Browne, W.J.,Golalizadeh Lahi, M. and Parker, R.M.A (2009). A Guide to Sample Size Calculations for Random Effect Models via Simulation and the MLPowSim Software Package. University of Bristol
Browne, W.J. (2009). MCMC Estimation in MLwiN (Version 2.10) Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol
Rasbash, J., Steele, F., Browne, W.J. and Goldstein, H. (2009). A user's guide to MLwiN (Version 2.10). Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol.
A user's guide to MLwiN manual
Lawson, A.B., Browne W.J., and Vidal Rodeiro, C.L. (2003). Disease Mapping using WinBUGS and MLwiN Wiley. London.
Worksheets and more info on the following page Disease Mapping files
Rasbash, J., Goldstein, H., Browne, W. J., Yang, M and Woodhouse, G. (2000). The MLwiN command interface (Version 1.3).
The MLwiN command interface manual (Version 1.3)
Bradshaw, J.W.S., Cooke, C.E., Robertson, N.C.E., and Browne, W.J. (2012) Competitive relationships among a colony of castrated male domestic dogs. Submitted.
Brignell, C.J., Browne, W.J., Dryden, I.L. and Francis, S.T. (2012). Statistical Modelling of single trial variability in fMRI. Submitted.
Browne, W.J., Akkol, S. and Goldstein, H. (2012). MCMC algorithms for structured multivariate normal models. Submitted.
Goldstein, H., Carpenter, J. and Browne, W.J. (2012). Fitting multilevel multivariate models with missing data in responses and covariates that may include interactions and nonlinear terms. Submitted.
Holt,H.R., Collins, L.M., Asher, L., Browne, W.J., Pfeiffer, D.U., Statham, P., Caplen, G. and Nicol, C.J. (2012) Fractal analysis of laying hens’ movements: associations with environment and welfare indicators. Submitted.
Holt,H.R., Collins, L.M., Asher, L., Browne, W.J., Statham, P., Caplen, G., Pfeiffer, D.U. and Nicol, C.J. (2012) Let's get together: factors associated with hens’ tendency to cluster. Submitted.
Kostoulas P., Nielsen S.S., Browne W.J. and Leontides, L. (2012). Variance partition coefficients in sample size estimastion. Submitted.
Madouasse, A., Huxley, J.N., Browne, W.J., Bradley, A.J. and Green, M.J. (2012). Characteristics of Individual Cow Milk Yield and Constituents in England and Wales. Submitted.
Main, D.C.J, Mullan, S., Atkinson, C., Bond, A., Cooper, M., Fraser, A. and Browne, W.J. (2012) Welfare outcome assessments in laying hen farm assurance schemes. Submitted.
Szmaragd, C., Green, L.E., Medley, G.E., Mitchell, A., Upton, P., Browne, W.J. (2012). Making the best use of survey and trapping data to predict wildlife population numbers in the field. Submitted.
Tranmer, M., Steel, D. and Browne, W.J., (2012). Multiple Membership Models for Social Network and Group Dependencies. Submitted.
Visser, L.C., Keene, B.W., Mathews, K.G., Browne, W.J., and Chanoit, G. (2012). Outcomes and Complications associated with Epicardial pacemakers in 28 dogs and 5 cats (2005-2010). Submitted.
Yang, H., Michaelides D.T., Charlton, C., Browne, W.J., and Moreau L. (2012) DEEP: A Provenance-Aware Executable Document System. Submitted
Sugiyama, T. Meakin, L.B., Browne, W.J., Galea, G.L., Price, J.S. and Lanyon, L.E. (2012) Bones’ adaptive response to mechanical loading is essentially linear between the low strains associated with disuse and the high strains associated with the lamellar/woven bone transition. To appear in JBMR.
Madouasse, A., Browne, W.J., Huxley, J.N., Fausto, T., Bradley, A.J. and Green M.J. (2012). Risk factors for a high somatic cell count at the first milk recording in a large sample of UK dairy herds. Journal of Dairy Science95: 1873-1884
Risk factors for cell count dynamics paper
Madouasse, A., Browne, W.J., Huxley, J.N., Fausto, T., and Green, M.J. (2012) A semi-parametric model for lactation curves: Development and application. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 105:38-48
Browne, W.J., Caplan, G., Statham, P. and Nicol, C.J. (2011). Mild environmental aversion is detected by a discrete-choice preference testing method but not by a free-access method. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 134 pp152-163
Collins, L.M., Asher, L., Pfeiffer, D.U., Browne, W.J., Nicol, C.J. (2011) Clustering and Synchrony in laying hens: The effect of environmental resources on social dynamics. Applied Animal Behaviour Science . 129, 43-53
Gines, A., Friend, E.J., Vives, M.A., Browne, W.J., Tarlton, J.F. and Chanoit, G. (2011) Mechanical comparison of median sternotomy closure in dogs using polydioxanone and wire sutures. Journal of Small Animal Practice 52 pp582-586
Kilkenny, C., Browne, W.J, Cuthill, I., Emerson, M., and Altman, D. (2011) Animal Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments: The ARRIVE Guidelines Journal of Cerebral blood flow and metabolism 31: 991-993
ARRIVE guidelines (co-publication)
Masaoud, E., Stryhn, H., Whyte, S. and Browne, W.J., (2011) Statistical Modelling of Neighbour Treatment Effects in Aquaculture Clinical Trials. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics. 16: 202-220
Fish cross-classified/multiple membership paper
Nicol, C.J., Caplen, G., Davies, A., Statham, P. and Browne, W.J. (2011) Decisions about foraging and risk trade-offs in chickens are associated with individual somatic response profile. Animal Behaviour 82: 255-262
Chicken welfare indicators expt 2 paper
Nicol, C.J., Caplen, G., Edgar, J., Richards, G. and Browne, W.J. (2011) Relationships between multiple welfare indicators measured in individual chickens across different time periods and environments. Animal Welfare 20, 133-143
Welfare indicator cluster analysis paper
Brignell, C.J., Dryden, I.L., Gattone, S.A., Park, B., Leask, S., Browne, W.J. and Flynn, S. (2010). Surface shape analysis with an application to brain cortical surface analysis in schizophrenia. Biostatistics. 11: 609-630
Browne, W.J., Caplen, G., Edgar, J., Wilson, L.R. and Nicol, C.J. (2010) Consistency, transitivity and inter-relationships between measures of choice in environmental preference tests with chickens. Behavioural Processes 83: 72-78.
Browne, W.J., Dryden, I.L., Handley, K., Mian, S. and Schadendorf, D. (2010) Mixed effect modelling of proteomic mass spectrometry data using Gaussian mixtures. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C. 59, 617-633
Browne, W.J. and Goldstein, H. (2010). MCMC sampling for a Multilevel model with nonindependent residuals within and between cluster units. Journal of Educational and Behavioural Statistics. 35: 453-473
MCMC for nonindepenent residuals paper
Green, M.J., Medley, G.E., Bradley, A.J. and Browne, W.J. (2010) Management interventions in dairy herds: Exploring within herd uncertainty using an integrated Bayesian model.Veterinary Research. 41:22
Integrated Bayesian modelling paper
Kilkenny, C., Browne, W.J, Cuthill, I., Emerson, M., and Altman, D. (2010) Improving bioscience research reporting - ARRIVE-ing at a solution. PLoS Biology 8(6): e1000412. doi:10.1371/ journal.pbio.1000412
Co-published as follows:Kilkenny, C., Browne, W.J, Cuthill, I., Emerson, M., and Altman, D. (2010) Animal Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments: The ARRIVE Guidelines The Journal of Gene Medicine 12: 561-563
Kilkenny, C., Browne, W.J, Cuthill, I., Emerson, M., and Altman, D. (2010) Animal Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments: The ARRIVE Guidelines British Journal of Pharmacology 160: 1577-1579
Kostoulas P., Nielsen S.S., Browne W.J. and Leontides, L. (2010) A Bayesian Weibull survival model for time to infection data measured with delay. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 94: 191-201
Madouasse, A., Huxley, J.N., Browne, W.J., Bradley, A.J. and Green, M.J. (2010) Somatic Cell Count dynamics in a large sample of dairy herds in England and Wales. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 96: 56-64
Madouasse, A., Huxley, J.N., Browne, W.J., Bradley, A.J., Dryden, I.L. and Green, M.J. (2010). Use of individual cow milk recording data at the start of lactation to predict the calving to conception interval. Journal of Dairy Science. 93: 4677-4690
Predicting calving to conception paper
Madouasse, A., Huxley, J.N., Browne, W.J., Bradley, A.J. and Green, M.J. (2010) Can We Use Milk Recording Data to Predict Reproduction? An Improvement on the Fat to Protein Ratio. Cattle Practice 18(2), 83-88
Main D.C.J., Barker, Z.E., Leach, K.A., Bell, N.J., Whay, H.R. and Browne, W.J. (2010) Sampling strategies for monitoring lameness in dairy cattle. Journal of Dairy Science. 93. 1970-1978
Murray, J.K., Browne W.J., Roberts,M.A., Whitmarsh, A. and Gruffydd-Jones, T.J. (2010) Owned cats and dogs in the UK: who owns them and how many are there in England and Wales? Vet Record. 166: 163-168
Browne, W.J., Steele F., Golalizadeh, M., and Green M.J. (2009) The use of simple reparameterizations to improve the efficiency of Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation for multilevel models with applications to discrete time survival models Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series A. 172: 579-598
Browne, W.J., and Steele F. (2009) Editorial: Recent advances in multilevel modelling methodology and applications Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series A. 172: 535-536
Browne, W.J., and Stryhn, H. (2009) Introduction to Bayesian Analysis. In Veterinary Epidemiologic Research (2nd Edition) p 637-662 Eds. Dohoo, I, Martin, S.W. and Stryhn, H.
Green, M.J., Browne, W.J., Green, L.E., Bradley, A.J., Leach, K.A., Breen, J.E. and Medley, G.F. (2009) Bayesian Analysis of a Mastitis Control Plan to Investigate the Influence of Veterinary Prior Beliefs on Clinical Interpretation. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 91 209-217
Green, M.J., Medley, G.F. and Browne, W.J. (2009). A Comparison of Methods of Posterior Predictive Assessment in Multilevel Logistic Regression using an Example from Veterinary Medicine. Veterinary Research. 40:30
Kostoulas P., Leontides L., Browne W. J., Gardner I.A (2009). Bayesian estimation of variance partition coefficients adjusted for imperfect test sensitivity and specificity. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 89: 155-162
Mullan, S., Browne, W.J., Edwards, S.A., Butterworth, A., Whay, H.R. and Main, D.C.J. (2009) The effect of sampling strategy on the estimated prevalence of welfare outcome measures on finishing pig farms. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 119: 39-48
Nicol, C.J., Caplen, G., Edgar, J. and Browne, W.J. (2009) Associations between welfare indicators and environmental choice in laying hens. Animal Behaviour 78 413-424
Chicken welfare indicator paper
Taylor, S.S., Goodfellow, M.R., Browne, W.J., Walding, B., Murphy, A., Tzannes, S., Gerou-Ferriani, M., Schwartz, A. and Dobson, J.M. (2009). Feline extranodal lymphoma: response to chemotherapy and survival in 110 cats. 2009 Journal of Small Animal Practice. 50: 584-592
Cow, Farm, and Herd Management Factors
Littin KE., Acevedo A., Browne, W., Edgar JL., Mendl M., Owen, D., Sherwin CM., Würbel H., Nicol CJ. (2008) Towards Humane Endpoints: Behavioural Changes Precede Clinical Signs of Disease in a Huntington's Disease Model. Proc Roy Soc B. 275: 1865 -1874Rasbash J. and Browne W. J. (2008). Non-Hierarchical Multilevel Models. De Leeuw, J. and Meijer, E. (Eds.), Handbook of Quantitative Multilevel Analysis.
Non-Hierarchical Multilevel Models
Browne, W.J., McCleery, R.H., Sheldon, B.C., and Pettifor, R.A. (2007). Using cross-classified multivariate mixed response models with application to life history traits in great tits (Parus major). Statistical Modelling 7: 217-238
Statistical analysis of great tit data paper
Green M, Huxley J, Madouasse A, Browne W, Medley G, Bradley A, Biggs A, Breen J, Burnell M, Hayton A, Husband J, Reader J, Statham J and Thorne M, (2007). Making Good Decisions on Dry Cow Management to Improve Udder Health - Synthesising Evidence in a Bayesian Framework. Cattle Practice 15:201-206.
Green, M.J., Bradley, A.J., Medley, G.F. and Browne, W.J. (2007). Cow, Farm, and Management Factors During the Dry Period that Determine the Rate of Clinical Mastitis After Calving. Journal of Dairy Science 90:3764-3776.
Cow, Farm, and Management Factors
Jang M.J, Lee, Y. Lawson A.B., and Browne, W.J.(2007). A comparison of the hierarchical likelihood and Bayesian approaches to spatial epidemiological modelling. Environmetrics 18: 809-821.
Hierarchical likelihood and Bayesian comparison paper
Browne, W. J. (2006). MCMC Algorithms for constrained variance matrices. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 50: 1655-1677.
MCMC Algorithms for constrained variance matrices paper
Browne, W.J. (2006). Discussion of "Sentencing Convicted Felons in the United States: A Bayesian Analysis Using Multilevel Covariates by I. Pardoe and R.R. Weidner" Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 136: 1462-1465.
Discussion of Pardoe and Weidner
Browne, W. J. and Draper, D. (2006). A comparison of Bayesian and likelihood-based methods for fitting multilevel models. Bayesian Analysis 1: 473-550
A comparison of Bayesian and likelihood-based methods for fitting multilevel models paper
Green, M.J., Bradley, A.J., Newton, H. and Browne, W.J. (2006) Seasonal Variation of Bulk Milk Somatic Cell Counts in UK dairy herds: Investigations of the Summer Rise. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 74 (4): 293-308
Seasonal Variation of Bulk Milk SCC
Browne, W. J., Subramanian, S. V., Jones, K., and Goldstein, H. (2005). Variance partitioning in multilevel logistic models that exhibit over-dispersion. Journal of the Royal Statistics Society, Series A. 168: 599-614.
VPC in multilevel logistic models that exhibit over-dispersion paper
Goldstein, H., and Browne, W. J. (2005). Multilevel Factor Analysis Models for Continuous and Discrete Data. In Maydeu-Olivares, A and McArdle, J.J. (Eds.), Contemporary psychometrics: a festschrift for Roderick P. McDonald, p 453-475. Lawrence Erlbaum, New Jersey
Multilevel factor analysis models for continuous and discrete data paper
Browne, W.J. (2004). An illustration of the use of reparameterisation methods for improving MCMC efficiency in crossed random effect models. Multilevel Modelling Newsletter. 16(1):13-25.
Reparameterisation in MCMC paper.
Browne, W. J. and Rasbash, J. (2004). Multilevel Modelling. In Bryman, A. and Hardy, M. (Eds.), Handbook of Data Analysis 459-479. London. Sage Publications.
Molyneux, A., Lewis, S., Antoniak, M., Browne, W.J., McNeill, A., Godfrey, C., Madeley, R., and Britton, J. (2004). Prospective study of the effect of exposure to other smokers in high school tutor groups on the risk of incident smoking in adolescence. American Journal of Epidemiology 159: 127-132.
Steele, F., Goldstein, H., and Browne, W. J. (2004). A General Multilevel Multistate Competing Risks Model for Event History Data, with an Application to a Study of Contraceptive Use Dynamics Statistical Modelling. 4: 145-159.
A General Multilevel Multistate Competing Risks Model for Event History Data paper
Simonite, V., and Browne, W. J. (2003). Estimation of a large cross-classified multilevel model to study academic achievement in a modular degree course. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, A. 166: 119-134.
Cross-classified modular degree paper
Blatchford, P., Goldstein, H., Martin, C., and Browne, W. J. (2002). A study of class size effects in English school reception year classes. British Educational Research Journal, 28: 169-185.
Browne, W. J., Draper, D., Goldstein, H. and Rasbash, J. (2002). Bayesian and likelihood methods for fitting multilevel models with complex level-1 variation. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 39: 203-225.
Bayesian and likelihood methods for fitting multilevel models with complex level-1 variation paper
Goldstein, H., Browne, W. J and Rasbash, J. (2002). Partitioning variation in multilevel models. Understanding Statistics 1: 223-232.
Partitioning variation in multilevel models paper
Goldstein, H., Browne, W. J., and Rasbash, J. (2002). Multilevel modelling of medical data. Statistics in Medicine, 21: 3291-3315.
Multilevel modelling of medical data paper
Goldstein, H. and Browne, W. J. (2002). Multilevel factor analysis modelling using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) estimation. In Marcoulides and Moustaki (Eds.), Latent Variable and Latent Structure Models, pp 225-243. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Multilevel factor analysis modelling
Yang, M., Goldstein, H., Browne, W. J. and Woodhouse, G. (2002). Multivariate multilevel analysis of examination results. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, A, 165: 137-153.
Multivariate multilevel analysis of examination results paper
Browne, W. J., Goldstein, H., Woodhouse, G., and Yang, M. (2001). An MCMC algorithm for adjusting for errors in variables in random slopes multilevel models. Multilevel Modelling Newsletter, 13 (1): 4-10.
Browne, W. J., Goldstein, H. and Rasbash, J. (2001). Multiple membership multiple classification (MMMC) models. Statistical Modelling 1: 103-124
Multiple membership multiple classification (MMMC) models paper
Rasbash, J. and Browne, W. J. (2001). Modelling Non-Hierarchical Structures. In Leyland, A. H. and Goldstein, H. (Eds.), Multilevel Modelling of Health Statistics, 93-105. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
Modelling Non-Hierarchical Structures
Goldstein, H., Rasbash, J., Browne, W. J., Woodhouse, G. and Poulain, M. (2000). Multilevel Models in the Study of Dynamic Household Structures. European Journal of Population, 16.
Multilevel models in the study of dynamic household structures
Browne, W. J. and Draper, D. (2000). Implementation and performance issues in the Bayesian and likelihood fitting of multilevel models. Computational Statistics, 15: 391-420.
Browne, W. J. (1998). Applying MCMC Methods to Multi-level Models. PhD thesis University of Bath.
Applying MCMC Methods to Multi-level Models paper
Browne, W. J. (1995). Applications of Hierarchical Modelling. MSc thesis University of Bath.
Applications of Hierarchical Modelling paper
Dryden, I.L., Mian, S., Browne, W.J, Handley, K., di Nisio, R. and Rees, R. (2005). Statistical Analysis of Surface-Enhanced Laser Desorption/Ionization (SELDI) Protein Chip Data from Breast Cancer Cell Lines exposed to Chemotherapeutic Agents. Nottingham Statistics Research report 05-02.
Statistical analysis of SELDI cell lines paper
Sheldon, B.C., Pettifor, R.A., Browne, W.J., Rasbash, J. and McCleery, R.H. (2003). Partitioning of covariance among life-history traits in the great tit Parus major. Nottingham Statistics Research report 03-08.
Partitioning of covariance paper
Pettifor, R.A., Sheldon, B.C., Browne, W.J., Rasbash, J. and McCleery, R.H. (2003). Partitioning of phenotypic variance in life-history traits in the Great Tit, Parus major. Nottingham Statistics Research report 03-07.
Partitioning the sources of phenotypic variance paper
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