John Carlin (statistician)

John B. Carlin is an Australian statistician. He is Head of Data Science and Director of the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) and a professor in the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne.[1] He has also led the Victorian Centre for Biostatistics, a collaboration between the MCRI, the University of Melbourne, and Monash University, since 2012.[2] The economist Wendy Carlin is his sister.

John Carlin
NationalityAustralian
EducationUniversity of Western Australia
Harvard University
Known forBayesian analysis
Scientific career
FieldsBiostatistics
InstitutionsMurdoch Children's Research Institute
University of Melbourne
Thesis Seasonal Analysis of Economic Time Series  (1987)
Doctoral advisorsArthur P. Dempster
Donald Rubin

Besides Carlin's professorial appointment at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, he is also an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne.[3] In 2018, Carlin was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.[4]

Selected works

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  • Byrt, Ted; Bishop, Janet; Carlin, John B. (1993). "Bias, prevalence and kappa". Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 46 (5): 423–429. doi:10.1016/0895-4356(93)90018-V. PMID 8501467.
  • Patton, G. C.; Hibbert, M.; Rosier, M. J.; Carlin, J. B.; Caust, J.; Bowes, G. (1996). "Is smoking associated with depression and anxiety in teenagers?". American Journal of Public Health. 86 (2): 225–230. doi:10.2105/AJPH.86.2.225. PMC 1380332. PMID 8633740.
  • Patton, G. C.; Selzer, R.; Coffey, C.; Carlin, J. B.; Wolfe, R. (1999). "Onset of adolescent eating disorders: Population based cohort study over 3 years". BMJ. 318 (7186): 765–768. doi:10.1136/bmj.318.7186.765. PMC 27789. PMID 10082698.
  • Bond, L.; Carlin, J. B.; Thomas, L.; Rubin, K.; Patton, G. (2001). "Does bullying cause emotional problems? A prospective study of young teenagers". BMJ. 323 (7311): 480–484. doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7311.480. PMC 48131. PMID 11532838.
  • Lee, K. J.; Carlin, J. B. (2010). "Multiple Imputation for Missing Data: Fully Conditional Specification Versus Multivariate Normal Imputation". American Journal of Epidemiology. 171 (5): 624–632. doi:10.1093/aje/kwp425. PMID 20106935.
  • Gelman, Andrew; Carlin, John B.; Stern, Hal S.; Dunson, David B.; Vehtari, Aki; Rubin, Donald B. (2013). Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition. New York, New York: Chapman and Hall. doi:10.1201/b16018. ISBN 9781439898208.

References

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  1. ^ "Professor John Carlin". Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Prof. John Carlin". The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Professor John Carlin". Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Academy elects 37 of Australia's leading health and medical researchers as Fellows". AAHMS - Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
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