1 could say about the work that Associate Professor Barnett 2 had done other than to note his conclusions were similar to 3 the conclusions you reached, is that a fair summary of what 4 you said?---That's right, there was a lot of uncertainty 5 around the estimates that we both came up with. We both 6 did a particular kind of statistical modelling of Poisson 7 regression, yes. So from early in this year of working on 8 this project I did feel that I was not the one to analyse 9 those papers; correct, that is correct. 10 Did something change between that time in September 2014 and 11 when you ultimately did provide the appraisal of his work 12 that meant you felt you were better placed to do that 13 work?---Nothing changed with respect to myself and my 14 abilities, the brief from the health department changed, 15 specifically we were asked to do a much more comprehensive 16 analysis, we were provided with many different data sets 17 and also there was a second paper that Associate Professor 18 Barnett had written. So the request that came to us in 19 early this year was will you analyse and expand a data set 20 and will you comment on both of those papers that doctor - 21 and you will see that became the terms of reference to the 22 second brief. 23 Yes?---Right? 24 Yes?---Okay, so in that time I was in the first instance doing a 25 rapid analysis with Professor English's input on the first 26 report. Now, the project came to be a much larger project, 27 much more was required in terms of analysis, a much more 28 comprehensive analysis a requirement to look at a lot of 29 different kinds of data, there was in particular the 30 requirement to look at the mortality data and the cause of 31 death data and the requirement to analyse the methods and
1 could say about the work that Associate Professor Barnett 2 had done other than to note his conclusions were similar to 3 the conclusions you reached, is that a fair summary of what 4 you said?---That's right, there was a lot of uncertainty 5 around the estimates that we both came up with. We both 6 did a particular kind of statistical modelling of Poisson 7 regression, yes. So from early in this year of working on 8 this project I did feel that I was not the one to analyse 9 those papers; correct, that is correct. 10 Did something change between that time in September 2014 and 11 when you ultimately did provide the appraisal of his work 12 that meant you felt you were better placed to do that 13 work?---Nothing changed with respect to myself and my 14 abilities, the brief from the health department changed, 15 specifically we were asked to do a much more comprehensive 16 analysis, we were provided with many different data sets 17 and also there was a second paper that Associate Professor 18 Barnett had written. So the request that came to us in 19 early this year was will you analyse and expand a data set 20 and will you comment on both of those papers that doctor - 21 and you will see that became the terms of reference to the 22 second brief. 23 Yes?---Right? 24 Yes?---Okay, so in that time I was in the first instance doing a 25 rapid analysis with Professor English's input on the first 26 report. Now, the project came to be a much larger project, 27 much more was required in terms of analysis, a much more 28 comprehensive analysis a requirement to look at a lot of 29 different kinds of data, there was in particular the 30 requirement to look at the mortality data and the cause of 31 death data and the requirement to analyse the methods and
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