Biography:Colin Begg (statistician)
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Short description: Scottish biostatistician
Colin B. Begg | |
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| Nationality | Scottish |
| Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biostatistics, epidemiology |
| Institutions | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| Thesis | Statistical diagnosis (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Aitchison |
Colin B. Begg is a Scottish biostatistician and epidemiologist. He is an attending biostatistician at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City .[1] He serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Clinical Trials.[2] He has conducted research on the role of BRCA genetic variants in the development of breast cancer,[3][4] as well as racial disparities in cancer survival rates in the United States.[5]
Begg was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1996.[6]
References
- ↑ "Colin Begg" (in en). https://www.mskcc.org/profile/colin-begg.
- ↑ "Clinical Trials" (in en). https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ctj.
- ↑ "Breast cancer genes don't have to mean cancer" (in en-US). 2008-01-09. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726385-200-breast-cancer-genes-dont-have-to-mean-cancer/.
- ↑ Alpert, Bill (2002-10-21). "Scary Statistics" (in en-US). https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1034989402817139708.
- ↑ "Racial Gap in Cancer Survival Is Not Biological, Study Finds" (in en-US). The New York Times. Reuters. 2002-04-24. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/24/us/racial-gap-in-cancer-survival-is-not-biological-study-finds.html.
- ↑ "ASA Fellows list". American Statistical Association. https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx.
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