Thomas Lumley is an Australian statistician who serves as the chair of
biostatistics
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at the
University of Auckland
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, established = 1883; years ago
, endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021)
, budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021)
, chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant
, vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...
in New Zealand. Lumley is also a member of the "R Core Team."
He was elected as a fellow of the
ASA
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(American Statistical Association) in 2012.
Lumley was also elected a fellow of the
Royal Society of New Zealand in 2015.
Education
Lumley received his Bachelors of Science at
Monash University
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in Melbourne, Australia in 1991,
a Masters of Science in Applied Statistics at the
University of Oxford
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, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
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in Oxford, United Kingdom in 1993,
and his Ph.D. in Biostatistics at the
University of Washington
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in Seattle, Washington in 1998.
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.
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
and contributes to the StatsChat blog.
Awards
* Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship from 1995 to 1998
* Donovan J Thompson Award for Academic Excellence in Biostatistics in 1996
* Best Oral Presentation at Biometric Society Student Paper Competition in 1997
* Gertrude Cox Award for contributions to Statistical Practice in 2008
* Elected as an ASA Fellow in 2012
* Elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2015
Notable works
Some of Lumley's notable publications from 2019 include:
* ''Estimating prediction error for complex samples''
* ''Numerical evaluation of methods approximating the distribution of a large quadratic form in normal variables''
* ''Fast Generalized Linear Models by Database Sampling and One-Step Polishing''
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Australian statisticians
Academic staff of the University of Auckland