The University of Western Australia

Asst/Prof Edward Cripps

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 3227

Fax

6488 1028

Email

edward.cripps@uwa.edu.au

Location

Room 1.06, Mathematics Building, Crawley campus

Qualifications

BEc W.Aust., BSc PhD NSW

Publications

Cheal, A., Macneil, M.,, Cripps, E., Emslie, M., Jonker, A., Schaffelke, B., and Sweatman, H. 'Coral-macroalgal phase shifts or reef resilience: links with diversity and functional roles of herbivorous fishes on the Great Barrier Reef.' (2010) Coral Reefs, 29(4), 1005-1015.

Thompson AA, Schaffelke B, De'ath AG, Cripps E and Sweatman HPA (2010) Water quality and ecosystem monitoring programme. Reef Water Quality Protection Plan. Synthesis and spatial analysis of inshore monitoring data 2005-08. Australian Institute of Marine Science. 78 p.

Cripps, E., Fiebig, D. and Kohn, R. 'Parsimonious estimation of the covariance matrix in mutlinomial probit models,’ (2010) Econometric Reviews, 29(2), 146-157.

Gu, Y., Cripps, E., Fiebig, D., Kohn, R. ‘Modelling heteroscedasticity and random effects in discrete choice models’ (2009) The Econometrics Journal, 12(2), pp 324-329.

Schaffelke B, Thompson AA, Carleton JH, Cripps E, Davidson J, Doyle JR, Furnas MJ, Gunn K, Neale SJ, Skuza MS, Uthicke S, Wright M and Zagorskis IE (2008) Water Quality and Ecosystem Monitoring Programme - Reef Water Quality Protection Plan. Final Report 2007/08. Australian Institute of Marine Science. 153 p.

Cripps, E., Nott, D. and Kohn R. (2006) ‘Bayesian subset selection and model averaging using centred and dispersed priors’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 48(2), pp 237-252.

Cripps, E., Carter, C. and Kohn, R. (2005) ‘Variable selection and covariance selection for multivariate regression models,’ Handbook of Statistics, vol 25, pp 523-556

Cripps, E., Dunsmuir, W.T.M., Nott, D. and Wikle, C. (2005) ‘Space-time modelling of Sydney Harbour Winds’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 47(1), pp 3-17

Carter, C., Wong, F., Kohn, R., and Cripps, E. (2004) 'A general approach for constructing priors for covariance selection models.' Proceedings of the Bayesian Statistical Science Section, American Statistical Association, JSM meeting, Toronto, August 2004.

Cripps, E. and Dunsmuir, W.T.M. (2003) ‘Modelling the variability of Sydney Harbour wind measurements,’ Journal of Applied Meteorology, 42(8), pp 1131-1138

Funding received

Prof D. Fiebig and Dr E. Cripps 2006: Australian Research Council Discovery Grant: $AU260, 000

Dr E. Cripps 2010: UWA Research Development Award: Understanding the Dynamics of Learning Behaviour in the Presence of Spiralling Effects: A Bayesian Approach using Mixtures-of-Random-Effects $AU10,500.

Industrial relevance

Cripps E., and Battershill, C., (2008) “Analysis of the effect of a seismic swathe on coral breakages on the Scott Reef, WA.” Produced for Environmental Resources Management Australia, on behalf of Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville.

Miller, I., Cripps, E, Venables, B (2008) “Maxima 3D Surveys at Scott Reef: Fish Diversity and Abundance. Shallow slope Fish Surveys using Underwater Visual Census.” Produced for Environmental Resources Management Australia on behalf of Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville.

Previous positions

2005-2006: Research Fellow School of Economics, UNSW, Sdyney Australia.
2007: Postdoctoral research Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK.
2008: Biostatistician at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia.

Teaching

STAT1400 Semester 2, 2010
STAT1520 Semester 2, 2009
STAT2226 Semester 2, 2009 and 2010
STAT3368 Semester 1 and 2 2010
STAT7449 Semester 1 2010.

Research profile

Research profile and publications