Professor Richard Barker
Office:Phone: 479-7756
Email: richard.barker@otago.ac.nz
** Left the Department in 2017 to become the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Division of Sciences. **
Research Interests and student opportunities.
My recent research and those of current an recently completed graduate students include:
- Bayesian inference for hierarchical models
- Statistical theory, methods and analysis for applications in
- Fisheries and wildlife ecology
- Sport science and exercise physiology
- Climate change
- Theory and analysis of mark-recapture and radio-telemetry data
Current PhD and post-doc opportunities
BUGS code for mark-recapture models
Recent Publications
- Link, W. A., Schofield, M. R., Barker, R. J., & Sauer, J. R. (2018). On the robustness of N-mixture models. Ecology, 99(7), 1547-1551. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2362
- Schofield, M. R., & Barker, R. J. (2017). Model fitting and evaluation in climate reconstruction of tree-ring data: A comment on Steinschneider et al. (2017): Hierarchical regression models for dendroclimatic standardization and climate reconstruction. Dendrochronologia, 46, 77-84. doi: 10.1016/j.dendro.2017.10.004
- Schofield, M. R., Barker, R. J., & Gelling, N. (2017). Continuous-time capture—recapture in closed populations. Biometrics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/biom.12763
- Barker, R. J., Schofield, M. R., Link, W. A., & Sauer, J. R. (2017). On the reliability of N-mixture models for count data. Biometrics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/biom.12734
- Schofield, M. R., Barker, R. J., Gelman, A., Cook, E. R., & Briffa, K. R. (2016). A model-based approach to climate reconstruction using tree-ring data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 111(513), 93-106. doi: 10.1080/01621459.2015.1110524
