Neil Diamond

B.Sc. (Hons.) (Monash University), Ph.D. (University of Melbourne)
 

Senior Lecturer, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics,
Monash University, Clayton, Vic. 3800, AUSTRALIA

Location: Room 674E, Menzies building  (Building 11).
Phone: IDD + 61 3 9905 2489; Fax: IDD + 61 3 9905 5474
Email:neil.diamond@buseco.monash.edu.au
 
 

Research Interests
 

Experimental design, Kalman Filtering, Time Series Analysis and Forecasting, Quality Improvement,
Analysis of Long Tailed Liabilities
 

Career History
 

1977-78	Statistician, ICI Explosives Factory, Deer Park
1979-86	Research Officer, Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist and Statistics and Computing Team Leader, ICI Central Research Laboratories, Ascot Vale
1987-1989	Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Computing and Operations Research, Footscray Institute of Technology
(1989)	Visiting Scientist, Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
1990-2003	Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Victoria University of Technology
(1995)	Visiting Fellow, Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
2003-2004	Senior Statistician, Insureware
2004-	Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of Consulting, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University.

Consulting

I am Deputy Director of the Consulting Service based in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics.
   

Publications

Journal Articles 

• Diamond, N.T.,  (1991). "Two visits to Wisconsin,"  Quality Australia, 7, 30-31.
• Diamond, N.T.,  (1991). "The use of a class of foldover designs as search designs,"  Austral. J. Statist, 33, 159-166.
• Diamond, N.T.,  (1995). "Some properties of a foldover design,"  Austral. J. Statist, 37, 345-352.
• Watson, D.E.R., Hallett, R.F., and  Diamond, N.T., (1995). "Promoting a collegial approach in a multidisciplinary environment for a total quality improvement process in higher education," Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 20, 77-88.
•  Van Matre, J. and Diamond, N.T., (1996). "Team work and design of experiments," Quality Engineering, 9, 343-348.
• Diamond, N.T.,  (1999). "Overlap probabilities and delay detonators,"  Teaching Statistics, 21, 52-53.
•  Cerone, P. and Diamond, N.T.,  (2000). "On summing permutations and some statistical properties,"  The International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 32, 477-485.
• Behera, J.M., Diamond, N.T., Bhuta, C.J. and Thorpe, G.R., (2000). "The impact of job assignment rules for straddle carriers on the throughput of container terminal detectors," Journal of Advanced Transportation, 34, 415-454.
• Sahama, T. and Diamond, N.T., (2001). "Sample size considerations and augmentation of computer experiments," The Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 68, 307-319.
•  Paul, W. and Diamond, N.T., (2001). "Designing a monitoring program for environmental regulation: Part 1-The operating characteristic curve," Water, Journal of Australian Water Association, October 2001, 50-54.
• Sztendur, E.M. and Diamond, N.T., (2002). "Extension to confidence region calculations for the path of steepest ascent," Journal of Quality Technology, 34, 288-295.
•  Paul, W. and Diamond, N.T., (2002). "Designing a monitoring program for environmental regulation: Part 2-Melbourne Water case study" Water, Journal of Australian Water Association, February 2002, 33-36.
• Steart, D.C., Greenwood, D.R., Boon, P.I. and Diamond, N.T., (In Press). "Transport of leaf litter in upland streams of Eucalyptus and Nothofagus forests in South Eastern Australia," Archiv Fűr Hydrobiologie, 156, 43-61.

Refereed Conference Papers

• Behera, J., Diamond, N.T., Bhuta, C. and Thorpe, G., (1999). "Simulation: a decision support tool for improving the efficiency of the operation of road vehicles in container terminals," 9th ASIM Dedicated Conference, Berlin, February 2000, 75-86.
• Jutrisa, I., Diamond, N.T. and Cerone. P., (1999). "Frame size effects on throughput and return traffic in reliable satellite broadcast transmission, " 16th International Teletraffic Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Sztendur, E.M. and Diamond, N.T. (2001). "Inequalities for the precision of the path of steepest ascent in response surface methodology," in Cho, Y.J, Kim, J.K., and Dragomir, S.S. (eds.) Inequality Theory and Applications, 1, The Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference 2000 on Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Applications, Chinju and Masan, South Korea, 295-301.
• Diamond, N.T. and Sztendur, E.M. (2002). "The use of consulting problems in introductory statistics classes", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Teaching of Statistics.
• Summitt, R.A., Cerone. P., and Diamond, N.T. (2002). "Simulation Reliability Estimation from Early Failure Data," Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, 368-390.
• Summitt, R.A., Cerone. P., and Diamond, N.T. (2002). "Simulation Reliability Estimation from Early Failure Data II," Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, 391-396.

Teaching

• ETC 2500 Marketing Research Analysis (Second year)
• ETC 35090 Survey Data Analysis (Third year)