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Irene Kaimi

 

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Dr Irene Kaimi

  • Job title: Lecturer in Statistics, School of Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Technology)
  • Postal address: A301, Portland Square, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +441752586315
  • Email: irene.kaimi@plymouth.ac.uk


Role

Lecturer in Statistics  

Qualifications & background

PhD in Statistics    (2008).
 Thesis Topic: Spatial and Spatio-temporal Point Processes, Modelling and Estimation.
Lancaster University, Lancaster,  United Kingdom. 

MSc in Medical Statistics (with distinction)     (2004).
Lancaster University, Lancaster,  United Kingdom.
BSc in Mathematics and Statistics    (2003).
University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. 
  

Positions held

Visiting Academic (Lecturer)           (09/2010 to 05/2011).
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.

Honorary Visiting Lecturer              (09/2010 to 08/2013).
Department of Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.  

Research Associate                        (04/2009 to 08/2010).
Department of Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Research area: Spatio-temporal crime surveillance in Lancashire. 

Post-Doctoral Research Associate    (11/2007 to 03/2009).
Department of Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom. 
Research area: Spatio-temporal analysis of cattle movement data.

 

 

 


Teaching interests

Plymouth University
Mathematical Statistics   (MAST2402)
Skills in Marine Biological Investigation and Experimentation    (BIOL1008)

Quantitative Financial Modelling     (STAT208)


 Other  teaching

Linear Models II      (01/2011).
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus.

Statistical Analysis I   (09/2010 and 01/2011).
For students in the Faculty of Economics and Management,   University of Cyprus.

Member of the teaching team on  "Applied epidemiological methods learning support course:
Longitudinal data, time series and spatio-temporal analytical methods" (06/2010).
Department of Medicine, Lancaster University.

Co-lecturer of  the M.Sc. course on  Spatial Epidemiology  (01/2009 and 01/2010).
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University.

Lab demonstrator on  Model-based Geostatistics for practicioners (06/2009).
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University.

Posgraduate teaching assistant - Tutor for a number of undegraduate and postgraduate courses (10/2005 to 05/2007).
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University.


  


Research interests

Methods for the analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal point process data.

Time series of count data.

Environmental and biomedical applications including population growth and infectious diseases.

Social statistics.  


Publications


Kaimi, I. and  Diggle,  P.J. (2011).  A hierarchical model for real-time monitoring of variation in risk of non-specific gastrointestinal infections. Journal of  Epidemiology and  Infection (to appear).
Diggle, P.J., Kaimi, I.   and  Abellana, R.  (2010).  Partial-likelihood analysis of spatio-temporal point-process data.  Biometrics 66(2):  347-354.

Fokianos, K. and  Kaimi, I.  (2006).   On the effect of misspecifying the density ratio model. Annals of the Insitute of Statistical Mathematics.  58(3): 475-497. 


Conference presentations

Workshop on Integer Valued Time Series, Protaras, Cyprus.  (June 2011). 
Contributed talk:  Temporal epidemiology using AEGISS data. Hierarchical model to smooth daily incidence of food poisoning cases over time.

NCRM Research Methods Festival, Oxford, UK.      (July 2010). 
Contributed talk:  Modelling the spatio-temporal distribution of reported crime in Lancashire.

PASCAL2 Workshop on Spatio-temporal Modelling,   Edinburgh, UK    (October 2009).
Contributed talk: Analysing the spatio-temporal distribution of crime in Lancashire.

Technical Workshop: Recent developments and future directions in spatial and habitat modelling from cetacean  line transect and related data,  St. Andrews, UK (May 2008).
Invited talk: Bayesian Spatial Modelling of Line Transect Survey Data.

Workshop on Composite Likelihood Methods",   Warwick, UK  (April 2008).
Poster presentation: Partial Likelihood for Spatio-temporal Point Process Data. Awarded prize for best poster.

Probability and Statistics in Science and Technology", Porto, Portugal  (August 2007).
Poster presentation.

Valencia 8 ISBA World Meeting on Bayesian Statistics", Benidorm, Spain (June 2006).
Poster presentation.

Research Students' Conference in Probability and Statistics", Glasgow, UK (March 2006).
Contributed talk.