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Magnetic sentinel lymph node biopsy in a murine tumour model (2015)
Journal Article
Ahmed, M., Woo, T., Ohashi, K., Suzuki, T., Kaneko, A., Hoshino, A., …Sekino, M. (2015). Magnetic sentinel lymph node biopsy in a murine tumour model. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, 12(4), 1045-1052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nano.2015.12.366

The magnetic technique for sentinel node biopsy provides a radioisotope-free alternative for staging breast cancer. It requires refinement to reduce “residual iron content” at injection sites by maximising lymphatic uptake to prevent “void artefacts... Read More about Magnetic sentinel lymph node biopsy in a murine tumour model.

New models for describing outliers in meta-analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Baker, R., & Jackson, D. (2015). New models for describing outliers in meta-analysis. Research Synthesis Methods, 7(3), 314-328. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1191

An unobserved random effect is often used to describe the between-study variation that is apparent in meta-analysis datasets. A normally distributed random effect is conventionally used for this purpose. When outliers or other unusual estimates are... Read More about New models for describing outliers in meta-analysis.

Approximate confidence intervals for moment-based estimators of the between-study variance in random effects meta-analysis (2015)
Journal Article
effects meta-analysis. Research Synthesis Methods, 6(4), 372-382. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1162

Moment-based estimators of the between-study variance are very popular when performing random effects meta-analyses. This type of estimation has many advantages including computational and conceptual simplicity. Furthermore, by using these estimato... Read More about Approximate confidence intervals for moment-based estimators of the between-study variance in random effects meta-analysis.

Deliberations on jury service (2015)
Journal Article
Baker, R. (2015). Deliberations on jury service. Mathematics today, 51(4), 194-185

Mathematical reflections on doing jury duty, emphasizing the probability of being called up for duty, and how improvements could be made. An improved selection method that would avoid some people being called up more than once is discussed.

An empirical Bayes' procedure for ranking players in Ryder Cup golf (2015)
Journal Article
Baker, R., & McHale, I. (2015). An empirical Bayes' procedure for ranking players in Ryder Cup golf. Journal of Applied Statistics, 43(3), 387-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2015.1043869

We describe a model to obtain strengths and rankings of players appearing in golf's Ryder Cup. Obtaining rankings is complicated because of two reasons. First, competitors do not compete on an equal number of occasions, with some competitors appearin... Read More about An empirical Bayes' procedure for ranking players in Ryder Cup golf.

Effects of shoe sole geometry on toe clearance and walking stability in older adults (2015)
Journal Article
Thies, S., Price, C., Kenney, L., & Baker, R. (2015). Effects of shoe sole geometry on toe clearance and walking stability in older adults. Gait & Posture, 42(2), 105-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2015.04.011

Thirty-five percent of people above age 65 fall each year, and half of their falls are associated with tripping: tripping, an apparently ‘mundane’ everyday problem, therefore significantly impacts on older people's health and associated medical costs... Read More about Effects of shoe sole geometry on toe clearance and walking stability in older adults.

Analysing deviation-from-target data : Applying the correct force in Sellick’s maneuver (2015)
Journal Article
Baker, R., Taylor, R., Smurthwaite, G., Kitchen, G., & Mehmood, I. (2015). Analysing deviation-from-target data : Applying the correct force in Sellick’s maneuver. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 25(4), 619-634. https://doi.org/10.1080/10543406.2014.920872

The problem of comparing the deviation from a target of two or more treatments or procedures arises now and again in medicine. Practitioners usually carry out a t-test on a loss function such as absolute error. We have adapted and developed statist... Read More about Analysing deviation-from-target data : Applying the correct force in Sellick’s maneuver.

A cricoid cartilage compression device for the accurate and reproducible application of cricoid pressure (2015)
Journal Article
reproducible application of cricoid pressure. Anaesthesia, 70(1), 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.12829

We describe the development and laboratory assessment of a refined prototype tactile feedback device for the safe and accurate application of cricoid pressure. We recruited 20 operating department practitioners and compared their performance of cri... Read More about A cricoid cartilage compression device for the accurate and reproducible application of cricoid pressure.