Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk
Research Interests: Public understanding of uncertainty and risk, Bayesian methods, biostatistics, performance assessment
Examples sheets and lecture notes can be found on my teaching page.
Publications
Funnel plots for comparing institutional performance.
– Statistics in medicine
(2004)
24,
1185
(doi: 10.1002/sim.1970)
The ProActive trial protocol -: a randomised controlled trial of the efficacy of a family-based, domiciliary intervention programme to increase physical activity among individuals at high risk of diabetes [ISRCTN61323766] -: art. no. 48
– BMC Public Health
(2004)
4,
48
(doi: 10.1186/1471-2548-4-48)
Bastardy in the UK
– Significance. Statistics Making Sense
(2004)
1,
134
The legacy of Bristol: public disclosure of individual surgeons' results
– BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
(2004)
329,
450
(doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7463.450)
Infant wellbeing at 2 years of age in the Growth Restriction Intervention Trial (GRIT): multicentred randomised controlled trial.
– Lancet
(2004)
364,
513
Monitoring clinical performance: Invited comments on the papers by Grigg and Farewell and Marshall et al.
– Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
(2004)
167,
561
The contagious diseases acts: a controlled experiment in criminal justice
– Significance. Statistics Making Sense
(2004)
1,
88
Use and misuse of process and outcome data in managing performance of acute medical care: avoiding institutional stigma
– The Lancet
(2004)
363,
1147
Dopaminergic effects on electrophysiological and functional MRI measures of human cortical stimulus–response power laws
– NeuroImage
(2004)
21,
540
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