PIC

Patrick Brown

Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto

Population Studies and Surveillance
Cancer Care Ontario

E-mail: patrick.brown@utoronto.ca

Research interests

Software

glmmBUGS
specify generalised linear mixed models in R, with inference done in WinBUGS. http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/glmmbugs
diseasemapping
computes observed and expected counts from case and population data. http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/diseasemapping
DEFFbinary
design effect for correlated binary data. http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/deffbinary

Stuff

xkcd
http://www.xkcd.com
cbc radio 2 concerts
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/
Ernest Borgnine
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000308
Travel to North Korea
http://wikitravel.org/en/North_Korea

Unpublished Manuscripts:

[1]    Brown P E and Jiang H, 2010. Intraclass correlation and the design effect for binary random effects models. Unpublished.

[2]    Clough H, Brown P E, Sanderson J, and Cook A, 2010. Spatial and temporal variation in Salmonella levels on UK pig farms: a case study in modelling large routine surveillance datasets. Unpublished.

[3]    Henrys P A and Brown P E, 2010. Spectral analysis of inhomogeneous clustered spatial point processes. Unpublished.

Manuscripts submitted for publication:

[4]    Al-Maini M, Jeyalingam T, Brown P, Jennifer JY Lee and L L, Su J, Gladman D D, and Fortin P R, 2012. A hot spot for Lupus but not for Psoriatic Arthritis identified by spatial analysis suggests an interaction between race and place of residence. Arthritis and Rheumatism, submitted.

[5]    Brown P E and Henrys P A, 2012. Longitudinal spatial point processes. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, under revision.

[6]    Li Y, Brown P E, Rue H, and Gesink D C, 2012. Log Gaussian Cox processes and spatially aggregated disease incidence data. Statistical Methods in Medical Reserach, submitted.

[7]    Nguyen P, Brown P E, and Stafford J, 2012. Mapping cancer risk in southwestern Ontario with changing census boundaries. Biometrics, submitted.

Published Manuscripts

[8]    Li Y, Brown P, Rue H, al Maini M, and Fortin P, 2012. Spatial modelling of lupus incidence over 40 years with changes in census areas. Applied Statistics, 61:99–115.

[9]    Bagchi R, Henrys P, Brown P, Burslem D F R P, Diggle P, Gunatilleke C, Gunatilleke I, Hubbell S, Kassim A R, Noor S, Valencia R, and Law R, 2011. Spatial patterns reveal negative density dependence and habitat associations in tropical trees. Ecology, 92:1723–172.

[10]    Fan C P S, Stafford J, and Brown P E, 2011. Local likelihood and the EMS algorithm. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 20(3):750–766.

[11]    Perez D, Ritvo P, Brown P E, and Ardern C, 2011. Perceived walkability, social support, age, native language & vehicle access as correlates of physical activity: a cross-sectional study of low-SES, ethnic minority women. Journal of Physical Activity & Health, 8:1098 – 1107.

[12]    Sullivan A, Gesink D, Brown P, Zhou L, Kaufman J, Fitch M, Serre M, and Miller W, 2011. Are neighborhood sociocultural factors influencing the spatial pattern of gonorrhea in North Carolina? Annals of Epidemiology, 21(4):245–252.

[13]    Brown P E and Jiang H, 2010. Simulation-based power calculations for large cohort studies. Biometrical Journal, 52(5):604–615.

[14]    Brown P E and Zhou L, 2010. MCMC for generalized linear mixed models with glmmBUGS. R-journal, 2.

[15]    Chiarelli A M, Majpruz V, Brown P, Theriault M, Edwards S, Shumak R, and Mai V, 2010. Influence of nurses on compliance with breast screening recommendations in an organized breast screening program. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, 19:697–706.

[16]    Chiarelli A M, Majpruz V, Brown P, Theriault M, Shumak R, and Mai V, 2009. The contribution of clinical breast examination to the accuracy of breast screening. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 101:1236–1243.

[17]    Cole D, Koehoorn M, Ibrahim S, Hertzman C, Ostry A, Xu F, and Brown P, 2009. Regions, hospitals and health outcomes over time: A multi-level analysis of repeat prevalence among a cohort of health-care workers. Health & Place, 15:1046–57.

[18]    Henrys P A and Brown P E, 2009. Inference for clustered inhomogeneous spatial point processes. Biometrics, 65(2):423–430.

[19]    Look Hong N J, Wright F C, Gagliardi A R, Brown P, and Dobrow M J, 2009. Multidisciplinary cancer conferences: Exploring the attitudes of cancer care providers and administrators. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 23:599 – 610.

[20]    Orchard M C, Dobrow M J, Paszat L, Jiang H, and Brown P, 2009. Access to electronic health records by care setting and provider type: Perceptions of cancer care providers in Ontario, Canada. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 9.

[21]    Ritvo P, Myers R, Del Giudice E, Pazsat L, Cotterchio M, Howlett R, Mai V, Brown P, Sullivan T, and Rabeneck L, 2009. Fecal occult blood testing: People in Ontario are unaware of it and not ready for it. Canadian Family Physician, 55:176–7,e1–4.

[22]    Robinson S E, Brown P E, Wright E J, Hart C A, Diggle P J, and French N P, 2008. Quantifying within and between-animal variation and uncertainty associated with counts of Escherichia coli O157 occurring in naturally infected cattle faeces. Interface, 6:169–177.

[23]    Russo S E, Brown P E, Tan S, and Davies S J, 2008. Interspecific demographic trade-offs and edaphic niche specialization of tree species along resource gradients. Journal of Ecology, 96:192203.

[24]    Diggle P J, Gómez-Rubio V, Brown P E, Chetwynd A G, and Lorick S, 2007. Second-order analysis of inhomogeneous spatial point processes using case-control data. Biometrics, 63:550–557.

[25]    Pleydell E J, Brown P E, Woodward M J, Davies R H, and French N P, 2007. Sources of variation in the Ampicillin-resistant escherichia coli concentration in the feces of organic broiler chickens. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73:203–210.

[26]    Romanowicz R, Young P C, Brown P E, and Diggle P J, 2006. A recursive estimation approach to the spatio-temporal analysis and modelling of air quality data. Environmental Modelling and Software, 6:759–769.

[27]    French N, Barrigas M, Brown P E, Ribeiro P J, Williams N, Leatherbarrow H, Birtles R, Bolton E, Fearnhead P, and Fox A, 2005. Spatial epidemiology and natural population structure of campylobacter jejuni colonising a farmland ecosystem. Environmental Microbiology, 7:1116–1126.

[28]    Parkin T D H, Brown P E, French N P, and Morgant K L, 2005. Cooking the books or simply getting the best out of the data? assessing the nature of the relationship between variables. Equine Veterinary Journal, 37(3):189–191.

[29]    Swai E S, French N P, Karimuribo E D, Fitzpatrick J L, Bryant M J, Brown P E, and Ogden N H, 2005. patial and management factors associates with exposure of smallholder dairy cattle in Tanzania to tick-borne pathogens. International Journal for Parasitology, 35:513–525.

[30]    Brown P E, Christensen O F, Clough H E, Diggle P J, Hart C A, Hazel S, Kemp R, Leatherbarrow A J, Moore A, Sutherst J, Turner J, Williams N J, Wright E J, and French N P, 2004. Frequency and spatial distribution of environmental Campylobacter spp. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70(11):6501–6511.

[31]    Brown P E, Diggle P J, and Henderson R, 2004. A model-based approach to quality control of paper production. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry,, 20:173 – 184.

[32]    Clough H and Brown P E, 2004. It shouldn’t happen to a statistician. Significance, 1(3):118–120.

[33]    Robinson S E, Brown P E, Wright E J, Bennett M, Hart A, and French N P, 2004. Heterogeneous distributions of escherichia coli o157 within naturally infected bovine faecal pats. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 244:291–296.

[34]    Brown P E, Diggle P J, and Henderson R, 2003. A non-Gaussian spatial process model for opacity of flocculated paper. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 30:355–368.

[35]    Brown P E and de Jong P, 2001. Nonparametric smoothing using state space techniques. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 29(1):37–50.

[36]    Brown P E, Diggle P J, Lord M E, and Young P C, 2001. Space-time calibration of radar rainfall data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C: Applied Statistics, 50(2):221–241.

[37]    Brown P E, Kĺresen K F, Roberts G O, and Tonellato S, 2000. Blur-generated non-separable space-time models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B: Statistical Methodology, 62(4):847–860.