Journal articles


Nicholas T. Longford


  • Bayesian decision making about small binomial rates with uncertainty about the prior.
    The American Statistician 64, 164-169, 2010.

  • Small-sample inference about variance and its transformations. SORT, Journal of the Catalan Statistical Institute, 34, 3-20, 2010.

  • Small-area estimation with spatial similarity. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 54, 1151-1166, 2010.

  • Estimation of the effect size in meta-analysis with few studies. Statistics in Medicine 29, 421-430, 2010.

  • Efficient estimation of the standardized value. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 34, 522-529, 2009.

  • Analysis of all-zero binomial outcomes. Journal of Applied Statistics 36, 1151-1166, 2010.

  • Analysis of all-zero binomial outcomes. Journal of Applied Statistics 36, 1259-1265, 2009.

  • The impact of handling missing data on alcohol consumption estimates in the UK Women's Cohort Study
    (with U. Nur, J.E. Cade and D.C. Greenwood). European Journal of Epidemiology 24, 589-595, 2009.

  • Inference with the lognormal distribution. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 139, 2329-2340, 2009.

  • An application of shrinkage to dealing with extreme observations, Statistics in Transition 9, 197-206, 2008.

  • An alternative analysis of variance, SORT (Journal of the Catalan Institute of Statistics), 32, 77-91, 2008.

  • On standard errors of model-based small-area estimators. Survey Methodology, 33, 69-79, 2007.

  • Stability of household income in European countries in the 1990's (with M. Grazia Pittau).
    Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 1364-1383, 2006

  • Sample size calculation for small-area estimation. Survey Methodology, 32, 87-96, 2006.

  • Analysis of a long-term study of neurotic disorder, with insights into the process of non-response
    (with P. Tyrer, U. Nur and H. Seivewright). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Ser. A 168, 507-523, 2006.

  • Using small-area estimates. Statistics in Transition 7, 715-735, 2005.

  • Dealing with incomplete data in questionnaires of food and alcohol consumption.
    Statistics in Transition 7, 111-134, 2005.

  • Editorial: Model selection and efficiency. Is `Which model ...?' the right question?
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Ser. A 168, 469-472, 2005.

  • On selection and composition in small-area and mapping problems.
    Statistical Methods in Medical Research 14, 3-16, 2005.

  • Missing data and small area estimation in the UK Labour Force Survey.
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Ser. A 167, 341-373, 2004.

  • An alternative to model selection in ordinary regression.
    Statistics and Computing 13, 67-80, 2003.

  • Estimation of the rates and composition of employment in Norwegian municipalities.
    Journal of Official Statistics 17, 391-406, 2001.

  • Multilevel analysis with messy data.
    Statistical Methods in Medical Research 10, 429-444, 2001.

  • Synthetic estimators with moderating influence: carryover in crossover trials revisited.
    Statistics in Medicine 20, 3189-3203, 2001.

  • Attitudes to immigration in an international social survey.
    Statistics in Transition 5, 267-280, 2001.

  • Simulation-based diagnostics in random coefficient models.
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Ser. A 164, 259-273, 2001.

  • Handling missing data in diaries of alcohol consumption (with M. Ely, R. Hardy and M. Wadsworth).
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Ser. A 163, 381-402, 2000.

  • On estimating standard errors in multilevel analysis.
    The Statistician 49, 389-398, 2000.

  • An alternative definition of individual bioequivalence.
    Statistica Neerlandica 54, 14-36, 2000.

  • An experiment in primary health-care provision.
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Ser. A 162, 292-301, 1999.

  • Statistics versus statistical science in the regulatory process (with J. A. Nelder).
    Statistics in Medicine 18, 2311-2320, 1999.

  • Selection bias and treatment heterogeneity in clinical trials.
    Statistics in Medicine 18, 1467-1474, 1999.

  • Multivariate shrinkage estimation of small area means and proportions.
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Ser. A 162, 227-245, 1999.

  • Monitoring the university admissions process in Spain (with A. Cuxart i Jardi).
    Higher Education in Europe 23, 385-396, 1998.

  • A two-level regression model for comparing growth curves of crossed correlated treatment measures (with M. M. Ojeda).
    Biometrical Journal 40, 447-454, 1998.

  • Count data and treatment heterogeneity in 2x2 crossover trials.
    Applied Statistics 46, 217-229, 1998.

  • Shrinkage estimation of linear combinations of true scores.
    Psychometrika 62, 237-244, 1997.

  • Model-based estimation in surveys with stratified clustered design.
    The Australian Journal of Statistics 38, 333-352, 1996.

  • Small-area prediction using adjustment for covariates.
    Questio 20, 187-212, 1996. Statistical Institute of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

  • Reconciling experts' differences in setting cut-scores for pass/fail decisions.
    Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 21, 203-213, 1996.


    June 2010.