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Jeffrey Tullis Leek is an American biostatistician and data scientist working as a Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is an author of the Simply Statistics blog, and runs several online courses through Coursera, as part of their Data Science Specialization. His most popular course is The Data Scientist's Toolbox., which he instructed along with Roger Peng and Brian Caffo. Leek is best known for his contributions to genomic data analysis and critical view of research and the accuracy of popular statistical methods.