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Dr Andrew ROBINSON
Position: Senior Lecturer
Email: a.robinson@ms.unimelb.edu.au
Room: 113
Ext. Number: 46410
Webpage: www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr
Research Group:- Statistics
Interests: - Applied statistics
- Environmental and Ecological Statistics
- Forest Biometrics
- Mixed-Effects Models
- Model Validation
- Sampling Theory
Recent Publications:
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  • Accuracy and equivalence testing of crown ratio models and assessment of their impact on diameter growth and basal area increment predictions of two variants of the Forest Vegetation Simulator(2009) more
  • Reducing variability of cross-validation for smoothing-parameter choice(2009) more
  • The impacts of large-scale, low-intensity fires on the forests of continental South-east Asia(2008) more
  • Sudden and sustained response of Acacia koa to crown release in stagnant stands.(2008) more
  • Correcting for spatial autocorrelation in sequential sampling(2008) more

Current Postgraduate Supervision:

Martin SHIELD "Data mining for risk seensitive resource allocation."
Stephen LANE "Non-parametric estimation and prediction of tree size class distributions."
Natalie KARAVARSAMIS "Spatial Sampling Poblems in Biosecurity."
David LAZARIDIS "Lq-Norm Strinkage Regression"
Indriati Njoto BISONO

Recent Honours Students:

Martin SHIELD
Stephen LANE "Generalized Estimating Equations for Pedigree Analysis"
Hannah CAPES
David LAZARIDIS "Shrinkage Regression"

Recent Grant History:

Year(s) Source Type Title
2009 - 2013 ARC Discovery Inverse and related problems in statistics
2007 - 2009 ARC Discovery Statistical Analysis of Some Partially Observed Processes Arising in Ecological Research
2006 The University of Melbourne SCIMET L: A Kinder, Gentler Interface for R
2006 The University of Melbourne Melbourne Early Career Researcher (ECR) Critical Period Analysis using Segmented Regression and Maximum Likelihood

Responsibilities:

Faculty of Arts Representative
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