Dr Paul Griffiths

I have spent all my working life in Oxford within the collegiate University. For the majority of the time I was based in the University Computing Services (now IT Services), where I ran a statistical consultancy and was responsible for delivering training to University staff and students in the use of a variety of statistical software.

I am a Chartered Statistician and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and have served on the Society’s Working Party on Statistical Computing and on the Committee of its General Applications Section. I have also been the Algorithm Editor of its Applied Statistics journal, and co-edited the book Applied Statistics Algorithms. I am the Statistical Advisor to the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training, a member of the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) and an Associate of Ashridge Management College.

My main responsibility in College is teaching the first-year course in Probability and Statistics to Experimental Psychology and PPL students. I also provide tutorials for second-year Psychology students for their paper in Experimental Design and Methods.

My research interests lie in the fields of Applied Statistics and Statistical Computing, particularly the design and construction of algorithms.

I have published on topics as diverse as intubation of new-born babies, back pain in nurses, depression in the elderly, and the European meat trade. I have also served as the Algorithm Editor of the ‘Applied Statistics’ journal, and co-edited the book ‘Applied Statistics Algorithms’.