Staff Profile

CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences

Melissa Dobbie Statistician Environmetrics: Landscape Management. This is Melissa's personal profile. Her formal CSIRO profile is at: http://www.csiro.au/people/Melissa.Dobbie.html

Contact Details

CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences
Building 29, CSIRO Long Pocket Laboratories
120 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly QLD 4068, Australia

E-mail: Melissa.Dobbie@csiro.au
Telephone: +61 7 3214 2737
Fax: +61 7 3214 2855

Key Skills

• Environmental modelling
• Analysis of ecological, biological and environmental data
• Design of aquatic monitoring programs

Professional Interests

• Monitoring aquatic ecosystem health
• Methods for modelling zero-inflated count data
• Methods for spatial-temporal modelling and applications
• Statistical applications in biological and environmental sciences
• Spatial design of aquatic monitoring studies
   

Professional Memberships

• Statistical Society of Australia Inc
• The International Environmetrics Society
• International Biometric Society (Currently serving as President of the IBS Australasian Region)
• The International Society for Environmental Information Sciences

Professional Qualifications

Accredited Statistician (AStat), June 2005 [Photo that appeared in SSAI Newsletter]
PhD in Mathematical Statistics (ANU), 2001
BSc Honours in Statistics (UQ), 1993

Some publications

Dobbie, Melissa J. (2007). Book review: McBride, Graham B. 2005. Using Statistical Methods for Water Quality Management: issues, problems and solutions. John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, USA. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics 48, 111-113.

Dobbie, Melissa, Harch, Bronwyn, and Packett, Robert (2005). Fitzroy River - testing the water. In Fitzroy in Focus: Coastal Science for the Fitzroy Region, Bob Noble et al (eds), Cooperative Research Centre for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management, 12-13.

Dobbie, Melissa, Harch, Bronwyn, and Packett, Robert (2005). Statistical analysis of the water quality of the Fitzroy River estuary. In Fitzroy in Focus: Coastal Science for the Fitzroy Region, Bob Noble et al (eds), Cooperative Research Centre for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management, 50-54.

Dobbie, Melissa J. (2001). Modelling correlated zero-inflated count data. Unpublished PhD thesis, Australian National University. [thesis.pdf; 1.06Mb]

Dobbie, Melissa J. and Welsh, A.H. (2001). Modelling correlated zero-inflated count data. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics 43, 431-444. 

Dobbie, Melissa J. and Welsh, A.H. (2001). Models for zero-inflated count data using the Neyman type A distribution. Statistical Modelling 1, 65-80. 

Links

Curriculum vitae (last updated July 2007)

A photo of Oscar and I, taken from Deer Park Heights in Queenstown, NZ (January 2006)

A photo of Oscar taken in Vancouver (January 2007)

A family shot taken from the lookout on Diamond Head Crater in Honolulu, Oahu (January 2007)

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