Publications by Department Members
2009
Optimization of structured mean field objectives. In Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI09). 2009. pp. 67–74. .
Randomized pruning: efficiently calculating expectations in large dynamic programs. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 (NIPS). 2009. pp. 144–152. .
Increases in antihypertensive prescriptions and reductions in cardiovascular events in Canada. Hypertension. 2009; 53: 128–134. .
Effect of chorioamnionitis on brain development and injury in premature newborns. Ann. Neurol. 2009; 66: 155–164. .
Hypothesis test for normal mixture models: The EM approach. The Annals of Statistics. Institute of Mathematical Statistics; 2009;: 2523–2542. .
Tournament screening cum EBIC for feature selection with high-dimensional feature spaces. Science in China Series A: Mathematics. SP Science in China Press; 2009; 52: 1327–1341. .
Inference for multivariate normal mixtures. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. Elsevier; 2009; 100: 1367–1383. .
A Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Prior for a Conditional Model of Phrase Alignment. In Workshop on statistical NLP at Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21 (NIPS). 2009. .
Temporal prediction with a Bayesian spatial predictor: an application to ozone fields. Vancouver, BC: Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia; 2009. .
Bayesian Empirical Orthogonal Functions. Vancouver, BC: Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia; 2009. .
Statistics Clicks: Using Clickers in Introductory Statistics Courses. In Improving University Teaching. 2009. .
Modified likelihood ratio test for homogeneity in a two-sample problem. Statistica Sinica. 2009; 19: 1603. .
Robust linear clustering. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology). Wiley Online Library; 2009; 71: 301–318. .
Functional genomic analysis of peripheral blood during early acute renal allograft rejection. Transplantation. LWW; 2009; 88: 942–951. .
Interval estimation for messy observational data. Statistical Science [Internet]. 2009; 24: 328-342. DOI: 10.1214/09-sts305 URL: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1270041259 .
What are the limits of posterior distributions arising from nonidentified models, and why should we care?. Journal of the American Statistical Association [Internet]. 2009; 104: 1682-1695. DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.tm08603 URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1198/jasa.2009.tm08603 .
Bayesian adjustment for covariate measurement errors: a flexible parametric approach. Statistics in Medicine. 2009; 28: 1580-1600. DOI: 10.1002/sim.3552 .
An analysis of Alberta's climate. Part i: Nonhomogenized data. Vancouver, BC: Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia; 2009. .
r-th order categorical Markov chains. Vancouver, BC: Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia; 2009. .
Home therapy of venous thrombosis with long-term LMWH versus usual care: patient satisfaction and post-thrombotic syndrome. Am. J. Med. 2009; 122: 762–769. .
On weighting of bivariate margins in pairwise likelihood. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. Elsevier Inc; 2009; 100: 670-685. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2008.07.004 .
"Preventive induction" fails to demonstrate benefits for mothers or newborn infants. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 2009; 200: e13–14. .
The attitudes of Canadian maternity care practitioners towards labour and birth: many differences but important similarities. J Obstet Gynaecol Can. 2009; 31: 827–840. .
Nonlinear voxel-based modelling of the haemodynamic response in fMRI. Journal of Applied Statistics. 2009; 36(3): 237 - 253. .
Generating random correlation matrices based on vines and extended onion method. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. Elsevier Inc; 2009; 100: 1989-2001. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2009.04.008 .
Non-finite Fisher information and homogeneity: an EM approach. Biometrika. Oxford University Press; 2009;: asp011. .
Whole blood genomic biomarkers of acute cardiac allograft rejection. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. Elsevier; 2009; 28: 927–935. .
Bayesian analysis of a matched case-control study with expert prior information on both the misclassification of exposure and the exposure-disease association. Statistics in Medicine [Internet]. 2009; 28: 3411-3423. DOI: 10.1002/sim.3694 URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sim.3694/abstract .
Choosing the Sample Size of a Computer Experiment: A Practical Guide. Technometrics [Internet]. 2009; 51: 366-376. DOI: 10.1198/TECH.2009.08040 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1198/TECH.2009.08040 .
Multivariate extremes of generalized skew-normal distributions. Statistics & Probability Letters. Elsevier; 2009; 79: 525–533. .
The impact of the Canadian Hypertension Education Programme in its first decade. Eur. Heart J. 2009; 30: 1434–1439. .
Covariate balance in a Bayesian propensity score analysis of beta blocker therapy in heart failure patients. Epidemiological Perspectives and Innovations. BioMed Central Ltd; 2009; 6: article 5. DOI: 10.1186/1742-5573-6-5 .
Bayesian propensity score analysis. Statistics in Medicine. 2009; 28: 94-112. .
Synthetic Lethal Genetic Interactions That Decrease Somatic Cell Proliferation in Caenorhabditis elegans Identify the Alternative RFCCTF18 as a Candidate Cancer Drug Target. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL. 8120 WOODMONT AVE, STE 750, BETHESDA, MD 20814-2755 USA: AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY; 2009; 20: 5306-5313. DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E09-08-0699 .
Using the Gene Ontology hierarchy when predicting gene function. In Proceedings of the twenty-fifth conference on uncertainty in artificial intelligence. AUAI Press; 2009. pp. 419–427. .
Extreme value properties of multivariate t copulas. Extremes. Springer; 2009; 12: 129-148. DOI: 10.1007/s10687-008-0072-4 .
Bayesian likelihood robustness in linear models. JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PLANNING AND INFERENCE. PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV; 2009; 139: 2196-2207. DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.10.012 .
Epinephrine and dexamethasone in children with bronchiolitis. N. Engl. J. Med. 2009; 360: 2079–2089. .
Predicting the regenerative capacity of conifer somatic embryogenic cultures by metabolomics. Plant biotechnology journal. Wiley Online Library; 2009; 7: 952–963. .
Preventing brain injury in newborns with congenital heart disease: brain imaging and innovative trial designs. Stroke. 2009; 40: 327–332. .
Visual cueing with context relevant information for reducing change blindness. J Clin Monit Comput. 2009; 23: 223–232. .
Diagnosing Multivariate Outliers Detected by Robust Estimators. JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS. 732 N WASHINGTON ST, ALEXANDRIA, VA 22314-1943 USA: AMER STATISTICAL ASSOC; 2009; 18: 73-91. DOI: 10.1198/jcgs.2009.0005 .
Diagnosing multivariate outliers detected by robust estimators. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. Amer Statistical Assoc; 2009; 18: 73-91. DOI: 10.1198/jcgs.2009.0005 .
A Longitudinal Study of Children's Aggressive Behaviors and Their Relationships with Potential Predictors. Canadian Journal of Statistics. 2009; 37: 435–452. .
Mixed Effects Models for Complex Data. CRC Press; 2009. .
Uncertainty of the claims development result in the chain ladder method. Scandinavian Actuarial Journal. Taylor & Francis; 2009; 2009: 63–84. .
Comparison of the 20-hour intravenous and 72-hour oral acetylcysteine protocols for the treatment of acute acetaminophen poisoning. Ann Emerg Med. 2009; 54: 606–614. .