Jane Horgan

Publications:

Book:

Probability with R: An Introduction with Computer Science Applications, Wiley 2008

Recent peer reviewed journal publications
Gunning, P, Horgan, J.M, and Keogh G. (2008) An Implementation Strategy for Efficient Convergence of the Lavallée and Hidiroglou Stratification, Journal of Official Statistics, pp 213-228.

Gunning, P. and Horgan, J.M. (2007) Improving the Lavallée and Hidiroglou Algorithm for Stratification of Skewed Populations, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 4 , 77, 277 – 291.

Gunning, P. and Horgan, J.M. (2007) Choosing the Strata when Auditing: An Example using Excel, Irish Accounting Review, 14, 1.

Horgan, J. M. (2006). Stratification of Skewed Populations: A review. International Statistics Review, 74, 1, 67-76. abstract

Gunning, P., Horgan, J.M. and Keogh, G. (2006). Efficient Stratification of the Pareto Distribution, Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol 2. (full paper)

Gunning, P., and Horgan, J.M.(2006). Improving the Lavalee Hidiroglou Algorithm for Stratification of Skewed Populations, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Daly Charlie and Horgan Jane (2005). A Technique for Measuring Plagiarism in Computer Code, The Computer Journal, 48, 6, 662-666 (http://www.comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/48/6/662).

Mathuna, D. and Horgan, J.M. (2005). Seasonal Allergic Study Results of Questionable Relevance to Homeopathy, The Annals of Pharmocotherapy, 39, 4, 736-738.

Gunning, P. and Horgan, J.M. (2004). A Simple Algorithm for Stratifying Skewed Populations, Survey Methodology. 30, 2, 159-185 (full paper)

Gunning, P. and Horgan, J.M. (2004). Un nouvel algorithme pour la construction de bornes de atratification dans les populations asymetriques, Techniques d’enquete, 30, 2, 177-185

Gunning, P., Horgan, J.M. and Yancey, W. (2004). Geometric Stratification of Accounting Data, Contaduria y Administration

Daly, C. and Horgan, J.M. (2004). An Analysis of and Automated Learning System, IEEE Transactions in Education, 47, 1, 10-17 (full paper)

Horgan, J.M. (2003). A List-Sequential Sampling Scheme with Applications in Financial Auditing, IMA: Journal of Management Mathematics, 14, 1 pp. 31-48.

Horgan, J.M. (2002). A Criterion for an Efficient Ratio Estimator with Poisson Sampling, Journal of Information and Technology, 2, No. 1, 1-18.

Horgan, J. and Waldron, J. (2002). The Unexpected Properties of Expectation, Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 33/9, Sept., 1373-1378.
Horgan, J.M. (2000). Auditing Y2K: A Sampling Fig Leaf, Aus. CPA, Nov., pp. 46-47.

Recent conference publications

Horgan Jane M. and Sebnem Er (2009) Simulating Probability with R, International Conference of Mathematical Sciences: Aug 2009, Istanbul Turkey.

Horgan Jane M. (2009) Probability with R, 57th Sessions of the International Statistics Institute, Durban South Africa, Aug 2009

Horgan Jane M.(2007) Stratification: A Look Back in Anguish, Proceedings of Joint Statistical Meeting and International Conference on Statistical Science, OR and IT

Horgan Jane M. (2007) Geometric and Cumulative Root: The Final Conflict, Proceeding of the International Conference on Statistical Science, OR and IT, the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS), Dravidian University, Tirupati, India, 425, 7-9 January, 2007

Gunning, P., Horgan, Jane M. and Keogh, G. (2005) A Generalisation of the Geometric Algorithm for Sampling Business Populations}, Joint Meeting of the Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, (CSPS/IMS2005), Peking University, Beijing

Daly Charles and Horgan, Jane M. (2005) Patterns of Plagiarism, SIGCSE Proceedings

Gunning, Patricia, and Horgan, Jane, and Keogh, G. (2004) Obtaining Stratum Boundaries in Skewed Populations, Proceedings JSM, Toronto, Canada.

Horgan, Jane M. (2004) Library Surveys: How to approach them., Quality Measures: The Academic Library Context, Maynooth , (Powerpoint Presentation)

Gunning, Patricia, and Horgan, Jane, M. (2004) An Algorithm for Obtaining Strata with Equal Coefficients of Variation, Proc. Of Computational Statistics, 2004 1123-1129

Daly, C. and Horgan, J.M., (2001), Automatic Plagiarism Detection, Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference Applied Informatics, pp.255-259. presented at Innsbruck, Austria, Feb 2001.

Daly, Charles Daly, Horgan Jane. M., Power, James. Waldron, John Platform Independent Dynamic Java Virtual Machine Analysis: the Java Grande Forum Benchmark Suite, at Joint ACM Java Grande - ISCOPE 2001 Conference Stanford University, June 2-4, 2001

Horgan, Jane M. (2001). A Fixed-Sample-Size Without-Replacement Plan for Substantive Tests, Proc. Of Amer, Acc, Association Western Region Meeting, May, pp. 46-47.