The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen
School: School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Commenced with Institution: 23-FEB-2001
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Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Laureate Pr Graham Goodwin;Professor Minyue Fu;Professor Seyed Moheimani;Dr Julio Braslavsky;Dr Gregory Adams;Dr Jose De Dona;Dr Maria Seron;Dr James Welsh;Dr Andrew Fleming;Dr Damian Marelli;Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims;Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Professor A Pettitt;Dr R Reeves;Professor I Turner;Dr S Crisafulli;Dr M Downey;Mr J Lee;Mr P Stone 2008 3 Australian Research Council Centre - Centres of Excellence Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control   5400000  
Laureate Pr Graham Goodwin;Professor Minyue Fu;Professor Seyed Moheimani;Dr Julio Braslavsky;Dr Gregory Adams;Dr Jose De Dona;Dr Maria Seron;Dr James Welsh;Dr Andrew Fleming;Dr Damian Marelli;Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims;Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Professor A Pettitt;Dr R Reeves;Professor I Turner;Dr S Crisafulli;Dr M Downey;Mr J Lee;Mr P Stone 2007 3 NSW Department of State and Regional Development Centre - Centres of Excellence Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control   323084  
Assoc. Prof Phillip O'Neill;Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Professor Pauline McGuirk;Dr Kathleen Mee 2003 1 University of Newcastle Collaborative - Collaborative Research Grant Generating predictive indicators of children's need: GIS applications of merged public and agency data - (Families First Initiative)   10000  
Assoc. Prof Phillip O'Neill;Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Professor Pauline McGuirk;Dr Kathleen Mee 2003 1 Hunter Area Health Service Collaborative - Collaborative Research Grant Generating predictive indicators of children's need: GIS applications of merged public and agency data (Families First Initiative)   10000  
Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen 2003 1 Australian Research Council Project - Discovery Projects New Bayesian methodology for understanding complex systems using hidden Markov models and expert opinion, environmental, robotics and genomics applications.   75000  
Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Dr D Hetzel 2003 2 Australian Research Council Collaborative - Linkage Projects Bayesian methodology for analysis of genome data with focus on the livestock industry.   157920  
Professor Mark Bray;Dr Peter Howley;Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen 2003 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Employee Attitude Surveys and Human Resource Strategies: A Survey of Businesses in the Hunter Region   10000  
Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen 2003 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Bayesian mixture models in bioinformatics, with focus on constructing ancestral trees.   10000  
Professor Richard Middleton;Laureate Pr Graham Goodwin;Professor Minyue Fu;Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Professor Iain Raeburn;Professor Seyed Moheimani;Dr William Heath;Dr Julio Braslavsky;Dr Jose De Dona;Dr Richard Gerlach;Dr Maria Seron;Assoc. Prof Brailey Sims 2003 5 Australian Research Council Centre - Centres of Excellence Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control.   6929432  
Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen 2003 3 Australian Research Council Project - Discovery Project (Shared) Dynamic spatio-temporal approach to environmental health modelling   3  
Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Dr D Hetzel 2003 3 Genetic Solutions Pty Ltd Collaborative - Linkage Partner funding Bayesian methodology for analysis of genome data with focus on the livestock industry.   60000  
Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Mr C Witte 2002 3 Australian Research Council Collaborative - Linkage Projects A toolkit of statistical methodology for a state-of-the-art software and decision support system for forest assessment using new airborne data   110115  
Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Mr C Witte 2002 2 Queensland Department of Natural Resources & Mines, Land & Environmental Assessment Collaborative - Linkage Partner funding A toolkit of statistical methodology for a state-of-the-art software and decision support system for forest assessment using new airborne data.   10800  
Assoc. Prof Mary-Anne Williams;Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen;Professor Richard Middleton 2002 1 University of Newcastle Visit(or)/Exchange - Visitor Grant Visit of Prof Bernhard Nebel, from 15 August 2002 to 15 March 2003   6429  
Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen 2001 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Development of new Bayesian methods for modelling complex phenomena and their application in biostatistics, environmental management and bioinformatics   5000  
Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen 2001 2 Australian Research Council Collaborative - SPIRT Grant (Shared) Statistical decision support for evidence-based practice   49983  
Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen 2001 1 Australian Research Council Collaborative - SPIRT Grant (Shared) Decision support for biodiversity in forest management   36000  
Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen 2001 1 University of Newcastle Project - New Staff Grant A new method for analysing data through Bayesian mixture models and its application to an environmental mapping problem   10000  
Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen 2001 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant ANZ Statistical Association - Christchurch, New Zealand - 10/12/01 - 13/12/01   2299  
Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen 2001 1 University of Newcastle Project - Special Project Grant Innovations in Teaching Business Statistics, 28 June 2001   2000  
Conjoint Pr Kerrie Mengersen 2001 1 Australian Research Council Project - Large Grant (Shared) New Statistical theory and methodology for applied Bayesian analysis.   31056  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
PhD (Statistics) Principal Supervisor Innovative Application of Statistical Methods to Process Control

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
PhD 0.250

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
PhD (Statistics) 2002 A Decision Tree Approach to Analysing Very Large Datasets
M Sc (Statistics) [R] 2003 The Development of a Methodology to Project Hospital Utilisation in NSW
PhD (Statistics) 2005 Analysing and reporting clinical indicator data using hierarchical models
PhD (Statistics) 2005 Statistical Methods for Assessing and Improving Quality in Hospitals
PhD (Statistics) 2006 Bayesian Mixture Models for Repeated Measures: An Aplication in Animal Science Using CAT Scan Data
PhD (Statistics) 2006 Statistical Assessment of the Relationship Between Life Events and Health
PhD (Statistics) 2007 Estimation of the Binomial Parameter: In Defence of Bayes (1763)
PhD (Statistics) 2007 Statistical Methods to Maximise Information in Natural Resource Problems
PhD (Statistics) 2008 Bivariate Relationship Modelling on Bounded Spaces with Application to the Estimation of Forest Foliage Cover by Landsat Satellite ETM-plus Sensor

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Tuyl Frank Adrianus, Gerlach Richard Helmut, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, ’A comparison of bayes-laplace, jeffreys, and other priors: the case of zero events’, American Statistician, 62 40-44 (2008) [C1]

Graham Petra Leona, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, A P Morton, ’Confidence limits for the ratio of two rates based on likelihood scores: non-iterative method’, Statistics in Medicine, 23 691-693 (2004) [C3]

M R Salehi-Rad, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, G H Shahkar, ’Reservicing some customers in M/G/2 queues under three disciplines’, International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 2004 1715-1723 (2004) [C1]

Alston Clair Louise, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, J M Thompson, P J Kittlefield, D Perry, A J Ball, ’Statistical analysis of sheep CAT scan images using a Bayesian mixture model’, Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, 55 57-68 (2004) [C1]

Kuhnert Petra M, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, Tesar Peter, ’Bridging the Gap between Different Statistical Approaches; An Integrated Framework for Modelling’, International Statistical Review, 71 335-368 (2003) [C1]

Graham P L, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, Morton A P, ’Confidence limits for the ratio of two rates based on likelihood scores; non-iterative method’, Statistics in Medicine, 22 2071-2083 (2003) [C1]

Nur Darfiana, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, ’Considering Ethnicity in Teaching and Learning Statistics: Should I Worry About Where my Students Come From?’, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, 7 123-131 (2003) [C1]

In-Sun Nam, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, Garthwaite Paul, ’Multivariate meta-analysis’, Statistics in Medicine, 22 2309-2333 (2003) [C1]

Morawska L, Jayaratne E R, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, Jamriska M, Thomas S, ’Differences in airborne particle and gaseous concentrations in urban air between weekdays and weekends’, Atmospheric Environment, 36 4375-4383 (2002) [C1]

Casella G, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, Robert C P, Titterington D M, ’Perfect samplers for mixtures of distributions’, Royal Statistical Society. Journal. Series B: Statistical Methodology, 64 777-790 (2002) [C1]

Morawska L, Vishvakarman D, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, Thomas S, ’Spatial variation of airborne pollutant concentrations in Brisbane, Australia and its potential impact on population exposure assessment’, Atmospheric Environment, 36 3545-3555 (2002) [C1]

Nur D, Wolff R C, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, ’Phase randomisation: numerical study of higher cumulants behaviour’, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 37 487-513 (2001) [C1]

Chapter in Book

Macrossan P, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, ’Bayesian Learning’, Heuristics and Optimization for Knowledge Discovery, Idea Group Publishing, Australia, 108-121 (2002) [B1]

Review

Rippon Paul Gerard, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, ’Bayesian Modelling for Machine Learning’, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (2005) [D2]

Conference Publication

Mengersen Kerrie Lee, Robert Christian P, ’IID Sampling using Self-Avoiding Population Monte Carlo: The Pinball Sampler’, Bayesian Statistics 7, Valencia (2003) [E1]

Morphet Marilynn Norma, Clare K, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, Patten J, Pettit A, ’A Novel Statistical Approach to Identify Effective First Line Treatment for HAART Naive Patients’, Proceedings of XIV International Aids Conference 2002, Barcelona (2002) [E2]

Haynes M, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, ’An indifference zone approach to testing for a two-component normal mixture’, Advances in Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas, Wollongong (2002) [E1]

Salehi-Rad M R, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, ’Reservicing some customers in M/G/1 queues, under two disciplines’, Advances in Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas, Wollongong (2002) [E1]

Wolff R C, Nur Darfiana, Mengersen Kerrie Lee, ’Assessment of MCMC convergence: a time series dynamical systems approach’, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Singapore (2001) [E1]

Skills

Key Words

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