Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics

Christiane Guinot

Christiane Guinot
Co-director of the group, Biometrics and Epidemiology Unit
University Denis Diderot, France

Biography

Christiane Guinot has received PhD in Biomathematics from the University Denis Diderot of Paris in 1982, and her Habilitation in computer sciences from the University of Tours in 2003. From 1982 to 1986, she took two Post-doctoral positions in Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the Gustave-Roussy, Institute in France and at the Showa University School of Medicine in Japan where she acquired a speciality diploma in Cancer Epidemiology. In 1986, she started working for an international pharmaceutical group and headed Biostatistical departments. In 1991, she contributed to the creation of the CERIES, a private research centre on human skin. Since this date, she is in-charge of the Biometrics and Epidemiology department. She is also researcher in the Computer Sciences laboratory of the University Francois Rabelais of Tours since 2002. Up to now, she has authored more than one hundred research articles and book chapters. She was elected President of the Societe Francaise de Statistique French Association of Statisticians, 2005-2008. She was also elected a member of the International Statistical Institute ISI in 2002. In addition, she is serving as an editorial member of the Journal de la Societe Francaise de Statistique. She is also serving as a peer reviewer for several reputed statistics and biomedical journals, such as Statistics in Medicine and British Journal of Dermatology.

Research Interest

High dimensional data analysis and related topics, Classification methods, Genetic association studies, Statistical methods applied in epidemiology, Statistical methods applied to medical research, Intra and inter-observer agreement methods, Visual data mining methods for interactive data exploration, Knowledge discovery methods.