Newcastle University

Research Interests

• Bayesian inference

• Bayes linear methods

• Design of experiments

• Bayesian time-series analysis and forecasting

• Statistical bioinformatics

• Interdisciplinary research and applied statistics

• Ansari K, Keaney N, Taylor I, Burns G, Farrow M. Muscle weakness, health status and frequency of exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Postgraduate Medical Journal 2012, 88, 372-376.
• Seddon YM, Farrow M, Guy JH, Edwards SA. Real time monitoring of finisher pig water consumption: Investigation at pen level. In: XVth International Society for Animal Hygiene Congress. 2011, Vienna, Austria.
• Wilson KJ, Farrow M. Bayes linear kinematics in the analysis of failure rates and failure time distributions. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability 2010, 224(4), 309-321.
• Farrow M, Goldstein M. Sensitivity of decisions with imprecise utility trade-off parameters using boundary linear utility. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 2010, 51(9), 1100-1113.
• Sieniawski M, Farrow M, Zhao X, Wilkinson J, Mainou-Fowler T, White J, MacIntyre J, Proctor SJ. A Novel Bayesian Prognostic Index for Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma: A New Powerful Tool for Prediction Of Outcome. In: Blood: 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology. 2009, New Orleans, LA: American Society of Hematology.
• Farrow M, Goldstein M. Almost Pareto decision sets in imprecise utility hierarchies. In: P Coolen-Schrijner; F Coolen; M Troffaes; T Augustin; S Gupta, ed. Imprecision in Statistical Theory and Practice. Greensboro, USA: Grace Scientific Publishing, 2009, pp.153-171.
• Farrow M, Goldstein M. Almost-Pareto decision sets in imprecise utility hierarchies. Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice 2009, 3(1), 137-155.
• Farrow M, Goldstein M. Boundary linear utility and sensitivity of decisions with imprecise utility trade-off parameters. In: Sixth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications. 2009, Durham, UK: Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications.
• Ansari K, Shamssain M, Farrow M, Keaney NP. Hospital-at-Home care for exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an observational cohort study of patients managed in hospital or by nurse practitioners in the community. Chronic Respiratory Disease 2009, 6(2), 69-74.
• Moses J, Farrow M. Tests for consistent measurement of external subjective software quality attributes. Empirical Software Engineering 2008, 13(3), 261-287.
• Cowburn GJ, Farrow M. Mixtures and diagnostic plots in modelling road traffic vehicle headways. Statistical Modelling 2007, 7(1), 73-89.
• Ansari K, Shamssain M, Keaney NP, Burns G, Farrow M. Predictors of quality of life in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with different frequency of exacerbations. Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences 2007, 23(4), 490-496.
• Oakes MP, Farrow M. Use of the chi-squared test to examine vocabulary differences in English language corpora representing seven different countries. Literary and Linguistic Computing 2007, 22(1), 85-99.
• Moses J, Farrow M, Parrington N, Smith P. A productivity benchmarking case study using Bayesian credible intervals. Software Quality Journal 2006, 14(1), 37-52.
• Wolski WE, Farrow M, Emde A-K, Lehrach H, Lalowski M, Reinert K. Analytical model of peptide mass cluster centres with applications. Proteome Science 2006, 4(1), 18.
• Whiteley P, Waring R, Williams L, Klovrza L, Nolan F, Smith S, Farrow M, Dodou K, Lough WJ, Shattock P. Spot urinary creatinine excretion in pervasive developmental disorders. Pediatrics International 2006, 48(3), 292-297.
• Moses J, Farrow M. Assessing Variation in Development Effort Consistency Using a Data Source with Missing Data. Software Quality Journal 2005, 13(1), 71-89.
• Farrow M, Goldstein M. Trade-off sensitive experimental design: a multicriterion, decision theoretic, Bayes linear approach. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 2005, 136(2), 498-526.
• Moses J, Farrow M. A consideration of the variation in development effort consistency due to function points. In: 1st Software Measurement European Forum. 2004, Pharma Press Ltd: Istituto di Ricerca Internazionale, Rome.
• Harrison MC, Attenborough KA, Stirling D, Farrow M, Steele C. Eighteen months at the HELM. MSOR Connections 2004, 4(2), 31-34.
• Mandal K, Hildreth AJ, Farrow M, Allen D. Investigation into post operative endophthalmitis and lessons learned. Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery 2004, 30(9), 1960-1965.
• Moses J, Farrow M. A procedure for assessing the influence of problem domain on effort estimation consistency. Software Quality Journal 2003, 11(4), 283-300.
• Farrow M. Practical building of subjective covariance structures for large complicated systems. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D: The Statistician 2003, 52(4), 553-573.
• Blackburn J, Farrow M, Arthur W. Factors influencing the distribution, abundance and diversity of geophilomorph and lithobiomorph centipedes. Journal of Zoology 2002, 256(2), 221-232.
• Moses J, Farrow M, Smith P. Statistical Methods for Predicting and Improving Cohesion Using Information Flow: An Empirical Study. Software Quality Journal 2002, 10(1), 11-46.
• Fletcher EJ, Rast H, Farrow M, Ferri R. CHAMAN : An open system architecture to bring the benefits of supply chain logistics to small companies. In: 16th International Conference on Production Research ICPR-16, Prague 29th July - 3rd August 2001. 2001.
• Kendell K, Saxby B, Farrow M, Naisby C. Psychological factors associated with short-term recovery from total knee replacement. British Journal of Health Psychology 2001, 6(1), 41-52.