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La Trobe University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Publications by Prof Robert G. Staudte

Books and monographs

  • Kulinskaya, E., Morgenthaler, S. and Staudte, R.G., 2008, Meta Analysis: a Guide to Calibrating and Combining Statistical Evidence, New York: John Wiley and Sons.
  • Staudte, R.G. and Sheather, S.J., 1990, Robust Estimation and Testing, New York: John Wiley and Sons.
  • Staudte, R.G., 1990, Seeing, Through Statistics; An introductory text with Minitab problems, Sydney: Prentice Hall Australia Pty. Ltd.
  • Staudte, R.G., 1980, Robust Estimation, No.53 in the Queen's Papers in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Eds. Coleman, A.J., and Ribenboim, P. Kingston, Ontario, Canada 1-107.

Chapters in books and reports

  • Kulinskaya, E., Morgenthaler, S.  and Staudte, R.G., (2011) ‘Meta-Analysis’ invited entry in The International Encyclopedia Of Statistical Sciences, Ed. Miodrag Lovric, Springer-Verlag,  vol. 13, pp. 811-815
  • Kulinskaya, E., Morgenthaler, S.  and Staudte, R.G., (2011) ‘Significance Testing: and Overview’ invited entry in The International Encyclopedia Of Statistical Sciences, Ed. Miodrag Lovric, Springer-Verlag,  vol. 19, pp. 1318-1321.
  • Sommer, S. and Staudte, R.G., (2000) ‘Nearly optimal measures of evidence for variable selection’.  DataSegmentation and Model Selection for Computer Vision, a Statistical Approach. Eds. A. Bab-Hadiashar and D. Suter, Springer-Verlag, New York, pp.  4189.
  • Staudte, R.G. and Zhang, J., (1998) ‘Guarded weights of evidence and acceptability profiles for one-sided hypotheses using censored data.’ Advances in Mathematical Population Dynamics―Molecules, Cells and Man. In the series Mathematical Biology and Medicine, publisher World Scientific. Editors Arino, O., Axelrod, D. and Kimmel, M., vol 6, pp. 155-165.
  • Dollinger, M.B., Kulinskaya, E. and Staudte, R.G., (1996),  ‘When is a p-value a good measure of evidence?’ in Robust Statistics, Data Analysis, and Computer Intensive Methods, Ed. Rieder, H.  vol. 109. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Statistics, pp. 119-134.
  • Dollinger, M.B. and Staudte, R.G., (1991) ‘Efficiency of  reweighted least squares iterates’, in Directions in Robust Statistics and Diagnostics, Part I, Eds. W. Stahel and S. Weisberg, vol. 33, The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Statistics, pp. 61-65.

Papers in refereed journals

  • 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 pp. 350-356.
  • 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.
  • 2005 Morgenthaler, S. and Staudte, R.G.  ‘Conditionally Optimal Weights of Evidence’, Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica 21, 247-256.
  • 2003 Kulinskaya, E., Staudte, R.G. and Gao, ‘ Power approximations in testing for unequal means in a one-way ANOVA weighted for unequal variances,’ Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 32, 2353-2371.
  • 2002 Morgenthaler, S. and Staudte, R.G., ‘Optimal weights of evidence with bounded influence’, Metrika, 55, 91-97.

Conference papers

  • 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 25thInternational 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.
  • 2007  Kulinskaya, E., Staudte, R.G., ‘Cochran's Q-test for variance stabilized effect size estimates and a random effect size model’, In the Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, July 2-6, 2007, Barcelona, Spain, 390-393.
  • 2006 Kulinskaya, E., Staudte, R.G., ‘A model for combining the evidence in several t-statistics to estimate an overall standardized effect’, In the Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, July 3--7, 2006, Galway, Ireland, 309-312.
  • 2005 Staudte, R.G.  ‘Measures of Evidence and Inference’, Invited Paper presented to the 57th International Statistical Institute, April, in Sydney. Available on cd from the ISI2005 website, or ISBN 10:90-73592-23-2  and ISBN 13:978-90-73592-230.

Older publications

  • Dollinger, M.B., Kulinskaya, E. and Staudte, R.G., 1999, Guarded weights of evidence and acceptability profiles based on signs: II. Asymptotics, Austral. & New Zealand J. Statist., 41, 451-461.
  • Blyth, C.R., Kulinskaya, E. and Staudte, R.G., 1999, Rejoinder to Comments by W. Schaafsma on Guarded weights of evidence and acceptability profiles based on signs: I. Permutation Arguments, Austral. & New Zealand J. Statist., 41, 108-110.
  • Dollinger, M.B., Kulinskaya, E. and Staudte, R.G., 1999, Guarded weights of evidence and acceptability profiles based on signs: I. Permutation Arguments (with discussion), Austral. & New Zealand J. Statist., 41, 91-107.
  • Kulinskaya, E. and Staudte, R.G., 1998, Tests and optimal guarded weights of evidence, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 71, 1-18.
  • Blyth, C.R. and Staudte, R.G., 1997, Hypothesis estimation and acceptability profiles for 2 x 2 contingency tables, J. Amer. Statist. Soc., 92, 694-699.
  • Staudte, R.G., Zhang, J., Huggins, R.M. and Cowan, R., 1996, A re-examination of the cell lineage data of E.O. Powell, Biometrics, 52, 1214-1222.
  • Sommer, S. and Staudte, R.G., 1995, Variable selection in linear regression in the presence of outliers and leverage points, Austral. J. Statist., 37, 323-336.
  • Blyth, C.R. and Staudte, R.G., 1995, Estimating statistical hypotheses, Prob. & Statist. Letters, 23, 45-52.
  • Ronchetti, E.M. and Staudte, R.G., 1994, A robust version of Mallow's Cp, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 89, 550-559.
  • Huggins, R.M. and Staudte, R.G., 1994, Variance components models for dependent cell populations, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 89, 19-29.
  • Staudte, R.G., 1992, A bifurcating autoregression model for cell lineages with variable generation means, J. Theor. Biol., 156, 183-195.
  • Dollinger, M.B. and Staudte, R.G., 1991a, Influence functions of iteratively reweighted least squares estimators, J. Amer. Statist. Soc., 86, 709-716.
  • Cowan, R. and Staudte, R.G., 1986, The bifurcating autoregression model in cell lineage studies, Biometrics, 42, 769-783.

Invited talks

  • 2010 'The Wisdom of Solomon: a brief history of variance stabilization and its Relation to the Kullback-Leibler symmetrised divergence' presented to the Statistics Department at the University of East Anglia.
  • 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.
  • 2007  'Meta Analysis' presented to the National Stroke Research Institute, Heidelberg and Austin Repatriation Hospital, Melbourne.
  • 23/03/2007 On the collective feeding of nestlings by Bell Miner birds: Do males compete for the mother? presented at the University of Dortmund, Germany to the International Workshop on Robustness and Data Analysis held in honour of Professor Frank Hampel of ETH, Zurich.
  • 29/6/2006 Calibrating the evidence in experiments presented to the Department of Statistics, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.
  • 23/6/2006 Calibrating the evidence in experiments with applications to meta-analysis presented to the Department of Statistics, ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich.
  • 24/3/2006 Calibrating and combining evidence in two-sample comparisons presented to the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University.
  • 23/2/2006 Calibrating and combining evidence in two-sample comparisons presented to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne.
  • 11/5/2005 Where does the evidence lie? Carlos III University, Department of Statistics, Madrid.
  • 7/4/2005 Invited paper on Measures of Evidence and Inference at the International Statistical Institute Conference held in Sydney. Only available on compact disc, ISBN 10:90-73592-23-2 and ISBN 13:978-90-73592-230.
  • 31/3/2005 Invited speaker to the Conference on Asymptotics and Nonparametrics to Honour the 65th birthday of Professor John Robinson, University of Sydney. The relationship between one- and two-sided evidence with applications to effect estimates through acceptability profiles.
  • 17/2/2005 Fossicking about the Foundations, Imperial College, London, UK.
  • 19/7/2004 Calibrating and interpreting significant p-values The University of Hong Kong, HK.
  • 20/11/2003 Calibrating and interpreting significant p-values. University of California at Los Angelos.
  • 19/11/2003 Think Vertically, not Horizontally, or Why Acceptability Profiles are Preferable to Confidence Intervals. School of Biomathematics, University of Southern California.
  • 7/11/2003 Estimating effect size in a One-way ANOVA weighted for unequal variances. Carlos~III University, Madrid.
  • 10/7/2003 Robust estimation of effect size in a One-way ANOVA weighted for unequal variances, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
  • 13/5/2003 Think Vertically, not Horizontally, or Why Acceptability Profiles are Preferable to Confidence Intervals University of Dortmund, Germany.
  • 2/6/2002 Robust model selection and regression in computer vision, Special Invited Talk to the European Conference on Computer Vision in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • 17/5/2002 The analysis of Australian Road Casualty Data, the International Conference on Robust Statistics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
  • 8/3/2001 Robust confidence intervals for R-squared and effect sizes in an ANOVA weighted for unequal variances, International Conference on Robust Statistics and Data Analysis held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • 29/3/2001 Robust ANOVA, International Conference on Data Analysis, Robustness, and Foundations of Statistics honouring Professor Frank Hampel in Zurich, Switzerland.
  • 7/9/2001 Robust confidence intervals for R-squared and effect sizes in an ANOVA weighted for unequal variances, to the Victorian Branch of the Statistical Society of Victoria, held at Swinburne University, Melbourne.

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