Chris Sherlock

I am a lecturer in medical statistics at Lancaster University.

Teaching 2009/2010

MATH461 (weeks 1-3; R and LaTeX components)
MATH460 (week 17 with project in week 18)
PSYCH402 (weeks 13-14,18-20)
BIOL421 (weeks 11-20)
useful web links, and data for chi-squared test.

Research

Research interests include the Markov Modulated Poisson Processes, optimal scaling for the random walk Metropolis, geostatistics, and mixed modelling. I am part based at the National Centre for Zoonosis Research where I collaborate on epidemiological projects. I also organise the computational statistics group.

Publications.

Other

During my PhD I found out a little about particle filters. Here is an introduction to the SIR and ASIR filters - an explanation for beginners.

Click here for an abbreviated CV, and here for other stuff.

last updated 9th Feb 2010