Global Utilities

La Trobe University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Publications by Dr Luke Prendergast

Papers in refereed journals

  1. Malloy, M., Prendergast, L. A and Staudte, R. G. (2011), Comparison of Methods for Fixed Effect Meta-Regression of Standardized Differences of Means, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Vol. 5. Pages 83-101.

  2. Prendergast, L. A, and Li Wai Suen, C. (2011), A new and practical influence measure for subsets of covariance matrix sample principal components with applications to high dimensional datasets, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Vol. 55, pages 752-764.

  3. Prendergast, L. A. and Smith, J. A. (2010), Influence Functions for Dimension Reduction Methods: An Example Influence Study of Principal Hessian Direction Analysis, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 37, pages 454-467.

  4. Delbridge, E. A., Prendergast, L. A., Pritchard, J. E. and Proietto, J.  (2009), One-year weight maintenance after significant weight loss in healthy overweight and obese patients: Does diet composition matter?, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 90, pages 1203-1214.

  5. Prendergast, L. A. (2008), Trimming influential observations for improved single-index model estimated sufficient summary plots, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Vol. 52, pages 5319-5327.

  6. Prendergast, L. A. (2008), A note on sensitivity of principal component subspaces and the efficient detection of influential observations in high dimensions, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Vol. 2, pages 454-467.

  7. Prendergast, L. A. (2007), Implications of influence function analysis for sliced inverse regression and sliced average variance estimation, Biometrika, Vol. 94, pages 585-601.

  8. Prendergast, L. A. and Smith, J. A. (2007), Sensitivity of principal Hessian analysis, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Vol. 1, pages 253-267.

  9. Prendergast, L. A. (2006), Detecting influential observations in Sliced Inverse Regression analysis, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 48, 285-304.

  10. Prendergast, L. A. (2005), Influence functions for Sliced Inverse Regression, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 32, pages 385-404.

  11. Sumithran, P. and Prendergast, L. A. and Delbridge, E. and Purcell, K. and Shulkes, A. and Kriketos, A. and Proietto, J. (2011), Long-term persistence of hormonal adaptations to weight loss, New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 365, pages 1597-1604.
  12. Shaker, A. J. and Prendergast, L. A. (2011), Iterative application of dimension reduction methods, Electronic Journal of Statistics, Vol. 5, pages 1471-1494.

Conference papers (abstract and results)

  1. Purcell, K., Bouniu, C. J., Sumithran, K., Delbridge, L.., Prendergast, L. A. and Proietto, J. (2010), Does the rate of weight loss impact on achieving target weight?, Obesity Research & Clinical Practice, Vol. 4, pages S38-S38.

  2. Samatan, A., Beebeejaun, S., Prendergast, L. A., Michell, I., Aly, A., Johnson, C., Holdstock, C., Sumithran, K. and Proietto, J. (2010), A 3-year review of outcomes of patients enrolled in a public hospital weight loss clinic, Obesity Research & Clinical Practice, Vol. 4, page S73.

  3. Sumithran, P., Delbridge, E., Purcell, K., Prendergast, L., Kriketos, A. and Proietto, J. (2010), Weight-loss induced increase in plasma ghrelin is suppressed by ketosis, Obesity Research & Clinical Practice, Vol. 4, page S40.

  4. Baker S. T. ,, Jerums G., Prendergast L. A., Panagiotopoulos S., Strauss B. J., Vu T., Thomas G. E., Proietto J. (2010), Efficacy of Very-Low-Calorie Diets as a Treatment for Obesity in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Compared to Non-Diabetic Controls, Diabetes, Vol. 59, Suppl. 1, pages A491-A492.

  5. Delbridge, E. A., Prendergast, L. A., Pritchard, J. E. and Proietto, J.  (2008), The effect of a high protein weight maintenance diet on bone mineral density following a large and rapid weight loss, Asia and Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 17, Suppl. 3, page S137.

  6. Delbridge, E. A., Prendergast, L. A., Pritchard, J. E. and Proietto, J.  (2006), The effect of a high protein vs high carbohydrate diet on cardiovascular risk factors, Asia and Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 15, page S42.

  7. Delbridge, E. A., Prendergast, L. A., Pritchard, J. E. and Proietto, J.  (2006), Long-term weight maintenance: does diet composition matter? A randomized, prospective trial, Obesity Reviews, Vol. 7, Suppl. 2, page 38.

  8. Delbridge, E. A., Prendergast, L. A., Pritchard, J. E. and Proietto, J.  (2005), Predicting weight loss in overweight and obese people using a very low energy diet, Asia and Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 14, page S59.

  9. Sumithran, P., Prendergast, L. A., Delbridge, E., Purcell, Shulkes, A. and Proietto, J. (2011), Long-term persistence of hormonal adaptations to weight loss, Obesity Research & Clinical Practice, Vol. 5, page S15.

Conference talks and poster sessions

  • 7 December 2010: Improving estimated sufficient summary plots using residual minimization, Australian Statistical Conference, The Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle.

  • 1 July 2008: Trimming influential observations for improved single-index model estimated sufficient summary plots presented at the Australian Statistical Conference, Sofitel, Melbourne.

  • 4 July 2006: Influence function comparisons for Sliced Inverse Regression and Sliced Average Variance Estimates presented at the Australian Statistical Conference/ New Zealand Statistical Association Conference, SKYCITY, Auckland, New Zealand.

  • 11-16 July 2004: Influence functions for Sliced Inverse Regression poster presentation at the International Biometric Conference in parallel with the Australian Statistical Conference, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Invited talks

  • 23 August 2011: Simple dimension reduction methods with some useful insights via the influence function, Presented at the August Statistical Society of Australia Victoria Branch Meeting, The University of Melbourne.

    30 November 2010: On sensitivity of inverse response plot estimation and the benefits of a robust estimation approach, Presented to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne

  • 6 October 2010: Dimension reduction and an example robustness study of inverse response plot estimation, Presented to the Department of Mathematics, Swinburne University (Hawthorn Campus)

  • 28 May 2010: Influence diagnostics for dimension reduction methods and some suggestions for improving Estimated Sufficient Summary Plots, Presented to the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University (Clayton Campus).

  • 15 April 2008: Some challenges faced when dealing with high dimensional data, Presented at the ICE-EM: What's happening in Mathematics? La Trobe University.

  • 3 November 2005: Detecting influential observations on the sliced inverse regression dimension reduction subspace presented to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne.

  • 2 December 2004: Influence functions for Sliced Inverse Regression presented to the Mathematical Sciences Institute (MSI), The Australian National University.

Workshops

  • 27 November 2008: SSAI Workshop: An introduction to R, La Trobe University.

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