Adjunct Associate Professor Robert Mellor

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Biography

Robert Mellor graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with first class honours in mathematical statistics from the University of Sydney, and received a Masters and PhD in Statistics from Harvard University. He worked for almost twenty years for the Australian Bureau of Statistics, designing sample surveys, developing new methodological approaches in survey design and analysis of survey data, providing consultation assistance in mathematical and statistical methods to a range of commonwealth and state departments, and providing management direction as a senior executive in the New South Wales office. In his twenty years at the University of Western Sydney, Robert headed a number of groups, including the Department of Mathematical Sciences at UWS Macarthur and the School of Quantitative Methods and Mathematical Sciences, following unification of the mathematical and statistics groups across all campuses. He has taught a range of statistics and mathematics units to all undergraduate years, and also to MBA students. Robert has also taught at Harvard University, Australian National University, University of Canberra, Macquarie University and the University of New South Wales. Robert’s research interests cover sample surveys, data analysis and applications of statistics in product innovation, tourism, business ethics, manufacturing strategy and knowledge management.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Sample Surveys; Multivariate Data Analysis; Missing Values; Product Innovation; Tourism; Business Ethics; Knowledge Management; Manufacturing Strategy

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Grants / Current Projects

Product innovation strategies
Continuous improvement in manufacturing companies
International manufacturing strategies survey
Tourist destination competitiveness in Australia and Korea
Business Ethics
Forecasting the economic competitiveness of events and conventions

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Publications

Publications since 2003:

“Ethical management practice in Australia” with J.Batten, S.Hettihewa, Global Business Review, Vol 9 No1, p1-18, 2008

“The link between manufacturing strategy and performance measurement and continuous improvement” with P Hyland, T Sloan, International Journal of Technology Management, Vol 37, Issue 3/4, pp237-246, 2007

“Quantitative approaches to utilising information and knowledge” Proceedings of the 2004 Workshop on Research Methods: Statistics and Finance, E Beh, R. Clark, J Rayner (eds), pp 160-172, 2005

“Using an integrated model to measure destination competitiveness” with L.Dwyer, Z.Livaic, D.Edwards, C.Kim, Tourism Analysis, 2004

“Application of a model of destination competitiveness to Australia and Korea” with L.Dwyer, C.Kim, Z.Livaic, Reinventing a Tourism Destination, Facing the Challenge, S.Weber, R.Tomljenovic (eds), p27-42, 2004

“Applications of recursive estimation methods in statistical process control” with S.Peiris, A.Thavaneswaran, A.Allen, Statistical Methods, Vol 5, p172-183, 2003

“Collaborating on company research surveys across countries”, Bulletin of International Statistical Institute, CD-Rom Invited paper, 2003

“Current Research in Modelling, Data Mining & Quantitative Techniques”, Pemajayantha, Mellor, Peiris, Rajasekera (eds), Modelling and Simulation Research (ISBN 0-9751599), 2003

“A note on AR(1) type time series models with replicated observations” with P. Ainkaran, S. Peiris, Current Research in Modelling, Data Mining & Quantitative Techniques, Pemajantha et al (eds), pp 143-156, Modelling and Simulation Research, 2003

“Competitiveness of Australia as a Tourist Destination” with L.Dwyer, Z.Livaic, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Vol 10, No 1, p 60-78, 2003

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Optional

Foundation member, Australian Bureau of Statistics Methodology Advisory Committee

Member/Secretary, Council of Statistical Society of Australia, New South Wales Branch. Canberra Branch, Central Council

Visiting Professor, Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium

Visiting Fellow, University of Warwick, UK

Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for the Management of Science and Technology, University of Alabama, USA

Co-Chair, Statistics Colloquium, Harvard University
Referee, 12 international journals

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