Roger Harbord

Statistical methods for epidemiology and health services research. In particular:

• systematic reviews and meta-analysis, including meta-regression and methods for detecting bias;
• design, analysis and meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies;
• genetic epidemiology, including meta-analysis of genetic association studies and Mendelian randomization.
  

Harbord RM, Egger M, Sterne JAC. A modified test for small-study effects in meta-analyses of controlled trials with binary endpoints. Statistics in Medicine 2006; 20:3443-3457 doi:10.1002/sim.2380

Harbord RM, Deeks JJ, Egger M, Whiting P, Sterne JAC. A unification of models for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies. Biostatistics 2007; 8:239-251. doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxl004

Lawlor DA, Harbord RM, Sterne JAC, Timpson NJ, Davey Smith G. Mendelian randomization: Using genes as instruments for making causal inferences in epidemiology. Statistics in Medicine 2008; 27:1133-1163. doi:10.1002/sim.3034

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