Dr. Scott Sisson
"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic." - Winston Churchill.
Welcome!
- Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW
- Ph.D. from Bristol University, U.K. working with Professor Peter J. Green F.R.S.
- Along with several co-authors I have written some papers.
- In 1999 I was in a UK rock band, Firefly. Listen to the E.P. (mp3)
In The Media
Occasions where my research has been picked up by the media:
- Scientists warn of drug-resistant TB, Sydney Morning Herald, August 2009
- New TB strains a spreading danger, The Canberra Times, August 2009
- New drug-resistant TB strains could become widespread says new study UNSW Science News, August 2009
- Top models, Nature Reports: Climate Change, May 2009, doi:10.1038/climate.2009.33
- Aussie warming less extreme, Science Alert, 12th April 2009
- Temperature rise not so great but effects still grave, Sydney Morning Herald, 9th April 2009
- Good news and bad on climate extremes, UNSW Science News, April 2009
- Swiss bankers and fire ants: predicting extreme risk, UNSW Science News, August 2008
Conferences
- 1st PRIMA Congress 2009, Sydney, Australia, July 2009
- ISBA 2008, Hamilton Island, Australia, July 2008
- IMS/ISBA MCMSki/AdapSki, Bormio, Italy, January 2008
- Spring Bayes (ASBA), QUT, September 2006
- Recent Advances in Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and MCMC, UNSW, July 2005
- Weight-of-Evidence for Forensic DNA Profiles, UNSW, July 2005
- Bayesian Hierarchical Models in Biostatistics, UNSW, July 2005
Teaching
- MATH1041 Statistics for Life and Social Sciences
- MATH5960 Bayesian Inference and Computation
Contact Details
S. A. Sisson Phone: +61-2 938-57027 School of Mathematics and Statistics Fax: +61-2 938-57123 University of New South Wales Email: Scott.Sisson(at)unsw.edu.au Sydney 2052, Australia