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
Downes, M, Carlin, J.
Multilevel regression and poststratification for estimating population quantities from large health studies: a simulation study based on US population structure.
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
74(12)
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1060 -1068
2020
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Ong, KS, Carlin, JB, Fahey, M, Freeman, JL, Scheffer, IE, Gillam, L, Anderson, M, Huque, H, Legge, D, Dirnbauer, N, et al.
Protocol for a single patient therapy plan: A randomised, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled N‐of‐1 trial to assess the efficacy of cannabidiol in patients with intractable epilepsy.
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
56(12)
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1918 -1923
2020
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O'Connor, M, Ponsonby, A-L, Collier, F, Liu, R, Sly, PD, Azzopardi, P, Lycett, K, Goldfeld, S, Arnup, SJ, Burgner, D, et al.
Exposure to adversity and inflammatory outcomes in mid and late childhood.
Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health
9:
100146
2020
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Hoq, M, Matthews, S, Karlaftis, V, Burgess, J, Donath, S, Carlin, J, Ignjatovic, V, Monagle, P.
Validation of the HAPPI Kids Continuous Age-Specific Pediatric Reference Intervals.
The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine
5(6)
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1337 -1344
2020
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Hoq, M, Canterford, L, Matthews, S, Khanom, G, Ignjatovic, V, Monagle, P, Donath, S, Carlin, J, team, OBOTHKS.
Statistical methods used in the estimation of age-specific paediatric reference intervals for laboratory blood tests: A systematic review.
Clinical Biochemistry
85:
12 -19
2020
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