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.
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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 University of Canterbury.[1] Turner then completed a PhD titled Independent component analysis of personality and symptoms of depression and statistical parametric mapping of personality and brain function also at Canterbury. Her research was supervised by Irene Hudson.[2] After living in Australia for twelve years, where she worked at the University of Sydney, and the University of New South Wales,[3][4] Turner then returned to New Zealand to join the faculty of the University of Otago in 2017. She was promoted to full professor in 2022.[5] She is the inaugural Director of the Otago School of Medicine Biostatistics Centre.
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
Selected works
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References
- ^ Board, Otago Bulletin (7 June 2023). "Becoming a biostatistician a happy accident". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
- ^ Turner, Robin Maree (2004). Independent component analysis of personality and symptoms of depression and statistical parametric mapping of personality and brain function (PhD thesis). University of Canterbury. hdl:10092/3463.
- ^ "Staff Profile". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
- ^ "UNSW Vaccine & Infection Research Lab: Dr Robin Turner". UNSW. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
- ^ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Centre, Bioethics (22 November 2021). "Otago announces Professorial promotions for 2022". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
- ^ Houlahan, Mike (2 June 2018). "Unit to provide statistical support to staff, students". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
- ^ Otago, University of (2 August 2023). "Profile". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
- ^ Sciences, Division of Health (5 May 2023). "Our biostatistics people". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
- ^ Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Robin Turner. Retrieved 3 May 2024 – via www.youtube.com.
External links
- Approaching significance, Inaugural professorial lecture by Robin Turner, 6 April 2023, via YouTube