Emeritus Professor
Tony Pettitt
Faculty of Science,
Office of the Executive Dean, Science
Personal details
Positions
- Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Science,
Office of the Executive Dean, Science
Keywords
Bayesian Statistics, Mathematics and statistics, Motor Unit number estimation, Spatial statistics
Research field
Statistics
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Nottingham)
- MSc (University of Nottingham)
- BSc(Hons) (University of Nottingham)
Teaching
MAB524 Statistical inference
MAN765 Bayesian data analysis
Experience
Publications
- Ridall, P., Pettitt, A., Friel, N., McCombe, P. & Henderson, R. (2007). Motor Unit Number Estimation Using Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics, 56(3), 235–269. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/14749
- Forrester, M., Pettitt, A. & Gibson, G. (2007). Bayesian Inference of Hospital-Acquired Infectious Diseases and Control Measures Given Imperfect Surveillance Data. Biostatistics, 8(2), 383–401. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/7868
- Moller, J., Pettitt, A., Reeves, R. & Berthelsen, K. (2006). An Efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method for Distributions With Intractable Normalising Constants. Biometrika, 93(2), 451–458. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/7869
- Pettitt, T., Tran, T., Haynes, M. & Hay, J. (2006). A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Categorical Longitudinal Data from a Social Survey of Immigrants. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society, 169(1), 97–114. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/22145
- Ridall, P., Pettitt, A., Henderson, R. & McCombe, P. (2006). Motor Unit Number Estimation - A Bayesian Approach. Biometrics, 62(4), 1235–1250. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/7865
- Friel, N., Pettitt, T., Reeves, R. & Wit, E. (2009). Bayesian Inference in Hidden Markov Random Fields for Binary Data Defined on Large Lattices. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 18(2), 243–261. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/42820
- Friel, N. & Pettitt, T. (2008). Marginal likelihood estimation via power posteriors. The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B: Statistical Methodology, 70(3), 589–607. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/224538
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Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Advances in sequential Monte Carlo methods (2022)
- Contributions to Bayesian Synthetic Likelihood (2020)
- Contributions to Computational Bayesian Statistics (2019)
- Improving Species Distribution Modelling: Selecting Absences and Eliciting Variable Usefulness for Input into Standard Algorithms or a Bayesian Hierarchical Meta-factor Model (2019)
- Statistical and simulation modelling for enhanced understanding of hospital pathogen and related health issues (2017)
- Novel Likelihood-Free Bayesian Parameter Estimation Methods for Stochastic Models of Collective Cell Spreading (2016)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.