Ian Goudie’s Home Page

Contact information:

address:: Dr I B J Goudie
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Fife
KY16 9SS
SCOTLAND
phone:: 01334 46 3705
fax:: 01334 46 3748
email:: igst-andrews.ac.uk

Current Research Interests

Mark-recapture

– including coverage-adjusted and jackknife estimation for the standard heterogeneity model, conditionally-unbiased estimators, unimodality of likelihoods.

Plant-capture

– a variant of mark-recapture under which a known number of “planted” individuals is inserted into the target population – including maximum likelihood and conditionally-unbiased estimation.

History of Statistics

– history of mark-recapture, origins of the Petersen estimator.

Current Teaching

This session I am teaching

Previous Teaching

In session 2010-11, I taught

Recent publications

Ashbridge, J. and Goudie, I.B.J. (2009). Conditionally unbiased estimation of population size under plant-capture. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 38: 1-12.
Goudie, I.B.J. and Goudie, M. (2007). Who captures the marks for the Petersen estimator? Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 170,825-839.
Goudie, I.B.J., Jupp, P.E. and Ashbridge, J. (2007). Plant-capture estimation of the size of a homogeneous population. Biometrika, 94, 243-248. Erratum.
Goudie, I.B.J. and Ashbridge, J. (2005). A conditionally unbiased estimator for the equal-catchability model. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 34: 1543-1554.
Arntzen, J.W., Goudie, I.B.J., Halley, J. and Jehle, R. (2004). Cost and benefits of marking techniques for long-term population studies. Amphibia-Reptilia, 25: 305-315.
Ashbridge, J. and Goudie, I.B.J. (2000). Coverage-adjusted estimators for mark-recapture in heterogeneous populations. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation 29, 1215-1237.
Goudie, I.B.J. and Ashbridge, J. (2000). A conditionally-unbiased estimator of population size based on plant-capture in continuous time. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 29, 2605-2619.
Buckland, S.T., Goudie, I.B.J. and Borchers, D.L. (2000). Wildlife population assessment: past developments and future directions. Biometrics 56, 1-12.
Goudie, I.B.J. , Pollock, K.H. and Ashbridge, J. (1998). A plant-capture approach for population size estimation in continuous time. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 27, 433-451.