Applied Statistics
Transmission of bovine tuberculosis
Is There an Association between Levels of Bovine Tuberculosis in Cattle Herds and Badgers? (with Jim Hone), Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases (2011)
Wildlife diseases can have undesirable effects on wildlife, on livestock and people. Bovine tuberculosis (TB)...
Local Cattle and Badger Populations Affect the Risk of Confirmed Tuberculosis in British Cattle Herds (with Flavie Vial and W. Thomas Johnston), PLoS ONE (2011)
The Duration of the Effects of Repeated Widespread Badger Culling on Cattle Tuberculosis Following the Cessation of Culling (with Helen E. Jenkins and Rosie Woodroffe), PLoS ONE (2010)
Epidemiology of BSE and other prion diseases
Recent trends in the BSE epidemic (with Azra C. Ghani, Neil M. Ferguson, and Roy M. Anderson), Nature (1997)
Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of BSE in British cattle (with Roy M. Anderson, Neil M. Ferguson, Mark E. Woolhouse, C J. Watt, H J. Udy, S MaWhinney, S P. Dunstan, T R. Southwood, J W. Wilesmith, J B. Ryan, L J. Hoinville, J E. Hillerton, A R. Austin, and G A. Wells), Nature (1996)
Epidemiology of Infectious Disease
Low Diversity Cryptococcus neoformans Variety grubii Multilocus Sequence Types from Thailand Are Consistent with an Ancestral African Origin (with Sitali Simwami, Kantarawee Khayhan, Daniel A. Henk, David M. Aanensen, Teun Boekhout, Ferry Hagen, Annemarie E. Brouwer, Thomas S. Harrison, and Matthew C. Fisher), PLoS Pathogens (2011)
Survival Analysis
Nonparametric Estimation of the Case Fatality Ratio with Competing Risks Data: An Application to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndome (SARS) (with Nicholas P. Jewell, Xiudong Lei, A. C. Ghani, G. M. Leung, L. M. Ho, B. Cowling, and A. J. Hedley), U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series (2005)
For diseases with some level of associated mortality, the case fatality ratio measures the proportion...