John Carlin has an international reputation in biostatistics, the discipline underpinning the use of statistical methods for designing and analysing quantitative studies in health and medical research. He has been involved in a wide range of areas, especially relating to child and adolescent health research (including allergy and asthma, cystic fibrosis, cardiac disease, neonatology, rotavirus disease, vaccines, and adolescent mental health and behaviour) while his methodological research has focussed on methods for handling incompleteness in data and (more recently) causal inference. He has strong interests in the public and scientific usage and understanding of statistical methods and concepts (such as the widely misunderstood idea of "statistical significance") and also has long-standing interests in Bayesian statistical methods. Prof. Carlin has been based at the Melbourne Children's campus since 1991, and was head of the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit within the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (also supported by the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics) for 21 years until 2022. He also holds an honorary professorial appointment within the Department of Paediatrics, along with an appointment in the University of Melbourne's School of Population & Global Health since 2002. In the latter role he established the Master of Biostatistics program at the University of Melbourne, in conjunction with the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia, which he co-founded. Since 2012 he has led the Victorian Centre for Biostatistics (ViCBiostat), a collaboration between the MCRI, University of Melbourne and Monash University, which was established under a Centre of Research Excellence grant from the National Health & Medical Research Council to conduct research and provide advanced training in biostatistics. In 2018 he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
John Carlin has an international reputation in biostatistics, the discipline underpinning the use of statistical methods for designing and analysing quantitative studies in health and medical research. He has been involved in a wide range of areas,...
John Carlin has an international reputation in biostatistics, the discipline underpinning the use of statistical methods for designing and analysing quantitative studies in health and medical research. He has been involved in a wide range of areas, especially relating to child and adolescent health research (including allergy and asthma, cystic fibrosis, cardiac disease, neonatology, rotavirus disease, vaccines, and adolescent mental health and behaviour) while his methodological research has focussed on methods for handling incompleteness in data and (more recently) causal inference. He has strong interests in the public and scientific usage and understanding of statistical methods and concepts (such as the widely misunderstood idea of "statistical significance") and also has long-standing interests in Bayesian statistical methods. Prof. Carlin has been based at the Melbourne Children's campus since 1991, and was head of the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit within the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (also supported by the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics) for 21 years until 2022. He also holds an honorary professorial appointment within the Department of Paediatrics, along with an appointment in the University of Melbourne's School of Population & Global Health since 2002. In the latter role he established the Master of Biostatistics program at the University of Melbourne, in conjunction with the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia, which he co-founded. Since 2012 he has led the Victorian Centre for Biostatistics (ViCBiostat), a collaboration between the MCRI, University of Melbourne and Monash University, which was established under a Centre of Research Excellence grant from the National Health & Medical Research Council to conduct research and provide advanced training in biostatistics. In 2018 he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
Top Publications
Morley, R, Carlin, JB, Pasco, JA, Wark, JD, Ponsonby, A-L.
Maternal 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration and offspring birth size: effect modification by infant VDR genotype.
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
63(6)
:
802 -804
2009
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Cheney, J, Vidmar, S, Grimwood, K, Carlin, JB, Wainwright, C, Group, OBOAS.
Interim outcomes of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) eradication protocol in young children in the Australasian Cystic Fibrosis Bronchoalveolar Lavage (ACFBAL) Study.
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis
8:
s39
2009
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Swift, W, Coffey, C, Carlin, JB, Degenhardt, L, Calabria, B, Patton, GC.
Are adolescents who moderate their cannabis use at lower risk of later regular and dependent cannabis use?.
Addiction
104(5)
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806 -814
2009
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Moore, E, Coffey, C, Carlin, JB, Alati, R, Patton, GC.
Assessing alcohol guidelines in teenagers: results from a 10‐year prospective study.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
33(2)
:
154 -159
2009
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Steer, AC, Vidmar, S, Ritika, R, Kado, J, Batzloff, M, Jenney, AWJ, Carlin, JB, Carapetis, JR.
Normal Ranges of Streptococcal Antibody Titers Are Similar Whether Streptococci Are Endemic to the Setting or Not ▿.
mSphere
16(2)
:
172 -175
2009
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