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Professor Peter W. F. Smith FBA

Social statistics; statistical methodology, methods for analysing administrative data and paradata, Bayesian population forecasts, modelling longitudinal data; applying sophisticated statistical methods to problems in demography, medicine and health sciences
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Sociology
Sections
Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
Website
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/demography/about/staff/pws.page

Current post

Professor of Social Statistics, University of Southampton

Past appointments

University of Southampton Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Social Statistics

1990 - 2004

Publications

Smoothing mortality data: the English Life Table, 2012-13

Erengul Dodd, Jonathan J. Forster, Jakub Bijak and Peter W. F. Smith - Published in 2018 by Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A

Dataset representativeness during data collection in three UK social surveys: generalizability and the effects of auxiliary covariate choice

Jamie C. Moore, Gabriele B. Durrant and Peter W. F. Smith - Published in 2016 by Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A

Separating interviewer and area effects using a cross-classified multilevel logistic model: implications for survey designs

Rebecca Vassallo, Gabriele Durrant and Peter Smith - Published in 2016 by Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A

Bayesian population forecasting: extending the Lee-Carter method

Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, Peter W. F. Smith, Jakub Bijak, James Raymer and Jonathan J. Forster - Published in 2015 by Demography

The use of sample weights in multivariate multilevel models with an application to income data collected using a rotating panel survey

Alinne Veiga, Peter W. F. Smith and James J. Brown - Published in 2014 by Applied Statistics

Integrated modeling of European migration

Peter W. F. Smith, James Raymer, Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, Jonathan J. Forster and Jakub Bijak - Published in 2013 by Journal of the American Statistical Association

A latent class model for bivariate binary responses from twins

Anders Ekholm, Jukka Jokinen, John W. McDonald and Peter W. F. Smith - Published in 2012 by Applied Statistics

Combining available migration data in England to study economic activity flows over time

Peter W. F. Smith, James Raymer and Corrado Giulietti - Published in 2010 by Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Sir Julian Le Grand FBA

The economics, philosophy and politics of public policy

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Professor Fiona Steele FBA

The development and application of statistical methods for the analysis of longitudinal data, including multilevel event history models and simultaneous equation models; applications in demography and education

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Professor Adam Crawford FBA

Adam Crawford specialises in policing and criminal justice studies; the sociology of control and regulation; criminological theory; comparative analysis of urban security; vulnerability and social justice; victims and restorative justice; and the co-production of knowledge.

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