Staff profile

Qualifications

• AB & ScB(Brown), MSc & PhD(Illinois).

Teaching areas

• Analysis of Medical Data STA4AMD at 4th year.

Supervision

• Principal Supervisor for PhD
  Mr Michael Malloy, Meta-regression.

• Co-supervisor for PhD
  Jodie Smith, Robustification of principal Hessian directions.
  Connie Li Wai Suen, A formal robustness study of meta-analysis.
  Amanda Shaker, Improved methods for dimension reduction.

Professional involvement

• Associate Editor, Statistics and Probability Letters.

• Collaborating with Dr. Elena Kulinskaya of Imperial College, London, and Professor Stephan Morgenthaler of EPFL, Lausanne, where I carried out an Outside Studies Program during the first 6 months of 2009.

• Member of the American Mathematical Society, the Statistical Society of Australia, the Sigma Xi Honorary Scientific Society and the International Statistical Institute.

• Deputy Director of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI).

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

• 2011, 'Meta-Analysis' invited entry in The International Encyclopedia Of Statistical Sciences, Ed. Miodrag Lovric, Springer-Verlag, by Kulinskaya, E., Morgenthaler, S.  and Staudte, R.G., 13, pp. 811-815.
• 2011, 'Significance Testing: and Overview' invited entry in The International Encyclopedia Of Statistical Sciences, Ed. Miodrag Lovric, Springer-Verlag, by Kulinskaya, E., Morgenthaler, S.  and Staudte, R.G., 19, pp. 1318-1321.
• 2011, 'Comparison of methods for fixed effect meta-regression of standardized differences of means', Electronic Journal of Statistics, by Malloy, M.J., Prendergast, L.A. and Staudte, R.G., 5, 83-101.
• 2010, 'Combining the Evidence using Stable Weights', Research Synthesis Methods, by Kulinskaya, E., Morgenthaler, S. and Staudte, R.G., Volume 1, Issue 3-4, July - December 2010, 284–296.
• 2010, A review of 'Multivariate meta-analysis: modeling the heterogeneity; Mixing apples and oranges; dangerous or delicious?' by Lidia R. Arends, 2006, Alblasserdam, Research Synthesis Methods, by Staudte, R.G., Volume 1, Issue 3-4, July - December 2010, 316–318.
• 2010, 'Variance stabilizing the difference of two Binomial Proportions',  The American Statistician, by  Kulinskaya, E. Morgenthaler, S. and Staudte, R.G., 64, 350-356.
• 2010, Staudte, R.G. 'Confidence Intervals for Effect Sizes in a Meta-analysis based on Paired Comparisons and Independent Group Data, In the Proceedings of the 25th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, July 5-9, Glasgow, 515-520.
• 2009, 'Confidence Intervals for the risk difference', invited special topics paper presented to the International Statistical Institute Conference, Durbin, South Africa.
• 2008, 'Meta Analysis: a Guide to Calibrating and Combining Statistical Evidence', by Kulinskaya, E., Morgenthaler, S. and Staudte, R.G., New York: John Wiley and Sons.