market segmentation, credit scoring
Dr L. Rosenthal KEELE
Multivariate analysis, cross-section methods, application to housing and labour markets, sample surveys
Professor R. Chambers SOUTHAMPTON
Inference from complex survey data, business and household survey methodology, robust statistical inference, inference from aggregate data, exploratory data analysis, editing and imputation methods, small area estimation.
Dr Z. Matthews SOUTHAMPTON
Demography: mortality, morbidity, safe motherhood, reproductive health, evaluation of interventions, provision of services; India: reproductive health, health service utilisation, quality of care, urban poverty, caste, child health, nutrition and mortality, migration, sex ratio, household structure, kinship; Sub-Saharan Africa: child immunisation and nutrition, analysis of survey data, sexual and reproductive health in the UK, marginalised communities especially travellers.
Mr M. Fletcher STAFFORDSHIRE
Spatial analysis, statistics in archaeology, forecasting, house price modelling
Mr R.N. Edmondson WARWICK (HRI)
Design and analysis of experiments, models for glasshouse and ornamental crops, repeated measures analysis, image analysis.

Human evolution

Dr I.J. Wilson NEWCASTLE
Population genetics, statistical genomics, computer intensive methods, human evolution, statistical ecology.
Professor P.J. Donnelly OXFORD
Stochastic modelling, applications of probability and statistics in genetics, gene mapping early human evolution, population genetics; measure-valued diffusions, statistical issues in DNA profiling

Human genetics

Professor J. Peto INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH.
Cancer epidemiology, clinical trials, human genetics
Professor C. Cannings, SHEFFIELD
Mathematical theory in biology, population, molecular and human genetics; evolutionary games, dynamical systems

Hydrological models

Dr R.E. Chandler LONDON
Time series, spectral analysis, point processes, hydrological studies, climate change, forecasting, space-time modelling.
Professor V.S. Isham LONDON
Applied probability, point processes, spatio-temporal models, epidemic models, non-linear dynamics, applications in mathematical biology and hydrology
Dr. P. Northrop LONDON
Applied stochastic processes, modelling of spatial-temporal rainfall data, stochastic simulation, statistical modelling of extreme values, hydrological applications
Dr C. Yang LONDON
Climate change analysis, modelling and prediction, applications of generalized linear models in climatology and hydrology.
Dr P.J. Northrop OXFORD
Applied stochastic processes, modelling of spatial-temporal rainfall data, stochastic simulation, statistical modelling of extreme values, hydrological applications.

Hypothesis testing

Dr D.R. Giddings NORTHUMBRIA
Estimation, parametric hypothesis testing, sequential testing, transportation and engineering applications
Dr S. Conti SHEFFIELD
Bayesian survival analysis, Bayesian hypothesis testing, Bayesian analysis of complex computer models.
Professor G.H. Hillier SOUTHAMPTON
Inference in structural models, Theory of hypothesis testing, multivariate models, hypothesis testing in finance
Dr M. Lu SOUTHAMPTON
Econometric theory, Testing and Modelling Methodology, Nonnested hypothesis testing and encompassing
Professor G.E. Mizon SOUTHAMPTON
Econometrics, model selection, hypothesis testing, model evaluation, economic policy analysis using econometric models, time series modelling and co-integration, applied econometric modelling

HIV

Dr A.E. Ades BRISTOL
Bayesian methods for multi-parameter evidence synthesis in epidemiology and medical decision modelling; Expected Value of Information; HIV epidemiology, and mother-to-child transmission of HIV; Screening issues; Congenital Toxoplasmosis.
Professor S.M. Bird CAMBRIDGE
Survival (non-proportional hazards), design of clinical trials, statistics in medical journals, statistical methods for public health and criminal justice, epidemiology of blood borne viruses (HIV and Hepatitis C), vCJD and of injection drug use including in prisons, projection of severe sequelae of injection-related Hepatitis C, appraisal of cost-effectiveness, and performance monitoring in the public services
Ms B. Zabarview LONDON
Mathematical modelling of population structure and components of growth, demographic impact of HIV / AIDS
Dr K. Desai LONDON
Design and analysis of phase III trials for vaccines and treatments against HIV/AIDS, cost-effectiveness of antiretrovirals, epidemiological modelling of interventions, modelling impacts of HIV/AIDS on education sector in developing countries
Professor C.A. Donnelly LONDON
Epidemiology, medical and environmental statistics, HIV/AIDS, epidemiology of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (e.g. BSE, scrapie, vCJD), bovine TB, Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Ebola
Dr Christine S. M. Currie SOUTHAMPTON
Mathematical modelling of tuberculosis and HIV; input/output analysis of simulation models; Bayesian statistics; revenue management.
Dr G. Allardice STRATHCLYDE
Statistical models of HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases


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