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DR ANDREW PETER ROBINSON



Contact Details

Organization: Mathematics and Statistics
Position: SENIOR LECTURER IN STATISTICS
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Homepage: http://ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr
Work: 8344 9763
Fax: 8344 4599
Room: 204
Level: 02
Building: Richard Berry Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Applied Statistics Forest Biometrics Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States University of Idaho Research
United States University of Wisconsin Research
United States Washington State University Research
Canada University of British Columbia Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United States Yale University Research
Australia Monash University Research
United States University of Maine Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United States Humboldt State University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor University of Minnesota 13-Nov-1998
Masters of Science (Statistics) University of Minnesota 13-Nov-1997
Masters of Science (Forestry) University of Minnesota 13-Nov-1997
Bachelor of Science in Statistics University of Melbourne 13-Nov-1987

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Statistical Analysis of Some Partially Observed Processes Arising in Ecological Research Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007
CRITICAL PERIOD ANALYSIS USING SEGMENTED REGRESSION AND MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD - MELBOURNE EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER GRANT SCHEME 2006 Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Early Career Researcher Grants Scheme

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A hierarchical analysis of stand structure, composition, and burn patterns as indicators of stand age in an Engelmann spruce -- subalpine fir forest.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Canadian Journal of Forest Research
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 884-894
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  • A validation and evaluation of the Prognosis individual-tree basal area increment model
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Canadian Journal of Forest Research
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 1438-1449
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  • Description and test of a simple process-based model of forest growth for mixed-species stands
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Ecological Modelling
    Volume: 203
    Issue: 3-4
    Page numbers: 297-311
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  • The impact of time and field conditions on brown bear (Ursus arctos) faecal DNA amplification
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Conservation Genetics
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1219-1224
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • A multi-species comparison of delta-13C from whole wood, extractive-free wood and holocellulose
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Tree Physiology
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 767-774
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  • Critical period of interspecific competition for four northern conifers: 10-year growth response and associated vegetation dynamics.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Canadian Journal of Forest Research
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 2474-2485
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  • Spatial patterns on the sagebrush steppe/Western juniper ecotone
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Plant Ecology
    Volume: 2006
    Issue: 4 Sept
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A Bayesian strategy for combining predictions from empirical and process-based models
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Ecological Modelling
    Volume: 190
    Page numbers: 287-298
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  • A regression-based equivalence test for model validation: shifting the burden of proof.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Tree Physiology
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 903-913
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  • Estimating leaf-level parameters for ecosystem process models: a study in mixed conifer canopies on complex terrain
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Tree Physiology
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 1347-1359
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  • Marine nitrogen in central Idaho riparian forests: evidence from stable isotopes
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
    Volume: 62
    Page numbers: 518-526
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  • On the validation of models of forest CO2 exchange using eddy covariance data: some perils and pitfalls
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Tree Physiology
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 839-857
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Design, Performance and Evaluation of Experiments
    Year: 2004
    Book: Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences
    Publisher: Elsevier(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • A cautionary note on scaling variables that appear only in products in ordinary least squares
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Forest Biometry, Modelling and Information Sciences
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 83-90
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  • Improving taper equations of loblolly pine with crown dimensions by accommodating correlated errors and assessing explainable variation in a mixed-effects modeling framework.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Forest Science
    Volume: 50
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 204-212
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  • Imputing missing height measures using a mixed-effects modeling strategy
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Canadian Journal of Forest Research
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 2492-2500
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  • Model validation using equivalence tests
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Ecological Modelling
    Volume: 176
    Page numbers: 349-358
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  • Preserving correlation while modelling diameter distributions
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Canadian Journal of Forest Research
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 221-232
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  • The relationship between effective plant area index and Landsat spectral response across elevation, solar insolation, and spatial scales, in a northern Idaho forest
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Canadian Journal of Forest Research
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 465-480
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Bias in the mean tree model as a consequence of Jensen's inequality
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Forest Ecology and Management
    Volume: 186
    Issue: 1-3
    Page numbers: 373-380
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  • Criteria for comparing the adaptability of forest growth models
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Forest Ecology and Management
    Volume: 172
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 53-67
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  • Description and validation of a hybrid model of forest growth and stand dynamics for the Great Lakes region
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Ecological Modelling
    Volume: 170
    Page numbers: 73-104
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  • Effects of a simple plant morphological mutation on the arthropod community and the impacts of predators on a principal insect herbivore
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Oecologia
    Volume: 135
    Page numbers: 39-50
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  • Leaf area index inferred from solar beam transmission in mixed conifer forests on complex terrain.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
    Volume: 118
    Page numbers: 221-236
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  • Using the variagraph to test lack of fit of a parametric regression model without replication
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Communications In Statistics - Theory and Methods
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 733-745
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