Prior to my retirement in September 2013, I was a lecturer in the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford.
Email: ruth@stats.ox.ac.uk
My 1998 D.Phil. thesis, Neural Network Models for Breast Cancer Prognosis, is available for downloading in PDF (2.7mb) or 2-up PostScript (680kb).
S-PLUS survival analysis software (similar
to that used in the
thesis) is available for Unix
and Windows.
(Previous versions of the software are available for S-PLUS
3.4 and S-PLUS
2000.)
Slides from a seminar entitled Neural network based non-linear survival methods with applications to breast cancer prognosis are available for download as 4-up Postscript (zipped) (75kb)
Software for analysis of western medieval chant melodies, created in collaboration with the Oxchant Group in the Faculty of Music, is available here. A paper describing the work is available here.
A complete list of publications is available here.
Personal photography albums
Plant database by family, Plant database by Location, Plant Galleries by Family
Key to Oxfordshire grasses, Key to Oxfordshire Sedges, Plants of Oxfordshire
To amend the grasses key, download Grasses.zip and follow the instructions in this file.
Dichotomous Key to Grasses of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire