D G Altman

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Affiliation: Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Statistical reviewing for medical journals
    D G Altman
    ICRF Medical Statistics Group, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, U K
    Stat Med 17:2661-74. 1998
  2. ncbi What do we mean by validating a prognostic model?
    D G Altman
    ICRF Medical Statistics Group, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
    Stat Med 19:453-73. 2000
  3. ncbi Statistics in medical journals: some recent trends
    D G Altman
    ICRF Medical Statistics Group, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
    Stat Med 19:3275-89. 2000
  4. ncbi Methodological challenges in the evaluation of prognostic factors in breast cancer
    D G Altman
    Imperial Cancer Research Fund Medical Statistics Group, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, UK
    Breast Cancer Res Treat 52:289-303. 1998
  5. ncbi Teaching non-specialist health care professionals how to identify the atypical mole syndrome phenotype: a multinational study
    J A Bishop
    ICRF Cancer Medicine Research Unit, St James s University Hospital, Leeds, UK
    Br J Dermatol 142:331-7. 2000
  6. ncbi Time trends in breast cancer survival: experience in a single centre, 1975-89
    M J Bradburn
    Imperial Cancer Research Fund Medical Statistics Group, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, UK
    Br J Cancer 77:1944-9. 1998
  7. ncbi Reporting of prognostic studies of tumour markers: a review of published articles in relation to REMARK guidelines
    S Mallett
    Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6UD, UK
    Br J Cancer 102:173-80. 2010
  8. ncbi Evaluating non-randomised intervention studies
    J J Deeks
    Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, UK
    Health Technol Assess 7:iii-x, 1-173. 2003
  9. ncbi Survival analysis part IV: further concepts and methods in survival analysis
    T G Clark
    Cancer Research UK/NHS Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
    Br J Cancer 89:781-6. 2003
  10. ncbi Survival analysis Part III: multivariate data analysis -- choosing a model and assessing its adequacy and fit
    M J Bradburn
    Cancer Research UK/NHS Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
    Br J Cancer 89:605-11. 2003

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  1. ncbi Statistical reviewing for medical journals
    D G Altman
    ICRF Medical Statistics Group, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, U K
    Stat Med 17:2661-74. 1998
    ..I suggest how to present and structure the reviewer's report to the editor. Finally, I consider wider issues, including the various other ways in which statisticians can interact with medical journals...
  2. ncbi What do we mean by validating a prognostic model?
    D G Altman
    ICRF Medical Statistics Group, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
    Stat Med 19:453-73. 2000
    ..We illustrate the issues using several case studies...
  3. ncbi Statistics in medical journals: some recent trends
    D G Altman
    ICRF Medical Statistics Group, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
    Stat Med 19:3275-89. 2000
    ..I also consider developments in the reporting of research in medical journals...
  4. ncbi Methodological challenges in the evaluation of prognostic factors in breast cancer
    D G Altman
    Imperial Cancer Research Fund Medical Statistics Group, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, UK
    Breast Cancer Res Treat 52:289-303. 1998
    ..Guidelines are proposed for conducting and evaluating prognostic factor studies which should improve the quality of research in this important area...
  5. ncbi Teaching non-specialist health care professionals how to identify the atypical mole syndrome phenotype: a multinational study
    J A Bishop
    ICRF Cancer Medicine Research Unit, St James s University Hospital, Leeds, UK
    Br J Dermatol 142:331-7. 2000
    ..Accurate diagnosis of the atypical mole syndrome phenotype is possible by non-specialists. This has implications for collaborative studies of naevi, for screening and for both primary and secondary prevention of melanoma...
  6. ncbi Time trends in breast cancer survival: experience in a single centre, 1975-89
    M J Bradburn
    Imperial Cancer Research Fund Medical Statistics Group, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, UK
    Br J Cancer 77:1944-9. 1998
    ..We cannot explain an apparently worse survival in the group of patients presenting in the early 1980s compared with that observed in the late 1970s...
  7. ncbi Reporting of prognostic studies of tumour markers: a review of published articles in relation to REMARK guidelines
    S Mallett
    Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6UD, UK
    Br J Cancer 102:173-80. 2010
    ..Poor reporting compromises the reliability and clinical value of prognostic tumour marker studies. We review articles to assess the reporting of patients and events using REMARK guidelines, at the time of guideline publication...
  8. ncbi Evaluating non-randomised intervention studies
    J J Deeks
    Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, UK
    Health Technol Assess 7:iii-x, 1-173. 2003
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  9. ncbi Survival analysis part IV: further concepts and methods in survival analysis
    T G Clark
    Cancer Research UK/NHS Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
    Br J Cancer 89:781-6. 2003
  10. ncbi Survival analysis Part III: multivariate data analysis -- choosing a model and assessing its adequacy and fit
    M J Bradburn
    Cancer Research UK/NHS Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
    Br J Cancer 89:605-11. 2003
  11. ncbi Survival analysis part I: basic concepts and first analyses
    T G Clark
    Cancer Research UK/NHS Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
    Br J Cancer 89:232-8. 2003
  12. ncbi A prognostic model for ovarian cancer
    T G Clark
    ICRF Medical Statistics Group, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Old Road, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
    Br J Cancer 85:944-52. 2001
    ..This model is consistent with other models in the ovarian cancer literature; it has better predictive ability and, after simplification and validation, could be used in clinical practice...
  13. ncbi Randomised trial of educational visits to enhance use of systematic reviews in 25 obstetric units
    J C Wyatt
    Imperial Cancer Research Fund Medical Statistics Group, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF
    BMJ 317:1041-6. 1998
    ..To evaluate the effectiveness of an educational visit to help obstetricians and midwives select and use evidence from a Cochrane database containing 600 systematic reviews...
  14. ncbi A catalogue of reporting guidelines for health research
    I Simera
    University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Eur J Clin Invest 40:35-53. 2010
    ..This paper presents a collection of tools and guidelines available on the EQUATOR website (http://www.equator-network.org) that have been developed to increase the accuracy and transparency of health research reporting...