Martin Bland: Some full length papers and talks

Published papers

• 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, with kind permission of the Lancet .

• Bland JM, Altman DG. (1995) Comparing methods of measurement: why plotting difference against standard method is misleading. Lancet 346, 1085-7, with kind permission of the Lancet .

• Bland M. Uncertainty is in the blood. Equipoise 2014; 6-7. Equipoise is the journal of the Department of Health Sciences, University of York. The Spring 2014 issue, ‘The Uncertainty Issue’ includes ‘Uncertainty is in the blood’. Warning: this is a really big file and you may have give it time to download before trying to scroll through. I hope you like it. The rest of the journal is good, too.

Talks

• Agreement in primary study selection between systematic reviews (Adobe .pdf file only).

• A Historical Reminiscence. Extended version of a talk presented at the celebration of twenty years of the Centre for Statistics in Medicine, 29th March 2017. A talk about the history of medical statistics and even more particularly about the part in it played by myself and by Doug Altman. This version includes two pages of references.

• Allocation by minimisation in a cluster randomised trial. Talk presented to the Third Annual Conference on Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences: Methods and Synthesis, September / October 2008.

• Analysis of a cluster-randomised trial in education . Talk given to the Workshop on Cluster Randomised Trials at the First Conference on Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences, University of York, September 2006.

• Applying the Right Statistics: Analyses of Measurement Studies. Talk given at the Annual Scientific Meeting: Clinical Radiology, Royal College of Radiologists, 19 September, 2001.

• Clinical trial by television Talk given at the International Biometrics Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, July 2016.

• Clinical Trials: An Overview A talk first prepared for an INSPIRE workshop on research, for medical students in York, 2014, this version 2017.

• Cluster designs: a personal view. Talk given at `The Contribution of Statistics to Public Health', Public Health Laboratory Service Disease Surveillance Centre, Colindale, 11th October 2001.

• Cluster randomised trials in the medical literature. Talk presented to the RSS Medical Section and RSS Liverpool Local Group, 12 November 2003.

• Comparisons within randomised groups. Talk given in the Department of Health Sciences, University of York, June 2011.

• Drip-Feed Education: Statistics Notes In The British Medical Journal (Martin Bland and Douglas Altman, PDF version). Talk given at the 8th International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2010.

• Drop-out in the VenUS III trial. (PDF version only.) Talk presented at the VenUS III collaborators meeting, 24 July 2008.

• Graduation address, St. George's Hospital Medical School, 18th March 2004.

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

• Health Freaks on Trial Talk first presented in York, January 2014.

• How are RCTs developed and conducted in the NHS? Talk first presented at the White Rose CPD Master Class: Design & Conduct of Randomised Trials, 18 July 2008.

• How to Upset the Statistical Referee Talk presented to the London Hypertension Society.

• Improving statistical quality in published research: the clinical experience. Talk to be presented at “Statistical Methods for Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development”, Lyon, France, September 27-29, 2010.

  Limits of Agreement: Birth of a Simple Idea, Presentation for the world conference of the International Biometric Society, Florence, July 2014. (Pdf file of PowerPoint presentation.)

• Measuring agreement between measurements. Talk presented at the Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Oxford, 20th September 2005

• Regression towards the mean or Why was Terminator III such a disappointment? Talk presented to the Commission for Health Improvement, January 2004.

• Sample size in guidelines trials. Talk presented to a BUPA Foundation workhop on the implementation of guidelines, June 1999.

• Some problems with sample size. (PDF version only.) Talk presented at the Joint Meeting of the Dutch Pathological Society and the Pathological Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Leeds, July 4th, 2008.

• Teaching statistics to medical students using problem-based learning: the Australian experience. Talk first presented to the Department of Community Health Sciences, St. George's Hospital Medical School, December 2003.

• The clinical effectiveness of larval therapy: results of VenUS II. Talk to be presented at the 2009 International Nursing Research Conference, March 2009, Cardiff.

• 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.

• The Tyranny of Power (PDF version only.) Talk first presented in New Zealand and Australia, February and March 2008.

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