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McConway, Kevin (2023). Aspartame: it is the risk that matters, not the hazard. The Lancet. Oncology, 24(8) pp. 824–825.

Ritchie, Stuart J.; Morris, Alexander J. and McConway, Kevin (2020). Association Between Maternal Fluoride Exposure and Child IQ. JAMA Pediatrics, 174(2) p. 213.

McConway, Kevin (2020). Cancer and five chemicals: why we still don't know whether there is a risk to humans. The Lancet Oncology, 21(1) pp. 20–21.

Bouché, Nicolas F. and McConway, Kevin (2019). Melatonin Levels and Low‐Frequency Magnetic Fields in Humans and Rats: New Insights From a Bayesian Logistic Regression. Bioelectromagnetics, 40(8) pp. 539–552.

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McConway, Kevin (2019). [Book review] Bayesian Data Analysis for Animal Scientists: the Basics. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 182(4) p. 1644.

McConway, Kevin (2019). Cancer and night shift work: what we still do not know and why. The Lancet Oncology, 20(8) pp. 1051–1052.

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McConway, Kevin (2017). Lindley, Dennis. In: Balakrishnan, N.; Colton, T.; Everitt, B.; Piegorsch, W.; Ruggeri, F. and Teugels, J. eds. Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

McConway, Kevin (2016). Statistics and the media: A statistician’s view. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 17(1) pp. 49–65.

Kafatos, G.; Andrews, N.; McConway, K.; Anastassopoulou, C.; Barbara, C.; De Ory, F.; Johansen, K.; Mossong, J.; Prosenc, K.; Vranckx, R.; Nardone, A.; Pebody, R. and Farrington, P. (2015). Estimating seroprevalence of vaccine-preventable infections: is it worth standardizing the serological outcomes to adjust for different assays and laboratories? Epidemiology and Infection, 143(11) pp. 2269–2278.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Harvey, Martin; Greenwood, Richard; Dodd, Michael; Rosewell, Jonathan; Rebelo, Tony; Ansine, Janice and McConway, Kevin (2015). Crowdsourcing the identification of organisms: a case-study of iSpot. ZooKeys, 480 pp. 125–146.

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Kafatos, George; Andrews, Nick; McConway, Kevin J. and Farrington, Paddy (2013). Regression models for censored serological data. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 62(1) pp. 93–100.

Dallas, Nicola L.; Malone, Peter R.; Jones, Adam; Doggart, Andrew J.; McConway, Kevin J. and Rogers, Paul B. (2012). The results of real time brachytherapy for the management of low and intermediate risk prostate cancer in patients with prostate volumes up to 100 ml. BJU International, 110(3) pp. 383–390.

Araya, Yoseph N.; Silvertown, Jonathan; Gowing, David J.; McConway, Kevin J.; Linder, H. P. and Midgley, Guy (2012). Do niche-structured plant communities exhibit phylogenetic conservatism? A test case in an endemic clade. Journal of Ecology, 100(6) pp. 1434–1439.

Worthington, Jenny; Silvertown, Jonathan; Cook, Laurence; Cameron, Robert; Dodd, Mike; Greenwood, Richard; McConway, Kevin and Skelton, Peter (2012). Evolution MegaLab: a case study in citizen science methods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3(2) pp. 303–309.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Cook, Laurence; Cameron, Robert; Dodd, Michael; McConway, Kevin; Worthington, Jennifer; Skelton, Peter; Anton, Christian; Bossdorf, Oliver; Baur, Bruno; Schilthuizen, Menno; Fontaine, Benoît; Sattmann, Helmut; Bertorelle, Giorgio; Correira, Maria; Oliveira, Cristina; Pokryszko, Beata; Ozgo, Malgorzata; Stalažs, Arturs; Gill, Eoin; Rammul, Üllar; Sólymos, Péter; Féher, Soltan and Juan, Xavier (2011). Citizen science reveals unexpected continental-scale evolutionary change in a model organism. PLoS ONE, 6(4), article no. e18927.

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Araya, Yoseph N.; Silvertown, Jonathan; Gowing, David J.; McConway, Kevin J.; Linder, H. Peter and Midgley, Guy (2011). A fundamental, eco-hydrological basis for niche segregation in plant communities. New Phytologist, 189(1) pp. 253–258.

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Araya, Yoseph; Silvertown, Jonathan; Gowing, David; McConway, Kevin; Linder, Peter and Midgley, Guy (2010). Variation in δ¹³C among species and sexes in the family Restionaceae along a fine-scale hydrological gradient. Austral Ecology, 35(7) pp. 818–824.

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Araya, Y. N.; Silvertown, J.; Linder, H. P; Gowing, D. J.; Midgley, G. F. and McConway, K. J. (2008). Evolution of hydrological niches in Restionaceae: a project update. In: Mucina, L.; Kalwij, J. M.; Smith, V. R.; Chytry, M.; White, P. S.; Cilliers, S. S.; Pillar, V. D.; Zobel, M. and Sun, I-Fang eds. Frontiers of Vegetation Science - An evolutionary angle. Somerset West: Keith Phillips Images, pp. 15–16.

Fréville, Hélène; McConway, Kevin; Dodd, Mike and Silvertown, Jonathan (2007). Prediction of extinction in plants: interaction of extrinsic threats and life history traits. Ecology, 88(10) pp. 2662–2672.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Dodd, Mike; Gowing, David; Lawson, Clare and McConway, Kevin (2006). Phylogeny and the hierarchical organization of plant diversity. Ecology, 87(7, Sup) S39-S49.

Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin; Gowing, David; Dodd, Mike; Fay, Michael F.; Joseph, Jeffrey A. and Dolphin, Konrad (2006). Absence of phylogenetic signal in the niche structure of meadow plant communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273(1582) pp. 39–44.

Davies, Celia; Anand, Paul; Artigas, Lidia; Holloway, Jacky; McConway, Kevin; Newman, Janet; Storey, John and Thompson, Grahame (2005). Links between Governance, Incentives and Outcomes: a Review of the Literature.

McConway, Kevin J. and Sims, Hallie J. (2004). A Likelihood-based method for testing for non-stochastic variation of diversification rates in Phylogenies. Evolution, 58(1) pp. 12–23.

McConway, Kevin and Sims, Hallie J. (2004). A likelihood-based method for testing for nonstochastic variation of diversification rates in phylogenies. Evolution, 58(1) pp. 12–23.

Biss, Pamela; Freeland, Joanna; Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin and Lutman, Peter (2003). Successful amplification of rice chloroplast microsatellites from century-old grass samples from the Park Grass Experiment. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 21(3) pp. 249–257.

Sims, Hallie J. and McConway, Kevin J. (2003). Nonstochastic variation of species-level diversification rates within angiosperms. Evolution, 57(3) pp. 460–479.

Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin J.; Hughes, Zoe; Biss, Pamela; Macnair, Mark and Lutman, Peter (2002). Ecological and genetic correlates of long-term population trends in the Park Grass Experiment. American Naturalist, 160(4) pp. 409–420.

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McConway, Kevin and Davey, Basiro eds. (2001). Studying Health and Disease (colour-enhanced second edition). U205 (2). Buckingham, UK: Open University Press/McGraw Hill Education.

McConway, Kevin (2001). Analysing numerical data. In: McConway, Kevin and Davey, Basio eds. Studying health and disease. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press, pp. 96–119.

McConway, Kevin (2001). Some basic ideas of demography and epidemiology. In: McConway, Kevin and Davey, Basiro eds. Studying health and disease, revised edition. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press, pp. 120–145.

McConway, Kevin (2001). The web of explanations. In: McConway, Kevin and Davey, Basiro eds. Studying health and disease. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press, pp. 187–193.

Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin J.; Dodd, Mike and Chase, Mark W. (2000). "Flexibility" as a trait and methodological issues in species diversity variation among angiosperm families. Evolution, 54(3) pp. 1066–1068.

Stanghellini, E.; McConway, K. J. and Hand, D. J. (1999). A discrete variable chain graph for applicants for credit. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), 48(2) pp. 239–251.

Silvertown, Jonathan and McConway, Kevin J. (1997). Opinion: Does "publication bias" lead to biased science? Oikos, 79(1) pp. 167–168.

Hand, D. J.; McConway, K. J. and Stanghellini, E. (1997). Graphical models of applicants for credit. IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business & Industry, 8(2) pp. 143–155.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Dodd, Mike; McConway, Kevin; Crawley, Mick and Potts, Jaqueline (1995). Species diversity and stability in grassland. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 10(7) pp. 287–288.

Dodd, Mike; Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin; Potts, Jacqueline and Crawley, Mick (1995). community stability - a 60-year record of trends and outbreaks in the occurrence of species in the park grass experiment. Journal of Ecology, 83(2) pp. 277–285.

Daly, F.; Hand, D. J.; Jones, M.C; Lunn, A. D. and McConway, K. J. (1995). Elements of Statistics. Wokingham: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.

McConway, Kevin (1995). Invited discussion of Dawid et al 'Coherent combination of experts' opinions'. TEST, 4(2) pp. 294–296.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Dodd, Mike E.; McConway, Kevin; Potts, Jacqueline and Crawley, Mick (1994). Rainfall, biomass variation, and community composition in the Park Grass Experiment. Ecology, 75(8) pp. 2430–2437.

Dodd, Mike E.; Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin; Potts, Jacqueline and Crawley, Mick (1994). Stability in the plant communities of the Park Grass Experiment: the relationships between species richness, soil pH and biomass variability. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 346(1316) pp. 185–193.

Dodd, Mike; Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin; Potts, Jacqueline and Crawley, Mick (1994). Application of the British national vegetation classification to the communities of the park grass experiment through time. Folia Geobotanica, 29(3) pp. 321–334.

McConway, Kevin (1994). Investigating causes and evaluating treatments. In: McConway, Kevin and Davey, Basiro eds. Studying Health and Disease (2nd edition). Buckingham, U.K.: Open University Press, pp. 145–166.

Hand, David J.; Daly, Fergus; McConway, K.; Lunn, D. and Ostrowski, E. (1993). A handbook of small data sets. London, U.K.: Chapman and Hall.

Silvertown, J.; Franco, M. and McConway, K. (1992). A demographic interpretation of Grime's triangle. Functional Ecology, 6(2) pp. 130–136.

McConway, Kevin (1992). The number of subjects in animal behaviour experiments: is Still still right? In: Dawkins, Marian Stamp and Gosling, Morris eds. Ethics in research on animal behaviour. London, U.K.: Academic Press for the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour and the Animal Behavior Society, pp. 35–38.

Genest, Christian and McConway, Kevin (1990). Allocating the weights in the linear opinion pool. Journal of Forecasting, 9(1) pp. 53–73.

McConway, Kevin (1990). Sixteen years of statistics at a distance. In: Third International Conference on Teaching Statistics, 19-24 Aug 1990, Dunedin, New Zealand.