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Nicky Best is affiliated with GlaxoSmithKline in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Mathematics, with significant contributions also in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. The main subfields of study focus on Statistics and Probability, Economics and Econometrics, Genetics, Management Science and Operations Research, and Pharmacology.

Their work covers a variety of topics, including statistical methods and Bayesian inference, advanced causal inference techniques, health systems and economic evaluations, quality of life assessments, genetic associations and epidemiology, as well as optimal experimental design methods.

Nicky Best has published research in several venues, with a notable frequency in Pharmaceutical Statistics and Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, also contributing to arXiv (Cornell University) and Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science.

  • Assessing efficacy in important subgroups in confirmatory trials: An example using Bayesian dynamic borrowing, 2021, Pharmaceutical Statistics
  • Beyond the Classical Type I Error: Bayesian Metrics for Bayesian Designs Using Informative Priors, 2024, Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
  • Predicting the COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Clinical Trial Recruitment, 2021, Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Nicky Best include Maxine Ajimi, Beat Neuenschwander, Gaëlle Saint-Hilary, Simon Wandel, and Thomas Drury.

Best Publications

  • WinBUGS – A Bayesian modelling framework: Concepts, structure, and extensibility

    David J. Lunn;Andrew Thomas;Nicky Best;David Spiegelhalter

  • CODA: convergence diagnosis and output analysis for MCMC

    Martyn Plummer;Nicky Best;Kate Cowles;Karen Vines

  • The BUGS project: Evolution, critique and future directions

    David Lunn;David Spiegelhalter;Andrew Thomas;Nicky Best

  • The BUGS Book: A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Analysis

    David Lunn;Christopher Jackson;Nicky Best;Andrew Thomas

  • Adaptive Rejection Metropolis Sampling Within Gibbs Sampling

    W. R. Gilks;N. G. Best;K. K. C. Tan

  • Spatial epidemiology: methods and applications.

    P. Elliot;J. C. Wakefield;N. G. Best;D. J. Briggs

  • A comparison of Bayesian spatial models for disease mapping.

    Nicky Best;Sylvia Richardson;Andrew Thomson

  • Interpreting Posterior Relative Risk Estimates in Disease-Mapping Studies

    Sylvia Richardson;Andrew Thomson;Nicky Best;Paul Elliott

  • Aircraft noise and cardiovascular disease near Heathrow airport in London: small area study

    Anna L Hansell;Anna L Hansell;Marta Blangiardo;Lea Fortunato;Sarah Floud

  • Modelling Complexity: Applications of Gibbs Sampling in Medicine

    W. R. Gilks;D. G. Clayton;D. J. Spiegelhalter;N. G. Best

  • Bayesian approaches to disease mapping

    J. C. Wakefield;N. G. Best;L. Waller

  • Output Analysis and Diagnostics for MCMC

    Martyn Plummer;Nicky Best;Kate Cowles;Karen Vines

  • Bayesian analysis of population PK/PD models: general concepts and software.

    David J. Lunn;Nicky Best;Andrew Thomas;Jon Wakefield

  • Improving ecological inference using individual-level data.

    Christopher Jackson;Nicky Best;Sylvia Richardson

  • Adjusting for selection bias in retrospective, case-control studies.

    Sara Geneletti;Sylvia Richardson;Nicky Best

  • The future of life expectancy and life expectancy inequalities in England and Wales: Bayesian spatiotemporal forecasting

    James E. Bennett;Guangquan Li;Guangquan Li;Kyle Foreman;Nicky Best;Nicky Best

  • Relation of trihalomethane concentrations in public water supplies to stillbirth and birth weight in three water regions in England.

    Mireille B. Toledano;Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen;Nicky Best;Heather Whitaker

  • Statistical issues in the analysis of disease mapping data.

    C. Pascutto;J.C. Wakefield;N.G. Best;S. Richardson

  • Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis of joint patterns of male and female lung cancer risks in Yorkshire (UK).

    Sylvia Richardson;Juan J Abellan;Nicky Best

  • Bayesian Analysis of Realistically Complex Models

    N. G. Best;D. J. Spiegelhalter;A. Thomas;C. E. G. Brayne

  • Mobile phone base stations and early childhood cancers: case-control study

    Paul Elliott;Mireille B Toledano;J Bennett;L Beale

  • Generic reversible jump MCMC using graphical models

    David J. Lunn;Nicky Best;John C. Whittaker

  • A Bayesian toolkit for genetic association studies.

    David J. Lunn;John C. Whittaker;Nicky Best

  • Use of Space–Time Models to Investigate the Stability of Patterns of Disease

    Juan Jose Abellan;Sylvia Richardson;Nicky Best

Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvia Richardson
Sylvia Richardson University of Cambridge
Paul Elliott
Paul Elliott Imperial College London
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Tina Kold Jensen
Tina Kold Jensen University of Southern Denmark
Jon Wakefield
Jon Wakefield University of Washington
Lars Jarup
Lars Jarup Imperial College London
Niels Keiding
Niels Keiding University of Copenhagen
Walter R. Gilks
Walter R. Gilks University of Leeds
John S. Gulliver
John S. Gulliver University of Minnesota
Kees de Hoogh
Kees de Hoogh Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

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