Stephen Connor - Publications

Publications

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Book chapters
Dissertations

Research themes

Journal papers

Optimal coupling of jumpy Brownian motion on the circle: S.B. Connor and R. Merli
Journal of Applied Probability 61(1) (2024) 18-32
Journal ArXiv Coupling Stochastic control
Integrals of incomplete beta functions, with applications to order statistics, random walks and string enumeration: S.B. Connor and C.J. Fewster
Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics 36(1) (2022) 185-198
Journal ArXiv
Cutoff for a one-sided transposition shuffle: M.E. Bate, S.B. Connor and O. Matheau-Raven
The Annals of Applied Probability 31(4) (2021) 1746-1773
Journal ArXiv Mixing times
When to switch? Index policies for resource scheduling in emergency response: L. Ding, D. Li and S.B. Connor
Production and Operations Management 29(2) (2020) 241-262
Journal Stochastic control
Omnithermal perfect simulation for multi-server queues: S.B. Connor
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 30(1) (2020)
Journal ArXiv Perfect simulation
Mixing times for exclusion processes on hypergraphs: S.B. Connor and R.J. Pymar
Electronic Journal of Probability 24 (2019)
Journal ArXiv Mixing times
Mixing time and cutoff for a random walk on the ring of integers mod n: M.E. Bate and S.B. Connor
Bernoulli 24(2) (2018) 993-1009
Journal ArXiv Mixing times
Perfect simulation of M/G/c queues: S.B. Connor and W.S. Kendall
Advances in Applied Probability 47(4) (2015) 1039-1063
Journal ArXiv Perfect simulation
Optimal co-adapted coupling for a random walk on the hyper-complete graph: S.B. Connor
Journal of Applied Probability 50(4) (2013) 1117-1130
Journal ArXiv Coupling Stochastic control
Separation and coupling cutoffs for tuples of independent Markov processes: S.B. Connor
Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics 7 (2010) 65-77
Journal ArXiv Coupling
State-dependent Foster-Lyapunov criteria for subgeometric convergence of Markov chains: S.B. Connor and G. Fort
Stochastic Processes and their Applications 119(12) (2009) 4176-4193
Journal ArXiv Stochastic stability
Optimal co-adapted coupling for the symmetric random walk on the hypercube: S.B. Connor and S. Jacka
Journal of Applied Probability 45(1) (2008) 703-713
Journal ArXiv Coupling Stochastic control
Perfect simulation for a class of positive recurrent Markov chains: S.B. Connor and W.S. Kendall
The Annals of Applied Probability 17(3) (2007) 781-808 (with correction, 1808-1810)
Journal ArXiv Perfect simulation Stochastic stability

Book chapters

Perfect sampling: S.B. Connor
Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online (2015)
Book Perfect simulation
Perfect sampling: S.B. Connor
Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability (2007)
Book Perfect simulation

Dissertations

Coupling: cutoffs, CFTP and tameness: S.B. Connor
PhD Thesis, University of Warwick (2007)
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Simulation and solving substitution codes: S.B. Connor
MMathStat Dissertation (3rd year), University of Warwick (2002)
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