Dr Sharon Lee
Senior Lecturer
School of Mathematics and Physics
Building 69, Room 711
Book Chapters
Lee, Sharon X., McLachlan, Geoffrey J. and Pyne, Saumyadipta (2021). Automated gating and dimension reduction of high-dimensional cytometry data. Mathematical, computational and experimental T cell immunology. (pp. 281-294) edited by Carmen Molina-París and Grant Lythe . Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-57204-4_16
Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2018). Risk measures based on multivariate skew normal and skew t-mixture models. Asymmetric dependence in finance: diversification, correlation and portfolio management in market downturns. (pp. 152-168) edited by Jamie Alcock and Stephen Satchell. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119288992.ch7
Lee, Sharon X., Ng, Shu-Kay and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2017). Finite mixture models in biostatistics. Disease Modelling and Public Health, Part A. (pp. 75-102) edited by Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao, Saumyadipta Pyne and C.R. Rao. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/bs.host.2017.08.005
Lee, Sharon X., McLachlan, Geoffrey J. and Pyne, Saumyadipta (2016). Application of mixture models to large datasets. Big data analytics: methods and applications. (pp. 57-74) edited by Saumyadipta Pyne, B. L. S. Prakasa Rao and S. B. Rao. New Delhi, India: Springer India. doi: 10.1007/978-81-322-3628-3_4
Journal Articles
Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2024). An overview of skew distributions in model-based clustering. Science Talks, 9 100298, 100298. doi: 10.1016/j.sctalk.2024.100298
Nguyen, Hien, Lee, Sharon and Forbes, Florence (2022). A Festschrift for Geoff McLachlan. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 64 (2), 111-116. doi: 10.1111/anzs.12372
Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2022). An overview of skew distributions in model-based clustering. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 188 104853, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.jmva.2021.104853
Maleki, Mohsen, McLachlan, Geoffrey J. and Lee, Sharon X. (2021). Robust clustering based on finite mixture of multivariate fragmental distributions. Statistical Modelling, 23 (3), 1-26. doi: 10.1177/1471082X211048660
Lee, Sharon X., McLachlan, Geoffrey J. and Leemaqz, Kaleb L. (2021). Multi‐node expectation–maximization algorithm for finite mixture models. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining: The ASA Data Science Journal, 14 (4) sam.11529, 297-304. doi: 10.1002/sam.11529
Lee, Sharon X., Lin, Tsung-I and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2020). Mixtures of factor analyzers with scale mixtures of fundamental skew normal distributions. Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, 15 (2), 481-512. doi: 10.1007/s11634-020-00420-9
Holden, Matthew H., Lee, Sharon and Yang, Wen-Hsi (2019). Foreword to the Special Issue on Natural Resource Mathematics. Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 24 (4), 365-367. doi: 10.1007/s10666-019-09677-7
McLachlan, Geoffrey J., Lee, Sharon X. and Rathnayake, Suren I. (2019). Finite mixture models. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 6 (1), 355-378. doi: 10.1146/annurev-statistics-031017-100325
Farzammehr, Mohadeseh Alsadat, Zadkarami, Mohammad Reza, McLachlan, Geoffrey J. and Lee, Sharon X. (2019). Skew-normal Bayesian spatial heterogeneity panel data models. Journal of Applied Statistics, 47 (5), 1-23. doi: 10.1080/02664763.2019.1657812
Lee, Sharon X., Leemaqz, Kaleb L. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2018). A Block EM Algorithm for Multivariate Skew Normal and Skew t-Mixture Models. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 29 (99) 8310916, 1-11. doi: 10.1109/TNNLS.2018.2805317
Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2018). EMMIXcskew: an R package for the fitting of a mixture of canonical fundamental skew t-distributions. Journal of Statistical Software, 83 (3). doi: 10.18637/jss.v083.i03
Lee, Sharon X., Ng, Shu-Kay and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2017). Finite mixture models in biostatistics. Handbook of Statistics, 36, 75-102.
Lin, Tsung-I, Wang, Wan-Lun, McLachlan, Geoffrey J. and Lee, Sharon X. (2017). Robust mixtures of factor analysis models using the restricted multivariate skew-t distribution. Statistical Modelling, 18 (1), 50-72. doi: 10.1177/1471082X17718119
Ahfock, Daniel, Pyne, Saumyadipta, Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2016). Partial identification in the statistical matching problem. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 104, 79-90. doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2016.06.005
McLachlan, Geoffrey J. and Lee, Sharon X. (2016). Comment on "On nomenclature for, and the relative merits of, two formulations of skew distributions," by A. Azzalini, R. Browne, M. Genton, and P. McNicholas. Statistics & Probability Letters, 116, 1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.spl.2016.04.004
Lee, Sharon X and McLachlan, Geoffrey J (2016). Finite mixtures of canonical fundamental skew t-distributions: The unification of the restricted and unrestricted skew t-mixture models. Statistics and Computing, 26 (3), 573-589. doi: 10.1007/s11222-015-9545-x
Lin, Tsung-I, McLachlan, Geoffrey J. and Lee, Sharon X. (2016). Extending mixtures of factor models using the restricted multivariate skew-normal distribution. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 143, 398-413. doi: 10.1016/j.jmva.2015.09.025
Lee, Sharon X., McLachlan, Geoffrey J. and Pyne, Saumyadipta (2016). Modeling of inter-sample variation in flow cytometric data with the joint clustering and matching procedure. Cytometry Part A, 89 (1), 30-43. doi: 10.1002/cyto.a.22789
Pyne, Saumyadipta, Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2015). Nature and man: the goal of bio-security in the course of rapid and inevitable human development. Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 69 (2), 117-125.
Lin, Tsung-I, Wu, Pal H., McLachlan, Geoffrey J. and Lee, Sharon X. (2014). A robust factor analysis model using the restricted skew-t distribution. Test, 24 (3), 510-531. doi: 10.1007/s11749-014-0422-2
Pyne, Saumyadipta, Lee, Sharon X., Wang, Kui, Irish, Jonathan, Tamayo, Pablo, Nazaire, Marc-Danie, Duong, Tarn, Ng, Shu-Kay, Hafler, David, Levy, Ronald, Nolan, Garry P., Mesirov, Jill and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2014). Joint modeling and registration of cell populations in cohorts of high-dimensional flow cytometric data. PLoS One, 9 (7) e100334, e100334.1-e100334.11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100334
Lee, Sharon and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2014). Finite mixtures of multivariate skew t-distributions: Some recent and new results. Statistics and Computing, 24 (2), 181-202. doi: 10.1007/s11222-012-9362-4
Lee S.X. and McLachlan G.J. (2013). EMMIXuskew: An R package for Fitting Mixtures of Multivariate Skew t distributions via the EM algorithm. Journal of Statistical Software, 55 (12), 1-22. doi: 10.18637/jss.v055.i12
Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2013). Model-based clustering and classification with non-normal mixture distributions. Statistical Methods and Applications, 22 (4), 427-454. doi: 10.1007/s10260-013-0237-4
Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2013). Rejoinder to the discussion of "Model-based clustering and classification with non-normal mixture distributions". Statistical Methods and Applications, 22 (4), 473-479. doi: 10.1007/s10260-013-0249-0
Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2013). On mixtures of skew normal and skew t-distributions. Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, 7 (3), 241-266. doi: 10.1007/s11634-013-0132-8
Conference Papers
Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2021). On Mean And/or Variance Mixtures of Normal Distributions. 12th Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society (CLADAG 2019), Cassino, Italy, 11–13 September 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-69944-4_13
Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2020). Modelling asset return using multivariate asymmetric mixture models with applications to estimation of Value-at-Risk. 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Adapting to Change: The Multiple Roles of Modelling, MODSIM 2013 , Adelaide, SA, Australia, 1 - 6 December 2013. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc. (MSSANZ).
Lee, Sharon X., Leemaqz, Kaleb L. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2019). PPEM: privacy-preserving EM learning for mixture models. 8th International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security, ATIS 2017, Auckland, New Zealand, 6-7 July 2017. Oxford, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/cpe.5208
McLachlan, Geoffrey J. and Lee, Sharon X. (2019). Flexible modelling via multivariate skew distributions. Research School on Statistics and Data Science (RSSDS 2019), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 24–26 July 2019. Singapore, Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-1960-4_4
Lee, Sharon X. (2019). CytoFA: automated gating of mass cytometry data via robust skew factor analzyers. 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2019), Macau, China, 14-17 April 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-16148-4_40
Lee, Sharon X. (2017). Mining high-dimensional CyTOF data: Concurrent gating, outlier removal, and dimension reduction. 28th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2017, Brisbane, QLD, 25–28 September 2017. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-68155-9_14
Leemaqz, Kaleb L., Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2017). Corruption-resistant privacy preserving distributed EM algorithm for model-based clustering. 2017 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ICESS, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1 - 4 August 2017. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/Trustcom/BigDataSE/ICESS.2017.356
Leemaqz, Kaleb L., Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2017). Privacy distributed three-party learning of Gaussian mixture models. International Conference on Applications and Technologies in Information Security (ATIS), Auckland, New Zealand, 6-7 July 2017. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-5421-1_7
Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2016). On mixture modelling with multivariate skew distributions. COMPSTAT: International Conference on Computational Statistics, Oviedo, Spain, 23-26 August 2016. The Hague, The Netherlands: The International Statistical Institute/International Association for Statistical Computing.
Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2016). Unsupervised component-wise EM learning for finite mixtures of skew t-distributions. 12th International Conference, ADMA 2016, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 12-15 December 2016. New York, NY, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-49586-6_49
Lee, Sharon X., Leemaqz, Kaleb L. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2016). A simple parallel EM algorithm for statistical learning via mixture models. International Conference on Digital Image Computing, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 30 November - 2 December,2016. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers). doi: 10.1109/DICTA.2016.7796997
Lee, Sharon X. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2013). Modelling asset return using multivariate asymmetric mixture models with applications to estimation of Value-at-Risk. International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 1/12/2013/6/12/2013. Melbourne, Australia: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.
Lee, Sharon (2012). Polynomial approximations for bit error probability for 4-DPSK transmission. 6th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), Gold Coast, Australia, 12-14 December 2012. Piscatawa, NJ United States: I E E E. doi: 10.1109/ICSPCS.2012.6507946
Lee, Sharon (2010). Accurate approximations of BER for DQPSK transmission via Least Squares estimation of the Marcum Q-function. ICSPCS'2010: 4th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 13-15 December, 2010. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICSPCS.2010.5709710