The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Professor John Rayner
School: School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Personal URL: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/staff/profile/john.rayner.html

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 Professor Graham Goodwin;Professor Minyue Fu;Professor Seyed Moheimani;Doctor Julio Braslavsky;Doctor Gregory Adams;Doctor Jose De Dona;Doctor Maria Seron;Doctor James Welsh;Doctor Andrew Fleming;Doctor Damian Marelli;Associate Professor Brailey Sims;Conjoint Professor Kerrie Mengersen;Professor John Rayner;Doctor Tristan Perez 2008 3 Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control   5400000  
Laureate Professor Graham Goodwin;Professor John Rayner 2008 3 University of Newcastle ARC Centre sub-control account CDSC Sub-Account: Statistical Inference and Modelling   180000  
Laureate Professor Graham Goodwin;Professor John Rayner 2008 3 Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence CDSC Sub-Account: Statistical Inference and Modelling   180000  
Professor John Rayner 2007 1 University of Newcastle New Staff Grant Assessing Statistical Models Using Smooth Tests   9988  
Professor John Rayner 2007 3 Department of Education, Science and Training Collaboration and Structural Reform Fund Applied Statistics Education and Research Collaboration (ASEARC)   140001  
Professor John Rayner 2006 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant Australian Statistical Conference ASC/NZSA 2006 3-7 July 2006   1327  

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 Application of Smooth Tests of Goodness of Fit to Generalised Linear Models

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
PhD 0.450

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 Estimation of the Binomial Parameter: In Defence of Bayes (1763)

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

Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, ’Anscombe's Tests of fit for the negative binomial distribution’, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 3 555-565 (2009) [C1]

Rayner John Charles, Beh Eric John, ’Components of Pearson's statistic for at least partially ordered m-way contingency tables’, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, 2009 1-9 (2009) [C1]

Rayner John Charles, Best Donald John, Thas O, ’Generalised smooth tests of goodness of fit’, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 3 665-679 (2009) [C1]

Rayner John Charles, Best Donald John, Thas O, ’Guest editors’, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 3 - (2009) [C2]

Thas O, Rayner John Charles, Best Donald John, De Boeck D, ’Informative statistical analyses using smooth goodness of fit tests’, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 3 705-733 (2009) [C1]

Rayner John Charles, Thas O, Best Donald John, ’Introduction to modern goodness of fit methods’, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 3 537-541 (2009) [C3]

Rayner John Charles, Carolan A M, ’Partially parametric testing’, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 3 735-750 (2009) [C1]

Rayner John Charles, Beh Eric J, ’Towards a better understanding of correlation’, Statistica Neerlandica, 63 324-333 (2009) [C1]

Rayner John Charles, Thas O, De Boeck B, ’A generalised Emerson recurrence relation’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 50 235-240 (2008) [C1]

Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, ’Comparison of some tests of fit for the Laplace distribution’, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 52 5338-5343 (2008) [C1]

Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, ’Tests of fit for the logarithmic distribution’, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, 2008 463781 (2008) [C1]

Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, ’X-2 and its components as tests of normality for grouped data’, Journal of Applied Statistics, 35 481-492 (2008) [C1]

Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, ’Chi-squared components for tests of fit and improved models for the grouped exponential distribution’, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51 3946-3954 (2007) [C1]

Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, ’Comparison of five tests of fit for the extreme value distribution’, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 1 89-99 (2007) [C1]

Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, ’Goodness of fit for the zero-truncated Poisson distribution’, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 77 585-591 (2007) [C1]

Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, ’Nonparametric analysis of blocked ordered categories data: some examples revisited’, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, 2006 31089-1 - 31089-9 (2006) [C1]

Book

Rayner John Charles, Thas O, Best Donald John, Smooth Tests of Goodness of Fit: Using R, John Wiley & Sons (Asia), Singapore, 272 (2009) [A3]

Conference Publication

Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, ’Nonparametric tests for randomized block data with ties and ordered alternatives’, ASEARC: Proceedings of the Third Annual ASEARC Research Conference, Newcastle, NSW (2009) [E1]

Rayner John Charles, Rippon Paul Gerard, ’Testing the poisson regression model’, ASEARC: Proceedings of the Third Annual ASEARC Research Conference, Newcastle, NSW (2009) [E1]

Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas Olivier, ’Tests of fit for the beta binomial distribution’, JSM 2008 Abstract Book, Denver, CO (2008) [E3]

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