Selected Preprints

Likelihood-free Bayesian inference for alpha-stable models
Peters G. W., S. A. Sisson and Y. Fan (submitted). [arXiv:0912.4729v1]
Likelihood-free samplers
S. A. Sisson, G. W. Peters, M. Briers and Y. Fan (submitted).
On sequential Monte Carlo, partial rejection control and approximate Bayesian computation
Peters G. W., Y. Fan and S. A. Sisson (submitted). [arXiv:0808.3466v2]
Recent Journal Papers

Estimating animal movement contacts between holdings of different production types
Lindström T, S. A. Sisson, S. Lewerin and U. Wennergren (in press). Preventive Veterinary Medicine, in press.
Bayesian symbol detection in wireless relay networks via likelihood-free inference
Peters G. W., I Nevat, S. A. Sisson, Y. Fan and J. Yuan (in press). IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, in press.
Likelihood-free Markov chain Monte Carlo
S. A. Sisson and Y. Fan (2010). In Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Eds. S. P. Brooks, A. Gelman, G. Jones and X.-L. Meng. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press. [arxiv:1001.2058]
Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo
Y. Fan and S. A. Sisson (2010). In Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Eds. S. P. Brooks, A. Gelman, G. Jones and X.-L. Meng. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press. [arxiv:1001.2055]
In defense of model-based inference in phylogeography
Beaumont M. et al. incl. S. A. Sisson (2010). Molecular Ecology, 19, 436-446. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04515.x
Likelihood-based inference for max-stable processes.
Padoan S. A., M. Ribatet and S. A. Sisson (in press). JASA, in press. [arxiv:0902.3060v2]
A note on Bayesian curve fitting via auxiliary variables.
Fan Y., J.-L. Dortet-Bernadet and S. A. Sisson (in press). J. Comp. Graph. Stats., in press. [arxiv:0911.1894v2]
The epidemiological fitness cost of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Luciani F., S. A. Sisson, H. Jiang, A. R. Francis and M. M. Tanaka (2009). PNAS, 106, 14711-14715. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0902437106 [Abstract]
High affinity extremes in combinatorial libraries and repertoires.
Tanaka M. M., S. A. Sisson and G. C. King (2009). Journal of Theoretical Biology, 261, 260-265. [Abstract]
Estimation of distance related probability of contact between farms through animal transports and implications for disease spread modelling.
Lindström T, S. A. Sisson, M. Nöremark, A. Jonsson and U. Wennergren (2009). Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 91, 85-94. doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.05.022 [Abstract]
Towards automating model selection for a mark-recapture-recovery analysis.
Sisson S. A. and Y. Fan (2009). J. Roy. Statist. Soc. C, 58, 247-266. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2008.00656.x [Abstract]
Automating and evaluating reversible jump MCMC proposal distributions.
Fan Y., G. W. Peters and S. A. Sisson (2009). Statistics and Computing, 19, 409-421. doi: 10.1007/s11222-008-9101-z [Abstract]
Smaller projected increases in 20-year temperature returns over Australia in skill-selected climate models.
Perkins S. E., A. J. Pitman and S. A. Sisson (2009). Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L06710. doi:10.1029/2009GL037293 [Abstract]
Evaluating extreme risks in invasion ecology: Learning from banking compliance.
Franklin J., S. A. Sisson, M. A. Burgman and J. K. Martin (2008). Diversity and Distributions, 14, 581-591. [Abstract]
A distance-based diagnostic for trans-dimensional Markov chains.
Sisson S. A. and Y. Fan (2007). Statistics and Computing, 17, 357-367. [Abstract]
Genetics and stochastic simulation do mix!
Sisson S. A. (2007). The American Statistician, 61, 112-119. [Abstract]
Inference for stereological extremes.
Bortot P., S. G. Coles and S. A. Sisson (2007). JASA, 102, 84-92. [Abstract]
"Bortot et al. (2007) maintains the intellectual diversity of the profession." AMSTAT News, March 2007.
Sequential Monte Carlo without likelihoods.
Sisson S. A., Y. Fan and M. M. Tanaka (2007). PNAS, 104, 1760-1765. Errata (2009), 106, 16889. [Abstract]
Bayesian inference, Monte Carlo sampling and operational risk.
Peters G. W. and S. A. Sisson (2006). Journal of Operational Risk, 1 (3), 27-50. [Abstract]
Using approximate Bayesian computation to estimate tuberculosis transmission parameters from genotype data.
Tanaka M. M., A. R. Francis, F. Luciani and S. A. Sisson (2006). Genetics, 173, 1511-1520. [Abstract]
A case for a reassessment of the risk of extreme hydrological hazards in the Caribbean.
Sisson S. A., L. R. Pericchi and S. G. Coles (2006). SERRA, 20, 296-306. [Abstract]
A note on Bayesian analyses of capture-recapture data with perfect recaptures.
Sisson S. A. and Y. V. Chan (2006). Comm. Stat.: Theory and Methods, 35, 53-62. [Abstract]
Trans-dimensional Markov chains: A decade of progress and future perspectives.
Sisson S. A. (2005). JASA, 100, 1077-1089. [Abstract]
Bayesian point estimation of quantitative trait loci.
Sisson S. A. and M. A. Hurn (2004). Biometrics 60, 60-68. [Abstract]
Modelling dependence uncertainty in the extremes of Markov chains.
Sisson S. A. and S. G. Coles (2003). Extremes, 6, 283-300. [Abstract]
A fully probabilistic approach to extreme value modelling.
Coles S. G., L. R. Pericchi and S. A. Sisson (2003). Journal of Hydrology 273, 35-50. [Abstract]
Other Papers
Approximate Bayesian computation: An annotated bibliography
Sisson S. A. and Y. Fan (2009). ISBA Bulletin, 16 (1), 6-8. [Link]
The surprise hand-in: A random-sampling approach to small-group assessment in statistics.
Sisson S. A. and D. I. Warton (2005). [Abstract]
An algorithm to characterize non-communicating classes on complex genealogies.
Sisson S. A. (2002). [Abstract]