Robin Turner (statistician)

Robin Maree Turner (born 1976) is a New Zealand statistician, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in applying biostatistics to health-related research. She is the director of the Biostatistics Centre in the School of Medicine.

Academic career

Having wanted to be an astronaut as a child, and then turning her attention to astronomy, Turner initially studied physics, astronomy and mathematics at the

Turner's research focuses on applying biostatistical methods to health-related research.[6] She works across a variety of health-related areas, including epidemiology of respiratory viruses, risk factors for chronic disease, and how to improve the follow-up and monitoring of cancer patients.^[5][7] She has also worked on methods for designing clinical trails to allow the effect of patient treatment preferences to be assessed, and is interested in investigating the accuracy of diagnostic tests.^[5][8]

Personal life

Turner is a keen bagpiper.^[9]

Selected works

Scholia has a profile for Robin M Turner (Q109666145).

• Meagan Brennan; Robin M Turner; Stefano Ciatto; M Luke Marinovich; James R French; Petra Macaskill; Nehmat Houssami (14 April 2011). "Ductal carcinoma in situ at core-needle biopsy: meta-analysis of underestimation and predictors of invasive breast cancer".
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• Nehmat Houssami; Stefano Ciatto; Robin M Turner; Hiram S Cody; Petra Macaskill (1 August 2011). "Preoperative ultrasound-guided needle biopsy of axillary nodes in invasive breast cancer: meta-analysis of its accuracy and utility in staging the axilla".
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• M Cardona-Morrell; Jch Kim; R M Turner; M Anstey; I A Mitchell; K Hillman (27 June 2016). "Non-beneficial treatments in hospital at the end of life: a systematic review on extent of the problem". International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 28 (4): 456–469.
  Wikidata Q36063539
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• Nehmat Houssami; Robin Turner;
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• Jesse Jansen; Vasikaran Naganathan; Stacy M Carter; et al. (3 June 2016). "Too much medicine in older people? Deprescribing through shared decision making".
  Wikidata Q47732937
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• Philip Masson;
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• Gabrielle J Williams; Petra Macaskill; Siew F Chan; Robin M Turner; Elisabeth Hodson; Jonathan C Craig (1 April 2010). "Absolute and relative accuracy of rapid urine tests for urinary tract infection in children: a meta-analysis". Lancet Infectious Diseases. 10 (4): 240–250.
  Wikidata Q37718316
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• D. Byatt; M.L. Dalrymple; R.M. Turner (August 2004). "Searching for primes in the digits of π".
  Wikidata Q125756312
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