The aim of this article is to summarise the available evidence from systematic reviews about the effectiveness of interventions to prevent or treat child physical abuse and neglect. A computerised search was undertaken of major electronic databases up to December 2005 using key search terms....

Purpose – The paper's purpose is to participate in a debate about the role of randomised controlled trials in evaluation of preventive interventions for children. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a response to critiques on Stewart‐Brown et al. published in the Journal of...

This paper considers the problem of estimation when one of a number of populations, assumed normal with known common variance, is selected on the basis of it having the largest observed mean. Conditional on selection of the population, the observed mean is a biased estimate of the true mean....

We present a methodology for dealing with recent challenges in testing global hypotheses using multivariate observations. The proposed tests target situations, often arising in emerging applications of neuroimaging, where the sample size <italic>n</italic> is relatively small compared with the observations'...