Dr Matthew Schofield

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)
• Timothy Bilton (co-supervisors Ken Dodds, Mik Black)
• Alastair Lamont (co-supervisor Richard Barker)
• Paula Bran (lead supervisor Richard Barker)

Completed

• John Holmes (lead supervisor Richard Barker, co-supervised by Michael Lee and Ken Dodds)

Honours Students

• Yu Yang, 2017
• Georgia Anderson, 2016
• Nick Gelling, 2016
• Alastair Lamont, 2015

Recent Publications

• Link, W. A., Schofield, M. R., Barker, R. J., & Sauer, J. R. (2018). On the robustness of N-mixture models. Ecology, 99(7), 1547-1551. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2362
• 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
• 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
• Schofield, M. R., Barker, R. J., & Gelling, N. (2018). Continuous-time capture—recapture in closed populations. Biometrics, 74(2), 626-635. doi: 10.1111/biom.12763
• Schofield, M. R., Barker, R. J., Gelman, A., Cook, E. R., & Briffa, K. R. (2016). A model-based approach to climate reconstruction using tree-ring data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 111(513), 93-106. doi: 10.1080/01621459.2015.1110524

Supplementary Files

• Supplementary files for some of my published papers can be found on my resource page