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Martin
Hazelton's Personal Webpage About Me Hello and welcome to my webpage. I am Professor of Statistics and Chair of the Statistics Group in the Institute of Fundamental Sciences at Massey University's Manawatu campus in Palmerston North, New Zealand. For Current Massey Students For information on papers that I currently teach, follow the links (by paper code) under the Teaching heading in the panel on the left. If you are looking for advice on which statistics paper(s) to take, then feel free to contact me. If you are considering doing Honours or a PhD in Statistics and think that you might like to be supervised by me, then read about my research below. About My Research I have two major strands to my research - smoothing methods, and statistical modelling and inference in transportation science. Smoothing Methods I have long been interested in kernel smoothing problems, and in particular spatially adaptive methods for multivariate data. My current work in this area includes kernel estimation of relative risk functions in geographical epidemiology, with PhD students Sarojinie Fernando and Tilman Davies. Recently I have been working in collaboration with Berwin Turlach on weighted density esimation and kernel deconvolution problems. I have also become interested in constrained spline smoothing, again working in conjunction with Berwin. Statistical Modelling and Inference in Transportation Science Transportation science generates a huge range of fasinating problems. I'm currently focused on the development of new tools for inference in network based models, based on a unified statistical linear inverse framework. (This ties in with my work on deconvolution smoothing problems, which share the same kind of structure at an abstract level.) This research is supported by a New Zealand Royal Society Marsden Fund grant for 2009-2011, and is in conjunction with PhD student Katharina Parry. Biostatistics and Applied Statistics I have a keen interest in the development and application of statistical methods in medicine, particularly epidemiology and opthalmology. I am currently working with PhD student Brigid Betz-Stablein and Professor Bill Morgan (Lions Eye Institute, Western Australia) on some challenging statistical modelling problems for ophthalmic data collected from glaucoma patients. In addition to these medical areas, I have a general interest in the application of statistical methods. Indeed, one of the great things about working in statistics is that I've had the opportunity to look at a diverse range of intriguing problems from a wide variety of areas, from archaeology, to finance, to zoology. |
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