Computational

 

Feddag, M-L., Firth, D. and Varin, C., 2006. Statistical inference for the mixed Bradley-Terry model. Latent Variable Models in the Health Sciences Conference, Perugia, Italy. 6 - 8 September 2006.

Firth, D. and Turner, H., 2006. Generalized non-linear models and over-parameterized representation. International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Galway, Ireland. 3rd – 7th July 2006.

Turner, H. and Firth, D., 2006. GNM: a package for generalized nonlinear models. UseR! Conference, Vienna, Austria. June 2006.

Batchelor, A., Turner, H. and Firth, D., 2007. Nonlinear discrete-time hazard models for the rate of first marriage. International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Barcelona, Spain. 2 - 6 July 2007.

Books, books chapters and journal articles written by the Computational Strand research team can be found here.

 

Criminology

 

Francis, B., Soothill, K. and Harman, J., 2005. Homicide and the seasons. European Society of Criminology Conference, Krakow, Poland. 31 August - 3 September 2005.

Francis, B., Soothill, K. and Pennoni, F., 2005. Classifying patterns of criminal activity: a latent class approach to UK longitudinal conviction records. American Society of Criminology Conference, Toronto, Canada. November 2005.

Ackerley, E., Humphreys, L., Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2006. Changing patterns of offending behaviour among young people 1963-1999. British Society of Criminology Conference, Glasgow, UK. July 2006.

Blokland, A., Francis, B., Nieuwbeerta, P. and Soothill, K., 2006. Specialization, versatility and escalation in long-term criminal careers. American Society of Criminology Conference, Los Angeles, USA. November 2006.

Francis, B., Humphreys, L., Soothill, K. and Bezzina, A., 2006. Assessing offence seriousness through criminal records – the UK experience. European Society of Criminology Conference, Tubingen, Germany. August 2006.

Francis, B., Pennoni, F. and Soothill, K., 2006. Assessing transitions in criminal career behaviour: methodological approaches. European Society of Criminology Conference, Tubingen, Germany. August 2006.

Francis, B., Soothill, K. and Ackerley, E., 2006. The trajectories and patterns of gendered criminal careers. American Society of Criminology Conference, Los Angeles, USA. November 2006.

Humphreys, L., Ackerley, E. and Soothill, K., 2006. Late adolescent convictions patterns: changes over time. European Society of Criminology Conference, Tubingen, Germany. August 2006.

Liu, J., Francis, B., and Soothill, K., 2006. Kidnapping: assessing the likelihood of subsequent homicide, rape or kidnap following a first kidnap conviction in England and Wales. British Society of Criminology Conference, Glasgow, UK. July 2006.

Soothill, K. and Liu, J., 2006. Repeating arson, blackmail, kidnapping and threats to kill: patterns of serious recidivists. European Society of Criminology Conference, Tubingen, Germany. August 2006.

Soothill, K., Francis, B. and Liu, J., 2006. Probing the inter-relationships between serious types of crime. American Society of Criminology Conference, Los Angeles, USA. November 2006.

Soothill, K., Francis, B. and Liu, J., 2006. Exploring the inter-relationships between serious types of crime. International Symposium on Forensic Sciences, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India. February 2006.

Ackerley, E., Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2007. Blackmail: a criminal profile of persons convicted 1979-2001. British Society of Criminology Conference, London, UK. September 2007.

Blokland, A., Francis, B., Nieuwbeerta, P. and Soothill, K., 2007. Patterns and pathways of long-term criminal careers. 7th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Bologna, Italy. 26 - 29 September 2007.

Christofffersen, M., Hussain, A., Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2007. Living in a disadvantaged area, poverty, ethnic minorities and crime: a longitudinal study of criminality among 15 to 23 year old Danish men born in 1980. 7th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Bologna, Italy. 26 - 29 September 2007.

Francis, B. and Humphreys, L., 2007. Assessing crime seriousness - methods and models using court data. Royal Statistical Society Conference, York, UK. 16 - 20 July 2007.

Francis, B., Soothill, K. and Liu, J., 2007. Assessing changes in offending behaviour in a national cohort - an application of latent transition analysis. American Society of Criminology Conference, Atlanta, USA. November 2007.

Humphreys, L., 2007. Changes in adolescent offending profiles. British Sociological Association Conference, University of East London, London, UK. 12 - 14 April 2007.

Liu, J., Francis, B. and Soothill, K., 2007. Disentangling age, period and cohort effects in criminal typologies. European Society of Criminology Conference, Bologna, Italy. September 2007.

Soothill, K., Francis, B. and Liu, J., 2007. The importance of co-convictions: a demonstration study. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Conference, Seattle, USA. March 2007.

Soothill, K., Francis, B. and Liu, J., 2007. Co-convictions and specialisation in criminal careers - a modest proposal. European Society of Criminology Conference, Bologna, Italy. September 2007.

Soothill, K., Francis, B. and Liu, J., 2007. Threats to kill: does the dog that barks also bite? American Society of Criminology Conference, Atlanta, USA. November 2007.

Francis, B., 2008. Patterns, trajectories and typologies in criminal careers. Royal Statistical Society Workshop on the Analysis of Criminal Career Data, London, UK. 24 January 2008.

Francis, B., 2008. Statistical modelling of conviction data - challenging some criminological concepts in criminal careers. Invited speaker. 2nd Annual Applied Statistics Education and Research Collaboration Research Conference, Wollongong, Australia. 2 - 3 December 2008.

Francis, B. and Soothill, K., 2008. Criminal lifestyle specialization in criminal careers in England and Wales: a latent transition analysis approach. American Society of Criminology Conference, St. Louis, USA. November 2008.

Francis, B., Soothill, K. and Liu, J., 2008. Escalation in criminal convictions: measuring offence seriousness and identifying patterns. European Society of Criminology Conference, Edinburgh, UK. 2 - 5 September 2008.

Francis, B., Liu, J. and Soothill, K., 2008. Using the Offenders Index to investigate patterns of offending. 13th Government Statistical Service Methodology Conference, London, UK. 23 June 2008.

Soothill, K. and Christoffersen, M., 2008. Criminal careers and population registers - probing theoretical perspectives. Royal Statistical Society Workshop on the Analysis of Criminal Career Data, London, UK. 24 January 2008.

Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2008. Enduring risk revisited: assessing escalation to homicide. British Society of Criminology Conference, Huddersfield, UK. 9 - 11 July 2008.

Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2008. Enduring risk revisited: do ex-offenders ever become like non-offenders? American Society of Criminology Conference, St. Louis, USA. November 2008.

Soothill, K., Bushway, S. and Nieuwbeerta, P., 2008. Criminology, criminal careers and methodology: issues and solutions? Royal Statistical Society Workshop on the Analysis of Criminal Career Data, London, UK. 24 January 2008.

Books, books chapters and journal articles written by the Criminology Strand research team can be found here.

 

Educational and Employment Research

 

Gayle, V. and Francis, B., 2008. The ‘changing’ nature of social inequality – how are young people’s attitudes to school stratified and how are they changing? Social Stratification Research Seminar, Cambridge, UK. 10 - 12 September 2008.

Lambert, P. and Gayle, V., 2008. Individuals in Household Panel surveys: the importance of person/group clustering.  RC33 7th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Naples, Italy. 1 - 5 September 2008.

Playford, C., Gayle, V. and Lambert, P., 2008. Scottish Social Survey data, past, present and future – does Scotland need its own data strategy? Radical Statistics Annual Conference, Edimburgh, UK. 1 March 2008.

 

General Research Methods

 

Francis, B., 2006. What is latent class analysis? ESRC Research Methods Festival 2006, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK. July 2006.

Francis, B., 2006. Resources for survey and statistical analysis. ESRC Research Methods Festival 2006, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK. July 2006.

Francis, B., 2008. International peer review: the EUROCORES HumVIB Programme. Invited speaker. European Science Foundation Peer Review Workshop, The Hague, The Netherlands. 10 - 11 March 2008.

Francis, B., 2008. Latent class and latent transitions for micro-level data in longitudinal studies. The British Psychological Society Workshop on Analysing Developmental Change, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK. August, 2008.

Francis, B., 2008. Latent classes and Transitions. ESRC Research Methods Festival 2008, Oxford, UK. July 2008.

Books, books chapters and journal articles written by the General Research Methods Strand research team can be found here.

 

Psychology

 

Diggle, P.J., 2006. Joint modelling of longitudinal measurements and survival outcomes. Nordic Statistical Society Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark. April 2006.

Diggle, P.J., 2006. Joint modelling of repeated measurements and time-to event outcomes. The Fourth Armitage Lecture, Cambridge, UK. November 2006.

Francis, B., 2006. Modelling microgenetic trajectories – can we identify patterns of behaviour? ESRC Seminar "Using the Microgenetic Method to Investigate Cognitive Development", St Andrews, UK. April 2006.

Lewis, C., Brown, D. and Lamb, M.E., 2006. The effectiveness of verbal input-free cueing techniques in forensic interviews. International Conference on Memory, Sydney, Australia. 16 - 21July 2006.

Lewis, C., Koyasu, M., Ogawa, A., Oh, S. and Short, B., 2006. Cultural, social and cognitive factors in the development of executive functions. International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development Conference, Melbourne, Australia. July 2006.

Lewis, C. and Muldoon, K., 2006. Any room for error in mathematics? Developmental Psychology Section Conference, British Psychological Society, London, UK. September 2006.

Solis-Trapala, I., 2006. Graphical approaches in the modelling of cognitive development. ESRC Seminar "Using the Microgenetic Method to Investigate Cognitive Development", St Andrews, UK. April 2006.

Solis-Trapala, I., Diggle, P.J. and Lewis, C., 2006. Graphical modelling approaches in investigating cognitive development. Latent Variable Methods in the Health Sciences Conference, Perugia, Italy. September 2006.

Lewis, C. and Solis-Trapala, I., 2007. Have we underestimated the role of social Interaction in executive skills? Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Boston, USA. 29 March - 1 April 2007.

Lewis, C., Solis-Trapala, I., Diggle, P.J. and Shimmon, K., 2007. Analysis of developmental change in ‘executive functions’. Poster presented at the NCRM Annual Conference, Manchester, UK. January 2007.

Lewis, C., Solis-Trapala, I. and Shimmon, K., 2007. Social and cognitive processes in the testing of executive functions. Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society: Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 31 May - 2 June 2007.

Lewis, C., Warburton, K. and Harrison, A., 2007. The role of communication in preschoolers executive task performance. British Psychological Society Developmental Psychology Conference, Plymouth, UK. August 2007.

Solis-Trapala, I., 2007. Longitudinal models for assessing cognitive development in early childhood. Seminar to the Department of Economics, Finance and Statistics, University of Perugia, Italy. December, 2007.

Solis-Trapala, I., 2007. Statistical models of executive function test performance in children. International Seminar for Young Psychologists on Cognitive and Developmental Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan. December, 2007.

Solis-Trapala, I., 2007. A likelihood based method for analysing overdispersed correlated count data with subject specific covariates. Seminar to the Department of Statistics, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. November, 2007.

Solis-Trapala, I., Diggle, P.J. and Lewis, C., 2007. Longitudinal models for assessing cognitive development in early childhood. Royal Statistical Society Conference, York, UK. 16 - 20 July 2007.

Solis-Trapala, I., Diggle, P.J. and Lewis, C., 2007. Statistical modelling of development of executive function in early childhood. 22nd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Barcelona, Spain. 2 - 6 July 2007.

Lewis, C., 2008. Analysing developmental change. The British Psychological Society Workshop on Analysing Developmental Change, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK. 31 August, 2008.

Lewis, C., 2008. Why are longitudinal studies crucial for developmental psychology? The British Psychological Society Workshop on Analysing Developmental Change, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK. 31 August, 2008.

Solis-Trapala, I., 2008. What is discrete longitudinal data analysis? ESRC Research Methods Festival 2008, Oxford, UK. July 2008.

Solis-Trapala, I., 2008. Modelling discrete data in longitudinal studies. The British Psychological Society Workshop on Analysing Developmental Change, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK. 31 August, 2008.

Solis-Trapala, I., 2008. Graphical models with latent variables and their application in neuropsychology. Workshop on Statistical Methods for Longitudinal Studies, Thorskogs Slott, Sweden. 29 July - 2 August 2008.

Solis-Trapala, I., 2008. Modelling executive function test performance in children. ESRC Research Methods Festival 2008, St Catherine's College, Oxford, UK. 30 June - 3 July 2008.

Solis-Trapala, I. and Bartolucci, F., 2008. A multidimensional latent Markov IRT model. 23rd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 7 - 11 July, 2008.

Books, books chapters and journal articles written by the Psychology Strand research team can be found here.

 

Sociology

 

Francis, B., Dittrich, R. and Hatzinger, R., 2005. Mixture models for ranked data. 3rd World Conference on Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Limassol, Cyprus. October 2005.

Francis, B., Dittrich, R., Hatzinger, R. and Mair, P., 2006. Latent classes for preference data. Latent Variable Methods in the Health Sciences Conference, Perugia, Italy. September 2006.

Francis, B., 2007. Modelling preferences in the presence of missing data. Royal Statistical Society Conference, York, UK. 16 - 20 July 2007.

Francis, B., 2007. Changes in attitudes to post-materialism over time using longitudinal ranked data. British Sociological Association Conference, University of East London, London, UK. 12 - 14 April 2007.

Liu, J., 2007. Modelling attitudes to gender in the BHPS – ordinal or linear score models. British Sociological Association Conference, University of East London, London, UK. 12 - 14 April 2007.

Berridge, D. and Penn, R., 2008. Modelling repeated responses to questions on attitudes to gender roles: an analysis of British Panel data 1991-2005. RC33 7th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Naples, Italy. 1 - 5 September 2008.

Dittrich, R., Francis, B., Hatzinger, R. and Katzenbeisser, W., 2008. The problem of missing observations in paired comparisons experiments. RC33 7th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Naples, Italy. 1 - 5 September 2008.

Books, books chapters and journal articles written by the Sociology Strand research team can be found here.