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Geoff Robinson
Professional Interests

General Statistical Consulting

I have been involved in statistical consulting on a wide variety of topics. Tow that I wish to particularly highlight are the following.

Modelling of traffic on rural roads.
The simulation model, TRARR, which I wrote while at the Australian Road Research Board is still widely used for helping to plan climbing lines and overtaking lanes. The core of the program is essentially unchanged. See papers 3 to 6 in the list below.

Estimation of genetic merit of dairy cattle.
The methods implemented in about 1982 by a group of which I was a crucial member are still used for Australia-wide estimation of genetic merit for dairy cattle. We were the first group in the world to fit models including cows' genetic merits as well as bulls', solving about a million simultaneous equations rather than ten thousand. See papers 8-11 in the list below.

John van der Touw and I later used similar methodology in a procedure for ranking badminton players which was used in
particular for the 1992 Olympics. (Use of this methodology stopped because the International Badminton Federation
wanted a system which allowed more accurate prediction of how much a player's rating would be changed by the result of a forthcoming match.) See papers 22 and 23 in the list below.

1. I.R. Ker and G.K. ROBINSON. (1977). Analysis of truck maintenance costs under controlled conditions of loading.
Australian Road Research Board Internal Report AIR 253-1

2. A.J. McLean and G.K. ROBINSON. (1979). Adelaide In-Depth Accident Study 1975-1979, Part 1: An Overview.
Road Accident Research Unit, The University of Adelaide.

3. ROBINSON, G.K. (1980). A model for simulating traffic on rural roads. Australian Road Research Board Technical
Manual ATM No. 10.

4. ROBINSON, G.K. (1980). Use of a traffic simulation model to formulate a climbing lane warrant. Australian Road
Research Board Internal Report AIR 290-1.

5. ROBINSON, G.K. (1980). Computer production of a 16 mm film, Australian Road Research Board Internal Report
AIR 1088-1.

6. ROBINSON, G.K. (1980). Estimating the mean delay to pedestrians and the capacity of unsignalised intersections using
traffic-sensing devices. Australian Road Research 10 43-45.

7. G.K. ROBINSON and B.S. Youl. (1981). Relationships between milk somatic cell counts and milk production. Australian
Association for Animal Breeding and Genetics. Proceedings of the Second Conference 89-90.

8. ROBINSON, G.K. (1982). Deriving selection indices using Best Linear Unbiased Prediction. Australian Association for
Animal Breeding and Genetics. Proceedings of the Third Conference 271-273.

9. ROBINSON, G.K. (1986). Group effects and computing strategies for models for estimating breeding values. Journal of Dairy Science, 69 3106-3111.

10. G.K. ROBINSON and L.P. Jones. (1987). Approximations for prediction error variances. Journal of Dairy Science, 70
1623-1632.

11. ROBINSON, G.K. (1988). A method for accelerating stationary iterative methods for solving linear systems. Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society, Series B, 30 1-23.

12. ROBINSON, G.K. (1985). Analysis of quality control of caster sugar. SIROMATH Consulting Report.

13. ROBINSON, G.K. (1986). Review of mail origin-destination dispersion study. SIROMATH Consulting Report.

14. ROBINSON, G.K. (1986). Analysis of house percentage in ``Heads and Tails''. SIROMATH Consulting Report.

15. ROBINSON, G.K. (1986). Control charts for tool wear. SIROMATH Consulting Report.

16. ROBINSON, G.K. (1986). Use of dispersion information to improve mail service performance monitoring. SIROMATH
Consulting Report.

17. ROBINSON, G.K. (1988). Feasibility study of risk analysis for ethylene oxide transportation. SIROMATH Consulting Report.

18. ROBINSON, G.K. (1988). Statistical evaluation of epidemiological study by Dr. D. Savitz. SIROMATH Consulting Report.

19. ROBINSON, G.K. (1991). Review of two processes for Exxon Chemical Australia Ltd. CSIRO DMS Report No. V91/7.

20. ROBINSON, G.K. (1991). Process Improvement at the Port Kembla BOS Plant. CSIRO DMS Report No. V91/11.

21. ROBINSON, G.K. Dragline comparisons. Proceedings of the 1993 Mathematics-in-Industry Study Group. Edited by
N.G. Barton.

22. G.K. ROBINSON and J.W. van der TOUW. (1990). A player ranking system for the International Badminton Federation. CSIRO DMS Report No. V90/19.

23. G.K. ROBINSON and J.W. van der TOUW. (1993). May 1993 modifications to a player ranking system for the
International Badminton Federation. CSIRO DMS Report No. DMS-D94/26.

24. ROBINSON, G.K. (1994). Criticism of ARRB pavement model. CSIRO DMS Report No. DMS-D94/63.

25. ROBINSON, G.K. (1994). Opinions about research into road maintenance. CSIRO DMS Report No. DMS-D94/88.

26. ROBINSON, G.K. (1995). Further analysis of extended digestion experiment. CSIRO DMS Report No. DMS-D95/21.

27. ROBINSON, G.K. (1995). Testing of a cathode coating for aluminium reduction cells. CSIRO DMS Report No.
DMS-D95/52.

28. ROBINSON, G.K. (1997). Statistical analysis of a high temperature bauxite digestion experiment. CSIRO DMS Report No. DMS-D53/97.

29. S.K. Brown and G.K. ROBINSON. (1997). Sampling protocols for national indicators of indoor air quality. CSIRO Building, Construction and Engineering Report DBCE Doc. 97/232 (M).

30. A. ERNST, M. KRISHNAMOORTHY, G. MILLS, G. ROBINSON and D. SIER. (1998). Decision support for master scheduling, operations scheduling and disruption management. CSIRO Report No. CMIS-98/31.



Geoff Robinson
1998-11-16

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