Professor Alan Welsh
ANU College of Business and Economics
Areas of expertise
- Conservation And Biodiversity 050202
- Terrestrial Ecology 060208
- Wildlife And Habitat Management 050211
- Plasma Physics; Fusion Plasmas; Electrical Discharges 020204
- Probability Theory 010404
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics 040403
- Vision Science 111303
- Statistical Theory 010405
- Behavioural Ecology 060201
- Stochastic Analysis And Modelling 010406
- Applied Statistics 010401
- Landscape Ecology 050104
- Geodesy 090902
- Computer Vision 080104
- Statistics 0104
Publications
- Lindenmayer, D, Welsh, A, Donnelly, C et al 2009, 'Are nest boxes a viable alternative source of cavities for hollow-dependent animals? Long-term monitoring of nest box occupancy, pest use and attrition', Biological Conservation, vol. 142, no. 1, pp. 33-42.
- Salim, A & Welsh, A 2009, 'Designing 2-Phase Prevalence Studies in the Absence of a Gold Standard Test', American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 170, no. 3, pp. 369-378.
- Muller, S & Welsh, A 2009, 'Robust model selection in generalized linear models', Statistica Sinica, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 1155 - 1170.
- Field, C, Pang, Z & Welsh, A 2008, 'Bootstrapping data with multiple levels of variation', Canadian Journal of Statistics, vol. 36, pp. 521-539.
- Shen, C, Welsh, A & Wang, L 2008, 'PSDBoost: Matrix-generation Linear Programming for Positive Semidefinite Matrices Learning', Conference on Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2008), ed. Daphne Koller, Yoshua Bengio, Dale Schuurmans, Leon Bottou, and Aron Culotta, MIT Press, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 1473-1480.
- Lindenmayer, D, MacGregor, C, Welsh, A et al 2008, 'The use of hollows and dreys by the common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) in different vegetation types', Australian Journal of Zoology, vol. 56, pp. 1-11.
- Lindenmayer, D, MacGregor, C, Welsh, A et al. 2008, 'Contrasting mammal responses to vegetation type and fire', Wildlife Research, vol. 35, pp. 395-408.
- Rapley, V & Welsh, A 2008, 'Model-based adaptive cluster sampling', Bayesian Analysis, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 717-736.
- Pang, Z & Welsh, A 2007, 'Maximum likelihood inference of clustered data', Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute: Proceedings of the Biennial Sessions, vol. 56th Session: Lisbon 2007.
- Field, C & Welsh, A 2007, 'Bootstrapping clustered data', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 369-390.
- Welsh, A & Zhou, X 2006, 'Estimating the retransformed mean in a heteroscedastic two-part model', Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, vol. 136, pp. 860-881.
- Welsh, A 2006, 'Discussion of " Semi-mechanistic modelling in nonlinear regression: A case study"', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 403-404.
- Welsh, A & Yee, T 2006, 'Local regression for vector responses', Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, vol. 136, pp. 3007-3031.
- Mansson, R, Welsh, A, Fey, N et al 2006, 'Statistical Modeling of a Ligand Knowledge Base', Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, vol. 46, pp. 2591-2600.
- Welsh, A 2005, 'Bootstrapping in Clustered Populations', Session of the International Statistical Institute 2005, ed. Dennis Trewin, International Statistical Institute, Sydney NSW, Australia, pp. 1-4.
- Mansson, R, Frey, J, Essex, J et al 2005, 'Prediction of properties from simulations: a re-examination with modern statistical methods', Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, vol. 45, pp. 1791-1803.
- Welsh, A & Melville, G 2005, 'Response to the reader reaction of Fewster, Laake and Buckland', Biometrics, vol. 61, pp. 859-861.
- Mueller, G & Welsh, A 2005, 'Robust Model Selection in Linear Regression Models', Session of the International Statistical Institute 2005, ed. Dennis Trewin, International Statistical Institute, Sydney NSW, Australia, pp. 1-2.
- Welsh, A & Robinson, J 2005, 'Fisher and inference for scores', International Statistical Review, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 131-150.
- Welsh, A, Mansson, R, Frey, J et al 2005, 'Statistical analysis of second harmonic generation experiments: a phenomological model', Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, vol. 75, pp. 45-54.
- Cunningham, R, Lindenmayer, D, MacGregor, C et al 2005, 'Effects of trap position, trap history, microhabitat and season on capture probabilities of small mammals in a wet eucalypt forest', Wildlife Research, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 657-671.
- Mueller, G & Welsh, A 2005, 'Outlier Robust Model Selection in Linear Regression', Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 100, no. 472, pp. 1297-1310.
- Lin, X, Wang, N, Welsh, A et al 2004, 'Equivalent kernels of smoothing splines in nonparametric regression for clustered/longitudinal data', Biometrika, vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 177-193.
- Welsh, A & Barry, S 2002, 'Generalised additive modelling and zero inflated count data', Ecological Modelling, vol. 157, pp. 179-188.
- Welsh, A & Ronchetti, E 2002, 'A journey in single steps: robust one-step $M$- estimation in linear regression.', Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, vol. 103, pp. 287-310.
- Welsh, A 2002, 'Incomplete detection in enumeration surveys: Whither distance sampling?', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 13-22.
- Welsh, A, Lin, X & Carroll, R 2002, 'Marginal longitudinal nonparametric regression: Locality and efficiency of spline and kernel methods', Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 97, no. 458, pp. 482-493.
- Chen, L & Welsh, A 2002, 'Distribution-Function-Based Bivariate Quantiles', Journal of Multivariate Analysis, vol. 83, pp. 208-231.
- Chen, L, Welsh, A & Chan, W 2001, 'Estimators for the linear regression model based on Winsorized observations', Statistica Sinica, vol. 11, pp. 147-172.
- Melville, G & Welsh, A 2001, 'Line transect sampling in small regions', Biometrics, vol. 57, pp. 1130-1137.
- Barry, S & Welsh, A 2001, 'Distance sampling methodology', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, vol. 63, pp. 31-53.
- Dobbie, M & Welsh, A 2001, 'Models for zero-inflated count data using the Neyman type A distribution', Statistical Modelling: An International Journal, vol. 1, pp. 65-80.
- Lindenmayer, D, Cunningham, R, Donnelly, C et al. 2001, 'How effective is spotlighting for detecting the greater glider (Petauroides volans)?', Wildlife Research, vol. 28, pp. 105-109.
- Law, V & Welsh, A 2001, 'Robust estimation of the generalised Pareto distribution', Extremes, vol. 4, pp. 53-65.
- Dobbie, M & Welsh, A 2001, 'Modelling Correlated zero-inflated count data', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, vol. 43, pp. 431-444.
- Kuk, A & Welsh, A 2001, 'Robust estimation for finite populations based on a working model', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, vol. 63, pp. 277-292.
- Ruckstuhl, A & Welsh, A 2001, 'Robust fitting of the binomial model', Annals of Statistics, vol. 29, pp. 1117-1136.
- Hall, P, Melville, G & Welsh, A 2001, 'Bias correction and bootstrap methods for a spatial sampling scheme', Bernoulli, vol. 7, pp. 829-846.
- Welsh, A, Cunningham, R & Chambers, R 2000, 'Methodology for estimating the abundance of rare animals: seabird nesting on North East Hearld Cay', Biometrics, vol. 56, pp. 22 - 30.
- Ruckstuhl, A, Welsh, A & Carroll, R 2000, 'Nonparametric function estimation of the relationship between two repeatedly measured variables', Statistica Sinica, vol. 10, pp. 51 - 71.
- Stern, S & Welsh, A 2000, 'Likelihood inference for small variance components', Canadian Journal of Statistics, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 517 - 532.
- Maddess, T, Goldberg, I, Dobinson, J, Wine, S, Welsh, AH, James, AC 1999, 'Testing for Glaucoma with the spatial frequency doubling illusion', Vision Research, vol. 39, pp. 4258-4273.