Robert Goudie

Summary

I am a group leader working on data integration and analysis of hospital record data.

My recent research interests include:

• Analysis of hospital electronic health record data, particularly from eHospital (Epic) at Cambridge University Hospitals
  • Cowan et al 2020, Osuafor et al 2021, Cowan et al 2021, Wiegand et al 2022, Carter et al 2022, Wiegand et al 2022b, Zannidi et al 2022, La Torre et al 2023, Brock et al in press
• Simplifying Bayesian model building for complex systems using Markov melding
  • Goudie et al 2019, Manderson & Goudie 2022, Nicholson et al 2022, Manderson & Goudie 2023
• Methods for modularisation of Bayesian models with cut distributions
  • Liu & Goudie 2022, Liu & Goudie 2024, Liu & Goudie in press
• Compositional and modular methods for probabilistic programming languages, as part of the Turing’s Fundamental AI programme
• Methods for making prior specification more practical
  • Manderson & Goudie 2023
• Bayesian methods for weighted data
  • Yiu et al 2020, Yiu et al 2020b
• Bayesian longitudinal correlated factor analysis with dependent Gaussian processes
  • Cai et al 2023, Cai et al 2024
• Parallelisation of the general purpose Bayesian software MultiBUGS
  • Goudie et al 2020

Some of my software is on Github.

Current Members

Research Associates:

• Rebecca Brock
• Areti Papadopoulou
• Yixuan Liu

PhD students:

• Jiachen Cai

Teaching

• MPhil Population Health Sciences – Bayesian statistics
• Bayesian statistics short course: next running online Mon/Wed/Fri between 15th November 2024 – 29th November 2024. Booking now open via University of Cambridge Online Store. See the more information tab for details.

Committees

• University Research Ethics Committee
• MRC Biostatistics Unit Graduate Education Committee

Recent Papers

• Liu Y & Goudie RJB (in press) A general framework for cutting feedback within modularized Bayesian inference Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology)
• Love C, Street A, Riddell E, Goudie RJB, Brock RC, Thaxter R, Gouliouris T, Conway Morris A, Beggs CB, Peters C, Butler MJ, Gould DJ, Keevil VL (in press) Acceptability of Air Cleaning Units on Inpatient Wards: help for infection control or hindrance for ward occupants? Journal of Hospital Infection.
• Brock RC, Goudie RJB, Peters C, Thaxter R, Gouliouris T, Illingworth CJR, Conway Morris A, Beggs CB, Butler M, Keevil VL. (2025) Efficacy of Air Cleaning Units for preventing SARS-CoV-2 and other hospital-acquired infections on medicine for older people wards: A quasi-experimental controlled before-and- after study. Journal of Hospital Infection 18: (155) 1-8
• Cai J, Goudie RJB, Starr C, Tom BDM (2024) Dynamic factor analysis with dependent Gaussian processes for high-dimensional gene expression trajectories Biometrics 80: (4) ujae131 (R package)
• Cai J, Goudie RJB, Tom BDM (2024) Dynamic factor analysis for sparse and irregular longitudinal data: an application to metabolite measurements in a COVID-19 study. arXiv : 2408.08771
• Liu Y & Goudie RJB (2024) Generalized geographically weighted regression model within a modularized Bayesian framework Bayesian Analysis : 19:(2) 465-500. (code)
• Manderson AA & Goudie RJB (2023) Translating predictive distributions into informative priors arXiv : 2303.08528 (R package, examples code)
• Manderson AA & Goudie RJB (2023) Combining chains of Bayesian models with Markov melding Bayesian Analysis 18: (3) 807-840 (code)
• La Torrea G, Nagraa R, Wijesinghe H, Rajeswaran G, Riya J, Abdulkhaliq S, Barker T, Ganeshan A, Goudie RJB, Hosaam N, Tiwari A, & Juszczak MT (2023) Prevalence of venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing diagnostic venous ultrasound during the first SARS-CoV-2 pandemic Vasa 52: (2) 97-106
• Wiegand M*, Halsall DJ*, Cowan SL, Taylor K, Goudie RJB^, Preller J^, Gurnell M^ (2022) Unquantifiably low aldosterone concentrations are prevalent in hospitalised COVID-19 patients but may not be revealed by chemiluminescent immunoassay Endocrine Connections 11: (11) e220190
• Zannidi D, Patel PS, Leventea E, Paciepnik J, Dobson F, Heyes C, Goudie RJB, Oude Griep LM, Preller J & Spillman LN (2022) Factors associated with significant weight loss in hospitalised patients with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study in a large teaching hospital Nutrients 14: (19), 4195
• Wiegand M, Cowan SL, Waddington CS, Halsall DJ, Keevil VL, Tom BDM, Taylor V, Gkrania-Klotsas E, Preller J & Goudie RJB (2022) Development and validation of a dynamic 48-hour in-hospital mortality risk stratification for COVID-19 in a UK teaching hospital: a retrospective cohort study BMJ Open 12: e060026 (code)
• Carter B, Keevil VL, Anand A, Osuafor CN, Goudie RJB, Preller J, Lowry M, Clunie S, Shenkin SD, McCarthy K, Hewitt J, Quinn TJ (2022) The prognostic and discriminatory utility of the Clinical Frailty Scale and Modified Frailty Index compared to age Geriatrics 7: (5) 87
• Nicholson G, Blangiardo M, Briers M, Diggle PJ, Fjelde TE, Ge H, Goudie RJB, Jersakova R, King RE, Lehmann BCL, Mallon A-M, Padellini T, Teh YW, Holmes C, Richardson, S (2022) Interoperability of statistical models in pandemic preparedness: principles and reality Statistical Science 37: (2) 183-206. (code)
• Jupp PE, Goudie IBJ, Batchelor RA & Goudie RJB (2022) Assessing seismic origin of geological features by fitting equidistant parallel lines Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics) 71: (3) 723-738 (code)
• Manderson AA & Goudie RJB (2022) A numerically stable algorithm for integrating Bayesian models using Markov melding Statistics and Computing 32: 24 (code)
• Liu Y & Goudie RJB (2022) Stochastic Approximation Cut Algorithm for inference in modularized Bayesian models Statistics and Computing 32: 7 (code)