The reports below have been produced by members of the Statistics Department in 2011.

In addition to these reports, a great deal of the work of the Statistics Department is published annually in the Proceedings of the Leeds Annual Statistics Research Workshop (LASR). Please see the LASR website for past proceedings.

Reports from 2010.

STAT11-01
Shrinkage estimation with a matrix loss function
Reman Abu-Shanab, John T. Kent and William E. Strawderman
[Abstract] [pdf]

STAT11-02
Validating protein structure using kernel density estimates
Charles C. Taylor, Kanti V. Mardia, Marco Di Marzio, and Agnese Panzera
[Abstract] [pdf]

STAT11-03
Dirichlet process mixture model with applications to bioinformatics
Kanti V. Mardia, John T. Kent, Zhengzheng Zhang and Charles C. Taylor
[Abstract] [pdf]

STAT11-04
Exploratory data analysis with applications to bioinformatics
Kanti V. Mardia, John T. Kent, Zhengzheng Zhang and Charles C. Taylor
[Abstract] [pdf]

STAT11-05
Some fundamental properties of multivariate von Mises distributions
Kanti V. Mardia and Jochen Voss
[Abstract] [pdf]

STAT11-06
The effect of finite element discretisation on the stationary distribution of SPDEs
Jochen Voss
[Abstract] [pdf]