Publications

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  arXiv

• 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  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  arXiv

• 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

• Omnithermal perfect simulation for multi-server queues
  S.B. Connor
  ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 30(1) (2020)  arXiv

• Mixing times for exclusion processes on hypergraphs
  S.B. Connor and R.J. Pymar
  Electronic Journal of Probability 24 (2019)  arXiv

• 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  arXiv

• Perfect simulation of M/G/c queues
  S.B. Connor and W.S. Kendall
  Advances in Applied Probability 47(4) (2015) 1039-1063  arXiv

• 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  arXiv

• 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  arXiv

• 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  arXiv

• 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  arXiv

• 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)  arXiv

Book chapters

• Perfect sampling
  S.B. Connor
  Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online (2015)

• Perfect sampling
  S.B. Connor
  Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability (2007)

Dissertations

• Coupling: cutoffs, CFTP and tameness
  S.B. Connor
  PhD Thesis, University of Warwick (2007)   Download

• Simulation and solving substitution codes
  S.B. Connor
  MMathStat Dissertation (3rd year), University of Warwick (2002)   Download