
Associate Professor Matthew Schofield
Office: Science III, room 237Phone: 479-7779
Email: matthew.schofield@otago.ac.nz
Research Interests
My research interests include
- Bayesian inference and hierarchical modeling
- Computational methodology
- Ecological statistics
- Environmental statistics
- Statistics in sports science
Professional Positions
Current:
- Associate Professor, University of Otago
Previous
- Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University
Ph.D. Students
Current
- Taylor Hamlin (co-supervisors Phil Seddon, Dean Anderson)
- Nicholas Daudt (lead supervisor Will Rayment, co-supervised by Robert Smith and Eric Woehler)
- Leah Crowe (lead supervisor Will Rayment)
- Zeki Huang (lead supervisor Russell Frew, co-supervised by Kiri McComb)
- Soundarya Karamcheti (lead supervisor Phil Bremer, co-supervised by Gale Brightwell)
- Matthew Strother (lead supervisor Ben Daniel; co-supervised by Katrina Sharples)
- Anna Redmond (lead supervisor Tilman Davies; co-supervised by Phil Sheard)
- Andy Pohl (University of Calgary)
- Alastair Lamont (co-supervisor Richard Barker)
Completed
- Heloise Pavanato (lead supervisor Richard Barker)
- Timothy Bilton (co-supervisors Ken Dodds, Mik Black)
- Paula Bran (lead supervisor Richard Barker)
- John Holmes (lead supervisor Richard Barker, co-supervised by Michael Lee and Ken Dodds)
Honours Students
- Josh Forward, 2021
- Vicky He, 2021
- Anna Redmond, 2019
- Yu Yang, 2017
- Georgia Anderson, 2016
- Nick Gelling, 2016
- Alastair Lamont, 2015
Select Recent Publications
- Pohl, A. J., Schofield, M. R., & Ferber, R. (2021). Comparing the performance of Bayesian and least-squares approaches for inverse kinematics problems. Journal of Biomechanics, 126, 110597. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2021.110597
- Holmes, J. B., Schofield, M. R., & Barker, R. J. (2021). Pólya‐gamma data augmentation and latent variable models for multivariate binomial data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/rssc.12528
- Schofield, M. R., Maze, M. J., Crump, J. A., Rubach, M. P., Galloway, R., & Sharples, K. J. (2021). On the robustness of latent class models for diagnostic testing with no gold standard. Statistics in Medicine. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/sim.8999
- Wang, T., Schofield, M., Bebbington, M., & Kiyosugi, K. (2020). Bayesian modelling of marked point processes with incomplete records: Volcanic eruptions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, 69(1), 109-130. doi: 10.1111/rssc.12380
- Efford, M. G., & Schofield, M. R. (2020). A spatial open-population capture-recapture model. Biometrics, 76, 394-402. doi: 10.1111/biom.13150
Supplementary Files
- Supplementary files for some of my published papers can be found on my resource page