Fraser Daly: Publications and preprints

Recent preprints

  1. On geometric-type approximations with applications to risk and related processes (with Claude Lefèvre)
    Preprint available here.

  2. First passage percolation on Erdős-Rényi graphs with general weights (with Matthias Schulte and Seva Shneer)
    Preprint available here.

Published papers (most recent first)

  1. Poisson and Gaussian approximations of the power divergence family of statistics (2024)
    ALEA Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics 21: 25-37.
    Preprint available here.

  2. On Stein's method for stochastically monotone single-birth chains (2024)
    Statistics and Probability Letters 206: 109993.
    Preprint available here.

  3. A negative binomial approximation in group testing (with Letian Yu and Oliver Johnson) (2023)
    Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 37 (4): 973-996.
    Preprint available here.

  4. Asymptotics for cliques in scale-free random graphs (with Alastair Haig and Seva Shneer) (2022)
    Journal of Statistical Physics 189 (2): 19.
    Preprint available here.

  5. Gamma, Gaussian and Poisson approximations for random sums using size-biased and generalized zero-biased couplings (2022)
    Scandinavian Actuarial Journal 2022 (6): 471-487.
    Preprint available here.

  6. Simple variance bounds from Stein's method (with Fatemeh Ghaderinezhad, Christophe Ley and Yvik Swan) (2021)
    ALEA Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics 18 (2): 1845-1858.
    Preprint available here.

  7. On strong stationary times and approximation of Markov chain hitting times by geometric sums (2019)
    Statistics and Probability Letters 150: 74-80.
    Preprint available here.

  8. Relaxation of monotone coupling conditions: Poisson approximation and beyond (with Oliver Johnson) (2018)
    Journal of Applied Probability 55 (3): 742-759.
    Preprint available here.

  9. On magic factors in Stein's method for compound Poisson approximation (2017)
    Electronic Communications in Probability 22 (67): 1-10.
    Open access.

  10. Compound geometric approximation under a failure rate constraint (2016)
    Journal of Applied Probability 53 (3): 700-714.
    Preprint available here.

  11. The Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distribution: distributional theory and approximation (with Robert Gaunt) (2016)
    ALEA Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics 13 (2): 635-658.
    Preprint available here.

  12. Negative dependence and stochastic orderings (2016)
    ESAIM: Probability and Statistics 20: 45-65.
    Preprint available here.

  13. Compound Poisson approximation with association or negative association via Stein's method (2013)
    Electronic Communications in Probability 18 (30): 1-12.
    Open access.

  14. Bounds on the Poincaré constant under negative dependence (with Oliver Johnson) (2013)
    Statistics and Probability Letters 83 (2): 511-518.
    Preprint available here.

  15. Stein's method and stochastic orderings (with Claude Lefèvre and Sergey Utev) (2012)
    Advances in Applied Probability 44 (2): 343-372.
    Preprint available here.

  16. On Stein's method, smoothing estimates in total variation distance and mixture distributions (2011)
    Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 141 (7): 2228-2237.

  17. Stein's method for compound geometric approximation (2010)
    Journal of Applied Probability 47 (1): 146-156.

  18. Upper bounds for Stein-type operators (2008)
    Electronic Journal of Probability 13 (20): 566-587.
    Open access.

Other publications

  1. Editorial introduction: Special issue for Stochastic Networks 2018 (with Seva Shneer) (2019)
    Queueing Systems 93: 191-193.

  2. Book review: Partitions, Hypergeometric Systems, and Dirichlet Processes in Statistics, by Shuhei Mano (2019)
    Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society 111: 53.

    3. Please send any comments or corrections to Fraser Daly: f(dot)daly(at)hw(dot)ac(dot)uk. Last update 31 January 2024.