John B. Carlin

Publication List Details

Period

1992 - 2008

Number

48

Co-Authors

4. BAYESIAN DATA ANALYSIS (2nd edn). Andrew Gelman, (2008)

John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, Donald B

regression structure may be the primary focus. The marginalized latent variable models allow a exible choice between modelling the marginal means or the conditional means. The marginalized transition...

A Case Study on the Choice, Interpretation and Checking of Multilevel Models for Longitudinal Binary Outcomes (2007)

John B. Carlin, Rory Wolfe, C. Hendricks Brown, Andrew Gelman

Recent advances in statistical software have led to the rapid diffusion of new methods for modeling longitudinal data. Multilevel (also known as hierarchical or random effects) models for binary...

Trends and determinants of excess winter mortality in New Zealand: 1980 to 2000 (2007)

Davie, Gabrielle S, Baker, Michael G, Hales, Simon, Carlin, John B

Abstract Background Although many countries experience an increase in mortality during winter, the magnitude of this increase varies considerably, suggesting that some winter excess may be avoidable....

Perinatal risk factors altering regional brain structure in the preterm infant (2007)

Thompson, Deanne K., Warfield, Simon K., Carlin, John B., Pavlovic, Masa, Wang, Hong X., Bear, Merilyn, ...

Neuroanatomical structure appears to be altered in preterm infants, but there has been little insight into the major perinatal risk factors associated with regional cerebral structural alterations....

Evaluation of a decision aid for prenatal testing of fetal abnormalities: a cluster randomised trial [ISRCTN22532458] (2006)

Nagle, Cate, Lewis, Sharon, Meiser, Bettina, Metcalfe, Sylvia, Carlin, John B, Bell, Robin, ...

Abstract Background By providing information on the relative merits and potential harms of the options available and a framework to clarify preferences, decision aids can improve knowledge and...

Birthweight and coronary heart disease in a cohort born 1857-1900 in Melbourne, Australia (2006)

Morley, Ruth, McCalman, Janet, Carlin, John B

Background The widely observed association between birth size and risk of later coronary heart disease (CHD) has not been examined in an impoverished pre-20th century birth cohort. Methods Birth...

Birth weight and coronary heart disease in a cohort born 1857-1900 in Melbourne, Australia (2006)

Morley, Ruth, McCalman, Janet, Carlin, John B.

Background The widely observed association between birth size and risk of later coronary heart disease (CHD) has not been examined in an impoverished pre-20th century birth cohort. Methods Birth...

Perinatal risk factors altering regional brain structure in the preterm infant (2006)

Thompson, Deanne K., Warfield, Simon K., Carlin, John B., Pavlovic, Masa, Wang, Hong X., Bear, Merilyn, ...

Neuroanatomical structure appears to be altered in preterm infants, but there has been little insight into the major perinatal risk factors associated with regional cerebral structural alterations....

Regression models for twin studies: a critical review (2005)

Carlin, John B, Gurrin, Lyle C, Sterne, Jonathan AC, Morley, Ruth, Dwyer, Terry

Twin studies have long been recognized for their value in learning about the aetiology of disease and specifically for their potential for separating genetic effects from environmental effects. The...

Regression models for twin studies: a critical review (2005)

Carlin, John B., Gurrin, Lyle C., Sterne, Jonathan A. C., Morley, Ruth, Dwyer, Terry

Twin studies have long been recognized for their value in learning about the aetiology of disease and specifically for their potential for separating genetic effects from environmental effects. The...

Replication data for: Bayesian Data Analysis, Second Edition (2004)

Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern

Incorporating new and updated information, this second edition of the bestselling text in Bayesian data analysis continues to emphasize practice over theory, describing how to conceptualize, perform,...

Maternal calcium supplementation and cardiovascular risk factors in twin offspring (2004)

Morley, Ruth, Carlin, John B., Dwyer, Terence

Background There is evidence that maternal calcium supplementation may result in lower offspring blood pressure. We hypothesized that maternal calcium supplementation also influences other...

Maternal calcium supplementation and cardiovascular risk factors in twin offspring (2004)

Morley, Ruth, Carlin, John B, Dwyer, Terence

Background There is evidence that maternal calcium supplementation may result in lower offspring blood pressure. We hypothesized that maternal calcium supplementation also influences other...

General growth mixture modeling for randomized preventive interventions (2002)

Muthén, Bengt, Brown, C. Hendricks, Masyn, Katherine, Jo, Booil, Khoo, Siek-Toon, Yang, Chih-Chien, ...

This paper proposes growth mixture modeling to assess intervention effects in longitudinal randomized trials. Growth mixture modeling represents unobserved heterogeneity among the subjects using a...

General Growth Mixture Modeling for Randomized Preventive Interventions (2001)

Muthen, Bengt, Brown, C. H., Masyn, Katherine, Jo, Booil, Khoo, Siek-Toon, Yang, Chih-Chien, ...

This paper proposes growth mixture modeling to assess intervention effects in longitudinal randomized trials. Growth mixture modeling represents unobserved hetero-geneity among the subjects using a...

General Growth Mixture Modeling for Randomized Preventive Interventions (2001)

Muthen, Bengt, Brown, C. H., Masyn, Katherine, Jo, Booil, Khoo, Siek-Toon, Yang, Chih-Chien, ...

This paper proposes growth mixture modeling to assess intervention e®ects in lon- gitudinal randomized trials. Growth mixture modeling represents unobserved hetero- geneity among the sub jects using...

A case study on the choice, interpretation and checking of multilevel models for longitudinal binary outcomes (2001)

Carlin, John B., Wolfe, Rory, Brown, C. Hendricks, Gelman, Andrew

Recent advances in statistical software have led to the rapid diffusion of new methods for modelling longitudinal data. Multilevel (also known as hierarchical or random effects) models for binary...

Poststratification and Weighting Adjustments (2000)

Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin

Introduction 1.1 Overview Poststratification and weighting are used to adjust for known or expected discrepancies between sample and population. In this chapter, we aim to review current methods for...

Validation of Questionnaire and Bronchial Hyperresponsiveness against Respiratory Physician Assessment in the Diagnosis of Asthma (1996)

JENKINS, MARK A, CLARKE, JANE R, CARLIN, JOHN B, ROBERTSON, COLIN F, HOPPER, JOHN L, DALTON, MARITA F, ...

Background The Tasmanian Asthma Survey (TAS) and the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) have used questionnaires to measure the prevalence of asthma in adults and...

Familial Aggregation of a Disease Consequent upon Correlation between Relatives in a Risk Factor Measured on a Continuous Scale (1992)

Hopper, John L., Carlin, John B.

Correlation between relatives in one or more risk factors for a disease will contribute to the risk in relatives of an affected individual, irrespective of the cause(s) of the correlation. In this...

Epidemiological Patterns of Rotaviruses Causing Severe Gastroenteritis in Young Children throughout Australia from 1993 to 1996

Bishop, Ruth F., Masendycz, Paul J., Bugg, Helen C., Carlin, John B., Barnes, Graeme L.

Rotavirus strains that caused severe diarrhea in 4,634 (2,533 male) children aged less than 5 years and admitted to major hospitals in eight centers throughout Australia from 1993 to 1996 were...

Epidemiological Patterns of Rotaviruses Causing Severe Gastroenteritis in Young Children throughout Australia from 1993 to 1996

Bishop, Ruth F., Masendycz, Paul J., Bugg, Helen C., Carlin, John B., Barnes, Graeme L.

Rotavirus strains that caused severe diarrhea in 4,634 (2,533 male) children aged less than 5 years and admitted to major hospitals in eight centers throughout Australia from 1993 to 1996 were...

MIMSTACK: Stata module to stack multiply-imputed datasets into format required by mim

John C. Galati, Patrick Royston, John B. Carlin

mimstack is a utility command which transforms a multiply-imputed dataset stored in separate files into the format required by mim.

MIM: Stata module to analyse and manipulate multiply imputed datasets

John C. Galati, Patrick Royston, John B. Carlin

mim is a prefix command for working with multiply-imputed (MIM) datasets, where command can be any of a wide range of Stata commands. The function that mim performs depends on the category of command...

MITOOLS: Stata module of tools for analyzing multiple imputed datasets

John B. Carlin, Ning Li, Philip Greenwood, Carolyn Coffey

The method of multiple imputation (MI) is used increasingly for analyzing datasets with missing observations. Two sets of tasks are required in order to implement the method: (a) generating multiple...

Tools for analyzing multiple imputed datasets

John B. Carlin, Ning Li, Philip Greenwood, Carolyn Coffey

The method of multiple imputation (MI) is used increasingly for analyzing datasets with missing observations. Two sets of tasks are required in order to implement the method: (a) generating multiple...

A new framework for managing and analyzing multiply imputed data in Stata

John B. Carlin, John C. Galati, Patrick Royston

A new set of tools is described for performing analyses of an ensemble of datasets that includes multiple copies of the original data with imputations of missing values, as required for the method of...

Promoting Social Inclusion in Schools: A Group-Randomized Trial of Effects on Student Health Risk Behavior and Well-Being

Patton, George C., Bond, Lyndal, Carlin, John B., Thomas, Lyndal, Butler, Helen, Glover, Sara, ...

Objectives. We sought to test the efficacy of an intervention that was designed to promote social inclusion and commitment to education, in reducing among students health risk behaviors and improving...

INORM: Stata module to perform multiple imputation using Schafer's method

John C. Galati, John B. Carlin

inorm is an implementation of Schafers NORM program for multiple imputation based on the multivariate normal distribution (using the EM algorithm and a data augmentation MCMC). By default it uses a...

Standardized interpretation of paediatric chest radiographs for the diagnosis of pneumonia in epidemiological studies.

Cherian, Thomas, Mulholland, E. Kim, Carlin, John B., Ostensen, Harald, Amin, Ruhul, De Campo, Margaret, ...

BACKGROUND: Although radiological pneumonia is used as an outcome measure in epidemiological studies, there is considerable variability in the interpretation of chest radiographs. A standardized...

Validation of clinical case definition of acute intussusception in infants in Viet Nam and Australia.

Bines, Julie E., Liem, Nguyen Thanh, Justice, Frances, Son, Tran Ngoc, Carlin, John B., De Campo, Margaret, ...

OBJECTIVE: To test the sensitivity and specificity of a clinical case definition of acute intussusception in infants to assist health-care workers in settings where diagnostic facilities are not...

Normal Ranges of Streptococcal Antibody Titers Are Similar Whether Streptococci Are Endemic to the Setting or Not ▿

Steer, Andrew C., Vidmar, Suzanna, Ritika, Roselyn, Kado, Joseph, Batzloff, Michael, Jenney, Adam W. J., ...

Group A streptococcal (GAS) serology is used for the diagnosis of post-streptococcal diseases, such as acute rheumatic fever, and occasionally for the diagnosis of streptococcal pharyngitis. Experts...