Design and analysis of measurement studies

This work was carried out with Douglas Altman, Director of the Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Oxford, and Cancer Research UK Medical Statistics Group.

Frequently asked questions on the design and analysis of measurement studies
Altman DG, Bland JM. (1983) Measurement in Medicine: the Analysis of Method Comparison Studies. The Statistician 32, 307-317, with kind permission of The Royal Statistical Society (Adobe PDF file).
Bland JM, Altman DG. (1986). Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet i, 307-310. (Full text.) See correction to section Measuring agreement using repeated measurements.
Citation history of Bland and Altman (1986)
Bland JM, Altman DG. (1995) Comparing methods of measurement: why plotting difference against standard method is misleading. Lancet 346, 1085-7. (Full text.)
Applying the Right Statistics: Analyses of Measurement Studies. Talk given at the Annual Scientific Meeting: Clinical Radiology of the Royal College of Radiologists, 19 September, 2001.
The Half-Normal distribution method for measurement error: two case studies. (PDF version only.) Talk first presented in the Statistics and Econometrics seminar series, University of York, February 2005.
Agreement between methods of measurement with multiple observations per individual. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics 2007; 17, 571 – 582.
Link to podcast of a Thomson Scientific interview to mark Bland and Altman (1999) Measuring agreement in method comparison studies (Statistical Methods in Medical Research 8, 135-160) becoming an Institute for Scientific Information Current Classic.
Bibliography of relevant publications by Bland and Altman

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