Law and Management

School of Business

Staff Profile

Dr Suzanne Sommer Title: Lecturer Department: Economics and Finance Location: Donald Whitehead Building Room 405 Tel: +61 3 9479 2727 Email: s.sommer@latrobe.edu.au Fax: +61 3 9479 1654

BSc (Hons) La Trobe, Dip Ed La Trobe, PhD La Trobe

Suzanne Sommer joined the School of Business in January 2000. Previously she had taught in secondary schools, and tutored and lectured in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at La Trobe. Her PhD was in the area of robust model selection.

Research interests

Education, Robust Variable Selection.

Teaching

• Business and Economic Statistics
• Quantitative Analysis

Publications

Sommer, S. and Huggins, R.M. (1996).  A Robust CP Using the Wald Test.  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics),  45 15-29.

Sommer, S. and Staudte, R.G. (1995), Robust Variable Selection in Regression in the Presence of Outliers and Leverage Points. Australian Journal of Statistics,  37 323-336.

Sommer, S. and Staudte, R.G. (2000) Robust Measures of Evidence for Variable Selection. In Data Segmentation and Model Selection for Computer Visions, Eds. A. Bab-Hadiashar and D. Suter 43-86, Springer-verlag.