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Professor Brian Francis

Professor of Social Statistics

  1. 2025
  2. Published

    Conflicting trends in violent crime measured by police recorded crime and the crime survey in England and Wales since 2010.

    Francis, B. & Walby, S., 4/06/2025, In: PLoS ONE. 20, 6, 25 p., 0324272.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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  4. Published
  5. Published

    Definition and measurement of violence in the Crime Survey for England and Wales: Implications for the amount and gendering of violence

    Davies, E., Obolenskaya, P., Francis, B., Blom, N., Phoenix, J., Pullerits, M. & Walby, S., 31/03/2025, In: British Journal of Criminology. 65, 2, p. 261-281 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Developing a Complete Sentence Severity Scale using Extended Goodman RC models

    Wallace, S. & Francis, B., 31/03/2025, In: Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 41, 1, p. 75-102 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    The use of multiple systems estimation to estimate the number of unattributed paintings by Modigliani

    Jackson, J. & Francis, B., 1/03/2025, In: Statistical Methods and Applications. 34, 1, p. 21-37 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Improving the estimate of trafficking in human beings and modern slavery by integrating data from ILO/Walk Free/IOM and UNODC

    Walby, S. & Francis, B., 1/01/2025, In: Social Indicators Research. 176, 2, p. 669-693 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. 2024
  10. Published

    Improving global modern slavery estimates: Behind the paper

    Francis, B. & Walby, S., 28/11/2024

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

  11. Published

    Obtaining (Ɛ,δ)-differential privacy guarantees when using the Poisson distribution to synthesize tabular data

    Jackson, J., Mitra, R., Francis, B. & Dove, I., 12/09/2024, Privacy in Statistical Databases – PSD2024. Domingo-Ferrer, J. & Önen, M. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 102-112 11 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 14915).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  12. 2023
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    Police risk assessment and case outcomes in missing person investigations

    Phoenix, J. & Francis, B., 1/09/2023, In: The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles. 96, 3, p. 390-410 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. 2022
  16. Published

    Using saturated count models for user-friendly synthesis of large confidential administrative databases

    Jackson, J., Mitra, R., Francis, B. & Dove, I., 31/10/2022, In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A Statistics in Society. 185, 4, p. 1613-1643 31 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Whitehead et al. Response to “Misunderstandings of Multiple Systems Estimation.”

    Whitehead, J., Jackson, J., Balch, A. & Francis, B., 31/10/2022, In: Journal of Human Trafficking. 8, 4, p. 469-473 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    On integrating the number of synthetic data sets m into the a priori synthesis approach

    Jackson, J., Mitra, R., Francis, B. & Dove, I., 14/09/2022, Privacy in Statistical Databases: International Conference, PSD 2022, Paris, France, September 21–23, 2022, Proceedings. Domingo-Ferrer, J. & Laurent, M. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 205-219 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  19. Published

    Using saturated models for data synthesis

    Jackson, J., Francis, B., Mitra, R. & Dove, I., 18/07/2022, Proceedings of the 36th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling: July 18-22, 2022 - Trieste, Italy. Torelli, N., Bellio, R. & Muggeo, V. (eds.). EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste 2022, p. 205-210 6 p. 34

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paper

  20. Published

    In Honour of Murray Aitkin: Special Issue of <Statistical Modelling>

    Francis, B. (Editor) & Hinde, J. (Editor), 22/04/2022, In: Statistical Modelling. 22, 1-2, p. 1-145 145 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineSpecial issuepeer-review

  21. Published

    Reflections on statistical modelling: A conversation with Murray Aitkin

    Aitkin, M., Hinde, J. & Francis, B., 1/02/2022, In: Statistical Modelling. 22, 1-2, p. 13-32 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. 2021
  23. Published

    Down syndrome, temporal variation and fallout radiation revisited: Statistical evidence

    Awwad, F., Francis, B. J. & Abonazel, M. R., 16/07/2021, In: Communications in Mathematical Biology and Neuroscience. 2021, 15 p., 61.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    On the Unreliability of Multiple Systems Estimation for Estimating the Number of Potential Victims of Modern Slavery in the UK

    Whitehead, J., Jackson, J., Balch, A. & Francis, B., 2/01/2021, In: Journal of Human Trafficking. 7, 1, p. 1-13 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. 2020
  26. Published

    Heaviness-brightness correspondence and stimulus-response compatibility

    Walker, P., Scallon, G. & Francis, B., 1/05/2020, In: Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. 82, p. 1949-1970 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. 2019
  28. Published

    Bilinear models for score building:

    Francis, B. & Davies, E., 12/2019.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Abstractpeer-review

  29. Published

    Bilinear models for scaling and score building: when should they be used?

    Francis, B. & Davies, E., 02/2019.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Abstractpeer-review

  30. 2018
  31. Published

    Data collection on trafficking in human beings in the EU: Final report

    Francis, B., Walby, S., Pattinson, B., Elliott, A., Hoti - Llabjani, V., Phoenix, J., Verrall, R. & Peelo, M., 4/12/2018, Luxembourg: European Commission. 272 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  32. Published

    Latent class approaches for modelling multiple ordinal items

    Francis, B., 11/11/2018, ASMOD 2018 : Proceedings of the Advanced Statistical Modelling for Ordinal Data Conference : Naples, 24-26 October 2018 . Capecchi, S., Di Iorio, F. & Simone, R. (eds.). Napoli: FedOAPress, p. 3-13 10 p. 2

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  33. Published

    'If England gets beaten, so will she' – the link between World Cup and violence explained

    Francis, B. & Kirby, S., 11/07/2018

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

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