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Scott Sisson
Senior Lecturer
Office Room 1034 , The Red Centre
Phone 9385 7027
Fax 9385 7123
Email Scott.Sisson@unsw.edu.au
RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Likelihood-free computation
  • Bayesian inference and computational techniques
  • Biostatistics and statistical genetics
  • Extreme value modelling with climate and environmental applications
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
  • School Webmaster
  • Standing, Research & Computing Committees
  • Statistics PhD Co-ordinator
EXTERNAL
  • Associate Editor: Australia and New Zealand Journal of Statistics
  • Associate Editor: Electronic Journal of Statistics
  • Council Member of the Statistical Society of Australia (NSW Branch)
AWARDS
  • 2005 UNSW Faculty of Science Learning and Teaching Award
  • 2006 John Yu Fellowship to Europe (Imperial College, London)
  • 2010-2014 QEII Research Fellowship
RECENT GRANTS
  • 2008 - 2010 ARC Discovery Project - Innovations in Bayesian inference with applications to climate extremes
  • 2010 - 2014 ARC Discovery Project - Innovations in Bayesian likelihood-free inference
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  • Padoan S. A, M. Ribatet and S. A. Sisson (in press). Likelihood-based inference for max-stable processes. Journal of the American Statistical Association, in press.
  • Luciani F., S. A. Sisson, H. Jiang, A. R. Francis and M. M. Tanaka (2009). The epidemiological fitness cost of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 106, 14711-14715.
  • 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.
FURTHER INFORMATION
More information on Scott Sisson can be obtained by looking at his personal web page or by contacting him directly.
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