Rates of convergence for extremal spacings in Kakutani's random interval-splitting process (with Andrew Wade).
Preprint available here.
Stein's method for asymmetric Laplace approximation (with Robert Gaunt and Heather Sutcliffe).
Preprint available here.
Biasing with an independent increment: Gaussian approximations and proximity of Poisson mixtures.
Preprint available here.
Approximations for the number of maxima and near-maxima in independent data (2026)
Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, to appear.
Preprint available here.
First passage percolation on Erdős-Rényi graphs with general weights (with Matthias Schulte and Seva Shneer) (2025)
Annals of Applied Probability 35 (6): 4213-4243.
Preprint available here.
On geometric-type approximations with applications (with Claude Lefèvre) (2025)
Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 27: 4.
Preprint available here.
Optimal curing rate allocation in the SIS epidemic model (with Ryan McFadden and Seva Shneer) (2025)
Statistics and Probability Letters 216: 110284.
Preprint available here.
Poisson and Gaussian approximations of the power divergence family of statistics (2024)
ALEA Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics 21: 25-37.
Preprint available here.
On Stein's method for stochastically monotone single-birth chains (2024)
Statistics and Probability Letters 206: 109993.
Preprint available here.
A negative binomial approximation in group testing (with Letian Yu and Oliver Johnson) (2023)
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 37 (4): 973-996.
Preprint available here.
Asymptotics for cliques in scale-free random graphs (with Alastair Haig and Seva Shneer) (2022)
Journal of Statistical Physics 189 (2): 19.
Preprint available here.
Gamma, Gaussian and Poisson approximations for random sums using size-biased and generalized zero-biased couplings (2022)
Scandinavian Actuarial Journal 2022 (6): 471-487.
Preprint available here.
Some simple variance bounds from Stein's method (with Fatemeh Ghaderinezhad, Christophe Ley and Yvik Swan) (2021)
ALEA Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics 18 (2): 1845-1858.
Preprint available here.
On strong stationary times and approximation of Markov chain hitting times by geometric sums (2019)
Statistics and Probability Letters 150: 74-80.
Preprint available here.
Relaxation of monotone coupling conditions: Poisson approximation and beyond (with Oliver Johnson) (2018)
Journal of Applied Probability 55 (3): 742-759.
Preprint available here.
On magic factors in Stein's method for compound Poisson approximation (2017)
Electronic Communications in Probability 22 (67): 1-10.
Open access.
Compound geometric approximation under a failure rate constraint (2016)
Journal of Applied Probability 53 (3): 700-714.
Preprint available here.
The Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distribution: distributional theory and approximation (with Robert Gaunt) (2016)
ALEA Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics 13 (2): 635-658.
Preprint available here.
Negative dependence and stochastic orderings (2016)
ESAIM: Probability and Statistics 20: 45-65.
Preprint available here.
Compound Poisson approximation with association or negative association via Stein's method (2013)
Electronic Communications in Probability 18 (30): 1-12.
Open access.
Bounds on the Poincaré constant under negative dependence (with Oliver Johnson) (2013)
Statistics and Probability Letters 83 (2): 511-518.
Preprint available here.
Stein's method and stochastic orderings (with Claude Lefèvre and Sergey Utev) (2012)
Advances in Applied Probability 44 (2): 343-372.
Preprint available here.
On Stein's method, smoothing estimates in total variation distance and mixture distributions (2011)
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 141 (7): 2228-2237.
Stein's method for compound geometric approximation (2010)
Journal of Applied Probability 47 (1): 146-156.
Upper bounds for Stein-type operators (2008)
Electronic Journal of Probability 13 (20): 566-587.
Open access.
Editorial introduction: Special issue for Stochastic Networks 2018 (with Seva Shneer) (2019)
Queueing Systems 93: 191-193.
Book review: Partitions, Hypergeometric Systems, and Dirichlet Processes in Statistics, by Shuhei Mano (2019)
Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society 111: 53.