Jonathan Sterne
British statistician and NIHR Senior Investigator
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Jonathan A.C. Sterne is a British statistician, NIHR Senior Investigator, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, and the former Head of School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol.[1] He is co-author of “Essential Medical Statistics”, which received Highly Commended honors in the 2004 BMA Medical Book Competition.[2]
Jonathan A.C. Sterne | |
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| Education | University of Oxford, University College of London |
| Known for | Causal inference, Meta-analysis |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medical statistics |
| Institutions | University of Bristol |
Work
Sterne has been identified by Clarivate Analytics as a "Highly Cited Researcher" in the last three years,[when?] based on multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.[3]
His research interests include methodology for systematic reviews and meta-analyses, clinical epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in the era of antiretroviral therapy, causal inference, methodology for epidemiology and health services research, and epidemiology of asthma and allergic diseases.[1]
Sterne has led the development of the ROBINS-I tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomized studies of interventions and the Cochrane Risk of Bias (RoB) tool for randomized trials. He also leads a large collaboration of HIV cohort studies, which has advanced understanding of prognosis in HIV positive people. He also authored a number of meta-analysis software routines used by students and researchers worldwide.[4]
On 28 August 2019 Sterne, along with Julian Higgins and colleagues, published in The RoB 2 tool in the British Medical Journal, an updated version of the leading tool for assessing risk of bias in randomized trials included in systematic reviews.[5]
Education
Sterne completed his undergraduate studies in mathematics at the University of Oxford. He holds an MSc and PhD in statistics from the University College London.[1]