Conjoint A/Prof. Donald ( John ) Best

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Fax	(02) 4921 6898
Email	John.Best@newcastle.edu.au
Office	E1.12, Science Offices

Publications

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Books (1 outputs)

Edited (A3) (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Link
2009	Rayner John Charles, Thas O, Best Donald John, Smooth Tests of Goodness of Fit: Using R, John Wiley & Sons (Asia), Singapore, 272 (2009) [A3]

Journal Articles (22 outputs)

Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal (C1) (20 outputs)

Year	Citation	Link
2012	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, 'Comparison of some tests of fit for the inverse Gaussian distribution', Advances in Decision Sciences, 2012 150303 (2012) [C1]
2012	Thas O, Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, 'Using orthogonal trend contrasts for testing ranked data with ordered alternatives', Statistica Neerlandica, 66 452-471 (2012) [C1]
2011	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Allingham David, 'A statistical test for ranking data from partially balanced incomplete block designs', Journal of Sensory Studies, 26 81-84 (2011) [C1]
2011	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, 'Easily appled tests of fit for the Rayleigh distribution', Sankhya B - Applied and Interdisciplinary Statistics, 72 254-263 (2011) [C1]
2011	De Boeck B, Thas O, Rayner John Charles, Best Donald John, 'Generalised smooth tests for the generalised Pareto distribution', Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 5 737-750 (2011) [C1]
2011	De Boeck B, Thas O, Rayner John Charles, Best Donald John, 'Smooth tests for the gamma distribution', Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 81 843-855 (2011) [C1]
2011	Rayner John Charles, Thas O, Best Donald John, 'Smooth tests of goodness of fit', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, 3 397-406 (2011) [C1]
2010	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, 'Four tests of fit for the beta-binomial distribution', Journal of Applied Statistics, 37 1547-1554 (2010) [C1]
2010	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, 'Moment tests of fit for some discrete distributions with ecological applications', International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, 17 1-15 (2010) [C1]
2009	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, 'Anscombe's Tests of fit for the negative binomial distribution', Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 3 555-565 (2009) [C1]
2009	Rayner John Charles, Best Donald John, Thas O, 'Generalised smooth tests of goodness of fit', Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 3 665-679 (2009) [C1]
2009	Thas O, Rayner John Charles, Best Donald John, De Boeck D, 'Informative statistical analyses using smooth goodness of fit tests', Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 3 705-733 (2009) [C1]
2008	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, 'Comparison of some tests of fit for the Laplace distribution', Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 52 5338-5343 (2008) [C1]
2008	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, 'Tests of fit for the logarithmic distribution', Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, 2008 463781 (2008) [C1]
2008	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, 'X-2 and its components as tests of normality for grouped data', Journal of Applied Statistics, 35 481-492 (2008) [C1]
2007	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, 'Chi-squared components for tests of fit and improved models for the grouped exponential distribution', Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51 3946-3954 (2007) [C1]
2007	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, 'Comparison of five tests of fit for the extreme value distribution', Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 1 89-99 (2007) [C1]
2007	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, 'Goodness of fit for the zero-truncated Poisson distribution', Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 77 585-591 (2007) [C1]
2007	Szczerbanik M J, Scott K J, Paton J E, Best Donald John, 'Susceptibility of Japanese pears to low concentrations of ethylene during storage', Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 47 1480-1483 (2007) [C1]
2006	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, 'Nonparametric analysis of blocked ordered categories data: some examples revisited', Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, 2006 31089-1 - 31089-9 (2006) [C1]
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Non Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal (C2) (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Link
2009	Rayner John Charles, Best Donald John, Thas O, 'Guest editors', Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 3 - (2009) [C2]

Non Refereed Article in a Professional Journal (C3) (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Link
2009	Rayner John Charles, Thas O, Best Donald John, 'Introduction to modern goodness of fit methods', Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 3 537-541 (2009) [C3]

Conference Publication (4 outputs)

Full Written Paper - Refereed (E1) (3 outputs)

Year	Citation	Link
2011	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas Olivier, 'Smooth tests of fit for a mixture of two Poisson distributions', Proceedings of the 4th Applied Statistics Education and Research Collaboration (ASEARC) Conference, Parramatta, NSW (2011) [E1]
2011	Rayner John Charles, Best Donald John, 'Nonparametric tests for two factor designs with an application to latin squares', Proceedings of the 4th Applied Statistics Education and Research Collaboration (ASEARC) Conference, Parramatta, NSW (2011) [E1]
2009	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas O, 'Nonparametric tests for randomized block data with ties and ordered alternatives', ASEARC: Proceedings of the Third Annual ASEARC Research Conference, Newcastle, NSW (2009) [E1]

Extract of Paper (E3) (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Link
2008	Best Donald John, Rayner John Charles, Thas Olivier, 'Tests of fit for the beta binomial distribution', JSM 2008 Abstract Book, Denver, CO (2008) [E3]

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