Associate Professor
Research interests
Ryan’s current research focus is model-based clustering and classification. In addition he is interested in measurement models, specifically in assessing the quality of a measurement system. This work was the focus of his PhD thesis.
Education/biography
Ryan Browne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. Ryan has received three degrees in statistics from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ; BMath 2004, MMath 2006 and PhD 2009. Based on his PhD work, Ryan was awarded the 2011 W.J. Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing by the American Statistical Association.
Selected publications
- Browne, R.P. and McNicholas, P.D. (2015), 'Multivariate sharp quadratic bounds via Σ-strong convexity and the Fenchel connection', Electronic Journal of Statistics 9(2), 1913-1938. [doi]
- Browne, R.P. and McNicholas, P.D. (2015), 'A mixture of generalized hyperbolic distributions', Canadian Journal of Statistics 43(2), 176-198. [doi]
- Browne, R.P. and McNicholas, P.D. (2014), 'Orthogonal Stiefel manifold optimization for eigen-decomposed covariance parameter estimation in mixture models', Statistics and Computing 24(2), 203-210. [doi].
- Browne, R.P. and McNicholas, P.D. (2012), 'Model-based clustering and classification of data with mixed type', Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 142(11), 2976-2984. [doi]
- Browne, R. P., R. J. MacKay, and S. H. Steiner (2010). Leveraged measurement system assessment r&r studies. Technometrics 52(3), 294–302. [doi]