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
Armstrong, DS, Nixon, GM, Carzino, R, Bigham, A, Carlin, JB, Robins-Browne, RM, Grimwood, K.
Detection of a Widespread Clone of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Clinic.
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
166(7)
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983 -987
2002
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Nixon, GM, Armstrong, DS, Carzino, R, Carlin, JB, Olinsky, A, Robertson, CF, Grimwood, K, Wainwright, C.
Early airway infection, inflammation, and lung function in cystic fibrosis.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
87(4)
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306
2002
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Rice, JE, Shipp, AT, Carlin, JB, Vidmar, SI, Weintraub, RG.
Late reduction in cyclosporine dosage does not improve renal function in pediatric heart transplant recipients.
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
21(10)
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1109 -1112
2002
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Kermond, S, Fink, M, Graham, K, Carlin, JB, Barnett, P.
A randomized clinical trial: Should the child with transient synovitis of the hip be treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs?.
Annals of Emergency Medicine
40(3)
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294 -299
2002
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Barnes, C, Ignjatovic, V, Newall, F, Carlin, J, Ng, F, Hamilton, S, Ashley, D, Waters, K, Monagle, P.
Change in serum procalcitonin (ΔPct) predicts the clinical outcome of children admitted with febrile neutropenia.
British Journal of Haematology
118(4)
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1197 -1197
2002
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