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Dr Neil Scott

Dr Neil Scott
Dr Neil Scott
Dr Neil Scott

MA, MSc, PhD

Senior Research Fellow

Accepting PhDs

About
Email Address
n.w.scott@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 437108
Office Address

Medical Statistics Team, Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, ABERDEEN AB25 2ZD, UK.

School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Biography

Dr Neil Scott graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1995 with an MA in Mathematics and has an MSc in Applied Statistics from Napier University.  He obtained a PhD from the University of Aberdeen in 2007. 

From 1997 to 2001 he worked as a medical statistician in the Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, where he worked on clinical trials and systematic reviews, particularly in surgery.

Since joining the Medical Statistics Team (originally part of the Dept of Public Health) in 2001, he has collaborated on a large number of medical research projects in a wide variety of clinical areas.

He has an interest in the development and validation of quality-of-life instruments.  His PhD project involved using differential item functioning (DIF) analyses to detemine whether there were linguistic or cultural differences in responses to the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire.

He has a major interest in systematic reviews and meta-analysis and has co-authored many systematic reviews including several Cochrane reviews.  He is also interested in complex evidence synthesis methodologies, such as network meta-analysis, and is a member of the Aberdeen team critiquing technology assessments for the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

He previously acted as a statistical consultant to NHS Grampian staff and is interested in statistical consultancy in general.

He contributes to a variety of teaching activities.  He is course co-ordinator for the PU5522 online Applied Statistics course and is a lecturer on the Systematic Reviewing (PU5526) and Evidence Based Health (PU5031) courses.

External Memberships

Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS)

Research

Research Overview

Neil’s main research interests include:

  • Randomised controlled trials, including methods of randomisation
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analysis, including individual patient data (IPD) reviews and network meta-analyses
  • Health-related quality of life (HRQoL)
  • Differential item functioning (DIF) methods
  • Methods to assess translations of HRQoL questionnaires
  • Case-control studies
  • Statistical consultancy

 

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Applied Health Sciences.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

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Applied Health Sciences

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Research Specialisms

  • Medical Statistics

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Teaching

Courses

Teaching Responsibilities

Contribution to:

PU5522 Applied Statistics (online) (lecturer and course co-ordinator)

PU5017 Applied Statistics (lecturer and previous course co-ordinator)

PU5526 Systematic Reviewing (lecturer)

PU5031 Evidence-Based Health (online) (lecturer)

SPSS staff course (previous lecturer)

Intermediate Statistics staff course (previous lecturer)

PhD Statistics Course (previous tutor)

Statistical consultancies (NHS and University staff)

Student clinics

Publications

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  • Small bowel lymphangiectasia and angiodysplasia: a positive association; novel clinical marker or shared pathophysiology?

    MacDonald, J., Porter, V., Scott, N. W., McNamara, D.
    Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 610-614
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Differential item functioning (DIF) analyses of health-related quality of life instruments using logistic regression

    Scott, N. W., Fayers, P., Aaronson, N. K., Bottomley, A., de Graeff, A., Groenvold, M., Gundy, C., Koller, M., Petersen, M. A., Sprangers, M. A. G., EORTC Quality Life Group, Quality Life Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis Group
    Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, vol. 8, 81
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Interpretation of differential item functioning analyses using external review

    Scott, N. W., Fayers, P., Aaronson, N. K., Bottomley, A., de Graeff, A., Groenvold, M., Gundy, C., Koller, M., Petersen, M. A., Sprangers, M. A. G., on behalf of the EORTC Quality of Life Group and the Quality of Life Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis Group
    Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 253-258
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A Case-Control Study of Parkinson's Disease and Tobacco Use: Gene-Tobacco Interactions

    De Palma, G., Dick, F. D., Calzetti, S., Scott, N. W., Prescott, G. J., Osborne, A., Haites, N., Mozzoni, P., Negrotti, A., Scaglioni, A., Mutti, A., Geoparkinson Study Group, Dick, S.
    Movement Disorders, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 912-919
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Relationship between arterial stiffness and Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire disability in rheumatoid arthritis patients without overt arterial disease

    Crilly, M. A., Clark, H. J., Kumar, V. V., Scott, N. W., Macdonald, A. G., Williams, D. J.
    Journal of Rheumatology, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 946-952
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Arterial stiffness and cumulative inflammatory burden in rheumatoid arthritis

    Crilly, M. A., Kumar, V. V., Clark, H. J., Scott, N. W., MacDonald, A. G., Williams, D. J.
    Rheumatology, vol. 48, no. 12, pp. 1606-1612
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The practical impact of differential item functioning analyses in a health-related quality of life instrument

    Scott, N. W., Fayers, P. M., Aaronson, N. K., Bottomley, A., de Graeff, A., Groenvold, M., Gundy, C., Koller, M., Petersen, M. A., Sprangers, M. A. G., EORTC Quality of Life Group, Quality of Life Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis Group
    Quality of Life Research, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 1125-1130
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Differential item functioning (DIF) in the EORTC QLQ-C30: a comparison of baseline, on-treatment and off-treatment data

    Scott, N. W., Fayers, P., Aaronson, N. K., Bottomley, A., de Graeff, A., Groenvold, M., Gundy, C., Koller, M., Petersen, M. A., Sprangers, M. A. G., on behalf of the EORTC Quality of Life Group and the Quality of Life Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis Group
    Quality of Life Research, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 381-388
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A simulation study provided sample size guidance for differential item functioning (DIF) studies using short scales

    Scott, N. W., Fayers, P. M., Aaronson, N. K., Bottomley, A., de Graeff, A., Groenvold, M., Gundy, C., Koller, M., Petersen, M. A., Sprangers, M. A. G., EORTC Quality of Life Group; Quality of Life Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis Group
    Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 288-295
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • EORTC Quality of Life Group translation procedure

    Dewolf, L., Koller, M., Velikova, G., Johnson, C., Scott, N., Bottomley, A., EORTC Quality of Life Group
    EORTC Quality of Life Group, Brussels, Belgium. 32 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
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