I am an Associate Professor at the School of Population and Public Health, UBC and an Associate Member in the Department of Statistics. A brief description of my research interest can be found at here
If a student is interested in one of the papers posted below he/she should contact me at ymacnab@interchange.ubc.ca to book an appointment.
The papers:
I may take 2-3 in the fall term and 2 in the winter term.
Here are three typical papers on disease mapping methodolog: (1) an earlier paper on the basic ideas of EB disease mapping; (2) a good paper on detection of clusters in disease mapping; (3) A relatively new method for modeling two diseases.
(1) Clayton DG and Kaldor J (1987). Empirical Bayes estimates of age-standardised relative risks for use in disease mapping. Biometrics 43: 671-690. AVAILABLE
(2) Knorr-Held L and Rasser G (2000) Bayesian detection of clusters and discontinuities in disease mapping. Biometrics 56: 13-21. AVAILABLE
(3) Knorr-Held L and Best NG (2001). A shared component model for detecting joint and selective clustering of two diseases. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A 164: 73-85. AVAILABLE
A very popular PQL paper for empirical Bayes inference in GLMM:
(4) Breslow NE. and Clayton DG (1993). Approximate inference in generalized linear mixed models. Journal of the American Statistical Association 88: 9-25. AVAILABLE
An excellent paper on multilevel modeling for institutional comparison, with excellent discussion; a bit long but very good reading:
(5) Goldstein H Spiegelhalter DJ (1996) Statistical aspects of institutional performance: League tables and their limitations (with discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 159: 385-444. AVAILABLE
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