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Cadarette, Suzanne M.; Maclure, Malcolm; Delaney, J. A. Chris; Whitaker, Heather; Hayes, Kaleen N.; Wang, Shirley V.; Tadrous, Mina; Gagne, Joshua J.; Consiglio, Giulia P. and Hallas, Jesper (2021). Control Yourself: ISPE‐Sponsored Guidance in the Application of Self‐Controlled Study Designs in Pharmacoepidemiology. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 30(6) pp. 671–684.

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Jean, Kévin; Raad, Hanaya; Gaythorpe, Katy A M; Hamlet, Arran; Mueller, Judith E; Hogan, Dan; Mengistu, Tewodaj; Whitaker, Heather J; Garske, Tini and Hocine, Mounia N (2021). Assessing the impact of preventive mass vaccination campaigns on yellow fever outbreaks in Africa: A population-level self-controlled case series study. PLoS medicine, 18(2), article no. e1003523.

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Hallas, Jesper; Cadarette, Suzanne; Pratt, Nicole; Delaney, Joseph A.; Whitaker, Heather and Maclure, Malcolm (2019). Using active comparators in self‐controlled studies. In: Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 28(S2) p. 403.

Whitaker, Heather J. and Ghebremichael Weldeselassie, Yonas (2019). Self-controlled case series methodology. Annual Review of Statistics and its Application, 6 pp. 241–261.

Steer, Colin D.; Macleod, John; Tilling, Kate; Lim, Aaron G.; Marsden, John; Millar, Tim; Strang, John; Telfer, Maggie; Whitaker, Heather; Vickerman, Peter and Hickman, Matthew (2019). The impact of opiate substitution treatment on mortality risk in drug addicts: a natural experiment study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 7(3)

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Whitaker, Heather J.; Steer, Colin D. and Farrington, C. Paddy (2018). Self-controlled case series studies: just how rare does a rare non-recurrent outcome need to be? Biometrical Journal, 60(6) pp. 1110–1120.

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Liu, Erin Y.; Smith, Leah M.; Ellis, Anne K.; Whitaker, Heather; Law, Barbara; Kwong, Jeffrey C.; Farrington, Paddy and Lévesque, Linda E. (2018). Quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccination in girls and the risk of autoimmune disorders: the Ontario Grade 8 HPV Vaccine Cohort Study. CMAJ, 190(21) E648-E655.

Hardelid, Pia; Ghebremichael-Weldeselassie, Yonas; Whitaker, Heather; Rait, Greta; Gilbert, Ruth and Petersen, Irene (2018). Effectiveness of live attenuated influenza vaccine in preventing amoxicillin prescribing in preschool children: a self-controlled case series study. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 73(3) pp. 779–786.

Warren-Gash, Charlotte; Blackburn, Ruth; Whitaker, Heather; McMenamin, Jim and Hayward, Andrew C. (2018). Laboratory-confirmed respiratory infections as triggers for acute myocardial infarction and stroke: a self-controlled case series analysis of national linked datasets from Scotland. European Respiratory Journal, 51(3), article no. 1701794.

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Whitaker, Heather J; Ghebremichael-Weldeselassie, Yonas; Douglas, Ian J.; Smeeth, Liam and Farrington, C. Paddy (2018). Investigating the assumptions of the self-controlled case series method. Statistics in Medicine, 37(4) pp. 643–658.

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Connolly-Andersen, Anne-Marie; Whitaker, Heather; Klingström, Jonas and Ahlm, Clas (2018). Risk of Venous Thromboembolism Following Hemorrhagic Fever With Renal Syndrome: A Self-controlled Case Series Study. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 66(2) pp. 268–273.

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Farrington, Paddy; Whitaker, Heather and Weldeselassie, Yonas Ghebremichael (2018). Self-Controlled Case Series Studies:A Modelling Guide with R. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press Biostatistics Series. Boca Raton: CRC Press.

Leonard, Charles E.; Brensinger, Colleen M.; Bilker, Warren B.; Kimmel, Stephen E.; Whitaker, Heather J. and Hennessy, Sean (2017). Thromboembolic and neurologic sequelae of discontinuation of an antihyperlipidemic drug during ongoing warfarin therapy. Scientific Reports, 7, article no. 18037.

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van Beijnum, Janneke; Wilkinson, Tim; Whitaker, Heather J; van der Bom, Johanna G; Algra, Ale; Vandertop, W Peter; van den Berg, René; Brouwer, Patrick A; Rinkel, Gabriël Je; Kappelle, L Jaap; Al-Shahi Salman, Rustam and Klijn, Catharina Jm (2017). Relative risk of hemorrhage during pregnancy in patients with brain arteriovenous malformations. International Journal of Stroke, 12(7) pp. 741–747.

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Ghebremichael-Weldeselassie, Yonas; Whitaker, Heather J.; Douglas, Ian J.; Smeeth, Liam and Farrington, C. Paddy (2017). Self-controlled case series with multiple event types. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 113 pp. 64–72.

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Ghebremichael-Weldeselassie, Yonas; Whitaker, Heather J. and Farrington, C. Paddy (2017). Spline-based self-controlled case series method. Statistics in Medicine, 36(19) pp. 3022–3038.

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King, Michael; Lodwick, Rebecca; Jones, Rebecca; Whitaker, Heather and Petersen, Irene (2017). Death following partner bereavement: A self-controlled case series analysis. PLoS ONE, 12(3), article no. e0173870.

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Petersen, Irene; Douglas, Ian and Whitaker, Heather (2016). Self-controlled case series methods: an alternative to standard epidemiological study designs. British Medical Journal, 354, article no. i4515.

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Ghebremichael-Weldeselassie, Yonas; Whitaker, Heather J. and Farrington, C. Paddy (2016). Flexible modelling of vaccine effect in self-controlled case series models. Biometrical Journal, 58(3) pp. 607–622.

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Ghebremichael-Weldeselassie, Yonas; Whitaker, Heather J. and Farrington, C. Paddy (2014). Self-controlled case series method with smooth age effect. Statistics in Medicine, 33(4) pp. 639–649.

Farrington, Paddy; Whitaker, Heather; Unkel, Steffen and Pebody, Richard (2013). Correlated infections: quantifying individual heterogeneity in the spread of infectious diseases. American Journal of Epidemiology, 177(5) pp. 474–486.

Warren-Gash, Charlotte; Hayward, Andrew C.; Hemingway, Harry; Denaxas, Spiros; Thomas, Sara L.; Timmis, Adam D.; Whitaker, Heather and Smeeth, Liam (2012). Influenza infection and risk of actue myocardial infarction in England and Wales: a CALIBER self-controlled case series study. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 206(11) pp. 1652–1659.

Farrington, Paddy; Anaya Izquierdo, Karim; Whitaker, Heather; Hocine, Mounia; Douglas, Ian and Smeeth, Liam (2011). Self-controlled case series analysis with event-dependent observation periods. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 106(494) pp. 417–426.

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Kuhnert, Ronny; Hecker, Hartmut; Poethko-Müller, Christina; Schlaud, Martin; Venneman, Mechtild; Whitaker, Heather J. and Farrington, C. Paddy (2011). A modified self-controlled case series method to examine association between multidose vaccinations and death. Statistics in Medicine, 30(6) pp. 666–677.

Weldeselassie, Yonas; Whitaker, Heather and Farrington, Paddy (2011). Use of the self-controlled case series method in vaccine safety studies: review and recommendations for best practice. Epidemiology and Infection, 139 pp. 1805–1817.

Farrington, C. P.; Whitaker, H. J.; Wallinga, J. and Manfredi, P. (2009). Measures of disassortativeness and their application to directly transmitted infections. Biometrical Journal, 51(3) pp. 387–407.

Whitaker, Heather J.; Hocine, Mounia N. and Farrington, C. Paddy (2009). The methodology of self-controlled case series studies. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 18(1) pp. 7–26.

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Farrington, C. Paddy; Whitaker, Heather J. and Hocine, Mounia N. (2009). Case series analysis for censored, perturbed, or curtailed post-event exposures. Biostatistics, 10(1) pp. 3–16.

Musonda, Patrick; Hocine, Mounia N.; Whitaker, Heather J. and Farrington, C. Paddy (2008). Self-controlled case series method: small sample performance. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 52(4) pp. 1942–1957.

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Whitaker, Heather (2008). Editorial: The self controlled case series method - a way to study the relation between antipsychotics and stroke. British Medical Journal, 337, a1069.

Whitaker, Heather J.; Hocine, Mounia N. and Farrington, C. Paddy (2007). On case-crossover methods for environmental time series data. Environmetrics, 18(2) pp. 157–171.

Hocine, M. N.; Farrington, C. P.; Touze, E.; Whitaker, H. J.; Fourrier, A.; Moreau, T. and Tubert-Bitter, P. (2007). Hepatitis B vaccination and first central nervous system demyelinating events: Reanalysis of a case-control study using the self-controlled case series method. Vaccine, 25(31) pp. 5938–5943.

Farrington, C Paddy; Whitaker, Heather and Hocine, Mounia (2007). Statistical issues in vaccine safety evaluation. In: Ruggeri, Fabrizio; Kenett, Ron and Faltin, Frederick W eds. Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, pp. 1888–1894.

Hocine, Mounia; Whitaker, Heather and Farrington, Paddy (2007). Case series analysis. In: Ruggeri, Fabrizio; Kenett, Ron and Faltin, Frederick W. eds. Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability. Chichester: Wiley, pp. 1783–1788.

Farrington, C.P. and Whitaker, H.J. (2006). Semiparametric analysis of case series data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 55(5) pp. 553–594.

Whitaker, Heather J.; Farrington, C. Paddy; Spiessens, Bart and Musonda, Patrick (2006). Tutorial in biostatistics: The self-controlled case series method. Statistics in Medicine, 25(10) pp. 1768–1797.

Musonda, Patrick; Farrington, C. Paddy and Whitaker, Heather J. (2006). Sample sizes for self-controlled case series studies. Statistics in Medicine, 25(15) pp. 2618–2631.

Tata, L. J.; Fortun, P. J.; Hubbard, R. B.; Smeeth, L.; Hawkey, C. J.; Smith, C. J. P.; Whitaker, H. J.; Farrington, C. P.; Card, T. R. and West, J. (2005). Does concurrent prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs substantially increase the risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding? Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 22(3) pp. 175–181.

Farrington, C. Paddy and Whitaker, Heather J. (2005). Contact surface models for infectious diseases: estimation from serologic survey data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 100(470) pp. 370–379.

Toledano, Mireille B.; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Best, Nicky; Whitaker, Heather; Hambly, Peter; de Hoogh, Cornelis; Fawell, John; Jarup, Lars and Elliott, Paul (2005). Relation of trihalomethane concentrations in public water supplies to stillbirth and birth weight in three water regions in England. Environmental Health Perspectives, 113(2) pp. 225–232.

Whitaker, Heather; Best, Nicky; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Wakefield, Jon; Fawell, John and Elliott, Paul (2005). Modelling exposure to disinfection by-products in drinking water for an epidemiological study of adverse birth outcomes. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, 15(2) pp. 138–146.

Whitaker, H. J. and Farrington, C. P. (2004). Infections with varying contact rates: application to Varicella. Biometrics, 60(3) pp. 615–623.

Whitaker, H.J. and Farrington, C.P. (2004). Estimation of infectious disease parameters from serological survey data: the impact of regular epidemics. Statistics in Medicine, 23(15) pp. 2429–2443.

Farrington, C. P. and Whitaker, H. J. (2003). Estimation of effective reproduction numbers for infectious diseases using serological survey data. Biostatistics, 4(4) pp. 621–632.

Whitaker, Heather J.; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. and Best, Nicola G. (2003). The relationship between water concentrations and individual uptake of chloroform: a simulation study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 111(5) pp. 688–694.

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Whitaker, Heather; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Best, Nicola; Fawell, John; Gowers, Alison and Elliott, Paul (2003). Description of trihalomethane levels in three UK water suppliers. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, 13(1) pp. 17–23.