Thomas Lumley (statistician)

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Thomas Lumley is an Australian statistician who serves as the chair of biostatistics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. [1] Lumley is also a member of the "R Core Team." [2]

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He was elected as a fellow of the ASA (American Statistical Association) in 2012. [3] Lumley was also elected a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2015. [4]

Education

Lumley received his Bachelors of Science at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia in 1991, [5] a Masters of Science in Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom in 1993, [5] and his Ph.D. in Biostatistics at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington in 1998. [5]

Work

Lumley is a professor of statistics at the University of Auckland where he researches regression modelling, clinical trials, semiparametric inference, statistical computing, foundations, and genomics. [5] His statistics publications are commonly cited in the statistics and biostatistics fields. He makes contributions to R as a member of the R Core Team [2] and contributes to the StatsChat blog. [6]

Awards

Notable works

Some of Lumley's notable publications from 2019 include:

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References

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  7. Holbrook, Andrew; Lumley, Thomas; Gillen, Daniel (2020). "Estimating prediction error for complex samples". Canadian Journal of Statistics. 48 (2): 204–221. arXiv: 1711.04877 . doi:10.1002/cjs.11527. ISSN   1708-945X. S2CID   55884368.
  8. Chen, Tong; Lumley, Thomas (1 November 2019). "Numerical evaluation of methods approximating the distribution of a large quadratic form in normal variables". Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 139: 75–81. doi:10.1016/j.csda.2019.05.002. ISSN   0167-9473. S2CID   164691322.
  9. Lumley, Thomas (2 October 2019). "Fast Generalized Linear Models by Database Sampling and One-Step Polishing". Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 28 (4): 1007–1010. doi:10.1080/10618600.2019.1610312. ISSN   1061-8600. S2CID   54968117.