Publications by Department Members

1998

Gustafson P. A guided walk Metropolis algorithm Statistics and computing. 1998 8: 357–364.
Hao D, Seidel J, Brant R, Alexander F, Ernst DS, Summers N, et al. Compliance of clinical stage I nonseminomatous germ cell tumor patients with surveillance J. Urol.. 1998 160: 768–771.
Harasym PH, Leong EJ, Violato C, Brant R, Lorscheider FL. Cuing effect of "all of the above" on the reliability and validity of multiple-choice test items Eval Health Prof. 1998 21: 120–133.
Jarrell J, Gocmen A, Foster W, Brant R, Chan S, Sevcik M. Evaluation of reproductive outcomes in women inadvertently exposed to hexachlorobenzene in southeastern Turkey in the 1950s Reprod. Toxicol.. 1998 12: 469–476.
Jones DR, Schonlau M, Welch WJ. Efficient global optimization of expensive black-box functions Journal of Global optimization [Internet]. 1998 13: 455–492. URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1008306431147
Kastrukoff LF, Morgan NG, Zecchini D, White R, Petkau A, Satoh J, et al. A role for natural killer cells in the immunopathogenesis of multiple sclerosis Journal of Neuroimmunology. 1998 86: 123–133.
Le N, Sun L, Zidek J. A note on the existence of maximum likelihood estimates for Gaussian-inverted Wishart models Statistics and probability letters. 1998 40: 133–137.
Petkau A. Statistical methods for evaluating multiple sclerosis therapies. Seminars in Neurology. 1998 18: 351–375.
Regenwetter M, Marley AAJ, Joe H. Random utility threshold models of subset choice Australian Journal of Psychology. 1998 50: 175-185. DOI: 10.1080/00049539808258794
Sandham JD, Hull RD, Brant RF. The pulmonary artery catheter takes a great fall Crit. Care Med.. 1998 26: 1288–1289.
Schonlau M, Welch WJ, Jones DR. Global versus local search in constrained optimization of computer models Lecture Notes-Monograph Series [Internet]. 1998 11–25. URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4356058
Sun W, Le ND, Zidek JV, Burnett R. Assessment of a Bayesian multivariate interpolation approach for health impact studies Environmetrics. 1998 9: 565–586.
Susko E, Kalbfleisch J, Chen J. Constrained nonparametric maximum-likelihood estimation for mixture models Canadian Journal of Statistics. 1998 26: 601–617.
Vedal S, Petkau J, White R, Blair J. Acute effects of ambient inhalable particles in asthmatic and nonasthmatic children American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 1998 157: 1034–1043.
Vedal S, Petkau J, White R, Blair J. Acute effects of ambient inhalable particles in asthmatic and nonasthmatic children American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 1998 157: 1034–1043.
Zidek J, Le N, Wong H, Burnett R. Including structural measurement errors in the nonlinear regression analysis of clustered data Canadian Journal of Statistics. 1998 26: 537–548.
Zidek J, White R, Le N. Using spatial data in assessing the association between air pollution episodes and respiratory morbidity Statistics for the Environment. 1998 4: 117–136.
Zidek J, White R, Sun W, Burnett R, Le N. Imputing unmeasured explanatory variables in environmental epidemiology with application to health impact analysis of air pollution Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 1998 5: 99–105.
Zidek J, White R, Sun W, Burnett R, Le N. Imputing unmeasured explanatory variables in environmental epidemiology with application to health impact analysis of air pollution Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 1998 5: 99–105.

1997

Allan BB, Brant R, Seidel JE, Jarrell JF. Declining sex ratios in Canada CMAJ. 1997 156: 37–41.
Block H, Joe H. Tail behavior of the failure rate functions of mixtures Lifetime Data Analysis. 1997 3: 269–288. DOI: 10.1023/A:1009653032333
Chen J, Cheng P. On testing the number of components in finite mixture models with known relevant component distributions Canadian Journal of Statistics. 1997 25: 389–400.
D'yachkova Y, Petkau J, Whtie R. Longitudinal analyses for magnetic resonance imaging outcomes in multiple sclerosis clinical trials Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics. 1997 7: 501–531.
Gibb AP, Hill B, Chorel B, Brant R. Reduction in blood culture contamination rate by feedback to phlebotomists Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med.. 1997 121: 503–507.
Gough W, Welch W. Efficient experimental design strategy for numerical ocean modelling Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Bulletin. 1997 25: 95–102.
Gustafson P. Large hierarchical Bayesian analysis of multivariate survival data Biometrics [Internet]. 1997 230–242. DOI: 10.2307/2533110 URL: www.jstor.org/stable/2533110
Heckman N, Rice J. Line transects of two-dimensional random fields: Estimation and design Canadian Journal of Statistics. 1997 25: 481–501.
Hull RD, Raskob GE, Brant RF, Pineo GF, Valentine KA. Relation between the time to achieve the lower limit of the APTT therapeutic range and recurrent venous thromboembolism during heparin treatment for deep vein thrombosis Arch. Intern. Med.. 1997 157: 2562–2568.
Hull RD, Raskob GE, Brant RF, Pineo GF, Valentine KA. The importance of initial heparin treatment on long-term clinical outcomes of antithrombotic therapy. The emerging theme of delayed recurrence Arch. Intern. Med.. 1997 157: 2317–2321.
Isono S, Feroah TR, Hajduk EA, Brant R, Whitelaw WA, Remmers JE. Interaction of cross-sectional area, driving pressure, and airflow of passive velopharynx J. Appl. Physiol.. 1997 83: 851–859.
Joe H. Multivariate Models and Dependence Concepts [Internet]. 1997 URL: http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9780412073311
Justel A, Pena D, Zamar R. A multivariate Kolmogorov-Smirnov test of goodness of fit Statistics & Probability Letters. 1997 35: 251–259.
Le ND, Sun W, Zidek JV. Bayesian multivariate spatial interpolation with data missing by design Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology). 1997 59: 501–510.
Liu J, Wu S, Zidek JV. On segmented multivariate regression Statistica Sinica. 1997 497–525.
Moir CL, Mandin H, Brant R. Sorbitol 2.5% mannitol 0.54% irrigation solution for hysteroscopic endometrial ablation surgery Can J Anaesth. 1997 44: 473–478.
Pena D, Zamar R. A simple diagnostic tool for local prior sensitivity Statistics & probability letters. 1997 36: 205–212.
Petkau J, White R. Neutralizing antibodies and the efficacy of interferon beta-1b in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis Multiple Sclerosis. 1997 3: 402–402.
Rudick R, Antel J, Confavreux C, Cutter G, Ellison G, Fischer J, et al. Recommendations from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society clinical outcomes assessment task force Annals of Neurology. 1997 42: 379–382.
Sitter RR, Chen J, Feder M. Fractional Resolution and Minimum Aberration in Blocked 2 n—k Designs Technometrics. 1997 39: 382–390.
Yohai VJ, Zamar RH. Optimal locally robust M-estimates of regression Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 1997 64: 309–323.
Zidek J. Interpolating air pollution for health impact assessment Barnett V, Feridun Turkman K, editors. Statistics for the environment. 1997 3: 251–68.
Zidek J. Discussion of ``Predicting multivariate responses in multiple linear regression'' (Authors. Breiman, L. and Friedman, J.) Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 1997 59: 42–43.

1996

Adair-Bischoff CE, Sauve RS, Kimberley B, Brant R. Smoking and middle ear disease Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1996 114: 837–840.
Brauer M, Chatfield C, Le N, Zhang H, Zidek J. Generalized space-time models for pollution exposures of populations whose members interact with their environment . 1996
Campbell NR, Hull RD, Brant R, Hogan DB, Pineo GF, Raskob GE. Aging and heparin-related bleeding Arch. Intern. Med.. 1996 156: 857–860.
Chen J, Kalbfleisch J. Penalized minimum-distance estimates in finite mixture models Canadian Journal of Statistics. 1996 24: 167–175.
Chen J. On the conditional and mixture model approaches for matched pairs Journal of statistical planning and inference. 1996 55: 319–329.
Dawid A, Stone M, Zidek J. Critique of ET Jaynes's "Paradoxes of probability theory" . 1996
Field SK, Underwood M, Brant R, Cowie RL. Prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux symptoms in asthma Chest. 1996 109: 316–322.
Gao F, Sacks J, Welch WJ. Predicting urban ozone levels and trends with semiparametric modeling Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics [Internet]. 1996 404–425. URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1400436