Staff Profile
Dr Nan Lin
Senior Lecturer Biostatistics
Background
I am a Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics. I am interested in statistical methodology and medical applications.
APPOINTMENTS
2022 – Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics, Â鶹´«Ã½, UK.
2015 – 2022 Senior Lecturer in Statistics, Northumbria University, UK
2012 – 2015 Research Fellow, University of Exeter Medical School, UK
2010 – 2012 Research Fellow, Centre for Health& Environmental
Statistics, University of Plymouth, UK
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
2006 – 2010 PhD in Statistics, Â鶹´«Ã½, UK.
Thesis: Inference and Bias Analysis
Supervisors: Profs. Robin Henderson and Jian Qing Shi
2005 – 2006 MSc in Financial Mathematics with Management (with
Distinction), Â鶹´«Ã½, UK
2001 – 2005 BSc in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics,
East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Research
- Time-to-event data, survival analysis, Cox model, recurrent events, and multivariate failure time data
- Cross-over, before-and-after and difference-in-differences designs with sample size and power calculations
- Electronic medical record data
- Sensitivity analysis and test
- Uncertainty quantification
- Confounding problem
- Quasi-likelihoods
- Model misspecification
Publications
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Article
- Lin NX, Shi JQ, Henderson R. . Biometrika 2012, 99(2), 285-298.