Dr 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:
- Senior Lecturer, University of Otago
Previous
- Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University
Ph.D. Students
Current
- Heloise Pavanato (lead supervisor Richard Barker)
- Alastair Lamont (co-supervisor Richard Barker)
- Taylor Hamlin (co-supervisors Phil Seddon, Dean Anderson)
- 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)
Completed
- 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
- Anna Redmond, 2019
- Yu Yang, 2017
- Georgia Anderson, 2016
- Nick Gelling, 2016
- Alastair Lamont, 2015
Select Recent Publications
- 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
- Davies, T. M., Schofield, M. R., Cornwall, J., & Sheard, P. W. (2019). Modelling multilevel spatial behaviour in binary-mark muscle fibre configurations. Annals of Applied Statistics, 13(3), 1329-1347. doi: 10.1214/18-AOAS1214
- Barker, R. J., Schofield, M. R., Link, W. A., & Sauer, J. R. (2018). On the reliability of N-mixture models for count data. Biometrics, 74(1), 369-377. doi: 10.1111/biom.12734
- Bilton, T. P., Schofield, M. R., Black, M. A., Chagné, D., Wilcox, P. L., & Dodds, K. G. (2018). Accounting for errors in low coverage high-throughput sequencing data when constructing genetic maps using biparental outcrossed populations. Genetics, 209(1), 65-76. doi: 10.1534/genetics.117.300627
Supplementary Files
- Supplementary files for some of my published papers can be found on my resource page
