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
Multiple-bias modelling for analysis of observational data - Discussion
– J ROY STAT SOC A STA
(2005)
168,
291
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)
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
– The 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
– Significance. Statistics Making Sense
(2004)
1,
88
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