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2001, Volume 164, Issue 3
- 467-483 A comparison of suicide patterns in Australia and Hong Kong
by Chris J. Lloyd & Paul S. F. Yip - 485-503 Statistical methods for clinical studies in the presence of surrogate end points
by Denis Heng‐Yan Leung - 505-516 Estimating reference ranges from stratified two‐stage samples
by Mary Lou Thompson & Steven D. Edland & Laura E. Gibbons & Susan M. McCurry - 517-547 The role of tobacco taxes in starting and quitting smoking: Duration analysis of British data
by Martin Forster & Andrew M. Jones - 549-563 Analysis of incomplete durations with application to contraceptive use
by Mohamed M. Ali & Tom Marshall & Abdel G. Babiker - 565-566 Correspondence
by Nicholas T. Longford & David Firth & Michael Noble & George Smith
2001, Volume 164, Issue 2
- 213-215 Editorial: The growing demands on the European statistical system
by Lucy McKeever & Mike Cuthbertson - 217-257 Capitation funding in the public sector
by Peter C. Smith & Nigel Rice & Roy Carr‐Hill - 259-273 Simulation‐based diagnostics in random‐coefficient models
by Nicholas T. Longford - 275-291 Bayesian analysis of mortality data
by Petros Dellaportas & Adrian F. M. Smith & Photis Stavropoulos - 293-305 The transition from university to work: a multilevel approach to the analysis of the time to obtain the first job
by L. Biggeri & M. Bini & L. Grilli - 307-325 Women's work in UK official statistics and the 1980 reclassification of occupations
by Louisa Blackwell - 327-338 Detecting covariates with non‐random missing values in a survey of primary education in Madagascar
by J. K. Lindsey & P. J. Lindsey - 339-355 Improved estimation procedures for multilevel models with binary response: a case‐study
by Germán Rodríguez & Noreen Goldman - 357-370 The value of the aggregate data approach in meta‐analysis with time‐to‐event outcomes
by Catrin Tudur & Paula R. Williamson & Saboor Khan & Lesley Y. Best - 371-387 Decline and fall: Unemployment among Britain's non‐white ethnic communities 1960–1999
by Derek Leslie & Joanne Lindley & Leighton Thomas - 389-405 Dropping out of university: A statistical analysis of the probability of withdrawal for UK university students
by Jeremy P. Smith & Robin A. Naylor - 407-422 A two‐phase sampling scheme with applications to auditing or sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
by V. Barnett & J. Haworth & T. M. F. Smith
2001, Volume 164, Issue 1
- 1-2 Editorial: Disease clusters and ecological studies
by Jon Wakefield & Mike Quinn & Gillian Raab - 3-12 Disease clusters: should they be investigated, and, if so, when and how?
by Paul Elliott & Jon Wakefield - 13-22 Investigating disease clusters: why, when and how?
by Daniel Wartenberg - 23-27 The cluster that never was: germ warfare experiments and health authority reality in Dorset
by C. E. Stein & S. Bennett & S. Crook & F. Maddison - 29-43 An ecological investigation of the incidence of cancer in Welsh children for the period 1985–1994 in relation to residence near the coastline
by John Steward & Gareth John - 45-47 Comments on the papers by Elliott and Wakefield, Wartenberg, Stein et al. and Steward and John
by Helen Dolk - 49-60 Methods for eliciting aetiological clues from geographically clustered cases of disease, with application to leukaemia–lymphoma data
by Joan R. Williams & Freda E. Alexander & Ray A. Cartwright & Richard J. Q. McNally - 61-72 Prospective time periodic geographical disease surveillance using a scan statistic
by Martin Kulldorff - 73-85 A shared component model for detecting joint and selective clustering of two diseases
by Leonhard Knorr‐Held & Nicola G. Best - 87-96 Monitoring point patterns for the development of space–time clusters
by Peter A. Rogerson - 97-99 Comments on the papers by Williams et al., Kulldorff, Knorr‐Held and Best, and Rogerson
by Andrew Lawson - 101-118 Models, assumptions and model checking in ecological regressions
by Andrew Gelman & David K. Park & Stephen Ansolabehere & Phillip N. Price & Lorraine C. Minnite - 119-137 A statistical framework for ecological and aggregate studies
by Jonathan Wakefield & Ruth Salway - 139-139 Comments on the papers by Gelman et al. and Wakefield and Salway
by Lianne Sheppard - 141-154 Overcoming biases and misconceptions in ecological studies
by Katherine A. Guthrie & Lianne Sheppard - 155-174 Ecological regression analysis of environmental benzene exposure and childhood leukaemia: sensitivity to data inaccuracies, geographical scale and ecological bias
by Nicky Best & Samantha Cockings & James Bennett & Jon Wakefield & Paul Elliott - 175-192 Simple methods for ecological inference in 2×2 tables
by R. L. Chambers & D. G. Steel - 205-207 A parallel analysis of individual and ecological data on residential radon and lung cancer in south‐west England
by Sarah Darby & Harz Deo & Richard Doll & Elise Whitley - 205-207 Comments on the papers by Guthrie and Sheppard, Best et al., Chambers and Steel and Darby et al
by Ben Armstrong
2000, Volume 163, Issue 3
- 255-261 Statistics on the voluntary sector in the UK
by Roger Tarling - 263-302 Combining evidence on air pollution and daily mortality from the 20 largest US cities: a hierarchical modelling strategy
by Francesca Dominici & Jonathan M. Samet & Scott L. Zeger - 303-309 Estimating the underlying change in unemployment in the UK
by Andrew Harvey & Chia‐Hui Chung - 303-339 Ethnic differences in the labour market: a comparison of the samples of anonymized records and Labour Force Survey
by Anthony Heath & Dorren McMahon & Jane Roberts - 363-379 The social class of Catholics in Scotland
by Lindsay Paterson - 381-402 Number needed to treat: properties and problems
by J. L. Hutton - 381-402 Handling missing data in diaries of alcohol consumption
by Nicholas T. Longford & Margaret Ely & Rebecca Hardy & Michael E. J. Wadsworth - 421-444 Theoretical and practical issues in purchasing power parities illustrated with reference to the 1993 Organization for Economic Co‐operation and Development data
by James R. Cuthbert - 445-459 Weighting for item non‐response in attitude scales by using latent variable models with covariates
by Irini Moustaki & Martin Knott
2000, Volume 163, Issue 2
- 123-126 Editorial: Cohabitation in Britain
by Mike Murphy - 127-151 Marriage or cohabitation: a competing risks analysis of first‐partnership formation among the 1958 British birth cohort
by Ann Berrington & Ian Diamond - 153-171 Cohabitation in Great Britain: not for long, but here to stay
by John Ermisch & Marco Francesconi - 173-189 Correcting for regression dilution bias: comparison of methods for a single predictor variable
by Chris Frost & Simon G. Thompson - 191-209 Analysis of cervical cancer mortality and incidence data from England and Wales: evidence of a beneficial effect of screening
by Peter D. Sasieni & Joanna Adams - 211-225 Selecting treatments: a decision theoretic approach
by Karl Claxton & Larry F. Lacey & Stephen G. Walker - 227-240 Estimating driver crash risks based on the extended Bradley–Terry model: an induced exposure method
by Lel Li & Karl Kim - 241-254 Interpreting forensic DNA mixtures: allowing for uncertainty in population substructure and dependence
by Wing K. Fung & Yue‐Qing Hu
2000, Volume 163, Issue 1
- 1-3 Editorial: Statistical guidelines for clinical trials
by S. D. Day & D. J. Talbot - 5-13 Statistical review by research ethics committees
by P. Williamson & J. L. Hutton & J. Bliss & J. Blunt & M. J. Campbell & R. Nicholson - 15-28 On the use of surrogate end points in randomized trials
by C. B. Begg & D. H. Y. Leung - 29-38 A design for testing clinical strategies: biased adaptive within‐subject randomization
by P. W. Lavori & R. Dawson - 39-48 Stochastic models of geriatric patient bed occupancy behaviour
by G. J. Taylor & S. I. McClean & P. H. Millard - 49-62 Multilevel models for repeated binary outcomes: attitudes and voting over the electoral cycle
by M. Yang & H. Goldstein & A. Heath - 63-80 Monitoring contemporary student flows and characteristics: secondary analyses using the Labour Force Survey and the General Household Survey
by M. Egerton - 81-97 The relationship between crime, punishment and economic conditions: is reliable inference possible when crimes are under‐recorded?
by S. Pudney & D. Deadman & D. Pyle - 99-119 Fatal train accidents on Britain's mainline railways
by A. W. Evans - 121-122 Corrigendum: The zero‐inflated Poisson model and the decayed, missing and filled teeth index in dental epidemiology
by D. Böhning & E. Dietz & P. Schlattmann & L. Mendonça & U. Kirchner
1999, Volume 162, Issue 3
- 269-271 Editorial: Modelling structured categorical data
by I. Plewis & G. Raab - 273-289 Spatial variation in teenage conceptions in south and west England
by I. Diamond & S. Clements & N. Stone & R. Ingham - 291-302 An experiment in primary health care provision
by N. T. Longford - 303-328 Why use arbitrary points scores?: ordered categories in models of educational progress
by A. Fielding - 329-330 Comments on the papers by Diamond et al., Longford and Fielding
by C. D. Payne - 331-347 A comparison of population average and random‐effect models for the analysis of longitudinal count data with base‐line information
by R. Crouchley & R. B. Davies - 349-360 A multilevel analysis of longitudinal ordinal data: evaluation of the level of physical performance of women receiving adjuvant therapy for breast cancer
by H. J. Ribaudo & M. Bacchi & J. Bernhard & S. G. Thompson - 361-361 Comments on the papers by Crouchley and Davies and Ribaudo et al
by C. D. Payne - 363-382 Accounting for inaccuracies in population counts and case registration in cancer mapping studies
by N. Best & J. Wakefield - 383-405 Classical multilevel and Bayesian approaches to population size estimation using multiple lists
by S. E. Fienberg & M. S. Johnson & B. W. Junker - 407-421 Modelling consumers' use of products
by H. Romaniuk & C. J. Skinner & P. J. Cooper - 423-423 Comments on the papers by Best and Wakefield, Flenberg et al. and Romaniuk et al
by C. D. Payne - 425-436 Estimation in large cross random‐effect models by data augmentation
by D. Clayton & J. Rasbash - 437-446 A multilevel exploration of the role of interviewers in survey non‐response
by C. O'Muircheartaigh & P. Campanelli - 447-448 Comments on the papers by Clayton and Rasbash, and O'Muircheartaigh and Campanelli
by C. D. Payne
1999, Volume 162, Issue 2
- 133-136 Editorial: Statistics and devolution in the UK
by I. McLean - 137-175 Influence of light level on the incidence of road casualties and the predicted effect of changing ‘summertime’
by J. Broughton & M. Hazelton & M. Stone - 177-194 Symmetric pattern models: a latent variable approach to item non‐response in attitude scales
by C. O'Muircheartaigh & I. Moustaki - 195-209 The zero‐inflated Poisson model and the decayed, missing and filled teeth index in dental epidemiology
by D. Böhning & E. Dietz & P. Schlattmann & L. Mendonça & U. Kirchner - 211-226 Forecasting on British election night 1997
by P. J. Brown & D. Firth & C. D. Payne - 227-245 Multivariate shrinkage estimation of small area means and proportions
by N. T. Longford - 247-267 A methodological strategy for a one‐number census in the UK
by J. J. Brown & I. D. Diamond & R. L. Chambers & L. J. Buckner & A. D. Teague
1999, Volume 162, Issue 1
- 1-4 Editorial: Sampling for UK telephone surveys
by M. Collins - 5-43 The long‐term pattern of adult mortality and the highest attained age
by A. R. Thatcher - 45-58 Surgical audit: statistical lessons from Nightingale and Codman
by D. J. Spiegelhalter - 59-70 Does social mobility affect the size of the socioeconomic mortality differential?: evidence from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study
by D. Blane & S. Harding & M. Rosato - 71-94 Building multivariable prognostic and diagnostic models: transformation of the predictors by using fractional polynomials
by W. Sauerbrei & P. Royston - 95-109 What works?: selectivity models and meta‐analysis
by J. Copas - 111-120 Efficacy of programmes for the unemployed: discrete time modelling of duration data from a matched‐comparison study
by D. Firth & C. Payne & J. Payne - 121-129 Bayesian inference for partially observed stochastic epidemics
by P. D. O’Neill & G. O. Roberts - 131-131 Corrigendum: Epidemiology and litigation—the Sellafield childhood leukaemia cases
by R. Wakeford
September 1997, Volume 160, Issue 3
- 381-385 Editorial: The 1997 UK Pre‐election Polls
by Colm O'Muircheartaigh & Peter Lynn - 385-388 Editorial: The Measurement of Unemployment in the UK: the Position at June 1997
by David Bartholomew - 389-428 Diet Revealed?: Semiparametric Estimation of Nutrient Intake–Age Relationships
by Andrew Chesher - 429-459 Bayesian Analysis of DNA Profiling Data in Forensic Identification Applications
by Lindsey A. Foreman & Adrian F. M. Smith & Ian W. Evett - 471-490 Modelling Political Popularity: an Analysis of Long‐range Dependence in Opinion Poll Series
by David Byers & James Davidson & David Peel - 491-505 Regression Modelling of Disease Risk in Relation to Point Sources
by Peter Diggle & Sara Morris & Paul Elliott & Gavin Shaddick - 507-521 Examining Associations between Occupation and Health by using Routinely Collected Data
by Lucy M. Carpenter & Noreen E. S. Maconochie & Eve Roman & D. R. Cox - 523-541 Statistical Classification Methods in Consumer Credit Scoring: a Review
by D. J. Hand & W. E. Henley - 593-593 Letter to the Editors: Improved Approximations for Multilevel Models with Binary Responses
by N. T. Longford - 612-612 Corrigendum: A Multilevel Modelling Approach to Examining the Effects of Area of Residence on Health and Functioning
by Russell Ecob
May 1996, Volume 159, Issue 3
- 359-362 Editorial: Statistics and Statisticians in the Regulation of Medicines
by John A. Lewis - 363-365 Editorial: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and ‘The Term Safe is Not the Same as Zero Risk’
by Sheila M. Gore - 367-383 Mad Cows and Ecstasy: Chance and Choice in an Evidence‐Based Society
by Adrian F. M. Smith - 385-409 League Tables and Their Limitations: Statistical Issues in Comparisons of Institutional Performance
by Harvey Goldstein & David J. Spiegelhalter - 445-473 Statistics and the Theory of Measurement
by D. J. Hand - 493-504 Religious Mobility in the Uk
by Richard Breen & Bernadette C. Hayes - 505-513 Improved Approximations for Multilevel Models with Binary Responses
by Harvey Goldstein & Jon Rasbash - 515-533 The Epidemiology of Suicide in London
by Peter Congdon - 535-545 Public Opinion Polls: The Uk General Election, 1992
by T. M. F. Smith - 547-563 A Statistical Algorithm for the Early Detection of Outbreaks of Infectious Disease
by C. P. Farrington & N. J. Andrews & A. D. Beale & M. A. Catchpole - 614-616 Obituary: Jan Tinbergen, 1903–94
by David F. Hendry & Mary S. Morgan - 616-617 Obituary: Stefan Vajda, 1901–95
by John Bather - 617-618 Obituary: Pius Peter Kallaa, 1944–95
by V. E. Muba & G. M. Clarke - 619-620 1. Quality by Experimental Design, 2Nd Edn
by John Disney - 620-621 2. Statistics for the Environment
by David Kemp - 621-621 3. Aspects of Uncertainty: A Tribute to D. V. Lindley
by Jon Forster - 622-622 4. Experimental Methods: A Primer for Economists
by Antony Fielding - 622-623 5. Statistical Inference
by Keith Rennolls - 623-624 6. An Introduction to Experimental Design and Statistics for Biology
by Rachel Atkinson - 624-625 7. Random Walks and Random Environments: Vol. I, Random Walks
by P. M. Lee - 625-625 8. Cyclic and Computer Generated Designs
by Lynda White - 625-626 9. Recent Advances in Descriptive Multivariate Analysis
by Trevor J. Ringrose - 626-627 10. Reliability Analysis for Engineers: An Introduction
by Alan Winterbottom - 627-628 11. Stochastic Geometry Models in Image Analysis and Spatial Statistics
by D. M. Titterington - 628-629 12. Statistical Applications Using Fuzzy Sets
by John Hinde - 629-630 13. Statistics in Engineering — a Practical Approach
by G. R. Braithwaite - 630-631 14. Survival Analysis — a Practical Approach
by P. Oman - 631-632 15. The Jackknife and Bootstrap
by G. A. Young - 632-632 16. Business Forecasting and Planning
by T. J. Orchard - 632-633 17. Statistics for the Social Sciences
by Charles Lound
March 1996, Volume 159, Issue 2
- 197-199 Editorial
by Ian Plewis & Fred Smith - 201-212 Adjusting for Measurement Error in Multilevel Analysis
by Geoffrey Woodhouse & Min Yang & Harvey Goldstein & Jon Rasbash - 213-224 New Developments in Latent Structure Analysis Applied to Social Attitudes
by L. M. de Menezes & D. J. Bartholomew - 225-234 Reconciling Recalled Dates of Developmental Milestones, Events and Transitions: A Mixed Generalized Linear Model with Random Mean and Variance Functions
by Andrew Pickles & Kevin Pickering & Colin Taylor - 235-247 Updating Small Area Population Estimates in England and Wales
by Stephen Simpson & Ian Diamond & Pete Tonkin & Rachel Tye - 249-263 Logistic Regression Models for Binary Panel Data with Attrition
by Garrett M. Fitzmaurice & Anthony F. Heath & Peter Clifford - 265-274 Regression Analysis for Complex Survey Data with Missing Values of a Covariate
by C. J. Skinner & O. Coker - 275-288 The Restart Effect and the Return to Full‐Time Stable Employment
by Peter Dolton & Donal O'Neill - 289-299 Immunization Uptake in Rural Bangladesh: A Multilevel Analysis
by Fiona Steele & Ian Diamond & Sajeda Amin - 301-308 Visualization of Event Histories
by Brian Francis & Mark Fuller - 309-321 Monte Carlo Exact Tests for Square Contingency Tables
by Peter W. F. Smith & Jonathan J. Forster & John W. McDonald - 323-342 Bayesian Analysis of Realistically Complex Models
by N. G. Best & D. J. Spiegelhalter & A. Thomas & C. E. G. Brayne - 343-344 1. Practical Statistical Process Control—A Tool for Quality Manufacturing
by Martin Gibson - 344-345 2. The Statistical Analysis of Time Series
by P. J. Young - 345-345 3. Practical Methods for Reliability Data Analysis
by Alan Kimber - 345-346 4. Structural Equation Modeling with Eqs and Eqs/Windows
by Graham Dunn - 346-347 5. Wavelets: Theory, Algorithms and Applications: Vol. 5, Wavelet Analysis and its Applications
by Andrew Walden - 347-347 6. Elements of Statistics
by R. I. Cooper - 348-348 7. The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic
by G. H. Freeman - 349-349 8. Continuous Univariate Distributions
by Rodney Coleman - 349-350 9. Just the Essentials of Elementary Statistics
by Flavia Jolliffe - 350-350 10. Time Series Analysis by Higher Order Crossings
by E. McKenzie - 351-351 11. Quality Through Design: Experimental Design, Off‐Line Quality Control, and Taguchi's Contributions
by L. V. White - 351-352 12. Distribution‐Free Statistical Methods
by Martin Knott - 352-353 13. Chaotic Dynamics: Theory and Applications to Economics
by H. Tong - 353-354 14. Limit Theorems of Probability Theory: Sequences of Independent Random Variables
by Michael J. Phillips - 354-355 15. Diffusions, Markov Processes and Martingales: Vol. 1, Foundations
by N. Bingham - 355-356 16. An Introduction to Statistics for Managers
by Sean O'Broin - 356-357 17. Statistical Data Analysis for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
by A. D. Lunn - 357-358 18. Advanced Linear Models: Theory and Applications
by A. C. Atkinson
January 1996, Volume 159, Issue 1
- 1-3 Editorial: Issues for Statisticians Involved with Court Cases
by Stephen Evans - 5-20 Political Polling: 95% Expertise and 5% Luck
by Robert Worcester - 21-28 How Might Opinion Polls be Improved?: The Case for Probability Sampling
by Peter Lynn & Roger Jowell - 41-47 Reay and Hope Versus British Nuclear Fuels Plc: Issues Faced When a Research Project Formed the Basis of Litigation
by Hazel M. Inskip - 49-60 Trial Design Based on Surrogate End Points — Application to Comparison of Different Breast Screening Frequencies
by N. E. Day & S. W. Duffy - 61-75 A Multilevel Modelling Approach to Examining the Effects of Area of Residence on Health and Functioning
by Russell Ecob - 77-92 Illness Behaviour and the Measurement of Class Differentials in Morbidity
by D. Blane & C. Power & M. Bartley - 93-110 Multiplicity Considerations in the Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials
by Richard J. Cook & Vern T. Farewell - 111-123 What's in a Mean? — an Examination of the Inconsistency between Men and Women in Reporting Sexual Partnerships
by J. Wadsworth & A. M. Johnson & K. Wellings & J. Field - 125-131 Fitting Bivariate Intensity Functions, with an Application to Modelling Delays in Reporting Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
by J. K. Lindsey - 133-148 Diagnostic Testing and Sensitivity Analysis in the Construction of Social Accounting Matrices
by R. P. Byron - 149-163 Using Examination Results as Indicators of School and College Performance
by Harvey Goldstein & Sally Thomas - 165-173 Obituary: James Harold Wilson 1916–95
by Peter G. Moore - 173-175 Obituary: William Joseph Jennett, 1912–94
by Joan Keen - 177-178 1. Understanding Log‐Linear Analysis with Ilog
by G. J. G. Upton - 178-179 2. Inference and Asymptotics
by George A. Barnard - 179-180 3. Statistics for the Environment 2: Water Related Issues
by Marian Scott - 180-181 4. Statistics for Long‐Memory Processes
by W. D. Ray - 181-182 5. Topics in Advanced Econometrics
by J. Hidalgo - 182-183 6. Alternative Methods of Regression
by Joyce Snell - 183-184 7. Statistical Models for Ordinal Variables
by M. C. Jones - 184-185 8. Multidimensional Scaling
by J. C. Gower - 185-186 9. Teaching Statistics at its Best: A Series of Articles for Teachers
by Flavia Jolliffe - 186-187 10. Probability with a View Toward Statistics, Vols I and Ii
by Wilfrid Kendall - 187-187 11. Applied Discriminant Analysis
by P. D. L. Constable - 188-188 12. Modelling Frequency and Count Data
by Joyce Snell - 188-189 13. Problems and Methods in Longitudinal Research: Stability and Change
by Angela Dale - 189-189 14. Analysis of Two‐Way Layouts
by Mark Woodward - 190-190 15. Analysing Survival Data from Clinical Trials and Observational Studies
by P. Oman - 190-191 16. Agricultural Field Experiments
by J. W. McNicol - 191-192 17. Theoretical Probability for Applications
by S. M. Pitts - 192-193 18. Choquet–Deny Type Functional Equations with Applications to Stochastic Models
by Valerie Isham - 193-194 19. Statistical Methods for Physical Science: Vol. 28, Methods of Experimental Physics
by Andrew Walden