I also have a basic official page, which includes my contact details and publication list.
I am a Senior Lecturer in Statistics at the School of Mathematics, Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Kent.
I
have five joint papers with Frank Ball and two with Frank Ball and Tom Britton
(all on aspects of stochastic epidemics in a population of households) which
have now appeared:
I spoke at ISI99 in Helsinki in August 1999 (the International Statistical Institute's biennial conference) on some of my work with Frank Ball. Our paper appears in the ISI99 proceedings, and is available locally in PDF and also in PostScript. The citation details are:
Lyne, O. and Ball, F. (1999) Parameter Estimation for SIR epidemics in households. Bull. Int. Statist. Inst. 52nd Session Contributed Papers, Tome LVIII, Book 2, 251-252.
Ball, F. and Lyne, O.D. (2001) Stochastic multitype SIR epidemics among a population partitioned into households. Adv. Appl. Prob., 33, 99-123.
Ball, F.G. and Lyne, O.D. (2002) Epidemics among a population of households. In: C. Castillo-Chavez et al. Mathematical Approaches for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases Part II: Models, Methods and Theory, IMA vol. 126, Springer-Verlag New York, 115-142.
This paper stems from a talk I gave at DESTOBIO 2000 at Purdue in August
2000 and has appeared in the conference proceedings (published in Mathematical
Biosciences) as:
Ball, F.G. and Lyne, O.D. (2002) Optimal vaccination policies for stochastic
epidemics among a population of households, Mathematical Biosciences, Volumes
177-178, May-June 2002, Pages 333-354.
Ball, F.G., Britton, T. and Lyne, O.D. (2004) Stochastic multitype epidemics in a community of households: Estimation of threshold parameter R* and secure vaccination coverage, Biometrika, Volume 91, Issue 2, 345-362.
Ball, F.G., Britton, T. and Lyne, O.D. (2004) Stochastic multitype epidemics in a community of households: estimation and form of optimal vaccination schemes, Mathematical Biosciences, Volume 191, Issue 1, pages 19-40 (September 2004).
Ball, F.G. and Lyne, O.D. (2006) Optimal vaccination schemes for epidemics among a population of households, with application to variola minor in Brazil, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 15, 481-497.
I
worked with some Iranian collaborators in the area of Medical Education (ie the training of medics) and we published an article in BMC Medical Education in
2005 titled A quantitative survey of intern's knowledge of communication
skills: an Iranian exploration.
I have worked with colleagues on assessing the effectiveness of protected areas for preventing deforestations and we published the following article:
Gaveau, D.L.A., Epting, J., Lyne, O., Linkie, M., Kumara, I., Kanninen, M. and Leader-Williams, N. (2009) Evaluating whether protected areas reduce tropical deforestation in Sumatra, Journal of Biogeography, 36, 2165-2175.
I have worked also in medical statistics, publishing the following two articles:
Olaleye, O., Ekrikpo, U., Moorthy, R., Lyne, O., Wiseberg, J., Black, M. and Mitchell, D. (2011) Increasing incidence of differentiated thyroid cancer in South East England: 1987-2006, European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head & Neck, 268, 899-906.
Olaleye, O., Arfeen, F., Watts M., Lyne, O., Sharp, H., Black, M. and Mitchell, D. (2011), A Seasonal Variation To Epistaxis In East Kent, UK, The Internet Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, 12, Number 2.
From
October 1997 to July 2004 I worked in the School of Mathematical Sciences
at the University of Nottingham,
initially as postdoctoral research associate, then as a fixed-term lecturer in
statistics. During that time I worked with Professor
Frank Ball on stochastic epidemic modelling.
From September 1996 to October 1997 I was the statistician of the Winnicott research unit in the Department of Psychology (now the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences ) at the University of Reading, where I worked on studies of the effects of maternal postnatal depression on infant development.
In December 1996 I gained my PhD (submitted Sep 96, viva Nov 96, graduated Dec 96) from the School (now Department) of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath, where I'd been from October 1993 to September 1996. My thesis was titled "Probability and analysis for a hyperbolic coupled PDE system". The abstract is available as PostScript, PDF, HTML or plain text. Also available is the abstract for a talk I gave on my work, as HTML or plain text.
Most of my thesis has been published in the Electronic
Journal of Probability. I have a sole authored paper (paper 14) in Volume 5
(2000) entitled Travelling
waves for a certain first-order coupled PDE system.
Citation details:
Lyne, O.D. (2000) Travelling waves for a certain first-order coupled PDE
system. Electron. J. Probab., 5, paper 14, 1-40.
A second paper, joint with David Williams, appears as paper 20 of Volume 6
(2001) entitled Weak Solutions
for a Simple Hyperbolic System.
Citation details:
Lyne, O.D. and Williams, D. (2001) Weak Solutions for a Simple Hyperbolic
System, Electron. J. Probab., 6, paper 20, 1-21.
Before that I studied Mathematics (1989-1992) at Churchill College, University of Cambridge and did the Diploma in Mathematical Statistics (1992-1993).
Before that I went to Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Faversham from 1982 to 1989.
I run
Canterbury Junior Chess Club. For information about this see the CJCC webpage.
I
used to maintain (somewhat sporadically!) the FAQ for the board game Risk! This
is the Risk FAQ
5.61 (which was last updated on Jan 9th, 2006). Comments are always welcome
(though changes are no longer implemented).