Research output per year
Research output per year
M.Sc., Ph.D.(Bath)
BS8 1JA
My research spans the area of statistical modelling, from the development of statistical methods to fit realistically complex statistical models to describe real-life problems, through the implementation of those models in statistical software to the application of the methods in several application areas.
Further details of my work are available at http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~frwjb/
Much of my computational work has been in the development of statistical software within the Centre for Multilevel Modelling that I direct wih Professor George Leckie and in particular in the development of the MLwiN and StatJR packages. I have also developed the software package MLPowSim for performing power calculations for multilevel models.
My methodological work has been with regard MCMC methods for fitting these multilevel models and also for tailoring MCMC algorithms for specific other models.
With regard applications I have worked on applying multilevel and other statistical models to problems as diverse as bullying in schools, assessing welfare in chickens, modelling herd breakdowns with TB in cattle, investigating nesting behaviour of great tits and the impact of class sizes on primary school children. Much of this work is in collaboration with discipline experts and I firmly believe that statistics and in particular statistical modelling is the glue that binds together interdisciplinary research
My research has been funded by various sources - my major funder has been the ESRC who have repeatedly funded my work over a 13 year period however I have also had my work or collaborative work funded by British Academy, Home Office, BBSRC, EPSRC, NERC, Wellcome, DEFRA, John Oldacre Foundation, RSPCA, DairyCo, UFAW and FAO.
My former ESRC research grants including a node in the Digital Social Research programme, developed the statistical software package STAT-JR and in particular it's eBook interface, facilities for creating statistical training materials and fitting models using small area estimation. More details are available at the multilevel modelling centre website: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/
Further information about Professor William Browne can be found here.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Browne, W. J. (Principal Investigator), Tzanakis, N. (Co-Investigator) & Charlton, C. M. J. (Co-Investigator)
1/03/18 → 31/07/19
Project: Research
Browne, W. J. (Principal Investigator), Charlton, C. M. J. (Co-Investigator) & Washbrook, E. V. (Co-Investigator)
1/04/16 → 1/04/18
Project: Research
Browne, W. J. (Principal Investigator), Goldstein, H. (Co-Investigator), Jones, K. (Co-Investigator), Leckie, G. B. (Co-Investigator), Moreau, L. (Co-Investigator), Parker, R. M. A. (Researcher) & Michaelides, D. (Researcher)
1/10/13 → 30/09/17
Project: Research
Deakin, A. (Creator), Mendl, M. (Creator), Browne, W. J. (Creator), Paul, E. S. (Creator) & Hodge, J. J. L. (Creator), Dryad, 2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.81r60, https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.81r60
Dataset
Stone, E. (Contributor), Zeale, M. R. K. (Contributor), Newson, S. E. (Contributor), Browne, W. J. (Contributor), Harris, S. (Contributor) & Jones, G. (Contributor), Dryad, 6 Jul 2016
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7vp80, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.7vp80
Dataset
Browne, W. J. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Browne, W. J. (Editorial board member)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Browne, W. J. (Keynote/plenary speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference