The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Dr Robert King
School: School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Commenced with Institution: 28-JUN-2001
Personal URL: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/publ/

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 $
Dr Robert King 2008 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant Australian Statistical Conference 2008, Melbourne, 30/6/2008 - 3/7/2008   1075  
Professor Pauline McGuirk;Professor Phillip O'Neill;Dr Kathleen Mee;Dr Robert King;Dr Lesley Instone 2007 3 Regional Coordination Management Group Collaborative - Linkage Partner funding Enabling inter-agency data sharing to support the spatial analysis of social vulnerability in a transforming region   60000  
Professor Pauline McGuirk;Professor Phillip O'Neill;Dr Kathleen Mee;Dr Robert King;Dr Lesley Instone 2007 4 Australian Research Council Collaborative - Linkage Projects Enabling inter-agency data sharing to support the spatial analysis of social vulnerability in a transforming region   155000  
Dr Stephan Chalup;Dr Michael Quinlan;Dr Robert King;Professor Richard Middleton 2006 1 University of Newcastle Project - Near Miss Rapid Convergence for Reinforcement Learning with Legged Robots   10000  
Dr John O'Toole;Dr Robert King 2005 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Dealing with jumps in numerical data to produce a new and powerful quantitative indicator for readability in science text   7537  
Dr Robert King;Dr Richard Gerlach 2005 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Estimation and modelling for flexibly shaped distributions   6000  
Dr Robert King 2004 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant 2004 Australian Statistical Conference, ASC2004 and XXIInd International Biometric Conference 11 to 16 July 2004   1138  
Assoc. Prof Phillip O'Neill;Professor Pauline McGuirk;Dr Kathleen Mee;Dr Robert King 2003 5 Australian Research Council Collaborative - Linkage Projects Building technologies and engagement processes for using spatialised data to enhance family and community outcomes in a region experiencing major change   201682  
Assoc. Prof Phillip O'Neill;Professor Pauline McGuirk;Dr Kathleen Mee;Dr Robert King 2003 3 NSW Premiers Department Collaborative - Linkage Partner funding - Hunter Regional Coordination Management Group Building technologies and engagement processes for using spatialised data to enhance family and community outcomes in a region experiencing major change   30000  
Dr Robert King 2003 1 University of Newcastle Project - Early Career Researcher Grant Modelling the appearance and longevity of bugs in the Debian GNU/Linux computer system   9998  
Assoc. Prof Phillip O'Neill;Professor Pauline McGuirk;Dr Kathleen Mee;Dr Robert King 2003 3 Hunter Area Health Service Collaborative - Linkage Partner funding Building technologies and engagement processes for using spatialised data to enhance family and community outcomes in a region experiencing major change   25000  
Dr Robert King 2003 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant Statistics in Public Resources and Utilities and in Care of the Environment (SPRUCE), Sweden 15-19 June, 2003   1816  
Dr Robert King 2001 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant ANZ Statistical Association - Christchurch, New Zealand - 10/12/01 - 13/12/01   602  

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 Delivery of Social Services in an Restructing Region
PhD (Statistics) Co-Supervisor Demand Forecast with Time Series Data Mining Approach
M Sc (Statistics) [R] Co-Supervisor Statistical Techniques for Improving Health Care
M Philosophy (Computer Eng) Co-Supervisor Face perception and face expression dynamics
PhD (Computer Engineering) Principal Supervisor Improving Robot Vision using Spatial and Temporal Correlations
M Philosophy (Statistics) Principal Supervisor Modelling with the Generalised Lambda Distribution

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
Masters 1.000
PhD 1.700

Student Completions

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

Program Year Research Topic
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

King Robert Arthur, Macgillivray H L, ’Fitting the generalized lambda distribution with location and scale-free shape functionals’, American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, 27 441-460 (2007) [C1]

Moffiet Trevor Noel, Mengersen K, Witte C, King Robert Arthur, Denham R, ’Airborne laser scanning: Exploratory data analysis indicates potential variables for classification of individual trees or forest stands according to species’, Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 59 289-309 (2005) [C1]

John G Ewen, Cassey Phillip, King Robert Arthur, ’An assessment of the randomization test for binomial sex-ratio distributions in birds’, The Auk, 120 1-7 (2003) [C1]

Cassey P, King Robert Arthur, ’The problem of testing the goodness-of-fit of stochastic resource apportionment models’, Environmetrics, 12 691-698 (2001) [C1]

Book

O'Neill Phillip, McGuirk Pauline Mary, Mee Kathleen Jeanette, Wright Sarah Louise, Markwell Kevin Wayne, Momtaz Salim, King Robert Arthur, Urban Development and the Lower Hunter: Understanding Context, Connections and Flows, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, N.S.W., 359 (2007) [A2]

Conference Publication

Henderson Naomi, King Robert Arthur, Middleton Richard Hume, ’An application of Gaussian mixtures: Colour segmenting for the four legged league using HSI colour space’, 11th Annual RoboCup International Symposium 2007. Proceedings, Atlanta, Georgia (2007) [E1]

Allingham David, King Robert Arthur, Nur Darfiana, Mengersen K, ’Analysis of DNA sequence segmentation using approximate bayesian computation’, ISI 2007 Book of Abstracts. 56th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Lisboa, Portugal (2007) [E2]

Moffiet Trevor Noel, Mengerson Kerrie, King Robert Arthur, Witte Christian, ’Relationship modelling on bounded spaces with example application to the estimation of forest foliage cover by remote sensing’, TIES North American Regional Meeting. Program, Seattle, WA (2007) [E3]

Lane John Philip, King Robert Arthur, ’C for Children: An adaptation of the ABS SEIFA targeted for children in a region’, The 55th Session of the International Statistical Institute: Proceedings, Sydney, Australia (2006) [E3]

King Robert Arthur, ’How do you believe that? Why Bayesians aren't subjective enough’, Spring Bayes 2006: List of Abstracts, Brisbane, Australia (2006) [E3]

King Robert Arthur, ’Investigating Response Times using the Generalised Lambda Distribution’, The 55th Session of the International Statistical Institute: Proceedings, Sydney, Australia (2006) [E3]

Moffiet Trevor Noel, Mengersen K, King Robert Arthur, Armston J D, Witte C, ’Modelling of foliage projected cover using Landsat-7 spectral imagery: spectral indices for greenness and brightness’, The 13th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Canberra, Australia (2006) [E2]

McGuirk Pauline Mary, O'Neill Phillip Michael, Mee Kathleen Jeanette, King Robert Arthur, Lane Phillip Arnold, Moore Natalie Marie, Askew Louise Elizabeth, Judd Tanya Meiling, ’Creating loose can(n)ons: protocols and procedures for accessing agency data’, Spatial Indicators and GIS in human geography workshop, Newcastle, Australia (2004) [E3]

King Robert Arthur, Gerlach Richard Helmut, D Wraith, ’Starship Regression: A Regression Method with Flexibly-Shaped Errors’, Conference Handbook, Cairns, Qld (2004) [E3]

King Robert Arthur, ’What can we predict for the establishment success of novelty land bird introductions?’, Proceedings, Lund (2003) [E3]

Computer Software

King Robert Arthur, ‘gld package for R,’, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna (2004) [G5]

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