Andrew Pickles

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Andrew Pickles
NationalityEnglish
Education University of Cambridge
University of Wales
Scientific career
Fields Biostatistics
Institutions King's College London
University of Manchester
Thesis Applications of Stochastic Process Methods to Intra-Urban Residential Mobility  (1982)

Andrew Richard Pickles FMedSci is an English biostatistician and Professor of Biostatistics and Psychological Methods in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2009. [1] He became a Senior Investigator at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) in 2018 [2] and was elected to the British Academy in 2020. [3]

Beginning with an eclectic training in natural sciences and urban planning Andrew became interested in statistical modelling of human behaviour, particularly in relation to major aspects of the life-course. After teaching in Wales and the US and a postdoc in Cambridge he was appointed as statistician to the MRC Child Psychiatry Unit at the Maudsley hospital. Familiarisation with a range of statistical models led to a collaboration with Sophia Rabe-Hesketh in the development of a program [4] and influential conceptual framework [5] that integrated multilevel, structural equation and generalized linear models. With an intervening appointment in medical and social statistics at the University of Manchester he returned to King's College London in 2010. His varied applied work has largely focussed on atypical behavioural and neurodevelopmental child development [6] particularly of children on the autism spectrum. [7]

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References

  1. "Professor Andrew Pickles". The Academy of Medical Sciences. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "2018 NIHR Senior Investigators announced". Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
  3. "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows from across the humanities and social sciences". The British Academy. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  4. Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia; Pickles, Andrew; Taylor, Colin (January 2000). "Generalized linear latent and mixed models". Stata Technical Bulletin (53): 47–57. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  5. Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia; Skrondal, Anders; Pickles, Andrew (June 2004). "Generalized multilevel structural equation modeling". Psychometrika. 69 (2): 167–190. doi:10.1007/BF02295939. S2CID   8969662 . Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  6. Collishaw, Stephan; Maughan, Barbara; Goodman, Robert; Pickles, Andrew (November 2004). "Time trends in adolescent mental health". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 45 (8): 1350–1362. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00842.x. PMID   15482496 . Retrieved 2020-07-27.,
  7. Pickles, Andrew; McCauley, James B.; Pepa, Lauren A.; Huerta, Marisela; Lord, Catherine (2020-01-19). "The adult outcome of children referred for autism: typology and prediction from childhood". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 61 (7): 760–767. doi:10.1111/jcpp.13180. PMC   7384105 . PMID   31957035.