- Latent class methods
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Analysis of preference data
- Categorical and ordered responses
- Microgenetic data
- Spatio-temporal models
ComputationalBooks and Book chapters Berridge, D. and Crouchley, R., 2011. Multivariate generalized linear mixed models using R. New York: Taylor & Francis.
CriminologyBooks and Book chapters Soothill, K., Fitzpatrick, C. and Francis, B., 2009. Understanding criminal careers. Cullompton: Willan. Soothill, K., 2010. Sex offender recidivism. In: M. Tonry, ed. Crime and Justice: a review of research, volume 39. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp 145-211. Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2010. Blackmail, kidnapping and threats to kill. In: F. Brookman, M. Maguire, H. Pierpoint, and T. Bennett, eds. Handbook on crime. Cullompton: Willan Press, pp 393-414. Francis, B., 2011. Conceptualising recidivism for prediction and risk. In: Recidivism and reoffending in South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Open Society Foundation, pp. 16-21. Francis, B. and Soothill, K., 2011. Homicide in England and Wales. In: M. Liem, and W. Pridemore, eds. Handbook of European homicide research: patterns, explanations, and country studies. Berlin: Springer. Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2011. Considering paradigms of crime reduction in different contexts. In: C. Gould, ed. National and international perspectives on crime and policing: towards a coherent strategy for crime reduction in South Africa beyond 2010. Pretoria, South Africa: Institute for Security Studies, pp. 1-17. Journal articles Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2009. Keeping information on police databases - confronting a dilemma. Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, 173. Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2009. Keeping the DNA link. New Law Journal, 159, pp 73-78. Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2009. When do ex-offenders become like non-offenders? Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 48 (4), pp 373-387. Francis, B., Liu, J. and Soothill, K., 2010. Criminal lifestyle specialization: female offending in England and Wales. International Criminal Justice Review, 20 (2), pp 188-204. Soothill, K., Francis, B. and Liu, J., 2010. The importance of co-convictions in the prediction of dangerous recidivism: blackmail and kidnapping as a demonstration study. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 10 (1), pp 23-36. Liu, J., Francis, B. and Soothill, K., 2011. A longitudinal study of escalation in crime seriousness. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 27, pp 175-196. Conference presentations given by the Criminology Strand research team can be found here.
Educational and Employment ResearchBooks and Book chapters Gayle, V., Lambert, P. and Murray, S., 2009. School-to-Work in the 1990s: modelling transitions with large-scale datasets. In: R. Brooks, ed. Transitions from education to work: new perspectives from Europe and beyond. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Journal articles Boyle, P., Feng, Z. and Gayle, V., 2009. A new look at family migration and women's employment status. Journal of Marriage and Family, 71, 417-431. Conference presentations given by the Educational and Employment Research Strand research team can be found here.
General Research MethodsBooks and Book chapters Aitkin, M., Francis, B., Hinde, J. and Darnell, R., 2009. Statistical modelling in R. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Journal articles Kosmidis, I. and Firth, D., 2009. Bias reduction in exponential family nonlinear models. Biometrika, 96 (4), pp 793-804. Kuha, J. and Firth, D., 2011. On the index of dissimilarity for lack of fit in log-linear and log-multiplicative models. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 55 (1), pp 375-388. Conference presentations given by the General Research Methoods Strand research team can be found here.
Linked ResearchJournal articles Reissland, N. and Francis, B., 2010. The quality of fetal arm movements as indicators of fetal stress. Early Human Development, 86 (12), pp 813-816. Reissland, N., Francis, B., Mason, J. and Lincoln, K., 2011. Do facial expressions develop before birth? PLoS ONE, 6 (8). Conference presentations given by the Linked Research Strand research team can be found here.
PsychologyBooks and Book chapters Carpendale, J.I.M., Lewis, C., Susswein, N. and Lunn, J., 2009. Talking and thinking: the role of speech in social understanding. In: A. Winsler, C. Fernyhough, and I. Montero, eds. Private speech, executive function, and the development of verbal self-regulation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 83-94. Journal articles Lewis, C. and Carpendale, J.I.M., 2009. Links between social interaction and executive function. In: C. Lewis and J. I. M. Carpendale, eds. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development, special issue on Social interaction and the development of executive function, 123, pp 1-15. Franken, T.E., Lewis, C. and Malone, S.A., 2010. Are children with autism proficient word learners? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40 (2), pp 255-259. Crawford, T.J., Parker, E., Solis-Trapala, I. and Mayes, J., 2011. Is the relationship of prosaccade reaction times and antisaccade errors mediated by working memory? Experimental Brain Research, 208 (3), pp 385-397. Conference presentations given by the Psychology Strand research team can be found here.
SociologyBooks and Book chapters Shahtahmasebi, S. and Berridge, D., 2010. Conceptualizing behaviour in health and social research: a practical guide to data analysis. New York: Nova. Journal articles Berridge, D., Penn, R. and Ganjali, M., 2009. Changing attitudes to gender roles: a longitudinal analysis of ordinal response data from the British Household Panel Study. International Sociology, 24, pp 346-367. Rezaei Ghahroodi, Z., Ganjali, M., Navvabpour, H. and Berridge, D., 2010. An appraisal of methods for the analysis of longitudinal ordinal response data with random dropout using a non-homogeneous Markov model. Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation, 39 (5), pp 1027-1048. Dittrich, R., Francis, B., Hatzinger, R. and Katzenbeisser, W., 2012. Missing observations in paired comparison data. Statistical Modelling, 12 (2), pp 117-143. Conference presentations given by the Sociology Strand research team can be found here.
Spatio-temporalBooks and Book chapters Diggle, P.J., 2010. Spatial point pattern. In: M. Lovric, ed. International encyclopaedia of statistical science. New York: Springer. Diggle, P.J. and Gabriel, E., 2010. Spatio-temporal point processes. In: A. Gelfand, P.J. Diggle, M. Fuentes and P. Guttorp, eds. Handbook of spatial statistics. Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 449-461. Gelfand, A., Diggle, P.J., Guttorp, P. and Fuentes, M. eds., 2010. Handbook of spatial statistics. Boca Raton: CRC Press. Journal articles Fenton, S., Clough, H., Diggle, P.J., Evans, S., Davison, S., Vink, D. and French, N., 2009. Spatial and spatio-temporal analysis of Salmonella infection in dairy herds in England and Wales. Epidemiology and Infection, 137 (6), pp 847-57. Diggle, P.J., Guan, Y., Hart, A.C., Paize, F. and Stanton, M., 2010. Estimating individual-level risk in spatial epidemiology using spatially aggregated information on the population at risk. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 105, pp 1394-1402. Diggle, P.J., Menezes, R. and Su, T-L., 2010. Geostatistical analysis under preferential sampling (with Discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C: Applied Statistics, 59, pp 191-232. Rodrigues, A. and Diggle, P.J., 2010. A class of convolution-based models for spatio-temporal processes with non-separable covariance structure. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 37 (4), pp 553-67. Rodrigues, A., Diggle, P.J. and Assuncao, R., 2010. Semi-parametric approach to point source modelling in epidemiology and criminology. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C: Applied Statistics, 59 (3), pp 533-542. Kaimi, I. and Diggle, P.J., 2011. A hierarchical model for real-time monitoring of variation in risk of non-specific gastro-intestinal infections. Epidemiology and Infection, 139 (12), pp 1854-1862. Rodrigues, R. and Diggle P.J., 2012. Bayesian estimation and prediction for inhomogenous spatio-temporal log – Gaussian Cox processes using low-rank models, with application to criminal surveillance. Journal of the American Statistical Association (in press). Conference presentations given by the Spatio-Temporal Strand research team can be found here.
Teaching & e-LearningBooks and Book chapters Humphreys, L. and Francis, B., 2009. Developing numeracy in criminology students through crime data. In: D. Green, ed. CETL-MSOR Proceedings 2008. Birmingham: Maths, Stats and OR network, pp. 51-56. Strand, S., 2010. Correlation and regression. In: D. Hartas, ed. Educational research and inquiry: qualitative and quantitative approaches. London: Continuum, pp 378-403. Strand, S., 2010. Disadvantage, ethnicity, gender and attainment. In: F. Demie and K. Lewis, eds. White working class achievement: a study of barriers to learning in schools. Lambeth: Lambeth Children & Young People's, pp 11-32. Journal articles Peelo, M. and Francis, B., 2009. Tackling mixed messages: embedding advanced numeracy in graduate identities. MSOR Connections, 9 (4), pp 23-27. Strand, S. and Lindsay, G., 2009. Evidence of ethnic disproportionality in special education in an English population. Journal of Special Education, 43 (3), pp 174-190. Strand, S., 2010. Do some schools narrow the gap? Differential school effectiveness by ethnicity, gender, poverty and prior achievement. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 21 (3), pp 289-314. Strand, S., 2011. The limits of social class in explaining ethnic gaps in educational attainment. British Educational Research Journal, 37 (2), pp 197-229. Strand, S., 2012. The White British-Black Caribbean achievement gap: tests, tiers and teacher expectations. British Educational Research Journal, 38 (1), pp 75-101. Conference presentations given by the Teaching & Learning Strand research team can be found here. |
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