Dr Anthony Webster
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Anthony Webster
PhD
Statistician
I joined Oxford University’s Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU) in 2016, where I gained experience of medical statistics and epidemiology using data from the Million Women Study. In 2019 I was awarded a 3-year fellowship from the Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH) for research to use machine learning and advanced statistical methods to find new links between diseases using UK Biobank data. This allowed me to develop novel statistical methods for the analysis of large, complex datasets, and included developing bespoke R codes to characterise and cluster diseases. These combined and adapted the best of existing statistical theory, including longitudinal survival analysis modelling and multivariate statistics. A key next step in this work is to combine it with genetic studies and causal modelling, and in 2022 I was fortunate to be able to join the Lindgren Group as a Statistical Geneticist.
Anthony joined the Nuffield Department of Population Health after completing an M.Sc. in Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford during 2015-2016, changing career from Physics to Statistics. In addition to his statistical/epidemiological research, he has tutored Oxford’s Part B Statistical Lifetime Models course, the Communicating Risks and Benefits for Oxford's medical students, and co-wrote the Global Health, Principles of Data Science R practical. Anthony's previous research includes theoretical and statistical studies of plasma stability, and a Ph.D. with Prof. Mike Cates that studied the ageing and stability of emulsions and foams.
Key publications
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Causal attribution fractions, and the attribution of smoking and BMI to the landscape of disease incidence in UK Biobank
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WEBSTER A., (2022), Scientific Reports
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Sporadic, late-onset, and multistage diseases.
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Webster AJ. and Clarke R., (2022), PNAS Nexus, 1
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Characterisation, identification, clustering, and classification of disease.
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Webster AJ. et al, (2021), Sci Rep, 11
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Multi-stage models for the failure of complex systems, cascading disasters, and the onset of disease
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WEBSTER A., (2019), PLoS ONE
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Insurance companies should collect a carbon levy.
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Webster AJ. and Clarke RH., (2017), Nature, 549, 152 - 154
Recent publications
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How much disease risk is due to old age and established risk factors?
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Webster AJ., (2023), PNAS Nexus, 2
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Causal attribution fractions, and the attribution of smoking and BMI to the landscape of disease incidence in UK Biobank
Journal article
WEBSTER A., (2022), Scientific Reports
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Sporadic, late-onset, and multistage diseases.
Journal article
Webster AJ. and Clarke R., (2022), PNAS Nexus, 1