Experimental Design
Building software and a grammar of experimental designs that make the design of comparative experiments explicit, so designs are easier to construct, communicate and analyse.
Featured articles
- Current state and prospects of R-packages for the design of experiments
- Towards a unified language in experimental designs propagated by a software framework
- edibble: An R package to encapsulate elements of experimental designs for better planning, management and workflow
- Getting the most out of your experimental data with design
Statistical Modelling
Mixed models (also known as multi-level, panel data or hierarchical models) and related methods for analysing structured data.
Featured articles
- A plot is worth a thousand tests: Assessing residual diagnostics with the lineup protocol
- CRAN task view: Mixed, multilevel, and hierarchical models in R
- Simple outlier detection for a multi-environmental field trial
- Symbolic Formulae for Linear Mixed Models
- Order selection and sparsity in latent variable models via the ordered factor LASSO
+ 1 more in my CV
R packages and software
Talks
Data Visualisation and Visual Inference
Visualising data and models well, and using visual inference to judge what we see in plots.
Featured articles
- Automated residual plot assessment with the R package autovi and the Shiny application autovi. web
- A plot is worth a thousand tests: Assessing residual diagnostics with the lineup protocol
- The noisy work of uncertainty visualisation research: A review
- Automated Assessment of Residual Plots with Computer Vision Models
- Commentary on “Visualization in Operations Management Research”: Incorporating Statistical Thinking into Visualization Practices for Decision Making in Operational Management
+ 2 more in my CV
R packages and software
Talks
- A quick and flexible visualisation system for the designs of experiments
- Automated visualisation of experimental designs
- Visual Inference: 絵による推論
Blog posts
Applications to Plant Sciences
Statistical methods for plant breeding and agricultural field trials, including as ANU Lead for the Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry (AAGI).
Featured articles
- QTLs for heat-induced stomatal anatomy underpin gas exchange variation in field-grown wheat
- Field-based dissection of stomatal anatomy and conductance reveals stable QTL under drought and heat in wheat
- Contrasting Acclimation of Leaf Energy Metabolic Traits to Warming in Field-Grown Wheat.
- Simple outlier detection for a multi-environmental field trial
- Increased genomic prediction accuracy in wheat breeding using a large Australian panel
+ 2 more in my CV
R packages and software
Bioinformatics
Statistical and computational methods for biological data.
Emerging Analytics
Machine and deep learning, computer vision and large language models, and how they can support statistical practice.
Featured articles
- Automated residual plot assessment with the R package autovi and the Shiny application autovi. web
- Analysis of international life expectancies with manifold learning and neural networks
- Automated Assessment of Residual Plots with Computer Vision Models
Statistics and Data Science Education
Teaching statistics and data science, and building open tools and materials that make statistical methods accessible to a broad audience.
Featured articles
Software Development
Designing and building open-source statistical software, mostly R packages, that make statistical methods easier for practitioners to use.
Featured articles
- Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse
- Automated residual plot assessment with the R package autovi and the Shiny application autovi. web
- Current state and prospects of R-packages for the design of experiments
- edibble: An R package to encapsulate elements of experimental designs for better planning, management and workflow
- CRAN task view: Mixed, multilevel, and hierarchical models in R