David Warton
University Professor at UNSW Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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SeniorDavid Warton is a University Professor in the Department of Statistics at UNSW Sydney with over 20 years of experience developing and promoting statistical methods for ecological research. He leads the Eco-Stats research program and has a track record of translating advanced methodology into practical tools for ecology and allied disciplines. As founding Director of Stats Central since 2016, he has built one of the region’s largest academic statistical consultancies, bridging academic research and real-world collaboration. Based in Sydney, he combines deep methodological expertise with leadership in training and consulting, and mentors a growing team of collaborators and research students. An underappreciated strength is his dual focus on developing new techniques while actively increasing awareness and uptake of existing methods across applied ecology.
20 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (26)
eco10
linear-models8
biodiversity8
meta-analysis8
ecology8
missing-data8
traits8
r-package8
hierarchical8
interpretable-machine-learning7
glm6
multivariate-testing6
sampling6
r6
maximization5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cran/smatr
Dec 2005 - Aug 2011
Contributions:5 commits in 5 years 9 months
dwarton/ecostats
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
the Eco-Stats package accompanying the text
Contributions:39 commits, 3 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year 10 months
statseco
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