MRC Biostatistics Unit
Research theme(s): Efficient Study Design
Role: Research Associate
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Email Address: mia.tackney@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Role: Research Associate
Telephone number:
Email Address: mia.tackney@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
I joined the BSU in October 2022 as a Research Associate to work with Sofía Villar on topics around the design and analysis of clinical trials that use wearable devices.
Previously, I was a postdoc at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I worked with Elizabeth Williamson and James Carpenter on missing data methods in clinical trials that use accelerometers to quantify physical activity. I obtained my PhD from the University of Southampton. My thesis investigated nonmyopic approaches to the design of sequential experiments in the presence of covariates. I was supervised by Dave Woods, Ilya Shpitser and Peter Smith.Selected Papers
Tackney, M.S., Cook, D.G., Stahl, D. et al. (2021)A framework for handling missing accelerometer outcome data in trialsTrials 22:
Tackney, M.S., Woods, D., Shpitser, I (2022)Nonmyopic and pseudo-nonmyopic approaches to optimal sequential design in the presence of covariates
Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation :
Tackney, M.S., Williamson, E., Stahl, D., et al. (2022)Missing Step Count Data? Step Away from the EM algorithm
Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour :
Tackney M.S., Morris T., White I., et al (2022)A Comparison of Covariate Adjustment Approaches Under Model Misspecification In Individually Randomized Trials.
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