Staff profile

Qualifications

• A.B. & Sc.B.(Brown), M.Sc. & Ph.D.(Illinois).

Teaching areas

• Biostatistics (STA3BS) and linear models.(STA3LM) at 3rd year.

• Analysis of Medical Data (STA4AMD) at 4th year.

Supervision

• Mrs. Mitra Jazayeri, 'Approximating Cross-validation results for SIR and SAVE preceded by Principal Component Dimension Reduction'  M.Sc. by Research.

• Ms. Monika Bulyan, 'A two-sample Student’s t Problem' Honours.

• Ms. Jade Pawley, 'Evidence for left-footedness in the AFL' Honours.

Professional involvement

• I am collaborating with Dr. Elena Kulinskaya of Imperial College, London, and Professor Stephan Morgenthaler of EPFL, Lausanne. I will be visiting the latter on an Outside Studies Program in 2009. I am an Invited Speaker at the International Symposium on Asymptotic Methods to be held in May, 2009 at the University of Georgia, as well as an Invited Speaker to the Conference of The International Statistical Institute, to be held in July 2009 in Durbin, South Africa. In 2005 I was visiting Professor in the Departamento Estadistica, Carlos~III Universidad de Madrid.

Research interests

• I have a long-standing interest in Robust statistics, but more recently have been working in the Foundations of Statistics, in particular evidentiary statistics; and Meta analysis.

Recent publications and presentations

• 2008 Meta Analysis: a Guide to Calibrating and Combining Statistical Evidence, by Kulinskaya, E., Morgenthaler, S. and Staudte, R.G., Wiley & Sons.

• 2007 Kulinskaya and Staudte, R.G., 'Confidence Intervals for the standardized effect arising in comparisons of two normal populations'Statistics in Medicine 26 2853-2871.

• 2006 Kulinskaya, E. and  Staudte, R.G., 'Interval estimates of  weighted effect sizes in the one-way heteroscedastic ANOVA', British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology 59 97-111.

• 2007 'Meta Analysis' presented to the National Stroke Research Institute, Heidelberg and Austin Repatriation Hospital, Melbourne.

• 2007 Invited Talk 'On the collective feeding of Bell Miner birds: do males compete for the mother bird?' presented in Honour of Professor Frank Hampel at the occasion of his Honourary Doctorate at Dortmund University, Germany.