Frank Coolen

Professor of Statistics

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Durham University

Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom

(0191 or +44 191) 334 3048 (direct); 334 3050 (secr.); 334 3051 (fax)

frank.coolen[at]durham.ac.uk

Some of my current activities

Teaching: I lecture the module Actuarial Mathematics II (module webpage)
Associate Editor of Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice
Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Risk and Reliability
Member of the Editorial Board of Quality and Reliability Engineering International
Editor, with Thomas Augustin (Munich), Gert de Cooman (Ghent) and Matthias Troffaes (Durham), of 'Introduction to Imprecise Probabilities', to be published by Wiley in 2012
A research monograph on `Nonparametric Predictive Inference' is in preparation (to be published by Wiley)
A research monograph on `Bayesian Graphical Models for High-Complexity Software and System Testing' is in preparation, jointly with David Wooff and Michael Goldstein (both Durham) (to be published by Springer)

Scientific outputs: PUBLICATIONS.

Some of my papers can be found here (if you have access).

Nonparametric Predictive Inference (NPI)

See our Nonparametric Predictive Inference web-page.

Workshops on Principles and Methods of Statistical Inference with Interval Probability (WPMSIIP)

See our WPMSIIP web-page.

Mathematical Methods for Reliability

A joint research group sponsored by LMS; see the Mathematical Methods for Reliability webpage for details on meetings.

Mathematical Genealogy

Umberto Picchini (Grazie Umberto!) provided me with a beautiful tree of (part of) my mathematical Ancestors, tracing back to the 14th Century. Some of them may have sleepless nights if they are aware of my research. And the tree grows further:

Current PhD students

Ahmad Aboalkhair: 'Nonparametric predictive methods for system reliability' (jointly supervised by Iain MacPhee)
Abdullah Al-Nefaiee: 'Nonparametric predictive inference for system failure times'
Faiza Elkhafifi: `Nonparametric predictive inference for ordinal data and accuracy of diagnostic tests'
Sulafah Bin Himd: `Nonparametric predictive bootstrap and reproducibility of tests' (part/time)
Loic Cosyns: `Quasi-Bayesian inference with applications in finance' (part/time)

Past PhD students

Mohamed Elsaeiti (2012) Nonparametric predictive inference for acceptance decisions
Tahani Maturi (2010) Nonparametric predictive inference for multiple comparisons (main supervisor Pauline Coolen-Schrijner)
Rebecca Baker (2010) Multinomial nonparametric predictive inference: selection, classification and subcategory data (jointly supervised by Pauline Coolen-Schrijner)
Richard Crossman (2009) Limiting conditional distributions: imprecision and relation to the hazard rate (main supervisor Pauline Coolen-Schrijner)
Vicki Montgomery (2009) New statistical methods in risk assessment by probability bounds
Brett Houlding (2008) Sequential decision making with adaptive utility
Maha Rahrouh (2005) Bayesian zero-failure reliability demonstration (jointly supervised by Pauline Coolen-Schrijner)
Ke-Jian Yan (2002) Nonparametric predictive inference with right-censored data

TAHANI

I am very happily married to Tahani Coolen-Maturi.

PAULINE

On Wednesday 23 April 2008, at about 14.00, my beloved wife, very best friend, and colleague Pauline died. She slept in peacefully, with me on her side, at the age of 40, after devastating disease(s) over more than two decades. Remember Pauline and keep seeing her, she is with me.

Pauline is Love: All she gives to me - Pauline is Liefde: Alles geeft ze mij

Webpage: Pauline Coolen-Schrijner (picture 2004) (picture 1994)

Tribute to Pauline, published in Journal of Risk and Reliability (Dec 2008)