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John Hope McColl,
MA, MSc, CStat, CSci, FHEA |
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Telephone: |
+44(0)141
330 4749 Room
233, 15 |
Teaching
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S2S – Statistical Methods |
Design 3 |
Financial Statistics 4 |
In 2008, Karina
Paterson, an MSc student, produced a briefing paper for markers that lays out principles
for effective feedback on students’ assessed work in Statistics courses.
Textbooks
I am the author of
a popular first/second
A more advanced
textbook, Multivariate
Probability, is now published by Wiley.
I was also the
joint editor (along with Professor Adrian Bowman, School of Mathematics and
Statistics, University of Glasgow) of the following book of support materials
for lecturers responsible for teaching First Year Statistics courses to
non-specialists, which was published by Hodder Arnold
in 1999: Statistics and Problem Solving - computer based case studies from
the STEPS project.
Through the Statistics
in Scottish Schools Project, which was hosted by the Department of Statistics
from 1994 until 2003, I arranged and led workshops on statistical topics for
Secondary School teachers of Mathematics. Along with Ralph Riddiough (formerly a teacher at
Research Interests
I work closely with health professionals in order to
apply Statistics to research in the bio-medical sciences. I have
particular interests in human nutrition and paediatrics. Please see this list of recent publications.
Current research students:
Neil Murphy: Combining information from
cross-sectional HIV recency testing and longitudinal
observations of HIV status to improve estimates of HIV incidence, MSc,
from October 2009.
Claire Gordon: Investigating Statistical
Approaches to Handling Missing Data in the Context of the Gateshead
Millennium Study, PhD, from October 2006.
Caroline Haig: Longitudinal modelling of energy
imbalance based on changes in body composition in ALSPAC participants 9-13
years, PhD, from October 2006.
Gillian Boyle: Predicting the demand for the
National Qualifications offered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority, MSc,
2008-09.
Maria Franco Villoria: Statistical
modelling of body composition in children and their parents, MSc,
2007-08.
Karina Paterson: Good practice for formative
assessment and feedback in Statistics courses, MSc, 2007-08.
Jude Eze: Modelling the
HIV/AIDS epidemic in