PhD (University of Victoria)
Associate Professor

Field of Specialization

• Econometrics

Selected Publications

• "The Manitoba Basic Annual Income Experiment: Lessons Learned 40 Years Later." W. Simpson, G. Mason, and R. Godwin. Canadian Public Policy (2017)
• "Estimation of the population size by using the one-inflated positive Poisson model." R. Godwin and D. Böhning. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (2017)
• "One-inflation and unobserved heterogeneity in population size estimation." R. Godwin. Biometrical Journal (2017)
• "Bias-corrected maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of the generalized Pareto distribution." D. Giles, H. Feng, and R. Godwin. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods (2016)
• "Bias reduction for the maximum likelihood estimator of the doubly-truncated Poisson distribution." R. Godwin. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods (2016)
• "On the bias of the maximum likelihood estimator for the two-parameter Lomax distribution." D. Giles, H. Feng, and R. Godwin. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods (2013)
• "Improved maximum-likelihood estimation of the shape parameter in the Nakagami distribution." J. Schwartz, R. Godwin, and D. Giles. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (2013)
• "Testing for multivariate cointegration in the presence of structural breaks: p-values and critical values." D. Giles and R. Godwin. Applied Economics Letters (2012)