Dr Judi McWhirter
Lecturer

Research Interests

Statistical modelling; symbolic computation; time series.

Dr J (Judi) McWhirter MSocSc Waikato

Room: G3.29

Phone +64 7 838 4774

Fax +64 7 838 4155

judi@stats.waikato.ac.nz

Judi is a Lecturer in the Department of Statistics. She joined the Department as a Junior Lecturer in 1985, taking up the position of Lecturer from 1990. Judi has recently fulfilled the requirements of a DPhil. Her thesis discusses Modelling Pulsatile Data. Judi is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the New Zealand Statistical Association.

Research

Statistical modelling particularly of pulsatile time series using numerical techniques and EM algorithm for parameter estimation.

Publication

Bolstad, W.M., Hunt, L.A., McWhirter, J.L. (2001). ‘Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll Survey in a First-Year Service course in Statistics’, American Statistician, 55, No. 2, 145-149.

Analysing Hormone Profiles with Pulses, New Zealand Statistician 24 (1989): 50-56 (with R P Littlejohn, H V Henderson, J F Thompson, G W Montgomery and K L MacMillan).


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