Department of Statistics

Gillian Heller - Publications

Book

De Jong, P and Heller GZ (2008). Generalized Linear Models for Insurance Data, Cambridge University Press.

Refereed journal articles

  1. Heller GZ, Forbes AB, Dear KBG, Jobling E, for the BCA Writing Group. Biostatistics @ Distance: A Model for Successful Multi-Institutional Delivery, The American Statistician, in press.

  2. Beath K, Heller GZ. Latent Trajectory Modelling of Multivariate Binary Data. Statistical Modelling, in press.

  3. Heller GZ, Stasinopoulos DM, Rigby RA, de Jong, P (2007). Mean and dispersion modelling for policy claims costs. Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 4, 281-292.

  4. Chow RT, Heller GZ, Barnsley L (2006). The effect of 300mW, 830nm laser on chronic neck pain: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study, Pain, 124: 201-210.

  5. Kaplan M, Herschel M, Hammerman C, Hoyer JD, Heller GZ, Stevenson DK (2006). Risk Factor Analysis For Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia In An African American Male Cohort:  The Importance Of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency, Journal of Pediatrics, 149: 83-88.

  6. Berzel A, Heller GZ, Zucchini W (2006). Estimating the Number of Visits to the Doctor. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 48(2): 213-224.

  7. Yu L, Schach SR, Chen K, Heller GZ, Offutt J (2006). Maintainability of the kernels of open-source operating systems: A comparison of Linux to FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD,  Journal of Systems and Software, 79(6): 807-815.

  8. Huynh SC, Kifley A, Rose KA, Morgan I, Heller GZ, Mitchell P (2006). Astigmatism and its Components in 6-Year-Old Children, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 47(1): 55-64.

  9. Siahpush M, Heller GZ, Singh GK (2005). Lower levels of occupation, income and education are strongly associated with a longer smoking duration: Multivariate results from the 2001 Australian National Drug Strategy Survey, Public Health, 119(12): 1105-1110.

  10. Durna EM, Heller GZ, Leader LR, Sjoblom P, Eden JA, Wren BG (2004). Breast cancer in premenopausal women: recurrence and survival rates and relationship to hormone replacement therapy, Climacteric, 7, 284-291.

  11. Kocsis RN, Heller GZ (2004). Believing Is Seeing II: Beliefs and Perceptions of Criminal Psychological Profiles, International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology, 48: 313-329.

  12. Chow RT, Barnsley L, Heller GZ, Siddall PJ (2004). A Pilot Study of Low-Power Laser Therapy in the Management of Chronic Neck Pain , Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain, 12(2), 71-81.

  13. Chen K, Schach SR, Yu L, Offutt J, Heller GZ (2004). Open-Source Change Logs, Empirical Software Engineering, 9(3), 197-210.

  14. Chow RT, Barnsley L, Heller GZ, Siddall PJ (2003). Efficacy of 300mW, 830nm Laser in the Treatment of Chronic Neck pain: A Survey in a General Practice Setting, Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain, 11(3), 13-21.

  15. Schach SR, Jin B, Yu L, Heller GZ, Offutt J (2003). "Determining the Distribution of Maintenance Categories: Survey versus Measurement," Empirical Software Engineering, 8, 351-365.

  16. Schach SR, Jin B, Wright DR, Heller GZ, Offutt J (2003). "Quality Impacts of Clandestine Common Coupling," Software Quality Journal, 11, 211-218.

  17. Kocsis RN, Heller GZ, Try AC (2003). Visual vs. Narrative Case Material: Their impact on criminal psychological profiling, International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology, 47(6), 664-676.

  18. Durna E, Wren BG, Heller GZ, Leader LR, Sjoblom, Eden JA. (2002). Hormone Replacement Therapy after a Diagnosis of Breast Cancer: Recurrence and Mortality, Medical Journal of Australia, 177(7), 347-351.

  19. Schach SR, Jin B, Wright DR, Heller GZ, Offutt AJ (2002). Maintainability of the Linux Kernel, IEE Proceedings – Software, 149(1), 18-23.

  20. Ratcliffe SJ, Leader LR, Heller GZ (2002). Functional Data Analysis with Application to Periodically Stimulated Fetal Heart Rate Data: I. Functional Regression, Statistics in Medicine, 21:1103-1114.

  21. Ratcliffe SJ, Heller GZ, Leader LR (2002). Functional Data Analysis with Application to Periodically Stimulated Fetal Heart Rate Data: II. Functional Logistic Regression, Statistics in Medicine, 21:1115-1127.

  22. Wang, S, Schach, SR, Heller GZ (2001). A Case Study in Repeated Maintenance, Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, 13(2): 127-141.

  23. Nand SL, Wren BG, Gross B, Heller GZ (1999). Bone Density Effects of Continuous Estrone Sulfate and Varying Doses of Medroxyprogesterone Acetate, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 93(6), 1009-1013.

  24. Nand SL, Wren BG, Gross B, Heller GZ (1998). Menopausal Symptom Control and Side Effects on Continuous Estrone Sulfate and Three Doses of Medroxyprogesterone Acetate, Climacteric, 1, 211-218.

  25. Heller GZ (1997). Estimation of the Number of Classes, South African Statistical Journal, 31, 65-90. (Invited paper)

  26. Hasofer, AM, Stein GZ (1990). Testing for Multivariate Normality after Coordinate Transformation, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 19, 1403 - 1418.

  27. Stein GZ, Juritz JM (1988). Linear Models with an Inverse Gaussian-Poisson Error Distribution, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 17, 557 - 571.

  28. Stein GZ (1988). Modelling Counts in Biological Populations, The Mathematical Scientist, 13, 56 - 65.

  29. Stein GZ, Zucchini W, Juritz JM (1987). Parameter Estimation for the Sichel Distribution and Its Multivariate Extension, J. American Statistical Association, 82, 938 - 944.

  30. Stein GZ, Juritz JM (1987). Bivariate Compound Poisson Distributions, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 16, 3591 - 3607.

Refereed conference proceedings

  1. Heller GZ, Stasinopoulos DM, Rigby RA (2007). Randomly Stopped Models, Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Barcelona, 323-328.

  2. Penman R, Heller GZ and Tyler J (2007). Modelling IVF Data using a Continuation Ratio Model, Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Barcelona, 485-489.

  3. Heller GZ, Stasinopoulos DM, Rigby RA (2006). The zero-adjusted Inverse Gaussian distribution as a model for insurance data. Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Galway, Ireland, 226-233.

  4. Feitelson DG, Heller  GZ, Schach SR (2006). An Empirically-Based Criterion for Determining the Success of an Open-Source Project, aswec, pp. 363-368,  Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC'06).

  5. Penman R, Heller GZ and Tyler J (2005). Modelling assisted  reproductive technology using an extended continuation ratio model, Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Sydney, 373-379.