General Practice and Primary Care

EBP published resources

British Medical Journal (Statistics notes)

• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Correlation, regression, and repeated data' BMJ 1994; 308: 896
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Regression towards the mean' BMJ 1994; 308: 1499
• Altman D G, Bland J M 'Diagnostic tests 1: sensitivity and specificity'  BMJ 1994; 308: 1552
• Altman D G, Bland J M 'Diagnostic tests 2: predictive values' BMJ 1994; 309: 102
• Altman D G, Bland J M 'Diagnostic tests 3: receiver operating characteristic plots'  BMJ 1994; 309: 188
• Bland J M, Bland D G 'One and two sided tests of significance' BMJ 1994; 309: 248
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Some examples of regression towards the mean' BMJ 1994; 309: 780
• Altman D G, Bland J M 'Quartiles, quintiles, centiles and other quantiles'  BMJ 1994; 309: 996
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Matching' BMJ 1994; 309: 1128
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Multiple significance tests: the Bonferroni method' BMJ 1995; 310: 170
• Altman D G, Bland J M 'The normal distribution' BMJ 1995; 310: 298
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Calculating correlation coefficients with repeated observations: Part 1 – correlation within subjects'  BMJ 1995; 310: 446
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Calculating correlation coefficients with repeated observations: Part 2 – correlation between subjects'  BMJ 1995; 310: 633
• Altman D G, Bland J M 'Presentation of numerical data' BMJ 1996; 310: 572
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Logarithms' BMJ 1996; 312: 700
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Transforming data' BMJ 1996; 312: 770
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Transformations, means, and confidence intervals' BMJ 1996; 312: 1079
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'The use of transformation when comparing two means' BMJ 1996; 312: 1153
• Altman D G, Bland J M 'Comparing several groups using analysis of variance' BMJ 1996; 312: 1472
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Measurement error' BMJ 1996; 313: 744 – 753
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Measurement error and correlation coefficients' BMJ 1996; 313: 41- 42
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Measurement error proportional to the mean' BMJ 1996; 313: 106
• Altman D G, Bland J M 'Interaction 1: heterogeneity of effects' BMJ 1996; 313: 486
• Matthews J N S, Altman D G 'Interaction 2: compare effect sizes not P values' BMJ 1996; 313: 808
• Matthews J N S, Altman D G 'Interaction 3: how to examine heterogeneity' BMJ 1996; 313: 862
• Altman D G, Bland J M 'Detecting skewness from summary information' BMJ 1996; 313 : 1200
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Cronbach's alpha' BMJ 1997; 314: 572
• Altman D G, Bland J M 'Units of analysis' BMJ 1997; 314: 1874
• Bland J M, Kerry S M 'Trials randomised in clusters' BMJ 1997; 315: 600
• Kerry S M, Bland J M 'Analysis of a trial randomised in clusters' BMJ 1998; 316: 54
• Bland J M, Kerry S M 'Weighted comparison of means' BMJ 1998; 316: 129
• Kerry S M, Bland J M 'Sample size in cluster randomisation' BMJ 1998; 316: 549
• Kerry S M, Bland J M 'The intracluster correlation coefficient in cluster randomisation' BMJ 1998; 316: 1455
• Altman D G, Bland J M 'Generalisation and extrapolation' BMJ 1998; 317: 409–410
• Altman D G, Bland J M 'Time to event (survival) data' BMJ 1998; 317: 468 – 469
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Bayesians and frequentists' BMJ 1998; 317: 1151
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Survival probabilities (the Kaplan-Meier method)' BMJ 1998; 317: 1572
• Altman D G, Bland J M 'Treatment allocation in controlled trials: why randomise?' BMJ 1999; 318: 1209
• Altman D G, Bland J M 'Variables and parameters' BMJ 1999; 318: 1667
• Altman D G, Bland J M 'How to randomise' BMJ 1999; 319: 703 – 704
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'The odds ratio' BMJ 2000; 320: 1468
• Day S J, Altman D G 'Blinding in clinical trials and other studies' BMJ 2000; 321: 504
• Altman D G, Schulz K F 'Concealing treatment allocation in randomised trials' BMJ 2001; 323 : 446 – 447
• Vickers A J, Altman D G 'Analysing controlled trials with baseline and follow up measurements' BMJ 2001; 323: 1123 – 1124
• Bland J M, Altman D G 'Validating scales and indexes' BMJ 2002; 324: 606 – 607