Publications by Department Members
1998
Coronary artery bypass grafting in Canada: hospital mortality rates, 1992-1995. CMAJ. 1998; 159: 926–930. .
Prevalence and incidence of stenosing flexor tenosynovitis (trigger finger) in a meat-packing plant. J. Occup. Environ. Med. 1998; 40: 556–560. .
Flexible Bayesian modelling for survival data. Lifetime Data Analysis. Springer; 1998; 4: 281–299. .
A guided walk Metropolis algorithm. Statistics and computing. Springer; 1998; 8: 357–364. .
Compliance of clinical stage I nonseminomatous germ cell tumor patients with surveillance. J. Urol. 1998; 160: 768–771. .
Cuing effect of "all of the above" on the reliability and validity of multiple-choice test items. Eval Health Prof. 1998; 21: 120–133. .
Evaluation of reproductive outcomes in women inadvertently exposed to hexachlorobenzene in southeastern Turkey in the 1950s. Reprod. Toxicol. 1998; 12: 469–476. .
Efficient global optimization of expensive black-box functions. Journal of Global optimization [Internet]. 1998; 13: 455–492. URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1008306431147 .
A role for natural killer cells in the immunopathogenesis of multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neuroimmunology. Elsevier; 1998; 86: 123–133. .
A note on the existence of maximum likelihood estimates for Gaussian-inverted Wishart models. Statistics and probability letters. Elsevier; 1998; 40: 133–137. .
Statistical methods for evaluating multiple sclerosis therapies. Seminars in Neurology. 1998; 18: 351–375. .
Random utility threshold models of subset choice. Australian Journal of Psychology. 1998; 50: 175-185. DOI: 10.1080/00049539808258794 .
The pulmonary artery catheter takes a great fall. Crit. Care Med. 1998; 26: 1288–1289. .
Global versus local search in constrained optimization of computer models. Lecture Notes-Monograph Series [Internet]. 1998;: 11–25. URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4356058 .
Assessment of a Bayesian multivariate interpolation approach for health impact studies. Environmetrics. Wiley Online Library; 1998; 9: 565–586. .
Constrained nonparametric maximum-likelihood estimation for mixture models. Canadian Journal of Statistics. Wiley Online Library; 1998; 26: 601–617. .
Acute effects of ambient inhalable particles in asthmatic and nonasthmatic children. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Am Thoracic Soc; 1998; 157: 1034–1043. .
Acute effects of ambient inhalable particles in asthmatic and nonasthmatic children. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Am Thoracic Soc; 1998; 157: 1034–1043. .
Using spatial data in assessing the association between air pollution episodes and respiratory morbidity. Statistics for the Environment. 1998; 4: 117–136. .
Imputing unmeasured explanatory variables in environmental epidemiology with application to health impact analysis of air pollution. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. Springer; 1998; 5: 99–105. .
Imputing unmeasured explanatory variables in environmental epidemiology with application to health impact analysis of air pollution. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. Springer; 1998; 5: 99–105. .
Including structural measurement errors in the nonlinear regression analysis of clustered data. Canadian Journal of Statistics. Wiley Online Library; 1998; 26: 537–548. .
1997
Declining sex ratios in Canada. CMAJ. 1997; 156: 37–41. .
Tail behavior of the failure rate functions of mixtures. Lifetime Data Analysis. Springer; 1997; 3: 269–288. DOI: 10.1023/A:1009653032333 .
On testing the number of components in finite mixture models with known relevant component distributions. Canadian Journal of Statistics. Wiley-Blackwell; 1997; 25: 389–400. .
Longitudinal analyses for magnetic resonance imaging outcomes in multiple sclerosis clinical trials. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics. Taylor & Francis; 1997; 7: 501–531. .
Reduction in blood culture contamination rate by feedback to phlebotomists. Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 1997; 121: 503–507. .
Efficient experimental design strategy for numerical ocean modelling. In Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Bulletin. 1997. pp. 95–102. .
Large hierarchical Bayesian analysis of multivariate survival data. Biometrics [Internet]. JSTOR; 1997;: 230–242. DOI: 10.2307/2533110 URL: www.jstor.org/stable/2533110 .
Line transects of two-dimensional random fields: Estimation and design. Canadian Journal of Statistics. Wiley Online Library; 1997; 25: 481–501. .
Relation between the time to achieve the lower limit of the APTT therapeutic range and recurrent venous thromboembolism during heparin treatment for deep vein thrombosis. Arch. Intern. Med. 1997; 157: 2562–2568. .
The importance of initial heparin treatment on long-term clinical outcomes of antithrombotic therapy. The emerging theme of delayed recurrence. Arch. Intern. Med. 1997; 157: 2317–2321. .
Interaction of cross-sectional area, driving pressure, and airflow of passive velopharynx. J. Appl. Physiol. 1997; 83: 851–859. .
Multivariate Models and Dependence Concepts [Internet]. London: Chapman & Hall; 1997. URL: http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9780412073311 .
A multivariate Kolmogorov-Smirnov test of goodness of fit. Statistics & Probability Letters. Elsevier; 1997; 35: 251–259. .
Bayesian multivariate spatial interpolation with data missing by design. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology). Wiley Online Library; 1997; 59: 501–510. .
On segmented multivariate regression. Statistica Sinica. 1997;: 497–525. .
Sorbitol 2.5% mannitol 0.54% irrigation solution for hysteroscopic endometrial ablation surgery. Can J Anaesth. 1997; 44: 473–478. .
A simple diagnostic tool for local prior sensitivity. Statistics & probability letters. Elsevier; 1997; 36: 205–212. .
Neutralizing antibodies and the efficacy of interferon beta-1b in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis. SAGE Publications; 1997; 3: 402–402. .
Recommendations from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society clinical outcomes assessment task force. Annals of Neurology. Wiley Online Library; 1997; 42: 379–382. .
Fractional Resolution and Minimum Aberration in Blocked 2 n—k Designs. Technometrics. Taylor & Francis Group; 1997; 39: 382–390. .
Optimal locally robust M-estimates of regression. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. Elsevier; 1997; 64: 309–323. .
Discussion of ``Predicting multivariate responses in multiple linear regression'' (Authors. Breiman, L. and Friedman, J.). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 1997; 59: 42–43. .
Interpolating air pollution for health impact assessment. Barnett V, Feridun Turkman K, editors. Statistics for the environment. 1997; 3: 251–68. .
1996
Smoking and middle ear disease. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1996; 114: 837–840. .
Aging and heparin-related bleeding. Arch. Intern. Med. 1996; 156: 857–860. .
Penalized minimum-distance estimates in finite mixture models. Canadian Journal of Statistics. Wiley Online Library; 1996; 24: 167–175. .
On the conditional and mixture model approaches for matched pairs. Journal of statistical planning and inference. North-Holland; 1996; 55: 319–329. .