Official CV
Journal Publications
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
“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 naniar
” Tierney, 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.