Peter J. Diggle
Division of Medicine,
Lancaster University,
Lancaster,
LA1 4YB,
UK
Phone: 1524-593957
email: p.diggle@lancaster.ac.uk
I play badminton with Mandy, Jono and Hannah, exercise on
my rowing machine and cycle less often than I should.
I play guitar (folk and blues) and tenor recorder (early music for preference), the latter with an
informal recorder consort.
I listen to all kinds of music, but
particularly like jazz (especially Charlie Parker and John Coltrane) and Italian opera.
My boyhood hero was Stirling Moss. I still take an interest in classic cars and historic motor racing.
I enjoy cooking and eating. My favourite restaurants include Heathcote's and The Bay Horse.
My favourite authors include George Orwell and Nigel Slater.
Mandy's web-page has more photos of family and friends,....
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/diggle/
Research interests
My main methodological research interests are in spatial statistics,
longitudinal data analysis and environmental epidemiology. Most of my research
is motivated by applications in the biomedical, clinical or health sciences.
Positions held
At Lancaster University: Distinguished University Professor in CHICAS,
and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Health and Medicine
Elsewhere: Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University School of Public
Health;
Adjunct Senior Researcher in the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University; trustee for Biometrika;
founding joint editor of Biostatistics;
former member of the Medical Research Council's Populations and Systems Medicine Research Board;
former member of NIHR Research for Patient Benefit North West Review Panel;
former member of UK Transplant Patients' Forum.
Curriculum vitae
My CV gives more details, including publications, grants, ...
Statistics and Scientific Method: an Introduction for Students and Researchers
The
web-page for this text-book by
Amanda Chetwynd and Peter Diggle includes data-sets, R scripts to reproduce the analyses in the book, and a list of errata.
R
The best resource for R that I have found is Karl Broman's
Introduction to R page.
Downloads
Books, guides and lecture notes
Information about my book on geostatistics:
Diggle, P.J. and
Ribeiro, P.J. Jnr (2007). Model-based Geostatistics. New York: Springer
Information about my book on longitudinal data analysis:
Diggle, P.J., Heagerty, P., Liang K-Y. and Zeger,
S.L. (2002). Analysis of Longitudinal Data
(second edition). Oxford: OUP
Information about my book on spatial point patterns: Diggle, P.J. (2003).
Statistical Analysis of Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Point Patterns (third edition, in preparation)
Information about my book on time series analysiss:
Diggle, P.J. (1990).
Time Series: a biostatistical introduction.
Oxford: OUP.
PDF lecture-notes on CTM Lecture to third-year medical students
Powerpoint slides on Russ Lenth's sample size calculator
PDF lecture-notes on A Short Course in Longitudinal Data Analysis
(ESRC/MRC supported course, Lancaster, June 2011)
Lecture-material on Statistics and Scientific Method
(Leahurst, September 2012)
Postscript lecture-notes on Spatial Statistics for Environmental
Epidemiology
Instructional material on Geospatial Data in R and Beyond
by Barry Rowlingson
PDF guide on Converting UK post-codes to (x,y)-coordinates
by Michelle Stanton
An analysis of the (thankfully short-lived) proposals to use
RAE Metrics in place of peer review
Some Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Tech Reports.
Data-sets
geostatistical
data-sets from Diggle and Ribeiro (2007)
spatial point pattern data-sets
from Diggle (2003)
longitudinal data-sets
from Diggle, Heagerty, Liang and Zeger (2002)
additional data-sets that may be of interest
Software
Information about spatial point pattern software
Information about geostatistical software
An R function for prevalence estimation using an imperfect test
Demos, animations
Spatial analysis of criminal activity in Lancashire by Irene Kaimi,
Peter Diggle and Alexandre Rodrigues
Demo of spatio-temporal disease surveillance (Diggle, P.J.,
Rowlingson, B. and Su, T-L. (2005). Environmetrics, 16, 423-34)
Adaptive spatio-temporal geostatistcal design by Tom Fanshawe
John Snow's cholera map from the 1854 epidemic in Soho, London
(for a cleaned-up version, see page 24 of Tufte (2001) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information)
Animation of gastro-enteric infections in Hampshire, UK, by Barry Rowlingson
Animation of gastro-enteric infections in Hampshire, UK, by Barry Rowlingson
Animation of common tern nesting colony in Delta D'Ebre, Spain
by Irene Kaimi, also of
first and
second of two simulated realisations of fitted model
Animation
of campylobacteriosis cases in Preston, UK, by Edith Gabriel and Barry Rowlingson
Animation
of the 2001 Foot-and-mouth epidemic in Cumbria, UK, by Barry Rowlingson
(Diggle, P.J. (2006). Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 15, 325-336)
Animation of meningits incidence in
southern Ethiopia, by Barry Rowlingson
Animation of meningits incidence in
the whole of Ethiopia, by Barry Rowlingson
Animation of meningits incidence in
Niger, by Barry Rowlingson
Seminars
ENAR2009 Invited Presidential Address: Statistical
Modelling for Real-time Epidemiology.
IGH Retreat, June 2012: Modelling spatio-temporal patterns of disease.
Public Lecture, 8th Bernoulli Society World Congress, July 2012: A Tale of Two Parasites:
Geostatistical Modelling for Tropical Disease Mapping.
MERIT meeting, Niamey, Niger, November 2009
The MERIT home page gives you the scientific
background, or you can look at some
photos of our post-meeting day out.
APTS: Spatial and Longitudinal Data analysis
The Academy for PhD Training in Statistics
initiative runs a series of residential
courses targeted at first-year postgraduate students who are studying for
a PhD in statistics at any UK university. For severalyears, I have taught a course on
Spatial and Longitudinal Data analysis as part of this initiative. Course material available here
includes:
Preliminary notes and exercises
Lecture course slides
Data-sets
Assessment exercise
Last Modified:
20/09/2011