Jennifer Thompson, MPH Biostatistician IV

Contact Information

• E-mail: j.thompson@vumc.org
• Phone: 615.322.9301
• Fax: 615.343.4924
• Office: 2525 West End, Ste. 11000 Nashville, TN 37203
• Full web site: jenthompson.me

Curriculum Vitae/Professional Development

• Curriculum vitae (PDF)
• Github (@jenniferthompson)

Education

• Master of Public Health in Biostatistics, May 2005, School of Public Health, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• BA in Mathematics, May 2002, Harding University, Searcy, AR

R Packages

• ClusterBootMultinom, for cluster bootstrapped multinomial regression. Presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, WA, August 2015.
• JTHelpers, a collection of functions I use (some related to the rms library).

Presentations

See also jenthompson.me/resources

• Data Visualization with ggplot2. Invited workshop at Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan, June 2018.
• Reproducible Research with RMarkdown. Invited workshop at Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan, June 2018.
• Clinical Data Monitoring Using R + REDCap. Invited workshop at Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan, June 2018.
• Handling Bias Caused by Missing Delirium Assessments. Presentation at the American Delirium Society meeting, Nashville, TN, June 2017.
• Ideas & Lessons from the 2017 rOpenSci unconf. VU Biostatistics Statistical Computing Series, June 2017.
• Multinomial Regression for Correlated Data Using the Bootstrap in R. Presentation at Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, WA, August 2015.
• Power in the Case of Extreme Bimodal Data: Analysis of Delirium/Coma-Free Days in the ICU. First authored poster presentation at Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, BC, July 2010.
• "Plotting with ggplot2: The Basics," Department of Biostatistics Statistical Computing Series, March 2013; Dropbox links to slides and example R code
• ggplot2: An Introduction to the Basics, Department of Biostatistics Statistical Computing Series, June 2011 (links to .zip file with slides and example code)
• Statistical Report Writing: Motivation, Tips and Ideas, Department of Biostatistics translational statisticians' retreat, February 2010
• Sample Size: What You Need to Know, Vanderbilt CRC Research Skills Workshop, June 2009
• Bootstrapping a Confidence Interval for a Difference in Means, Department of Biostatistics master's meeting, October 2007

Work Experience

Biostatistician IV, September 2015 - present
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University

Biostatistician III, May 2008 - August 2015
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University

Biostatistician II, June 2005 - April 2008
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University

Graduate Student Intern, May 2004 - May 2005
GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC

Research Assistant, August 2002 - May 2005
Biometric Consulting Laboratory, UNC-CH