| Jonathan A.C. Sterne | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Education | University of Oxford, University College of London |
| Known for | Causal inference, Meta-analysis |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medical statistics |
| Institutions | University of Bristol |
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. He is co-author of “Essential Medical Statistics”, which received Highly Commended honors in the 2004 BMA Medical Book Competition.
Work
Sterne has been identified by Clarivate Analytics as the a "Highly Cited Researcher" in each of the last three years, as demonstrated by his production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science. He has a longstanding interest in methodology for systematic reviews and meta-analyses, the 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. He has been leading the development of the ROBINS-I tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomized studies of interventions and the development of the Cochrane Risk of Bias (RoB) tool for randomized trials. He is also leading a large collaboration of HIV cohort studies that has led to advances in our understanding of prognosis of HIV positive people. In addition, he has written a number of meta-analysis software routines used by students and researchers around the world.
On 28 August 2019 Sterne, along with Julian Higgins and colleagues, published in The British Medical Journal the RoB 2 tool, an updated version of the most widely used tool for assessing risk of bias in randomized trials included in systematic reviews.
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.
References
- ^ Bristol, University of. "Professor Jonathan Sterne". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
- "Essential Medical Statistics". Retrieved 2019-08-28.
- "Jonathan Sterne". Archived from the original on 2019-02-20. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
- oss Harris & Mike Bradburn & Jon Deeks & Roger Harbord & Doug Altman & Thomas Steichen & Jonathan Sterne, 2006. "METAN: Stata module for fixed and random effects meta-analysis," Statistical Software Components S456798, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 23 Sep 2010.
- Sterne Jonathan A C, Savović Jelena, Page Matthew J, Elbers Roy G, Blencowe Natalie S, Boutron Isabelle et al. RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials BMJ 2019; 366 :l4898.