FULLY REFEREED RESEARCH ARTICLES

 

1985-1989

1. (1985) On external ancillarity. Australian Journal of Statistics, 27, 202-220.

2. (1985) Ancillaries sufficient for the sample size. Australian Journal of Statistics, 27, 264-272.

3. (1987) Contribution to discussion of `Parameter orthogonality and conditional inference' by D.R.Cox & N.Reid in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, 49, 1-39.

4. (1987) Pivotal quantities based on the conditional distribution function transform in models with accessory parameters. Communications in Statistics A, 16, 361-374.

5. (1987) Optimality of marginal likelihood estimating equations. Communications in Statistics A, 16, 1733-1742.

6. (1987) Optimal martingale estimating equations in a stochastic process. Statistics and Probability Letters, 5, 381-387.

7. (1988) Some issues arising from the analysis of 2x2 contingency tables. Australian Journal of Statistics, 30, 35-46.

8. (1988) Applications and extensions of Basu's results on maximal ancillary sigma fields. Australian Journal of Statistics, 30, 163-173.

9. (1988) Bivariate normal transformation models. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 15, 177-185.

10.  (1988) On recursive random splitting when the proportions are identical and independent random variables Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 27, 111-122. (with E.J. Williams)

11.  (1988) Doubling the 1-sided P-value, Statistics in Medicine, 7, 1297-1306.

12.  (1989) Some further results on recursive random splitting. Journal of Applied Probability, 26, 466-476.

 

1990-1994

13.  (1990) Estimating the effect of alcohol on the risk of a fatal road accident. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 153, 29-52.

14.  (1990) Confidence intervals from the difference between two correlated proportions. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 85, 1154.

15.  (1990) The comparison of accident counts up to the present date. Journal of Safety Research, 21, 75-78.

16.  (1991) Asymptotic expansions of the information in a mean. Statistics and Probability Letters, 11, 133-137.

17.  (1991) A unification of inference on capture recapture studies through martingale estimating functions in Estimating Functions edited by V.P. Godambe, 65-88 (with Paul S. F. Yip).

18.  (1992) Alcohol and fatal road accidents: Estimates of risk in Australia 1983, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 24, 339-348.

19.  (1992) Effective conditioning, Australian Journal of Statistics, 34, 241-260.

20.  (1992) Testing capture homogeneity in a recapture model, Biometrika, 79, 555-562.

21.  (1992) Modified martingale estimation for recapture experiments with heterogeneous capture probabilities. Biometrika, 79, 833-836.

22.  (1992) Testing recapture model Mt for departures from heterogeneity. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 46, 35-44.

23.  (1993) Estimating the relative risk of accident involvement as a function of the driver's blood alcohol content. In: International Perspectives on the Rate of Alcohol Involvement in Highway Crashes, edited by Paul Zador, 19-32, Los Angeles: Alcohol Information Service/Alcohol Drugs and Driving.

24.  (1994) Efficiency of martingale methods in recapture studies. Biometrika, 81, 305-315.

25.  (1994) Approximate pivots from M-estimators. Statistica Sinica, 4, 701-714.

26.  (1994) Encounters with statistical inference - an interview with Evan Williams. Australian Journal of Statistics, 36, 133-152. (with G.M.Laslett and G.K.Robinson)

 

1995-1999

27.  (1995) Accurate confidence intervals from capture experiments. Communications in Statistics A, 24(5), 1235-1253.

28.  (1996) Effects of water potential on germination of horehound seeds from two Australian localities  (with Lippai, Smith, Price and Weiss),  Weed Science, 44, 91-99.

29.  (1996) Accurate pivotals in recapture studies with time variation, Biometrika, 83, 700-708.

30.  (1996) Estimating response attributable to a continuous covariate from retrospective studies. Biometrika, 83, 563-573.

31.  (1996) Improved inference for recapture experiments with behavioural response through modelling and auxiliary experimentation (with Chaiyapong), Australian Journal of Statistics, 38, 317-331.

32.  [1996] Statistical analysis of the Hong Kong Legistative Council election results, (with P.S.F. Yip). Asian Journal of Public Administration 18, 119-133.

33.  [1997] Ancillary Statistics. In Encyclopaedia of Statistical Sciences, Update Volume 1, 23-30. John Wiley & Sons, New York. (with Williams and Yip)

34.  [1997] Accurate inference for recapture experiments with behavioural response, (with Chaiyapong) Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 56, 97-115.

35.  [1997] Tight upper confidence limits from discrete data, (with Paul Kabaila) Australian Journal of Statistics 39, 193-204.

36.  [1997] Statistical comparison of diagnostics using ROC curves. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Theoretical Biophysics and Bio-mathematics, Inner Mongolia University Press, 201-207.

37.  [1997] Estimating population size: the relative efficiency of resighting, removal and recapture methods - with discussion. Proceedings of the 51st Conference of the International Statistical Institute, State Institute of Statistics, Ankara, Turkey, p229-232.

38.  [1998] Improved efficiency for recapture experiments from auxiliary experimentation}. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 67, 29-44.

39.  [1998] A comparison of recapture, removal and resighting designs for population size estimation. (with P. Yip and K. Chan) Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 71, 363-375.

40.  [1998] Efficient estimation for partially observed birth-death processes. (with A.M. Hasofer) Stochastic Models, 14, 1073-1089.

41.  [1998] The use of smoothed ROC curves to summarise and compare diagnostic systems. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 93, 1356-1364.

42.  [1999] Estimating a frequency distribution when the sampling is biased. Communication in Statistics A, 28, 1115-1132.

43.  [1999] Choosing sample size for recapture experiments with behavioural response. (with Y. Chaiyapong) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 41, 299-304.

44.  [1999] Kernel estimators of the ROC curve are better than empirical. (with Y. Zhou) Statistics and Probability Letters, 44, 221-228.

 

2000-2004

45.  [2000] Estimating the number of errors in a system: the relative efficiency of removal, recapture and seeded errors methods. (with P. Yip) IEEE Transactions in Reliability, 48, 369-376.

46.  [2000] Profile upper confidence limits for discrete data. (with P. Kabaila) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 42, 67-80.

47.  [2000] A computable confidence upper limit from discrete data with good coverage properties. (with P. Kabaila) Statistics and Probability Letters, 47, 189-198.

48.  [2000] Fitting ROC curves using non-linear binomial regression. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 42, 193-204.

49. [2000] A non-parametric approach to the analysis of two-stage mark-recapture experiments. (with S.X. Chen) Biometrika, 87, 633-649.

50. [2000] Maximum likelihood estimation of mis-classification rates of a binomial regression. Biometrika, 87, 700-705.

51. [2000] Regression models for convex ROC curves. Biometrics, 56, 862-867.

52. [2000] Non-parametric density estimation from biased data. (with M.C. Jones) Journal of the American Statistical Association, 95, 865-877.

53. [2000] When do best confidence limits exist? (with P. Kabaila) Statistics and Probability Letters, 50, 115-120.

54. [2001] A comparison of suicide patterns in Australia and Hong Kong. (with Paul Yip) Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, A164, 467-483.

55. [2002] Estimation of population size from biased samples using non-parametric binary regression. (with S.X. Chen) Statistica Sinica, 12, 505-518.

56. [2002] Semi-parametric estimation of ROC curves based on binomial regression modelling. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 44, 193-204.

57. [2002] The Importance of the Designated Statistic on Buehler Upper Limits on a System Failure Probability (with P. Kabaila). Technometrics 44, 390-395.

58. [2002] Estimation of a convex ROC curve. Statistics and Probability Letters, 59, 99-111.

59. [2003] On the optimality and limitations of Buehler bounds. (with P. Kabaila). Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 45, 167-174.

60. [2003] The efficiency of Buehler confidence limits. (with P. Kabaila). Statistics and Probability Letters, 65, 21-28.

61. [2004] Buehler confidence limits and nesting. (with P. Kabaila). Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 46, 463-469.

62. [2004] Regression Based Estimation of the False Negative Fraction when Multiple Negatives are Unverified (with D. Frommer). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society C53, 619-631.

63. [2004] Estimating the False Negative Fraction for a Multiple Screening test for Bowel Cancer when Negatives are not Verified (with D. Frommer).  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 46, 531-542.

 

2005-

64.  [2005] Buehler limits from approximate upper limits: a numerical investigation of the role of nominal coverage. (with P. Kabaila). Journal of Applied Statistical Science 13, 217-230.

65.  [2005] Estimating test power adjusted for size. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 11, 921-934.

66.  [2005] Toward a general theory of competitive performance: Comments and extensions on Powell (with T. Powell). Strategic Management Journal  26, 385-394.

67.  [2005] On comparing the accuracy of competing tests of the same hypotheses from simulation data. J. Statist. Plan Inf.  128, 497-508.

68.  [2005] A simple measure of the efficiency of Buehler limits. (with P. Kabaila) Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 34, 767-774.

69.  [2005] Monotonicity of likelihood support bounds for system failure rates. Statistics and Probability Letters 73, 91-97.

70.  [2006] Improved Buehler limits based on refined designated statistics (with P. Kabaila). J. Statist. Plan Inf. 136, 3145-3155.

71. [2007] Exact one-sided confidence limits for the difference between two correlated proportions (with M. Moldovan). Statistics in Medicine. 26, 3369-3384.

72. [2007] Efficient and Exact Tests of the Risk Ratio in a Correlated 2x2 Table with Structural Zero. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 51, 3765-3775.

73. [2007] Exact Confidence Bounds for the Risk Ratio in 2x2 tables with Structural Zero (with M.Moldovan) Biometrical Journal 49, 952-963.

74. [2007] Unconditional efficient upper limits for the odds ratio based on conditional likelihood (with M.Moldovan). Statistics in Medicine 26, 5136-5146.

75. [2008] Multinomial Logistic Regression: An Application to Estimating Performance of a Multiple Screening Test for Bowel Cancer when Negatives are Unverified. (with D.J. Frommer). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society C57, 89-102.

76. [2008] A New Exact and More Powerful Unconditional Test of no Treatment Effect from Binary Matched Pairs. Biometrics, 64 716-723.

77. [2008] Exact P-values for Discrete Models obtained by Estimation and Maximisation. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 50.

78. [2008] More powerful exact tests of noninferiority from binary matched pairs data. (with M. Moldovan) Statistics in Medicine 27.

79. [2008] More powerful exact tests of binary matched pairs.) Statistics and Probability Letters 78, 2592-2596.

80. [2008] The economic value if improved environmental health for Victorian Rivers (with Bennett, Dumsday, Howell, Sturgess and van Raalte)  Australasian Journal of environmental Management 15, 138-148.

81. [2008] Evaluating the performance of in-house legal teams. In Leadership & Management Challenges of In-house Legal Counsel,  LexisNexis Melbourne. (with B. Tabalujan).

 

 

Books

      [1999] The Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data Wiley, New York, 512pp.

 

Book reviews

·        (1986) Some Large Deviation Results in Statistics by A.D.M. Kester, Australian Journal of Statistics, 28.

·        (1989) Advanced Probability Theory by J. Galambos, Short Book Reviews.

·        (1989) Modern Mathematical Statistics by E.J. Dudowicz, Short Book Reviews.

·        (1991) Asymptotic techniques for use in statistics by D.R. Cox & O. Barndorff-Nielsen, Australian Journal of Statistics, 33.

·        (1994) Predictive inference: an introduction by Seymour Geisser, Australian Journal of Statistics, 35.

·        (2001) Data Analysis by Resampling: Concepts and Applications by Clifford Lunneborg. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 43.