David Hamilton

Education:   PhD - Queen's University (1980)
  MA - Queen's University (1973)

Scholarly Interests: Biostatistics, Statistical Genetics, Regression and Experimental Design.

Publications:

• Renault, N., Pritchett, S.M., Howell, R.E., Greer, W.L., Sapienza, C., Orstavik, K.H. and Hamilton, D.C., Human X-chromosome inactivation pattern distributions fit a model of genetically influenced choice better than models of completely random choice. (accepted European Journal of Human Genetics, March 20, 2013, http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/ejhg.2013.84).
• Grover, V.K., Cole, D.E.C. and Hamilton, D.C., (2013) Genotype-based association analysis using discordant pairs: a penetrance odds ratio approach, Annals of Human Genetics, 77, 137-146.
• Sarhan, A., Hamilton, D.C. and Smith, B., (2012), Parameter Estimation for a two-parameter bathtub-shaped lifetime distribution, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 36(11), pp. 5380-5392.
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2011.12.054
• Horrocks, J. Hamilton, D.C and Whitehead, H., (2012), A likelihood approach to estimating abundance from binary acoustic transects, Biometrics,67(3), pp. 681-690.
• Mitchell, D., Sengpiel, F., Hamilton, D.C., Schwarzkopf,D.S., Kennie, J.
  (2011), Protection against deprivation amblyopia depends on relative not absolute daily binocular exposure, Journal of Vision, 11(7):13, pp. 1-13.
  
• Sarhan, A.M, Hamilton, D.C. and Smith, R.B., (2011), The bivariate generalized linear failure rate distribution and its multivariate extension, Comp. Stat.& Data Analysis, 55, 1, pp. 644-654.

Personal site:  http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~hamilton/