Publications by Department Members
1996
Critique of ET Jaynes's "Paradoxes of probability theory". Department of Statistics, University College London; 1996. .
Prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux symptoms in asthma. Chest. 1996; 109: 316–322. .
Predicting urban ozone levels and trends with semiparametric modeling. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics [Internet]. 1996;: 404–425. URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1400436 .
Local sensitivity of inferences to prior marginals. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 1996; 91: 774-781. DOI: 10.2307/2291672 .
Aspects of Bayesian Robustness in Hierarchical Models [With Discussion and Rejoinder]. Lecture Notes-Monograph Series. JSTOR; 1996;: 63–80. .
The effect of mixing-distribution misspecification in conjugate mixture models. Canadian Journal of Statistics. Wiley Online Library; 1996; 24: 307–318. DOI: 10.2307/3315741 .
Model influence functions based on mixtures. Canadian Journal of Statistics. Wiley Online Library; 1996; 24: 535–548. DOI: 10.2307/3315332 .
Robustness considerations in Bayesian analysis. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. SAGE Publications; 1996; 5: 357–373. DOI: 10.1177/096228029600500403 .
Local sensitivity analysis. Bayesian statistics. Oxford University Press; 1996; 5: 197–210. .
Local sensitivity of posterior expectations. Annals of Statistics. 1996; 24: 174-195. DOI: 10.1214/aos/1033066205 .
A randomized, controlled trial of nurse-midwifery care. Birth. 1996; 23: 128–135. .
Nonparametric tests for bounds on the derivative of a regression function. ANNALS OF THE INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS. SPUIBOULEVARD 50, PO BOX 17, 3300 AA DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL; 1996; 48: 315-336. DOI: 10.1007/BF00054793 .
Increased use of cardiovascular medications in seniors prescribed non-ASA non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Clin Invest Med. 1996; 19: 46–54. .
The estimation method of inference functions for margins for multivariate models [Internet]. University of British Columbia; 1996. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57078 .
Families of $m$-variate distributions with given margins and $m(m-1)/2$ bivariate dependence parameters. In: . Distributions with Fixed Marginals and Related Topics. Hayward, CA: Institute of Mathematical Statistics; 1996. pp. 120-141. DOI: 10.1214/lnms/1215452614 .
A model for a multivariate binary response with covariates based on compatible conditionally specified logistic regressions. Statistics & Probability Letters. 1996; 31: 113-120. DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(96)00021-1 .
Analysis of trends in tropospheric ozone in the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia. Atmospheric Environment. 1996; 30: 3413-3421. DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(96)00045-3 .
Time series models with univariate margins in the convolution-closed infinitely divisible class. Journal of Applied Probability. 1996; 33: 664-677. DOI: 10.2307/3215348 .
Multivariate distributions from mixtures of max-infinitely divisible distributions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 1996; 57: 240-265. DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1996.0032 .
Surveillance of clustering near point sources. Statistics in Medicine. Wiley Online Library; 1996; 15: 727–740. .
M-estimates of regression when the scale is unknown and the error distribution is possibly asymmetric: A minimax result. The Canadian Journal of Statistics/La Revue Canadienne de Statistique. JSTOR; 1996;: 193–206. .
Zidovudine absorption and small intestinal function in HIV seropositive patients. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 1996; 37: 825–829. .
Robust design for censored exponential data [Internet]. University of Waterloo; 1996. URL: http://www.bisrg.uwaterloo.ca/archive/RR-96-07.pdf .
On Bayesian robustness: an asymptotic approach. Springer; 1996. .
Statistical and design considerations for multiple sclerosis clinical trials. In Multiple Sclerosis: Advances in Clinical Trial Design, Treatment and Future Perspectives. London: Springer-Verlag; 1996. pp. 63–103. .
Clinical outcomes assessment in multiple sclerosis. Annals of Neurology. Wiley Online Library; 1996; 40: 469–479. .
Disease-specific quality of life: the Gallstone Impact Checklist. Clin Invest Med. 1996; 19: 453–460. .
Pulmonary artery flow directed catheter: the evidence. Lancet. 1996; 348: 1324. .
Nonrespiratory predictor of mechanical ventilation dependency in intensive care unit patients. Crit. Care Med. 1996; 24: 601–607. .
Response to James M. Lucas. Technometrics [Internet]. 1996; 38: 199–203. URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00401706.1996.10484496 .
Causality, measurement error and multicollinearity in epidemiology. Environmetrics. London [Ont.]: Envirometrics Press, 1990-; 1996; 7: 441–451. .
1995
Optimal rate of convergence for finite mixture models. The Annals of Statistics. Institute of Mathematical Statistics; 1995;: 221–233. .
Multivariate imputation in cross-sectional analysis of health effects associated with air pollution. Environmental and ecological statistics. Springer; 1995; 2: 191–212. .
Human embryo implantation following in-vitro fertilization: is there a seasonal variation?. Hum. Reprod. 1995; 10: 1825–1827. .
Local polynomial kernel regression for generalized linear models and quasi-likelihood functions. Journal of the American Statistical Association. Taylor & Francis Group; 1995; 90: 141–150. .
Local polynomial kernel regression for generalized linear models and quasi-likelihood functions. Journal of the American Statistical Association [Internet]. 1995; 90: 141–150. URL: http://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01621459.1995.10476496 .
A Bayesian analysis of bivariate survival data from a multicentre cancer clinical trial. Statistics in medicine. Wiley Online Library; 1995; 14: 2523–2535. DOI: 10.1002/sim.4780142303 .
Local sensitivity diagnostics for Bayesian inference. The Annals of Statistics. Institute of Mathematical Statistics; 1995; 23: 2153–2167. DOI: 10.1214/aos/1034713652 .
Incorporating relevant sample information using the likelihood. Vancouver, BC: Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia; 1995. .
A bootstrap based on the estimating equations of the linear model. Biometrika. Biometrika Trust; 1995; 82: 263–275. .
Monotonicity of positive dependence with time for stationary reversible Markov chains. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. Cambridge Univ Press; 1995; 9: 227–237. DOI: 10.1017/S026996480000382X .
The low-probability lung scan. A need for change in nomenclature. Arch. Intern. Med. 1995; 155: 1845–1851. .
Approximations to multivariate normal rectangle probabilities based on conditional expectations. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 1995; 90: 957-964. DOI: 10.2307/2291331 .
A likelihood ratio test for equality of deviations from randomness. Researches on Population Ecology. Springer; 1995; 37: 203–209. .
Intraoperative graft tensioning alters viscoelastic but not failure behaviours of rabbit medial collateral ligament autografts. J. Orthop. Res. 1995; 13: 915–922. .
Freezing influences the healing of rabbit medial collateral ligament autografts. Clin. Orthop. Relat. Res. 1995;: 244–253. .
Hyperglycemia in diarrhea-associated hemolytic-uremic syndrome. Nephron. 1995; 71: 54–58. .
Soft-tissue "flaws" are associated with the material properties of the healing rabbit medial collateral ligament. J. Orthop. Res. 1995; 13: 923–929. .