By Professor David I Warton

Journal articles

Wang Y; Naumann U; Wright ST; Warton DI, 2012, 'mvabund - an R package for model-based analysis of multivariate abundance data', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3, pp. 471 - 474, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00190.x

Warton DI; Duursma RA; Falster DS; Taskinen S, 2012, 'SMATR 3 - an R package for estimation and inference about allometric lines', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3, pp. 257 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00153.x

Warton DI; Guttorp P, 2011, 'Compositional analysis of overdispersed counts using generalized estimating equations', Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 18, pp. 427 - 446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10651-010-0145-9

Onoda Y; Westoby M; Adler PB; Choong AMF; Clissold FJ; Cornelissen JHC; Diaz S; Dominy NJ; Elgart A; Enrico L; Fine PVA; Howard JJ; Jalili A; Kitajima K; Kurokawa H; McArthur C; Lucas PW; Markesteijn L; Perez-Harguindeguy N; Poorter L; Richards L; Santiago LS; Sosinski Jr EE; Van Bael SA; Warton DI; Wright IJ; Joseph Wright S; Yamashita N, 2011, 'Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties', Ecology Letters, 14, pp. 301 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01582.x

Moles AT; Wallis IR; Foley WJ; Warton DI; Stegen JC; Bisigato AJ; Cella-pizarro L; Clark CJ; Cohen PS; Cornwell WK; Edwards W; Ejrnaes R; Gonzales-Ojeda T; Graae BJ; Hay G; Lumbwe FC; Magana-Rodriguez B; Moore BD; Peri PL; Poulsen JR; Veldtman R; von Zeipel H; Andrew NR; Boulter SL; Borer ET; Campon FF; Coll M; Farji-Brener AG; De Gabriel J; Jurado E; Kyhn LA; Low B; Mulder CPH; Reardon-Smith K; Rodriguez-Velazquez J; Seabloom EW; Vesk PA; van Cauter A; Waldram MS; Zheng Z; Blendinger PG; Enquist BJ; Facelli JM; Knight T; Majer JD; Martinez-Ramos M; Mcquillan P; Prior LD, 2011, 'Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes', New Phytologist, 191, pp. 777 - 788

Warton DI, 2011, 'Regularized sandwich estimators for analysis of high-dimensional data using generalized estimating equations', Biometrics, 67, pp. 116 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01438.x

Taskinen S; Warton DI, 2011, 'Robust estimation and inference for bivariate line-fitting in allometry', Biometrical Journal, 53, pp. 652 - 672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bimj.201000018

Warton DI, 2011, 'The arcsine is asinine: the analysis of proportions in ecology', Ecology, 92, pp. 3 - 10

Constantinou NE; Rogers TL; Laffan SW; Warton DI, 2010, 'Determining the spatial distribution of an Antarctic top predator using passive acoustics.', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127, pp. 1825 - 1825, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3384228

Warton DI; Shepherd LC, 2010, 'Correction note: Poisson point process models solve the “pseudo-absence problem” for presence-only data in ecology', Annals of Applied Statistics, 4, pp. 2203 - 2204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOAS331CORR

Warton DI; Shepherd LC, 2010, 'Poisson point process models solve the “pseudo-absence problem" for presence-only data in ecology', Annals of Applied Statistics, 4, pp. 1383 - 1402, http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOAS331

Moles AT; Warton DI; Warman L; Swenson N; Laffan SW; Zanne A; Pitman AJ; Hemmings F; Leishman M, 2009, 'Global patterns in plant height', Journal of Ecology, 97, pp. 923 - 932, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01526.x

Warton DI, 2008, 'Penalized normal likelihood and ridge regularization of correlation and covariance matrices', Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103, pp. 340 - 349

Warton DI, 2008, 'Raw data graphing: an informative but under-utilized tool for the analysis of multivariate abundances', Austral Ecology, 33, pp. 290 - 300

Warton DI, 2008, 'Which Wald statistic? Choosing a parameterization of the Wald statistic to maximize power in k-sample generalized estimating equations', Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, pp. 3269 - 3282

Forster MA; Warton DI, 2007, 'A metacommunity-scale comparison of species-abundance distribution models for plant communities of eastern Australia', Ecography, 30, pp. 449 - 458

Lusk C; Warton DI, 2007, 'Global meta-analysis shows that relationships of leaf mass per area with species shade tolerance depend on leaf habit and ontogeny', New Phytologist, 176, pp. 764 - 774

Warton DI, 2007, 'How many words do you know? An integrated assesment task for introductory statistics students', Journal of Statistics Education, 15

Warton DI, 2007, 'Robustness to failure of assumptions of tests for a common slope amongst several allometric lines a simulation study', Biometrical Journal, 49, pp. 286 - 299

Warton DI; Wright I; Falster D; Westoby M, 2006, 'Bivariate line-fitting methods for allometry', Biological Reviews, 81, pp. 259 - 291

Weisbecker V; Warton DI, 2006, 'Evidence at hand: Diversity, functional implications, and locomotor prediction in intrinsic hand proportions of Doprotodtian marsupials', Journal of Morphology, 267, pp. 1469 - 1485

Wright I; Reich P; Cornelissen J; Falster D; Garnier E; Hikosaka K; Lamont B; Lee WY; Oleksyn J; Osada N; Poorter H; Villar R; Warton DI; Westoby M, 2005, 'Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships', New Phytologist, 166, pp. 485 - 496

Warton DI, 2005, 'Many zeros does not mean zero inflation: comparing the goodness-of-fit of parametric models to multivariate abundance data', Environmetrics, 16, pp. 275 - 289

Ramp D; Caldwell J; Edwards KA; Warton DI; Croft DB, 2005, 'Modelling of wildlife fatality hotspots along the Snowy Mountain Highway in New South Wales, Australia', Biological Conservation, 126, pp. 474 - 490

Wright I; Reich P; Cornelissen J; Falster D; Groom P; Hikosaka K; Lee W; Lusk C; Niinemets U; Oleksyn J; Poorter H; Warton DI; Westoby M, 2005, 'Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 14, pp. 411 - 421

Warton DI; Hudson H, 2004, 'A manova statistic is just as powerful as distance-based statistics,for multivariate abundances', Ecology, 85, pp. 858 - 874

Moles AT; Warton DI; Stevens R; Westoby M, 2004, 'Does a latitudinal gradient in seedling survival favour larger seeds inthe tropics?', Ecology Letters, 7, pp. 911 - 914

Vest PA; Warton DI; Westoby M, 2004, 'Sprouting by semi-arid plants: testing a dichotomy and predictive traits', Oikos, 107, pp. 72 - 89

Moles AT; Warton DI; Westoby M, 2003, 'Do small-seeded species have higher survival through seed predation than large-seeded species?', Ecology, 84, pp. 3148 - 3161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/02-0662

Moles AT; Warton DI; Westoby M, 2003, 'Seed size and survival in the soil in arid Australia', Austral Ecology, 28, pp. 575 - 585

Warton DI; Wardle GM, 2003, 'Site-to-site variation in the demography of a fire-affected perennial, Acacia suaveolens, at Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, New South Wales, Australia', Austral Ecology, 28, pp. 38 - 47

Warton DI; Weber NC, 2002, 'Common slope tests for bivariate errors-in-variables models', Biometrical Journal, 44, pp. 161 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1521-4036(200203)44:2<161::AID-BIMJ161>3.0.CO;2-N

Westoby M; Warton D; Reich PB, 2000, 'The Time Value of Leaf Area.', Am Nat, 155, pp. 649 - 656, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/303346

Pattinson GS; Warton DI; Misman R; McGee PA, 1997, 'The fungicides terrazole and terraclor and the nematicide fenamiphos have little effect on root colonisation by Glomus mosseae and growth of cotton seedlings', Mycorrhiza, 7, pp. 155 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s005720050175

Conference Papers

Chow BVY; Bolsterlee B; Morgan C; Rae C; Warton DI; Novak I; Davies S; Lancaster A; Popovic GC; Rizzo RRN; Rizzo CY; Kyriagis M; Smith M; Muling E; Herbert RD, 2022, 'Three-dimensional architecture and diffusion properties of the medial gastrocnemius muscle in human infants in vivo', in Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine ... Scientific Meeting and Exhibition., International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), presented at Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB ISMRT 31st Annual Meeting, http://dx.doi.org/10.58530/2022/3094

WARTON D; HUDSON M, 2002, 'HYPOTHESIS TESTING OF MULTIVARIATE ABUNDANCE DATA', in Advances in Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas, WORLD SCIENTIFIC, pp. 349 - 360, presented at Proceedings of the Wollongong Conference, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812776372_0031

Preprints

Williams C; McGillycuddy M; Brooks M; Bolker BM; Mizuno A; Yang Y; Viechtbauer W; Warton DI; Nakagawa S, 2026, Meta-analysis with the glmmTMB R package, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2604.04084

O'Brien T; Moores M; Warton D; Falster D, 2025, Here Be Dragons: Bimodal posteriors arise from numerical integration error in longitudinal models, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2502.11510

O’Brien T; Kar F; Warton D; Falster D, 2025, hmde: Hierarchical Methods for Differential Equations, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.15.633280

McGillycuddy M; Popovic G; Bolker BM; Warton DI, 2024, Parsimoniously Fitting Large Multivariate Random Effects in glmmTMB, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2411.04411

Hartig F; Abrego N; Bush A; Chase JM; Guillera-Arroita G; Leibold MA; Ovaskainen O; Pellissier L; Pichler M; Poggiato G; Pollock L; Si-Moussi S; Thuiller W; Viana DS; Warton DI; Zurell D; Yu DW, 2024, Novel community data in ecology -- properties and prospects, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2401.10860

Kidziński Ł; Hui FKC; Warton DI; Hastie T, 2022, Generalized Matrix Factorization: efficient algorithms for fitting generalized linear latent variable models to large data arrays, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2010.02469

Williams C; McGillycuddy M; Drobniak SM; Bolker BM; Warton DI; Nakagawa S, Fast phylogenetic generalised linear mixed-effects modelling using the glmmTMB R package, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.20.695312

Popovic GC; Warton DI; Thomson FJ; Hui FKC; Moles AT, Untangling direct species associations from mediator species effects with graphical models, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/470161

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