Associate Professor Maurizio Manuguerra is the Head of Statistics in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Macquarie University.

His current research interests are survival analysis, competing risks, ordinal regression for continuous scales, transformation models and flexyble regression.

If you are a prospective PhD student and find any of my research areas of interest, please email me. 

Survival analysis and competing risks

My research in survival analysis and competing risks focuses on penalised likelihood methods to estimate baselines and regression coefficients of proportional hazard Cox models with left, right or interval censored data. In the area of competing risks, I'm currently working to a solution of the problem via the definition of a risk set that differs from the natural set defined by the Cox PH model or from the risk set implied by Fine and Gray subdistribution approach.

Transformation models

When the outcome of interest is not or cannot be considered ratio, a possible approach is to use trasformation models, where the predictors affect a variable on a latent scale, linked to the observed scale through a determistic function that needs to be estimated. Transformation models reduce, given an appropriate choice of the distribution of the latent error, to several standard models, and have the potential to naturally link different regression approaches. This is a very interesting and promising area of research, which could be interesting to prospective PhD students.