Staff Profile
Emeritus Professor Murray Aitkin
Emeritus Professor
- Email: murray.aitkin@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7228
- Personal Website: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/murray.aitkin/
Background
Roles and Responsibilities
- Head of Department's Committee.
- Statistics Research Committee.
Research
Research Interests
- Statistical Computing
- Likelihood Theory
- Generalised Linear Models
- Random Effect Models
- Finite Mixtures
- Kernel Density Estimation
- Neural Network Models
- Applications in the Social and Medical Sciences
Publications
- Aitkin M, Liu CC, Chadwick T. Bayesian model comparison and model averaging for small-area estimation. The Annals of Applied Statistics 2009, 3(1), 199-221.
- Aitkin M, Boys RJ, Chadwick TJ. Bayesian point null hypothesis testing via the posterior likelihood ratio. Statistics and Computing 2005, 15(3), 217-230.
- Aitkin M, Alfo M. Longitudinal analysis of repeated binary data using autoregressive and random effect modelling. Statistical Modelling 2003, 3(4), 291-303.
- Alfo M, Aitkin M. Random coefficient models for binary longitudinal responses with attrition. Statistics and Computing 2000, 10(4), 279-287.
- Aitkin M. A general maximum likelihood analysis of variance components in generalized linear models. Biometrics 1999, 55(1), 117-128.
- O'Sullivan JJ, Derrick G, Griggs P, Foxall R, Aitkin M, Wren C. Ambulatory blood pressure in schoolchildren. Archives of Disease in Childhood 1999, 80(6), 529-532.
- Welfare MR, Aitkin M, Bassendine MF, Daly AK. Detailed modelling of caffeine metabolism and examination of the CYP1A2 gene: Lack of a polymorphism in CYP1A2 in Caucasians. Pharmacogenetics 1999, 9(3), 367-376.
- Aitkin M. Meta-analysis by random effect modelling in generalized linear models. In: Statistics in Medicine. 1999.
- Aitkin M. The calibration of p-values, posterior Bayes factors and the AIC from the posterior distribution of the likelihood (with discussion and author's response). Statistics and Computing, 7, 253-272 1997.