Perhaps the finest series of short articles on the use of statistics is the
occasional series of Statistics Notes started in 1994 by the
British Medical Journal.
- Correlation,
regression, and repeated data J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ
1994;308:896 (2 April)
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Regression towards the mean J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman
BMJ 1994;308:1499 (4 June)
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Diagnostic tests 1: sensitivity and specificity Douglas G Altman &
J Martin Bland BMJ 1994;308:1552 (11 June)
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Diagnostic tests 2: predictive values Douglas G Altman & J Martin
Bland BMJ 1994;309:102 (9 July)
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Diagnostic tests 3: receiver operating characteristic plots Douglas G
Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1994;309:188 (16 July)
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One and two sided tests of significance J Martin Bland & Douglas G
Altman BMJ 1994;309:248 (23 July)
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Some examples of regression towards the mean J Martin Bland & Douglas
G Altman BMJ 1994;309:780 (24 September)
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Quartiles, quintiles, centiles, and other quantiles Douglas G Altman &
J Martin Bland BMJ 1994;309:996 (15 October)
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Matching J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1994;309:1128 (29
October)
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Multiple
significance tests: the Bonferroni method J Martin Bland &
Douglas G Altman BMJ 1995;310:170 (21 January)
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The normal distribution
Douglas
G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1995;310:298 (4 February)
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Calculating
correlation coefficients with repeated observations: Part 1--correlation
within subjects
J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1995;310:446
(18 February)
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Calculating
correlation coefficients with repeated observations: Part 2--correlation
between subjects
J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1995;310:633
(11 March)
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Absence of evidence
is not evidence of absence
Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ
1995;311:485 (19 August)
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Presentation
of numerical data
J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1996;312:572
(2 March)
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Logarithms
J
Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1996;312:700 (16 March)
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Transforming
data
J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1996;312:770 (23 March)
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Transformations,
means, and confidence intervals
J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman
BMJ 1996;312:1079 (27 April)
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The use of
transformation when comparing two means
J Martin Bland & Douglas
G Altman BMJ 1996;312:1153 (4 May)
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Comparing several
groups using analysis of variance
Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland
BMJ 1996;312:1472-1473 (8 June)
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Measurement error
and correlation coefficients
J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman
BMJ 1996;313:41-42 (6 July)
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Measurement
error proportional to the mean
J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman
BMJ 1996;313:106 (13 July)
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Interaction
1: heterogeneity of effects
Douglas G Altman & John NS Matthews
BMJ 1996;313:486 (24 August)
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Measurement
error
J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1996;313:744 (21 September)
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Interaction
2: compare effect sizes not P values
John NS Matthews & Douglas
G Altman BMJ 1996;313:808 (28 September)
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Interaction
3: How to examine heterogeneity
John NS Matthews & Douglas G Altman
BMJ 1996;313:862 (5 October)
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Detecting skewness
from summary information
Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ
1996;313:1200 (9 November)
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Cronbach's alpha
J
Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1997;314:572 (22 February)
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Units of analysis
Douglas
G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1997;314:1874 (28 June)
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Trials
randomised in clusters
J
Martin Bland & Sally M Kerry BMJ 1997;315:600 (6 September)
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Analysis of a
trial
randomised in clusters
Sally M Kerry & Martin Bland
BMJ 1998;316:54
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Weighted
comparison of means
Martin Bland & Sally M Kerry
BMJ 1998;316:129 (10 January)
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Sample size
in cluster randomisation
Sally M Kerry & J Martin Bland BMJ 1998;316:549
(14 February)
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The intracluster
correlation coefficient in cluster randomisation
Sally M Kerry &
J Martin Bland BMJ 1998;316:1455-1460 (9 May)
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Generalisation
and extrapolation
Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1998;317:409-410
(8 August)
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Time to event
(survival) data
Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1998;317:468-469
(15 August)
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Bayesians and
frequentists
J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman BMJ 1998;317:1151-1160
(24 October)
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Survival probabilities
(the Kaplan-Meier method)
J Martin Bland, & Douglas G Altman BMJ
1998;317:1572-1580 (5 December)
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Treatment allocation
in controlled trials: why randomise?
Douglas G Altman & J Martin
Bland BMJ 1999;318:1209-1209 (1 May)
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Variables and parameters
Douglas
G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1999;318:1667-1667 (19 June)
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How to randomise
Douglas
G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 1999;319:703-704 (11 September)
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The odds
ratio Douglas
G Altman & J Martin Bland BMJ 2000;320:1468 (27 May)
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Blinding in
clinical trials and other studies Simon J Day &
Douglas G Altman BMJ 2000;321:504 (19 August)
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Concealing
treatment allocation in randomised
trials
Douglas G Altman & Kenneth F Schulz
BMJ 2001;323:446-447 (25 August)
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Analysing controlled trials with baseline and follow up measurements
Andrew J Vickers & Douglas G Altman
BMJ 2001;323:1123-1124 (10 November)
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Validating scales and indexes
J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman
BMJ 2002;324:606-607 (9 March)
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Interaction revisited: the difference
between two estimates
Douglas G Altman & J Martin Bland
BMJ 2003;326:219 (25 January)
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The logrank test
J Martin Bland & Douglas G Altman
BMJ 2004 328(7447):1073 (1 May)
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Diagnostic tests 4: likelihood ratios.
JJ Deeks & Douglas G Altman
BMJ 2004 329:168-169
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Treatment allocation by minimisation.
Altman DG, Bland JM.
BMJ. 2005 Apr 9;330(7495):843
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Standard deviations and standard errors.
Altman DG, Bland JM.
BMJ. 2005 Oct 15;331(7521):903
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Missing data.
J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
BMJ. 2007 Feb 24;334(7590):424
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Analysis of continuous data from small samples.
Bland JM, Altman DG.
BMJ. 2009 Apr 6;338:a3166
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Parametric v non-parametric methods of data analysis. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ. 2009 Apr 2;
