Reports, Published Material, Pre-prints and Technical Reports

This page contains Reports, Published Material, Pre-prints and Technical Reports produced by BSU scientists which we are able to put up for general use.

In addition the world of statistical journals seems to look quite favourably on pre-prints, unlike medical journals which view them as prior publication and/or breach of copyright!

Occasionally we put up pre-prints of statistical papers that warrant a wider audience before their due publication date, or technical reports.

This pages serves as a repository of Reports, Published Material, Features, Pre-prints and Technical Reports.

Please note that “All rights reserved” and “© the author” apply unless otherwise stated.

Published Materials

Major Greenwood (1880-1949): A biographical and bibliographical study
Farewell, V, Johnson, T
Published online in Statistics in Medicine
Supplementary information

An Optimal Stratified Simon Two-Stage Design
Deepak Parashar, Jack Bowden, Colin Starr, Lorenz Wernisch, Adrian Mander
Pharmaceutical Statistics
Supplementary information

Commentary: Dr John Brownlee MA, MD, DSc, DPH (Cantab), FRFPS, FSS, FRMetS (1868-1927), public health officer, geneticist, epidemiologist and medical statistician.
Farewell Vern T. and Johnson Tony L.
Accepted by International Journal of Epidemiology 2013; 1-9. doi:10.1093/ije/dyt067

A likelihood-based two-part marginal model for longitudinal semicontinuous data – Supplementary Material
Li Su, Brian DM Tom and Vernon T Farewell 2011/2

Woods and Russell, Hill, and the Emergence of Medical Statistics.
Farewell V. T. and Johnson T. 2010/1

Systematically missing confounders in individual participant data meta-analysis of observational cohort studies.
The Fibrinogen Studies Collaboration. 2009/2

Extending DerSimonian and Laird’s methodology to perform multivariate random effects.
Dan Jackson, Ian R White and Simon G Thompson 2009/1

Reports on fatalities in Afghanistan by cause and nationality

• PERIOD 22 SHORT REPORT fatalities in Afghanistan by cause and nationality – 12 May 2014 to 28 September 2014.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR | May 2014
• PERIOD 21 SHORT REPORT fatalities in Afghanistan by cause and nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR | May 2014
• PERIOD 20 SHORT REPORT fatalities in Afghanistan by cause and nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR | January 2014
• PERIOD_19_SHORT_REPORT_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_by_cause_and_nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR| August 2013
• PERIOD_18_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_by_cause_and_nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR | March 2013
• PERIOD_17_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_by_cause_and_nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR | November 2012
• PERIOD_16_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_by_cause_and_nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR
  with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Consultant to Combatstress | June 2012
• PERIOD_15_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_by_cause_and_nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR
  with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Consultant to Combatstress | January 2012
• PERIOD_14_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_by_cause_and_nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR
  with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Consultant to Combatstress | September 2011
• PERIOD_14a_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_by_cause_and_nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR
  with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Consultant to Combatstress | July 2011
• PERIOD_13_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_by_cause_and_nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR
  with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Consultant to Combatstress | May 2011
• PERIOD_13a_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_by_cause_and_nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR
  with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Consultant to Combatstress | February 2011
• PERIOD_12b_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_and_Iraq_by_cause_and_nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Consultant to Combatstress | December 2010
• PERIOD_12a_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_and_Iraq_by_cause_and_nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Consultant to Combatstress | September 2010
• PERIOD_11b_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_and_Iraq_by_cause_and_nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Consultant to Combatstress | July 2010
• PERIOD_11a_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_and_Iraq_by_cause_and_nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Consultant to Combatstress | May 2010
• PERIOD_9_10_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_and_Iraq_by_cause_and_nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Consultant to Combatstress | March 2010
• PERIOD_7_military_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_and_Iraq.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Consultant to Combatstress | January 2009
• PERIOD_6_military_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_and_Iraq.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Combatstress, Leatherhead KT22 0BX | August 2008
• Long_wait_for_inquests_into military_fatalities_in_Iraq_and_Afghanistan-Report_July2008.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR | July 2008
• Long_wait_for_inquests_into military_fatalities_in_Iraq_and_Afghanistan.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR | June 2008
• PERIOD_5_military_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_and_Iraq.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR in collaboration with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Combatstress, Leatherhead KT22 0BX | April 2008
• PERIOD_4_military_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_and_Iraq.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR in collaboration with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Combatstress, Leatherhead KT22 0BX | November 2007
• Period_3_military_fatalities_in_Afghanistan_and_Iraq.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR in collaboration with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Combatstress, Leatherhead KT22 0BX | July 2007
• Post-surge, pre-withdrawal: recent military fatalities in Afghanistan and Iraq by cause, notably improvised explosive device (IED) and friendly fire, and nationality.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR in collaboration with Clive B. Fairweather CBE, Combatstress, Leatherhead KT22 0BX | 2007
• When wild war’s deadly blast was blawn: Update on UK’s and other military fatality rates, and casualties, in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  Sheila M. Bird | 4th September 2006

Other Reports

• Denominators for specific drugs-related deaths in England and Wales.
  Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, CAMBRIDGE CB2 0SR
  J. Roy Robertson, Muirhouse Group Practice, EDINBURGH EH4 4PL
  John Strang, King’s College London, National Addiction Centre, LONDON SE5 8AF
  November 2010

Pre-prints & Technical Reports

• Ageing opioid users’ increased risk of methadone-specific death in the UK: irrespective of gender
  Matthias Pearce, Tim Millar, J. Roy Roberston and Sheila M. Bird – 2017/1
• Making predictions from complex longitudinal data, with application to planning monitoring intervals in a national screening programme.
  Michael Sweeting and Simon Thompson – 2010/1
• IV-estimators of the causal odds ratio for a continuous exposure in prospective and retrospective designs.
  Jack Bowden and Stijn Vansteelandt – 2009/2
• Re-analysis using Inverse Probability Weighting and Multiple Imputation of Data from the Southampton Women’s Survey
  Shaun Seaman and Ian White – 2009/1
• Unphased – User Guide.
  Dudbridge, Frank – 2006/5
• The Null Steady-State Distribution of the CUSUM Statistic.
  Grigg OA & Spiegelhalter DJ – 2006/2
• An approximate randomisation-respecting adjustment to the hazard ratio for time-dependent treatment switches in clinical trials.
  White IR, Walker AS & Babiker AG – 2006/1
• Robust tests of association for multilocus haplotypes in nuclear families.
  Dudbridge Frank – 2005/7
• Using mixed treatment comparisons and meta-regression to perform indirect comparisons to estimate the efficacy of biologic treatments in rheumatoid arthritis.
  Nixon RM, Bansback N, Brennan A – 2005/6
• Addressing the issues that arise in analysing multicentre cost data, with application to a multinational study.
  Thompson SG, Nixon RM and Grieve R, – 2005/5
• How to estimate cost-effectiveness acceptability curves, confidence ellipses and incremental net benefits alongside randomised controlled trials.
  Nixon RM, Wonderling D and Grieve R, – 2005/4
• A Markov model for long-term cost-effectiveness modelling of screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms.
  L Kim. In collaboration with S Thompson, M Buxton, A Briggs, H Campbell, – 2005/3
• Methods for incorporating covariate adjustment, subgroup analysis and between-centre differences into cost-effectiveness evaluations (2004).
  Nixon RM, Thompson SG, – 2005/1
• How sensitive are cost-effectiveness analyses to choice of parametric distributions? (2004).
  SG. Thompson and RM. Nixon, – 2004/1
• Making predictions from hierarchical models for complex longitudinal data, with application to aneurysm growth (2002).
  AR. Brady and SG. Thompson, – 2002/1

Features

Keeping it in the family: How children have followed their famous parents into statistics
Vern Farewell and Joel Greenhouse – 2013