Publications by Department Members

1998

Vedal S, Petkau J, White R, Blair J. 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.

Zidek JV, White R, Sun W, Burnett RT, Le ND. 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.

Zidek JV, White R, Le ND. Using spatial data in assessing the association between air pollution episodes and respiratory morbidity. Statistics for the Environment. 1998;4:117–136.

Zidek JV, Le ND, Wong H, Burnett RT. Including structural measurement errors in the nonlinear regression analysis of clustered data. Canadian Journal of Statistics. Wiley Online Library; 1998;26:537–548.

1997

Allan BB, Brant R, Seidel JE, Jarrell JF. Declining sex ratios in Canada. CMAJ. 1997;156:37–41.

Block H, Joe H. Tail behavior of the failure rate functions of mixtures. Lifetime Data Analysis. Springer; 1997;3:269–288.

Chen J, Cheng P. 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.

D'yachkova Y, Petkau J, Whtie R. Longitudinal analyses for magnetic resonance imaging outcomes in multiple sclerosis clinical trials. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics. Taylor & Francis; 1997;7:501–531.

Gibb AP, Hill B, Chorel B, Brant R. Reduction in blood culture contamination rate by feedback to phlebotomists. Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 1997;121:503–507.

Gough WA, Welch WJ. Efficient experimental design strategy for numerical ocean modelling. In Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Bulletin. 1997. pp. 95–102.

Gustafson P. Large hierarchical Bayesian analysis of multivariate survival data. Biometrics [Internet]. JSTOR; 1997;:230–242. www.jstor.org/stable/2533110

Heckman N, Rice J. Line transects of two-dimensional random fields: Estimation and design. Canadian Journal of Statistics. Wiley Online Library; 1997;25:481–501.

Hull RD, Raskob GE, Brant RF, Pineo GF, Valentine KA. 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.

Hull RD, Raskob GE, Brant RF, Pineo GF, Valentine KA. 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.

Isono S, Feroah TR, Hajduk EA, Brant R, Whitelaw WA, Remmers JE. Interaction of cross-sectional area, driving pressure, and airflow of passive velopharynx. J. Appl. Physiol. 1997;83:851–859.

Joe H. Multivariate Models and Dependence Concepts [Internet]. London: Chapman & Hall; 1997. http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9780412073311

Justel A, Pena D, Zamar R. A multivariate Kolmogorov-Smirnov test of goodness of fit. Statistics & Probability Letters. Elsevier; 1997;35:251–259.

Le ND, Sun W, Zidek JV. 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.

Liu J, Wu S, Zidek JV. On segmented multivariate regression. Statistica Sinica. 1997;:497–525.

Moir CL, Mandin H, Brant R. Sorbitol 2.5% mannitol 0.54% irrigation solution for hysteroscopic endometrial ablation surgery. Can J Anaesth. 1997;44:473–478.

Pena D, Zamar R. A simple diagnostic tool for local prior sensitivity. Statistics & probability letters. Elsevier; 1997;36:205–212.

Petkau J, White R. Neutralizing antibodies and the efficacy of interferon beta-1b in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis. SAGE Publications; 1997;3:402–402.

Rudick R, Antel J, Confavreux C, Cutter G, Ellison G, Fischer J, et al. Recommendations from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society clinical outcomes assessment task force. Annals of Neurology. Wiley Online Library; 1997;42:379–382.

Sitter RR, Chen J, Feder M. Fractional Resolution and Minimum Aberration in Blocked 2 n—k Designs. Technometrics. Taylor & Francis Group; 1997;39:382–390.

Yohai VJ, Zamar RH. Optimal locally robust M-estimates of regression. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. Elsevier; 1997;64:309–323.

Zidek JV. Interpolating air pollution for health impact assessment. Barnett V, Feridun Turkman K, editors. Statistics for the environment. 1997;3:251–68.

Zidek JV. 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.

1996

Adair-Bischoff CE, Sauve RS, Kimberley B, Brant R. Smoking and middle ear disease. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1996;114:837–840.

Brauer M, Chatfield C, Le ND, Zhang H, Zidek JV. Generalized space-time models for pollution exposures of populations whose members interact with their environment. Health Canada; 1996.

Campbell NR, Hull RD, Brant R, Hogan DB, Pineo GF, Raskob GE. Aging and heparin-related bleeding. Arch. Intern. Med. 1996;156:857–860.

Chen J, Kalbfleisch JD. Penalized minimum-distance estimates in finite mixture models. Canadian Journal of Statistics. Wiley Online Library; 1996;24:167–175.

Chen J. On the conditional and mixture model approaches for matched pairs. Journal of statistical planning and inference. North-Holland; 1996;55:319–329.

Dawid AP, Stone M, Zidek JV. Critique of ET Jaynes's "Paradoxes of probability theory". Department of Statistics, University College London; 1996.

Field SK, Underwood M, Brant R, Cowie RL. Prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux symptoms in asthma. Chest. 1996;109:316–322.

Gao F, Sacks J, Welch WJ. Predicting urban ozone levels and trends with semiparametric modeling. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics [Internet]. 1996;:404–425. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1400436

Gustafson P. Model influence functions based on mixtures. Canadian Journal of Statistics. Wiley Online Library; 1996;24:535–548.

Gustafson P. Robustness considerations in Bayesian analysis. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. SAGE Publications; 1996;5:357–373.

Gustafson P, Srinivasan C, Wasserman L. Local sensitivity analysis. Bayesian statistics. Oxford University Press; 1996;5:197–210.

Gustafson P. Local sensitivity of posterior expectations. Annals of Statistics. 1996;24:174-195.

Gustafson P. Local sensitivity of inferences to prior marginals. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 1996;91:774-781.

Gustafson P. Aspects of Bayesian Robustness in Hierarchical Models [With Discussion and Rejoinder]. Lecture Notes-Monograph Series. JSTOR; 1996;:63–80.

Gustafson P. The effect of mixing-distribution misspecification in conjugate mixture models. Canadian Journal of Statistics. Wiley Online Library; 1996;24:307–318.

Harvey S, Jarrell J, Brant R, Stainton C, Rach D. A randomized, controlled trial of nurse-midwifery care. Birth. 1996;23:128–135.

Heckman NE, Li B. 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.

Hogan DB, Campbell NR, Jennett P, MacLeod N, Brant R. Increased use of cardiovascular medications in seniors prescribed non-ASA non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Clin Invest Med. 1996;19:46–54.

Joe H, Liu Y. A model for a multivariate binary response with covariates based on compatible conditionally specified logistic regressions. Statistics & Probability Letters. 1996;31:113-120.

Joe H, Steyn DG, Susko E. Analysis of trends in tropospheric ozone in the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia. Atmospheric Environment. 1996;30:3413-3421.

Joe H. Time series models with univariate margins in the convolution-closed infinitely divisible class. Journal of Applied Probability. 1996;33:664-677.

Joe H, Hu T. Multivariate distributions from mixtures of max-infinitely divisible distributions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 1996;57:240-265.