Associate Professor Peter C Thomson

Dr Peter C Thomson Associate Professor in Biometry
Biometry Unit, School of Land, Water and Crop Sciences, and Centre for Advanced Technologies in Animal Genetics and Reproduction (ReproGen)
Sydney:
Phone: +61 2 9351 4954
Fax: +61 2 9351 4172
Camden:
Phone: +61 2 9351 1654
Fax: +61 2 9351 1618
Email: petert@camden.usyd.edu.au
Qualifications MSc MAppStat Macq PhD
Teaching Areas Biometry for Agricultural Science and Veterinary Science students
VEIN Projects
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Administration Unit of study coordinator for Biometry V112
Research Statistical models for quantitative trait locus (QTL) detection
Spatial and temporal dispersal models in applied ecology
Statistical methods in epidemiology
Selected Publications
  1. O'Neill ME, Thomson PC (1998). Power and sample size calculations in Microsoft Excel. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 38: (in press)
  2. Koudandé OD, Thomson PC, van Arendonk JAM (1998). A model for population growth of laboratory animals subjected to marker assisted introgression: how many animals do we need? Heredity, 81 (in press)
  3. Thomson PC (l995) A hybrid paired and unpaired analysis for the comparison of proportions. Statistics in Medicine, 14: 1463-1470
  4. Thomson PC (1998) Application of generalised linear mixed models to QTL detection of litter size. Proceedings of the 6th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, 26: 233-236
  5. Thomson PC, Lavidis NA, Robinson J, Bennett MR (1995) Probabilistic secretion of quanta at somatic motor-nerve terminals: the fusion-pore model, quantal detection and autoinhibition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 349: 197-214