Patrick Royston

Patrick Royston was born in 1948 in Warwickshire, England and grew up in the Midlands. Although originally trained to Master's level as a pure mathematician, he found his true vocation as a biostatistician when working for the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) in the late 1970's. The teaching of Dr (now Professor) John B. Copas at the University of Essex in the late 1960's inspired his initial interest in statistics. Since 1978, he has worked in medical research, having had roles as a consulting statistician, a research statistician, and, since he has always had a strong interest in computing and algorithms, as a statistical programmer. Currently he lives in Ealing, west London, and works as a senior scientist at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit in central London. John Wiley & Sons Ltd published his first book, jointly with Willi Sauerbrei, on Multivariable Model-building in 2008. Patrick is currently working with Paul Lambert on his second book, about flexible parametric survival modelling in Stata. You can find out more on Patrick's background, interests and Stata programs at his University College London webpage (http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakjpr/). Patrick is an honorary professor of statistics at UCL.