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Simon Wilson

Professor of Statistics

 

DETAILED INFORMATION:

 Location / Department
 School of Computer Science and Statistics, Lloyd Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Honors
Fellow, Royal Statistical Society
Member, International Statistical Institute
Fellow of Trinity College Dublin
Sigma Xi

 Relevant Experience

  • Trinity College Dublin (1994 - present), Lecturer/Professor

  • Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (1999 - 2000), Visiting Researcher

  • Carlos III University, Madrid (2002 - 2003), Visiting Professor

  • University of California at Davis (Summer 2003), Visiting Faculty

PUBLICATIONS:
In related areas only.
 
Books:                                                       

Statistical Methods in Software Engineering: Reliability and Risk (with N.D. Singpurwalla), 1999. New
York: Springer.

Books (as editor):

Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, section on Computation Intensive Methods, 2007.
Chichester: Wiley (as section editor).

Refereed Articles:

The use of Bayesian statistics to predict patterns of spatial repeatability (with E. O’Brien and N.
Harris), 2007. To appear, Journal of Sound and Vibration.

The mathematics of risk and reliability: a brief history (with N.D. Singpurwalla), 2007. To appear,
Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment, E. Melnick and B. Everitt, editors. Chichester: Wiley.

Usage and wear processes for warranties, 2007. To appear Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and
Reliability. Chichester: Wiley.

Non-parametric analysis of order statistics models in software reliability (with F.J. Samaniego), 2007.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 33, 3: 198–208.

A Bayesian analysis of beta testing (with M.P. Wiper), 2006. Test, 15, 1: 227–255.

Predicting future discoveries of European marine species using a non-homogeneous renewal process
(with M. Costello), 2005. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 54, 5: 897–918.

Hierarchical modelling of orthopędic hip replacement damage accumulation and reliability, 2005. Journal
of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 54, 2: 425–440.

Deciding how long to test software (with K. McDaid), 2001. The Statistician 50, 2: 117–134.

Statistical analysis and prediction with short fatigue crack data using a population model (with D.
Taylor), 1999. Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures 22: 67–76.

Failure models indexed by two scales (with N.D. Singpurwalla), 1998. Advances in Applied Probability
30, 4: 1058–1072.

A statistical analysis of microcrack accumulation in PMMA under fatigue loading: applications to
orthopędic implant fixation (with B. A. O. McCormack, C. D. Walsh and P. J. Prendergast), 1998.
International Journal of Fatigue 20, 3: 581–593.

Reliability assessment from fatigue micro-crack data (with D. Taylor), 1997. IEEE Transactions in
Reliability 46, 2: 165–172.

Calculating the reserve for a time and usage indexed warranty (with J. Eliashberg & N.D. Singpurwalla),
1997. Management Science 43, 7: 966–975

The exponentiation formula of reliability and survival: does it always hold? (with N.D. Singpurwalla),
1995. Lifetime Data Analysis 1: 187–194.

Software reliability modeling (with N.D. Singpurwalla), 1994. International Statistical Review 62, 3:
289–317.

The warranty problem: its statistical and game theoretic aspects (with N.D. Singpurwalla), 1993. SIAM
Review 35: 17–42.