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Statistics staff and students

• Statistics staff at USQ
• Current research students of statistics at USQ
• Recently completed research students of statistics at USQ

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Statistics staff at USQ

The current teaching staff in statistics are listed below. For more information about the research interests of each staff member, consult their personal web pages .

• Associate Professor:
  • Dr Shahjahan Khan
• Senior Lecturers:
  • Dr Ashley Plank (Currently the Statistics and Operations Research Coordinator)
  • Dr Jesus Lopez (Currently the Bioinformatics Coordinator)
  • Dr Peter Dunn
• Lecturers:
  • Paul Fahey
  • Christine McDonald
  • Dr Mingren Shi
  • Taryn Swan
• Part-Time or Temporary Staff
  • Anita Pelecanos

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Current research students of statistics at USQ

• PhD students
  • Azizur Rahman (Supervisor: Shahjahan Khan)
  • Andries Potgieter (PhD; Supervisors: Dr Armando Apan (FoES); Dr Peter Dunn; Dr Graeme Hammer (DPI))
• Master of Philosophy students:
  • Colin Carmichael (Supervisors: Dr Peter Dunn; Dr Janet Taylor)
  • Enamul Kabir (Supervisor: Shahjahan Khan)
• Honours students:
  • Anita Pelecanos (Supervisors: Christine McDonald; Dr Peter Dunn)

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Recently completed research students in statistics at USQ

• Taryn Swan (Hons, 2006)
  Supervisor: Dr Peter Dunn
  Topic: Generalized estimating equations for Tweedie glms
• Andrew Powierski (Hons, 2004)
  Supervisor: Dr Peter Dunn
  Topic: Statistical evaluation of data from tractor guidance systems
• Zahirul Hoque (PhD, 2004)
  Supervisor: A/P Shahjahan Khan; Dr Ashley Plank
  Topic:
• Daniel Burrell (Hons, 2003)
  Supervisor: Dr Peter Dunn
  Topic: Quantile deviance
• Sarah Lennox (Hons, 2002)
  Supervisor: Dr Peter Dunn
  Topic: A statistical analysis of rainfall
• Colin Carmichael (Hons, 2002)
  Supervisors: Dr Ashley Plank; Paul Fahey< Topic: Item Response Theory and its application to the analysis of introductory statistics examination items
• Laurie Kanizaj (Hons, 2001)
  Supervisors: Dr Peter Dunn; Dr Ashley Plank
  Topic: A study of generalized linear models with an application to modelling soccer scores.
• Craig Nicholas (Hons, 2001)
  Supervisor: Dr Ashley Plank
  Topic: Bootstrap confidence intervals

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