Rate My Professor Tilman Davies

Davies specializes in kernel smoothing and density-ratios, computational statistics including R programming, planar point patterns, spatial statistics, geostatistics, and applications in geographical epidemiology and biology. His recent work includes developing Bayesian models for spatially varying phenomena, with collaborations in physiology, epidemiology, physiotherapy, and archaeology. He has received multiple Marsden Fund grants, including a Fast-Start grant in 2016 and a 2023 grant of $712,000 for principled inference for spatial point processes. Other honors include the University of Otago Early Career Award for Distinction in Research in 2017, the Worsley Early Career Research Award in 2014, and the 2024 New Zealand Statistical Association Littlejohn Award. Davies authored the book The Book of R: A First Course in Programming and Statistics, published by No Starch Press in 2016. Key publications encompass Adaptive kernel estimation of spatial relative risk (Statistics in Medicine, 2010), Tutorial on kernel estimation of continuous spatial and spatiotemporal relative risk (Statistics in Medicine, 2018), sparr: analyzing spatial relative risk using fixed and adaptive kernel density estimation in R (Journal of Statistical Software, 2011), and Analysing point patterns on networks—a review (Spatial Statistics, 2021). His research has garnered over 1,400 citations, impacting advancements in spatial point process modelling and applied statistics.