People

Dr Alex Diana

Lecturer
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)
Dr Alex Diana

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Mathematics Careers and Employability (MA199)

  • Survival Analysis (MA216)

  • Bayesian and Computational Statistics (MA322)

Publications

Journal articles (9)

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

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

Dennis, EB., Diana, A., Matechou, E. and Morgan, BJT., (2024). 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., 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, 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., 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)

Conferences (1)

rotous, I., Diana, A. and Matechou, E., (2025). A Pólya Tree modelling framework for batch-mark data

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)

Contact

ad23269@essex.ac.uk

Location:

3A.522, Colchester Campus