Faculty of Science and Information Technology

Professor John Rayner

• BA(Hons) (Sydney)
• PhD (Wollongong)

• Recognized as an international expert in assessing statistical models
• smooth tests of goodness of fit, and in constructing informative analyses of important experimental designs making minimal assumptions
• using contingency tables to construct informative nonparametric analyses

• 1987, University Grants Commission (New Zealand), $15,000.
• 1994, University of Wollongong and CSIRO grants to support work on Partially Parametric Hypothesis Testing, $10,000.
• 1998, Research Infrastructure Block Grant: Enhanced Parallel Facility for Informatics, Finance and Scientific Data (Davy, Seberry et al.), $40,000.
• 1999, ARC Small grant for a project New Approaches To Goodness Of Fit Testing Using Quantiles, $8,000.
• 2002, Strategic Development Research Grant: New Inference for Latin Square Design, $7,000.
• 2002, $25,000 Research Infrastructure Block Grant: Sun Blade 1000 Workstations. (Broadbridge et al.), $25,000.
• 2005, Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute to support Statistics '05, $10,000.

• Council Member, N.S.W. Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia March 1995 to March 1998 and March 1999 to March 2006; President March 2002 - March 2004.
• Elected to the International Statistical Institute 1999.
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, from January 2006.
• Associate Editor (1997 to early 1998) then Statistics Area Editor (1998 to 2006) of the Journal Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences. Co-Editor of two special issues: SCRA Conference issue, Vol 6, no 4, 2002 and Statistical Education issue, Vol 7, no 2, 2003.
• Invited plenary speaker, New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium, held at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, December 3-6, 2001; topic: Lessons from a Quarter Century of Research.
• Invited contributor to the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Goodness of fit: methods and models), Pergamon, 2001.
• Invited plenary speaker, International Workshop on Goodness-of-fit Tests and Validity of Models, Paris, May 2000; topic: Partially Parametric Testing.
• Invited contributor to the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (Contingency tables, ordered), Wiley, 1999.
• Member of the organising and publication committees of the 2004 Workshop on Research Methods: Statistics and Finance held on December 2-3, 2004 at the University of Wollongong; co-editor of the workshop proceedings Proceedings of the 2004 Workshop on Research Methods: Statistics and Finance. Member of the organising committee of the AMSI sponsored 2005 Workshops on Research Methods: Modelling & Inference, Experimental Design, and Spatial Sampling and Capture-Recapture Models Applied to Environmental and Survey Data held at the University of Wollongong November 28-30, 2005.
• Member of the International Organizing Committee and Secretary of the Local Organizing Committee for the International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas, held in Wollongong in December 2001 and attended by over 200, mainly international delegates; Co-Editor of Advances in Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas, the proceedings of this conference.
• Member of the International Organizing Committee for the International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas, held in Allahabad, India, December 21-23, 2002 and member of the International Advisor Committees for the International Conferences on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas held at the University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, USA, October 3-5, 2003, the subsequent conference held at the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, India on December 27-29, 2004. Member of the International Advisor Committee for the International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics, Mathematics and Applications held at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849-5310, USA December 2-4, 2005. Member of the International Advisor Committee for the International Conferences on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas to be held at The New University of Lisbon - Tomar Polytechnic Institute Lisbon, Tomar, September 1-4, 2006.
• Secretary of the Local Organising Committee for the International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS 3) Dunedin, New Zealand, August 1990; attended by over 600 mainly international delegates.
• Moderator New Zealand Higher School Certificate Bursaries Mathematics with Statistics paper 1990 and 1991.

• My first published book was advice to Higher School Certificate students in New Zealand on project writing. At that time, in the late 1980s, project work contributed 20% to the assessment of the New Zealand Bursaries paper Mathematics with Statistics.
• A parallel book for honours and thesis students is available at http://www.math.uow.edu.au/current/writing_02.pdf.
• I enjoy teaching the full gamut of statistics courses - service and mainstream courses, large and small classes, remedial to postgraduate students.
• I have marked Higher School Certificate examinations in Australia and have both moderated and marked Higher School Certificate examinations in New Zealand.

• John Best (PhD, Tests of Fit and Other Nonparametric Data Analysis, 1999)
• Anthony Carolan (PhD, Partially Parametric Testing, 2000)

• Lecturer-Senior Lecturer, University of Otago (1973-1992)
• Senior Lecturer-Associate Professor, University of Wollongong (1992 - 2006)