School of Mathematics and Physics

Dr Alan Huang

Senior Lecturer
School of Mathematics and Physics
+61 7 336 52315
Priestley Building (67), Room 645
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Teaching and learning

Dr Huang teaches 1st and 3rd year statistics, including analysis of scientific data. 

Researcher biography

Dr Huang has an Honours degree in Science (Advanced Mathematics) from the University of Sydney, and a PhD (Statistics) from the University of Chicago on a McCormick Fellowship. He previously lectured at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Technology Sydney, before moving to the University of Queensland where he is currently the Statistics Major Convenor and Mathematics Honours Coordinator.

Publications

Journal Articles (15)
Conference Paper (1)

Journal Articles

Philipson, Pete and Huang, Alan (2023). A fast look-up method for Bayesian mean-parameterised Conway-Maxwell-Poisson regression models. Statistics and Computing, 33 (4) 81, 1-16. doi: 10.1007/s11222-023-10244-0
Huang, Alan (2022). On arbitrarily underdispersed discrete distributions. The American Statistician, 77 (1), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/00031305.2022.2106305
Warne, Michael St.J., Turner, Ryan D.R., Davis, Aaron.M., Smith, Rachael and Huang, A. (2022). Temporal variation of imidacloprid concentration and risk in waterways discharging to the Great Barrier Reef and potential causes. Science of the Total Environment, 823 153556, 153556. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153556
Huang, Alan, Sippel, Lucas and Fung, Thomas (2021). Consistent second-order discrete kernel smoothing using dispersed Conway–Maxwell–Poisson kernels. Computational Statistics, 37 (2), 551-563. doi: 10.1007/s00180-021-01144-w
Huang, A. and Kim, A. S. I. (2019). Bayesian Conway–Maxwell–Poisson regression models for overdispersed and underdispersed counts. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 50 (13), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/03610926.2019.1682162
Zhang, Nanxi and Huang, Alan (2018). Profile likelihood ratio tests for parameter inferences in generalised single-index models. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 30 (4), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/10485252.2018.1506121
Huang, Alan (2017). Mean-parametrized Conway-Maxwell-Poisson regression models for dispersed counts. Statistical Modelling: An International Journal, 17 (6), 359-380. doi: 10.1177/1471082X17697749
Huang, Alan (2017). On generalized estimating equations for vector regression. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 59 (2), 195-213. doi: 10.1111/anzs.12191
Huang, Alan and Rathouz, Paul J. (2017). Orthogonality of the mean and error distribution in generalized linear models. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 46 (7), 3290-3296. doi: 10.1080/03610926.2013.851241
Huang, Alan (2014). Joint estimation of the mean and error distribution in generalized linear models. Journal of The American Statistical Association, 109 (505), 186-196. doi: 10.1080/01621459.2013.824892
Gloag, Erin S., Turnbull, Lynne, Huang, Alan, Vallotton, Pascal, Wang, Huabin, Nolan, Laura M., Mililli, Lisa, Hunt, Cameron, Lu, Jing, Osvath, Sarah R., Monahan, Leigh G., Cavaliere, Rosalia, Charles, Ian G., Wand, Matt P., Gee, Michael L., Prabhakar, Ranganathan and Whitchurch, Cynthia B. (2013). Self-organization of bacterial biofilms is facilitated by extracellular DNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110 (28), 11541-11546. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1218898110
Huang, Alan and Wand, M. P. (2013). Simple marginally noninformative prior distributions for covariance matrices. Bayesian Analysis, 8 (2), 439-452. doi: 10.1214/13-BA815
Huang, Alan (2013). Density estimation and nonparametric inferences using maximum likelihood weighted kernels. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 25 (3), 561-571. doi: 10.1080/10485252.2013.797090
Huang, Alan and Rathouz, Paul J. (2012). Proportional likelihood ratio models for mean regression. Biometrika, 99 (1), 223-229. doi: 10.1093/biomet/asr075
Huang, Alan, Jin, Rungao and Robinson, John (2009). Robust permutation tests for two samples. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139 (8), 2631-2642. doi: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.12.003

Conference Paper

Wang, Xun, Williams, Mary-Anne, Gardenfors, Peter, Vitale, Jonathan, Abidi, Shaukat, Johnston, Benjamin, Kuipers, Benjamin and Huang, Alan (2014). Directing human attention with pointing. 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, IEEE RO-MAN 2014, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 25 - 29 August 2014. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926249

Areas of research

Statistics, probability and data science