J A C Sterne

Biographic Data

ID6163820
NAMEJ A C Sterne
GIVEN NAMESJ A C
FAMILY NAMESterne
SIGNATURESTERNE J A C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Bristol
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX2

  • Changes in the geography of suicide in young men

    David Gunnell, B Wheeler et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2012Cited by: 3References: 22

    BACKGROUND: Suicide rates changed considerably in men aged <45 years in England and Wales between 1980 and 2005. The impact of these changes on the geographic distribution of suicide is unknown. METHODS: Mapping of geo-coded standardised mortality ratios for suicide in 1113 census tracts (mean population 46 000) in England and Wales, smoothed using Bayesian hierarchical models, for 15-44 year old men during 1981-1985, 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. RES…

  • The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

    Open AccessJulian P T Higgins, D G Altman et al.ARTICLEBMJ2011

    Flaws in the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of randomised trials can cause the effect of an intervention to be underestimated or overestimated. The Cochrane Collaboration’s tool for assessing risk of bias aims to make the process clearer and more accurate

  • Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials

    Open AccessJonathan Sterne, J A C Sterne et al.ARTICLEBMJ2011

    Funnel plots, and tests for funnel plot asymmetry, have been widely used to examine bias in the results of meta-analyses. Funnel plot asymmetry should not be equated with publication bias, because it has a number of other possible causes. This article describes how to interpret funnel plot asymmetry, recommends appropriate tests, and explains the implications for choice of meta-analysis model

  • Multiple imputation for missing data in epidemiological and clinical research

    Open AccessJonathan Sterne, J A C Sterne et al.ARTICLEBMJ2009

    Most studies have some missing data. Jonathan Sterne and colleagues describe the appropriate use and reporting of the multiple imputation approach to dealing with them

  • Birth characteristics of offspring and parental diabetes

    Gregory D Smith, J A C Sterne et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2004Cited by: 3References: 4

    Birth weight of people is related to their risk of noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), which may reflect intra-uterine programming of disease risk, or common genetic factors related both to birth weight and to NIDDM risk.The latter has been called the ''fetal insulin hypothesis''. 1Currently there is little direct evidence for this hypothesis, although two studies have shown an inverse association between fathers' risk of diabetes and…

  • Sifting the evidence---what's wrong with significance tests? Another comment on the role of statistical methods

    Open AccessJonathan Sterne, J A C SterneARTICLEBMJ2001

    The findings of medical research are often met with considerable scepticism, even when they have apparently come from studies with sound methodologies that have been subjected to appropriate statistical analysis. This is perhaps particularly the case with respect to epidemiological findings that suggest that some aspect of everyday life is bad for people. Indeed, one recent popular history, the medical journalist James Le Fanu's The Rise and Fall…

  • Individual employment histories and subsequent cause specific hospital admissions and mortality

    C Metcalfe, G Davey Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2001Cited by: 1References: 1

    It is a widely held view that the labour market is demanding increased levels of flexibility, and that this is causing greater psychosocial stress among employees.1 Such stress may affect health, either through neuroendocrine pathways, or through increases in behaviours linked with poor health.2 Previously we presented evidence linking an unstable employment history, as measured by a greater number of job changes and shorter duration of current j…