Dr Robert Murison

Adjunct Associate Professor Statistics - School of Science and Technology

Robert Murison

Email: rmurison@turing.une.edu.au

Biography

I started as a school teacher and studied mathematics and chemistry part time to obtain my first degree. A career shift took me to statistics and whilst working as a statistician, I completed Master of Statistics at UNSW and PhD at ANU under the supervision of Professor Peter Hall. I have been an academic since 1997 at UNE and UQ. I have been able to apply my statistics training to developing models in diverse settings; physiotherapy, speech pathology, plant breeding, bioinformatics, medical image analysis, insurance, animal production etc.

Qualifications

BAppSc (Darling Downs, IAE), MStats (NSW), PhD (ANU)

Research Interests

  • Image analysis using wavelets and contourlets
  • Parallel computing in statistics

Publications

Selected publications

R Murison, J Ayres, L Lane and Z Jahufer, Design and Analysis for spatial effects in pasture trials, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Grasslands Society of NSW, Tamworth, 21-23 July, 2008.

G Falzon, S Pearson and R Murison, Analysis of collagen fibre shape changes in breast cancer, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 53(23):6641-6652, 2008.

G Falzon, S Pearson, R Murison, C Hall, K Siu, A Round, E Schultke, A H Kaye and R Lewis, Myelin structure is a key difference in the x-ray scattering signature between meninginoma, schwannoma and glioblastoma multiforme, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 52, pp. 6543-6553, 2007.

J.F. Ayres, J.R. Caradus, R.D. Murison, L.A. Lane and D.R. Woodfield, Grasslands Trophy - a new white clover (Trifolium repens L.) cultivar with tolerance of summer moisture stress, Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 47, pp. 110-115, 2007.

G. Falzon, S. Pearson, R. Murison, C. Hall, K. Siu, A. Evans, K. Rogers and R. Lewis, Wavelet-based feature extraction applied to small-angle x-ray scattering patterns from breast tissue: a tool for differentiating between tissue types, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 51, pp. 2465-2477, 2006.

R. Murison, J. Ayres, L. Lane and D. Woodfield, Statistical methods to address spatial variation in pasture evaluation trials, Advances in Pasture Plant Breeding - Grassland Research and Practice Series No. 12, pp. 49-53, 2006.

A.F. Woolaston, R. Murison and B. Tier, A simulation study of spatial effects in microarray slides, 8th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil, August 13-18, 2006.

M Cruice, L Worrall, L Hickson and R Murison, Measuring quality of life: Comparing family members' and friends' ratings with those of their aphasic partners, Aphasiology, 19 (2), pp. 111-129, 2005.

Malem K McLeod, H. Daniel, R.Faulkner, and R.Murison, Evaluation of an enclosed portable chamber to measure crop and pasture actual evapotranspiration at small scale, Agricultural Water Management, 67, pp. 15-34, 2004.

J. Treleaven, R. Murison, G. Jull and N. LowChoy, Is the method of signal analysis important for measuring standing balance in whiplash?, Gait and Posture, 21, pp. 395-402, 2004.