Professor Robert Crouchley
BSc (Loughborough) Civil Engineering, 1971 MSc (UWIST) Town Planning, 1976 PhD (UWIST) Stochastic process theory applied to dwelling tenure, Department of Town Planning (supervisor: Professor Richard B. Davies), 1979. PhD (London) Testing for overdispersion in the parametric proportional hazards and some related models, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College (supervisor: Professor Sir David Cox), 1992.
Chair
Department
Centre for eScience
Research Interests
The development of statistical methods for causal inference in non-experimental data, these include models for errors in variables, missing data, heterogeneity, state dependence non stationarity, event history data, selection effects.
Research Grants
1979-1981 University of Wales, 2-year post-doctoral research fellowship in Department of Town Planning, UWIST, Cardiff.
1985 ESRC grant of £2,000 to organise a conference at the University of Surrey on Longitudinal Data Analysis.
1987-1991 ESRC, peer review, grant to use the CRAY super computer at ULCC.
1990-2000 One of circa 40 applicants for an Interdisciplinary Research Centre (Director: Professor R. Layard, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE).
1993-1995 ESRC, grant of £26,980, To Test for the Exogeneity of Area in the SCELI Data for a Competing Risk Model of Labour Mobility. This grant output was classified as good.
1993-1996 ESRC, grant of £12,910, A study of self-employment episodes in the careers of managers (with C. Mills, Professor P. Abell, 1994-1995).
1996-1998 ESRC, grant of £29,365, Testing for quasi market forces in secondary education (with S. Bradley and Professor J. Taylor, Lancaster University, Department of Economics). This grant output was classified as outstanding
1997-1998 Lancaster University, Committee for Research, grant of £1,500, Some preliminary research on the Youth Cohort Study for England and Wales, (with S. Bradley and Prof. J Taylor).
1997-1999 ESRC, grant of £37,900, A test for the interdependence of the selected areas and labour market mobility in the BHPS data.
1998-2001 ESRC, grant of £82,863, Assessing the consequences of ignoring dropout in panel surveys.
2001-2004 ESRC, grant of £250,000, A High Performance Computing Facility for the Social Sciences.
Publications
- Berridge Damon and Crouchley R, 2011, Multivariate Generalized Linear Mixed Models Using R, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, ISBN: 9781439813263
View details - Robertson A, Lockett N J, Brown D H and Crouchley R, 2007, 'Entrepreneurs'' attitude towards the computer and its effect on e-business adoption', Management Science Working Paper Series
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View PDF - Robertson A, Crouchley R, Brown D H and Lockett N J, 2007, 'The search for innovators and early adopters of e-collaborative technologies within small and medium sized enterprises in the UK', Management Science Working Paper Series
View details | View PDF - Dolby Paul, Pearce Nick, Fish Adrian, Van Ark Ties and Crouchley R, 2007, 'Supporting the uptake of Cyberinfrastructure in the Social Sciences and the challenges faced'
View details | View PDF - Taylor Jim and Crouchley R, 2004, 'Higher education performance indicators: invited comments on the papers by Draper, Gittoes and Bratti et al', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, vol 167, no. 3, pp. 497-499.
View details - Bradley S, Crouchley R and Oskrochi G, 2003, 'Social exclusion and labour market transitions: a multi-state multi-spell analysis using the BHPS', Labour Economics, vol 10, no. 6, pp. 659-679.
View details - Izadi H, Johnes Geraint, Oskrochi G and Crouchley R, 2002, 'Stochastic frontier estimation of a CES cost function: the case of higher education in Britain', Economics of Education Review, vol 21, no. 1, pp. 63-72.
View details - Crouchley R and Ganjali M, 2002, 'The common structure of several recent statistical models for dropout in repeated continuous responses', Statistical Modelling: An International Journal, vol 2, no. 1, pp. 39-62.
View details - Oskrochi G, Bradley S and Crouchley R, 2001, 'Social exclusion and labour market transitions: a multi-state multi-spell analysis using the BHPS', Economics Working Paper Series
View details - Crouchley R and Davies R B, 2001, 'A comparison of GEE and random effects models for distinguishing heterogeneity, nonstationarity and state dependence in a collection of short binary event series', Statistical Modelling: An International Journal, vol 1, pp. 271-285.
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