Dr Nema Dean
- Senior Lecturer (Statistics)
telephone:
01413306820
email:
Nema.Dean@glasgow.ac.uk
R341, Mathematics & Statistics Building, University Place, Glasgow G12 8QW
Biography
I received my M.A. in Mathematics from Trinity College Dublin in 2002 and my Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2006. I joined the University of Glasgow in 2006.
I am predominantly an applied statistician with an interest in methodological development driven by interesting practical problems. Areas I have worked on in the past/currently include:
- Educational testing
- Food authenticity
- Forensic statistics
- Chemometrics
- Medical applications
- Urban studies
- Many others...
My areas of interest methodologically are wide-ranging including: cluster analysis - particularly model-based and hierarchical, semi-supervised learning, variable selection, disease mapping, hierarchical Bayesian models, Bayesian approximation methods, boundary detection, areal modelling, spatio-temporal modelling and others. Both likelihood and Bayesian estimation are welcome (I'm a pragmatist).
Research interests
- Unsupervised learning/Clustering
- Model-based clustering
- Hierarchical clustering
- Growth mixture models
- Variable selection
- Spatial areal boundary detection
- Spatio-temporal modelling
- Disease Mapping
- Mixtures/Hierarchical mixtures of experts
- Item response theory models
- Bayesian approximate estimators
- Social network analysis
Research units
- Statistics & Data Analytics
- Modelling in space & time
- Bayesian modelling & inference
- Computational statistics
- Social & urban studies
- Statistics & data analytics education
Grants
Understanding Inequalities (ESRC) Life at the Frontier: The Impact of Social Frontiers on the Social Mobility and Integration of Migrants (Nordforsk)
Supervision
I am currently interested in supervising students in the area of multivariate analysis and spatial/spatio-temporal modelling.
Current PhD students:
- Kirstie English
- Riham Hamza M Ismail
- Robin Muegge
- Jorge Alfredo Sanchez Gomez
- Ismail, Riham Hamza M
Spatio-temporal modelling of localised health inequalities in Glasgow - Muegge, Robin
Spatiotemporal areal data modelling: COVID-19 applications and boundary detection for big data - Sanchez Gomez, Jorge Alfredo
Model-based inference for geocoded data with application to crime patterns
Former PhD students:
- Craig Anderson
- Cunyi Wang
- Eilidh Jack
- Simona Simona
- Sebastián Martínez
- Ivona Voroneckaja
- Shuhrah Alghamdi
Teaching
Current courses:
- Data Mining & Machine Learning I (ODL)
- Measurement & Scaling (Q-step) - not in 2022/23
Professional activities & recognition
Prizes, awards & distinctions
- 2011: Statistics in Chemistry Award (American Statistical Association)
Professional & learned societies
- 2011 - 2018: Treasurer, International Federation of Classification Societies
- 2020: Board Member, British Classification Society