Nicky Best

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Nicola G. "Nicky" Best is a

GlaxoSmithKline.[2]

Education and career

Best earned a master's degree in medical statistics from the

She was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), from 2001 to 2004.[4]

Recognition

Best won the Guy Medal in Bronze of the Royal Statistical Society in 2004.[5] In 2018, she won the Bradford Hill Medal of the Royal Statistical Society "for her exquisite expositions of Bayesian methods through BUGS software, workshops, lectures, prior elicitations, textbooks and peer-review publications; and for substantive applications ranging from clinical trials and cost-effectiveness to epidemiology and, most recently, the optimization of pharmaceutical research programmes".[6]

Selected publications

A.
David J. Lunn; Andrew Thomas; Nicky Best;
Wikidata Q108929102
B.
Wikidata Q56532420
C.
Martyn Plummer; Nicky Best; Kate Cowles; Karen Vines (2006), "CODA: convergence diagnosis and output analysis for MCMC", Rnews, 6 (1): 7,
Wikidata Q108929147
D.
David Lunn;
Wikidata Q28252857
E.
Wikidata Q108929214

References

  1. ^ a b "Nicky Best", Speaker biographies, ESF 2014, retrieved 2019-09-13
  2. ^ a b c "Professor Nicky Best", Industry and innovation case studies, The Royal Society, retrieved 2019-09-13
  3. ^ "Curriculum vitae" (PDF), Understanding Uncertainty, retrieved 2019-05-10
  4. ^ Professor Nicky Best: Honours and Memberships, Imperial College London, retrieved 2019-09-13
  5. ^ "Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews, retrieved 2019-09-13
  6. ^ "RSS announces recipients of 2018 honours", StatsLife, Royal Statistical Society, 22 January 2018, retrieved 2019-09-13

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