Matthew Schofield, Our people, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago, New Zealand

(PhD Otago)

Office: Science III, room 237
Tel +64 3 479 7779
Email matthew.schofield@otago.ac.nz

About

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Otago. Before moving to Otago, I held positions at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University.

For more information please visit my personal webpage

Research Interests

My research involves the use of statistical modelling in various scientific disciplines with a focus on the use of Bayesian approaches. Recent application areas include ecology, environmental sciences, biomechanics, biological sciences and genetics.

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Publications

Schofield, M. R., Barker, R. J., Link, W. A., & Pavanato, H. (2023). Estimating population size: The importance of model and estimator choice. Biometrics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/biom.13828

Pohl, A. J., Schofield, M. R., & Ferber, R. (2022). A generalised smoothing approach for continuous, planar, inverse kinematics problems. Journal of Biomechanics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2022.111158

Schofield, M. R., Maze, M. J., Crump, J. A., Rubach, M. P., Galloway, R., & Sharples, K. J. (2021). On the robustness of latent class models for diagnostic testing with no gold standard. Statistics in Medicine, 40, 4751-4763. doi: 10.1002/sim.8999

Holmes, J. B., Schofield, M. R., & Barker, R. J. (2022). Pólya‐gamma data augmentation and latent variable models for multivariate binomial data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, 71, 194-218. doi: 10.1111/rssc.12528

Efford, M. G., & Schofield, M. R. (2020). A spatial open-population capture-recapture model. Biometrics, 76, 394-402. doi: 10.1111/biom.13150

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Efford, M. G., & Schofield, M. R. (2020). A spatial open-population capture-recapture model. Biometrics, 76, 394-402. doi: 10.1111/biom.13150

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Pohl, A. J., Schofield, M. R., & Ferber, R. (2021). Comparing the performance of Bayesian and least-squares approaches for inverse kinematics problems. Journal of Biomechanics, 126, 110597. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2021.110597

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Wang, T., Schofield, M., Bebbington, M., & Kiyosugi, K. (2020). Bayesian modelling of marked point processes with incomplete records: Volcanic eruptions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, 69(1), 109-130. doi: 10.1111/rssc.12380

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Davies, T. M., Schofield, M. R., Cornwall, J., & Sheard, P. W. (2019). Modelling multilevel spatial behaviour in binary-mark muscle fibre configurations. Annals of Applied Statistics, 13(3), 1329-1347. doi: 10.1214/18-AOAS1214

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Barker, R. J., Schofield, M. R., Link, W. A., & Sauer, J. R. (2018). On the reliability of N-mixture models for count data. Biometrics, 74(1), 369-377. doi: 10.1111/biom.12734

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Bilton, T. P., Schofield, M. R., Black, M. A., Chagné, D., Wilcox, P. L., & Dodds, K. G. (2018). Accounting for errors in low coverage high-throughput sequencing data when constructing genetic maps using biparental outcrossed populations. Genetics, 209(1), 65-76. doi: 10.1534/genetics.117.300627

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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

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Schofield, M. R., Barker, R. J., & Gelling, N. (2018). Continuous-time capture—recapture in closed populations. Biometrics, 74(2), 626-635. doi: 10.1111/biom.12763

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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

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Bonner, S. J., Schofield, M. R., Noren, P., & Price, S. J. (2016). Extending the latent multinomial model with complex error processes and dynamic Markov bases. Annals of Applied Statistics, 10(1), 246-263. doi: 10.1214/15-AOAS889

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Schofield, M., & Barker, R. (2016). 50-year-old curiosities: Ancillarity and inference in capture-recapture models. Statistical Science, 31(2), 161-174. doi: 10.1214/16-STS550

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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

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Schofield, M. R. (2017). Comment: Estimating abundance: A non parametric mark recapture approach for open and closed systems. Environmental & Ecological Statistics, 24(4), 587-594. doi: 10.1007/s10651-017-0382-2

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Button, C., Schofield, M., & Croft, J. (2016). Distance perception in an open water environment: Analysis of individual differences. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 78(3), 915-922. doi: 10.3758/s13414-015-1049-4

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Schofield, M. R., & Bonner, S. J. (2015). Connecting the latent multinomial. Biometrics, 71(4), 1070-1080. doi: 10.1111/biom.12333

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Barker, R. J., Schofield, M. R., Wright, J. A., Frantz, A. C., & Stevens, C. (2014). Closed-population capture—recapture modeling of samples drawn one at a time. Biometrics, 70(4), 775-782. doi: 10.1111/biom.12241

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Schofield, M. R., & Barker, R. J. (2014). Hierarchical modeling of abundance in closed population capture—recapture models under heterogeneity. Environmental & Ecological Statistics, 21(3), 435-451. doi: 10.1007/s10651-013-0262-3

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Bonner, S., & Schofield, M. (2014). MC(MC)MC: Exploring Monte Carlo integration within MCMC for mark—recapture models with individual covariates. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, 5(12), (pp. 1305-1315). doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12095

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Welch, K. D., Schofield, M. R., Chapman, E. G., & Harwood, J. D. (2014). Comparing rates of springtail predation by web-building spiders using Bayesian inference. Molecular Ecology, 23(15), 3814-3825. doi: 10.1111/mec.12721

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Schofield, M. R., Barker, R. J., & Taylor, P. (2013). Modeling individual specific fish length from capture—recapture data using the von Bertalanffy growth curve. Biometrics, 69(4), 1012-1021. doi: 10.1111/biom.12069

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Westneat, D. F., Schofield, M., & Wright, J. (2013). Parental behavior exhibits among individual variance, plasticity and heterogeneous residual variance. Behavioral Ecology, 24(3), 598-604. doi: 10.1093/beheco/ars207

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