The University of Western Australia

Asst/Prof Steve Su

Assistant Professor
School of Mathematics and Statistics

Contact details

Address

School of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of Western Australia (M019)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 3369

Fax

6488 1028

Email

steve.su@uwa.edu.au

Location

Room 1.17, Mathematics Building, Crawley campus

Qualifications

BSc(Hons) BCom Auck., PhD Qld UT, ATCL

Key research

Generalised lambda distributions and its applications, density estimation, statistics in accounting and business, statistics in medicine, statistics computing

Publications

•S. Su (In Press) “Maximum Log Likelihood Estimation using EM Algorithm and Partition Maximum Log Likelihood Estimation for Mixtures of Generalized Lambda Distributions.” Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

•Lin, J., M. Fransen, X. Kang, H. Li, Y. Ke, Z. Wang, Y. Zhang, and S. Su. (2010). Marked disability and high use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs among people with painful knee osteoarthritis in rural China: a cross-sectional population-based survey. Arthritis Research & Therapy 12 (6):R225.

•Lin, J., M. Fransen, X. Kang, H. Li, Y. Ke, Z. Wang, Y. Zhang and S. Su (2010). "Disability and common treatment strategies associated with knee pain in a rural Chinese population: The Wuchuan Osteoarthritis Study." National Medical Journal of China 90(21): 1477-1481.

•Webster, R., S. Li, D. Sullivan, K. Jayne, S. Su and B. Neal (2010). "Effects of International based tailored advice on the use of cholesterol lowering interventions-a randomised controlled trial." Journal of Medical Internet Research 12(3): e421:1-13.

•Colin, A., M. Falta, S. Su, L. Turner, R. Willet, and R. Wolff. (In Press). A Statistical Activity Cost Analysis of the Relationship between Physical and Financial Aspects of Fixed Assets. Engineering Asset Management Review.

•Su, S. (2010). Chapter 28: Distributional Modeling of Pipeline Leakage Repair Costs for a Water Utility Company. Handbook of Distribution Fitting Methods with R. Z. Karian and E. Dudewicz. Boca Raton, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis: 1672.

•Su, S. (2010). Chapter 15: Fitting GLD to data Using the GLDEX 1.0.4 in R. Handbook of Distribution Fitting Methods with R. Z. Karian and E. Dudewicz. Boca Raton, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis: 1672.

•Su, S. (2010). Chapter 14: Fitting GLD to Data via Quantile Matching Method. Handbook of Distribution Fitting Methods with R. Z. Karian and E. Dudewicz. Boca Raton, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis: 1672.

•Anderson, C. S., Y. Huang, H. Arima, E. Heeley, C. Skulina, M. W. Parsons, B. Peng, Q. Li, S. Su, Q. L. Tao, Y. C. Li, J. D. Jiang, L. W. Tai, J. L. Zhang, E. Xu, Y. Cheng, L. B. Morgenstern, J. Chalmers and J. G. Wang (2010). "Effects of early intensive blood pressure lowering treatment on the growth of hematoma and perihematomal edema in acute intracerebral hemorrhage: the INTERACT trial." Stroke. 41: 307-312.

•Arima, H., J. G. Wang, Y. Huang, E. Heeley, C. Skulina, M. W. Parsons, B. Peng, Q. Li, S. Su, Q. L. Tao, Y. C. Li, J. D. Jiang, L. W. Tai, J. L. Zhang, E. Xu, Y. Cheng, L. B. Morgenstern, J. Chalmers, and A. Anderson. (2009). "Significance of perihematomal edema in acute intracerebral hemorrhage: the INTERACT trial." Neurology. 73: 1963-1968.

•Su, S. (2009). "Correcting regression dilution problem using direct adjustment method." Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics 29 (1):25-37.

•Bellomo, R., A. Cass, L. Cole, S. Finfer, M. Gallagher, S. Lo, C. McArthur, S. McGuinness, J, Myburgh, R. Norton, S. Su. (2009) “Intensity of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in Critically Ill Patients” The New England Journal of Medicine 361(17):1627-1638

•Su, S. (2009). "Confidence Intervals for Quantiles Using Generalized Lambda Distributions." Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 53(9): 3324-3333.

•Finfer, S., D. Chittock, S. Su, D. Blair, D. Foster, R. Bellomo, D. Cook, W. Henderson, P. Hébert, S. Heritier, D. Heyland, C. McArthur, E. McDonald, I. Mitchell, J. Myburgh, R. Norton, J. Potter, B. Robinson and J. Ronco (2009). "Intensive versus Conventional Glucose Control in Critically Ill Patients." The New England Journal of Medicine 360(13): 1283-1297.

•Kang, X., M. Fransen, Y. Zhang, H. Li, Y. Ke, M. Lu, S. Su, X. Song, Y. Guo, J. Chen, J. Niu, D. Felson and J. Lin (2009). "The High Prevalence of Knee Osteoarthritis in a Rural Chinese Population: The Wuchuan Osteoarthritis Study." Arthritis Care & Research 61(5): 641-647.

•Finfer, S., A. Cass, M. Gallagher, J. Lee, S. Su and R. Bellomo (2009). "The RENAL (Randomised Evaluation of Normal vs. Augmented Level of Replacement Therapy) study: statistical analysis plan." Critical Care and Resuscitation 11(1).

•Bi, Y., R. Gao, A. Patel, S. Su, W. Gao, D. Hu, D. Huang, L. Kong, W. Qi, Y. Wu, Y. Yang and F. Turnbull (2009). "Evidence-based medication use among Chinese patients with acute coronary syndromes at the time of hospital discharge and 1 year after hospitalization: Results from the Clinical Pathways for Acute Coronary Syndromes in China (CPACS) study." American Heart Journal 157(3): 509-516.

•Stevenson, M., J. Yu, D. Hendrie, L.-P. Li, R. Ivers, Y. Zhou, S. Su and R. Norton (2008). "Reducing the burden of road traffic injury: translating high-income country interventions to middle-income and low-income countries." Injury Prevention 14: 284-289.

•Su, S. (2007). "Fitting Single and Mixture of Generalized Lambda Distributions to Data via Discretized and Maximum Likelihood Methods: GLDEX in R." Journal of Statistical Software 21(9).

•Su, S. (2007). "Numerical Maximum Log Likelihood Estimation for Generalized Lambda Distributions" Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 51 (8) 3983-3998

•Su, S. (2007). "Optimal Smoothing of Profit via Overhead Allocation " Abacus. 43 (2) 136-155

•Su. S. (2007) “Distributional Modelling Of Pipeline Leakage Repair Costs For A Water Utility” American Journal Of Mathematical And Management Sciences: 27 (3-4) 369-400
Thomas L Saaty Prize 2008- Applied Advances in Mathematical and Management Sciences

•Su, S. (2006). "To Match or Not to Match Revisited." The ICFAI Journal of Accounting Research V(1): 7-19.

•Colin, A., M. Falta, S. Su, L. Turner, R. Willet and R. Wolff (2006). A Statistical Activity Cost Analysis of the Relationship between Physical and Financial Aspects of Fixed Assets. Proceedings First World Congress on Engineering Asset Management Paper (WCEAM), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

•Su, S. (2005). “A Discretized Approach to Flexibly Fit Generalized Lambda Distributions to Data” Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods November.

•Su, S. (2005). "To Match or Not Match?" The British Accounting Review 37(1): 1-21.

•Su, S., B. McArdle, K. Rodgers and C. Hollis (2003). "Wavelet analysis of variations in geochemical and microfossil data across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary at Flaxbourne River, New Zealand." New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 46: 199-208.

Funding received

•UWA Research Development Award: “A Novel, Unified Approach to Portfolio Optimisation in Finance” (2012-$17834.80) (CI: Steve Su)

•Information Management and Data Analysis Tool for Physi-Trace
Investigators: Prof Garry Lee (CFS-UWA), Prof John Watling (CFS-UWA), Dr Darryl D’Souza (APL), Assoc Prof David Glance (C Software Practice-UWA), Dr Steve Su (Maths – UWA)
Amount: $206,782.00 over 18 months.
Funding Organisation: CRC Pork

•UWA Teaching and Learning Grant: "Designing and implementing anime videos to illustrate the concepts of confidence interval and p-values in statistics" (2011-$2552) (CI: Steve Su)

•UWA Research Collaboration Grant “Advancing medical biostatistics research and training through collaboration between UWA, the George Institute for International Health and the University of Sydney” (2010 - $1500) (CI: Steve Su)

•The University of Sydney Bridging Support Grant “The maximum recovery after knee replacement (MARKER) study. Bridging grant from University of Sydney” (2009 - $50,000) (CIs: Marlene Fransen, Lyn March, Jack Crosbie, Ross Crawford, Stephen Graves. AI: Steve Su)

Industrial relevance

Cooperative Research Centre for Integrated Engineering Asset Management, Australian Royal Navy, Building Services Australia, SunWater, FoodSpectrum, The George Institute for International Health, TSW Analytical.

Languages

English, Mandarin

Memberships

American Statistical Association

FASE member

Honours and awards

•Top 5 lecturer in UWA from Lectureroftheyear.com.au in 2010.

•Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of High Energetic Materials from 2010

•Thomas L Saaty Prize 2008- Applied Advances in Mathematical and Management Sciences

•Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry) for PhD study from 2001-2004 at Queensland University of Technology, Australia [Tax exempt at $27,328 AUD for 3 years]

•Faculty of Science Study Award for honours study 2000-University of Auckland, New Zealand [$2500 NZD]

•Senior Prize in statistics (1998) from University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Previous positions

2006-April 2009: Statistician-The George Institute for International Health-Affiliated with University of Sydney, Australia

2007-2009: Conjoint lecturer in statistics in central medical school-University of Sydney, Australia

2004-2006: Post-doctoral fellow-Business faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

2002: Statistical Consultant-Human Movement, University of Queensland, Australia

2000-2001: Statistics Consultant-Biometrics Unit, University of Adelaide, Australia

1999-2000 Teaching Assistant- Statistics Department- University of Auckland, New Zealand

1999: Contract computing/statistics consultant for Chickabiddy Co. Taiwan, Republic of China

Teaching

Online video on p-value and confidence interval:

http://youtu.be/pP-uunIhFxI



STAT1520 S2 2009 S1 2010 S2 2010 S1 2011 and 2012 [Economic and Business Statistics]
STAT2227 S1 2011 [Applied Linear Modelling]
MATH7421 S1 2010 S1 2011 [Financial Mathematics]
MATH1020 S1 2010 S2 2010 S1 2011 [Calculus, Probability and Statistics]
STAT7448 S2 2010 [Sample Surveys]
STAT1400 S2 2010 [Statistics for Science]

Current external positions

•Associate Editor: British Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science, International Journal of Medical and Clinical Research, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Letters

Research profile

Research profile and publications