Prof. Jane M. Horgan                          

School of Computing

Dublin City University  

Dublin 9

 

Phone: 353-1-7005260

Fax:     353-1-7005442

 

e-mail: jhorgan@computing.dcu.ie

 

           

                                                                                                                                                                       

Main Research Interests:  Statistical sampling and estimation, applications to financial auditing,

                                           and rare incidence skewed populations

 

Short CV

Undergraduate Project Ideas

Postgraduate Research

Teaching

 

Publications:

Book:

Probability with R: An Introduction with Computer Science Applications, Wiley 2008

 

Recent  peer reviewed journal publications

q       Gunning, P, Horgan, J.M,  and Keogh G. (2008) An Implementation Strategy for Efficient Convergence of the Lavallée and Hidiroglou Stratification,  Journal of Official Statistics, pp 213-228.

q       Gunning, P. and Horgan,  J.M.  (2007) Improving the Lavallée and Hidiroglou Algorithm for Stratification of Skewed Populations,   Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 4 , 77, 277 – 291.

q       Gunning, P. and Horgan, J.M. (2007)  Choosing the Strata when Auditing: An Example using Excel,  Irish Accounting Review, 14, 1.

q       Horgan, J. M. (2006). Stratification of Skewed Populations: A review. International Statistics Review, 74, 1, 67-76. abstract

q       Gunning, P., Horgan, J.M. and Keogh, G. (2006). Efficient Stratification of the Pareto Distribution,  Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol 2. (full paper)

q       Gunning, P., and Horgan, J.M.(2006). Improving the Lavalee Hidiroglou Algorithm for Stratification of Skewed Populations, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

q       Daly Charlie and Horgan Jane (2005).  A Technique for Measuring Plagiarism in Computer Code, The Computer Journal,  48, 6, 662-666  (http://www.comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/48/6/662).

q       Mathuna, D. and Horgan, J.M.  (2005).  Seasonal Allergic Study Results of Questionable Relevance to Homeopathy, The  Annals of Pharmocotherapy,  39, 4, 736-738.

q       Gunning, P. and Horgan, J.M. (2004). A Simple Algorithm for Stratifying Skewed Populations, Survey Methodology. 30, 2, 159-185 (full paper)

q       Gunning, P. and Horgan, J.M. (2004). Un nouvel algorithme pour la construction de bornes de atratification dans les populations asymetriques, Techniques d’enquete, 30, 2, 177-185

q       Gunning, P., Horgan, J.M. and Yancey, W. (2004). Geometric Stratification of Accounting Data, Contaduria y Administration

q       Daly, C. and Horgan, J.M. (2004). An Analysis of and Automated Learning System,  IEEE Transactions in Education, 47, 1, 10-17 (full  paper)

q       Horgan, J.M. (2003). A List-Sequential Sampling Scheme with Applications in Financial Auditing, IMA: Journal  of Management Mathematics, 14, 1 pp. 31-48.

q       Horgan, J.M. (2002). A Criterion for an Efficient Ratio Estimator with Poisson Sampling, Journal of Information and Technology,  2, No. 1, 1-18.

q       Horgan, J. and Waldron, J. (2002).  The Unexpected Properties of Expectation, Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 33/9, Sept., 1373-1378.

q       Horgan, J.M. (2000). Auditing Y2K: A Sampling Fig Leaf, Aus. CPA, Nov., pp. 46-47.

 

 

Recent  conference publications

 

q       Horgan Jane M. and Sebnem Er (2009) Simulating Probability with R, International Conference of Mathematical Sciences: Aug 2009, Istanbul Turkey.

q       Horgan Jane M. (2009) Probability with R, 57th Sessions of the International Statistics Institute, Durban South Africa, Aug 2009

q       Horgan Jane M.(2007) Stratification: A Look Back in Anguish, Proceedings of Joint Statistical Meeting and International Conference on Statistical Science, OR and IT

q       Horgan Jane M. (2007) Geometric and Cumulative Root: The Final Conflict, Proceeding of the International Conference on Statistical Science, OR and IT, the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS), Dravidian University, Tirupati, India, 425, 7-9 January, 2007

q       Gunning, P., Horgan, Jane M. and Keogh, G. (2005) A Generalisation of the Geometric Algorithm for Sampling Business Populations},    Joint Meeting of the Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, (CSPS/IMS2005), Peking University, Beijing

q       Daly Charles and Horgan, Jane M. (2005)   Patterns of Plagiarism, SIGCSE Proceedings

q       Gunning, Patricia, and Horgan, Jane, and Keogh, G. (2004) Obtaining Stratum Boundaries in Skewed Populations, Proceedings JSM, Toronto, Canada.

q       Horgan, Jane M. (2004) Library Surveys: How to approach them.,  Quality Measures: The Academic Library Context, Maynooth , (Powerpoint Presentation)

q       Gunning, Patricia, and Horgan, Jane, M. (2004) An Algorithm for Obtaining Strata with Equal Coefficients of Variation, Proc. Of Computational Statistics, 2004  1123-1129

q       Daly, C. and Horgan, J.M., (2001), Automatic Plagiarism Detection, Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference Applied Informatics, pp.255-259. presented at Innsbruck, Austria, Feb 2001.

q       Daly, Charles Daly, Horgan Jane. M., Power, James. Waldron, John  Platform Independent Dynamic Java Virtual Machine Analysis: the Java Grande Forum Benchmark Suite, at Joint ACM Java Grande - ISCOPE 2001 Conference Stanford University, June 2-4, 2001

q       Horgan, Jane M. (2001).  A Fixed-Sample-Size Without-Replacement Plan for Substantive Tests, Proc. Of  Amer, Acc, Association Western Region Meeting, May, pp. 46-47.

 

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