Associate Professor Michael Stewart
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Associate Professor Michael Stewart

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9351 5765
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9351 4534
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F07 - Carslaw Building
The University of Sydney
Associate Professor Michael Stewart

Michael Stewart is a member of the Statistics Research Group. His specialties include Mixture Models, Extremes of Stochastic Processes, Empirical Process Approximations, Density Estimation, Feature Selection, Applied and Computational Statistics

Project titleResearch student
Bayesian Inference for Mixture Models and ApplicationHao CHEN

Publications

Journals

  • Ormerod, J., Stewart, M., Yu, W., Romanes, S. (2024). Bayesian hypothesis tests with diffuse priors: Can we have our cake and eat it too? Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 66 Open Access(2), 204-227. [More Information]
  • Chen, Q., Stewart, M. (2024). Optimal detection of sparse gamma scale admixture with twice the null mean. Statistics and Probability Letters, 209, Article 110083-6 pages. [More Information]
  • Fitzpatrick, M., Stewart, M. (2022). Asymptotics for Markov chain mixture detection. Econometrics and Statistics, 22, 56-66. [More Information]

2024

  • Ormerod, J., Stewart, M., Yu, W., Romanes, S. (2024). Bayesian hypothesis tests with diffuse priors: Can we have our cake and eat it too? Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 66 Open Access(2), 204-227. [More Information]
  • Chen, Q., Stewart, M. (2024). Optimal detection of sparse gamma scale admixture with twice the null mean. Statistics and Probability Letters, 209, Article 110083-6 pages. [More Information]

2022

  • Fitzpatrick, M., Stewart, M. (2022). Asymptotics for Markov chain mixture detection. Econometrics and Statistics, 22, 56-66. [More Information]
  • Stewart, M. (2022). Detection boundary for a sparse gamma scale mixture model. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 64(2), 282-296. [More Information]

2020

  • Porter, T., Stewart, M. (2020). Beyond HC: More sensitive tests for rare/weak alternatives. Annals of Statistics, 48(4), 2230-2252. [More Information]
  • Yu, W., Ormerod, J., Stewart, M. (2020). Variational discriminant analysis with variable selection. Statistics and Computing, 30(4), 933-951. [More Information]

2018

  • Chapman, S., Stewart, M., Alpers, P. (2018). Fatal Firearm Incidents Before and After Australia's 1996 National Firearms Agreement Banning Semiautomatic Rifles. Annals of Internal Medicine, 169(1), 62-64. [More Information]

2015

  • Armstrong, B., Chan, D., Stewart, M., Fagan, D., Smith, D. (2015). Single Tablet Regimen Usage and Efficacy in the Treatment of HIV Infection in Australia. Aids Research and Treatment, 2015. [More Information]

2011

  • Midgley, D., McGee, P., Stewart, M., Saleeba, J. (2011). Diverse assemblages of ascomecetous fungi occur in woodland, grassland and cropping soils of northern-central New South Wales, Australia. Australasian Mycologist, 29, 29-36.

2010

  • Cule, M., Samworth, R., Stewart, M. (2010). Maximum likelihood estimation of a multi-dimensional log-concave density. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, 72(5), 545-607. [More Information]

2007

  • Britton, S., Daners, D., Stewart, M. (2007). A self-assessment test for incoming students. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 38(7), 861-868. [More Information]
  • Midgley, D., Saleeba, J., Stewart, M., Simpson, A., McGee, P. (2007). Molecular diversity of soil basidiomycete communities in northern-central New South Wales, Australia. Mycological Research, 111(3), 370-378. [More Information]
  • Midgley, D., Saleeba, J., Stewart, M., McGee, P. (2007). Novel soil lineages of Archaea are present in semi-arid soils of eastern Australia. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 53(1), 129-138. [More Information]

2006

  • Aghmesheh, M., Suo, Z., Friedlander, M., Nesland, J., Kaern, J., Stewart, M., Dorum, A., Tucker, K., Buckley, M. (2006). Chromosome 2q24.2 is lost in sporadic but not in BRCA1-associated ovarian carcinomas. Pathology, 38(2), 145-151. [More Information]

2005

  • Stewart, M., Robinson, J. (2005). Extremes of normed empirical moment generating function processes. Extremes: Statistical Theory and Applications in Science Engineering and Economics, 6, 319-333.
  • Hall, P., Stewart, M. (2005). Theoretical analysis of power in a two-component normal mixture model. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 134(1), 158-179. [More Information]

2002

  • Bridges, J., Stewart, M., King, M., van Gool, K. (2002). Adapting portfolio theory for the evaluation of multiple investments in health with a multiplicative extension for treatment synergies. The European Journal of Health Economics, 3(1), 47-53. [More Information]

Selected Grants

2016

  • Exploring the relationship between variables in day-to-day data using simple analytics: Shark bites, Mobile phones and Unemployment (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate), Warren D, Yang J, Myerscough M, Stewart M, DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant

2008

  • Statistical and computational methods using a multiscale approach for protein identification and quantification, Raimondo M, Yang J, Stewart M, Arthur J, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)