Professor Stephen Haslett
BSc, BA (Hons), PhD, FSS, CStat (UK)
Former Director, Statistical Consulting Unit
College of Business& Economics
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+61 2 6125 0562
Biography
Stephen Haslett is a former Professor and Director of the Statistical Consulting Unit. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Chartered Statistician (UK), and formerly President of the New Zealand Statistical Association and Managing Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics. Stephen has been a statistical consultant for over 30 years during which time he has published over 100 academic papers and written more than 120 research and consulting reports. His published papers are in a wide range of journals including Mathematical Statistics, Medicine, Health Sciences, Psychology, Human Development, Political Science, History, the Humanities, Social Sciences, Zoology, Botany, Marine Biology, Ecology, Economics, Veterinary Science, Horticulture, Agriculture, Labour Relations, Financial Auditing, Criminology, Geology, Epidemiology, Law, Business, Developmental Psychology, Sociology, Linguistics, and Education. Over the last ten years he has been principal statistician in a range of large scale statistical modelling projects for small area estimation of poverty and of undernutrition in children for the United Nations in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, and Timor-Leste. He has also been involved extensively in research in Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu, as well as in Finland, New Zealand, UK and USA.
Publications
- Beck, K, Jones, B, Ullah, I et al 2018, 'Associations between dietary patterns, socio-demographic factors and anthropometric measurements in adult New Zealanders: an analysis of data from the 2008/09 New Zealand Adult Nutrition Survey', European Journal of Nutrition, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 1421-1433pp.
- Bilton, P, Jones, G, Ganesh, S et al 2017, 'Classification trees for poverty mapping', Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, vol. 115, pp. 53-66pp.
- Smith, H & Haslett, S 2017, 'Children's rights in education research: from aims to outcomes', Cambridge Journal of Education, 47(3):413-438.
- Smith, H & Haslett, S 2016, 'Design and implementation issues in surveying the views of young children in ethnolinguistically diverse developing country contexts', International Journal of Research and Method in Education, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 131-150.
- Smith, P, Renner, R & Haslett, S 2016, 'Compositional Data in Neuroscience: If You've Got It, Log It!', Journal of Neuroscience Methods, vol. 271, pp. 154-159.
- Burja, K, Haslett, S, Hollema, S et al 2016, 'Why highly disaggregated undernutrition maps are vital in the Sustainable Development Goal Era, Panel 8.4', in (ed.), Global Nutrition Report 2016: From Promise to Impact: Ending Malnutrition by 2030, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C., pp. 107,143,147,158,152.
- Smith, H & Haslett, S 2016, 'Design and implementation issues in surveying the views of young children in ethnolinguistically diverse developing country contexts', International Journal of Research and Method in Education, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 131-150pp.
- Haslett, S 2016, 'Small Area Estimation Using Both Survey and Census Unit Record Data: Links, Alternatives, and the Central Roles of Regression and Contextual Variables', in Monica Pratesi (ed.), Analysis of Poverty Data by Small Area Estimation, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, West Sussex, United Kingdom, pp. 327-348.
- Isidro, M, Haslett, S & Jones, G 2016, 'Extended structure preserving estimation (ESPREE) for updating small area estimates of poverty', Annals of Applied Statistics, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 451-476.
- Haslett, S 2016, 'Positive semidefiniteness of estimated covariance matrices in linear models for sample survey data', Special Matrices, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 218-224.
- Haslett, S, Puntanen, S & Arendacká, B 2015, 'The link between the mixed and fixed linear models revisited', Statistical Papers, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 849-861.
- Adhikari, S, Sims, R, Haslett, S et al 2015, 'Improving Biogas production efficiency through co-digestion of cattle dung with crop residues: a case study in Nepal', International Conference on Sensing Technology ICST 2015, IEEE, New Zealand, pp. 803-810.
- Haslett, S, Isotalo, J, Liu, Y et al 2014, 'Equalities between OLSE, BLUE and BLUP in the linear model', Statistical Papers, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 543-561.
- Smith, P, Haslett, S & Zheng, Y 2013, 'A multivariate statistical and data mining analysis of spatial memory-related behaviour following bilateral vestibular loss in the rat', Behavioural Brain Research, vol. 246, no. 1, pp. 15-23.
- Haslett, S & Govindaraju, K 2012, 'Data cloning: Data visualisation, smoothing, confidentiality, and encryption', Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, vol. 142, no. 2, pp. 410-422.
- Haslett, S & Puntanen, S 2011, 'On the equality of the BLUPs under two linear mixed models', Metrika, vol. 74, no. 3, pp. 381-395.
- Frederick, H, Haslett, S, Wolfgramm, T et al 2011, 'Measuring entrepreneurial activity in low-teledensity countries', International Journal of Business and Globalisation, vol. 6, no. 3-4, pp. 251-291.
- Haslett, S & Jones, G 2010, 'Small-area estimation of poverty: The aid industry standard and its alternatives', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 341-362.
- Haslett, S & Puntanen, S 2010, 'Equality of BLUEs or BLUPs under two linear models using stochastic restrictions', Statistical Papers, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 465-475.
- Haslett, S & Puntanen, S 2010, 'Effect of adding regressors on the equality of the BLUEs under two linear models', Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, vol. 140, no. 1, pp. 104-110.
- Haslett, S, Isidro, M & Jones, G 2010, 'Comparison of survey regression techniques in the context of small area estimation of poverty', Survey Methodology, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 157-170.
- Haslett, S & Govindaraju, K 2009, 'Cloning data: Generating datasets with exactly the same multiple linear regression fit', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 499-503.
- Govindaraju, K & Haslett, S 2008, 'Illustration of regression towards the means', International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 544-550.
- Haslett, S & Hedderley, D 2008, 'Whiteside, M. M., and Eakin, M. E. (2008), "A better estimate of the number of valid signatures on a petition," The American Statistician, 62, 17-21: Comment by Haslett and Hedderley', The American Statistician, vol. 62, no. 3, p. 278.
- Haslett, J & Haslett, S 2007, 'The three basic types of residuals for a linear model', International Statistical Review, vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 1-24.
- Haslett, S, Millar, R, Newman, K et al 2006, 'Invited discussion of the paper by Domijan, Jorgensen & Reid', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 393-413.
- Fairburn, M & Haslett, S 2005, 'The rise of the left and working-class voting behavior in New Zealand: New methods', Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 523-555.
- Fairburn, M & Haslett, S 2005, 'Voter behaviour and the decline of the Liberals in Britain and New Zealand, 1911-29: some comparisons', Social History, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 195-217.
- Haslett, S 2004, 'Discussion on the meeting on 'The 2001 census and beyond'', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, vol. 167, no. 2, pp. 229-248.
- Scott, K, Sarfati, D, Tobias, M et al 2000, 'A challenge to the cross-cultural validity of the SF-36 health survey: factor structure in Maori, Pacific and New Zealand European ethnic groups', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 1655-1664.
- Spohr, A, Guilford, W, Haslett, S et al 1999, 'Use of breath hydrogen testing to detect experimentally induced disaccharide malabsorption in healthy adult dogs', American Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 836-840.
- Franken, M & Haslett, S 1999, 'Quantifying the Effect of Peer Interaction on Second Language Students' Written Argument Texts', New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 281-293.
- Scott, K, Tobias, M, Sarfati, D et al 1999, 'SF-36 health survey reliability, validity and norms for New Zealand', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 401-406.
- Forsyth, S, Guilford, W, Haslett, S et al 1998, 'Endoscopy of the gastroduodenal mucosa after carprofen, meloxicam and ketoprofen administration in dogs', Journal of Small Animal Practice, vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 421-424.
- Bissett, S, Guilford, W, Haslett, S et al 1998, 'Effect of five percent dehydration on breath hydrogen concentrations in dogs', American Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 245-249.
- Bissett, S, Spohr, A, Guilford, W et al 1998, 'Reproducibility of breath hydrogen concentration measurements in dogs after change of diet', American Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 59, no. 12, pp. 1523-1525.
