Aihua Xia
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of Melbourne
Vic 3010, Australia.
Email: xia@ms.unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61-3-8344 4247
Fax: +61-3-8344 4599
MY NAME
The given name is pronounced as "eihwa:" ("Ai"="a" in abc, "h"="h" in hurry, "u" ="w" in "wait",
while the final "a" is approximately equal to "ah" as in blah).
My surname can be roughly pronounced as shar, shark without k.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Point processes
- Limit theory in stochastic
processes
- Poisson and compound Poisson
approximations
- Markov processes
- Queueing Networks
- Image Processing
ADMINISTRATION
- Stochastic Processes Seminar Co-Ordinator
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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On negative binomial approximation to $k$-runs
(with X. Wang).
Journal of Applied Probability,
to appear.
-
A polynomial birth-death point process approximation to the Bernoulli process
(with F. Zhang).
Stochastic Processes and their Applications,
to appear.
-
On Stein's method and perturbations
(with A. D. Barbour and V. Cekanavicius).
Latin American Journal Of Probability And Mathematical Statistics,
3
(2007),
31--53.
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Normal approximation for random
sums (with A. D. Barbour).
Advances in Applied Probability,
38
(2006),
693--728.
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On Stein's factors for Poisson approximation in Wasserstein
distance (with A. D. Barbour).
Bernoulli,
12
(2006),
943--954..
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Zero Biasing and a Discrete Central Limit
Theorem (with L. Goldstein).
Annals of Probability,
34
(2006),
1782--1806.
-
Stein's method and Poisson process
approximation.
An Introduction to Stein's Method, Eds. A. D. Barbour and L. H. Y. Chen,
World Scientific
Press,
(2005),
115--181.
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Stein's method for compound Poisson approximation
via immigration-death processes.
Stein's Method and Applications,
Eds. A. D. Barbour and L. H. Y. Chen, World Scientific
Press
(2005),
85--102.
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Nonrandom Clusters of Palindromes in Herpesvirus
Genomes (with M. Y. Leung, K. P. Choi and L. H. Y. Chen).
Journal of Computational Biology,
12
(2005),
331--354.
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Stein's method, Palm theory and Poisson process
approximation (with L. H. Y. Chen).
Annals of Probability,
32
(2004),
2545--2569.
-
Point processes characterized by their one dimensional distributions.
Probab. Theory Related Fields,
128 (2004),
467--474.
-
How many processes have Poisson counts? (with T. C. Brown).
Stochastic Processes and their
Applications,
98
(2002),
331--339.
-
Compound Poisson approximation for the distribution of extremes
(with A. D. Barbour and
S. Y. Novak).
Advances in Applied Probability,
34
(2002),
223-240.
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Stein's method and birth-death processes (with T. C. Brown).
Annals of Probability,
29
(2001),
1373--1403.
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The number of two dimensional maxima (with A. D. Barbour).
Advances in Applied Probability,
33
(2001),
727-750.
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Removing Logarithms from Poisson Process Error Bounds
(with T. C. Brown and G. V. Weinberg).
Stochastic processes and their applications,
87
(2000),
149-165.
-
Estimating Stein's constants for
compound Poisson approximation (with A. D. Barbour).
Bernoulli,
6
(2000),
581-590.
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Poisson perturbation (with A. D. Barbour).
European series in Applied
and Industrial Mathematics: Probability and Statistics,
3
(1999),
131-150.
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A Probabilistic Proof of Stein's factors.
Journal of Applied Probability,
36
(1999),
287-290.
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Verifying Edges for Visual Inspection Purposes
(with W. Wen).
Pattern Recognition Letters,
20
(1999),
315-328.
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Point processes in time and Stein's method
(with A. D. Barbour and T. C. Brown).
Stochastics and Stochastics Reports,
65
(1998),
127-151.
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On the Variance to Mean Ratio for Random Variables from Markov Chains and
Point Processes
(with T. C. Brown and K. Hamza).
Journal of Applied Probability,
35
(1998),
303-312.
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On the rate of Poisson process approximation to a Bernoulli
processi.
Journal of Applied Probability,
34
(1997),
898--907.
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On Poisson approximation to the partial sum process of a Markov
chain
(with S. W. He).
Stochastic Processes and their
Applications,
68
(1997),
101--111.
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On using the first difference in Stein-Chen
method.
Annals of Applied Probability,
7
(1997),
899--916.
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On Metrics in Point Process
Approximation
(with T. C. Brown).
Stochastics and Stochastics Reports,
52
(1995),
247--263.
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On Stein-Chen factors for Poisson
approximation
(with T. C. Brown).
Statistics and Probability Letters,
23
(1995),
327--332.
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Weak Convergence of Markov Processes with Extended
Generators.
Annals of Probability,
22
(1994),
2183--2202.
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A Note on the Prohorov Distance between a Counting Process and
a Poisson Process.
Stochastics and Stochastics Reports,
45
(1993),
61--77.
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Weak Convergence of Jump Processes.
Seminaire de Probabilites XXVI, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag
1526
(1992),
32--46.
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES
620301 Stochastic Modelling and
620602 Probability for Inference..
SOME USEFUL LINKS
ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems
;
Statistical Job Announcements
in Australia and New Zealand;
The Probability Web;
American Mathematical Society.
ACADEMIC VITAE.
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11/02/08
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