# Statistics
**Source**: https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/academic-areas/statistics
**Parent**: https://cbe.anu.edu.au/
The Statistics Research Group within the Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics (RSFAS) brings together staff with a diverse range of interests and research agendas ranging from probability theory to applications of statistics. Our staff collaborate with researchers throughout the University and elsewhere, including those from the Mathematical Sciences Institute, the CSIRO, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Crawford School of Public Policy, and the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute. Many of the Group's staff have close collaborations with academics within the CBE itself, including those in the fields of Actuarial Studies, Finance, and Economics.
Further information about research interests can be found on the profile pages of the Statistics faculty.
### Our People
Find out about our researchers
[Statistics Faculty](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/academic-areas/statistics/statistics-faculty) [PhD students](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/academic-areas/statistics/statistics-phd-students)
NEWS
#### Top publications
Congratulations to [**Francis Hui**](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/francis-hui) for his publication in *the Journal of the American Statistical Association*; and to [**Jiazhen Xu**](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/jiazhen-xu), [**Andy Wood**](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/professor-andrew-wood) and [**Tao Zou**](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/tao-zou) for their publication in *Biometrika*. Both journals are top Statistics journals.
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#### Associate Editor appointment
[**Francis Hui**](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/francis-hui) was appointed Associate Editor for the journal *Biometrics*.
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#### Top publications
[**Yanrong Yang**](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/associate-professor-yanrong-yang) published her paper “Identifying the structure of high-dimensional time series via eigen-analysis” in *The Journal of the American Statistical Association* and [**Tao Zou**](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/tao-zou) published his paper “Fixed and Random Covariance Regression Analyses” in *The Annals of Statistics*. These two journals are among the premiere statistics journals in the world!
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## Recent selected publications
#### [Quasi-Score Matching Estimation for Spatial Autoregressive Model with Random Weights Matrix and Regressors](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/academic-areas/quasi-score-matching-estimation-spatial-autoregressive-model-random-weights-matrix)
[**Liang, X.**](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/dr-xuan-liang) & [**Zou, T.**](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/tao-zou) (2025) Forthcoming in [*the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics*](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.19721)
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#### [Random effects model-based sufficient dimension reduction for independent clustered data](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/academic-areas/random-effects-model-based-sufficient-dimension-reduction-independent-clustered-data)
Nghiem, L.H. & **[Hui, F.K.C.](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/francis-hui)** (2025). Forthcoming in [*the Journal of the American Statistical Association*](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01621459.2025.2457919).
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#### [Robust functional principal component analysis for non-Euclidean random objects](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/academic-areas/robust-functional-principal-component-analysis-non-euclidean-random-objects)
[**Xu, J.**](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/jiazhen-xu), [**Wood, A. T. A.**](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/professor-andrew-wood), & [**Zou, T.**](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/tao-zou) (2025) *[Biometrika](https://academic.oup.com/biomet/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/biomet/asaf040/8153903)*, 2025, asaf040
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#### ['Penalized Sparse Covariance Regression with High Dimensional Covariates](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/academic-areas/penalized-sparse-covariance-regression-high-dimensional-covariates)
Gao, Y., Zhang, Z., Cai, Z., Zhu, X., [**Zou, T.**](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/tao-zou) & Wang, H. (2024), Forthcoming in [*Journal of Business & Economic Statistics*](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07350015.2024.2415109)
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#### [Identifying the structure of high-dimensional time series via eigen-analysis](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/academic-areas/identifying-structure-high-dimensional-time-series-eigen-analysis)
Zhang, B., Gao, J., Pan, G., & **[Yang, Y.](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/associate-professor-yanrong-yang)** (2025). Forthcoming in *The Journal of the American Statistical Association*
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[>> read more](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/academic-areas/statistics/recent-journal-articles)
## Statistics seminars
11:00
28
May
Statistics - On Campus
[Statistics seminar - Professor Sean Simpson - Wake Forest University](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/research/seminars/statistics-seminar-professor-sean-simpson-wake-forest-university)
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11:00
21
May
Statistics - On Campus
[Statistics seminar - Professor Michael Grabchak - University of North Carolina Charlotte](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/research/seminars/statistics-seminar-professor-michael-grabchak-university-north-carolina-charlotte)
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11:00
14
May
Statistics - On Campus
[Statistic seminar - Dr Jack Freestone - Macquarie University](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/research/seminars/statistic-seminar-dr-jack-freestone-macquarie-university)
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11:00
09
Apr
Statistics - On Campus
[Statistics seminar - Dr Liuhua Peng - Univesity of Melbourne](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/research/seminars/statistics-seminar-dr-liuhua-peng-univesity-melbourne)
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11:00
02
Apr
Statistics - On Campus
[Statistics seminar - Dr Bao Anh Vu - RSFAS](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/research/seminars/statistics-seminar-dr-bao-anh-vu-rsfas)
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11:00
26
Mar
Statistics - On Campus
[Statistics seminar - Dr Adam Nie - RSFAS](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/research/seminars/statistics-seminar-dr-adam-nie-rsfas)
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To view a list of past seminars, please click [here](https://rsfas.anu.edu.au/seminars/seminar-archive).