Previous PhD students

Members of the Statistics and Data Science Group have supervised a number of PhD students over the years.

A list of those students who have submitted theses to the University repository are below. (Some have not done this and they are not listed here.)

• Robert Millar (2024). Tail risk and uncertainty in financial markets. Supervisor: Jinglai Li.
• Yuyue Liao (2023). Investigating prediction performance on regressions models using methods with multiple decision trees. Supervisor: Hui Li.
• Mohammed Hussein Hassan Baragilly (2016). Clustering multivariate and functional data using spatial rank functions. Supervisor: Biman Chakraborty.
• Hend Mohammed Kamel Mohammed Gabr (2016). Investigating poverty and labour force participation among older population in Egypt: a multilevel simultaneous equations modeling approach. Supervisor: Hui Li.
• Olusola Makinde (2015). On some classification methods for high dimensional and functional data. Supervisor: Biman Chakraborty.
• Christopher Partlett (2015). Asymmetry and other distributional properties in medical research data. Supervisor: Richard Riley.
• Yousef Fayz Alharbi (2013). Error variance estimation in nonparametric regression models. Supervisor: Prakash Patil.
• Pritha Guha (2012). On scale-scale curves for multivariate data based on rank regions. Supervisor: Biman Chakraborty.
• Ghada Mohammed Abdallah Abo-Zaid (2011). Individual patient data meta-analysis of prognostic factor studies. Supervisor: Richard Riley.
• Dimitrios Ioannis Bagkavos (2003). Bias reduction in nonparametric hazard rate estimation. Supervisor: Prakash Patil.