Dr Alice Richardson
Areas of expertise
- Statistics 0104
Research interests
Multilevel modelling
Statistical properties of computer intensive methods
Multiple imputation of missing data
Statistics education
Biography
I studied at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, then at the Australian National University, Canberra. My PhD was on the statistical properties of robust methods of estimation for multilevel linear models.
I have twenty years of experience in teaching undergraduate statistics at the University of Canberra. During that time I also collaborated on quantitative research projects in every Faculty of the University. In 2016 I took up a position as biostatistician at the National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health at the Australian National University.
From October 2019 I took up the role of Director of the Statistical Consulting Unit at ANU. A restucture in 2021 saw this role transition to the Lead of the Statistical Support Network.
My research interests are in linear models and robust statistics; statistical properties of data mining methods; applications of statistical methods to large data sets especially in population health and the biomedical sciences; and innovation in statistics education.
Researcher's projects
Filling in the blanks: a spatial visualisation tool to align national health outcome data with regional health policy objectives. NHMRC funded project.
A quantitative analysis of the pathways of care for children and adolscents who self-harm in the ACT, Australia. Suicide Prevention Australia funded project.
Small area estimation of smoking prevalence in all regions of Australia. RSSS Cross-College funded project.
A spatially-explicit microsimulation analysis of a proposed sugar tax on population heath in the ACT. RSSS Cross-College funded project.
Biobanks, big data and ME: establishing a global registry and biobank in Australia and using it for blood biomarkers research. Mason Foundation funded project.
Dementia Stigma Reduction (DESeRvE) through edcation and virtual contact n the general public: a multi-arn factorial randomised controlled trial. Alzheimer's Australia Dementia Research Foundation funded project.
Available student projects
Facial expression in determining severity of chronic fatigue. Ethics approval for this project has been secured. This research is particuarly suitable for Medical School first year students with an interest in primary data collection and psychological aspects of illness.
User experience of geographical information systems. This research is particuarly suitable for Medical School first year students with an interest in primary data collection and the way in which humans interpret information conveyed in maps.
Current student projects
Bivariate outcome small area estimation using spatial Bayesian hierarchical models
Organisational citizenship behaviour and organisational effectiveness
Cancer epidemiology and lifestyle risk factors for oral cancer in Maldives
Diagnosis of Hepatitis B in Nigerian patients by pathology data ming and pattern recognition algorithms
Description of patients evacuated by the RFDS for Substance Abuse Disorders
Developing an assessment tool for climate change and health risks in Pacific Island Countries
Past student projects
Response of the Royal Flying Doctor Service to the COVID19 pandemic
Comparison of visual quality, cost, availability, and cultivars of fruits and vegetables across retail streams in the Canberra region
Textual analysis of clinical notes to predict outcome of Hepatitis virus immunoassay
Novel statistical approaches to identify risk factors for soil-transmitted helminth infection in Timor-Leste
Multiple imputation of missing data in multilevel models
Seasonal patterns of Chlamydia pneumonia and Mycoplasma pneumonia infections in the Australian Capital Territory, 1997-2007.
Postural changes in heart rate and pulse pressure in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients versus healthy controls
The impact of school versus community-based interventions in the control of soil-transmitted helminth infections in school-aged children in remote areas of Timor-Leste
The relationship between heart rate and pulse pressure in ME/CFS patients
Improving the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander childern in Australia
Novel signal processing methods for species identification
Effect of oral corrective feedback and implicit instruction on EFL learners’ pragmatic development
An investigation into outlier elimination and calculation methods used in the determination of reference intervals using Immunoglobulin as model data
Employee work passion: leadership behaviour, employee affect and work intentions
High sensitivity troponin: its use in diagnosis of cardiac dysfunction
The impact of Islamic work values on employee work performance in Malaysia
Computational aspects of transfusion-transmitted viruses
Dynamic change process: how do cognitive readiness drivers inform change agents on employee behavioural change intention
Missing data in pathology databases
Robust methods in logistic regression
Publications
- Coffey, C, Collier, S, Gleason, M et al. 2021, 'Evolving Epidemiology of Reported Giardiasis Cases in the United States, 1995-2016', Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 764-770.
- Ajuwon, B, Yujuico, I, Roper, K et al. 2021, 'Hepatitis B virus infection in Nigeria: a systematic review and meta-analysis of data published between 2010 and 2019', BMC Infectious Diseases, vol. 21, no. 1.
- Lidbury, B.A., Koerbin, G, Richardson, A.M. et al. 2021, 'Gamma-Glutamyl Transferase (GGT) Is the Leading External Quality Assurance Predictor of ISO15189 Compliance for Pathology Laboratories', Diagnostics, vol. 11, no. 4.
- Thurber, K, Walker, J, Batterham, P et al. 2021, 'Developing and validating measures of self-reported everyday and healthcare discrimination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults', International Journal for Equity in Health, vol. 20, 14.
- Wright, A, Yap, M, Jones, R et al. 2021, 'Examining the associations between Indigenous Rangers, Culture and Wellbeing in Australia, 2018-2020', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 1-20.
- van Haren PhD, F, Richardson, A, Yoon, H et al. 2020, 'INHALEd nebulised unfractionated HEParin for the treatment of hospitalised patients with COVID-19 (INHALE-HEP): Protocol and statistical analysis plan for an investigator-initiated international metatrial of randomised studies', British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.
- Gardiner PhD, F, Richardson, A, Gale, L et al. 2020, 'Rural and remote dental care: Patient characteristics and health care provision', Australian Journal of Rural Health, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 292-300.
- Li, M, Baffour, B & Richardson, A 2020, 'Bayesian spatial modelling of early childhood development in Australian Regions', International Journal of Health Geographics, vol. 19, no. 43, pp. 1-16.
- Ononokpono, D, Baffour, B & Richardson, A 2020, 'Mapping maternal healthcare access in selected West African countries', African Population Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 5081-5106.
- Richardson, A & Joshy, G (joint first author) 2020, 'Deconfounding confounding part 3: controlling for confounding in statistical analyses', The Medical Journal of Australia (Online), vol. 213, no. 5, pp. 209-212.
- Zhao, Y, Cooklin, A, Richardson, A et al. 2020, 'Parents' Shift Work in Connection with Work-Family Conflict and Mental Health: Examining the Pathways for Mothers and Fathers', Journal of Family Issues, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 445-473.
- Zhao, Y, Richardson, A, Poyser, C et al 2019, 'Shift work and mental health: a systematic review and meta-analysis', International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 763-793.
- Kim, S, Werner, P, Richardson, A et al 2019, 'Dementia Stigma Reduction (DESeRvE): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of an online intervention program to reduce dementia-related public stigma', Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, vol. 14.
- Bowman, S, Casares-de-Cal, M, Alvarez-Dios, J et al. 2019, 'Identification of Bacillus and Yersinia species and hoax agents by protein profiling using microfluidic capillary electrophoresis with peak detection algorithms', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 2-15.
- Gardiner PhD, F, Richardson, A, Bishop, L et al. 2019, 'Health care for older people in rural and remote Australia: challenges for service provision', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 211, no. 8, pp. 363-364.
- O’Kane, G, Richardson, A, D’Almeida, M et al 2019, 'The cost, availability, cultivars, and quality of fruit and vegetables at farmers' markets and three other retail streams in Canberra, ACT, Australia', Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 643-661.
- Menon, N, Bhaskarapillai, B & Richardson, A 2019, 'Effect of modeling a multilevel structure on the Indian population to identify the factors influencing HIV infection', Biostatistics & Epidemiology, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 126-139.
- Strobel, N, Bourke, J, Leonard, H et al 2019, 'Assessing the quality, efficiency and usefulness of the Western Australian population-based Intellectual Disability Exploring Answers (IDEA) surveillance system: a surveillance system evaluation', BMJ Open, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 1-10.
- Housen, T, Lenglet, A, Shah, S et al 2019, 'Trauma in the Kashmir Valley and the mediating effect of stressors of daily life on symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety', Conflict and Health, vol. 13, no. 58, pp. 1-9.
- Strobel, N, Richardson, A, Shepherd, C et al 2019, 'Modelling factors for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child neurodevelopment outcomes: A latent class analysis', Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 48-59.
- Egan, R, Zigarmi, D & Richardson, A 2019, 'Leadership Behavior: A Partial Test of the Employee Work Passion Model', Human Resource Development Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 311-341.
- Lidbury, BA, Kita, B, Richardson, A et al 2019, 'Rethinking ME/CFS Diagnostic Reference Intervals via Machine Learning, and the Utility of Activin B for Defining Symptom Severity', Diagnostics, vol. 9, no. 79, pp. 1-21.
- Vaz Nery, S, Clarke, N, Richardson, A et al 2019, 'Risk factors for infection with soil-transmitted helminths during an integrated community level water, sanitation, and hygiene and deworming intervention in Timor-Leste ', International Journal for Parasitology, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 389-396.
- Vaz Nery, S, Traub, R, McCarthy, J et al 2019, 'WASH for WORMS: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of the Impact of a Community Integrated Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene and Deworming Intervention on Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections', American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 100, no. 3, pp. 750-761.
- Richardson, A 2018, 'A Comparative Review of Nonparametric Statistics Textbooks', The American Statistician, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 360-366.
- Clarke, N, Clements, A, Amaral, S et al. 2018, '(S)WASH-D for Worms: A pilot study investigating the differential impact of school- versus community-based integrated control programs for soil-transmitted helminths', PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. e0006389.
- Richardson, A, Joshy, G & D'Este, C 2018, 'Understanding statistical principles in linear and logistic regression', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 208, no. 8, pp. 332-334.
- Olive, L, Abhayaratna, W, Byrne, D et al 2018, 'Do self-reported stress and depressive symptoms effect endothelial function in healthy youth? The LOOK longitudinal study', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 13pp.
- Strobel, N, McAuley, K, Matthews, V et al 2018, 'Understanding the structure and processes of primary health care for young indigenous children', Journal of Primary Health Care, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1-12.
- Richardson, A, Badrick, T & Badrick, T 2018, 'All about love and big data', Journal of Laboratory and Precision Medicine, vol. 3, no. 78, pp. 1-3.
- Kim, S, Werner, P, Richardson, A et al 2018, 'What does the general public really want to know about dementia? A focus group study', Alzheimer's & Dementia, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. P994.
- Nimmo, S & Richardson, A 2018, Meet the Scientists: Dr Alice Richardson, pp. online.
- Clarke, N, Llewellyn, S, Traub, R et al. 2018, 'Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction for Diagnosis of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections: A Comparison with a Flotation-Based Technique and an Investigation of Variability in DNA Detection', American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 99, no. 4, pp. 1033-1040.
- Hasan, M, Quazi, A & Richardson, A 2018, 'Dynamics in Child Undernutrition in Bangladesh: Evidence from Nationally Representative Surveys Between 1997 and 2014', Indian journal of public health, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 82-88.
- Lidbury, BA, Koerbin, G, Richardson, AM et al 2018, 'Integration of ISO15189 and external quality assurance data to assist the detection of poor laboratory performance in New South Wales', Pathology, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. D92.
- Richardson, A, Lewis, D, Kita, B et al 2018, 'Weighting of Orthostatic Intolerance Time Measurements with Standing Difficulty Score Stratifies ME/CFS Symptom Severity and Analyte Detection', Journal of Translational Medicine. 16:97 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12967-018-1473-z
- Richardson, A, Neeman, T, Yoon, H et al 2017, 'Statistical response to issues with the determination of the troponin 99th percentile', Clinical Biochemistry, vol. 50, no. 18, pp. 1332-1333.
- Witchalls, J, McDonald, C, Richardson, A et al 2017, 'Injury risk in specific body regions is associated with performance in the Army basic fitness assessment in Army staff cadets', 4th International Congress on Soldiers Physical Performance, ICSPP 2017, Elsevier, Australia, pp. S27-S30.
- Witchalls, J, McDonald, C, Richardson, A et al 2017, 'Injury risk in staff cadets is associated with performance in the Army basic fitness assessment and with gender', 4th International Congress on Soldiers Physical Performance, ICSPP 2017, Elsevier, Australia, pp. 2pp.
- Zahangir, M, Hasan, M, Richardson, A et al 2017, 'Malnutrition and non-communicable diseases among Bangladeshi women: an urban-rural comparison', Nutrition and Diabetes, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 8pp.
- Bowman, S, McNevin, D, Venables, S et al 2017, 'Species identification using high resolution melting (HRM) analysis with random forest classification', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol. online, pp. 1-16pp.
- Bowman, S, McNevin, D, Venables, S et al 2017, 'Species identification using high resolution melting (HRM) analysis with random forest classification', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol. online, pp. 1-16pp.
- Wright, A, Lovett, R, Roe, Y et al 2017, 'Enhancing national data to align with policy objectives: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smoking prevalence at finer geographic levels.', Australian Health Review, vol. Online, pp. 8pp.
- Hasan, M & Richardson, A 2017, 'How sustainable household environment and knowledge of healthy practices relate to childhood morbidity in South Asia: analysis of survey data from Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan', BMJ Open, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. e015019-e015019.
- Dunn, P, Carey, M, Farrar, M et al 2017, 'Introductory Statistics Textbooks and the GAISE Recommendations', The American Statistician, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 326-335.
- Hasan, M & Richardson, A 2017, 'How sustainable household environment and knowledge of healthy practices relate to childhood morbidity in South Asia: Analysis of survey data from Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan', BMJ Open, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. e015019-e015019.
- Lidbury, BA, Koerbin, G, Richardson, A et al 2017, 'Integration of ISO 15189 and external quality assurance data to assist the detection of poor laboratory performance in NSW, Australia', Journal of Laboratory and Precision Medicine, vol. 2, no. 97, pp. 1-15.
- Richardson, A & Lidbury, B.A. 2017, 'Enhancement of hepatitis virus immunoassay outcome predictions in imbalanced routine pathology data by data balancing and feature selection before the application of support vector machines', BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, vol. 17, p. 121.
- Dunn, P, Carey, M, Richardson, A et al 2016, 'Learning the language of statistics: Challenges and teaching approaches', Statistics Education Research Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 8-27.
- Shellard, A, Naumovski, N, Connaughton, R et al 2016, 'Factors that influence health related quality of life in over-weight and obese adolescents', Journal of Nutrition & Intermediary Metabolism, vol. 4, pp. 18pp.
- Badrick, T, Richardson, A, Arnott, A, Lidbury, BA. 2016, 'The kinetics of haemoglobin and ferritin in longitudinal community patients with iron deficiency or hypoxia', Diagnosis, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 7pp.
- Badrick, T, Richardson, A, Lidbury, BA. 2016, 'Response to article: serum total bilirubin concentrations are inversely associated with total white blood cell counts in an adult population', Annals Of Clinical Biochemistry, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 412-414.
- Richardson, A, Signor, B, Lidbury, B.A, Badrick, T. 2016, 'Clinical chemistry in higher dimensions: machine-learning and enhanced prediction from routine clinical chemistry data', Clinical Biochemistry.
- Shang, G, Biggerstaff, B, Richardson, A, Lidbury,B.A. 2016, 'A simulation model to estimate the risk of transfusion-transmitted arboviral infection', Transfusion and Apheresis science, vol. online, pp. 1-7.
- Richardson, A, Dunn, P, McDonald, C et al 2015, 'CRiSP: An Instrument for Assessing Student Perceptions of Classroom Response Systems', Journal of Science Education and Technology, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 432-447.
- Lewis, P, Richardson, A & Corliss, M 2015, 'Exploring Business Perceptions of the Compliance Costs of Regulation', Journal of Law and Governance, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 16pp.
- Lidbury, B, Richardson, A, Badrick, T. 2015, 'Assessment of machine-learning techniques on large pathology data sets to address assay redundancy in routine liver function test profiles', Diagnosis, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 41-51.
- Muskat, B, Muskat, M & Richardson, A 2014, 'How do Europeans travel in Australia? Examining cultural convergence in travel behaviour', Journal of Vacation Marketing, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 55-64.
- Reynolds, G, Lewis, D, Richardson, A, Lidbury B.A. 2014, 'Comorbidity of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome in an Australian cohort', Journal of Internal Medicine, vol. 275, no. 4, pp. 409-417.
- Richardson, A, Dunn, P & Hutchins, R 2013, 'Identification and definition of lexically ambiguous words in statistics by tutors and students', International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 1007-1019.
- Dunn, P, Richardson, A, Oprescu, F et al 2013, 'Mobile-phone-based classroom response systems: Students' perceptions of engagement and learning in a large undergraduate course', International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, vol. 44, no. 8, pp. 1160-1174.
- Dunn, P.K., Richardson, A., McDonald, C. and Oprescu, F. (2013). Mobile-phone-based classroom response systems: Students’ perceptions of engagement and learning in a large undergraduate course. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. DOI:10.1080/0020739X.2012.756548
- Shang, G, Easteal, S, Ohms, S et al 2013, 'Predicting the presence of hepatitis B virus surface antigen in Chinese patients by pathology data mining', Journal of Medical Virology, vol. 85, no. 8, pp. 1334-1339.
- Dunn, P, Richardson, A, McDonald, C et al 2012, 'Instructor perceptions of using a mobile-phone-based free classroom response system in first-year statistics undergraduate courses', International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, vol. 43, no. 8, pp. 1041-1056.
- Quazi, A & Richardson, A 2012, 'Sources of variation in linking corporate social responsibility and financial performance', Social Responsibility Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 242-256.
- Adams, M., Armstrong, A., Clarke, A., Clarke, T., Eddie, I., Heenetigala, K., Lewis, P., Li, Y and Richardson, A. (2011). Developing a responsive regulatory system for Australia’s small corporations: governance for small business. Melbourne: Victoria University.
- Dunn, P.K., Richardson, A., McDonald, C. and Oprescu, F. (2011). Instructor perceptions of using a mobile-phone-based, free Classroom Response System in first-year statistics undergraduate courses. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology 43, 1041 – 1056.
- Richardson, A., Shadabi, F. and Lidbury, B.A. (2010). Learning from pathology databases to improve the laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases. In Hirosh Takeda (ed.) E-Health: First IMIA/IFIP Joint Symposium, E-Health 2010 Held as Part of WCC 2010 Brisbane, Australia, September 20 – 23, 2010 Proceedings, 226 - 227. Berlin: Springer.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Filling in the blanks: a spatial visualisation tool to align national health outcome data with regional health policy objectives (Primary Investigator)
- Better care and better outcomes for youth experiencing self-harm (Secondary Investigator)
- Biobanks, Big Data and ME: establishing a global registry and biobank in Australia and using it for blood biomarkers research (Secondary Investigator)
- Tackling Indigenous smoking - Regional grants Impact and Outcomes Assessment (Secondary Investigator)
- Mental health measures in the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) (Secondary Investigator)
- NHMRC CREMA Small Project Grant: Pharmaceutical opioid use and related adverse outcome among older Australians (Secondary Investigator)
- Exploration of Integrated NATA/QAP Predictive Modelling to Improve Pathology Quality (Secondary Investigator)
- Dementia Stigma Reduction (DESeRvE): A randomised controlled trial to reduce dementia related stigma in general public (Primary Investigator)
