BIOS602 Resources: Multivelel Data

Combining information on same parameter

• Estimation of a log(RateRatio) via Bayesian approach. R/WinBUGS/RJAGS code

Components of Variance

• Lecture Notes (from Measurement Course) on Measurement Statistics and Reliability
   
• Expected Mean Squares: ANOVA Tables for various data structures pdf
   
  
• Expected Mean Squares: Demos (Excel):
  1-way, fixed effects
  1-way, random effects
  simple linear regression
   
• Coverage of Variance Components in book by Armitage & Berry pdf
   
• Weight Gain: how much is in the genes?  Time/NEJM  Data / R & WinBUGS & RJAGS code
   
• Observer variation in measuring earlength   BMJ   Data/R/WinBUGS/RJAGS code
   
• Galton's data on Family Stature (heights) of parents and siblings   Story, archive, article by JH
  
    galtonheights197.txt(wide)   Make Tall file, Run RJAGS   .csv file (Tall, not wide)
   
• Twins and science: a tale of determination (Book Review)   pdf
   
• The Heritability of Otitis Media: A Twin and Triplet Study JAMA article   data in .csv file (Tall format)   Notes
   
      R code for Anova - Pairs Only   <---   input file (otitis-data-R.txt) for this
  
      R JAGS and Winbugs code/data for MCMC estimation of variance components
   
• 2011 Notes and Exercises pdf

Meta-Analyses

• Emotional distress in infertile women and failure of assisted reproductive technologies:
  meta-analysis of prospective psychosocial studies     article (pdf)
   
    Data + R and R JAGS code for Data Analysis
   
  
• Secondhand Smoke and Adverse Fetal Outcomes in Nonsmoking Pregnant Women:
  A Meta-analysis. Leonardi-Bee J, Britton J and Venn A.
  Pediatrics, published online Mar 7, 2011;
  DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-3041. http://www.pediatrics.org article (pdf)

Extra-binomial and Extra-Poisson Variation

• Efron, B., & Morris, C. (1975). Efron B and Morris C: Data Analysis Using Stein's Estimator and its Generalizations:
  Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 70, No. 350 (Jun., 1975), pp. 311- 319 (pdf)
   
• Efron, B., & Morris, C. (1977). Stein's Paradox in Statistics. Scientific American, 236(5), 119-127. (pdf)
   
    Baseball data+R JAGS+WinBUGS code ; toxoplasmosis data
   
• Weinberg, C.R. AND Gladen B.C.
  The beta-geometric distribution applied to comparative fecundability studies.
  Biometrics 1986; 42:547-560. (pdf)
   
• Bradley Efron and Ronald Thisted
  Estimating the Number of Unseen Species: How Many Words Did Shakespeare Know?
  Biometrika, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Dec., 1976), pp. 435-447. (pdf)
   
• Stanley Coren's and US data on Daylight Savings Time Change
  Year by year crash data from FARS   zip file     R code
   

Ranking Institutions

• David J. Spiegelhalter and Harvey Goldstein.
  League Tables and Their Limitations: Statistical Issues in Comparisons of Institutional Performance
  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Vol. 159, No. 3. (1996), pp. 385-443. pdf
   
• David Spiegelhalter. Ranking institutions. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;125:1171-1173 pdf
   
• E Clare Marshall, David J Spiegelhalter
  Reliability of league tables of in vitro fertilisation clinics: retrospective analysis of live birth rates.
  BMJ 1998;316:1701-5 pdf
   
• Example from WinBUGS Examples -- surgical Rankings WinBUGS and R JAGS code
   

Mixture Models

• When tossed, do thumbtacks (pushpins) land on their back or their side? data from 2 unidentified 'tossers'
   
    Beckett and Diaconis paper with raw data
   
• 320 data points from 2 unidentified 'tossers'
   
    R code + R JAGS
   
• 2-component mixture of length of intervals between successive eruptions of Old Faithful geyser
   
    data can be found in R [ data(faithful) ]
   

Measurement Error

• Correcting (de-attenuating) a slope flattened by classical measurement error in "X" R/JAGS code
   
    See WinBUGS Example (air pollution) for Berkson error example