MRC Biostatistics Unit
DART: Design and Analysis of Randomised Trials
Telephone number: 01223 330367Email Address: david.robertson@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
I am a Postdoctoral Statistician working with James Wason on the design and analysis of modern clinical trials. My current research is on adaptive trial designs, with a focus on error control in platform trials and trials using response-adaptive randomisation. I did my PhD in the BSU under the supervision of Jack Bowden and Toby Prevost from 2013-16. My PhD project was on unbiased estimation in multi-arm drop-the-loser trials, with applications to diagnostic studies, genome-wide association studies and seamless phase II/III trials. Prior to this I did my undergraduate degree and masters in mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
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Selected Papers
Robertson, D.S., and Glimm, E. (2018)Conditionally unbiased estimation in the normal setting with unknown variancesCommunications in Statistics - Theory and Methods :
Robertson, D.S., Prevost, A.T., and Bowden, J. (2016)Unbiased estimation in seamless phase II/III trials with unequal treatment effect variances and hypothesis-driven selection rules
Statistics in Medicine 35 (22): 3907-3922
Robertson, D.S., Prevost, A.T., and Bowden, J. (2016)Accounting for selection and correlation in the analysis of two-stage genome-wide association studies
Biostatistics 17 (4): 634-649
Robertson, D.S., Prevost, A.T., and Bowden, J. (2015)Correcting for bias in the selection and validation of informative diagnostic tests
Statistics in Medicine 34 (8): 1417–1437