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| Name: |
Prof. Tony Pettitt |
| Position: |
Head of the School of Mathematical Sciences |
| Qualifications: |
BSc (Hons)(Nott'm), MSc (Nott'm), PhD (Nott'm) |
| Organisational Area: |
Faculty of Science |
| Phone: |
+61 7 3138 2309 |
| Fax: |
+61 7 3138 2310 |
| Email: |
a.pettitt@qut.edu.au |
| Postal Address: |
School of Mathematical Sciences, QUT, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane Qld 4001 |
Areas of Expertise
- Mathematics and statistics
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Current Grants
- ARC Linkage 2003-2007 (with E Kozan, DLS McElwain, J Hay, A Morton, J Fleming & M Whitby) $997 000 Statistical and Mathematical modeling to improve health care outcomes in hospitals.
- ARC Linkage 2004 - 2007 (with R Henderson and V Vegh) $150 000 Motor Unit Numbers Estimation (MUNE) Using Bayesian Statistical Methodology for Monitoring of Progression of Neuromuscular Diseases
- ARC Linkage 2004 - 2007 (with G Ledwich, P O'Shea and E Palmer) $200 000 Reducing Blackout Risk through Live Modelling and Monitoring
- ARC Discovery Project 2005 - 2007 (with M Faddy) $348 000 Bayesian Statistical Inference for Implicitly defined Probability Models
- ARC Linkage 2006 - 2009 (with R Reeves) $ 225 000 Novel statistical analysis for traffic modelling
- ARC Discovery Project 2008 - 2010 (with G Ridall as APD, N Friel, R Henderson, P McCombe and J Blok) $450 000 Motor Unit Number Estimation
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Selected Research Projects
- Motor unit number estimation
- Statistical inference for transmission of pathogens and diseases
- Bayesian statistical computation
- Spatial statistics
- Statistical methods for quality in health
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Selected Publications
- Pettitt A N, Weir I S and Hart A (2002). A conditional autoregressive Gaussian process for irregularly spaced multivariate data. Statistics & Computing, 12, 353-368.
- Pettitt A N, Friel N, and Reeves R (2003). Efficient calculation of the normalizing constant of the autologistic and related models on the cylinder and lattice. J. R. Statist Soc B, 65, 235-246.
- Friel N and Pettitt A N (2003). Likelihood estimation and inference for the autologistic distribution. J Comp Graph Stats, 13, 232-246.
- Reeves R and Pettitt AN (2004). Efficient recursions for general factorisable models. Biometrika, 91, 751 – 757.
- Ridall PG, Pettitt AN, Friel N, Henderson R and McCombe P. (2005) A Bayesian method for motor unit number estimation (MUNE) for the tracking of amyotropic lateral sclerosis using reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo. 20th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Sydney Australia, July 10-15, 2005, pp 397-410.
- Pettitt AN, Tran MA, Haynes MA and Hay JL (2006). A Bayesian hierarchical model for categorical longitudinal data. J Roy Stat Soc Ser A, 169, 97-114.
- Ridall G, Pettitt AN, Henderson RD and McCombe PA. (2006). Motor unit number estimation, a Bayesian approach. Biometrics, 62, 1235-1250.
- Moller J, Pettitt AN, Reeves R and Berthelsen KK (2006). An efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo method for distributions with intractable normalising constants. Biometrika, 93, 451-458.
- Forrester M, Pettitt AN and Gibson G. (2007) Bayesian inference of hospital-acquired infections and control measures given imperfect surveillance data. Biostatistics, 8, 383-401.
- Ridall PG, Pettitt AN, Friel N, Henderson R and McCombe P. (2007) Motor unit number estimation using reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo. (accepted for Journal Royal Statistical Society Series C as a discussion paper, March 2006 and read on 29th November 2006).
- McBryde, E.S., McElwain, D.L.S. and Pettitt, A.N. (2007) Stochastic mathematical model of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission in an Intensive Care Unit: Predicting the impact of interventions. J Theoretical Biology, 245, 470-481.
- Webster, R.A. and Pettitt, A.N. (2007) Stability of approximations of Average run length of risk-adjusted CUSUM schemes. Comm in Stats - Simulation and Computation, 36, 471 - 482.
- McGrory, C.A. Titterington, D.M., Reeves, R. and Pettitt A.N. (2007) Variational Bayes for
Estimating the parameters of a Hidden Potts Model. (accepted for Statistics and Computing,
July 2007).
- Drovandi, C. C. and Pettitt, A.N. (2007) Multivariate Markov Process Models for the Transmission
of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in a Hospital ward. (accepted for
Biometrics, June 2007, published on-line doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00933.x).
- Skitmore, R.M. and Pettitt, A.N. and McVinish, R. (2007). Gates’ Bidding Model. J Con Eng Man.
11, 855-863.
- Friel, N. and Pettitt, A.N. (2008) Marginal likelihood estimation via power posteriors. J Royal
Statist Soc Ser B 70, 589-607.
- Clements, A., Halton, K., Graves, N., Pettitt, A., Morton, A., Looke, D. and Whitby, M. (2008)
Overcrowding and understaffing in modern health-care systems: key determinants in
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission. Lancet Infect Dis 8, 427-434.
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Current Postgraduate Students
| Name |
Project |
| C Hincksman (PhD) |
Bayesian modelling to account for biase in Multivariate Discrete Data . |
| D Ngweso (Masters) |
A review of the existing literature, and methodologies, of the statistical and mathematical syndromic surveillance of human diseases. |
| B Wu (PhD) |
Insight into Consumer Behaviour in the Telecommunication Industry using Statistical Data Mining Techniques: a case study of Telstra Consumer Customers. |
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