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Publications

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Official CV

Journal Publications

2015 “Using Decision Trees to Understand Structure in Missing Data.” Tierney, N.J., Mengersen, K., Harden, F., Harden M. BMJ Open 5 (6). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007450.

2016 “Visualisation and statistical modelling techniques for the management of inventory stock levels” Sweatman, W.L., McGree, J., Carstens, C.J., Foster, K.J., Liu, S., Tierney, N.J., Trednick, E., Zaitouny, A. ANZIAM Journal 57, 130-162.

2017 Tierney, Nicholas J. “visdat: Visualising Whole Data Frames”, The Journal of Open Source Software 2 (16) doi: 10.21105/joss.00355

2018 Tierney, NJ., Reinhold, J., Mira, A., Weiser, M., Burkart, R., Benvenuti, C., Aurrichio, A. “Novel relocation methods for automatic external defibrillator improve out-of-hospital cardiac arrest coverage under limited resources” Resuscitation , Volume 125 , 83 - 89. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2018.01.055

2019 “Evaluating health facility access using Bayesian spatial models and location analysis methods” Tierney, NJ., Mira, A, Reinhold, J., Arbia, G, Clifford, S, Moccetti, T., Peluso, S., Auricchio, A., Mengersen, K. PLoS ONE.

2019 “Software tools for geospatial analysis: An Introduction to software tools, data and services for geospatial analysis of stroke services” Mark Padgham, Geoff Boeing, David Cooley, Nicholas Tierney, Michael Sumner, Thanh G Phan, and Richard Beare - code repository

Under Review or in Preparation

2020 “Bayesian Approaches to Modelling Occupational Health.” Tierney, N.J. Clifford, S., Drovandi, C., Mengersen, K. Book Chapter. In Press.

2020 “A Bayesian spatio-temporal statistical analysis of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests, Stefano Peluso, Antonietta Mira, Håvard Rue, Nicholas John Tierney, Claudio Benvenuti, Roberto Cianellak, Maria Luce Caputo, Angelo Auricchio, DOI: 10.1002/bimj.201900166, Biometrical Journal, In Press"

2020 “A Realistic Guide to Making Data Available Alongside Code to Improve Reproducibility” Tierney, N.J. & Ram, K In Preparation

2020 “Now you see it? Now you don’t? The role of graphics in identifying MCMC convergence” Tierney, N.J., Cook, D, McBain, M. In Preparation

2020 “Making better spaghetti (plots)”, Tierney, N.J., Cook, D. In Preparation

Pre-Print

2016 Tierney, NJ. “S3 Methods: A Simple Guide.” [Pre-print]

2020 Tierney, NJ. Cook, D. “Expanding tidy data principles to facilitate missing data exploration, visualization and assessment of imputations.” In Prep. Submitting to Journal of Statistical Software [Pre-print]

Posters

2019 “A Missing Data Carol: Ghosts of Missing Data Past, Present, and Future”. Tierney, NJ rstudioconf2019, Austin, Texas, USA PDF

2018 “Tidy Principles for Missing Data Exploration using naniarTierney, NJ. rstudioconf18, San Diego, USA.PNGPDF

2017 “Now you see it? Now you don’t? The role of graphics in identifying MCMC convergence” Tierney, NJ., Cook, D, McBain, M. Bayes on the Beach, Gold Coast, Australia. PDF

2016 “Bayesian Approachs in Occupational Health Surveillance” Tierney, NJ., Mengersen, K., Clifford, S., Drovandi, C., Harden, F., Harden, M. World Meeting for the International Society for Bayesian Analysis

2015 “The Sharpest Tool in the Shed” Tierney, NJ., Mengersen, K., Harden, F., Harden, M. Bayes on the Beach

2015 “Integrating Occupational Hygiene, Medicine and Engineering in a Mining Context.” Maurice Harden, Charles Steer, Fiona Harden, Geoff Butler, Kerrie Mengersen, Nicholas Tierney, Ann. Occup. Hyg., Vol. 59, No. Supplement 1, 1–47 doi:10.1093/annhyg/meu119

2014 “Missingness, Mixtures, and Multiple Imputation” Tierney, NJ., Mengersen, K., Harden, F., Harden, M. Bayes on the Beach

Conference Publications

Tierney, N. J., Cook, D., McBain, M (2018) “Now you see it? Now you don’t? The role of graphics in identifying MCMC convergence”, Australian Statistical Conference in Conjunction with the International Society of Clinical Biostatistics., Melbourne, Australia 27th August, 2018. Slides Awarded Runner-Up for the Pitman Prize for young statisticians.

Integrating Occupational Hygiene, Medicine and Engineering in a Mining Context. Maurice Harden, Charles Steer, Fiona Harden, Geoff Butler, Kerrie Mengersen, Nicholas Tierney, Ann. Occup. Hyg., 2015, Vol. 59, No. Supplement 1, 1–47 doi:10.1093/annhyg/meu119 PDF

Tierney, N. J., Pitchforth, J., Mengersen, K. L, (2014) Understanding Missing Data: The Use of Classification and Regression Trees (CART), and Boosted Regression Trees (BRTs), Australian Statistical Conference in Conjunction with the institute of Mathematical Statistics Annual Meeting., Sydney, Australia 7-10 July, 2014. Slides.

PhD Thesis

Tierney, N. J. (2018). Statistical approaches to revealing structure in complex health data PhD Thesis by Publication, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Nominated for Outstanding PhD Thesis Award eprint.

Honours Thesis

Tierney, N. J. (2012). How Sharp is Sharp? The Effect of Monocular Texture on Enhancing Sharpness. Unpublished Honours Thesis, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. [Awarded First Class Honours] PDF.