Lawrence Joseph
Bayesian statistics


Please Note: Prof. Joseph has retired.
These pages are left up in case they prove
useful, but the pages and software will
no longer be updated. All material and
software is "as is" with no guarantees
of functionality or correctness.
Bayesian Sample Size Change-point methods and applications Diagnostic testing Meta analysis Other topics
Complete CV
Research interests
Courses taught
Previous courses taught
EPIB-607 Principles of Inferential Statistics in Medicine
EPIB-613 Introduction to Statistical Software
EPIB-621 Data Analysis in the Health Sciences
EPIB-651 Bayesian Analysis in Medicine
EPIB-668 Introduction to Bayesian Analysis in the Health Sciences
EPIB-669 Intermediate Bayesian Analysis for the Health Sciences
EPIB-675 Bayesian Analysis in the Health Sciences
EPIB-682 Introduction to Bayesian Analysis in the Health Sciences
EPIB-683 Intermediate Bayesian Analysis for the Health Sciences
Publications
Methodological publications
Bayesian Sample Size
Change-point methods and applications
Diagnostic testing
Meta analysis
Other topics
Medical publications
Allergy and immunology
Asthma
Cardiology
Gastroenterology
Osteoporosis
Quality of Life
Rheumatology
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Book
Bayesian software
Bayesian Sample Size
Change-point methods and applications
Diagnostic testing
Diagnostic testing in Genetics
Links
Dion A, Joseph L, Carini-Gutierrez A, Jimenez V, Shankar H, Ben Ameur A, Robert E, Andersson N.
Innovative methods to support people-centered health systems
International Journal of Public Health 2018;2018:1-6 (epub ahead of print)
Madathil S, Rousseau M, Joseph L, Schlecht N, Castonguay G, Soulières F, Nguyen-Tan P, Hier M, Nicolau B.
Latency of tobacco smoking for head and neck cancer among HPV-positive and HPV-negative individuals
Journal of the National Cancer Institute (Accepted)
Lavoué J, Joseph L, Davies H, Labrèche F, Knott P, Mater G, Clerc F, Kirkham T.
Expostats: A Bayesian toolkit to aid the interpretation of occupational exposure measurements
Annals of Work Environment and Health 2018;2018:1-13
Heydari S, Fu L, Thaakali L, Joseph L.
Benchmarking regions based on disaggregate crash data using a heteroskedastic random parameters model with heterogeneity in mean and variance: application in grade crossing safety analysis
Analytic Methods in Accident Research 2018;19:33-48
Madathil S, Joseph L, Hardy R, Rousseau M, Nicolau B.
A Bayesian approach to investigate life course hypotheses involving continuous exposures
International Journal of Epidemiology 2018;47:3:1-13
Bernatsky S, Clarke A, Niaki O, Labrecque J, Schanberg L, Silverman E, Hayward K, Imundo L, Brunner H, Haines K, Cron R, Oen K, Wagner-Weiner L, Rosenberg A, O'Neil K, Duffy C, von Scheven E, Joseph L, Lee J, Ramsey-Goldman R.
Malignancy in pediatric-onset Systemic Lupus Erythmatosus
The Journal of Rheumatology 2017;44(10:1484-1486
Heydari S, Fu L, Miranda-Moreno L, Joseph L.
Using a flexible mixture of multivariate normal densities approach to model correlated counts: A joint analysis of pedestrian and cyclist injuries
Analytic Methods in Accident Research 2017;13:16-27
Heydari S, Fu L, Joseph L, Miranda-Moreno L.
Bayesian nonparametric modeling in transportation safety studies: Applications in univariate and multivariate settings
Analytic Methods in Accident Research 2016;12:18-34
Weichenthal S, Bélisle P, Lavigne E, Villeneuve P, Wheller A, Van Ryswyk K, Joseph L.
Estimating risk of emergency room visits for asthma from personal versus fixed site measurements of NO2
Environmental Research 2015;137:323-328
Weichenthal S, Van Ryswyk K, Kulka R, Sun L, Wallace L, Joseph, L.
In-vehicle exposures to particulate air pollution in Canadian metropolitan areas: The urban transportation exposure study
Environmental Science & Technology 2014;49(1):597-605
Hajna S, Dasgupta K, Joseph L, Ross N.
A call for caution and transparency in the calculation of land use mix: Measurement bias in the estimation of associations betweenland use mix and physical activity.
Health & Place 2014;29:79-83
Knauper B, Ivanova E, Xu Z, Chamandy M, Lowensteyn I, Joseph L, Luszczynska A, Grover S.
Increasing the effectiveness of the diabetes prevention program through if-then plans and mental practice: Study protocol for the McGill CHIP healthy weight program.
BMC Public Health 2014;14:470:1-8
Tarafder M, Carabin H, Gyorkos T, Joseph L.
Diarrhea and colds in child day care centers: Impact of Various Numerator and Denominator Definitions of Illness Episodes
Epidemiology 2009;20(6):796-799
Bellera C, Hanley J, Joseph L, Albertsen P.
A tool for monitoring PSA patterns after treatment for prostate cancer
International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 2006;66(1):315-316
Joseph L, Reinhold C.
Statistical inference for continuous variables
American Journal of Roentgenology 2005;184(4):1047-1056
Joseph L, Reinhold C.
Statistical inference for proportions
American Journal of Roentgenology 2005;184(4):1057-1064
Joseph L, Bélisle P, Tamim H, Sampalis J.
Selection bias found in interpreting analyses with missing data for the pre-hospital index for trauma
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2004;57(2):147-153
Joseph L, Reinhold C.
An introduction to probability theory and sampling distributions
American Journal of Roentgenology 2003;180(4):917-923
Carabin H, Escalona M, Marshall C, Vivas-Martinez S, Botto C, Joseph L, Basanez M.
Prediction of community prevalence of human onchocerciasis in the Amazonian onchocerciasis focus: Bayesian approach
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2003;81(7):482-490
Tamim H, Joseph L, Mulder D, Battista R, Lavoie A, Sampalis J.
Field triage of trauma patients: improving on the Pre-Hospital Index
American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2002;20(3):170-176
Kmetic A, Joseph L, Berger C, Tenenhouse A.
Multiple imputation to account for missing data in a survey: Estimating the prevalence of osteoporosis
Epidemiology 2002;13(4):437-444
Hanley J, Joseph L, Platt R, Chung M, Bélisle P.
Visualizing the median as the minimum-deviation location
American Statistician 2001;55(2):150-152
Demissie K, Hanley JA, Menzies D, Joseph L, Ernst P.
Agreement in measuring socio-economic status: area-based versus individual measures. Chronic Diseases in Canada
Chronic Diseases in Canada 2000;21(1):1-7
Pilote L, Joseph L, Bélisle P, Robinson K, Van Lente F, Tager I.
Iron stores and coronary artery disease: A clinical application of a method to incorporate measurement error of the exposure in a logistic regression model
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2000;53(8):809-816
Lalonde L, Clarke A, Joseph L, Grover S, and the Canadian Collaborative Cardiac Assessment Group.
Conventional and chained standard gambles in the assessment of coronary heart disease prevention and treatment
Medical Decision Making 1999;19:149-156
Schull M, Battista R, Brophy J, Joseph L, Cass D.
Determining appropriateness of coronary thrombolysis in the emergency department
Annals of Emergency Medicine 1998;31(1):12-18
Brophy J, Joseph L.
Practice variations, chance and quality of care
Canadian Medical Association Journal 1998;159:949-952
Carabin H, Gyorkos T, Kokoskin E, Payment P, Joseph L, Soto J.
Comparison of methods of sampling for Toxocara species and fecal coliforms in an outdoor day care environment
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases 1998;9(3):149-156
Brophy J, and Joseph L.
Bayesian interim statistical analysis of randomised trials
The Lancet 1997;349(9059):1166-1168
Bouchard S, Barkun A, Barkun J, Joseph L.
Technology assessment in laparoscopic general surgery and gastrointestinal endoscopy - science or convenience?
Gastroenterology 1996;110:915-925
Grover SA, Abrahamowicz M, Joseph L, Brewer C, Coupal L, Suissa S.
The benefits of treating hyperlipidemia to prevent coronary heart disease: Predicting changes in life expectancy and morbidity
Journal of the American Medical Association 1992;267(6):816-822
Joseph L, Wolfson C, Wolfson D.
Is multiple sclerosis an infectious disease? Inference about an input process based on the output
Biometrics 1990;46(2):337-349