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 by D. E. Warn, S. G. Thompson and D. J. Spiegelhalter, Statistics in Medicine 2002; 21: 1601–1623
– Statistics in medicine
(2005)
24,
2733
(doi: 10.1002/sim.2115)
On wasps and club dinners
– Significance. Statistics Making Sense
(2004)
1,
183
Funnel plots for comparing institutional performance.
– Stat Med
(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)
Bastardy in the UK
– Significance. Statistics Making Sense
(2004)
1,
134
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
– British Medical Journal
(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 Marshallet 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
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