Selected statistical literature

Statistics notes and related articles published in British Medical Journal

• Correlation, regression, and repeated data. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1994;308:896.
• Regression towards the mean. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1994;308:1499.
• Diagnostic tests 1: Sensitivity and specificity. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1994;308:1552.
• Diagnostic tests 2: Predictive values. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1994;309:102.
• Diagnostic tests 3: receiver operating characteristic plots. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1994;309:188.
• One and two sided tests of significance. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1994;309:248.
• Some examples of regression towards the mean. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1994;309:780.
• Quartiles, quintiles, centiles, and other quantiles. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1994;309:996.
• Matching. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1994;309:1128.
• Multiple significance tests: the Bonferroni method. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1995;310:170.
• Statistics notes: the normal distribution. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1995;310:298.
• Calculating correlation coefficients with repeated observations: Part 1 - Correlation within subjects. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1995;310:446.
• Calculating correlation coefficients with repeated observations: Part 2 - Correlation between subjects. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1995;310:633. [published erratum in BMJ 1996;312:572].
• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1995;311:485.
• Presentation of numerical data. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1996;312:572.
• Statistics notes. Logarithms. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1996;312:700.
• Transforming data. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1996;312:770.
• Transformations, means, and confidence intervals. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1996;312:1079.
• The use of transformation when comparing two means. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1996;312:1153.
• Comparing several groups using analysis of variance. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1996;312:1472-3.
• Measurement error and correlation coefficients. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1996;313:41-2.
• Measurement error proportional to the mean. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1996;313:106. [published erratum in BMJ 1996;313:744].
• Interaction 1: Heterogeneity of effects. Altman DG, Matthews JN. BMJ 1996;313:486.
• Interaction 2: Compare effect sizes not P values. Matthews JN, Altman DG. BMJ 1996;313:808.
• Interaction 3: How to examine heterogeneity. Matthews JN, Altman DG. BMJ 1996;313:862
• Measurement error. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1996;313:744.
• Detecting skewness from summary information. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1996;313:1200.
• Cronbach's alpha. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1997;314:572.
• Statistics notes. Units of analysis. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1997;314:1874.
• Weighted comparison of means. Bland JM, Kerry SM. BMJ 1998;316:129.
• Sample size in cluster randomisation. Kerry SM, Bland JM. BMJ 1998;316:549.
• The intracluster correlation coefficient in cluster randomisation. Kerry SM, Bland JM. BMJ 1998;316:1455-60.
• Generalisation and extrapolation. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1998;317:409-10.
• Time to event (survival) data. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1998;317:468-9.
• Bayesians and frequentists. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1998;317:1151-60.
• Confidence intervals for the number needed to treat. Altman DG. BMJ 1998;317:1309-12.
• Odds ratios should be avoided when events are common [letter]. Altman DG, Deeks JJ, Sackett DL. BMJ 1998;317:1318.
• Survival probabilities (the Kaplan-Meier method). Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 1998;317:1572.
• Treatment allocation in controlled trials: why randomise? Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1999;318:1209.
• Variables and parameters. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1999;318:1667.
• Sensitivity and specificity and their confidence intervals cannot exceed 100% [letter]. Deeks JJ, Altman DG. BMJ 1999;318:193-4
• How to randomise. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 1999;319:703-4
• Calculating the number needed to treat for trials where the outcome is time to an event. Altman DG, Andersen PK. BMJ 1999;319:1492-5.
• The odds ratio. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 2000;320:1468.
• Blinding in clinical trials and other studies. Day SJ, Altman DF. BMJ 2000;321:504.
• Concealing treatment allocation in randomised trials. Altman DG, Schulz KF. BMJ 2001;323:446-447.
• Validating scales and indexes. Bland JM, Altman DG. BMJ 2002;324:606-607.
• Interaction revisited: the difference between two estimates. Altman DG, Bland JM. BMJ 2003;326:219.