Garth Tarr

General Information

• I am a PhD student and Postgraduate Teaching Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney.
• CV (updated: Jan 2012)

Contact Information

Mr Garth Tarr School of Mathematics and Statistics F07 The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia   Office: Carslaw Building Room 806 Phone: +61 2 9351 5767 Fax: +61 2 9351 4534 Email: garth.tarr@sydney.edu.au

Research

• I am a member of the Statistics Research Group.
• Areas of interest:
• U-quantile statistics
• Robust statistics
• Confidence interval construction for quantile regression estimates

Publications and Presentations

• Tarr, G., Müller, S. and Weber, N.C., (2012). A robust scale estimator based on pairwise means. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 24(1) 187-19. DOI: 10.1080/10485252.2011.621424 (R code)
• Tarr, G., (2012). Small sample performance of quantile regression confidence intervals. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 82(1), 81-94. DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2010.527844
• Efficient and robust scale estimation. ICORS 2011 - International Conference on Robust Statistics, Valladolid, Spain. (pdf)
• Quantile Regression Confidence Intervals: Theoretical Exposition and Empirical Findings. (2009) Young Statisticians Conference, Sydney, Australia. (pdf)

Learning and Teaching

• I am the senior mentor for the Faculty of Science Tutor and Demonstrator Training Program.
• In semester 1 2011 and 2012, I delivered a series of lectures first year pharmacy students on Data Analysis.
• I have tutored a range of subjects in both statistics and econometrics:
  • MATH1005 Statistics (S2 2008, S2 2009, S2 2010);
  • MATH1905 Statistics (Advanced) (S2 2010, S2 2011);
  • MATH1015 Biostatistics (S1 2009, S1 2010, S1 2011, S1 2012);
  • MATH1003 Integral Calculus and Modelling (SS 2011);
  • STAT2012 Statistical Tests (S2 2011);
  • STAT3012 Applied Linear Models (S1 2012);
  • STAT3013 Statistical Inference (S2 2011);
  • ECMT6002 Econometric Applications (S2 2008, S2 2009, S2 2010, S2 2011);
  • ECMT5001 Principles of Econometrics (S2 2009);
  • ECMT3110 Econometric Models and Methods (S1 2010, S1 2011, S1 2012);
  • ECMT3120 Applied Econometrics (S2 2008);
  • ECMT1020 Business and Economic Statistics B (S2 2010); and
  • the statistics component for various first and second year pharmacy units.

Teaching Timetable

Last revised 5/04/12.