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Russell Steele

McGill University
Verified email at math.mcgill.ca
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Should meta-analyses of interventions include observational studies in addition to randomized controlled trials? A critical examination of underlying principles

I Shrier, JF Boivin, RJ Steele, RW Platt… - American journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Some authors argue that systematic reviews and meta-analyses of intervention studies
should include only randomized controlled trials because the randomized controlled trial is a …

[HTML][HTML] Reporting of positive results in randomized controlled trials of mindfulness-based mental health interventions

…, AW Levis, L Kwakkenbos, RJ Steele… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background A large proportion of mindfulness-based therapy trials report statistically
significant results, even in the context of very low statistical power. The objective of the present …

[PDF][PDF] Performance of Bayesian model selection criteria for Gaussian mixture models

RJ Steele, AE Raftery - Frontiers of statistical decision making and …, 2010 - Citeseer
Bayesian methods are widely used for selecting the number of components in a mixture models,
in part because frequentist methods have difficulty in addressing this problem in general…

[PDF][PDF] Disclosure limitation using perturbation and related methods for categorical data

SE Fienberg, RJ Steele - Journal of Official Statistics, 1998 - scb.se
During the past twenty-five years, the field of disclosure protection has undergone a``statistical
transformation''and has begun to utilize the advances that have occurred within the field …

The Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN) Cohort: protocol for a cohort multiple randomised controlled trial (cmRCT) design to support trials of …

…, C Leite, AC Maia, C Mendelson, J Pope, RJ Steele… - BMJ open, 2013 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Psychosocial and rehabilitation interventions are increasingly used to attenuate
disability and improve health-related quality of life (HRQL) in chronic diseases, but are …

[HTML][HTML] The diagnostic accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2), Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8), and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) …

…, D McMillan, SB Patten, I Shrier, RJ Steele… - Systematic reviews, 2014 - Springer
Background Major depressive disorder (MDD) may be present in 10%–20% of patients in
medical settings. Routine depression screening is sometimes recommended to improve …

Beyond intention to treat: what is the right question?

I Shrier, RJ Steele, E Verhagen, R Herbert… - Clinical …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Most methodologists recommend intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis in order to
minimize bias. Although ITT analysis provides an unbiased estimate for the effect of treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Are scores on English and French versions of the PHQ-9 comparable? An assessment of differential item functioning

E Arthurs, RJ Steele, M Hudson, M Baron, BD Thombs… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Medical research increasingly utilizes patient-reported outcome measures
administered and scored in different languages. In order to pool or compare outcomes from …

Diagnostic accuracy of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) for detecting major depression in pregnant and postnatal women: protocol for a systematic …

…, D McMillan, SB Patten, I Shrier, RJ Steele… - BMJ open, 2015 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Studies of the diagnostic accuracy of depression screening tools often used
data-driven methods to select optimal cut-offs. Typically, these studies report results from a …

Predicting microcystin concentrations in lakes and reservoirs at a continental scale: A new framework for modelling an important health risk factor

ZE Taranu, I Gregory‐Eaves, RJ Steele… - Global Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Scientists, governments and non‐governmental organizations are increasingly moving
towards the collection of large, open‐access data. In aquatic sciences, this effort is …