Research

Publication

  • Sui, A., G. Ambler, R. Z. Omar, M. de Belder, and M. Pavlou. 2026. “Choosing an appropriate outlier-detection method when comparing institutional performances in clinical audits.” Biometrical Journal 68, no. 6: e70196. https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.70196

Talks

  • “Assessing the impact of distributional assumption violations on outlier-detection methods in clinical audits” for Central European Network (Warsaw, Poland), May 2026, Abstract
  • “The most appropriate method for outlier detection in a clinical audit depends on the data distribution” for International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB) (Basel, Switzerland), August 2025, Abstract
  • “Outlier detection in clinical performance monitoring and comparison of commonly used methods” for PhD Researchers Seminar Series (UCL), November 2024
  • “Outlier detection in clinical performance monitoring and comparison of commonly used methods” for ISCB (Milan, Italy), August 2023, Abstract

Posters

  • “Robust estimation of overdispersion parameter ​for outlier detection in clinical audits” for Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Science (IMSS) symposium (London, UK), June 2025
  • “Robust estimation of overdispersion parameter ​for outlier detection in clinical audits” for ISCB (Thessaloniki, Greece), July 2024

Grants & Awards

  • Deepti Jayawardena Wilkinson Award for Service - awarded for services to UCL Department of Statistical Science
  • Fully funded 4-year Heilbronn PhD Scholarship

Teaching

  • UCL Practical Statistics for Medical Research, 2026

  • BIOS0019 Biostatistics, 2025

  • STAT0002 Introduction to probability and statistics, 2025

  • UCL Summer School in Statistics: Regression models and R programming, 2023-24

  • UCL Data Detective programme: R programming in data science and statistics, 2023-24