Tony Desmond

Professor, Statistics
Email: 
tdesmond@uoguelph.ca
Phone number: 
519-824-4120 x52293
Office: 
MacNaughton 523

My research interests are in applications of statistics in Health (e.g. Survival Analysis) and Wealth (e.g. Financial Statistics). Together with graduate students and collaborators, both Canadian and International, I am exploring novel models for survival of individuals both in clinical settings and for observational data. Many of these models can also be applied to reliability engineering and finance. I am currently interested and active in exploring extensions of these models to Big Data, which presents major computational and theoretical challenges.

  • Survival analysis
  • Reliability modelling
  • Statistics in finance
  • Statistical learning (Big Data)
  • Stochastic processes
  • History of statistics

  • Kelly Investing with Iteratively Updated Estimates of the Probability of Success
    Zheng (Michelle) Song, Master of Science (2018).

  • Exploring Prediction Error in High-Dimensional Data with Cox-Boosting and Random Survival Forests
    Ronne Tamayo, Master of Science (2017). 

  • A Comparison of Two Modelling Approaches to Reliability Data
    Vincent P. Glavine, Master of Science (2017). 

  • Quantifying Health: Measuring the Impact of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation on Health-Related Quality of Life
    Emma Jean Smith, Master of Science (2017). 

  • Time Series Models: Financial Data Analysis and Forecasting of Stock Prices
    Cristiano Gratton, Master of Science (2016).

  • Statistical Methods for Clinical Data Analysis with Application to Clostridium Difficile Infection.
    Tatiana Pethukova, Doctor of Philosophy (2015).

B.Sc. (University College Cork).

M.Sc. (University College Cork).

Ph.D. (University of Waterloo).