Nicky Best

Nicola G. "Nicky" Best is a statistician known for her work on the deviance information criterion in Bayesian inference[B][E] and as a developer of Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling.[1][A][D] She is a former professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at Imperial College London and is currently a biostatistician for GlaxoSmithKline.[2]

Education and career

Best earned a master's degree in medical statistics from the University of Leicester in 1990[2] and then a PhD in biostatistics from the University of Cambridge. She joined the Imperial College faculty in 1996.[1] She moved from Imperial to GlaxoSmithKline in 2014.[2]

She was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), from 2001 to 2004.[3]

Recognition

Best won the Guy Medal in Bronze of the Royal Statistical Society in 2004.[4] In 2018, she won the Bradford Hill Medal of the Royal Statistical Society "for her exquisite expositions of Bayesian methods through BUGS software, workshops, lectures, prior elicitations, textbooks and peer-review publications; and for substantive applications ranging from clinical trials and cost-effectiveness to epidemiology and, most recently, the optimization of pharmaceutical research programmes".[5]

Selected publications
A.Lunn, David J.; Thomas, Andrew; Best, Nicky; Spiegelhalter, David (2000), "WinBUGS – A Bayesian modelling framework: Concepts, structure, and extensibility", Statistics and Computing, Springer Nature, 10 (4): 325–337, doi:10.1023/a:1008929526011
B.Spiegelhalter, David J.; Best, Nicola G.; Carlin, Bradley P.; van der Linde, Angelika (October 2002), "Bayesian measures of model complexity and fit", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology), Wiley, 64 (4): 583–639, doi:10.1111/1467-9868.00353
C.Plummer, Martyn; Best, Nicky; Cowles, Kate; Vines, Karen (2006), "CODA: convergence diagnosis and output analysis for MCMC", R News, 6 (1): 7–11
D.Lunn, David; Spiegelhalter, David; Thomas, Andrew; Best, Nicky (July 2009), "The BUGS project: Evolution, critique and future directions", Statistics in Medicine, Wiley, 28 (25): 3049–3067, doi:10.1002/sim.3680, PMID 19630097
E.Spiegelhalter, David J.; Best, Nicola G.; Carlin, Bradley P.; van der Linde, Angelika (April 2014), "The deviance information criterion: 12 years on", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology), Wiley, 76 (3): 485–493, doi:10.1111/rssb.12062

References
  1. "Nicky Best", Speaker biographies, ESF 2014, retrieved 2019-09-13
  2. "Professor Nicky Best", Industry and innovation case studies, The Royal Society, retrieved 2019-09-13
  3. Professor Nicky Best: Honours and Memberships, Imperial College London, retrieved 2019-09-13
  4. "Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews, retrieved 2019-09-13
  5. "RSS announces recipients of 2018 honours", StatsLife, Royal Statistical Society, 22 January 2018, retrieved 2019-09-13
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