Dr Tilman Davies
Senior Lecturer
Mathematics & Statistics
Otago University
New Zealand
Biography
Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (BCM) 2007. Double major in Applied Statistics and German, University of Western Australia (Perth). Bachelor of Science Honours (BScHons) 2008. First-class Honours in Statistics. Massey University New Zealand (Palmerston North). Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) 2012. Spatial and Spatiotemporal Point Process Modelling in Epidemiology, Massey University New Zealand (Palmerston North). Accredited Statistician (AStat) 2016. Statistical Society of Australia Inc. (SSAI Canberra).
Research Interest
I'm primarily interested in the applied modelling of planar point patterns in space and space-time. Recent collaborations have also piqued an interest in identifying and fitting appropriate regression models for various biostatistical applications.
Publications
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Davies TM, Sheard PW, Cornwall J (2016) Letter to the Editor: Comment on Makino et al. and observations on spatial modeling, Anatomical Science International 91 4 423-424.
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Davies TM, Jones K, Hazelton ML (2016) Symmetric adaptive smoothing regimens for estimation of the spatial relative risk function, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 101 12-28.
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Davies TM (2016) The Book of R: A First Course in Programming and Statistics No Starch Press, San Francisco, USA; 832pp.
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Davies TM, Baddeley A (2017) Fast computation of spatially adaptive kernel estimates, Statistics and Computing {to appear}.
