Particular areas of interest are experimental design and analysis, longitudinal data analysis, ordinal regression models and digital image processing and analysis using neural networks
BACKGROUND
Completed MSc at Warwick University (dissertation on Bayesian methods in survival analysis) and worked in medical statistics for one year.
PhD student in Applied Mathematics Department (Queen Mary, University of London) from 1999-2004 under supervision of Dr Steve Gilmour and Rodney Edmondson (HRI), developing novel statistical methods (generalized estimating equations and artificial neural networks) for analysing quality assessment data from experimental crop trials.
10 years experience as a statistical consultant. Working with scientists from a wide range of biological disciplines, medics and collaborators from a number of commercial organisations
Member of the International Biometric Society and Royal Statistical Society.
Present employment, based in the Clinical Sciences Research Institute at Warwick University, requires me to work collaboratively with scientists and medics, both within the University and externally.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Distal Radius Fracture (DRAFFT), with Associate Professor Matthew Costa, Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Dr Nicholas R Parsons - Clinical Sciences Research Institute
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Dr Juul Achten - Clinical Sciences Research Institute
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Miss Claire Daffern - Health Sciences Research Institute
Professor Nigel Stallard - Health Sciences Research Institute
Dr Sarah J Duggan - Health Sciences Research Institute
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Prof Sallie E Lamb - Health Sciences Research Institute
Professor Damian R Griffin - Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Funded by: HTA,
Project Start Date:
01/07/2010
Project End Date:
31/12/2013
West Midlands Research Design Service Unit (RDSU), with Professor Nigel Stallard, Health Sciences Research Institute, Dr Nicholas R Parsons - Clinical Sciences Research Institute
Dr Aileen Clarke - Health Sciences Research Institute
Dr Tim Friede - Health Sciences Research Institute
Dr Frances E Griffiths - Health Sciences Research Institute
Mrs Gulnaz Iqbal - Health Sciences Research Institute
Prof Sarah L Stewart-Brown - Health Sciences Research Institute, Funded by: National Institute for Health Research (DoH),
Project Start Date:
01/10/2008
Project End Date:
30/09/2013
Bupa Foundation: The Warwick Hip Trauma Study, with Associate Professor Matthew Costa, Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Dr Nicholas R Parsons - Clinical Sciences Research Institute
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Dr Juul Achten - Clinical Sciences Research Institute
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Professor Damian R Griffin - Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Funded by: BUPA Foundation,
Project Start Date:
01/04/2010
Project End Date:
30/09/2012
ATM Project -
Achilles Tendinopathy Management, with Associate Professor Matthew Costa, Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Dr Nicholas R Parsons - Clinical Sciences Research Institute
Mrs Rebecca Kearney - Clinical Sciences Research Institute
-, Funded by: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy,
Project Start Date:
01/05/2010
Project End Date:
30/04/2012
Costa, M.L., et al.(2011) 'UK DRAFFT : a randomised controlled trial of percutaneous fixation with kirschner wires versus volar locking-plate fixation in the treatment of adult patients with a dorsally displaced fracture of the distal radius'
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
12
(1), 201 (1471-2474)
[article]
Parsons, Nicholas R., Hiskens, R., Price, C. L., Achten, Juul and Costa, Matthew L.(2011) 'A systematic survey of the quality of research reporting in general orthopaedic journals'
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: British Volume
93-B
(9), 1154 - 1159 (0301-620X)
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Friede, T., Parsons, N., Stallard, N., Todd, S., Valdes Marquez, E., Chataway, J. and Nicholas, R.(2011) 'Designing a seamless phase II/III clinical trial using early outcomes for treatment selection : an application in multiple sclerosis'
Statistics In Medicine
30
(13), 1528 - 1540 (0277-6715)
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Kearney, R.S., et al.(2011) 'The comprehensive cohort model in a pilot trial in orthopaedic trauma'
BMC Medical Research Methodology
11
(39), (1471-2288)
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Chataway, J., Nicholas, R., Todd, S., Miller, D. H., Parsons, N., Valdés-Márquez, E., Stallard, N. and Friede, T.(2011) 'A novel adaptive design strategy increases the efficiency of clinical trials in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis'
Multiple Sclerosis
17
(1), 81 - 88 (1352-4585)
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