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Colin Begg (statistician)

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Scottish biostatistician
Colin B. Begg
NationalityScottish
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
Scientific career
FieldsBiostatistics, epidemiology
InstitutionsMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Thesis Statistical diagnosis  (1976)
Doctoral advisorJohn Aitchison

Colin B. Begg is a Scottish biostatistician and epidemiologist. He is an attending biostatistician at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Clinical Trials. He has conducted research on the role of BRCA genetic variants in the development of breast cancer, as well as racial disparities in cancer survival rates in the United States.

Begg was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1996.

References

  1. "Colin Begg". Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  2. "Clinical Trials". SAGE Journals. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  3. "Breast cancer genes don't have to mean cancer". New Scientist. 2008-01-09. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  4. Alpert, Bill (2002-10-21). "Scary Statistics". Barron's. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  5. "Racial Gap in Cancer Survival Is Not Biological, Study Finds". The New York Times. Reuters. 2002-04-24. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  6. "ASA Fellows list". American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2021-11-03.


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