Research interests

My main methodological research interests are in spatial statistics, longitudinal data analysis and environmental epidemiology. Most of my research is motivated by applications in the biomedical, clinical or health sciences.

Click here for postscript lecture-notes on Spatial Statistics for Environmental Epidemiology
Click here for some geostatistical data-sets, click here for information about my book on geostatistics: Diggle, P.J. and Ribeiro, P.J. Jnr (2007). Model-based Geostatistics. New York: Springer, click here for information about geostatistical software.

Click here for some spatial point pattern data-sets and information about my book on spatial point patterns: Diggle, P.J. (2003). Statistical Analysis of Spatial Point Patterns (second edition), click here for information about spatial point pattern software.

Click here for information about my book on longitudinal data analysis: Diggle, P.J., Heagerty, P., Liang K-Y. and Zeger, S.L. (2002). Analysis of Longitudinal Data (second edition) . Oxford: Oxford University Press , click here for some longitudinal data-sets.

Click here for information about my book on time series analysis: Diggle, P.J. (1990). Time Series: a biostatistical introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Click here for a demo of spatio-temporal disease surveillance (Diggle, P.J., Rowlingson, B. and Su, T-L. (2005). Environmetrics, 16, 423-34)

Click here for some recent Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Tech Reports.

Positions held

At Lancaster University: Professor in the Department of Medicine , and EPSRC Senior Research Fellow (2004-2008).

Elsewhere: Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health; trustee for Biometrika ; joint editor of Biostatistics ; member of the Medical Research Council's Health Services and Public Health Research Board; former member of UK Transplant Patients' Forum.

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