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Presentations before 2002

• 1977 Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia
• 1981 Department of Statistics, Australian National University
• 1981 Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia
• 1982 Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia
• 1984 Australian Statistical Conference, Brisbane
• 1986 How to fit exponentials if you must, Program in Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara
• 1986 GLIM, Interest Group in Statistical Computing, University of California, Santa Barbara
• 1986 Department of Statistics, Australian National University
• 1986 Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia
• 1986 Joint Statistical Meetings, Chicago, USA
• 1987 Department of Statistics, Australian National University (twice)
• 1987 Department of Statistics, University of Sydney
• 1987 Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia
• 1987 When randomization fails: some lessons from the Minneapolis Spouse Abuse Experiment (with R.A. Berk), Joint Statistical Meetings, San Francisco, August 1987. (Invited talk)
• 1988 Department of Statistics, Oregon State University
• 1988 Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University
• 1988 Biometrics Unit, Cornell University
• 1988 Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh
• 1988 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
• 1988 Program in Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara
• 1989 Department of Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon University
• 1989 StatComp, Adelaide
• 1990 Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland
• 1990 Australia Statistical Conference, Sydney
• 1990 Some experiences in teaching consulting and data analysis, Third International Conference and Teaching Statistics, Dunedin, August 1990. (Invited talk)
• 1991 Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland
• 1991 StatComp~91, Coolangatta
• 1992 School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
• 1992 Australian Statistical Conference, Perth
• September 28, 1993 ``Analysis of residuals and REML estimation for Poisson-gamma generalized linear models.'' Statistics '93 (StatComp), Wollongong.
• December 1, 1993 ``Stochastic modelling of anthracnose in Stylosanthes scabra.'' Statistical Society of Australia, South Australian Branch.
• Informal seminar series on generalized linear models (2 hours), Department of Statistics, University of Adelaide, November 28 to December 5, 1993.
• Series of 7 talks on generalized linear models, Department Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, December 24, 1993, to February 5, 1994.
• March 29, 1994 ``Double generalized linear models and other thoughts on variance function estimation.'' School of Statistics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
• June 16, 1994 ``REML in generalized linear models: a conditional approach.'' 26th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
• 12th Australian Statistical Conference, Clayton, Victoria, 4--8 July 1994
• JMP Statistical Software. Workshop on PC Statistical Programs, Statistical Society of Australia, Queensland Branch. 6 July 1995, Brisbane.
• Overdispersion and Dependence. Statistical Society of Australia, South Australian Branch. 12 July 1995, Adelaide.
• Randomized Percentile Residuals. Joint Statistical Meetings. 15 August 1995, Orlando, Florida.
• What is Overdispersion? 31 August 1995, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota.
• A Stochastic Model for Disease Growth in a Tropical Pasture Legume. 8 September 1995, American Statistical Society, Red River Branch.
• What is Overdispersion? 10 October 1995, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia.
• What is Overdispersion? 12 October 1995, Department of Statistics, Simon Fraser University.
• JMP Statistical Software. 7 November 1995, Department of Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School.
• What is Overdispersion? 13 November 1995, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University.
• A Stochastic Model for Disease Growth in a Tropical Pasture Legume. 13 March 1996, Department of Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School.
• Dispersion Modelling in Non-normal Regression. 3 April 1996, Department of Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School.
• An Exact Conditional Interpretation for REML. 25 April 1996, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia.
• Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models. 23 May 1996, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia.
• What is Overdispersion? 10 June 1996, Department of Statistics, University of Hong Kong.
• Using S-Plus to Teach Data Analysis. 1 July 1996, Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland.
• Robust Frequency Estimation Using Elemental Sets. 9 July 1996, Sydney Statistical Congress, Sydney.
• Regression Analysis of Quantity Data with Exact Zeroes. 18 July 1996, Second Australia-Japan Workshop on Stochastic Models, Gold Coast.
• What is Overdispersion? 3 October 1996, Department of Mathematics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba.
• Using S-Plus to Teach Data Analysis. 23 October 1996, Biostatistics Discussion Group, University of Queensland.
• Using Minitab to Analyse Physiotherapy and Related Data. Department of Physiotherapy, University of Queensland. 10 March 1997, Brisbane.
• An Empirical Bayes Approach to Random Effects. Biometrics 97. 3 December 1997, Wirina, South Australia.
• An Empirical Bayes Approach to Random Effects. Statistical Society of Australia, Queensland Branch. 16 November 1998, Brisbane.
• An Empirical Bayes Approach to Random Effects. Department of Statistics and Demography, Odense University. 1 February 1999, Odense, Denmark.
• A Stochastic Model for Disease Growth in a Tropical Pasture Legume. Jutland's Society for Longitudinal Studies. 3 March 1999, Odense, Denmark.
• Extending Smoothing Splines to Non-Normal Data. Semi-parametric Study Group, Department of Statistics and Demography, Odense University. 23 March 1999, Odense.
• Double Generalized Linear Models: Approximate REML and Diagnostics. School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. 1 April 1999, Atlanta.
• Fitting Tweedie's Compound Poisson Model to Insurance Claims Data: Dispersion Modelling. 52nd Session of the International Statistical Institute, Helsinki 1999. 11 August 1999.
• Double Generalized Linear Models: Approximate REML and Diagnostics. Department of Theoretical Statistics, University of Århus. 30 September 1999, Århus.
• Double Generalized Linear Models: Approximate REML and Diagnostics. Biometrics Research Unit, Danish Institute for Agricultural Science. 1 December 1999, Foulum.
• Likelihood-Based Tests for Poisson Variation Against General Alternatives. 35th Symposium on the Interface: Computer Science and Statistics. 6 April 2000, New Orleans.
• Statistical Inferences from the EPA Ambient Water Data. Environmental Protection Agency, Indooroopilly, Queensland. 3 July September 2000, Brisbane.
• Statistical Inferences from the EPA Ambient Water Data. Statistical Society of Australia, South Australian Branch. 21 September 2000, Adelaide.
• REML. Biometrics SA. December 2000, Adelaide.
• Censored regression trend analyses for ambient water quality data. International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Odense, Denmark, 5 July 2001.
• Trend analyses for ambient water quality data. Australasian Biometrics Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 10 December 2001.

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