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Thomas Lumley (statistician)
Thomas Lumley is an Australian statistician who serves as the chair of biostatistics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Lumley is also a member of the "R Core Team." He was elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association, ASA (American Statistical Association) in 2012. Lumley was also elected a fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, Royal Society of New Zealand in 2015. Education Lumley received his Bachelors of Science at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia in 1991, a Masters of Science in Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Biostatistics at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington in 1998. Work Lumley is a professor of statistics at the University of Auckland where he researches regression modelling, clinical trials, semiparametric inference, statistical computing, foundations, and genomics. His statistics publications are commonly cited in the statistics and biosta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biostatistics
Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experiments and the interpretation of the results. History Biostatistics and genetics Biostatistical modeling forms an important part of numerous modern biological theories. Genetics studies, since its beginning, used statistical concepts to understand observed experimental results. Some genetics scientists even contributed with statistical advances with the development of methods and tools. Gregor Mendel started the genetics studies investigating genetics segregation patterns in families of peas and used statistics to explain the collected data. In the early 1900s, after the rediscovery of Mendel's Mendelian inheritance work, there were gaps in understanding between genetics and evolutionary Darwinism. Francis Galton tried to expand Mendel's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
