Richard Jacques BSc(Hons) MSc PhD GradStat
Research Associate
Address:
Medical Statistics Group
School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 30 Regent Street
SHEFFIELD, S1 4DA
Room: 3018
Tel: (+44) (0)114 2220813
Fax: (+44) (0)114 2220749
Email: r.jacques@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
I graduated with a BSc(Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Hull and an MSc in Statistics from the University of Sheffield. For my PhD I worked on an EPSRC CASE funded project with AstraZeneca investigating methods of classification for high content screening data. I joined ScHARR in January 2009.
Research Interests
- Application of statistics in medical research
- Multivariate data analysis
Professional Activities
- Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
- Graduate Statistician (GradStat)
Current Projects
- Evaluation of the new Summary Hospital Mortality Index (SHMI) for the Department of Health
- DAFNE (Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating)
- NIHR Bone Biomedical Research Unit
Publications
- RM Jacques, S Boonen, F Cosman, IR Reid, DC Bauer, DM Black, R Eastell. Relationship of changes in total hip bone mineral density to vertebral and non-vertebral fracture risk in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis treated with once-yearly zoledronic acid 5 mg: the HORIZON-Pivotal Fracture Trial (PFT). Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, published online 24 April 2012 (DOI)
- MJ Campbell, RM Jacques, J Fotheringham, R Maheswaran, J Nicholl. Developing a summary hospital mortality index: retrospective analysis in English hospitals over five years. BMJ 2012; 344:e1001 (DOI)
- RM Jacques, NRJ Fieller, EK Ainscow. A classification updating procedure motivated by high-content screening data. Journal of Applied Statistics 2012; 39:189-198 (DOI)
- MJ Campbell, RM Jacques, J Fotheringham, T Pearson, R Maheswaran, J Nicholl. An evaluation of the Summary Hospital Mortality Index. Report for the Department of Health 2011 (PDF, 1.6MB)
Section
I am based in the Health Services Research section.