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Chris Field
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Latest papers
State-space models’ dirty little secrets: even simple linear Gaussian models can have estimation problems
Scientific Reports · 2016
A Robust ANOVA Approach to Estimating a Phylogeny from Multiple Genes.
Molecular biology and evolution · 2015 · senior author
Combining distance matrices on identical taxon sets for multi-gene analysis with singular value decomposition.
PloS one · 2014
Latest funding
- $10,854
High-performance computing cluster for research and training in mathematics and statistics
NSERC · 2013 · Co-investigator
- $120,000
Robust Procedures to Model Biological Processes in Marine Ecology and Molecular Evolution
NSERC · 2012 · Principal investigator
- $125,000
Robust Procedures to Model Biological Processes in Marine Ecology and Molecular Evolution
NSERC · 2012 · Principal investigator
7 publications.
State-space models’ dirty little secrets: even simple linear Gaussian models can have estimation problems
Marie Auger‐Méthé, Chris Field, Christoffer Moesgaard Albertsen, Andrew E. Derocher, Mark A. Lewis, Ian David Jonsen, Joanna Mills Flemming
A Robust ANOVA Approach to Estimating a Phylogeny from Multiple Genes.
Xu X, Dunn KA, Field C
Combining distance matrices on identical taxon sets for multi-gene analysis with singular value decomposition.
Abeysundera M, Kenney T, Field C, Gu H
Phylogenetic analysis based on spectral methods.
Abeysundera M, Field C, Gu H
The parameters of the Barry and Hartigan general Markov model are statistically nonidentifiable.
Zou L, Susko E, Field C, Roger AJ
Test a clade in phylogenetic trees.
Shi X, Gu H, Field C
The comparison of the confidence regions in phylogeny.
Shi X, Gu H, Susko E, Field C
High-performance computing cluster for research and training in mathematics and statistics
Principal investigators: Kolokolnikov, Theodore
Robust Procedures to Model Biological Processes in Marine Ecology and Molecular Evolution
Principal investigators: Field, Christopher
Robust Procedures to Model Biological Processes in Marine Ecology and Molecular Evolution
Principal investigators: Field, Christopher
High performance computing for statistical research and training
Principal investigators: Dowd, Michael
Robustness and applications to biology
Principal investigators: Field, Christopher
Upgrade of sun computer system with new cluster
Principal investigators: Field, Christopher
Robustness and genetics
Principal investigators: Field, Christopher
Sun server for system upgrade
Principal investigators: Field, Christopher
Computer upgrade for computationally intensive statistics research
Principal investigators: Field, Christopher
Robustness and saddlepoint approximations
Principal investigators: Field, Christopher
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Andrew Roger and Edward Susko: 69 shared papers
- Tobias Kenney and Toby Kenney: 59 shared papers
- Hong Gu and Toby Kenney: 32 shared papers
- Tobias Kenney and Hong Gu: 30 shared papers
- Mark Lewis and Andrew Derocher: 28 shared papers
- Marie Auger-Méthé and Andrew Derocher: 23 shared papers
- Mark Lewis and Marie Auger-Méthé: 10 shared papers
- Joanna Flemming and Marie Auger-Méthé: 8 shared papers
- Hong Gu and Chris Field: 4 shared papers
- Joanna Flemming and Andrew Derocher: 3 shared papers
- Joanna Flemming and Mark Lewis: 2 shared papers
- Edward Susko and Chris Field: 2 shared papers
- Andrew Roger and Chris Field: 1 shared paper
- Joanna Flemming and Chris Field: 1 shared paper
- Tobias Kenney and Chris Field: 1 shared paper
- Mark Lewis and Chris Field: 1 shared paper
- Marie Auger-Méthé and Chris Field: 1 shared paper
- Andrew Derocher and Chris Field: 1 shared paper
- Hong Gu and Edward Susko: 1 shared paper
- Toby Kenney and Chris Field: 1 shared paper
- Department of Mathematics & Statistics
- Biological Sciences
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- CRC Tier 2
- Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Co-authors at Dalhousie University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Hong Gu
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
4 shared papers, latest 2014
Edward Susko
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
2 shared papers, latest 2011
Tobias Kenney
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Mark Lewis
Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Marie Auger-Méthé
CRC Tier 2
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Andrew Derocher
Biological Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Andrew Roger
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Toby Kenney
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Joanna Flemming
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
1 shared papers, latest 2016
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