About me

Professional Qualifications and

Activities

I am a Chartered Statistician (CStat) and fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. I take part in the RSS Continuing Professional Development scheme to ensure my skills are kept up to date. I undertake statistical reviews of papers regularly for journals including Atherosclerosis, Annals of Human Genetics and BMJ open.

Academic Qualifications

MSc Biometry, University of Reading. BSc Mathematics with Statistics, Royal Holloway College, University of London. Experience I have nearly 30 years experience working as a medical statistician within a research environment, most recently for 14 years as Senior Research Fellow within the Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics at UCL. My other posts have been Research Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, and Medical Statistician at the MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit at Barts.  My roles involved study design, data processing and analysis of large scale research studies, writing research papers, provision of advice to researchers and helping students with statistical aspects of their projects. My interests include the use of genetic risk scores in the prediction of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. I can help with statistical methods such as ANOVA, regression, survival analysis, logistic regression, meta-analysis, multi-level models and the use of discrimination, calibration and reclassification metrics. Skills I am experienced with many statistical packages including  Stata, SPSS, R, PLINK, MLwin and THESIAS. See my LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-cooper- a82a6b2a