Dr Alex Diana
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Email
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Location
3A.523, Colchester Campus
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Bayesian Statistics
Variational Bayes
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Mathematics Careers and Employability (MA199)
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Survival Analysis (MA216)
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Statistical Methods (MA318)
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Bayesian and Computational Statistics (MA322)
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Dissertation (MA981)
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Statistics II (MA200)
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Programming and Text Analytics with R (MA331)
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Ordinary Differential Equations (MA202)
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Finance and Financial Reporting (MA211)
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Modelling experimental and observational data (MA335)
Publications
Journal articles (11)
Diana, A., Matechou, E., Griffin, J. and Yu, D., (2025). eDNAPlus: A unifying modelling framework for DNA-based biodiversity monitorin. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 120 (549), 120-134
Dennis, EB., Diana, A., Matechou, E. and Morgan, BJT., (2025). Efficient statistical inference methods for assessing changes in species. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 188 (3), 641-657
Diana, A., Jones, M., Matechou, E. and Cole, D., (2025). More than presence-absence; modelling (e)DNA concentration across time and space from qPCR survey data. Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice. 19 (4), 68-
Dennis, EB., Diana, A., Matechou, E. and Morgan, BJT., (2025). Authors’ reply to the Discussion of ‘Efficient statistical inference methods for assessing changes in species’ populations using citizen science data’ at the ‘Discussion meeting on the analysis of citizen science data’. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 188 (3), 722-727
Diana, A., Wong, JST. and Pittea, A., (2025). A unified Bayesian framework for mortality model selection. Annals of Actuarial Science. 19 (3), 20-20
Rotous, I., Diana, A. and Matechou, E., (2025). A Pólya Tree modelling framework for batch-mark data. Annals of Applied Statistics. 19 (2), 1110-1126
Diana, A., Matechou, E., Griffin, J., Arnold, T., Tenan, S. and Volponi, S., (2023). A General Modeling Framework for Open Wildlife Populations Based on the Polya Tree Prior. Biometrics. 79 (3), 2171-2183
Diana, A., Dennis, EB., Matechou, E. and Morgan, BJT., (2023). Fast Bayesian Inference for Large Occupancy Datasets. Biometrics. 79 (3), 2503-2515
Diana, A., Matechou, E., Griffin, JE., Jhala, Y. and Qureshi, Q., (2022). A vector of point processes for modeling interactions between and within species using capture‐recapture data. Environmetrics. 33 (8)
Diana, A., Matechou, E., Griffin, JE., Buxton, AS. and Griffiths, RA., (2021). An RShiny app for modelling environmental DNA data: accounting for false positive and false negative observation error. Ecography. 44 (12), 1838-1844
Diana, A., Matechou, E., Griffin, J. and Johnston, A., (2020). A hierarchical dependent Dirichlet process prior for modelling bird migration patterns in the UK. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 14 (1)
Grants and funding
2025
Victor Millwell Insurance Agency Ltd t/a Comfort Insurance KTP Application 25 _26 R1: To examine historical insurance data and draw insights which support optimised pricing and marketing strategies.
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)