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
Bayesian random effects meta-analysis of trials with binary outcomes: methods for the absolute risk difference and relative risk scales.
– Statistics in Medicine
(2005)
24,
2733
(doi: 10.1002/sim.2115)
Issues in data monitoring and interim analysis of trials
– Health Technology Assessment
(2005)
9,
(doi: 10.3310/hta9070)
On wasps and club dinners
– Significance. Statistics Making Sense
(2004)
1,
183
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]
– BMC public health
(2004)
4,
48
(doi: 10.1186/1471-2548-4-48)
Survival Models: Survival Analysis in Observational Studies
(2004)
1,
107
(doi: 10.1002/0470023678.ch1d)
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
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