Statistics and stochastic modelling applied to forest fire, finance, survival and other areas

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Research is proposed in a number of areas, with applications spanning a range of disciplines. The research can be grouped under four headings: (i) statistical analysis of forest-fires past and present; (ii) applications of normal-Laplace distributions - this includes applications in medicine (survival analysis), engineering (reliability) and finance (including option pricing); (iii) modelling and analysis of phenomena with power-law tails, including statistical goodness of fit testing - applications here are widespread including complex networks with preferential attachment (e.g World Wide Web; networks of sexual partners etc.) and various size distributions such as those of biological taxa, incomes and city sizes; (iv) modelling and analysis for directional data - areas of application here include biology (directions of animal movement), meteorology (wind direction) and geology (orientation of fractures, magnetic fields etc.)