Biography

Dr Tom Palmer, Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics

Interests

  • Causal inference
  • Medical statistics / Biostatistics
  • Mendelian randomization
  • R and Stata programming
  • Statistical methods for Epidemiology
  • PhD thesis pdf

Education

  • Postgradute Certificate in Academic Practice, 2018

    Lancaster University

  • PhD Extensions to Mendelian randomization, 2009

    University of Leicester

  • MSc in Medical Statistics, 2005

    University of Leicester

  • BSc in Mathematics and Economics, 2002

    University of Nottingham

Awards

Secondment to software development team at the Bennett Institute

Two day per week secondment to the Reproducible Analytics Pipeline software development team in Prof. Ben Goldacre’s Bennett Institute, University of Oxford. I will work on R related projects within the OpenSAFELY programme.

Article in Best of IJE 2019

Spiller, et al., Software application profile: mrrobust–a tool for performing two-sample summary Mendelian randomization analyses, IJE, 48, 3, 684–690, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyy195 was the second most cited IJE paper in 2019.

Pfizer studentship to study MSc in Medical Statistics, University of Leicester

Recent Posts

Supercharge your #rstats web searching in Google Chrome with Site Search Shortcuts

Google Chrome site search shortcuts for R and statistics to enable convenient #rstats web searching.

Running MLwiN using mlnscript via the R2MLwiN R package on Apple Silicon Macs

How to run MLwiN natively on Apple Silicon Macs via R and the R2MLwiN package.

Creating a simple Automator app to launch a new instance of RStudio Desktop on macOS

A convenient way to open a new instance of RStudio Desktop on macOS.

My #GitHubUnwrapped 2023!

My #GitHubUnwrapped 2023!

Fuller reproducibility in Stata ado-files and programs: setting the version and user version

For fuller reproducibility in Stata ado-files and programs set both the version and the user version.

Talks

The MRC IEU R-Universe of Mendelian randomization related R packages πŸš€

The MRC IEU πŸš€ R-Universe of Mendelian randomization related R packages

Using Git, GitHub Desktop, and GitHub for novice and experienced users

Using allele scores to identify confounding by reverse causation: Studies of alcohol consumption as an exemplar

A review of group-based methods for teaching statistics in higher education