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Will a realistic complex system be stable?
Dr Paul Kirk from the MRC Biostatistics Unit (BSU) and colleagues from Imperial College London — including joint first author, Delphine Rolando — have just published a paper in the New Journal of Physics investigating the stability of complex systems. This new research has implications for a variety of fields, including ecology, molecular biology, disease […]
Adaptive Designs Improving Efficiency of Real Trials
An exciting adaptive trial design developed by statisticians at the MRC Biostatistics Unit Hub for Trials Methodology Research has led to the successful, early completion of a trial testing a new scanning technique in renal cell carcinoma. The trial, funded by Cancer Research UK and the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, used a novel two-stage […]
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- Will a realistic complex system be stable?
Dr Paul Kirk from the MRC Biostatistics Unit (BSU) and colleagues from Imperial College London […]
- Adaptive Designs Improving Efficiency of Real Trials
An exciting adaptive trial design developed by statisticians at the MRC Biostatistics Unit Hub for […]
- Finbarr Leacy receives Joint Awards to present at the Joint Statistical Meetings 2015
Congratulations Finbarr! Finbarr Leacy, PhD Student at MRC Biostatistics Unit, has been awarded a Student […]
- Sofia Villar to give contributed talks at the 18th INFORMS Applied Probability Conference and the 7th Greek Stochastics meeting
The 18th INFORMS Applied Probability Conference will take place between the 5th and 8th of […]
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- Methods to estimate the between-study variance and its uncertainty in meta-analysis.
Veroniki, AA., et al.
Res Synth Methods [Epub ahead of print]. (2nd September 2015) - A Bayesian adaptive design for biomarker trials with linked treatments.
Wason, JM., et al.
Br. J. Cancer 113(5): 699-705. (1st September 2015) - Analysis of Randomised Trials Including Multiple Births When Birth Size Is Informative.
Yelland, LN., Sullivan, TR., Pavlou, M., Seaman, SR.
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol [Epub ahead of print]. (1st September 2015)
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