Simon N Wood

Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY UK; +44 (0)1225 386603; s.wood _at_ bath.ac.uk


Apologies if I have not replied to you on an mgcv related query: I've got rather behind on mgcv email, especially on the interesting stuff that requires thought.
I work as a professor of statistics at the university of Bath. I have two main research interests. A fuller list of papers is here (home-made version with added mistakes here.). In 2006 I published a book called Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R , which explains the smooth modelling part of my work in some detail.
Postdoctoral research position: I am interested in hearing from postdoctoral researchers with an interest in statistics and population dynamics for an upcoming postdoctoral project with the national centre for statistical ecology .
I am currently advising three PhD students: I am interested in taking on new PhD students for topics in smoothing and generalized additive modelling, and in statistics for ecological dynamic models. (The department has funding available for good EU/UK students, and, exceptionally, for students from outside the EU).
Here is a selection of talks. It's not exhaustive, but hopefully gives some idea of what I work on.
I am teaching 3 courses this year Here are a couple of examples of previous courses
  • mgcv - generalized additive (mixed) models and other generalized ridge regression for R.
  • Software
  • C.V. (not up to date).
  • Bath maps