Interests Statistics is about building tools for data analysis. Statisticians are both tools and tool makers. If modern Universities had optics departments for making telescopes and microscopes, Statistics would fit comfortably in the same division.
Statistics exists to be applied to data.
If it were not for applications, there would be no point to Statistics as a discipline. Statistics is a separate discipline and not a sub-discipline inside other fields because the tools that we develop are useful across many disciplines. My theoretical research lies in methods for Bayesian and exploratory data analysis. I develop diagnostic tools, residual and influence tools, and model development and checking tools. I work on statistical graphics, prior specification and hierarchical models.