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Key facts
- The Statistics Group is one of the top 20 statistics groups in the country as evidenced by the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
- We have a small (typically 5) but excellent group of full-time research students, complemented by a number of part-timers.
Further information
If you have an enquiry specific to this research area please contact:
- Name:
- Sara Griffin
- Email:
- mcs-mathematics-enquiries@open.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)1908 659995
For general enquiries please contact the Research Degrees Team via the link under 'Your questions' further down the page.
Publications
Research publications by Open University staff are available through Open Research Online (ORO), the university's repository of research publications and other research outputs. ORO can be searched or browsed by staff name or subject.
The following list, generated from ORO, provides a flavour of the most recently published work in Statistics:
- Dallas, Nicola; Malone, Peter; Jones, Adam; Doggart, Andrew; McConway, Kevin and Rogers, Paul (2012). The results of real time brachytherapy for the management of low and intermediate risk prostate cancer in patients with prostate volumes up to 100 ml. BJU International (Early View).
- Farrington, Paddy; Unkel, Steffen and Anaya-Izquierdo, Karim (2012). The relative frailty variance and shared frailty models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 74(3), (in press).
- Jones, M. C. and Pewsey, Arthur (2012). Inverse Batschelet Distributions for Circular Data. Biometrics (Early View).
- Kato, Shogo and Jones, M. C. (2012). An extended family of circular distributions related to wrapped Cauchy distributions via Brownian motion. Bernoulli (In press).
- Noufaily, Angela and Jones, M. C. (2012). On maximization of the likelihood for the generalized gamma distribution. Computational Statistics (In Press).
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