Publications by Year (Since 2000) / Selected Publications
2008
Ecob R. A scheme for weighting the DASH data for attrition up to wave 2. Glasgow: MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Working Paper no. 23.
Ecob, R. Optimal modelling of hearing impairment in middle age in relation to hearing in childhood as measured by audiograms. CLS Working Paper, 2008/5 London: Centre for Longitudinal Studies.
Ecob, R, Sutton, G, Rudnicka, A, Smith, P, Power, C, Strachan, D, Davis, A. Is the relation of social class to change in hearing threshold levels from childhood to middle age explained by noise, smoking and drinking behaviour? Int. J. Audiology. 47:100-108.
Davis, A, Ecob, R, Smith, P. The relationships between work based noise over the adult life course and hearing in middle age. Paper presented to ICBEN International conference Mashantucket, Foxwoods, CT, July 21st -25th, 2008.
Henderson. M, Ecob. R, Wight, D and Abraham, C. What explains between-school differences in rates of smoking? BMC Public Health. 8:1186-1471.
2007
Smith, D.J.& Ecob, R. An Investigation of causal links between victimization and offending in the teenage years. British Journal of Sociology.Vol 58 (4).
2006
Mishra, G, Kok, H, Ecob, R, Cooper, R, Hardy, R, Diana Kuh, D, Cessation of Hormone Replacement Therapy after reports of adverse findings from randomized controlled trials: evidence from a British birth cohort. American Journal of Public Health 96 (7):1219-1225.
2005
Wadsworth, M, Butterworth, S, Marmot, M, Ecob, R. Hardy R. Early growth and type 2 diabetes: evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort. Diabetologica, 8(12):2505-2510.
Tappin, D Brooke, H. Ecob, R. Co-sleeping and sudden unexpected death in infancy in scotland. A Case-control study. The Journal of Pediatrics. 147(1):32-37.
Ecob, R. Book review: DJ Hand - Measurement Theory and Practice: The World Through Quantification. London, Arnold, Significance, Volume 2 (3), September 2005:140.
Ecob, R. Book review: Michael Marmot. Status Syndrome. Significance, Volume 2 (2), June 2005: 89-90 .
Ecob, R. Book review: Measuring by Hand. DJ Hand - Measurement Theory and Practice: The World Through Quantification. London, Arnold, The Psychologist, Volume 18 (3), March 2005:160.
Ecob, R. Book review: Mohamed M. Shoukri. Measures of Interobserver Agreement. London, Chapman & Hall, The Psychologist, Volume 18 (1).
2004
Tappin, DT, Brooke, H, Ecob, R. Bedsharing and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in Scotland, UK. Lancet. 363:994-994.
Ecob, R. Variation in the relationship of mortality to deprivation in four major cities in Scotland according to population density and location. In: Boyle, Curtis, Gatrell, Graham, Moore (Eds) The geography of health inequalities in the developed world. Oxford, Blackwell.
Ecob, R, Croudace, TJ., White, IR., Jones, PB. Multilevel investigation of variation in HoNOS ratings by mental health professionals: naturalistic study of a six-month sample of consecutive referrals to NHS services. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 13 (3): 152-164.
2003
Ecob, R & Der, G. An iterative method for the detection, elimination or possible imputation of outliers in longitudinal data. In: Duan and Reise (Eds) Multilevel Modeling: methodological advances, issues and applications. Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
2002
Tappin, DT, Brooke, H, Ecob, R and Gibson, A. Used cot mattresses and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Scotland: a case-control study. BMJ 1325: 1007.
Robertson, C, Ecob, R. Age-period-cohort analysis of time trends in regional mortality rates in England, Wales and Scotland. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 7: 299-309.
2000
Watt, GCM and Ecob, R. A comparison of mortality trends in Edinburgh and Glasgow: are the age-cohort predictions of mortality differences supported on the 1991 data? J. Public Health Medicine. 22 (3): 330-336.
Ecob, R and Macintyre, S. Small area variations in health related behaviours; do these depend on the behaviour itself, its measurement, or on personal characteristics. Health and Place. 6: 261-274.