Index of research reports (1981 - 1994)

This page contains a list of Research Reports published by the Department of Statistical Science at University College London between 1981 and 1994.

Research reports by year

1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1994-present

Reports published in 1981

No. 1
A.P. Dawid and M. Stone
The Functional-Model Basis of Fiducial Inference

No. 2
A.P. Dawid
Invariant Prior Distributions

No. 3
A.P. Dawid
Statistical Inference

No. 4
A.P. Dawid
Intersubjective Statistical Models

No. 5
M. Stone
A General Statistical Model for Clone/Tissue studies using X-Chromosome Inactivation Data

No. 6
M. Stone
Fiducial Probability

No. 7
J.Q. Smith
Catastrophies and Geometric Sufficiency

No. 8
J.Q. Smith and R.B. Cathercole
Principles of Interactive Forecasting

Reports published in 1982

No. 9
A.P. Dawid
Invariance and Independence in Multivariate Distribution Theory

No. 11
R.F. Galbraith
Statistical Analysis of some Fission Track Counts and Neutron Fluence Measurements.

No. 12
R.D. Harkness and Valerie Isham
A Bivariate Spatial Point Process of Ants Nests

No. 13
A.P. Dawid
Probability, Symmetry and Frequency

No. 14
A.P. Dawid
Objective Probability Forecasts

No. 15
Valerie Isham
Point Processes and the Markov Property

No. 16
J.Q Smith
Forecasting accident claims for an Assurance Company

No. 17
Valerie Isham
Bivarate Markov Point Processes - Some Approximations

Reports published in 1983

No. 18
Mervyn Stone and Julie Morris
Exploratory studies of some Non-Local Non-Linear Design Criteria

No. 19
R.F. Galbraith
On Statistical Estimation in Fission Track Dating

No. 20
R.J. Brooks
Fitting Generalised Linear Models in the Analysis of Fission Track Counts

No. 21
R.J. Brooks
On the Relative Efficiency of Censored Reliability Studies

No. 22
G. Consonni
Decomposition of Statistical Problems by means of Invariance Mathematical Tools and Results

No. 23
M. Stone
Variance-Covariance Modelling for Chromosome Marker Data with Application to Haemopoiesis

No. 24
R.J. Brooks
Approximate likelihood ratio tests in the analysis of beta-binomial data.

No. 25
R.G. Gathercole and J.Q. Smith
A dynamic Forecasting Model for a General Class of Discontinuous Time Series

No. 26
J.Q. Smith
Catastrophes in Statistical Models and Decision Theory: A way of Seeing.

No. 27
M. Stone
Statistical Reasoning

No. 28
C.C. Frangos and M. Stone
On Jackknife, Cross-Validatory and Classical Methods of Estimating a proportion with batches of different sizes.

No. 29
C.M. Brien and M. Stone
Cross-Validated Composition Determination in Nuclear Analysis

No. 31
G. Consonni and A.P. Dawid
Invariant Normal Bayesian Linear Models and Experimental Designs

No. 32
A.P. Dawid
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow … The Prequential Approach to Statistical Theory

Reports published in 1984

No. 33
R.J. Brooks
Optimal allocation for Bayesian inference about an odds ratio

No. 34
M. Stone and B. Johnston
Some Characterizations of Stochastic transformations relevant to models for experiments

No. 35
G. Consonni and A.P. Dawid
Decomposition and Bayesian analysis of invariant normal linear models.

No. 36
J.Q. Smith
A Statistical Analysis of some 2-players Games

Reports published in 1985

No. 37
D.R. Cox and Valerie Isham
The Virtual Waiting Time and Related Processes

No. 38
T. Kollo
Asymptotic Inference for Eigenvectors of Covariance and Correlation Matrices

No. 39
Mervyn Stone
Coordinate-Free multivariable statistics: From Halmos to Gauss to Bayes

No. 40
Mervyn Stone
Ubles or Blues?

No. 41
R.F. Galbraith
Statistical Analysis of C.W. Naeser's Fish Canyon Zircon Data

No. 42
Françoise Seillier
Prequential Assessment of Discrete Probability Forecasts

No. 43
Valerie Isham
Marked Point Processes and Their Correlation's

Reports published in 1986

No. 44
Peter Donnelly
Stochastic Monotonicity in a reinforcement-depletion compartmental Urn Model

No. 45
Frank Ball and Peter Donnelly
Inter-Particle Correlation in Death Processes with application to Compartmental models.

No. 46
A.P. Dawid
Prequential Data Analysis

No. 47
A.P. Dawid
The difficulty about conjunction

No. 48
J. Burridge
Mean-variance Relationships, Generalised Linear Models and GLIM

No. 49
R.F. Galbraith
Graphical Display of Estimates having Differing Standard errors

No. 50
A.P. Dawid
Symmetry Models and Hypotheses for Structured Data Layouts

No. 51
M. Stone and J.L. Wang
A Bayes, Sweep-Operational Construction for Rao's Unified Theory of Linear Estimation (Short Title: Construction for Unified Least-Squares)

No. 52
M. Stone
Isobolic Determination of Linear and 'Ratio-Linear' Parameters

No. 53
A.P. Dawid
Symmetry Analysis of the Mixed Model

No. 54
M. Stone
Notes on Linear Sufficiency in the General Linear Model

Reports published in 1987

No. 55
Peter Donnelly and Simon Tavare
The Population Genealogy of the Infinitely-Many Neutral Alleles Model

No. 56
A.P. Dawid
The Infinite Regress and its Conjugate Analysis

No. 57
R.M.L.G. Seillier
On testing the validity of probability forecasts

No. 58
Valerie Isham
Mathematical Modelling of the Transmission Dynamics of HIV Infection and Aids: A Review

No. 59
A.P. Dawid
Functional Models, Fiducial Prediction and Semi-Bayesian Inference

Reports published in 1988

No. 60
J. Burridge
Moment-Based Estimating Equations, Mean-Variance Relationships and Exponential Dispersion Models

No. 61
F. Seillier, T.J. Sweeting and A.P. Dawid
Prequential Tests of Model Fit

No. 62
M. Stone and R.J. Brooks
Continuum Regression: Cross-validated, Sequentially-constructed Prediction embracing Ordinary Least Squares, Partial Least Squares, and Principal Components Regression

No. 63
S.L. Lauritzen, A.P. Dawid, B.N. Larsen, H.G. Leimer
Independence Properties of Directed Markov Fields

Reports published in 1989

No. 64
M. Stone and D. Harrison
A Stratified Binomial Marker Model for Bone-Marrow Repopulation Experiments

No. 65
A.P. Dawid and S.L. Lauritzen
Markov Distributions, Hyper Markov Laws and Meta Markov Models on Decomposable Graphs, with Applications to Bayesian Learning in Expert Systems

No. 66
A.P. Dawid, T. Fearn and M. Stone
Comment on Joshi's "Counter-example against the likelihood Principle"

Reports published in 1990

No. 67
A.P. Dawid
Fisherian Inference in Likelihood and Prequential Frames of Reference

No. 68
Valerie Isham
Comments on the use of the back-projection method to estimate the incidence of HIV infection and Aids

No. 69
David J. Spiegelhalter, A.P. Dawid, Tom A. Hutchinson, R.G. Cowell
Probabilistic causality assessment after a suspected adverse drug reaction: a case study in Bayesian network modelling.

No. 70
Constantinos Goutis
Ranges of Posterior Measures for Some Classes of Priors with Specified Moments

No. 71
T. Fearn and P.I. Maris
An Application of Box-Jenkins Methodology to the Control of Gluten Addition in a Flour Mill.

No. 72
T. Fearn
Box-Cox Transformations and the Taguchi Method: an Alternative Analysis of a Taguchi Case Study

No. 73
G. Brian Newman
Lumbricus Terrestris: A Game for Teaching Resource-Limited Statistical Society.

No. 74
A.P. Dawid
Foundations of Probability (Article for "Encyclopaedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences")

No. 75
R.G. Cowell, A.P. Dawid, T.A. Hutchinson, S. Roden and D.J. Spiegelhalter
Generic Organisational Networks for the Analysis of Drug Safety

No. 76
Valerie Isham
Assessing the variability of stochastic epidemics

No. 77
Rudolf Grübel and Susan M. Pitts
A functional approach to the stationary waiting time and idle period distributions of the GI/G/I queue

No. 78
Constantinos Goutis and George Casella
Increasing the Confidence in Student's t Interval.

Reports published in 1991

No. 79
Constantinos Goutis
Recovering extra-binomial variation

No. 80
Jim Burridge
Unique and Consistent M-Estimators for Linear Models and Symmetry Heavy-tailed Error Distributions

No. 82
A.P. Dawid
Prequential Analysis, Stochastic Complexity and Bayesian Inference

No. 83
A.P. Dawid and B.Q. Fang
Conjugate Bayes Discrimination with Infinitely Many Variables

No. 84
Mervyn Stone and Rodney Brooks
Joint Continuum Regression for Multiple Predictands

No. 86
Robert Cowell
BAIES - A Probabilistic Expert System Shell with Qualitative and Quantitative Learning

No. 87
R.G. Cowell, A.P. Dawid, T. Hutchinson, D.J. Spiegelhalter
A Bayesian Expert System for the Analysis of an Adverse Drug Reaction

No. 88
A.P. Dawid
Applications of a General Propagation Algorithm for Probabilistic Expert Systems

No. 89
R.G. Cowell and A.P. Dawid
Fast retraction of evidence in a probabilistic expert system

No. 90
Constantinos Goutis
Bayesian estimation methods for contingency tables.

No. 91
J. Burridge and P. Sebastiani
Optimal Designs for Generalized Linear Models

No. 92
Valerie Isham
Stochastic Models for Epidemics with Special Reference to Aids

No. 93
Ian White
Graphical Modelling of Data from Whitehall II

No. 94
T. Fearn
Shrinking Calibrations

No. 95
R.G. Cowell and A.P. Dawid, D.J. Spiegelhalter
Sequential model criticism in probabilistic expert systems

No. 96
B.Q. Fang and A.P. Dawid
Asymptotic property of a Bayesian discrimination problem

Reports published in 1992

No. 97
Constantinos Goutis
Statistical Aspects of pre-operative screening for anaesthetic allergies

No. 98
Susan M. Pitts
Nonparametric estimation of the stationary waiting time distribution function for the GI/G/1 queue

No. 99
George Casella and Constantinos Goutis
Relationships between post data accuracy measures.

No. 100
Jim Burridge
A repeat of the "Benveniste" experiment: statistical analysis

No. 101
Constantinos Goutis
A Graphical Method for solving a Decision Analysis problem

No. 102
Valerie Isham
Statistical Aspects of Chaos: A Review

No. 103
D.J. Spiegelhalter, A.P. Dawid Steffen L. Lauritzen, Robert G. Cowell
Bayesian Analysis in Expert Systems

No. 104
A.P. Dawid
Selection Paradoxes of Bayesian Inference

No. 105
T. Fearn
Flat or Natural? A Note on the Choice of Calibration Samples.

No. 106
G.M. Laslett and R.F. Galbraith
The analysis of projected fission track lengths

No. 107
A. Crisp and Jim Burridge
A note on the uniqueness of M-estimators in robust regression

No. 108
Constantinos Goutis
The Dilation Phenomenon in Robust Bayesian Inference by Larry Wasserman and Teddy Seidenfeld

No. 109
R.G. Cowell
Calculating moments of decomposable functions in Bayesian networks

No. 110
Paul Embrechts, Rudolf Grubel and Susan M. Pitts
Some applications of the fast Fourier transform algorithm in insurance mathematics

No. 111
Susan M. Pitts
Nonparametric estimation of compound distributions with applications in insurance

No. 112
A.P. Dawid, M.H. DeGroot and J. Mortera
Coherent Combination of Experts' Opinions

Reports published in 1993

No. 113
Constantinos Goutis, George Casella and Martin T. Wells
Assessing Evidence in Multiple Hypotheses

No. 114
R.F. Galbraith and G.M. Laslett
Statistical models for mixed ages in fission track analysis

No. 115
A.P. Dawid
The Island Problem: Coherent use of Identification Evidence

No. 116
R.F. Galbraith
Some applications of radial plots

No. 117
M. Taghavi-Khonsary
Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests of fit when parameters are estimated from order statistics

No. 118
Jorge Olguin
Analysing Unreplicated Factorials

No. 119
Jim Burridge and Paola Sebastiani
D-Optimal Designs for Generalised Linear Models with Variance Proportional to the Square of the Mean

No. 120
Constantinos Goutis and Christian P. Robert
Choice among Hypotheses using Estimation Criteria

No. 121
Constantinos Goutis and George Casella
Frequentist Post-Data Inference

No. 122
K. Skouras, C. Goutis and M.J. Bramson
Estimation in Linear Models using the back Propagation Algorithm

No. 123
A.P. Dawid
Taking Prediction Seriously

No. 124
Rodney Brooks and Mervyn Stone
Joint Continuum Regression for Multiple Predictands

No. 125
Hassan Johaadien and Constantinos Goutis
Maximum Likelihood Estimation in the presence of Extra-Poisson Variation

No. 126
Constantinos Goutis
Partial Least Squares Algorithm Yields Shrinkage Estimators

No. 127
Adam Crisp and Jim Burridge
Unique redescending t M-Estimates for the Linear Regression Model

No. 128
D.R. Cox and Valerie Isham
Stochastic Models of Precipitation

No. 129
A.P. Dawid, U. Kjaerulff and S.L. Lauritzen
Hybrid Propagation in Junction Trees

Reports published in 1994

No. 130
Bart Mertens, Tom Fearn and Michael Thompson
The efficient cross-validation of principal components applied to principal component regression

No. 131
Adam Crisp and Jim Burridge
A note on nonregular likelihood functions in heterosecdastic regression models.

No. 132
Robert G. Cowell
Decision networks: A formulation for multistage decision problems.

No. 133
A.P. Dawid
Distributive Block Structures: Mathematical Properties

No. 134
Valerie Isham
Stochastic Models of Host-Macroparasite Interaction

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