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The Red Centre | | Phone | 9385 7027 | | Fax | 9385 7123 | | Email | Scott.Sisson@unsw.edu.au |
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| RESEARCH INTERESTS |
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- Likelihood-free computation
- Bayesian inference and computational techniques
- Biostatistics and statistical genetics
- Extreme value modelling with climate and environmental applications
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| ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES |
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- School Webmaster
- Standing, Research & Computing Committees
- Statistics PhD Co-ordinator
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| TEACHING DUTIES |
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- MATH2099 Mathematics 2B
- MATH2831/2931 (Higher) Linear Models
- MATH2859 Statistics, Probability and Information
- MATH5960 Bayesian Inference and Computation
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| EXTERNAL |
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- 2004-2008 Council Member of the Statistical Society of Australia (NSW Branch)
- Associate Editor: Australia and New Zealand Journal of Statistics
- Associate Editor: Electronic Journal of Statistics
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| AWARDS |
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- 2005 UNSW Faculty of Science Learning and Teaching Award
- 2006 John Yu Fellowship to Europe (Imperial College, London)
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| RECENT GRANTS |
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- 2006 - 2007 Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis - Evaluating frameworks for dealing with low probability - high consequence events
- 2006 - 2008 ARC Discovery Project - Transdimensional and approximate Bayesian computation
- 2007 Faculty Research Grant - Bayesian inference using non-reversible Markov chains
- 2008 - 2010 ARC Discovery Project - Innovations in Bayesian inference with applications to climate extremes
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| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS |
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- Bortot P., S. G. Coles and S. A. Sisson (2007). Inference for stereological extremes. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102, 84-92.
- Sisson S. A, Y. Fan and M. M. Tanaka (2007). Sequential Monte Carlo without likelihoods. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 104, 1760-1765.
- Tanaka M. M., A. R. Francis, F. Luciani and S. A. Sisson (2006). Using approximate Bayesian computation to estimate the rate of tuberculosis transmission from genotype data. Genetics, 173, 1511-1520.
- Sisson S. A. (2005). Trans-dimensional Markov chains: A decade of progress and future perspectives. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 100, 1077-1089.
- Sisson S. A. and M. A. Hurn (2004). Bayesian point estimation of quantitative trait loci. Biometrics, 60, 60-68.
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| FURTHER INFORMATION |
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More information on
Scott Sisson
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his
personal web page
or by contacting
him directly.
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