Anthony Davison

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Fields of expertise

Statistical theory and methods.

Applications, particularly to environmental and biological data.

Mission

The goal of my academic work is to further the development of statistical science through teaching at all university levels, through the development and application of new approaches to data analysis, and through collaboration both within and outwith the EPFL.

Biography

Anthony Davison has published on a wide range of topics in statistical theory and methods, and on environmental, biological and financial applications. His main research interests are statistics of extremes, likelihood asymptotics, bootstrap and other resampling methods, and statistical modelling, with a particular focus on the first currently.

Statistics of extremes concerns rare events such as storms, high winds and tides, extreme pollution episodes, sporting records, and the like. The subject has a long history, but under the impact of engineering and environmental problems has been an area of intense development in the past 20 years. Davison

Books

Education

Mathematics

Oxford

1980

MSc

Statistics

Imperial College London

1981

PhD

Statistics

Imperial College London

1984

Publications

Infoscience publications

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Structural equation models for multivariate extremes

M. Krali / A. C. Davison; V. Panaretos (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10779.

Anthony Davison

Fields of expertise

Mission

Biography

Books

Education

Publications

Infoscience publications

all

Structural equation models for multivariate extremes

Non-regular Inference: Universal Inference and Discrete Profiling

Anthony C. Davison and Raphael de Fondeville's contribution to the Discussion of 'Inference for extreme spatial temperature events in a changing climate with application to Ireland' by Healy et al.

BAYESIAN MODELING OF INSURANCE CLAIMS FOR HAIL DAMAGE

Anthony C Davison and Igor Rodionov's contribution to the Discussion of 'Estimating means of bounded random variables by betting' by Waudby-Smith and Ramdas

Space-Time Extremes of Severe U.S. Thunderstorm Environments

Flexible Statistical Inference for Multivariate Extremes

Valerie Chavez-Demoulin, Anthony C Davison and Erwan Koch's contribution to the Discussion of 'The First Discussion Meeting on Statistical aspects of climate change'

Improved inference for a boundary parameter

Timing and spatial selection bias in rapid extreme event attribution

Some Reminiscences of David Cox

Wind, Hail, and Climate Extremes: Modelling and Attribution Studies for Environmental Data

Higher Order Asymptotics: Applications to Satellite Conjunction and Boundary Problems

Causal modelling of heavy-tailed variables and confounders with application to river flow

A note on universal inference

Downscaling of Historical Wind Fields over Switzerland Using Generative Adversarial Networks

Space Oddity? A Statistical Formulation of Conjunction Assessment

Improved Inference On Risk Measures For Univariate Extremes

Tail Risk Inference via Expectiles in Heavy-Tailed Time Series

Functional peaks-over-threshold analysis

Is There a Cap on Longevity? A Statistical Review

Spatiotemporal modelling of extreme wildfires and severe thunderstorm environments

Human mortality at extreme age

Sub‐asymptotic motivation for new conditional multivariate extreme models

Practical issues with modeling extreme Brazilian rainfall

Trends in the Extremes of Environments Associated with Severe US Thunderstorms

Parameter estimation for discretely observed linear birth-and-death processes

Special Issue: "Data Science versus Classical Inference: Prediction, Estimation, and Attribution", honouring Prof. Brad Efron's International Prize in Statistics in 2019 Discussion

The challenges of impact evaluation: Attempting to measure the effectiveness of community-based disaster risk management

An unethical optimization principle

A Global-Local Approach For Detecting Hotspots In Multiple-Response Regression

A fully joint Bayesian quantitative trait locus mapping of human protein abundance in plasma

Discussion

Inference on the Angular Distribution of Extremes

Comment: Models Are Approximations!

Fast Automatic Smoothing for Generalized Additive Models

Contributions to Likelihood-Based Modelling of Extreme Values

Large-scale variational inference for Bayesian joint regression modelling of high-dimensional genetic data

Automatic L2 Regularization for Multiple Generalized Additive Models

Dependence properties of spatial rainfall extremes and areal reduction factors

High-dimensional peaks-over-threshold inference

'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short': Discussion of the paper by Rootzen and Zholud

Functional Peaks-Over-Threshold Analysis for Complex Extreme Events

Semiparametric Bayesian Risk Estimation for Complex Extremes

Modelling across extremal dependence classes

Efficient inference for genetic association studies with multiple outcomes

Contributions to Modelling Extremes of Spatial Data

A Functional Framework for Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging

Bayesian Inference For The Brown-Resnick Process, With An Application To Extreme Low Temperatures

Likelihood estimators for multivariate extremes

Bayesian uncertainty management in temporal dependence of extremes

ODE parameter estimation through a runner's model application

Meta-analysis of incomplete microarray studies

A simple model-based approach to variable selection in classification and clustering

Statistics of Extremes

Likelihood Estimation for the INAR(p) Model by Saddlepoint Approximation

Spectral Density Ratio Models for Multivariate Extremes

Contributions to Spatial Statistics : Species Distributions and Rare Events

Accurate Directional Inference for Vector Parameters in Linear Exponential Families

Meta-analysis of Incomplete Microarray Studies

Space-time modelling of extreme events

Measuring the relative effect of factors affecting species distribution model predictions

Threshold modeling of extreme spatial rainfall

On the relationship between total ozone and atmospheric dynamics and chemistry at mid-latitudes - Part 1: Statistical models and spatial fingerprints of atmospheric dynamics and chemistry

On the relationship between total ozone and atmospheric dynamics and chemistry at mid-latitudes - Part 2: The effects of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation, volcanic eruptions and contributions of atmospheric dynamics and chemistry to long-term total ozone changes

Bayesian Semiparametrics for Modelling the Clustering of Extreme Values

Statistical Modeling and Inference for Spatio-Temporal Extremes

Geostatistics of Dependent and Asymptotically Independent Extremes

Composite likelihood estimation for the Brown--Resnick process

A case study of a "Dragon-King": The 1999 Venezuelan catastrophe

From sensor networks to connected analysis tools