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19

Overview

Harvey Goldstein was affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research spanned several interconnected fields mainly within social sciences and medicine, with particular focus on education, management science and operations research, statistics and probability, epidemiology, and public health.

The scientist's work extensively addressed topics such as school choice and performance, statistical methods and Bayesian inference, psychometric methodologies and testing, advanced causal inference techniques, data quality and management, youth substance use and school attendance, and education discipline and inequality.

Recent publications illustrate the range and interdisciplinary nature of Goldstein's research. These include:

  • Partitioning variation in multilevel models for count data, 2020, Psychological Methods
  • Assessing data linkage quality in cohort studies, 2020, Annals of Human Biology
  • Respiratory syncytial virus in young children: community cohort study integrating serological surveys, questionnaire and electronic health records, Born in Bradford cohort, England, 2008 to 2013, 2021, Eurosurveillance
  • A Probabilistic Procedure for Anonymisation, for Assessing the Risk of Re-identification and for the Analysis of Perturbed Data Sets, 2020, Journal of Official Statistics
  • School value-added models for multivariate academic and non-academic outcomes: exploring implications for performance monitoring and accountability, 2021, School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Goldstein frequently collaborated with a number of other researchers, including:

  • George Leckie
  • Lucy Prior
  • Randall M. Parker
  • Kate Tilling
  • Lisa-Marie Rau

The scientist's work was published in prominent venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain, Psychological Methods, Annals of Human Biology, and Eurosurveillance.

Best Publications

  • Multilevel Statistical Models

    Harvey Goldstein

  • A new system of dental age assessment.

    A Demirjian;H Goldstein;J M Tanner

  • Multilevel Models in Educational and Social Research

    Harvey Goldstein

  • League Tables and Their Limitations: Statistical Issues in Comparisons of Institutional Performance

    Harvey Goldstein;David J. Spiegelhalter

  • From birth to seven

    Ronald Davie;Neville R. Butler;Harvey Goldstein

  • Multilevel mixed linear model analysis using iterative generalized least squares

    H. Goldstein

  • Partitioning variation in multilevel models

    Harvey Goldstein;William Browne;Jon Rasbash

  • New systems for dental maturity based on seven and four teeth

    A Demirjian;H Goldstein

  • A user's guide to MLwiN, Version 1.0

    Harvey Goldstein;Rasbash;I Plewis;D Draper

  • Multilevel Statistical Models: Goldstein/Multilevel Statistical Models

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  • The Graphical Presentation of a Collection of Means

    Harvey Goldstein;Michael J. R. Healy

  • Assessing the Regional Economic Development Impacts of Universities: A Review of Current Approaches:

    Joshua Drucker;Harvey Goldstein

  • Improved Approximations for Multilevel Models with Binary Responses

    Harvey Goldstein;Jon Rasbash

  • Weighting for unequal selection probabilities in multilevel models

    Danny Pfeffermann;Chris J. Skinner;D. J. Holmes;H. Goldstein

  • Cigarette smoking in pregnancy: its influence on birth weight and perinatal mortality.

    N. R. Butler;H. Goldstein;E. M. Ross

  • A User’s Guide to MLwiN, Version 2.10

    JR Rasbash;FA Steele;WJ Browne;H Goldstein

  • Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioural Sciences

    Harvey Goldstein;Jacob Cohen;Patricia Cohen

  • Nonlinear multilevel models, with an application to discrete response data

    Harvey Goldstein

  • Smoking in pregnancy and subsequent child development.

    N. R. Butler;H. Goldstein

  • Technology in the Garden: Research Parks and Regional Economic Development

    Michael I. Luger;Harvey A. Goldstein

  • Multilevel Models in Educational and Social Research.

    Herbert I. Weisberg;Harvey Goldstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Blatchford
Peter Blatchford University College London
Alastair H. Leyland
Alastair H. Leyland University of Glasgow
Kelvyn Jones
Kelvyn Jones University of Bristol
Ian H. Langford
Ian H. Langford University of East Anglia
John C. Gray
John C. Gray University of Cambridge
Steven Cummins
Steven Cummins London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
John Bynner
John Bynner University College London
Heather Joshi
Heather Joshi University College London
Helen Roberts
Helen Roberts University College London

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