DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

M.Sc. (Manchester); PhD (Glasgow)

Peter Foster Lecturer in Mathematical Statistics Department of Mathematics  University of Manchester  Manchester M13 9PL Email address:peterf@ma.man.ac.uk Telephone number: 0161-275-5915 Fax number: 0161-275-5819

Research Interests:

• Nonparametric density and regression estimation
• Multivariate statistics

Recent Papers

1. A simple nonnegative boundary correction method for kernel density estimation (with M.C. Jones), 1996. Statistica Sinica, 6, pp1005-1013.
2. Model of normal prepubertal growth (with N.K.S. Thalange, M.S., Gill, D.A. Price and P.E. Clayton), 1996. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 75, pp1-5.
3. Assessing the multimodality of a miltivariate distribution using nonparametric techniques (with S. Hahn), 1998, COMPSTAT 1998, Proceedings in Computational Statistics: 13th symposium held in Bristol, Great Britain, 1998, edited by Roger Payne and Peter Green (Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag) pp329-334.
4. The relationship between stature, growth and short-term changes in height and weight in normal prepurbertal children (with V. Tillmann, N.K.S. Thalange, M.S. Gill, D.A. Price and P.E. Clayton), 1998. Pediatric Research, 44, pp882-886.
5. Relationship between serum and urinary insulin-like growth factor -1 through childhood and adolescence: their use in the assessment of disordered growth, (with C.M. Hall, M.S. Gill, L. Pennells, V. Tillmann, J. Jones, D.A. Price and P.E. Clayton), 1999. Clinical Endocrinology (in press).
6. Exploring multivariate data using directions of high density, 1999. Statistics and Computing, 8, (in press).
7. Regular fluctuations in growth hormone (GH) release determine normal human growth. With M.S. Gill, N.K.S. Thalarge, V. Tillmann, D.A. Price, P.J. Diggle and P.E. Clayton, 1999 Growth Hormone and IGF Research, 9, (in press).
8. Modelling Covariance Structure in Longitudinal Data. With Ahmed Mami. (February 2001). Technical Report 2001/02. ISSN 1361-9802.
9. Kernel Regression Estimation for Stationary Longitudinal Data. With Ahmed Mami. (March 2001). Technical Reprint 2001/03. ISSN 1361-9802

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