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James A. Hanley

James A. Hanley

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Medicine

D-Index
97
Citations
71423
World Ranking
9059
National Ranking
354

Overview

James A. Hanley is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and conducts research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work spans a range of specialized subfields, including Statistics and Probability, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Oncology, General Health Professions, and Demography.

The researcher's main topics of focus include Statistical Methods and Inference, Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference, Advanced Causal Inference Techniques, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Global Health Care Issues, Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management, and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, and Quality of Life.

James A. Hanley has published in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • The American Statistician
  • European Journal of Epidemiology
  • CHANCE
  • Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education
  • Significance

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Hanley are:

  • "LASSO type penalized spline regression for binary data," 2021, BMC Medical Research Methodology
  • "Inference for covariate-adjusted time-dependent prognostic accuracy measures," 2023, Statistics in Medicine
  • "casebase: An Alternative Framework for Survival Analysis and Comparison of Event Rates," 2022, The R Journal
  • "The "Poisson" Distribution: History, Reenactments, Adaptations," 2022, The American Statistician
  • "The (Im)precision of Life Expectancy Numbers," 2022, American Journal of Public Health

Collaborations are evident with several frequent co-authors including:

  • Sahir Bhatnagar
  • Rebecca Fuhrer
  • Rajib Dey
  • Paramita Saha-Chaudhuri
  • Maxime Turgeon

Best Publications

  • The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.

    James A. Hanley;Barbara J. McNeil

  • A method of comparing the areas under receiver operating characteristic curves derived from the same cases.

    J A Hanley;B J McNeil

  • Statistical Analysis of Correlated Data Using Generalized Estimating Equations: An Orientation

    James A. Hanley;Abdissa Negassa;Michael D. De B. Edwardes;Janet E. Forrester

  • Human papillomavirus DNA versus Papanicolaou screening tests for cervical cancer.

    Marie-Hélène Mayrand;Eliane Duarte-Franco;Isabel Rodrigues;Stephen D. Walter

  • 20-year outcomes following conservative management of clinically localized prostate cancer.

    Peter C. Albertsen;James A. Hanley;Judith Fine

  • Adverse Events Associated With Prescription Drug Cost-Sharing Among Poor and Elderly Persons

    Robyn Tamblyn;Rejean Laprise;James A. Hanley;Michael Abrahamowicz

  • Problem of immortal time bias in cohort studies: example using statins for preventing progression of diabetes.

    Linda E Lévesque;James A Hanley;Abbas Kezouh;Samy Suissa

  • Competing Risk Analysis of Men Aged 55 to 74 Years at Diagnosis Managed Conservatively for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer

    P.C. Albertsen;J.A. Hanley;D.F. Gleason;M.J. Barry

  • Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) methodology: the state of the art.

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  • Streptozocin Alone Compared with Streptozocin plus Fluorouracil in the Treatment of Advanced Islet-Cell Carcinoma

    Charles G. Moertel;James A. Hanley;Lewis A. Johnson

  • Statistical Approaches to the Analysis of Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curves

    Barbara J. McNeil;James A. Hanley

  • The psychological and physical health of family members caring for an elderly person with dementia.

    Mona Baumgarten;Renaldo N. Battista;Claire Infante-Rivard;James A. Hanley

  • Physician scores on a national clinical skills examination as predictors of complaints to medical regulatory authorities.

    Robyn Tamblyn;Michal Abrahamowicz;Dale Dauphinee;Elizabeth Wenghofer

  • A task-orientated intervention enhances walking distance and speed in the first year post stroke: a randomized controlled trial

    N M Salbach;N E Mayo;S Wood-Dauphinee;J A Hanley

  • Prostate Cancer and the Will Rogers Phenomenon

    Peter C. Albertsen;James A. Hanley;George H. Barrows;David F. Penson

  • The robustness of the "binormal" assumptions used in fitting ROC curves.

    James A. Hanley

  • The medical office of the 21st century (MOXXI): effectiveness of computerized decision-making support in reducing inappropriate prescribing in primary care

    Robyn Tamblyn;Allen Huang;Robert Perreault;André Jacques

  • The effect of measuring error on the results of therapeutic trials in advanced cancer

    Charles G. Moertel;James A. Hanley

  • A heuristic approach to the formulas for population attributable fraction

    J A Hanley

  • 20-year outcomes following conservative management of clinically localized prostate cancer

    Peter R. Carroll

Frequent Co-Authors

Gilles Paradis
Gilles Paradis McGill University
Jennifer O'Loughlin
Jennifer O'Loughlin University of Montreal
Peter C. Albertsen
Peter C. Albertsen University of Connecticut Health Center
Mark S. Goldberg
Mark S. Goldberg McGill University
Robert W. Platt
Robert W. Platt McGill University
Barbara J. McNeil
Barbara J. McNeil Harvard University
Eduardo L. Franco
Eduardo L. Franco McGill University
François Coutlée
François Coutlée University of Montreal
Emile Levy
Emile Levy University of Montreal
David F. Penson
David F. Penson Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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