!!Tim Cole - Biography
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Tim Cole is a statistician with longstanding interests in human growth. He was employed by the Medical Research Council for 49 years from 1970 to 2019, and has been at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health in London since 1998, where he holds a personal chair in medical statistics (awarded 1999).\\
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His research focuses on the statistics of anthropometry and growth assessment in the broadest sense. This includes obesity indices such as body mass index (BMI, )and life-course and inter-generational aspects of anthropometry. He invented the LMS method, the standard method for constructing national growth references, and has developed several novel growth charts including the International Obesity Task Force child obesity BMI cut-offs. He also developed the SITAR growth curve model, which estimates the timing and intensity of the growth spurt in individuals in infancy and puberty. \\
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More recently he has explored the evidential value of developmental age imaging in forensic age assessment, particularly involving bone age and dental age. He has given evidence to several Australian age assessment hearings of suspected people-smugglers.\\ \\