Where’s Ripley on the web?

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Related to our discussion of influential statisticians, I looked up Brian Ripley, who has long been an inspiration to me. (Just to take one example, the final chapter of his book on spatial processes had an example of simulation-based model checking that had a big influence on my ideas in that area.)

I was stunned to find that his webpage hasn’t been updated since 2002, and it links to a “list of recent and forthcoming papers” that, believe it or not, hasn’t been updated since 1997! I can’t figure it out, especially given that Ripley is so computer-savvy and still appears to be active in the computational statistics community. Perhaps someone can explain?

P.S. No rude comments, please. Thank you.

P.P.S. Somebody pointed out that you can search for B D Ripley’s recent papers using Google. Here’s what’s been going on since 2002. Aside from the R stuff, he seems to have been focusing on applied work. Perhaps he could be persuaded to write an article for a statistics journal discussing what he’s learned from these examples. I find that working with applied collaborators gives me insights that I never would’ve had on my own, and I’d be interested in hearing Ripley’s thoughts on his own successes and struggles on applied problems.

6 thoughts on “Where’s Ripley on the web?”

  5. William:

    Thanks for the link. There's also a Lecture 2 at the same path. I enjoyed reading both of them; maybe they'll be the basis for Ripley's next book?

    The only thing I'd really add is a discussion of continuous model expansion. To my thinking, if model A or model B could be true, then what I'd really like to do is work with a larger model that includes both A and B as special cases: not model averaging, but model expansion. We discuss this a bit in chapter 6 of Bayesian Data Analysis, but there's room for lots more research on the topic, I think.

  6. He's very active and helpful in R correspondence. Also keeps his photography up to date on his Oxford page. There are some good pictures of Dorset taken in 2009.

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