Items where Author is "Francis, Brian"

Journal Article

Wallace, Stephanie and Francis, Brian (2025) Developing a Complete Sentence Severity Scale using Extended Goodman RC models. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 41 (1). pp. 75-102. ISSN 0748-4518

Jackson, James and Francis, Brian (2025) The use of multiple systems estimation to estimate the number of unattributed paintings by Modigliani. Statistical Methods and Applications. ISSN 1618-2510

Walby, Sylvia and Francis, Brian (2025) Improving the estimate of trafficking in human beings and modern slavery by integrating data from ILO/Walk Free/IOM and UNODC. Social Indicators Research, 176 (2). pp. 669-693. ISSN 0303-8300

Davies, Elouise and Obolenskaya, Polina and Francis, Brian and Blom, Niels and Phoenix, Jessica and Pullerits, Merili and Walby, Sylvia (2024) Definition and measurement of violence in the Crime Survey for England and Wales : Implications for the amount and gendering of violence. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955

Phoenix, Jessica and Francis, Brian (2023) Police risk assessment and case outcomes in missing person investigations. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 96 (3). pp. 390-410.

Jackson, James and Mitra, Robin and Francis, Brian and Dove, Iain (2022) Using saturated count models for user-friendly synthesis of large confidential administrative databases. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A Statistics in Society, 185 (4). pp. 1613-1643. ISSN 0964-1998

Whitehead, John and Jackson, James and Balch, A. and Francis, Brian (2022) Whitehead et al. Response to “Misunderstandings of Multiple Systems Estimation.”. Journal of Human Trafficking, 8 (4). pp. 469-473. ISSN 2332-2705

Walker, Peter and Scallon, Gabrielle and Francis, Brian (2020) Heaviness-brightness correspondence and stimulus-response compatibility. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 82. pp. 1949-1970. ISSN 1943-3921

Babb, Penny and Zhang, Li-Chun and Allin, Paul and Wallgren, Anders and Wallgren, Britt and Blunt, Gordon and Garrett, Andrew and Murtagh, Fionn and Smith, Peter W. F. and Elliott, Duncan and Nason, Guy and Powell, Ben and Moore, Jamie C. and Durrant, Gabriele B. and Smith, Peter W. F. and Smith, Paul A. and Chambers, Raymond L. and Herzberg, Agnes M. and Pilling, Mark and Appleby, Wendy and Barnett, Arthur and Bhansali, Rajendra and Bharadwaj, Neeraj and Dong, Yuexiao and van den Brakel, J. A. and Budd, Lisa and Doidge, James and Gilbert, Ruth and Francis, Brian and Frisoli, Kayla and Nugent, Rebecca and Garcia Perez, Francisco Javier and Lara, Libia and Porcu, Emilio and Henry, Sarah and Hunt, Ian and Ieva, Francesca and Gasperoni, Francesca and Jansson, Ingegerd and Kumar, Kuldeep and Longford, Nick and Manninen, Asta and Mateu, Jorge and McNicholas, Paul D. and McNicholas, Sharon M. and Tait, Peter A. and Mehew, Jenny and Oberski, Daniel L. and Ruiz, Marcelo and Yohai, Victor J. and Zamar, Ruben and Stehlik, Milan and Stehlikova, Silvia and Nunez Soza, Ludy and Towers, Jude and Wijayatunga, Priyantha (2018) Statistical challenges of administrative and transaction data : Contribution to discussion. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A Statistics in Society, 181 (3). pp. 578-605. ISSN 0964-1998

Walby, Sylvia and Towers, Jude and Francis, Brian (2016) Is violence increasing or decreasing? : a new methodology to measure repeat attacks making visible the significance of gender and domestic relations. British Journal of Criminology, 56 (6). pp. 1203-1234. ISSN 0007-0955

Kirby, Stuart and Francis, Brian and Humphreys, Leslie and Soothill, Keith Leonard (2016) Using the UK general offender database as a means to measure and analyse organised crime. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 39 (1). pp. 78-94. ISSN 1363-951X

Walker, Peter and Walker, Laura and Francis, Brian (2015) The size-brightness correspondence : evidence for crosstalk among aligned conceptual feature dimensions. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 77 (8). pp. 2694-2710. ISSN 1943-3921

Aitkin, Murray and Vu, Duy and Francis, Brian (2015) A new Bayesian approach for determining the number of components in a finite mixture. Metron, 73 (2). pp. 155-175. ISSN 0026-1424

Francis, Brian and Liu, Jiayi (2015) Modelling escalation in crime seriousness : a latent variable approach. Metron, 73 (2). pp. 277-297. ISSN 0026-1424

Reissland, Nadja and Francis, Brian and Kumarendran, Kumar and Mason, James (2015) Ultrasound observations of subtle movements : A pilot study comparing foetuses of smoking and nonsmoking mothers. Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics, 104 (6). pp. 596-603. ISSN 0803-5253

Grand, Alexandra and Dittrich, Regina and Francis, Brian (2015) Markov models of dependence in longitudinal paired comparisons : an application to course design. AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis, 99 (2). pp. 237-257. ISSN 1863-8171

Reissland, Nadja and Aydin, Ezra and Francis, Brian and Exley, Kendra (2015) Laterality of foetal self-touch in relation to maternal stress. Laterality, 20 (1). pp. 82-94. ISSN 1357-650X

Walby, Sylvia and Towers, Jude and Francis, Brian (2014) Mainstreaming domestic and gender-based violence into sociology and the criminology of violence. The Sociological Review, 62 (S2). 187–214. ISSN 0038-0261

Francis, Brian and Harris, Danielle and Wallace, Stephanie and Soothill, Keith and Knight, Raymond (2014) Sexual and general offending trajectories of men referred for civil commitment. Sexual Abuse, 26 (4). pp. 311-329. ISSN 1079-0632

Kirby, Stuart and Francis, Brian and O'Flahery, Rosalie (2014) Can the FIFA world cup football (soccer) tournament be associated with an increase in domestic abuse? Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 51 (3). pp. 259-276. ISSN 0022-4278

Reissland, Nadja and Francis, Brian and Aydin, Ezra and Mason, James and Schaal, Benoist (2014) The development of anticipation in the fetus : a longitudinal account of human fetal mouth movements in reaction to and anticipation of touch. Developmental Psychobiology, 56 (5). pp. 955-963. ISSN 0012-1630

Reissland, Nadja and Francis, Brian and Aydin, Ezra and Mason, James and Exley, Kendra (2014) Development of prenatal lateralization : evidence from fetal mouth movements. Physiology and Behavior, 131. pp. 160-163. ISSN 1873-507X

Hargreaves, Claire and Francis, Brian (2014) The long term recidivism risk of young sexual offenders in England and Wales - enduring risk or redemption? Journal of Criminal Justice, 42 (2). pp. 164-172.

Francis, Brian and Dittrich, Regina and Hatzinger, Reinhold and Humphreys, Leslie (2014) A mixture model for longitudinal partially ranked data. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 43 (4). 722–734. ISSN 0361-0926

Soothill, Keith and Humphreys, Leslie and Francis, Brian (2013) Middle-class offenders as employees – assessing the risk : a 35-year follow-up. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 52 (6). pp. 407-420. ISSN 1050-9674

Reissland, Nadja and Francis, Brian and Mason, James (2013) Can healthy fetuses show facial expressions of “pain” or “distress”? PLoS ONE, 8 (6): e65530. ISSN 1932-6203

Reissland, Nadja and Francis, Brian and Mason, James (2012) Development of Fetal Yawn Compared with Non-Yawn Mouth Openings from 24-36 Weeks Gestation. PLoS ONE, 7 (11): e50569.

Soothill, Keith and Humphreys, Leslie and Francis, Brian (2012) Middle-Class Offenders: A 35-Year Follow-Up. British Journal of Criminology, 52 (4). pp. 765-786. ISSN 0007-0955

Francis, Brian and Dittrich, Regina and Hatzinger, Reinhold (2012) Latent class mixed effects models for partially ranked preferences : examining changes in postmaterialism over time. Quaderni di Statistica, 14. pp. 109-112. ISSN 1594-3739

Dittrich, Regina and Francis, Brian and Hatzinger, Reinhold and Katzenbeisser, Walter (2012) Missing observations in paired comparison data. Statistical Modelling, 12 (2). pp. 117-143. ISSN 1471-082X

Walker, Laura and Walker, Peter and Francis, Brian (2012) A common scheme for cross-sensory correspondences across stimulus domains. Seeing and Perceiving, 25 (Suppl.). p. 67. ISSN 1878-4763

Walker, Laura and Walker, Peter and Francis, Brian (2012) A common scheme for cross-sensory correspondences across stimulus domains. Perception, 41 (10). pp. 1186-1192. ISSN 0301-0066

Reissland, Nadja and Francis, Brian and Mason, James and Lincoln, Karen (2011) Do facial expressions develop before birth? PLoS ONE, 6 (8): e24081.

Liu, Jiayi and Francis, Brian and Soothill, Keith (2011) A Longitudinal Study of Escalation in Crime Seriousness. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 27 (2). pp. 175-196. ISSN 0748-4518

Reissland, Nadja and Francis, Brian (2010) The quality of fetal arm movements as indicators of fetal stress. Early Human Development, 86 (12). pp. 813-816.

Francis, Brian and Liu, Jiayi and Soothill, Keith (2010) Criminal Lifestyle Specialization : Female Offending in England and Wales. International Criminal Justice Review, 20 (2). pp. 188-204. ISSN 1057-5677

Soothill, Keith and Christoffersen, Mogens N. and Hussain, M. Azhar and Francis, Brian (2010) Exploring Paradigms of Crime Reduction. British Journal of Criminology, 50 (2). pp. 222-238. ISSN 1464-3529

Armstrong, Alona and Holden, Joseph and Kay, Paul and Francis, Brian and Foulger, Miles and Gledhill, Sarah and McDonald, Adrian and Walker, Andrew (2010) The impact of peatland drain-blocking on dissolved organic carbon loss and discolouration of water : results from a national survey. Journal of Hydrology, 381 (1-2). pp. 112-120.

Soothill, Keith and Francis, Brian and Liu, Jiayi (2010) The importance of co-convictions in the prediction of dangerous recidivism : blackmail and kidnapping as a demonstration study. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 10 (1). pp. 23-36. ISSN 1748-8958

Soothill, Keith and Francis, Brian (2010) The debate rumbles on : The measurement tail is now wagging the dog. New Law Journal, 7401. pp. 94-95.

Francis, Brian and Dittrich, Regina and Hatzinger, Reinhold (2010) Modeling heterogeneity in ranked responses by nonparametric maximum likelihood : How do Europeans get their scientific knowledge? Annals of Applied Statistics, 4 (4). pp. 2181-2202. ISSN 1941-7330

Soothill, Keith and Francis, Brian (2009) Keeping information on Police databases. Criminal Law and Justice Weekly. ISSN 1759-7943

Lancaster, Gillian and Francis, Brian and Allen, Ruth (2009) Lancaster Postgraduate Statistics Centre – creating enterprise and innovation in teaching statistics across disciplines. MSOR Connections, 9 (1). pp. 41-46. ISSN 1473-4869

Soothill, Keith and Francis, Brian (2009) Keeping the DNA link. New Law Journal, 159. pp. 73-78.

Peelo, Moira Teresa and Francis, Brian (2009) Tackling mixed messages : embedding advanced numeracy in graduate identities. MSOR Connections, 9 (4). pp. 23-27. ISSN 1473-4869

Francis, Brian and Soothill, Keith (2009) When do ex-offenders become like non-offenders? The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 48 (4). pp. 373-387. ISSN 0265-5527

Soothill, Keith and Francis, Brian and Liu, Jiayi (2008) Does serious offending lead to homicide? : exploring the interrelationships and sequencing of serious crime. British Journal of Criminology, 48 (4). pp. 522-537. ISSN 1464-3529

Liu, Jiayi and Francis, Brian and Soothill, Keith (2008) Kidnapping offenders : their risk of escalation to repeat offending and other serious crime. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 19 (2). 164 - 179. ISSN 1478-9949

Christoffersen, Mogens Nygaard and Soothill, Keith and Francis, Brian (2008) Risk factors for a first-time drink-driving conviction among young men : a birth cohort study of all men born in Denmark in 1966. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 34 (4). 415 - 425. ISSN 0740-5472

Stewart, John and Sapey, Bob and Humphreys, Leslie and Francis, Brian and Donaldson, Glenis (2008) Older People and Dissatisfaction with Wheelchair Services. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 10 (1). pp. 17-28. ISSN 1501-7419

Soothill, Keith and Francis, Brian and Ackerley, Elizabeth and Humphreys, Leslie (2008) Changing patterns of offending behaviour among young adults. British Journal of Criminology, 48 (1). 75 - 95. ISSN 1464-3529

Soothill, Keith and Ackerley, Elizabeth and Francis, Brian (2008) Criminal convictions among children and young adults : changes over time. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 8 (3). pp. 297-315. ISSN 1748-8966

Soothill, Keith and Liu, Jiayi and Francis, Brian (2008) Killer instinct : can convictions for serious offences indicate who is more likely to kill?. Police Review, 116. p. 6004. ISSN 0309-1414

Domellof, Erik and Hopkins, Brian and Francis, Brian and Ronnqvist, Louise (2007) Effects of finger markers on the kinematics of reaching movements in young children and adults. Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 23 (4). 315 - 321. ISSN 1543-2688

Abram, Bev and Francis, Brian (2007) Introducing the Lancaster Postgraduate Statistics Centre – a Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). MSOR Connections, 7 (2). pp. 11-15. ISSN 1473-4869

Dittrich, Regina and Francis, Brian and Hatzinger, Reinhold and Katzenbeisser, Walter (2007) A paired comparison approach for the analysis of sets of Likert-scale responses. Statistical Modelling, 7 (1). 3 - 28. ISSN 1471-082X

Cheshire, Andrea and Muldoon, Kevin P. and Francis, Brian and Lewis, Charlie N. and Ball, Linden J. (2007) Modelling Change: New Opportunities in the Analysis of Microgenetic Data. Infant and Child Development, 16 (1). pp. 119-134. ISSN 1522-7227

Christoffersen, Mogens Nygaard and Soothill, Keith and Francis, Brian (2007) Violent Life Events and Social Disadvantage : A Systematic Study of the Social Background of Various Kinds of Lethal Violence, Other Violent Crime, Suicide, and Suicide Attempts. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, 8 (2). pp. 157-184. ISSN 1404-3858

Harman, Juliet and Graham, Hilary and Francis, Brian and Inskip, Hazel M. (2006) Socioeconomic gradients in smoking among young women : a British survey. Social Science and Medicine, 63 (11). pp. 2791-2800. ISSN 1873-5347

Dittrich, Regina and Francis, Brian and Hatzinger, Reinhold and Katzenbeisser, Walter (2006) Modelling dependency in multivariate paired comparisons : a log-linear approach. Mathematical Social Sciences, 52 (2). pp. 197-209. ISSN 0165-4896

Graham, Hilary and Inskip, Hazel M. and Francis, Brian and Harman, Juliet (2006) Pathways of disadvantage and smoking careers : evidence and policy implications. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60 (Supple). ii7-ii12. ISSN 1470-2738

Graham, Hilary and Francis, Brian and Inskip, Hazel M. and Harman, Juliet (2006) Socioeconomic lifecourse influences on women's smoking status in early adulthood. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60 (3). pp. 228-233. ISSN 1470-2738

Graham, H. and Francis, Brian and Inskip, H. M. and Harman, J. (2006) Socioeconomic lifecourse influences on women's smoking status in early adulthood. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60 (3). pp. 228-233. ISSN 0143-005X

Soothill, Keith and Harman, Juliet and Francis, Brian and Kirby, Stuart (2005) Identifying future repeat danger from sexual offenders against children : a focus on those convicted and those strongly suspected of such crime. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 16 (2). pp. 225-247. ISSN 1478-9949

Ackerley, Elizabeth and Francis, Brian and Soothill, Keith (2004) Profiles of crime recruitment: changing patterns over time. British Journal of Criminology, 44 (3). pp. 401-418. ISSN 1464-3529

Peelo, Moira and Francis, Brian and Pearson, Jayn and Soothill, Keith and Ackerley, Elizabeth (2004) Newspaper reporting and the public construction of homicide. British Journal of Criminology, 44 (2). pp. 256-275. ISSN 1464-3529

Soothill, Keith and Peelo, Moira Teresa and Pearson, Jayn and Francis, Brian (2004) The reporting trajectories of top homicide cases in the media : a case study of The Times. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 43 (1). pp. 1-14. ISSN 0265-5527

Soothill, K and Francis, Brian and Ackerley, Elizabeth (2004) Perjury and false statements: A criminal profile of persons convicted 1979-2001 : Criminal Law Review. Criminal Law Review (Nov). pp. 926-935. ISSN 0011-135X

Christoffersen, Mogens Nygaard; and Francis, Brian and Soothill, Keith (2003) An upbringing to violence? : identifying the likelihood of violent crime among the 1966 birth cohort in Denmark. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 14 (2). pp. 367-381. ISSN 1478-9949

Francis, Brian and Dittrich, Regina and Hatzinger, Reinhold and Penn, Roger D. (2002) Analysing partial ranks by using smoothed paired comparison methods : an investigation of value orientation in Europe. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 51 (3). pp. 319-336. ISSN 0035-9254

Francis, Brian and Pritchard, John (1998) Bertin, Lexis and the graphical representation of event histories. Bulletin du Comite Francais de Cartographie (156). pp. 80-88.

Soothill, Keith and Francis, Brian and Ackerley, Elizabeth (1997) The value of finding employment for white-collar ex-offenders : A 20-year criminological follow-up. British Journal of Criminology, 37 (4). pp. 582-592. ISSN 0007-0955

Soothill, Keith and Francis, Brian (1997) Sexual reconvictions and the Sex Offenders Act 1997 part 2. New Law Journal, 147 (6807). pp. 1324-1325.

Johnes, J and Taylor, J and Francis, Brian (1993) The research performance of UK universities: a statistical analysis of the results of the 1989 research Selectivity Exercise. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A Statistics in Society, 156 (2). pp. 271-286. ISSN 0964-1998

Aitkin, Murray and Francis, Brian (1992) Fitting the Multinomial model with continuous covariates in GLIM. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 14 (1). pp. 89-97. ISSN 0167-9473

Bound, John P. and Francis, Brian and Harvey, Peter W. (1991) Neural tube defects, maternal cohorts and age : a pointer to etiology. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 66 (10). 1223–1226. ISSN 0003-9888

Moore, Roger and Francis, Brian (1991) Factors influencing herbivory by insects on oak trees in pure stands and paired mixtures. Journal of Applied Ecology, 28 (1). pp. 305-317. ISSN 0021-8901

Wolfenden, J. and Pearson, M. and Francis, Brian (1991) Effects of over-winter fumigation with sulfur and nitrogen dioxides on biochemical parameters and spring growth in red spruce. Plant, Cell and Environment, 14 (1). pp. 35-45. ISSN 0140-7791

Francis, Brian (1991) A remark on algorithm AS121 - The Trigamma Function,. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 40 (3). pp. 514-515. ISSN 0035-9254

Francis, Brian and Barry, Jon and Walby, Sylvia (1990) Graphical representation of work histories. Quaderni di Statistica e Matematica Applicata alle scienze Economico-Sociali, 12 (1). pp. 66-74.

Barry, Jon and Soothill, Keith and Francis, Brian (1989) Nursing the statistics : a demonstration study of nurse turnover and retention. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 14 (7). pp. 528-535. ISSN 0309-2402

Bound, John P. and Harvey, Peter W. and Francis, Brian (1989) Seasonal prevalence of major congenital malformations in the Fylde of Lancaster 1957-1981. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 43 (4). pp. 330-342. ISSN 1470-2738

Mehlhorn, Horst and Francis, Brian and Wellburn, Alan (1988) Prediction of the probability of forest decline damage to Norway spruce using three simple site-independent diagnostic parameters. New Phytologist, 110 (4). pp. 525-534. ISSN 0028-646X

Wolfenden, J. and Robinson, D. C. and Cape, J. N. and Paterson, I.S. and Francis, Brian and Mehlhorn, Horst and Wellburn, Alan (1988) Use of carotenoid ratios, ethylene emissions and buffer capacities for the early diagnosis of forest decline. New Phytologist, 109 (1). pp. 85-95. ISSN 0028-646X

Lucas, Peter and Cottam, D. A. and Sheppard, L. J. and Francis, Brian (1988) Growth responses and delayed winter hardening in Sitka Spruce following summer exposure to ozone. New Phytologist, 108 (4). pp. 495-504. ISSN 0028-646X

Aitkin, Murray and Francis, Brian and Raynal, Natalie (1987) Une étude comparative d'analyses des correspondances ou de classifications et des modèles de variables latentes ou de classes latentes. Revue de Statistique Appliquée, 35 (3). pp. 53-82. ISSN 0035-175X

Corless, Carol and Francis, Brian and Rogers, Rachel (1984) The use of computerised records in a university student counselling service. Counselling : the Journal of the British Association for Counselling, 49. pp. 7-12.

Aitkin, Murray and Laird, Nan and Francis, Brian (1983) A reanalysis of the Stanford heart transplant data : a rejoinder. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 78 (382). pp. 291-292. ISSN 1537-274X

Aitkin, Murray and Laird, Nan and Francis, Brian (1983) A reanalysis of the Stanford heart transplant data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 78 (382). pp. 264-274. ISSN 1537-274X

Aitkin, Murray and Laird, Nan and Francis, Brian (1983) Rejoinder. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 78 (382). pp. 291-292. ISSN 0162-1459

Aitkin, Murray and Francis, Brian (1982) Interactive regression modelling. Biometrics, 38 (2). pp. 511-513. ISSN 1541-0420

Forster, Donald P. and Francis, Brian and Frost, Charles E.B. and Heath, P.J. (1981) Health and education expenditure in the United Kingdom : what priority? Health Policy and Education, 2 (1). pp. 77-84. ISSN 0165-2281

Forster, Donald P. and Francis, Brian and Frost, Charles E.B. and Armstrong, W.D. (1981) A study of domiciliary physiotherapy in general practice. Community Medicine, 3. pp. 14-24.

Frost, Charles E.B. and Francis, Brian (1979) Clinical decision making : a study of general surgery within Trent RHA. Social Science and Medicine, 13 (2A). pp. 193-198. ISSN 0277-9536

Sobowale, O and Lenton, E.A. and Francis, Brian and Cooke, I.D. (1978) Comparison of plasma steroid and gonadotrophin profiles in spontaneous cycles in which conception did and did not occur. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 85 (6). pp. 460-467. ISSN 1470-0328

Ward, A.W.M. and Davison, Catherine and Francis, Brian (1977) Physiotherapist's careers. Physiotherapy, 63. pp. 314-315.

Ward, A.W.M. and Davison, Catherine and Francis, Brian (1977) Physiotherapists who trained at Sheffield and St. Thomas' Hospital 1952-1970 : Centre eight paper. Health and Social Services Journal, 87 (4567). F17-F24. ISSN 0300-8347

Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings

Jackson, James and Mitra, Robin and Francis, Brian and Dove, Iain (2024) Obtaining (Ɛ,δ)-differential privacy guarantees when using the Poisson distribution to synthesize tabular data. In: Privacy in Statistical Databases – PSD2024 :. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer, Cham, pp. 102-112. ISBN 9783031696503

Jackson, James and Mitra, Robin and Francis, Brian and Dove, Iain (2022) On integrating the number of synthetic data sets m into the a priori synthesis approach. In: Privacy in Statistical Databases : International Conference, PSD 2022, Paris, France, September 21–23, 2022, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer, Cham, pp. 205-219. ISBN 9783031139444

Jackson, James and Francis, Brian and Mitra, Robin and Dove, Iain (2022) Using saturated models for data synthesis. In: Proceedings of the 36th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling : July 18-22, 2022 - Trieste, Italy. EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste 2022, ITA, pp. 205-210. ISBN 9788855113090

Francis, Brian (2018) Latent class approaches for modelling multiple ordinal items. In: ASMOD 2018 : Proceedings of the Advanced Statistical Modelling for Ordinal Data Conference : Naples, 24-26 October 2018 :. FedOAPress, Napoli, pp. 3-13. ISBN 9788868870423

Francis, Brian and Hargreaves, Claire and Soothill, Keith (2015) Changing prevalence of sex offender convictions : disentangling age, period, and cohort effects over time. In: Sex offenders : a criminal career approach. Wiley, Chichester, pp. 231-256. ISBN 9780470975459

Bartolucci, Francesco and Francis, Brian and Pandolfi, Silvia and Pennoni, Fulvia (2015) Robust maximum likelihood estimation of latent class models. In: Proceedings of the 30th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling : Proceedings Volume 1. johannes Kepler University, Linz, Linz, Austria, pp. 94-99.

Francis, Brian and Soothill, Keith (2013) Sexual recidivism. In: Encyclopedia of criminology and criminal justice :. Springer, New York, pp. 4798-4809. ISBN 9781461456896

Francis, Brian and Soothill, Keith (2012) Homicide in England and Wales. In: Handbook of European homicide research : patterns, explanations, and country studies. Springer, Berlin, pp. 287-300. ISBN 978-1-4614-0465-1

Towse, Andrea and Lewis, Charlie and Francis, Brian (2012) Modeling Microgenetic Data. In: Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning :. Springer Reference . Springer, Berlin, pp. 2317-2320. ISBN 978-1-4419-1427-9

Francis, Brian (2011) Conceptualising recidivism for prediction and risk. In: Recidivism and Reoffending in South Africa :. Open Society Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 16-21.

Soothill, Keith and Francis, Brian (2011) Considering paradigms of crime reduction in different contexts. In: National and international perspectives on crime and policing : Towards a coherent strategy for crime reduction in South Africa beyond 2010. Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, pp. 1-17. ISBN 978-1-920422-54-7

Sharples, Stuart John and Yeend, Emily Natalia and Francis, Brian and Ridall, Gareth and Booth, Gill (2010) Developing Statistical Consultancy Skills In Post-Graduate Students : a case study. In: ICOTS 8 Proceedings : International conference on Teaching Statistics, Ljubljana, Slovenia. International Association for Statistical Education, Auckland, New Zealand.

Hoti - Llabjani, Valmira and Francis, Brian and Lancaster, Gillian (2010) Resource Discovery For Teaching Datasets. In: ICOTS 8 proceedings : International Conference on Teaching Statistics 2010 Ljubljana, Slovenia. International Association for Statistical Education, Auckland, New Zealand.

Soothill, Keith and Francis, Brian (2010) Blackmail, kidnapping and threats to kill : Chapter 21. In: Handbook on Crime :. Willan, Cullompton, pp. 393-414. ISBN 978-1-84392-371-8

Fritz, Catherine and Francis, Brian and Morris, Peter and Peelo, Moira (2010) SIMPLE : Helping to introduce statistics to social science students. In: Responding to the mathematics problem : The implementation of institutional support mechanisms. The Maths, Stats & OR Network, Birmingham, UK, pp. 51-58.

Humphreys, Leslie and Francis, Brian (2009) Developing numeracy in criminology students through crime data. In: CETL-MSOR Conference 2008 Lancaster University 8th – 9th September Conference Proceedings :. The Maths, Stats & OR Network, Birmingham, U.K., pp. 51-56. ISBN 978-0-9555914-5-7

Francis, Brian and Liu, Jiayi and Soothill, Keith (2008) Using the Offenders Index to investigate patterns of offending. In: Proceedings of the 13th Government Statistical Service methodology conference :. Office of National Statistics, UK, London.

Francis, Brian and Abram, Bev and Peelo, Moira (2007) The Lancaster Postgraduate Statistics Centre CETL : building trust and statistical skills across disciplines. In: CETL-MSOR Conference 2006 Loughborough University 11th – 12th September Conference Proceedings :. The Maths, Stats & OR Network, Birmingham, UK. ISBN 978-0-9555914-0-2

Dittrich, Regina and Francis, Brian and Hatzinger, Reinhold and Katzenbeisser, Walter (2007) On the treatment of missing observations in paired comparisons experiments. In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Barcelona, 2-6 July 2007 :. l'Institut d'Estadistica de Catalunya, Barcelona, pp. 215-220. ISBN 978-84-690-5943-2

Francis, Brian and Soothill, Keith J. (2005) Explaining changing patterns of crime : a focus on burglary and age-period-cohort models. In: Questioning crime and criminology :. Willan, Cullompton, pp. 102-119. ISBN 1843921278

Dittrich, Regina and Francis, Brian and Katzenbeisser, Walter (2003) Modelling repeated paired comparisons : an example from the British Household Panel Study. In: Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Leuven, Belgium :. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, pp. 119-124. ISBN 90-807934-1-8

Francis, Brian and Pritchard, John (2000) Visualization of criminal careers. In: Visual Data Exploration and Analysis VII :. SPIE, pp. 96-105. ISBN 9780819435781

Francis, Brian and Dittrich, Regina (2000) Random effects models for ranked data : an example from a survey of student social workers. In: Social science methodology in the new millennium : proceedings of the fifth international conference on logic and methodology [CDROM]. German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS), Cologne. ISBN 9080107387

Francis, Brian and Pritchard, John (1998) Visualisation of historical events using Lexis pencils : a case study. In: Case studies of visualisation in the social sciences : technical report. JISC Advisory group on Computer Graphics, Bristol.

Francis, Brian and Fuller, Mark and Pritchard, John (1998) The use of visualisation in the examination of categorical event histories. In: Visualisation of Categorical Data :. Academic Press, New York. ISBN 978-0122990458

Leech, Geoffrey and Francis, Brian and Xu, Xunfeng (1997) The odds in favour of the genitive : a study of gradience in English. In: The Locus of meaning : papers in honour of Yoshihiko Ikeganu. Kuroshi, Tokyo. ISBN 9784874241479

Francis, Brian (1997) The use of visualisation in the examination of work and life histories. In: Visualization and modelling :. Academic Press, New York. ISBN 978-0122277382

Francis, Brian and Peelo, Moira and Soothill, Keith (1996) NHS nursing: vocation, career or just a job? An application of latent class analysis. In: Themes and Perspectives in Nursing :. Chapman and Hall, London, pp. 56-75.

de Falguerolles, Antoine and Francis, Brian (1994) Algorithmic approaches to fitting bilinear models for two-way contingency tables. In: New Approaches in Classification and Data Analysis : Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 518-524. ISBN 978-3540584254

de Falguerolles, Antoine and Francis, Brian (1994) Fitting power models to two-way contingency tables. In: Compstat 1994 : Proceedings in Computational Statistics: 11th Symposium held in Vienna, Austria, 1994. Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 470-475. ISBN 978-3790807936

Stott, David and Francis, Brian and Wain, Ruth (1994) Software for routine record linkage in public health. In: Current Perspectives in Healthcare Computing 1994 : Conference proceedings. British Journal of Healthcare Computing,, Weybridge, pp. 681-686. ISBN 9780948198175

Leech, Geoffrey and Francis, Brian and Xu, Xunfeng (1994) The use of computer corpora in the textual demonstrability of gradience in linguistic categories. In: Continuity in Linguistic Semantics :. Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa . John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 57-76. ISBN 978 90 272 3128 4

de Falguerolles, Antoine and Francis, Brian (1992) Algorithmic approaches for fitting bilinear models. In: Computational Statistics Vol. 1: : COMPSTAT Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Computational Statistics, Neuchatel, Switzerland, August 199. Physica Verlag, Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3790806342

Swan, Tony and Francis, Brian (1992) Medical applications in GLIM4. In: Advances in GLIM and Statistical Modelling. :. Springer Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 978-0387978734

Francis, Brian and Green, Michael and Clarke, Michael (1992) Model fitting applications in GLIM4. In: Advances in GLIM and Statistical Modelling :. Springer Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 978-0387978734

Francis, Brian and Peelo, Moira and Soothill, Keith (1991) NHS nursing : Vocation, career or just a job? An application of latent class analysis. In: Themes and Perspectives in Nursing :. Chapman and Hall, London, pp. 56-75. ISBN 978-0412439902

Wolfenden, J. and Cape, J. N. and Francis, Brian and Melhorn, H. and Wellburn, Alan (1991) Progress towards the early diagnosis of forest decline. In: Acid Depositions in Europe : Environmental Effects, Strategies and Policy Options. Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, pp. 59-79. ISBN 0951713701

Francis, Brian and Green, Michael and Bradley, Malcolm (1990) GLIM4 - developments in model fitting. In: COMPSTAT90 : Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Computational Statistics. Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 323-326. ISBN 3-7908-0475-4

Francis, Brian and Barry, Jon (1990) Software for logistic-normal mixture models. In: COMPSTAT90 : Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Computational Statistics. Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 39-40. ISBN 3-7908-0475-4

Francis, Brian and Green, Michael and Bradley, Malcolm (1989) GLIM4 : structure and development. In: Statistical Modelling : Proceedings of GLIM 89 and the 4th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Lecture Notes in Statistics . Springer-Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 978-0387970974

Barry, Jon and Francis, Brian and Davies, Richard (1989) SABRE 2.0 : software for the analysis of binary recurrent events. In: Statistical modelling : proceedings of GLIM 89 and the 4th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Lecture Notes in Statistics . Springer-Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 978-0387970974

Francis, Brian and Saint Pierre, Joseph (1986) Fitting correspondence analysis models in GLIM. In: COMPSTAT 86 : Proceedings in Computational Statistics, Seventh Symposium. Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 255-256. ISBN 9783790817089

Francis, Brian and Whittaker, Joseph (1986) Teaching computational statistics on workstations. In: COMPSTAT 86 : Proceedings in Computational Statistics, Seventh Symposium. Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 477-482. ISBN 9783790817089

Francis, Brian and Hinde, John and Slater, Mel (1982) GLIM : a developing system. In: Computer Science and Statistics : proceedings of the 14th Symposium on the Interface. Springer Verlag, New York, pp. 190-201. ISBN 0387908358

Monograph

Francis, Brian and Soothill, Keith and Humphreys, Leslie (2007) Development of a reoffending measure using the Police National Computer database. Working Paper. UNSPECIFIED.

Francis, Brian and Soothill, Keith and Humphreys, Leslie and Cutajar Bezzina, Audrienne (2005) Developing Measures of Severity and Frequency of Reconviction. Working Paper. UNSPECIFIED.

Hatzinger, Reinhold and Francis, Brian (2004) Fitting paired comparison models in R. Working Paper. Department of Statistics and Mathematics, WU Wien, Vienna.

Francis, Brian and Barry, Jon and Bowater, Russell and Miller, Nicky and Soothill, Keith and Ackerley, Elizabeth (2004) Using homicide data to assist murder investigations. Working Paper. Home Office, London.

Contribution to Conference

Francis, Brian and Davies, Elouise (2019) Bilinear models for score building:. In: 12th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computing & Statistics, 2019-12-14 - 2019-12-16, University of London.

Francis, Brian and Davies, Elouise (2019) Bilinear models for scaling and score building: when should they be used? In: Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods 2019, 2019-02-04 - 2019-02-06.

Elliott, Amy and Francis, Brian (2014) Changing crime-mix patterns of offending over the life course : a comparative study in England and Wales and the Netherlands. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Francis, Brian and Soothill, Keith and Humphreys, Leslie (2012) Predicting reconviction : do some predictors fade with length of follow-up? In: American Society of Criminology, 2012-11-14 - 2012-11-17.

Walker, Laura and Walker, Peter and Francis, Brian (2012) A common scheme for cross-sensory correspondences across stimulus domains. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Hargreaves, Claire and Francis, Brian (2011) Once a sex offender, always a sex offender?”. In: European Society of Criminology, 2011-09-21 - 2011-09-24.

Francis, Brian and Hargreaves, Claire and Soothill, Keith (2011) Disentangling the Age, Period and Cohort Effects on Convictions for Sexual Offending. In: British Society of Criminology, 2011-07-04. (Unpublished)

Francis, Brian (2008) Experiences of peer review in an international context – the EUROCORES HumVIB programme. In: ESF Member Organisation Forum on Peer Review, 2008-03-10 - 2008-03-11.

Book/Report/Proceedings

Walby, Sylvia and Olive, Philippa and Towers, Jude and Francis, Brian and Strid, Sofia and Krizsan, Andrea and Lombardo, Emanuela and May-Chahal, Corinne and Franzway, Suzanne and Sugarman, David and Aganwal, Bina and Armstrong, Jo (2015) Stopping rape : towards a comprehensive policy. Policy Press, Bristol. ISBN 9781447322092

Walby, Sylvia and Olive, Philippa and Towers, Judith and Francis, Brian and Strid, Sofia and Krizsan, Andrea and Lombardo, Emanuela and May-Chahal, Corinne and Franzway, Suzanne and Sugarman, David and Aganwal, Bina and Armstrong, Jo (2015) Stopping rape:towards a comprehensive policy. Policy Press. ISBN 9781447322092

Walby, Sylvia and Towers, Jude and Francis, Brian (2014) The decline in the rate of domestic violence has stopped : removing the cap on repeat victimisation reveals more violence. Lancaster University, Lancaster.

Aitkin, Murray and Francis, Brian and Hinde, John and Darnell, Ross (2009) Statistical modelling in R. Oxford Statistical Science Series . Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199219131

Soothill, Keith and Fitzpatrick, Claire and Francis, Brian (2009) Understanding criminal careers. Willan, Cullompton. ISBN 9781843925033

Soothill, Keith and Francis, Brian and Fligelstone, Rachel (2002) Patterns of offending behaviour : a new approach (Full report). Home Office Research Findings . Home Office, London.

Francis, Brian and Green, Michael and Payne, Clive (1993) The GLIM System : Release 4 Manual. Clarendon Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0198522317

Fahrmeir, Ludwig and Francis, Brian and Gilchrist, Robert and Tutz, Gerhard (1992) Advances in GLIM and Statistical Modelling : Proceedings of the GLIM92 Conference and the 7th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Lecture Notes in Statistics . Springer Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 978-0387978734

Van Der Heijden, Peter and Jansen, Wim and Francis, Brian and Seeber, Gilg (1992) Statistical modelling : a selection of papers from the 6. International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15-19 July, 1991. Elsevier, Amsterdam. ISBN 0444893997 9780444893994

Francis, Brian and Decarli, Adriano and Gilchrist, Robert and Seeber, Gilg (1989) Statistical modelling : proceedings of GLIM 89 and the 4th Internat. Workshop on Statist. Modelling held in Trento, Italy, July 17-21, 1989. Lecture Notes in Statistics . Springer Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 978-0387970974

Aitkin, Murray and Anderson, Dorothy and Francis, Brian and Hinde, John (1988) Statistical Modelling in GLIM. Clarendon Press, Oxford. ISBN 0-19-852204-5

Francis, Brian (1987) GLIM3.77 Macro Library Handbook. Software and documentation. : Release 1.1 of Library. Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), Oxford. ISBN 1-85206-042-5

Baker, Robert and Clarke, Michael and Francis, Brian and Green, Michael and Nelder, John and Payne, Clive and Webb, Janet (1985) GLIM 3.77 User Guide. Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), Oxford. ISBN 1-85206-1-8

Gilchrist, Robert and Francis, Brian and Whittaker, Joseph (1985) Generalised linear models : proceedings of the second international conference on Generalised Linear Models. Lecture Notes in Statistics . Springer Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 3-540-96224-7

Thesis

Davies, Elouise and Francis, Brian and Walby, Sylvia and Towers, Jude (2022) Is Domestic Violence Violent Crime? PhD thesis, Lancaster University.

Uche-Ikonne, Okezie and Palmer, Tom and Francis, Brian (2022) Statistical models for Mendelian randomization analysis using summary-level data. PhD thesis, Lancaster University.

Jackson, James and Mitra, Robin and Francis, Brian and Dove, Iain (2022) The use of saturated count models for synthesis of large confidential administrative databases. PhD thesis, Lancaster University.

Hoti, Valmira and Francis, Brian (2020) Attitudes to immigration and human values – a repeated cross-sectional study in three European countries. PhD thesis, School Of Mathematical Sciences.

Elliott, Amy and Francis, Brian (2018) Changing crime mix patterns of criminal careers : longitudinal latent variable approaches for modelling conviction data in England & Wales and the Netherlands. PhD thesis, Lancaster University.

Scallon, Gabrielle and Walker, Peter and Francis, Brian (2018) Cross-sensory correspondences : cross-activation of connotative feature dimensions through the felt heaviness of lifted objects. PhD thesis, Lancaster University.

Phoenix, Jessica and Francis, Brian (2017) Missing from Lancashire : the influence of risk assessment on time to resolution in missing from home cases. Masters thesis, School Of Mathematical Sciences.

Wallace, Stephanie and Francis, Brian and Humphreys, Leslie (2015) Developing methods to measure sentence severity and assess disparity in sentencing in the criminal courts of England and Wales. PhD thesis, Lancaster University.

Mills, Richard and Francis, Brian (2013) Distributed moderation systems : an exploration of their utility and the social implications of their widespread adoption. PhD thesis, Lancaster University.

Weldon, Matthew and Francis, Brian (2012) Jointly modeling time-varying offending profiles and criminal career trajectories in a sample of sexual offenders : A multivariate approach to modelling criminal careers. Masters thesis, Lancaster University.

Other

Francis, Brian (2025) The need for an improved definition of violence against women and girls : Written response to the Public Accounts Committee on Tackling Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG). UK Parliament, London.

Francis, Brian and Walby, Sylvia (2024) Improving global modern slavery estimates : Behind the paper. Springer International Publishing.

Hunter, Katie and Francis, Brian and Fitzpatrick, Claire (2023) Care Experience, Ethnicity and Youth Justice Involvement: Key Trends and Policy Implications. ADR-UK.

Francis, Brian and Kirby, Stuart (2018) 'If England gets beaten, so will she' – the link between World Cup and violence explained. UNSPECIFIED.

Francis, Brian (2011) What is latent class analysis. Sage Publications.

Wiggins, Dick and Beedham, Hilary and Francis, Brian and Goldstein, Harvey and Hanavy, Martin and Harman, Juliet and Leyland, Alastair and Rasbash, Jon and Smith, Fred (1999) TRAMSS website : teaching resources and materials for social scientists. UNSPECIFIED.

Report

Francis, Brian and Walby, Sylvia and Pattinson, Becky and Elliott, Amy and Hoti - Llabjani, Valmira and Phoenix, Jessica and Verrall, Rachel and Peelo, Moira (2018) Data collection on trafficking in human beings in the EU : Final report. [Report]

Walby, Sylvia and Olive, Philippa and Towers, Jude and Francis, Brian and Strid, Sofia and Krizsán, Andrea and Lombardo, Emanuela and May-Chahal, Corinne and Franzway, Suzanne and Sugarman, David and Agarwal, Bina (2013) Overview of the worldwide best practices for rape prevention and for assisting women victims of rape. [Report]

Francis, Brian and Humphreys, Leslie and Kirby, Stuart and Soothill, Keith (2013) Understanding criminal careers in organised crime. [Report]

Howard, Philip and Francis, Brian and Soothill, Keith and Humphreys, Leslie (2009) OGRS 3 : the revised Offender Group Reconviction Scale. [Report]

Francis, Brian and Harman, Juliet and Humphreys, Leslie (2005) Predicting Reconviction Rates in Northern Ireland. [Report]

Francis, Brian and Crosland, Paul (2002) The Police National Computer and the Offenders Index : can they be combined for research purposes? Full Report. [Report]

Francis, Brian and Crosland, Paul and Harman, Juliet (2002) The Police National Computer and the Offenders Index : can they be combined for research purposes? [Report]