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Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk

Research Interests: Public understanding of uncertainty and risk, Bayesian methods, biostatistics, performance assessment

Examples sheets and lecture notes can be found on my teaching page.

Publications

Funnel plots for comparing institutional performance.
DJ Spiegelhalter
– Statistics in medicine
(2004)
24,
1185
The ProActive trial protocol–a randomised controlled trial of the efficacy of a family-based, domiciliary intervention programme to increase physical activity among individuals at high risk of diabetes [ISRCTN61323766]
K Williams, AT Prevost, S Griffin, W Hardeman, W Hollingworth, D Spiegelhalter, S Sutton, U Ekelund, N Wareham, AL Kinmonth
– BMC public health
(2004)
4,
48
Bastardy in the UK
D Spiegelhalter
– Significance
(2004)
1,
134
The legacy of Bristol: public disclosure of individual surgeons' results
B Keogh, D Spiegelhalter, A Bailey, J Roxburgh, P Magee, C Hilton
– British Medical Journal
(2004)
329,
450
Infant wellbeing at 2 years of age in the Growth Restriction intervention Trial (GRIT): multicentred randomised controlled trial
JG Thornton, J Hornbuckle, A Vail, DJ Spiegelhalter, M Levene, GRIT study group
– The Lancet
(2004)
364,
513
Monitoring clinical performance: invited comments on the papers by Grigg and Farewell and Marshall et al.
D Spiegelhalter, CP Farrington
– Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A Statistics in Society
(2004)
167,
561
The Contagious Diseases Acts
D Spiegelhalter
– Significance. Statistics Making Sense
(2004)
1,
88
Use and misuse of process and outcome data in managing performance of acute medical care: avoiding institutional stigma
R Lilford, MA Mohammed, D Spiegelhalter, R Thomson
– Lancet
(2004)
363,
1147
Shipman’s Statistical Legacy
D Spiegelhalter, N Best
– Significance. Statistics Making Sense
(2004)
1,
10
Incorporating Bayesian ideas into health-care evaluation
DJ Spiegelhalter
– Statistical Science
(2004)
19,
156
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Research Groups

Centre for Mathematical Imaging in Healthcare
DPMMS retired
Statistical Laboratory