Professor Philip Schluter BSc (Hons 1), MSc (Distinction), PhD
Philip is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at the Auckland University of Technology. Philip is interested in developing and applying Bayesian methods to public health problems. Bayesian methods depart from the conventional objectivist theories of probability and provide an alternative to hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation. Philip has utilised these methods for the applications including the identification of motor accident “black-spots”, for the change-point analysis of an intervention amongst assault-related hospital admissions in an Aboriginal community and for the assessment of treatment response in a series of single patient (n-of-1) trials.
Philip's current areas of research include the extension of the n-of-1 analytical strategy, sudden infant death syndrome epidemiology, and injury prevention epidemiology. In collaboration with colleagues, he is developing reference ranges for first and second trimester ultrasound scans and will use this information to develop improved methods for predicting foetal abnormalities. Philip is also a principal investigator on the Nurses & Midwives e-cohort Study.