Rana Moyeed

Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Operational Research, School of Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Technology)
Address: A306, Portland Square, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +441752586856
Email: R.Moyeed@plymouth.ac.uk

Qualifications & background

I have been at the University of Plymouth since October 1996. Before joining Plymouth , I held posts at various institutions including Lancaster University (1991-96), the University of Bath (1990-91) and the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam (1988-90).

I obtained my BSc (Hons) and MSc degrees in Statistics from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. I was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship in 1983 to study for a PhD at the University of Bath in the UK. I received my degree in 1986 for a thesis entitled “A Study of Smoothing Spline Regression”.

Professional membership

I am a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

Teaching interests

Bayesian Methods

Statistical Modelling

Statistical Inference

Case Studies in Operational Research

Research interests

Spatial statistics, Bayesian modelling, Smoothing methods and Computational statistics

Current PhD students (for whom I am the Director of Studies):

1. Golnaz Shahtahmassebi: Financial Statistics

2. Alan Wright: Statistical Genetics

3. Neil Rice: Statistical Epidemiology in Oral Health

Research group membership:

Centre for Health and Environmental Statistics (CHES)

Conference Papers

O'Sullivan, PE., Moyeed, R., Cooper, MC. & Nicholson, MJ. (2002) 'Comparison between instrumental, observational and high resolution proxy sedimentary records of Late Holocene climatic change - a discussion of possibilities' 4th European Lake Drilling Programme Workshop (ELDP). UNIV LUND, LUND, SWEDEN PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD pp 27 - 44

Papritz, A. & Moyeed, RA. (2001) 'Parameter uncertainty in spatial prediction: Checking its importance by cross-validating the Wolfcamp and Rongelap data sets' in Monestiez P,Allard D,Froidevaux R (ed.) 3rd European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications. Avignon, FRANCE 22/11/2000 - 24/11/2000 SPRINGER pp 369 - 380

Journals

Articles

Thompson, P., Cai, YZ., Moyeed, R., Reeve, D. & Stander, J. (2010) 'Bayesian nonparametric quantile regression using splines' COMPUT STAT DATA AN 54 (4), pp 1138 - 1150 , DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.09.004

Hay, SI., Guerra, CA., Gething, PW., Patil, AP., Tatem, AJ., Noor, AM., Kabaria, CW., Manh, BH., Elyazar, IR., Brooker, S., Smith, DL., Moyeed, RA. & Snow, RW. (2009) 'A world malaria map: Plasmodium falciparum endemicity in 2007.' PLoS Med 6 (3), p e1000048 , DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000048

Clements, ACA., Moyeed, R. & Brooker, S. (2006) 'Bayesian geostatistical prediction of the intensity of infection with Schistosoma mansoni in East Africa' Parasitology 133, pp 711 - 719

Brooker, S., Alexander, N., Geiger, S., Moyeed, RA., Stander, J., Fleming, F., Hotez, PJ., Correa-Oliveira, R. & Bethony, J. (2006) 'Contrasting patterns in the small-scale heterogeneity of human helminth infections in urban and rural environments in Brazil' International Journal for Parasitology 36 (10-11), pp 1143 - 1151

Kent, M., Moyeed, RA., Reid, CL., Pakeman, R. & Weaver, R. (2006) 'Geostatistics, spatial rate of change analysis and boundary detection in plant ecology and biogeography' Progress in Physical Geography 30 (2), pp 201 - 231

Alexander, N., Lenhart, A., Villegas, E., Levy, M., Moyeed, R., Kroeger, A. & Mccall, PJ. (2006) 'Spatial analysis of spill-over effects of insecticide-treated materials in a cluster-randomized trial against Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Trujillo, Venezeula' American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 75 (5), pp 177 - 177

Jones, MD., Leng, MJ., Roberts, CN., Turkes, M. & Moyeed, R. (2005) 'A coupled calibration and modelling approach to the understanding of dry-land lake oxygen isotope records' Journal of Paleolimnology 34 (3), pp 391 - 411

Moyeed, RA. & Clarke, RT. (2005) 'The use of Bayesian methods for fitting rating curves, with case studies' Advances in Water Resources 28 (8), pp 807 - 818

Alexander, ND., Moyeed, RA., Hyun, PJ., Dimber, ZB., Bockarie, MJ., Stander, J., Grenfell, BT., Kazura, JW. & Alpers, MP. (2003) 'Spatial variation of Anopheles-transmitted Wuchereria bancrofti and Plasmodium falciparum infection densities in Papua New Guinea.' Filaria J 2 (1), p 14 , DOI: 10.1186/1475-2883-2-14

Moyeed, RA. & Papritz, A. (2002) 'An empirical comparison of kriging methods for nonlinear spatial point prediction' Mathematical Geology 34 (4), pp 365 - 386

Diggle, P., Moyeed, R., Rowlingson, B. & Thomson, M. (2002) 'Childhood malaria in the Gambia: a case-study in model-based geostatistics' Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C-Applied Statistics 51, pp 493 - 506

O'Sullivan, PE., Moyeed, R., Nicholson, MJ. & Cooper, MC. (2002) 'Comparison between instrumental, observational and high resolution proxy sedimentary records of Late Halocene climatic change on the Atlantic seaboard of Europe - a discussion of possibilities.' Quarternary International 88, pp 27 - 44

Graham, DI. & Moyeed, RA. (2002) 'How many particles for my Lagrangian simulations?' Powder Technology 125 (2-3), pp 179 - 186

Zhao, HX., Moyeed, RA., Stenhouse, EA., Demaine, AG. & Millward, BA. (2002) 'Space-time clustering of childhood Type 1 diabetes in Devon and Cornwall, England' Diabetic Medicine 19 (8), pp 667 - 672

Zhao, HX., Moyeed, RA., Stenhouse, EA., Demaine, AG. & Millward, BA. (2002) 'Space-time clustering of childhood Type 1 diabetes in Devon and Cornwall, England.' Diabet Med 19 (8), pp 667 - 672

Yu, KM. & Moyeed, RA. (2001) 'Bayesian quantile regression' Statistics & Probability Letters 54 (4), pp 437 - 447

Alexander, N., Moyeed, R. & Stander, J. (2000) 'Spatial modelling of individual-level parasite counts using the negative binomial distribution.' Biostatistics 1 (4), pp 453 - 463 , DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/1.4.453

Zhao, HX., Stenhouse, E., Moyeed, R., Demaine, AG. & Millward, BA. (1999) 'Space-time clustering of childhood diabetes at diagnosis in Devon and Cornwall, England' DIABETOLOGIA 42, pp A87 - A87

Diggle, PJ., Tawn, JA. & Moyeed, RA. (1998) 'Model-based geostatistics' J ROY STAT SOC C-APP 47, pp 299 - 326

Martinez, VJ., Pons-Borderia, MJ., Moyeed, RA. & Graham, MJ. (1998) 'Searching for the scale of homogeneity' MON NOT R ASTRON SOC 298 (4), pp 1212 - 1222

BADDELEY, AJ., MOYEED, RA., HOWARD, CV. & BOYDE, A. (1993) 'ANALYSIS OF A 3-DIMENSIONAL POINT PATTERN WITH REPLICATION' APPL STAT-J ROY ST C 42 (4), pp 641 - 668

LEURGANS, SE., MOYEED, RA. & SILVERMAN, BW. (1993) 'CANONICAL CORRELATION-ANALYSIS WHEN THE DATA ARE CURVES' J ROY STAT SOC B MET 55 (3), pp 725 - 740

MOYEED, RA. & BADDELEY, AJ. (1991) 'STOCHASTIC-APPROXIMATION OF THE MLE FOR A SPATIAL POINT PATTERN' SCAND J STAT 18 (1), pp 39 - 50

ROBINSON, T. & MOYEED, R. (1989) 'MAKING ROBUST THE CROSS-VALIDATORY CHOICE OF SMOOTHING PARAMETER IN SPLINE SMOOTHING REGRESSION' COMMUN STAT THEORY 18 (2), pp 523 - 539

Hay, SI., Guerra, CA., Gething, PW., Patil, AP., Tatem, AJ., Noor, AM., Kabaria, CW., Manh, BH., Elyazar, IRF., Brooker, S., Smith, DL., Moyeed, RA. & Snow, RW. 'A World Malaria Map: Plasmodium falciparum Endemicity in 2007' PLoS Medicine 6 (3),

Thompson, P., Cai, Y., Moyeed, RA., Reeve, D. & Stander, J. 'Bayesian nonparametric quantile regression' Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 54, pp 1138 - 1150

Ricketts, C. & Moyeed, RA. 'Improving progress test score estimation using Bayesian statistics' Medical Education 45, pp 570 - 577

Links

School of Computing and Mathematics

Centre for Health and Environmental Statistics (CHES)

Statistics