Nicky Best

Nicola G. "Nicky" Best is a statistician known for her work on the deviance information criterion in Bayesian inference{{ran|B}}{{ran|E}} and as a developer of Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling.{{r|esf}}{{ran|A}}{{ran|D}} She is a former professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at Imperial College London and is currently a biostatistician for GlaxoSmithKline.{{r|rs}}

Education and career

Best earned a master's degree in medical statistics from the University of Leicester in 1990{{r|rs}} and then a PhD in biostatistics from the University of Cambridge, supervised by David Spiegelhalter.{{r|cv}} She joined the Imperial College faculty in 1996.{{r|esf}} She moved from Imperial to GlaxoSmithKline in 2014.{{r|rs}}

She was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), from 2001 to 2004.{{r|ic}}

Recognition

Best won the Guy Medal in Bronze of the Royal Statistical Society in 2004.{{r|guy}} 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".{{r|bhm}}

Selected publications

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References

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{{citation|url=https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/3702-rss-announces-recipients-of-2018-honours|title=RSS announces recipients of 2018 honours|work=StatsLife|publisher=Royal Statistical Society|date=22 January 2018|access-date=2019-09-13}}

{{citation |title=Curriculum vitae |url=https://understandinguncertainty.org/files/cv-DJS-full.pdf |website=Understanding Uncertainty |access-date=2019-05-10}}

{{citation|url=https://2014-esf.lsacademyevents.it/speakers/nicky-best|title=Nicky Best|work=Speaker biographies, ESF 2014|access-date=2019-09-13}}

{{citation|url=https://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/RSSGuyBronze.html|title=Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze|work=MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive|publisher=University of St Andrews|access-date=2019-09-13}}

{{citation|url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/n.best/honours-and-memberships.html|title=Professor Nicky Best: Honours and Memberships|publisher=Imperial College London|access-date=2019-09-13}}

{{citation|url=https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/industry-innovation/case-studies/Best/|title=Professor Nicky Best|work=Industry and innovation case studies|publisher=The Royal Society|access-date=2019-09-13}}

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External links

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