Professor Luke Prendergast HoD,Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics & Statistics
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Professor Luke Prendergast HoD,Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics & Statistics
Luke's research areas include robust statistics, dimension reduction and visualization of high dimensional data, meta analysis and applied statistics. He is currently supervising research students in influence diagnostics for high dimensional data, improvements to dimension reduction methods and meta-analysis. Luke also collaborates with the Proietto Research Group at the University of Melbourne and with researchers in the School of Psychology and Public and the School of Allied Health at La Trobe University.
Positions
- Mathematics and Statistics , School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
- Head of Department, Department of Mathematics and Statistics , (La Trobe University) 2014 -
Research Areas
- Applied Statistics (Expertise)
- Robust statistics (Expertise)
- Statistical Theory (Expertise)
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Affiliation
Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Baker EKRichdale ALHazi APrendergast L. Assessing a Hyperarousal Hypothesis of Insomnia in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Autism Research: official journal of the International Society for Autism Research.
12:897-910.
2019
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Dean EHaywood CHunter PAustin NPrendergast L. Body Image in older, inpatient women, and the relationship to BMI, anxiety, depression and other sociodemographic factors.
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
2019
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Prendergast LAStaudte RG. Decomposing the Quantile Ratio Index with Applications to Australian Income and Wealth Data.
European Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics.
12:689-708.
2019
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Godakanda Arachchige CNPCairns MPrendergast LA. Interval estimators for ratios of independent quantiles and interquantile ranges.
Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation.
2019
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Haywood CJPrendergast LALim RLappas MLim WKProietto J. Obesity in older adults: Effect of degree of weight loss on cardiovascular markers and medications.
Clinical obesity.
9.
2019
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Lambert KALodge CLowe AJPrendergast LAThomas PSBennett CMAbramson MJDharmage SCErbas B. Pollen exposure at birth and adolescent lung function, and modification by residential greenness.
Allergy.
74.
2019
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Bayer JKMorgan APrendergast LABeatson RGilbertson TBretherton LHiscock HRapee RM. Predicting temperamentally inhibited young children’s clinical-level anxiety and internalizing problems from parenting and parent wellbeing: a population study.
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
47:1165-1181.
2019
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van Namen MPrendergast LPeiris C. Supervised lifestyle intervention for people with metabolic syndrome improves outcomes and reduces individual risk factors of metabolic syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Metabolism: clinical and experimental.
101.
2019
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Marx WGeorge EMayr HLThomas CJSarapis EMoschonis GKennedy GPipingas AWillcox JCPrendergast LItsiopoulos C. The effect of high-polyphenol extra virgin olive oil on markers of cardiovascular disease risk in healthy Australian adults (OLIVAUS): A protocol for a double-blind randomized, controlled, cross-over study.
Nutrition and Dietetics.
2019
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Prendergast LAStaudte RG. A Simple and Effective Inequality Measure.
American Statistician.
72:328-343.
2018
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Shields Nvan den Bos RBuhlert-Smith KPrendergast LTaylor N. A community-based exercise program to increase participation in physical activities among youth with disability: a feasibility study.
Disability and Rehabilitation.
41.
2018
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Harding KELeggat SGWatts JJKent BPrendergast LKotis MO'Reilly MKarimi LLewis AKSnowdon DATaylor NF. A model of access combining triage with initial management reduced waiting time for community outpatient services: a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial.
BMC Medicine.
16:1-10.
2018
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Dennett AMPeiris CLShields NPrendergast LATaylor NF. Cancer survivors awaiting rehabilitation rarely meet recommended physical activity levels: An observational study.
Rehabilitation Oncology.
36:214-222.
2018
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Bavin ELSarant JLeigh GPrendergast LBusby PPeterson C. Children with cochlear implants in infancy: predictors of early vocabulary.
International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.
53:788-798.
2018
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Sumithran PPurcell KKuyruk SProietto JPrendergast LA. Combining biological and psychosocial baseline variables did not improve prediction of outcome of a very-low-energy diet in a clinic referral population.
Clinical obesity.
8:30-38.
2018
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Dedduwakumara DSPrendergast LA. Confidence intervals for quantiles from histograms and other grouped data.
Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation.
2018
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Lambert KABowatte GTham RLodge CJPrendergast LAHeinrich JAbramson MJDharmage SCErbas B. Greenspace and Atopic Sensitization in Children and Adolescents-A Systematic Review.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
15:1-12.
2018
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Price SNankervis APermezel MPrendergast LSumithran PProietto J. Health consequences for mother and baby of substantial pre-conception weight loss in obese women: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
Trials.
19:1-13.
2018
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Dennett AMShields NPeiris CLPrendergast LAO'Halloran PDParente PTaylor NF. Motivational interviewing added to oncology rehabilitation did not improve moderate-intensity physical activity in cancer survivors: a randomised trial.
Journal of Physiotherapy.
64:255-263.
2018
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Erbas BJazayeri MLambert KAKatelaris CHPrendergast LATham RParrodi MJDavies JNewbigin EAbramson MJDharmage SC. Outdoor pollen is a trigger of child and adolescent asthma emergency department presentations: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Allergy.
73:1632-1641.
2018
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Lambert KAPrendergast LADharmage SCTang MO'Sullivan MTran TDruce JBardin PAbramson MJErbas B. The role of human rhinovirus (HRV) species on asthma exacerbation severity in children and adolescents.
Journal of Asthma.
55:596-602.
2018
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Bayer JKBeatson RBretherton LHiscock HWake MGilbertson TMihalopoulos CPrendergast LARapee RM. Translational delivery of cool little kids to prevent child internalising problems: randomised controlled trial.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry.
52:181-191.
2018
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Haywood CJPrendergast LAPurcell KLe Fevre LLim WKGalea MProietto J. Very Low Calorie Diets for Weight Loss in Obese Older Adults—A Randomized Trial.
Journal of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences.
73:59-65.
2018
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Baker EKRichdale ALHazi APrendergast LA. Assessing the Dim Light Melatonin Onset in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder and No Comorbid Intellectual Disability.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
47:2120-2137.
2017
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Rocha Seabra MTolton LPrendergast L. Neutralizando o argumento da qualidade: resultados preliminares de um estudo de filosofia experimental = Neutralizing the argument of quality: preliminary results of a study of experimental philosophy.
Revista Ideação.
1:133-191.
2017
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Dona MSIPrendergast LAMathivanan SKeerthikumar SSalim A. Powerful differential expression analysis incorporating network topology for next-generation sequencing data.
Bioinformatics.
33:1505-1513.
2017
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Lambert KABowatte GTham RLodge CPrendergast LHeinrich JAbramson MJDharmage SCErbas B. Residential greenness and allergic respiratory diseases in children and adolescents – A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Environmental Research.
159:212-221.
2017
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Fui MNTHoermann RPrendergast LZajac JGrossmann M. Symptomatic response to testosterone treatment in dieting obese men with low testosterone levels in a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial.
International Journal of Obesity.
41:420-426.
2017
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Prendergast LAStaudte RG. When large n is not enough – Distribution-free interval estimators for ratios of quantiles.
The Journal of Economic Inequality.
15:277-293.
2017
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Fui MNTPrendergast LADupuis PRaval MStrauss BJZajac JDGrossmann M. Effects of testosterone treatment on body fat and lean mass in obese men on a hypocaloric diet: a randomised controlled trial.
BMC Medicine.
14:1-11.
2016
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Prendergast LAStaudte RG. Exploiting the quantile optimality ratio in finding confidence intervals for quantiles.
Stat.
5:70-81.
2016
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Prendergast LAHealey AF. Improving estimated sufficient summary plots in dimension reduction using minimization criteria based on initial estimates.
Computational Statistics.
31:899-922.
2016
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Prendergast LAStaudte RG. Meta-analysis of ratios of sample variances.
Statistics in Medicine.
35:1780-1799.
2016
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Dennett AMPeiris CLShields NPrendergast LATaylor NF. Moderate-intensity exercise reduces fatigue and improves mobility in cancer survivors: a systematic review and meta-regression.
Journal of Physiotherapy.
62:68-82.
2016
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Bavin ELPrendergast LAKidd EBaker EDissanayake C. Online processing of sentences containing noun modification in young children with high-functioning autism.
International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.
51:137-147.
2016
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Prendergast LAStaudte RG. Quantile versions of the Lorenz curve.
Electronic Journal of Statistics.
10:1896-1926.
2016
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Prendergast LAGarnham AL. Response and predictor folding to counter symmetric dependency in dimension reduction.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics.
58:515-532.
2016
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Sumithran PPrendergast LAHaywood CJHoulihan CAProietto J. Review of 3-year outcomes of a very-low-energy diet-based outpatient obesity treatment programme.
Clinical obesity.
6:101-107.
2016
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Bavin ELKidd EPrendergast LBaker EK. Young Children with ASD Use Lexical and Referential Information During On-line Sentence Processing.
Frontiers in Psychology.
7:1-12.
2016
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Haywood CPrendergast LLim KProietto J. Obesity in older persons: effect of weight loss and exercise on physical function and cognitive tests.
Australasian Journal on Ageing.
34:39-40.
2015
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Purcell KSumithran PPrendergast LABouniu CJDelbridge EProietto J. The effect of rate of weight loss on long-term weight management: a randomised controlled trial.
The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.
2:954-962.
2014
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Prendergast LAStaudte RG. Better than you think: Interval estimators of the difference of binomial proportions.
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.
148:38-48.
2014
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Bavin EKidd EPrendergast LBaker EDissanayake APrior M. Severity of Autism is Related to Children's Language Processing.
Autism Research: official journal of the International Society for Autism Research.
7:687-694.
2014
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Sumithran PPrendergast LADelbridge EPurcell KShulkes AKriketos AProietto J. Ketosis and appetite-mediating nutrients and hormones after weight loss.
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
67:759-764.
2013
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PRENDERGAST LUKEASHEATHER SIMONJ. On Sensitivity of Inverse Response Plot Estimation and the Benefits of a Robust Estimation Approach.
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics: theory and applications.
40:219-237.
2013
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Malloy MJPrendergast LAStaudte RG. Transforming the Model T: random effects meta-analysis with stable weights.
Statistics in Medicine.
32:1842-1864.
2013
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Garnham ALPrendergast LA. A note on least squares sensitivity in single-index model estimation and the benefits of response transformations.
Electronic Journal of Statistics.
7:1983-2004.
2013
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Baker STJerums GPrendergast LAPanagiotopoulos SStrauss BJProietto J. Less fat reduction per unit weight loss in type 2 diabetic compared with nondiabetic obese individuals completing a very-low-calorie diet program.
Metabolism: clinical and experimental.
61:873-882.
2012
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Baker STStrauss BJPrendergast LAPanagiotopoulos SThomas GEVu TProietto JJerums G. Estimating dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry-derived total body skeletal muscle mass using single-slice abdominal magnetic resonance imaging in obese subjects with and without diabetes: a pilot study.
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
66:628-632.
2012
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Sumithran PPrendergast LADelbridge EPurcell KShulkes AKriketos AProietto J. Long-Term Persistence of Hormonal Adaptations to Weight Loss.
New England Journal of Medicine.
365:1597-1604.
2011
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Prendergast LALi Wai Suen C. A new and practical influence measure for subsets of covariance matrix sample principal components with applications to high dimensional datasets.
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.
55:752-764.
2011
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Malloy MJPrendergast LAStaudte RG. Comparison of methods for fixed effect meta-regression of standardized differences of means.
Electronic Journal of Statistics.
5:83-101.
2011
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Shaker AJPrendergast LA. Iterative application of dimension reduction methods.
Electronic Journal of Statistics.
5:1471-1494.
2011
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PRENDERGAST LUKEASMITH JODIEA. Influence Functions for Dimension Reduction Methods: An Example Influence Study of Principal Hessian Direction Analysis.
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics: theory and applications.
37:588-611.
2010
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Delbridge EAPrendergast LAPritchard JEProietto J. One-year weight maintenance after significant weight loss in healthy overweight and obese subjects: does diet composition matter?.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
90:1203-1214.
2009
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Prendergast LA. Trimming influential observations for improved single-index model estimated sufficient summary plots.
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.
52:5319-5327.
2008
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Prendergast LA. A note on sensitivity of principal component subspaces and the efficient detection of influential observations in high dimensions.
Electronic Journal of Statistics.
2:454-467.
2008
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Prendergast LA. Implications of influence function analysis for sliced inverse regression and sliced average variance estimation.
Biometrika.
94:585-601.
2007
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Prendergast LASmith JA. Sensitivity of principal Hessian direction analysis.
Electronic Journal of Statistics.
1:253-267.
2007
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Prendergast LA. DETECTING INFLUENTIAL OBSERVATIONS IN SLICED INVERSE REGRESSION ANALYSIS.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics.
48:285-304.
2006
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PRENDERGAST LA. Influence Functions for Sliced Inverse Regression.
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics: theory and applications.
32:385-404.
2005
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Baker EKRichdale ALHazi APrendergast L. Assessing a Hyperarousal Hypothesis of Insomnia in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Autism Research: official journal of the International Society for Autism Research.
12:897-910.
2019
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conference paper
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Nibali AHe ZMorgan SPrendergast L. 3D Human Pose Estimation with 2D Marginal Heatmaps.
2019 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
1477-1485.
2019
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Lambert KLodge CPrendergast LABowatte GLowe AWjst MAbramson MJDharmage SCErbas B. Associations between early life exposure to pollen and adolescent lung function are modified by residential greenness.
European Respiratory Journal.
2018
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Lambert KALodge CPrendergast LTham RBowatte GHeinrich JDharmage SAbramson MJErbas B. Residential greenness and allergic respiratory disease in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Allergy.
425-425.
2017
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Fui MNTPrendergast LADupuis PZajac JDGrossmann M. Dieting but not testosterone treatment improves androgen deficiency-like symptoms in obese men with lowered testosterone.
Clinical Endocrinology.
15-15.
2017
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Fui MNTPrendergast LADupuis PRaval MStrauss BZajac JGrossmann M. Testosterone treatment increases loss of body fat and prevents loss of lean mass in obese men with low testosterone levels on a hypocaloric diet: A randomized trial.
Clinical Endocrinology.
21-22.
2017
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Baker ERichdale AHazi APrendergast L. Hyperarousal prior to sleep in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and no comorbid intellectual impairment.
Journal of Sleep Research.
368-368.
2016
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Richdale ABaker EHazi AUljarevic MPrendergast L. Relationships between morning salivary Alpha-Amylase (sAA), sleep and anxiety in adults with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Journal of Sleep Research.
281-281.
2016
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Baker ERichdale AHazi APrendergast L. The relationship between sleep and evening melatonin in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and no intellectual impairment.
Journal of Sleep Research.
368-368.
2016
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Baker STJerums GPrendergast LAPanagiotopoulos SStrauss BJVu TThomas GEProietto J. Efficacy of Very-Low-Calorie Diets as a Treatment for Obesity in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Compared to Non-Diabetic Controls.
Diabetes.
A491-A492.
2010
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Samatan ABeebeejaun SPrendergast LMichell IAly AJohnson CHoldstock CSumithran PProietto J. A 3-year review of outcomes of patients enrolled in a public hospital weight loss clinic.
Obesity Research and Clinical Practice.
S73-S73.
2010
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Purcell KBouniu CSumithran PDelbridge EPrendergast LProietto J. Does the rate of weight loss inpact on achieveing target weight.
Obesity Research and Clinical Practice.
S38-S38.
2010
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Sumithran PDelbridge EPurcell KPrendergast LKriketos AProietto J. Weight-loss induced increase in plasma ghrelin is suppressed by ketosis.
Obesity Research and Clinical Practice.
S40-S40.
2010
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Delbridge EPrendergast LPritchard JProietto J. The effects of a high protein weight maintenance diet on bone mineral density following a large and rapid weight loss..
Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
S137-S137.
2008
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Delbridge EPrendergast LPritchard JProietto J. Long-term weight maintenance : does diet composition matter? A randomised, prospective trial..
Obesity Reviews.
38-38.
2006
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Delbridge EPrendergast LPritchard JProietto J. The effect of a high protein vs high carbohydrate diet on cardiovascular risk factors.
Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
S42-S42.
2006
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Delbridge EPrendergast LPritchard JProietto J. Predicting weight loss in overweight and obese people using a very low energy diet..
Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
S59-S59.
2005
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Nibali AHe ZMorgan SPrendergast L. 3D Human Pose Estimation with 2D Marginal Heatmaps.
2019 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
1477-1485.
2019
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working paper
Research
investigator on
- Improving muscle strength in young people with Prader-Willi syndrome awarded by Australian Government Department of Health - Medical Research Future Fund - Rare Cancers Rare Diseases, Unmet Need 2019 - 2021
- Fitskills: A Community-university Partnership To Increase Exercise Participation Among Youth With Disability awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) - Partnership Projects Grants 2017 - 2020
- Improving outcomes after rehabiltiation for two important patient groups - people after hip fracture and people with cancer. awarded by Eastern Health 2015 - 2017
Teaching
teaching activities
- Engineering Probability and Statistics Taught course 2017 -
- Meta-analysis Taught course 2017 -
- Analyses of linear models Taught course 2013 - 2016
- Data-based critical thinking Taught course 2012 - 2015
Background
education and training
- BSc(Hons), .
- PHD, (La Trobe University)
Contact
full name
- Professor Luke Prendergast
mailing address
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La Trobe University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Melbourne
Victoria
3086
Australia