Items where Author is "Best, Nicky"

Article

Geneletti, S and Best, Nicky and Mason, Alexina (2011) Adjusting for selection effects in epidemiological studies: Why sensitivity analysis is the only solution. Epidemiology, 22 (1). pp. 36-39. ISSN 1044-3983

Haining, Robert and Maheswaran, M and Li, Guangquan and Blangiardo, Marta and Law, S and Richardson, Sylvia and Best, Nicky (2010) Inference from ecological models: Estimating the relative risk of stroke from air pollution exposure using small area data. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 1 (2-3). pp. 123-131. ISSN doi:10.1016/j.sste.2010.03.006

Lunn, D and Spiegelhalter, D and Thomas, Andrew and Best, Nicky (2009) The BUGS project: Evolution, critique and future directions. Statistics in Medicine, 28 (25). pp. 3049-3067. ISSN DOI: 10.1002/sim.3680

Jackson, Chris and Best, Nicky and Richardson, Sylvia (2009) Bayesian graphical models for regression on multiple datasets with different variables. Biostatistics, 10 (2). pp. 335-351.

Lunn, D and Best, Nicky and Spiegelhalter, D and Graham, G and Neuenschwander, B (2009) Combining MCMC with 'sequencial' PKPD modeling. Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics.

Jackson, Chris and Best, Nicky and Richardson, Sylvia (2008) Hierarchical related regression for combining aggregate and individual data in studies of socio-economic disease risk factors. Blackwell Synergy Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 171 (1). pp. 159-178.

Jackson, Christopher and Richardson, Sylvia and Best, Nicky (2008) Studying place effects on health by synthesising individual and area-level outcomes. Social Science and Medicine, 67. pp. 1995-2006.

Abellan, JJ and Fecht, D and Best, Nicky and Richardson, Sylvia and Briggs, DJ (2007) Bayesian analysis of the multivariate geographical distribution of the socio-economic environment in England. Environmetrics, 18 (7). pp. 745-758.

Jackson, Chris and Best, Nicky and Richardson, Sylvia (2006) Improving ecological inference using individual-level data. Statistics in Medicine, 25 (12). pp. 2136-2159.

Richardson, Sylvia and Abellan, JJ and Best, Nicky (2006) Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis of joint patterns of male and female lung cancer in Yorkshire (UK). Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 15. pp. 385-407.

Book Section

Best, Nicky and Jackson, Chris and Richardson, Sylvia Modelling complexity in health and social sciences: Bayesian graphical models as a tool for combining multiple sources of information. In: Proceedings of the 3rd ASC International Conference on Survey Research Methods. Association for Survey Computing. ISBN 0954674804

Working Paper

Del Bono, Emilia and Francesconi, Marco and Best, Nicky (2011) Health information and health outcomes: An application of the Regression Discontinuity design to the 1995 UK contraceptive pill scare case. Technical Report. ISER. (Unpublished)

Nicoletti, Cheti and Best, Nicky (2011) Quantile regression with aggregated data. Technical Report. ISER. (Submitted)

Li, Guangquan and Haining, Robert and Richardson, Sylvia and Best, Nicky (2011) Evaluating Neighbourhood Policing using Bayesian Hierarchical Models: No Cold Calling in Peterborough, England. Technical Report. Imperial College London. (Submitted)

Key, J and Fisher, S and Best, Nicky and Richardson, Sylvia (2010) Hierarchical Priors for Bias Parameters in Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confounding. Technical Report. Imperial College London. (Unpublished)

McCandless, Lawrence and Richardson, Sylvia and Best, Nicky (2010) Adjustment for Missing Confounders Using External Validation Data and Propensity Scores. Technical Report. Imperial College London. (Submitted)

Gomez-Rubio, Virgilio and Best, Nicky and Richardson, Sylvia and Li, Guangquan and Clarke, Philip (2010) Bayesian Statistics Small Area Estimation. Technical Report. Imperial College London. (Unpublished)

Li, Guangquan and Best, Nicky and Hansell, Anna and Ahmed, Ismail and Richardson, Sylvia (2010) Bayesian model choice for detecting unusual temporal patterns in small area data. Technical Report. Imperial College London. (Submitted)

Mason, Alexina and Best, Nicky and PLEWIS, IAN and Richardson, Sylvia (2010) Insights into the use of Bayesian models for informative missing data. Technical Report. Imperial College London. (Unpublished)

Mason, Alexina and Best, Nicky and Richardson, Sylvia and PLEWIS, IAN (2010) Strategy for modelling non-random missing data mechanisms in observational studies using Bayesian methods. Technical Report. Imperial College London. (Submitted)

Geneletti, S and Best, Nicky and Toledano, M B and Elliott, P and Richardson, Sylvia (2010) Uncovering selection bias in case-control studies using Bayesian poststrati�ctation. Technical Report. Imperial College London. (Unpublished)

Mason, Alexina and Richardson, Sylvia and Best, Nicky (2010) Using DIC to compare selection models with non-ignorable missing responses. Technical Report. Imperial College London. (Submitted)

Geneletti, S and Best, Nicky and Richardson, Sylvia and Dearden, Lorraine and Goldstein, Harvey and Rasbash, Jon (2009) Adapting econometric causal effect estimators to the public health arena. Project Report. NCRM. (Unpublished)

McCandless, Lawrence and Richardson, Sylvia and Best, Nicky (2008) Propensity Score Adjustment for Unmeasured Confounding in Observational Studies. NCRM Working Paper. ESRC National Centre for Research Methods. (Unpublished)

Gomez-Rubio, Virgilio and Best, Nicky and Richardson, Sylvia A comparison of different methods for small area estimation. NCRM Working Paper. ESRC National Centre for Research Methods. (Unpublished)

Conference or Workshop Item

Li, Guangquan and Best, Nicky and Richardson, Sylvia (2011) Bayesian hierarchical models for small area data with applications in social science. In: NCRM and SRA Joint Seminar Series, May 11 2011, London. (Unpublished)

Best, Nicky and Fisher, Stephen and Key, Jane (2011) Introduction to methods for analysis of combined individual and aggregate social science data. In: Introduction to methods for analysis of combined individual and aggregate social science data, 21 March 2011, Oxford. (Unpublished)

Gomez-Rubio, Virgilio and Best, Nicky and Richardson, Sylvia and Clarke, Philip (2008) Bayesian Small Area Estimation for policy making and policy assessment. In: NCRM Research Methods Festival 2008. (Unpublished)

Best, Nicky and Browne, Bill (2005) ESRC Summer School Workshop on Multilevel Modelling using MLwiN and WinBUGS. In: ESRC Summer School 2005, 7 July 2005, University of Southampton. (Unpublished)

Mason, Alexina and Best, Nicky and Richardson, Sylvia Bayesian Graphical Models for Combining Multiple Data Sources. In: Research Methods Festival 2010, 8 July 2010, Oxford. (Unpublished)

Best, Nicky Bayesian approaches for combining multiple data sources to adjust for missing confounders. In: 4th International Joint Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, Jan 5-7 2011, Utah, US. (Unpublished)

Richardson, Sylvia and Mason, Alexina and McCandless, Lawrence and Best, Nicky Bayesian graphical models for combining multiple data sources, with applications in environmental epidemiology. In: 2010 Eastern North American Region ENAR Conferecne, March 2010, New Orleans. (Unpublished)

Li, Guangquan and Richardson, Sylvia and Best, Nicky and Haining, Robert A Bayesian mixture model for detecting unusual time trends: Modelling burglary counts in Cambridge. In: Research Methods Festival 2010, 7 July 2010, Oxford. (Unpublished)

Fisher, Stephen and Holmes, Jane and Best, Nicky and Richardson, Sylvia Combining individual and aggregate data to improve estimates of ethnic voting in Britain in 2001 and 2005. In: Research Methods Festival, 8 July 2010, Oxford. (Unpublished)

Li, Guangquan and Best, Nicky and Clarke, Philip and Richardson, Sylvia Detecting unusual time trends: A Bayesian mixture modelling approach. In: Royal Geographical Society Conference, 2009, Manchester. (Unpublished)

Best, Nicky and Richardson, Sylvia and Jackson, Chris Graphical models for combining multiple data sources. In: Not specified, Not specified, Not specified. (Unpublished)

Best, Nicky Models for small area data, with applications in health care. In: symposium on “Disease Mapping applications in Health Economics and Health Services Research”, 22 June 2010, Valencia, Spain. (Unpublished)

Mason, Alexina and Best, Nicky and Richardson, Sylvia and Plewis, Ian Strategy for modelling non-random missing data mechanisms in longitudinal studies: application to income data from the Millennium Cohort Study. In: Valencia 9th International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, June 2010, Valencia, Spain. (Unpublished)