Publications

You can check out my CV here

Journal Publications

Tierney, Nicholas J., Fiona A. Harden, Maurice J. Harden, and Kerrie L. Mengersen. 2015. “Using Decision Trees to Understand Structure in Missing Data.” BMJ Open 5 (6). bmjopen.bmj.com: e007450.

Under Review or in Preparation

2017 Tierney, NJ. Mengersen, K., Harden, F., Harden, M., “Bayesian Approaches to Modelling Occupational Health.” Occupational and Environmental Medicine. In Preparation

2017 Tierney, NJ., Mira, A., Reinhold, J., Mengersen, KL., Aurrichio, A. “Optimising placement of AEDs in cases of geographic variability” Circulation. In Preparation

Pre-Print

2016 Tierney, NJ. “S3 Methods: A Simple Guide.” [Pre-print]

Posters

2016 “Bayesian Approachs in Occupational Health Surveillance” Tierney, NJ., Mengersen, K., Clifford, S., Drovandi, C., Harden, F., Harden, M. World Meeting for the International Society for Bayesian Analysis

2015 “The Sharpest Tool in the Shed” Tierney, NJ., Mengersen, K., Harden, F., Harden, M. Bayes on the Beach

2014 “Missingness, Mixtures, and Multiple Imputation” Tierney, NJ., Mengersen, K., Harden, F., Harden, M. Bayes on the Beach

2015 “Integrating Occupational Hygiene, Medicine and Engineering in a Mining Context.” Maurice Harden, Charles Steer, Fiona Harden, Geoff Butler, Kerrie Mengersen, Nicholas Tierney, Ann. Occup. Hyg., Vol. 59, No. Supplement 1, 1–47 doi:10.1093/annhyg/meu119

Conference Publications

Tierney, N. J., Pitchforth, J., Mengersen, K. L, (2014) Understanding Missing Data: The Use of Classification and Regression Trees (CART), and Boosted Regression Trees (BRTs), Australian Statistical Conference in Conjunction with the institute of Mathematical Statistics Annual Meeting., Sydney, Australia 7-10 July, 2014. Slides.

Integrating Occupational Hygiene, Medicine and Engineering in a Mining Context. Maurice Harden, Charles Steer, Fiona Harden, Geoff Butler, Kerrie Mengersen, Nicholas Tierney, Ann. Occup. Hyg., 2015, Vol. 59, No. Supplement 1, 1–47 doi:10.1093/annhyg/meu119 PDF

R Packages

2016- maxcovr: Tools for solving the Maximal Covering Location Problem in R.

2016- treezy: Tools for working with decision trees in R.

2016- ukpolice: R package to pull police data from the uk police data repository.

2016- visdat: Visualise a whole dataframe at once.

2015- naniar: Tools for numerical and visual summaries of NAs.

2014-neato: Miscellaneous Utility functions in R.

Honours Thesis

Tierney, N. J. (2012).  How Sharp is Sharp? The Effect of Monocular Texture on Enhancing Sharpness. Unpublished Honours Thesis, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. [Awarded First Class Honours] PDF.