Andrew Jones
BEng, BA (Hons I), PhD (Statistics), GCertDataEng
Senior Biostatistician
Data Science Collaborative Research Platform
- More than 10 years' experience working as a statistician, including over 4 years of experience working in biostatistics for health data
- Provides clinical research study design and analytical guidance, including sample size and power calculations and randomisation for clinical trials, cohort studies, cross-sectional studies and pre-clinical studies
- Reviews research proposals for soundness of study design and statistical methodology
- Contributes to writing sections for grant applications, protocols, statistical analysis plans, reports, abstracts and manuscripts for relevant projects.
- Performs intermediate- to expert-level statistical queries, analyses, and evaluation and interpretation of results for clinical investigators
- Provides research mentorship and didactic trainings, seminars and workshops to clinicians, researchers and students
- Expertise in statistical software such as R, SPSS, Stata and other programming languages, such as C++ and Python
- Expertise in Machine Learning
Book Chapter
Nguyen, Hien D. and Jones, Andrew Thomas (2019). Big data-appropriate clustering via stochastic approximation and Gaussian mixture models. Data analytics: concepts, techniques, and applications. (pp. 55-72) edited by Mohiuddin Ahmed and Al-Sakib Khan Pathan. Boca Raton, FL, United States: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9780429446177-3
Journal Articles
Donovan, Peter, Sullivan, Clair, Sly, Benjamin, Knack, Brent, Engstrom, Teyl, Jones, Andrew, McCourt, Elizabeth, Lazarus, Syndia and Pole, Jason (2025). Comparing glycaemic outcomes of digital and paper-based hospitals (GOOD study). Internal Medicine Journal. doi: 10.1111/imj.70097
Chuang, Fred, Jones, Andrew and Wagels, Michael (2025). An observational study on feeding recommencement and morbidity in reconstructive surgery of the oral cavity. Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, 53 (8), 1255-1261. doi: 10.1016/j.jcms.2025.04.015
Sanders, William J., Jones, Andrew, Milton, Tegan and Clark, Julia E. (2025). Impact of enhanced public health and infection control measures on pediatric hospital-acquired respiratory viral infections during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Infection, Disease & Health, 30 (3), 167-172. doi: 10.1016/j.idh.2025.01.001
Williams, Thomas J., Mickenbecker, Matthew, Smith, Nicholas, Bhasker, Vikas, Rubtsov, Denis, Jones, Andrew and Sabanathan, Jeevithan (2025). Efficacy of cold piecemeal EMR of medium to large adenomas compared with sessile serrated lesions. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 101 (1), 178-183. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2024.08.008
Merollini, Katharina M. D., Collins, Louisa G., Jones, Andrew T., Aitken, Joanne F. and Kimlin, Michael G. (2024). Factors impacting hospitalisation and related health service costs in cancer survivors in Australia: Results from a population data linkage study in Queensland (COS-Q). Cancer Medicine, 13 (17) e70201, e70201. doi: 10.1002/cam4.70201
Ng, Monica Suet Ying, Jones, Andrew Thomas, Mallett, Andrew John and Marie O'Shaughnessy, Michelle (2024). Better kidney allograft survival despite higher-risk donor and recipient characteristics between 1995-2014. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 39 (11), 1846-1855. doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfae081
Zhou, Xiaoyun, Edirippulige, Sisira, Jones, Andrew, Bai, Xuejun, Smith, Anthony C. and Bambling, Matthew (2023). The feasibility, acceptability and efficacy of an app-based intervention (the Coping Camp) in reducing stress among Chinese school adolescents: a cluster randomised controlled trial. PLoS One, 18 (11) e0294119, 1-20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294119
Cabilan, C. J., Eley, Robert, Snoswell, Centaine, Jones, Andrew T. and Johnston, Amy N. B. (2022). Inter-rater reliability of the occupational violence risk assessment tool for emergency departments. Australasian Emergency Care, 26 (1), 54-58. doi: 10.1016/j.auec.2022.07.007
Davenport, Danielle, Butcher, Paul, Andreotti, Sara, Matthee, Conrad, Jones, Andrew and Ovenden, Jennifer (2021). Effective number of white shark (Carcharodon carcharias, Linnaeus) breeders is stable over four successive years in the population adjacent to eastern Australia and New Zealand. Ecology and Evolution, 11 (1), 186-198. doi: 10.1002/ece3.7007
Bagnall, Jessica J., Jones, Andrew T., Karavarsamis, Natalie and Nguyen, Hien D. (2020). The fully visible Boltzmann machine and the Senate of the 45th Australian Parliament in 2016. Journal of Computational Social Science, 3 (1), 55-81. doi: 10.1007/s42001-019-00055-7
Jones, Andrew T., Lavery, Shane D., Le Port, Agnès, Wang, You-Gan, Blower, Dean and Ovenden, Jennifer (2019). Sweepstakes reproductive success is absent in a New Zealand snapper (Chrysophrus auratus) population protected from fishing despite “tiny” Ne/N ratios elsewhere. Molecular Ecology, 28 (12), 2986-2995. doi: 10.1111/mec.15130
Jones, Andrew T., Bagnall, Jessica J. and Nguyen, Hien D. (2019). BoltzMM: an R package for maximum pseudolikelihood estimation of fully-visible Boltzmann machines. Journal of Open Source Software, 4 (34) 1193, 1193. doi: 10.21105/joss.01193
Morgan, Jess A. T., Sumpton, Wayne D., Jones, Andrew T., Campbell, Alexander B., Stewart, John, Hamer, Paul and Ovenden, Jennifer R. (2019). Assessment of genetic structure among Australian east coast populations of snapper chrysophrys auratus (sparidae). Marine and Freshwater Research, 70 (7), 964-976. doi: 10.1071/mf18146
Jones, Andrew T., Nguyen, Hien D. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2018). logKDE: log-transformed kernel density estimation. Journal of Open Source Software, 3 (28) 870, 870. doi: 10.21105/joss.00870
Nguyen, Hien D., Jones, Andrew T. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2018). Stream-suitable optimization algorithms for some soft-margin support vector machine variants. Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science., 1 (1), 81-108. doi: 10.1007/s42081-018-0001-y
Ovenden, J. R., Leigh, G. M., Blower, D. C., Jones, A. T., Moore, A., Bustamante, C., Buckworth, R. C., Bennett, M. B. and Dudgeon, C. L. (2016). Can estimates of genetic effective population size contribute to fisheries stock assessments?. Journal of Fish Biology, 89 (6), 2505-2518. doi: 10.1111/jfb.13129
Jones, A. T., Ovenden, J. R. and Wang, Y. -G. (2016). Improved confidence intervals for the linkage disequilibrium method for estimating effective population size. Heredity, 117 (4), 217-223. doi: 10.1038/hdy.2016.19
Conference Papers
Merollini, Katharina, Collins, Louisa, Jones, Andrew, Aitken, Joanne and Kimlin, Michael (2024). Factors impacting hospitalisation and related health service costs in cancer survivors in Australia: Results from a population data linkage study in Queensland. COSA's 51st Annual Scientific Meeting Bridging gaps, building progress, breaking down disparities, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 13 – 15 November 2024. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/ajco.14117
Ng, Monica Suet Ying, Jones, A. T., Mallett, A. J. and O'Shaughnessy, M. (2023). Kidney transplant graft outcomes over 20 years – Improvements in graft survival despite transplanting higher risk donor and recipients. 58th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology (ANZSN), Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, 4 – 6 September 2023. Richmond, VIC, Australia: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1111/nep.14216
Jones, Andrew T., Nguyen, Hien D. and McLachlan, Geoffrey J. (2019). Positive data kernel density estimation via the LogKDE package for R. AusDM 2018: 16th Australasian Conference on Data Mining, Bahrurst, NSW, Australia, 28 - 30 November 2018. Singapore, Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-6661-1_21
Groeneveld, Erwin, Smallcombe, Katherine, Foster, Anna, Fraenkel, Alison and Jones, Andrew (2014). Ninety-seven eyes: the durability of individualised ranibizumab dosing for neovascular age-related macular degeneration in an Australian cohort: a seven year retrospective longitudinal study. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists, 46th Annual Scientific Congress, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 22–26 November 2014. Richmond, VIC, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia. doi: 10.1111/ceo.12451
Thesis
Jones, Andrew (2017). Linkage Disequilibrium Estimates of Genetic Effective Population Size. PhD Thesis, School of Mathematics & Physics, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.432