Dr Peter Hill
Honorary Lecturer

Research Interests

Optional design of regression experiments, Kernel diversity estimation, Normal ranges - reference ranges.

Dr P Hill (Peter) MSc Auck PhD Glasgow

Phone +64 7 856 1919

Fax +64 7 838 4155

pahill@wave.co.nz

Peter is an Honorary Lecturer for the Department and was formerly, from 1976 to 1986, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer. He is currently only actively involved in Statistics teaching at 1st year level.

Report for 1996

Lecturing & tutoring (as part of a team) a first year service course.

Publications

Contribution to discussion of paper read by A.C. Atkinson and D.R. Cox J.Roy. Statist. Soc.B (1974) Vol. 36, 341-342

Optimal experimental design for model discrimination Ph.D thesis, Glasgow University 1976

A review of experimental design procedures for regression model discriminationTechnometrics (1978) Vol. 20, 15-21

A note on the equivalence of D-optimal design measures for three rival linear modelsBiometrika (1978) Vol. 65, 666-667

Grieving responses: a comparison after home or hospital care, NZ Med. J. (1978) Vol. 88, 393-395 (with C.A. Smith).

D-optimal designs for partially nonlinear regression models, Technometrics, (1980) Vol. 22, 2750276.

Normal ranges: expected and guaranteed cover, Amer. J. Clinical Pathology (1980) Vol. 74, 143-144(with M.L. Chan).

Incidence of Scheuermann's disease - a preliminary report, Amer. J. Phys. Med. (1982), Vol. 61, 32-35, (with Fisk, J.W. and Baigent, M.R.).

Kernel density estimation for a population percentile and a normal range, Comm. in Statist. Theor. & Meth. (1982) Vol. All, 2343-2356.

Intravenous dysopyramide in myocardial infarction a haemodynamic study, N.Z. Med. J. (1983) Vol. 96, 4-7 (with P.K. Marrott et al.).

Ethnicity and health in Porirua: a comment on the relative-sufficiency of social-medical research, N.Z. Med. J. (1983) Vol. 96, 174-176 (with B.S. Parsonson, I. Pool & P.D.K. Ramsay).

Scheuermann's disease: a clinical and radiological survey of 17 and 18 year olds, Amer. J. Phys. Med. (1983) Vol. 43, 18-30 (with J.W. Fisk and M.L. Baigent).

One way analysis of variance for an ordered contingency table, N.Z. Statistician (1983) Vol. 18, 33 -36.

Some thoughts on reference ranges, N.Z. J. Med. Lab. Tech. (1984) Vol. 38, 69-73.

Kernel estimation of a distribution function, Comm. in Statist. Theor. & Meth. (1985) Vol. A14, 605-620.

An improved method of least squares parameter estimation with pumping test data, J. Hydrology (1985) Vol. 80, 271-281 (with W.E. Bardsley & A.D. Sneyd).


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