Some of my papers

Mostly statistics

• Wood, S.N., M.V. Bravington and S.L. Hedley (2008) Soap film smoothing. soap.pdf. JRSSB, 70(5), 931-955. DOI link Erratum: p942, the first sentence is incorrect and should be crossed out in heavy black marker: what is described is from Green and Silverman (1994) -- see Stone (1988).
• Wood, S.N. (2008) Fast stable direct fitting and smoothness selection for Generalized Additive Models. arXiv link JRSSB, 70(3), 495-518. DOI link
• Wood, S.N. (2006) Low-Rank Scale-Invariant Tensor Product Smooths for Generalized Additive Mixed Models. Biometrics 62(4), 1025-1036. DOI link
• Clarke, E.D. , D. C. Speirs, M. R. Heath, S. N. Wood, W. S. C. Gurney, S. J. Holmes (2006) Calibrating remotely sensed chlorophyll-a data by using penalized regression splines. Applied Statistics 55(3), 331-353. DOI link
• Demyanov, V., S. N. Wood, T. J. Kedwards (2006) Improving ecological impact assessment by statistical data synthesis using process-based models. Applied Statistics 55(1),41-62 DOI link
• Wood, S.N. (2006) On confidence intervals for generalized additive models based on penalized regression splines. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics 48(4), 445-464 DOI link
• Wood, S.N. (2004) Stable and Efficient Multiple Smoothing Parameter Estimation for Generalized Additive Models. Journal of the American Statistical Association 99, 673-686 DOI link
• Wood, S.N. (2003) Thin plate regression splines. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology), 65(1), 95-114 DOI link
• Wood, S.N. and N.H. Augustin (2002) GAMs with integrated model selection using penalized regression splines and applications to environmental modelling. Ecological Modelling 157, 157-177. DOI link (but you are better off with the less mangled wagam.pdf )
• Wood, S.N. (2001) Minimizing Model Fitting Objectives That Contain Spurious Local Minima by Bootstrap Restarting. Biometrics 57(1), 240 DOI link
• Wood, S.N. (2000) Modelling and smoothing parameter estimation with multiple quadratic penalties. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology 62(2), 413-428 DOI link
• Wood, S.N. (1994) Monotonic Smoothing Splines Fitted by Cross Validation. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 15(5), 1126-1133 DOI link

Mostly biological

• Low, C., S.N. Wood and R.M. Nisbet (2009) The effects of group size, leaf size, and density on the performance of a leaf-mining moth. Journal of Animal Ecology 78(1): 152-160 DOI link
• Gurney, W.S.C.. G Tyldesley, S.N. Wood, P.J. Bacon, M.R. Heath, A. Youngson and A. Ibbotson (2007) Modelling length-at-age variability under irreversible growth. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64(4), 638-653. DOI link
• L. Ibaibarriaga, M. Bernal, L. Motos, A. Uriarte, D.L. Borchers, M.E. Lonergan and S.N. Wood (2007) Characterization of stage-classified biological processes using multinomial models: a case study of anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) eggs in the Bay of Biscay Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64(3), 539-553. DOI link
• Speirs, D.C., W.S.C. Gurney, M.R Heath, W. Horbelt, S.N. Wood and B.A. de Cuevas (2006) Ocean-scale modelling of the distribution, abundance, and seasonal dynamics of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus Marine Ecology Progress Series 313, 173-192. DOI link
• Kendall, B.E, S.P. Ellner, E. McCauley, S.N. Wood, C.J. Briggs, W.W. Murdoch and P. Turchin (2005) POPULATION CYCLES IN THE PINE LOOPER MOTH: DYNAMICAL TESTS OF MECHANISTIC HYPOTHESES. Ecological Mongraphs 75(2), 259-276 DOI link
• Nisbet, R.M., E. McCauley, W.S.C. Gurney, W.W. Murdoch and S.N. Wood (2004) FORMULATING AND TESTING A PARTIALLY SPECIFIED DYNAMIC ENERGY BUDGET MODEL. Ecology 85(11), 3132-3139 DOI link
• Speirs, D.C., W.S.C. Gurney, S.J. Holmes, M.R. Heath, S.N. Wood, E.D. Clarke, I.H. Harms, H Hirche, E. McKenzie (2004) Understanding demography in an advective environment: modelling Calanus finmarchicus in the Norwegian SeaJournal of Animal Ecology 73(5), 897-910 DOI link
• Turchin, P, S.N. Wood, S.P. Ellner, B.E. Kendall, W.W. Murdoch, A. Fischlin, J. Casas, E. McCauley, C.J. Briggs (2003) DYNAMICAL EFFECTS OF PLANT QUALITY AND PARASITISM ON POPULATION CYCLES OF LARCH BUDMOTH Ecology 84(5), 1207-1214 DOI link
• Gurney, W.S.C., D.C. Speirs, S.N. Wood, E.D. Clarke, M.R. Heath (2001) Simulating spatially and physiologically structured populations. Journal of Animal Ecology 70(6), 881- 894 DOI link
• Ellner, S.P., E. McCauley, B.E. Kendall, C.J. Briggs, P.R. Hosseini, S.N. Wood, A. Janssen, M.W. Sabelis, P .Turchin, R.M. Nisbet and W.W. Murdoch (2001) Habitat structure and population persistence in an experimental community. Nature 412, 538-543. DOI link
• Wood, S.N. (2001) Partially Specified Ecological Models. Ecological Monographs 71(1), 1-25 DOI link or use psm.pdf
• McCauley E., Kendall B.E., Janssen A., Wood S., Murdoch W.W., Hosseini P., Briggs C.J., Ellner S.P., Nisbet R.M., Sabelis M.W., Turchin P. (2000) Inferring colonization processes from population dynamics in spatially structured predator-prey systems. Ecology 81(12):3350-336 DOI link
• Kendall BE, Briggs CJ, Murdoch WW, Turchin P, Ellner SP, McCauley E, Nisbet RM, Wood SN (1999) Why do populations cycle? A synthesis of statistical and mechanistic modeling approaches. Ecology 80(6), 1789-1805. DOI link
• Wood SN, Thomas MB (1999) Super-sensitivity to structure in biological models. Proceedings of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 266, 565-570 DOI link
• Andrew J. Davis, Linda S. Jenkinson, John H. Lawton, Bryan Shorrocks and Simon Wood (1998) Making mistakes when predicting shifts in species range in response to global warming. Nature 391:783-786. DOI link
• Ellner, Stephen P., Kendall, Bruce E., Wood, Simon N., McCauley, Ed, Briggs, Cheryl J. (1997) Inferring Mechanism from Time-Series Data: Delay Differential Equations. Physica D 110(3-4):182-194 DOI link
• Thomas, M.B., S.N. Wood, J. Langewald & C.J. Lomer (1997) Persistence of Metarhizium flavoviride and Consequences for Biological Control of Grasshoppers and Locusts. Pesticide Science 49:47-55 DOI link
• Thomas, M.B., J. Langewald & S.N. Wood (1996) "Evaluating the effects of a biopesticide on populations of the variegated grasshopper, Zonocerus variegatus" Journal of Applied Ecology 33:1509-1516 DOI link
• Wood, S.N. & M.B. Thomas (1996) "Space, time and the persistence of virulent pathogens" Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 263:673-680. DOI link
• Ohman, M. & S.N. Wood (1996) Mortality estimation for planktonic copepods: Pseudocalanus newmani in a temperate fjord.Limnology and Oceanography 41(1):126-135 link to pdf
• Gaston K.J., R.M.Quinn, S.Wood & H.R.Arnold (1996) "Measures of geographic range size: the effects of sample size" Ecography 19:259-268 DOI link
• Thomas, M.B., S.N. Wood & C.J. Lomer (1995) Biological-control of locusts and grasshoppers using a fungal pathogen: the importance of secondary cycling. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 259:265-270 DOI link
• Wood S.N & J.W. Horwood (1995) "Spatial distribution functions and abundances inferred from sparse noisy plankton data: an application of constrained thin plate splines." Journal of Plankton Research 17(6):1189-1208 DOI link
• Ohman, M. & S.N. Wood (1995) The inevitability of mortality. ICES Journal on Marine Science 52: 517-522 DOI link
• Shea K., M.Rees & S.N.Wood (1994) "Trade-offs, Elasticity and the comparative method" Journal of Ecology 82:951-957. DOI link
• Quinn, R.M., J.H. Lawton, B.C. Eversham & S.N. Wood (1994) "The Biogeography of scarce vascular plants in Britain with respect to habitat preference, dispersal ability and reproductive biology" Biological Conservation 70:149-157. DOI link
• Wood S.N. (1994) Spline models of biological population dynamics: how to estimate mortality rates for stage structured populations with dimorphic life histories. IMA J. Math. Appl. Med. Biol. 11:61-78 DOI link
• Wood S.N. (1994) Obtaining birth and death rate patterns from structured population trajectories. Ecological Monographs 64(1):23-44. DOI link
• Prendergast, J.R., S.N. Wood , J.H. Lawton & B.C. Eversham (1993) Correcting for variation in recording effort in analysis of diversity hotspots. Biodiversity Letters 1:39-53. DOI link
• Wood S.N. (1993) "How to estimate life history stage durations from stage structured population data" J. theor. Biol. 163:61-76 DOI link
• Wood S.N., S.P. Blythe , W.S.C. Gurney & R.M. Nisbet (1989) Instability in mortality estimation schemes related to stage structured population data. IMA J. Math. Appl. Med. Biol. 6:47-68. DOI link

• Wood, S.N. (Dec 2001) "Fitting ecological dynamic models to data" - some course notes prepared for the 4th Winter School on Population Dynamics at Woudshoton, Netherlands. wsnotes.pdf
• Wood, S.N. (1999) "Semi-parametric population models" Aspects of Applied Biology 53:41-50. aab.ps or aab.pdf .

errata

• Section 5. p422. 3rd line from foot of page. Both expressions have errors. The covariance matrix should have both estimated parameter vectors (\hat {\bf p}) deleted, and should be multiplied by \rho. In the next expression \hat \sigma should read \hat \sigma^2.
• section 2. p416. 3rd line. W_{ii}^[k], should be defined as [g^\prime(\mu_i^{[k]})^2 V_i^{[k}]]^{-1}.
• page 420: There's a power of -1 missing from the definition of \theta_i^{(1)}