John Martin Bland

News: Paper achieves 15,000 citations.

Bland JM, Altman DG. (1986) Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement (Lancet i, 307-310) reached 15,052 citations on October 19th, 2009. Since then more citations have been added, see highly cited papers.

What's new?

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New: Talk Grouping in individually randomised trials Talk presented at the 4th Annual Conference on Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences, September 2009, York, UK. (September)

New: Italian edition of An Introduction to Medical Statistics published. (August)

New: Correction to section "Measuring agreement using repeated measurements" in Bland and Altman (1986). Even Homer nods! (July)

For York students: Comprehensive Meta-analysis 2 software now avaliable. (July)

New: Talk The clinical effectiveness of larval therapy: results of VenUS II. Talk presented at the 2009 International Nursing Research Conference, March 2009, Cardiff. (March)

New: FAQ answer: Interpreting the limits of agreement: do I have good or bad agreement? (March)

Contents

About me

• Contact details
• Curriculum vitae
• Research interests
• Teaching
• My photograph

Statistics

• Statistics Courses in the Department of Health Sciences, University of York.
• Design and analysis of measurement studies
• Design and analysis of clustered studies
• Directory of randomisation software and services.
• Statistics Guide for Research Grant Applicants.
  Written by Martin Bland, Barbara Butland, Janet Peacock, Jan Poloniecki, Fiona Reid, and Philip Sedgwick, this guide to completing grant applications originated at St. George's Hospital Medical School, Unversity of London, but is now maintained on this site. A PDF version of the Guide can also be downloaded.
• Comparing proportions in overlapping samples, an unpublished paper by Martin Bland and Barbara Butland.

Publications

• List of publications
• Text book: An Introduction to Medical Statistics
• Text Book: Statistical Questions in Evidence-based Medicine
• Statistics Notes in the British Medical Journal
• Highly cited papers
• Some full length papers and talks
• Podcasts (Only one!)

Downloads

• Selected data-sets used in publications
• Simple statistical software
• Seminar based course in research and critical skills

Other material

• Teaching statistics to medical students using problem-based learning: the Australian experience
• Sensitivity and Specificity, Jane Austen's Lost Statistical Masterpiece

For students at York

• York Course Material

I am always known as "Martin Bland", never "John Bland". I am Professor of Health Statistics in the Department of Health Sciences, University of York.

Email me: mb55@york.ac.uk

Phone me: (+44) (0)1904 321334

Fax me: (+44) (0)1904 321382

Write to me:
Department of Health Sciences
1st floor, Seebohm Rowntree Building
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
UK

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Last updated: 10 December, 2009.

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