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Brendan Murphy
@tbmurphy.bsky.social
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Professor of Statistics, University College Dublin
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Sep 5
Congratulations on the ERC. Well done!
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Aug 16
First stadium concert in a long time. Oasis reunion show in Croke Park.
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Aug 9
A change of music genre this week going to a show at the Grand Ole Opry.
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Aug 4
I am happy to report that I will be the next Honorary Officer for Journals in the Royal Statistical Society (@royalstatsoc.bsky.social). I look forward to commencing this role in January.

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Announcing new RSS officers for 2026
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Jul 27
Great to catch Mogwai live tonight. First time getting to hear Christmas Steps and My Father, My King live.
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Jul 16
Congratulations. Well deserved. Always great to work with you.
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Jul 1
A new paper in Computo with Julien Jacques on variable selection and model-based clustering of multivariate data. computo-journal.org/published-20...
Model-Based Clustering and Variable Selection for Multivariate Count Data
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Jun 26
Hot off the press. A paper with Emiliano Seri and Roberto Rocci looking at the roles that players player in football (soccer) using a partial membership model.

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Partial membership models for soft clustering of multivariate football player performance data - Computational Statistics
The standard mixture modeling framework has been widely used to study heterogeneous populations, by modeling them as being composed of a finite number of homogeneous sub-populations. However, the stan...
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Jun 23
If you feel like letting go (hold on)
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Jun 21
😂😂😂
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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · May 12
CASI 2025 is up and running! #casi2025
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Académie des sciences @academiesciences.bsky.social · May 6
Épisode 5 de notre série "Les nouveaux visages de l’Académie des sciences" : La statistique, une science en son temps.

Retrouvez la vidéo sur Youtube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AhT...
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 25
Found a copy of these yesterday. Blast from the past.
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 22
Delighted to be named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (@amstatnews.bsky.social). Thanks to my colleagues, collaborators, friends and family who supported me throughout my career. Looking forward to continuing to develop the subject of statistics and its application going forward.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · Apr 8
Many moons again, @cathalwalsh.bsky.social, @philipnolanmu.bsky.social, myself and others worked with the Irish Health Protection Surveillance Centre to create a permanent modelling and biostatistics unit. They are now advertising jobs for that unit. 88-110k. Perm FT

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Statistician Senior NRS14677
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 5
Excellent show of new music
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 5
Thurston Moore in the National Concert Hall. Guitar Explorations of Cloud Formations debut
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Mar 17
Une belle victoire pour l’OL hier soir.
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Mar 5
Attempt one at adapting an idea I saw during the week to explain some different likelihood-based tests.
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Feb 21
I’m often asked by students what books I recommend. I was using this book this week and it is one of my top go-to books. The index pages are well worn!
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Feb 3
Sometimes I’m asked “what’s your favourite YouTube video ever?”. This is always my answer. A amazing performance captured perfectly. youtu.be/YKEOjWEzVGs?...
Rudisha Breaks World Record - Men's 800m Final | London 2012 Olympics
YouTube video by Olympics
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Jan 22
It’s Christmas Day. I presume there are fewer caesarean sections that day. Same with the dip on March 17th.
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Jan 16
I was working on class notes today. Interesting plot of the most common birthdays in Ireland from 1980-2015.
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Dec 31
Today is my last day as Editor for Social Sciences and Government at the Annals of Applied Statistics. It has been a very interesting twelve years in the role and I got to handle many great papers.

I’ll be staying on as an Associate Editor at the journal.
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Brendan Murphy @tbmurphy.bsky.social · Dec 12
I am happy to share a research article with Koyel Majumdar, Claire Gormley and a great team of collaborators entitled "A novel family of beta mixture models for the differential analysis of DNA methylation data: An application to prostate cancer," has been published.

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A novel family of beta mixture models for the differential analysis of DNA methylation data: An application to prostate cancer
Identifying differentially methylated cytosine-guanine dinucleotide (CpG) sites between benign and tumour samples can assist in understanding disease. However, differential analysis of bounded DNA met...
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