Nicky Best

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Nicky Best is affiliated with the following schools: University of Cambridge, University of Leicester, Imperial College London

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According to Wikipedia, Nicola G. "Nicky" Best is a statistician known for her work on the deviance information criterion in Bayesian inference and as a developer of Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling. She is a former professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at Imperial College London and is currently a biostatistician for GlaxoSmithKline.

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Nicky Best's Published Works

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WinBUGS - A Bayesian modelling framework: Concepts, structure, and extensibility (2000) (5709)
CODA: convergence diagnosis and output analysis for MCMC (2006) (3207)
The BUGS project: Evolution, critique and future directions (2009) (1939)
The BUGS Book: A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Analysis (2012) (762)
Adaptive Rejection Metropolis Sampling Within Gibbs Sampling (1995) (697)
Spatial epidemiology: methods and applications. (2000) (569)
A comparison of Bayesian spatial models for disease mapping (2005) (501)
Interpreting Posterior Relative Risk Estimates in Disease-Mapping Studies (2004) (461)
Prevalence, Predictors, and Prognostic Value of Renal Dysfunction in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease (2008) (268)
Aircraft noise and cardiovascular disease near Heathrow airport in London: small area study (2013) (239)
Bayesian approaches to disease mapping (2001) (222)
CODA: convergence diagnosis and output analysis software for Gibbs sampling output (1995) (217)
Modelling Complexity: Applications of Gibbs Sampling in Medicine (1993) (203)
Output Analysis and Diagnostics for MCMC (2015) (195)
Improving ecological inference using individual‐level data (2006) (169)
Bayesian Analysis of Population PK/PD Models: General Concepts and Software (2002) (157)
The epidemiology and possible mechanisms of disinfection by-products in drinking water (2009) (146)
Studying time to pregnancy by use of a retrospective design. (2005) (145)
Bayesian Analysis of Realistically Complex Models (1996) (132)
Adjusting for selection bias in retrospective, case-control studies. (2008) (132)
Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis of joint patterns of male and female lung cancer risks in Yorkshire (UK) (2006) (132)
Chlorination Disinfection By-Products in Drinking Water and Congenital Anomalies: Review and Meta-Analyses (2009) (131)
The future of life expectancy and life expectancy inequalities in England and Wales: Bayesian spatiotemporal forecasting (2015) (128)
Relation of Trihalomethane Concentrations in Public Water Supplies to Stillbirth and Birth Weight in Three Water Regions in England (2004) (123)
Generic reversible jump MCMC using graphical models (2009) (111)
Comparison of UK paediatric cardiac surgical performance by analysis of routinely collected data 1984–96: was Bristol an outlier? (2001) (111)
A Bayesian toolkit for genetic association studies (2006) (108)
Mobile phone base stations and early childhood cancers: case-control study (2010) (104)
Health impacts of long-term exposure to disinfection by-products in drinking water in Europe: HIWATE. (2009) (99)
Convergence Diagnosis and Output Analysis Software for Gibbs sampling output Version 0.30 (1995) (99)
Use of Space–Time Models to Investigate the Stability of Patterns of Disease (2008) (92)
Following Shipman: a pilot system for monitoring mortality rates in primary care (2003) (91)
Space–time variability in burglary risk: A Bayesian spatio-temporal modelling approach (2014) (91)
Statistical issues in the prospective monitoring of health outcomes across multiple units (2004) (87)
The contributions of risk factor trends to cardiometabolic mortality decline in 26 industrialized countries. (2013) (85)
Combining MCMC with ‘sequential’ PKPD modelling (2009) (83)
Solid fuel use and cooking practices as a major risk factor for ALRI mortality among African children (2009) (77)
Bayesian latent variable modelling of multivariate spatio-temporal variation in cancer mortality (2008) (77)
Cardiothoracic ratio from postero-anterior chest radiographs: a simple, reproducible and independent marker of disease severity and outcome in adults with congenital heart disease. (2013) (73)
Geographical epidemiology of prostate cancer in Great Britain (2002) (72)
Chlorination Disinfection By-Products and Risk of Congenital Anomalies in England and Wales (2007) (66)
Inferences from multinomial data: Learning about a bag of marbles - Discussion (1996) (63)
Ecological regression analysis of environmental benzene exposure and childhood leukaemia: sensitivity to data inaccuracies, geographical scale and ecological bias (2001) (63)
Minimizing Patient Burden Through the Use of Historical Subject-Level Data in Innovative Confirmatory Clinical Trials (2018) (62)
Geographic Variations in Risk: Adjusting for Unmeasured Confounders Through Joint Modeling of Multiple Diseases (2009) (57)
Hyponatraemia: A strong predictor of mortality in adults with congenital heart disease. (2010) (57)
Bayesian hierarchical models in ecological studies of health–environment effects (2003) (56)
Bayesian graphical models for regression on multiple data sets with different variables (2008) (53)
Use of routinely collected data on trihalomethane in drinking water for epidemiological purposes (2001) (53)
Analysing the health effects of simultaneous exposure to physical and chemical properties of airborne particles (2015) (53)
Strategy for Modelling Nonrandom Missing Data Mechanisms in Observational Studies Using Bayesian Methods (2012) (51)
Spatial risk assessment of Rift Valley fever in Senegal. (2007) (50)
BaySTDetect: detecting unusual temporal patterns in small area data via Bayesian model choice. (2012) (45)
Spatial variation and temporal trends of testicular cancer in Great Britain (2001) (45)
Adjustment for Missing Confounders Using External Validation Data and Propensity Scores (2012) (45)
Adjusting for Selection Effects in Epidemiologic Studies: Why Sensitivity Analysis is the Only “Solution” (2011) (40)
Bayesian modelling of household solid fuel use: insights towards designing effective interventions to promote fuel switching in Africa. (2010) (40)
The role of biological fertility in predicting family size. (2009) (40)
UK Biobank Pilot Study: stability of haematological and clinical chemistry analytes. (2008) (38)
Better decision making in drug development through adoption of formal prior elicitation (2017) (38)
Corrigendum: Adaptive Rejection Metropolis Sampling (1997) (36)
Combining models of health and exposure data: the SAVIAH study (2001) (34)
Birth Weight, Ethnicity, and Exposure to Trihalomethanes and Haloacetic Acids in Drinking Water during Pregnancy in the Born in Bradford Cohort (2015) (32)
Accounting for inaccuracies in population counts and case registration in cancer mapping studies (1999) (30)
Studying place effects on health by synthesising individual and area-level outcomes. (2008) (29)
Modelling exposure to disinfection by-products in drinking water for an epidemiological study of adverse birth outcomes (2005) (28)
Inference from ecological models: estimating the relative risk of stroke from air pollution exposure using small area data. (2010) (28)
Two-pronged Strategy for Using DIC to Compare Selection Models with Non-Ignorable Missing Responses (2012) (27)
Bayesian non‐parametric models for spatially indexed data of mixed type (2014) (27)
Using Bayesian graphical models to model biases in observational studies and to combine multiple sources of data: application to low birth weight and water disinfection by‐products (2009) (27)
Sex ratio and time to pregnancy: analysis of four large European population surveys (2007) (24)
Rejoinder to commentaries on ‘The BUGS project: Evolution, critique and future directions’ (2009) (23)
Bayesian Statistics Small Area Estimation (2010) (23)
Methodological issues in analyzing time trends in biologic fertility: protection bias. (2009) (22)
Protective Effects of Smoke-free Legislation on Birth Outcomes in England: A Regression Discontinuity Design (2016) (21)
Practical experiences of adopting assurance as a quantitative framework to support decision making in drug development (2018) (21)
Chlorination by-products in tap water and semen quality in England and Wales (2013) (20)
Uncovering selection bias in case–control studies using Bayesian post‐stratification (2013) (19)
Small area variation in hospital admission rates: Bayesian adjustment for primary care and hospital factors (2000) (18)
Strategy for modelling non-random missing data mechanisms in observational studies using Bayesian methods (2010) (18)
Evaluating the No Cold Calling Zones in Peterborough, England: Application of a Novel Statistical Method for Evaluating Neighbourhood Policing Policies (2013) (17)
Bayesian analysis of the multivariate geographical distribution of the socio‐economic environment in England (2007) (16)
A study of the variation in tuberculosis incidence and possible influential variables in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and Cardiff in 1991-1995. (2001) (16)
Editorial comment on Geographical differences in cancer incidence in the Belgian Province of Limburg by Bruntinx and colleagues. (2003) (16)
A Bayesian approach to complex clinical diagnoses: a case‐study in child abuse (2013) (15)
Diagram-based Analysis of Causal Systems (DACS): elucidating inter-relationships between determinants of acute lower respiratory infections among children in sub-Saharan Africa (2013) (14)
Human fertility decline? (2006) (12)
A causal modelling framework for reference-based imputation and tipping point analysis in clinical trials with quantitative outcome (2017) (12)
Surveillance and post market monitoring of potential health effects of novel (including GM) foods: feasibility study (2004) (10)
Reducing Patient Burden in Clinical Trials Through the Use of Historical Controls: Appropriate Selection of Historical Data to Minimize Risk of Bias (2019) (10)
Structure and uncertainty: Graphical models for understanding complex data (2005) (9)
Small area forecasts of cause‐specific mortality: application of a Bayesian hierarchical model to US vital registration data (2017) (9)
COPD MORTALITY TRENDS 1950–1999 IN ENGLAND & WALES-DID THE 1956 CLEAN AIR ACT MAKE A DETECTABLE DIFFERENCE? (2003) (9)
MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION IN CANCER MORTALITY IN GREECE: ISEE-398 (2003) (8)
A novel equivalence probability weighted power prior for using historical control data in an adaptive clinical trial design: A comparison to standard methods (2021) (8)
Insights into the use of Bayesian models for informative missing data (2008) (8)
Shipman's statistical legacy (2004) (7)
Robust Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis for Case–Control Studies with Uncertain Exposure Misclassification Probabilities (2015) (7)
Time trends in biological fertility in Western Europe. (2013) (6)
Tracing ingestion of ‘novel’ foods in UK diets for possible health surveillance – a feasibility study (2004) (6)
Foreword to the papers on ‘Performance monitoring and surveillance’ (2004) (5)
Assessing efficacy in important subgroups in confirmatory trials: An example using Bayesian dynamic borrowing (2021) (4)
Monitoring of mortality rates in primary care (2003) (4)
Propensity Score Adjustment for UnmeasuredConfounding in Observational Studies (2008) (4)
Case-control Study of Mobile Phone Base Stations and Early Childhood Cancers (2011) (3)
Evaluating Neighbourhood Policing using Bayesian Hierarchical Models: No Cold Calling in Peterborough, England (2011) (3)
Hepatitis B: A Case Study in MCMC (1998) (3)
Discussion on the paper by Wakefield (2004) (3)
Bayesian hierarchical models in ecological studies (2005) (3)
Health Information and Health Outcomes: An Application of the Regression Discontinuity Design to the 1995 UK Contraceptive Pill Scare Case (2011) (3)
Studying human fertility. (2004) (2)
Bayesian model choice for detecting unusual temporal patterns in small area data (2010) (2)
Output Analysis and Diagnostics for MCMC [R package coda version 0.19-4] (2020) (2)
Spatial Versus Spatiotemporal Disease Mapping (2007) (2)
Chlorination disinfection by-products and adverse birth outcomes: a retrospective cohort study in three regions in England: ISEE-183 (2003) (2)
A Comparison of model-based methods for Small Area Estimation (2008) (2)
Studying Human Fertility (2004) (2)
Improving Child Protection by Integrating Research Evidence and Clinical Experience (2015) (2)
Hierarchical related regression for combining aggregate and survey data in studies of socio-economic disease risk factors (2005) (2)
Workshop on Recent Advances in Modelling Spatio-Temporal Data (2005) (2)
Lessons from ecological and spatial studies in relation to occupational lung disease (2009) (2)
Interplay between type-1 diabetes and occupation: Results from a pilot study Theoretical paper exploring new treatment technique (2016) (2)
Bayesian Approaches to Handling Missing Data (2012) (2)
Data Mining Cancer Registries: Retrospective Surveillance of Small Area Time Trends in Cancer Incidence Using BaySTDetect (2011) (2)
WATER CHLORINATION BY-PRODUCTS AND CONGENITAL ANOMALIES (2005) (2)
Studying human fertility (letter). (2004) (1)
Classification loss function for parameter ensembles in Bayesian hierarchical models (2011) (1)
Bayesian Modelling for Estimating Adverse Health Effects of Exposure to Multiple Air Pollutants in a Time Series Framework (2013) (1)
SPATIAL VARIATIONS IN CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE RESPIRATORY DISEASE MORTALITY IN THE UK (2004) (1)
Daytime and night-time aircraft noise and cardiovascular disease near Heathrow airport in London (2014) (1)
Online appendix for: âEvaluating the No Cold Calling zones in Peterborough, England: application of a novel statistical method for evaluating neighbourhood policing policiesâ (2014) (1)
Bayesian methods for Small Area Estimation using spatio-temporal models (2006) (1)
Bayesian Statistics, Small Area Estimation and why no one is poor in Sweden (2007) (0)
Regression Discontinuity Design and Policy Evaluation: an Evaluation of Smoke Free Legislation on Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes (2014) (0)
Solid Fuel Use and Children??s Respiratory Health - New Insights From 51 Countries: (2006) (0)
A Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Model For Policy Evaluation: A Novel Method For The Evaluation Of Waste Incineration Regulations On Birth Outcomes In England, Wales And Scotland (2015) (0)
Quantile regression with aggregated data (2012) (0)
Was Bristol an outlier? Reply (2001) (0)
Bayesian Small Area Estimation for policy making and policy assessment (2008) (0)
Was Bristol an outlier? (2001) (0)
Bayesian hierarchical models for small area data with applications in social science (2011) (0)
Congenital heart disease Hyponatraemia : a strong predictor of mortality in adults with congenital heart disease (2010) (0)
Reducing Bias From Several Missing Confounders Using External ValidationData (2010) (0)
Introduction to Markov chain Monte Carlo methods (2012) (0)
Multivariate Bayesian modelling of several diseases in space and time (2006) (0)
Adapting econometric causal effect estimators to the public health arena (2009) (0)
BaySTDetect: Detecting unusual temporal patterns in small area disease rates using Bayesian posterior model probabilities (2012) (0)
Use of a novel Bayesian borrowing statistical method to assess efficacy of mepolizumab in adolescents (2020) (0)
Adult cancers near overhead powerlines (2007) (0)
Data-Driven Prior Distributions for A Bayesian Phase-2 COPD Dose-Finding Clinical Trial (2018) (0)
Introduction to methods for analysis of combined individual and aggregate social science data (2011) (0)
A retrospective cohort study of water disinfection by-products and adverse human birth outcomes in Great Britain (2000) (0)
CHANGES IN WOMEN’S WATER USAGE DURING PREGNANCY IN THE BORN-INBRADFORD (BIB) COHORT (2011) (0)
Smoke-Free Legislation and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in England (2014) (0)
Studying human fertility and environmental exposures (multiple letters) [1] (2004) (0)
ESRC Summer School Workshop on Multilevel Modelling using MLwiN and WinBUGS (2005) (0)
Water Chlorination By-Products and Congenital Anomalies in the United Kingdom (2006) (0)
Risk of Low Birth Weight in Relation to Trihalomethane Concentrations in Public Water Supply: A National Study Using Multiple Data Sources (2009) (0)
Handling drop-outs which imply a change of treatment: an evaluation of reference-based imputation (2015) (0)
Case-Control Study of Cancer Incidence in Early Childhood and Proximity to Mobile Phone Base Stations: Estimates of Exposure (2006) (0)
BAYESIAN DATA ANALYSIS. (1996) (0)
Monitoring of mortality rates in primary care. Authors' reply (2003) (0)
The Relationship Between Exposure To Trihalomethanes And Haloacetic Acids In Drinking Water During Pregnancy And Term Birth Weight In A Multi-Ethnic Cohort In The UK (2015) (0)
Water Chlorination By-Products and Congenital Anomalies in England and Wales (2007) (0)
RELATION OF INDIVIDUAL TRIHALOMETHANE CONCENTRATIONS IN PUBLIC WATER SUPPLIES TO STILLBIRTH AND BIRTH WEIGHT PREVALENCE IN THREE WATER REGIONS (2004) (0)
Case Control Study of Cancer Incidence in Childhood and Proximity to Mobile Phone Base Stations (2007) (0)

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