Nicola G. "Nicky" Best is astatistician known for her work on thedeviance information criterion inBayesian inference[B][E] and as a developer ofBayesian inference using Gibbs sampling.[1][A][D] She is a former professor ofbiostatistics andepidemiology atImperial College London and is currently a biostatistician forGlaxoSmithKline.[2]
Best earned a master's degree in medical statistics from theUniversity of Leicester in 1990[2] and then a PhD in biostatistics from theUniversity of Cambridge, supervised byDavid Spiegelhalter.[3] She joined the Imperial College faculty in 1996.[1] She moved from Imperial toGlaxoSmithKline in 2014.[2]
She was editor-in-chief of theJournal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), from 2001 to 2004.[4]
Best won theGuy Medal in Bronze of theRoyal Statistical Society in 2004.[5] 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".[6]
| A. | David J. Lunn; Andrew Thomas;Nicky Best;David J. Spiegalhalter (2000), "WinBUGS - A Bayesian modelling framework: Concepts, structure, and extensibility",Statistics and Computing,10 (4):325–337,doi:10.1023/A:1008929526011,ISSN 0960-3174,Wikidata Q108929102 |
| B. | David J. Spiegelhalter;Nicola G. Best; Bradley P. Carlin;Angelika van der Linde (October 2002), "Bayesian measures of model complexity and fit",Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology,64 (4):583–639,doi:10.1111/1467-9868.00353,ISSN 1369-7412,Zbl 1067.62010,Wikidata Q56532420 |
| C. | Martyn Plummer;Nicky Best; Kate Cowles; Karen Vines (2006),"CODA: convergence diagnosis and output analysis for MCMC",Rnews,6 (1): 7,Wikidata Q108929147 |
| D. | David Lunn;David Spiegelhalter; Andrew Thomas;Nicky Best (10 November 2009), "The BUGS project: Evolution, critique and future directions",Statistics in Medicine,28 (25):3049–67,doi:10.1002/SIM.3680,ISSN 0277-6715,PMID 19630097,Wikidata Q28252857 |
| E. | David J. Spiegelhalter;Nicola G. Best; Bradley P. Carlin;Angelika van der Linde (8 April 2014), "The deviance information criterion: 12 years on",Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology,76 (3):485–493,doi:10.1111/RSSB.12062,ISSN 1369-7412,Zbl 1411.62027,Wikidata Q108929214 |
