Arthur Gilmour joined NSW Agriculture as a trainee in 1967, becoming a biometrician in 1970.  He undertook PhD studies in Animal Breeding at Massey University and graduated in 1983. 

Research interests

His research has focussed on statistical computing leading to the development of ASReml (http://asreml.com) in close collaboration with Professor Robin Thompson and Dr Brian Cullis. He is generally interested in all areas of application of linear mixed models.

Other interests

Arthur is married to Ellen and they have four children. They are active Christians and are establishing a small Chestnut and Olive enterprise.

Selected publications

Gilmour, A.R., Anderson, R.D. and Rae, A.L. (1985). The analysis of binomial data by a generalized linear mixed model. Biometrika, 72, 593-599.

Gilmour, A.R., Anderson, R.D.  and Rae, A.L.  (1987).  Variance components on an underlying scale for ordered multiple threshold categorical data using a generalized linear mixed model.  Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, 104, 149-155.

Gilmour, A.R., Thompson, R. and Cullis, B.R. (1995). Average Information REML, an efficient algorithm for variance parameter estimation in linear mixed models.  Biometrics , 51, 1440-50.

Gilmour, A.R., Cullis, B.R. and Verbyla, A. (1997).Accounting for Natural and Extraneous Variation in the Analysis of Field Experiments. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 2, 269-293.

Gilmour, A.R., Cullis, B.R., Welham, S.J., Gogel, B, and Thompson, R. (2002) An efficient computing strategy for prediction in mixed linear models submitted to Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.