Mario Cortina Borja

UCL Institute of Child Health

 
 

   
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Publications by Mario Cortina Borja - July 2010

My Erdös number is 4

My h-index is 26 (based on google scholar)

I have published papers in 79 different periodicals

 

Refereed papers

 

Forthcoming

104) Pujar, S; Calvert, S; Cortina-Borja, M; Smith, R; Cross, JH; Das, K, Pitt, M; Scott, RC; (in press) Statistical Process Control (SPC) - A simple objective method for monitoring seizure frequency and evaluating effectiveness of drug interventions in refractory childhood epilepsy. Epilepsy Research (accepted July 2010)
103) Lehmann, DJ; Schuur, M; Warden, DR; Hammond, N; Belbin, O; Kölsch H; Lehmann MG; Wilcock; GK; Brown K; Kehoe PG; Morris CM; Barker R; Coto E; Alvarez V; Deloukas P; Mateo I; Gwilliam R; Combarros O; Arias-Vásquez A; Aulchenko YS; Ikram MA; Breteler MB; van Duijn CM; Heun R; Cortina-Borja M; Morgan K; Robson K; Smith AD (in press) Transferrin and HFE genes interact in Alzheimer's disease risk: the Epistasis Project Neurobiology of Aging (accepted July 2010)
102) McElduff, F; Cortina-Borja, M; Chan, S.-K. and Wade, A (in press) When t-tests or Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney tests won’t do. Advances in Physiology Education (accepted July 2010)
101) Townsend, CL; Schulte, J; Thorne, C; Dominguez, KL; Tookey, PA; Cortina-Borja, M; Peckham, CS; Bohannon, B and Newell, M-L. (in press) Antiretroviral therapy and preterm delivery - a pooled analysis of data from the United States and Europe British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (accepted April 2010)
100) Townsend CL; Tookey PA; Newell ML; Cortina-Borja M (in press) Antiretroviral therapy in pregnancy: balancing risk of preterm delivery with prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission. Antiviral Therapy (accepted February 2010)

2010

99) Hyppönen E; Berry D; Cortina-Borja, M; Power C (2010) 25-hydroxyvitamin D and pre-clinical alterations in inflammatory and hemostatic markers: a cross sectional analysis in the 1958 British birth cohort. PLOS – ONE 5, e10801-e10808.
98) Patel D; Cortina-Borja M; De Maria A; Newell ML; Thorne C (2010) Factors associated with HIV RNA levels in pregnant women on non-suppressive highly active antiretroviral therapy at conception Antiviral Therapy 15 41-49
97) Boyd K; Dunn David T; Castro H; Gibb D M; Duong T; Aboulker J P; Bulterys M; Cortina-Borja M; Gabiano C; Galli L; Giaquinto C; Harris D R; HugheS M; McKinney R; Mofenson L; Moye J; Newell M L; Pahwa S; Palumbo P; Rudin C; Sharland M; Shearer W; Thompson B; Tookey P (2010) Discordance between CD4 cell count and CD4 cell percentage: implications for when to start antiretroviral therapy in HIV-1 infected children. AIDS 24 1213-1217
96) Salib, E. and Cortina-Borja, M. (2010) An association between month of birth and method of suicide. International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice 14 8–17

2009

95) Combarros,O.; van Duijn,C.M.; Hammond,N.; Belbin,O.; Arias-Vásquez,A.; Cortina-Borja,M.; Lehmann,M.G.; Aulchenko,Y.S.; Schuur,M.; Kölsch,H.; Heun,R.; Wilcock,G.K.; Brown,K.; Kehoe,P.G.; Harrison,R.; Coto,E.; Alvarez,V.; Deloukas,P.; Mateo,I.; Gwilliam,R.; Morgan,K.; Warden,D.R.; Smith,A.D.; and Lehmann,D.J. (2009) Replication by the Epistasis Project of the interaction between the genes for IL-6 and IL-10 in the risk of Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neuroinflammation 6 22
94) Cortina-Borja, M., Smith, A.D., Combarros, O. Lehmann, D.J. (2009) The Synergy factor: a statistic to measure interaction in complex diseases. BMC Research Notes 2 105
93) Quiroga, I., Lehmann D.J., Barnardo, MCNM, Fuggle, S., Cortina-Borja, M., Warden, D.R., Smith, A.D. (2009) Association study of MICA & MICB in Alzheimer's Disease. Tissue Antigens 74 241-243
92) Livesey,E., Cortina Borja,M., Sharif,K., Alizai,N., McClean,P., Kelly,D., Hadzic,N., Davenport,M. Epidemiology of Biliary Atresia in England and Wales (1999 – 2006) (2009) Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal and Neonatal 94 F451-5
91) Wong,I.B.Y., Sukthankar,V.D., Cortina Borja,M., Nischal,K.K. (2009) Incidence of early onset glaucoma after infant cataract extraction with and without intraocular lens implantation. British Journal of Opththalmology 93 1200-1203
90) Phillips P, Cortina-Borja M, Millar M, Kempley S, Gilbert R.(2009) Variation in infection incidence between neonatal intensive care units can depend on the measures used Journal of Hospital Infection 72: 363-365
89) Phillips,P., Cortina-Borja,M., Gilbert,R., Millar,M., Kempley,S. (2009) Risk stratification by level of care for comparing bloodstream infection rates in neonatal intensive care units. Journal of Hospital Infection 72: 181-183.
88) Combarros,O., Cortina-Borja,M, Smith,A.D., Lehmann,D.J. (2009) Epistasis in sporadic Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiology of Aging 30, 1333-1349.
87) Hardelid, P, Cortina-Borja, M. , Dezateux, C.,Williams, D.,Tookey, P.A., Peckham, C.S., Cubitt, W.D. and Dezateux,C. (2009) Rubella seroprevalence in pregnant women in North Thames: estimates based on newborn screening samples. Journal of Medical Screening 16, 1-6

86) Mellanby, J., Cortina-Borja, M, and Stein,J. (2009) Deep learning questions can help selection of high ability candidates for Universities. Higher Education 57, 597-608

85) Salib, E. and Cortina-Borja, M. (2009) Effect of July 7th 2005 on suicide in England and Wales. British Journal of Psychiatry 194, 80-85

84) Townsend, C.L., Willey, B.A., Cortina-Borja, M., Peckham, C.S. and Tookey, P.A. (2009) Antiretroviral therapy and congenital abnormalities in infants born to HIV-infected women in the UK and Ireland, 1990-2007. AIDS 23, 519-524

83) Patel, D., Thorne, C., Newell, M.L. and Cortina-Borja, M. (2009) Levels and patterns of HIV RNA viral load in untreated pregnant women. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 13, 266-273

82) Bajaj, Y, Sirimanna, T., Albert, D.M., Qadir, P., Jenkins, L., Cortina-Borja, M. and Bitner-Glindzicz, M. (2009) Causes of deafness in British Bangladeshi children: a prevalence twice that of the UK population cannot be accounted for by consanguinity alone. Clinical Otolaryngology 34, 113-119

2008

81) Phillips,P., Cortina-Borja,M, Millar,M., Gilbert,R.. (2008) Risk-adjusted surveillance of hospital-acquired infections in neonatal intensive care units: a systematic review. Journal of Hospital Infection 70, 203-211

80) Hardelid,P., Williams,D., Dezateux,C., Tookey,P.A., Peckham,C.S., Cubitt,W.D., Cortina-Borja,M. (2008). Analysis of rubella antibody distribution from newborn dried blood spots using finite mixture models. Epidemiology and Infection 136, 1698-1706.

79) Khalid,J.M., Oerton,J., Cortina-Borja,M, Andresen,B.S., Besley,G., Dalton,N., Downing,M., Green,A., Henderson,M., Leonard,J., Dezateux,C. (2008). Ethnic-specific birth prevalence of 985A>G homozygous Medium-Chain Acyl-coa Dehydrogenase Deficiency (MCADD): results from screening ~ 1.1 million newborn infants. Journal of Medical Screening 15, 112-117. ISSN: 0969-1413

78) Townsend, C.L., Cortina-Borja, M., Peckham,C.S. and Tookey, P.A. Trends in management and outcome of pregnancies in HIV infected women in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1990-2006. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 115, 1078-1086.

77) Townsend, C.L., Cortina-Borja, M., Peckham, C.S., de Ruiter, A., Lyall, H., and Tookey, P.A. Low rates of mother-to-child transmission of HIV following effective pregnancy interventions in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 2000-2006. AIDS, 22, 973-981.

76) Jamieson, S.E., de Roubaix, L.-A., Cortina-Borja, M., Tan, H.K., Mui, E.J., Cordell, H.J., Kirisits, M.J., Millar, E.M., Peacock, C.S., Margrave, A.C., Coyne, J.J., Boyer, K., Bessieres, M.-H., Buffolano, W., Ferret, N., Franck, J., Kieffer, F., Meier, P., Nowakowska, D.E., Paul, M., Peyron, F., Stray-Pedersen, B., Prusa, A.-R., Thulliez, P., Wallon, M., Petersen, E., McLeod, R., Gilbert, R.E. and Blackwell, J.M. Genetic and Epigenetic Factors at COL2A1 and ABCA4 Influence Clinical Outcome in Congenital Toxoplasmosis. PLOS – ONE, 3, e2285-e2298.

75) Freeman K, Tan HK, Prusa A, Petersen E, Buffolano W, Malm G, Cortina-Borja,M, Gilbert RE, for The European Multicentre Study on Congenital Toxoplasmosis (EMSCOT). Predictors of retinochoroiditis in children with congenital toxoplasmosis: European, prospective cohort study. Pediatrics, 121, e1215-e1222.

74) Hardelid, P., Cortina Borja, M., Munro, A., Jones. H., Cleary, M., Champion, M.P., Foo, Y., Scriver, C.H., and Dezateux, C. (2008) The birth prevalence of PKU in populations of European, South Asian and sub-Saharan African ancestry living in South East England. Annals of Human Genetics, 72, 65-71.

73) Hardelid, P., Williams, D., Cubitt, W.D., Peckham, C.S., Tookey, P.A., Dezateux, C., and Cortina-Borja, M.(2008) Agreement of rubella IgG antibody measured in serum and dried blood spots using two commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. Journal of Medical Virology, 80, 360-364.

72) Cole, T.J., Cortina Borja, M., Sandhu, J., Kelly, F.P., and Pan, H. (2008) Nonlinear growth generates age changes in the moments of the frequency distribution: the example of height in puberty. Biostatistics, 9, 159-171.

2007

71) Little, K., Newell, M.-L., Luo, C., Ngashi, N., Cortina Borja, M., and McDermott, P. (2007) Estimating the number of vertically-infected children eligible for antiretroviral treatment in resource-limited settings. International Journal of Epidemiology, 36, 679-687.

70) European Collaborative Study prepared by Patel, D., Cortina Borja, M., Thorne, C. and Newell, M-L. (2007) Time to undetectable viral load after HAART initiation in HIV-infected pregnant women. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 44, 1647-1656.

69) Townsend, C.L., Cortina Borja, M., Peckham, C.S. and Tookey, P.A. (2007) Premature delivery in HIV-1 infected women taking antiretroviral therapy in the UK and Ireland (1990-2005). AIDS 21 1019-1026.

68) Cortina Borja, M., Williams, D., Cubitt, D.W., Tookey, P., Newell, M.-L., and Peckham, C. (2007) HIV-1 subtypes in pregnant women in the UK. International Journal of STD & AIDS. 18, 160-162.

2006

67) Stein, A., Woolley, H., Cooper, S., Winterbottom, J., Fairburn, C.G., and Cortina Borja, M. (2006) Eating habits and attitudes among 10 years old children of mothers with eating disorders: a longitudinal study. British Journal of Psychiatry, 189, 324-329.

66) Cortina Borja, M. and Chappas, C. (2006) A stylometric analysis of newspapers, periodicals and news scripts. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 13, 285-312.

65) HIV Paediatric Prognostic Markers Collaborative Study, prepared by Dunn, D.T. Gibb, D.M., Duong, T., Babiker, A.G., Abouker, I.P., Bulterys, M., Cortina Borja, M., Gabiano, C., Galli, L., Giaquinto, C., Harris, D.R., Hughes, M., McKinney, R., Mofenson, L., Moye, J., Newell, M.-L., Pahwa, S., Palumbo, P., Rudin, C., Sharland, M., Shearer, W., Thompson, B. and Tookey, P. (2006) Predictive value of absolute CD4 count for disease progression in untreated HIV-1-infected children. AIDS, 20, 1289-1294.

64) Townsend, C.L., Tookey, P.A., Cortina Borja, M., and Peckham, C.S. (2006) Antiretroviral therapy and congenital abnormalities in infants born to HIV-1 infected women: data from UK national surveillance, 1990-2003. Journal of AIDS, 42, 91-94.

63) Salib, E. and Cortina Borja, M. (2006) Effect of month of birth on the risk of suicide in England and Wales. British Journal of Psychiatry, 188, 416-422.

2005

62) European Multicenter Study on Congenital Toxoplasmosis, prepared by Gras, L., Wallon, M., Pollak, A., Cortina-Borja, M., Evengard, B., Hayde, M., Petersen, E., and Gilbert, R.E. (2005) Association between prenatal treatment and clinical manifestations of congenital toxoplasmosis in infancy: a cohort study in 13 European centers. Acta Paediatrica, 94, 1721-1731.

61) HIV Paediatric Prognostic Markers Collaborative Study, prepared by Dunn, D.T. Gibb, D.M., Duong, T., Babiker, A.G., Abouker, I.P., Bulterys, M., Cortina Borja, M., Gabiano, C., Galli, L., Giaquinto, C., Harris, D.R., Hughes, M., McKinney, R., Moye, J., Newell, M.-L., Pahwa, S., Palumbo, P., Rudin, C., Sharland, M., Shearer, W., Thompson, B. and Tookey, P. (2005) Use of total lymphocyte count for informing when to start antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected children: a meta-analysis of longitudinal data. The Lancet, 366, 1868-1874.

60) The Ghent Group on HIV in Women and Children, prepared by Leroy, V., Sakarovitch, C., Cortina-Borja, M., McIntyre, J., Coovadia, H., Karon, J., Dabis, F., and Newell, M.-L. (2005) Is there a difference in the efficacy of peripartum antiretroviral regimens in reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Africa? AIDS 19, 1965-1975. (Also appeared abstracted in an editorial comment in Obstetrical And Gynecological Survey 61-3, 153-155 (2006).)

59) Lehmann, D.J., Cortina-Borja, M., Warden, D.R., Smith, A.D., Sleegers, K., Prince, J.A., van Duijn, C.M., and Kehoe, P.G. (2005) Large-scale meta-analysis establishes the association of the ACE indel polymorphism with Alzheimer’s disease. American Journal of Epidemiology 162, 305-317.

58) European Collaborative Study, prepared by Bunders, M., Cortina Borja, M. and Newell, M.-L. (2005) Age related standards for total lymphocyte, CD4+ and CD8+ T cell counts in children born in Europe. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 24, 595-600.

57) Drake, M.J., Cortina-Borja, M., Savic, G., Charlifue, S.W., Gardner, B.P. (2005) A prospective evaluation of urologic effects of aging in chronic spinal cord injury. Neurourology and Urodynamics 24, 1-6.

2004

56) Mylvaganam Jeyakumar, Smith, D., Williams, I., Cortina Borja, M., Neville, D.C., Butters, T.D., Dwek, R.A. and Platt, F.M. (2004) Anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant therapies increase survival in a mouse model of Sandhoff disease. Annals of Neurology 56, 642-649.

55) European Collaborative Study, prepared by Bunders, M., Cortina Borja, M., Thorne, C., Kuijpers, T., and Newell, M.-L. (2004) Patterns and levels of neutrophil cells in infected and uninfected children of HIV-1-infected mothers over the first 8 years of life. AIDS 18, 2009-2017.

54) Newell, M.-L., Coovadia, H., Cortina Borja, M., Rollins, N., Gaillard, P. and Dabis, F. (2004) Mortality of infected and uninfected infants born to HIV infected mothers in Africa: a pooled analysis. The Lancet 364, 1236-1243.

53) Oñate-Ocaña, L.F., Montes de Oca, R., López-Graniel, C.M., Aiello-Crocifoglio, V., Mondragón-Sánchez, R., Cortina Borja, M , Herrera-Goepfert, R., Oros-Ovalle, C., and Gallardo-Rincón, D. (2004) Identification of patients with high risk stage I and II colorectal cancer and potential benefit from Adjuvant Chemotherapy. Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology 34, 323-328.

52) Andersson, U., Smith, D., Mylvaganam Jeyakumar, Butters, T.D., Cortina Borja, M., Dwek, R.A., and Platt, F.M. (2004) Improved efficacy of N-butyldeoxygalactonojirimycin-mediated substrate reduction therapy in a mouse model of Sandhoff disease. Neurobiology of Disease 16, 506-515.

51) Gras, L., Gilbert, R., Wallon, M., Peyron, F., and Cortina Borja, M. (2004) Duration of the IgM response in women acquiring Toxoplasma gondii during pregnancy: implications for clinical practice and cross-sectional incidence studies. Epidemiology and Infection 132, 541-548.

50) Cliffe, S., Cortina Borja, M., Newell, M.L., and Nicoll, A. (2004) Estimating HIV prevalence in the general population in the UK using data from pregnant women proceeding to birth. Communicable Disease and Public Health 7, 30-35.

49) Cortina Borja, M., Cliffe, S., Tookey, P.A., Williams, D., Cubitt, W.D. and Peckham, C.S. (2004) HIV prevalence in pregnant women in an ethnically diverse population in the UK: 1998-2002. AIDS 18, 535-540.

48) European Collaborative Study, prepared by Gray, L., Newell, M-L., Cortina Borja, M., and Thorne, C. (2004) Gender and race do not alter early-life determinants of clinical disease progression in HIV-1 vertically infected children. AIDS 18, 509-516.

47) Gray, L., Cortina Borja, M., and Newell, M.-L. (2004) Modelling HIV RNA viral load in vertically infected children. Statistics in Medicine 23, 769-781.

2003

46) The Ghent Group, prepared by Alioum, A., Cortina Borja, M., Dabis, F., Dequae-Merchadou, L., Haverkamp, G., Hughes, J., Karon, J., Leroy. V., Newell, M-L., Richardson, B.A., van Weert, L., and Weverling, G.J. (2003) Estimating the efficacy of interventions to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in breastfeeding populations: comparing statistical methods. American Journal of Epidemiology 158, 596-605.

45) European Collaborative Study, prepared by Gray, L., Cortina Borja, M., Thorne, C. Peckham, C.S., and Newell, M.L. (2003) Are there gender and race differences in cellular immunity patterns over age in infected and uninfected children born to HIV-infected women? Journal of AIDS 33, 635-641.

44) Cortina Borja, M., Cliffe, S., Tookey, P., Williams, D., Cubitt, W.D., and Peckham, C. (2003) HIV prevalence in pregnant women in North Thames: 1998-2001. HIV Medicine 4, 217.

43) Ho, K.M.T., Cortina Borja, M., Persson, K., Brading, A.F., and Andersson, K-E. (2003) Expression of nitric oxide synthase immunoreactivity in the human female striated uretrhal sphincter. Journal of Urology 169, 2407-2411.

42) Hansen, B., Cortina Borja, M. and Ratcliffe, S.G. (2003) Assessing non-linear estimation procedures for human growth models. Annals of Human Biology 30, 80-96.

41) European Collaborative Study, prepared by Newell, M.L., Cortina Borja, M., Thorne, C. and Peckham, C.S. (2003) Height, weight and growth in children born to HIV-1 infected mothers in Europe. Pediatrics 111, e52-e60.

2002

40) Cortina Borja, M., Stuart-Smith, J.H., and Valiñas-Coalla, L. (2002) Multivariate classification methods for lexical and phonological dissimilarities and their applications to the Uto-Aztecan family. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 9, 97-124.

39) Pallett, D. W., Thurston, M. I., Cortina Borja, M., Edwards, M-L., Alexander, M., Mitchell, E., Raybould, A. F. and Cooper, J. I. (2002) The incidence of viruses in wild Brassica rapa ssp. sylvestris in southern England. Annals of Applied Biology 141, 163-170.

38) Mylvaganam Jeyakumar, Smith, D., Eliott-Smith, E., Cortina Borja, M., Reinkensmeier, G., Butters, T.D., Lemm, T., Sandhoff, K., Perry, V.H., Dwek, R.A., and Platt, F.M. (2002) An inducible mouse model of late-onset Tay-Sachs disease. Neurobiology of Disease 10, 201-210.

37) Rahi, J.S., Logan, S., Cortina Borja, M., Timms, C., Russell Eggitt, I., and Taylor, D. (2002) Prediction of improved vision in the amblyopic eye after visual loss in the non-amblyopic eye. The Lancet 360, 621-622.

36) Tookey, P.A., Cortina Borja, M., and Peckham, C.S. (2002) Rubella susceptibility among pregnant women in North London, 1996-1999. Journal of Public Health Medicine 24, 211-216.

35) Rahman, R. Ikram, K., Rosen, P.H., Cortina Borja, M. and Taylor, M.E. (2002) Do climatic variables influence the development of posterior vitreous detachment? British Journal of Ophthalmology 86, p. 829.

34) Dhesi, T.S. and Cortina Borja, M. (2002) Representations of Indo-European Lexical Dissimilarities. Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics 7, 243-265.

33) Morrell, J.M.B and Cortina Borja, M. (2002) The developmental change in strategies parents employ to settle young children to sleep, and their relationship to infant sleeping problems, as assessed by a new questionnaire: the Parental Interactive bedtime Behaviour Scale. Infant and Child Development 11, 17-42.

32) Reece W.H.H., Plebanski M., Akinwunmi P., Gothard P., Flanagan K.L., Lee E.A.M., Cortina Borja M., Hill A.V.S., Pinder M. (2002) Naturally exposed populations differ in their T1 and T2 responses to the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium falciparum. Infection and Immunity 70, 1468-1474.

31) European Collaborative Study, prepared by Newell, M-L, Gray, L., Thorne, C., Cortina Borja, M. and Peckham, C.S. (2002) Level and pattern of HIV-1-RNA viral load over age: differences between girls and boys? AIDS 16, 97-104.

2001

30) Thurston, M.I., Pallett, D.W., Cortina Borja, M., Edwards, M.L., Raybould, A.F, and Cooper, J.I. (2001) The incidence of viruses in wild Brassica nigra in Dorset (UK). Annals of Applied Biology 139, 277-284.

29) Kells, A., Dawkins, M.S. and Cortina Borja, M. (2001) The effect of a 'freedom food' enrichment on the behaviour of broilers on commercial farms. Animal Welfare 10, 347-356

28) Booth, C.M., Cortina Borja, M. and Theologis, T.M. (2001) Collagen accumulates within the muscles of children with cerebral palsy and correlates with the severity of spasticity. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 43, 314-320

27) Grain, L., Cortina Borja, M., Forfar, C., Hilton-Jones, D., Hopkin, J., and Burch, M. (2001) Cardiac abnormalities and skeletal muscle weakness in carriers of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies and controls. Neuromuscular Disorders 11, 186-191

26) Bordea, C., Cortina Borja, M., Wojnarowska, F. and Morris, P.J. (2001) Distribution of upper limb skin cancers in relation to the side of the arterio-venous fistula in renal transplant studies. Transplantation 71 143-145

25) Mylvaganam Jeyakumar, Norflus, F., Tifft, C.J., Cortina Borja, M., Butters, T.D., Proia, R.L, Perry, V.H., Dwek, R.A., and Platt, F.M. (2001) Enhanced survival in Sandhoff disease mice receiving a combination of substrate deprivation therapy and bone marrow transplantation. Blood 97, 327-329.

2000

24) Greenland, J.E., Hvistendahl, J.J., Andersen, H., Jörgensen, T.M., McMurray, G, Cortina Borja, M., Brading, A.F., and Frøkiær, J. (2000) The effect of bladder outlet obstruction on tissue oxygen tension and blood flow in the pig bladder. British Journal of Urology International 85, 1109-1114.

23) West, P., Coleman, J., Slater, A. and Cortina Borja, M. (2000) Reaction time in phoneme monitoring varies with segment duration. Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, 5, 87-95.

22) Lehmann, D.J., Nagy, Z., Litchfield, S., Cortina Borja, M. and Smith, A.D. (2000) Association of butyrylcholinestarase K variant with cholinesterase-positive neuritic plaques in the temporal cortex in late-onset Alzheimer's disease. Human Genetics 106 447-452.

21) Cortina Borja, M. and Robinson, A. (2000) Estimating the asymptotic constants of the total length of for the Euclidean minimum spanning tree with power weighted edges. Statistics and Probability Letters 47, 125-128.

20) Yaqoob, P, Pala, H.A., Cortina Borja, M., Newsholme, E.A. and Calder, P.C. (2000) Encapsulated fish oil enriched in -tocopherol alters plasma phospholipid and mononuclear cell fatty acid compositions but not mononuclear cell functions. European Journal of Clinical Investigation 30, 260-274.

1999

19) Mylvaganam Jeyakumar, Butters, T.D., Cortina Borja, M, Proia, R.L., Perry, V.H., Dwek, .A. and Platt, F.M. (1999) Delayed symptom onset and increased life expectancy in Sandhoff disease mice treated with N-butyldeoxynojirimycin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 96, 6388-6393.

18) Douglas, A.S., Cortina Borja, M. and Cartwright, R. (1999) A quest for seasonality in presentation of leukaemia and non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Leukaemia & Lymphoma, 32, 523-532.

17) Highley, J.R., Esiri, M.M., McDonald, M., Cortina Borja, M., Herron, B., Cooper, S.J. and Crow, T.J. (1999) The size and fibre composition of the corpus callosum with respect to gender and schizophrenia: A post mortem study. Brain, 122, 99-110

16) Del Ángel, A. and Cortina Borja, M. (1999) Anthropometric variation in adult males in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico: a multivariate approach. Anales de Antropología, 32, 13-51.

1998

15) Highley, J.R., Esiri, M.M., McDonald, M., Cortina Borja, M., Cooper, S.J., Herron, B.M. and Crow, T.J. (1998) Anomalies of cerebral asymmetry in schizophrenia interact with gender and age at onset: a post mortem study. Schizophrenia Research 34, 13-25.

14) Douglas, A.S., Cortina Borja, M. and Cartwright, R. (1998) Seasonal variation in the incidence of Hodgkins' Disease. British Journal of Haematology 103 653-662.

13) Ballaro, A., Cortina Borja, M. and Collin, J. (1998) A Seasonal variation in the incidence of ruptured abdominal aortal aneurism. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery 15, 429-431.

12) Rezvani, M, Hopewell, J.W., Morris, M., Wilding, D.D. Whitehose, E., Robins, E.M.E.C. and Cortina Borja, M. (1998) Repair, repopulation and cell cycle redistribution in rat foot skin. Radiotherapy and Oncology 46, 193-199.

1997

11) Yaqoob, P, Pala, H.A., Cortina Borja, M., Newsholme, E.A. and Calder, P.C. (1997) Fish oil supplementation does not affect plasma antioxidant status. Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids, 57, p. 262.

10) Jeffery, N.M., Cortina Borja, M., Newsholme, E.A. and Calder, P.C. (1997) Effects of variations in the proportions of saturated, monosaturated and polynsaturated fatty acids in the rat diet upon spleen lymphocyte functions. British Journal of Nutrition 77, 805-823.

9) Gurd, J.M., Elvevåg, B. and Cortina Borja, M. (1997) Semantic word search impairment in schizophrenia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 2, 291-302.

8) Cukier, J, Cortina Borja, M. and Brading, A.F. (1997) A case-control study to examine any association between idiopathic detrusor instability and gastrointestinal tract disorder, and between irritable bowel syndrome and urinary tract disorder. British Journal of Urology International, 79, 865-879.

pre 1996

7) Manzanilla, L, Ortiz, A, Hernández, C, Jiménez, M.A., Ortiz, E. and Cortina Borja, M. (1990) New methods for analysing activity areas in Archaeology. Antropológicas, 5, 13-27

6) Cortina Borja, M and Valiñas Coalla, L. (1989) Some remarks on Uto-Aztecan Classification. International Journal of American Linguistics, 55, 214-239.

5) Pérez Castro, A.B., Jiménez, M., Fuentes Ibarra, M., Salazar, A.M., Fuentes Ibarra, G. and Cortina Borja, M. (1987) Analysis of a broken community: the aftermath of the 1985 Mexico City Earthquakes. Antropológicas, 1, 11-27

4) Valiñas Coalla, L. and Cortina Borja, M. (1987) Historical linguistic reconstructions of the Sonoran languages from lexical data. Historia y Antropología de Sonora, 12, 387-412

3) Kunz, I., Cortina Borja, M. and González-Block, M.A. (1986) A Regionalization for Health Services in Mexico. Revista de Salud Pública de México, 28, 681-698.

2) Valiñas Coalla, L., Cortina Borja, M. and Mireles, M. (1984) Notes on Cuitlateco. Anales de Antropología, 20, 171-197.

1) Rodríguez, O., Mireles, M. and Cortina Borja, M. (1983) Some Problems in Archaeological Sampling. Boletín de Antropología Americana, 7, 29-40.

 

Refereed chapters in books

7) Cortina Borja, M. (2006) Some remarks on the Generalized Hermite and Generalized Gegenbauer probability distributions and their applications. In Köhler, R. and Grzybek, P. (eds) Exact methods in the study of language: Festchrift for the 75th birthday of Gabriel Altmann, de Gruyter series in Quantitative Linguistics, vol. 1, Berlin and New York pp. 49-60

6) Cortina Borja, M., Eagle, M.J., Houlot, V. and Williams, S. (2002) Spatial analysis of extreme windspeed in Great Britain. In: Mateu, J. and Montes, F. (eds.) Spatial Statistics through applications. Wessex Institute of Technology Press, Advances in Ecological Sciences Series, vol 13, ISBN: 1-85312-649-7, Southampton, pp.149-173.

5) Lehmann, D.J., Johnston, C., Cortina Borja, M., and Smith, A.D. (1998) Age influences the synergy between butyrylcholinesterase K variant and apolipoprotein E4 in late-onset Alzheimer's disease. In Structure and Function of Cholinesterases and Related Proteins, Doctor, B.P., Quinn, D.M., Rotundo, A.L. and Taylor, P., Plenum Press, ISBN 0-306-46050-5, New York, pp. 159-166.

4) Cortina Borja, M. (1993) Spatial analysis of the obsidian distribution. In A residential Teotihuacan Unit: Oztoyahualco, Manzanilla, L. (ed.) National Autonomus University of Mexico, Mexico City. pp.180-203

3) Fang Ming, Howell, J.A., Hubble, J., and Cortina Borja, M. (1992) A rapid method of parameter estimation for a heterogeneous model of protein adsorption in stirred and recirculation reactors. In Biochemical Engineering for 2001, eds. Furusaki, S. et al., Springer-Verlag, New York. 661-666

2) Jiménez, M., Fuentes Ibarra, M. Pérez Castro, A.B., Fuentes Ibarra G., Cortina Borja, M. and Salazar Peralta, A.M. (1988) Ethnography of the 1985 Mexico city earthquake refugees. In New Trends in Ethnology, ed. Dahlgren, B. et al., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, pp.180-199.

1) Cortina Borja, M. (1985) Spatial analysis of the lythical material in Cobá. In Cobá: A Mayan City,. Manzanilla, L. (ed.) National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City. 319-330.

Books co-authored

2) Festing. M.F.W., Overend, P., Gaines Das, R., Cortina Borja, M. and Berdoy, M. (2002) The Design of Animal Experiments: Reducing the use of animals in research through better experimental design. The Royal Society of Medicine Press, Laboratory Animal Handbooks No. 14 ISBN 1-85315-513-6, London..

1) Kunz, I., Cortina Borja, M. and González Block, M.A. (1986) Socioeconomic, Demographic and Health Resources Regionalizations. Perspectives in Public Health Series vol 1, Department of Health, Mexico City.

Contribution to discussion

1) Cortina Borja, M. Contribution to the discussion of Rigby, R.A. and Stainopoulos, D.M. (2005) Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape, in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics), 54, 507-554.

Book Reviews

25) An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models (3rd edition) by A. Dobson andA.G. Barnett.Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series A (forthcoming)

24) Cortina-Borja,M. (2009) Data manipulation in R by P. Spector.Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series A (forthcoming)

23) Cortina-Borja,M. (2009) Computational Methods in Biomedical Research, edited by R.K. Kathree and N. Naik. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series A (forthcoming)

22) Understanding Uncertainty by D.V. Lindley. Significance 4, 90 (2007)

21) Beyond Beta: Other continuous families of distributions with bounded support and its applications by S. Kotz and J.R. van Dorp. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series A. 169, 1010-1011. (2006)

20) Handbook of Computational Statistics edited by Gentle, J.E., Härdle, W., and Mori, Y. International Journal of Epidemiology 34, 716-718. (2005).

19) A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using Stata by S. Rabe-Hesketh and B.S. Everitt. Significance 1, 187 (2004)

18) Modern Statistics for the Life Science by A. Grafen and R. Hails. Journal of Applied Statistics, (2004).

17) Permutation Methods: A distance function approach by P.W. Mielke and K.J. Berry. Journal of Applied Statistics, 30, 600-601 (2003)

16) Models for Repeated Measurements, by J.K. Lindsay. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, (2003)

15) Multilevel Modelling of Health Statistics by A.H. Leyland and H. Goldstein. Journal of Applied Statistics, 30, 101 (2003)

14) Modelling Survival Data: extending the Cox model, by T.M. Therneau and P.M. Grambsch. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 11, 218 (2002).

13) Statistical Inference in Science, by D.A. Sprott. Journal of Applied Statistics, 28, 784-785 (2001).

12) Directional Data, by K.V. Mardia and P.E. Ju Journal of Applied Statistics, 28, 779-780 (2001).

11) Classification, by A.D. Gordon. Journal of Applied Statistics, 28, 365 (2001)

10) Mathematical Statistics, by G.R. Terrell. ISI Short Reviews, 20 (2000), 25

9) Statistical Inference: an integrated approach , by H.S. Migon and D. Gamerman. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 9(5), 521-522 (2000)

8) Records , by B.C. Arnold, N. Balakrishna and H.N. Nagaraja. Journal of Applied Statistics, 27, 181-182, (2000)

7) S+ Spatial Stats User's manual , by S.P. Kaluzny, S.C. Vega, T.P. Cardoso and A.A. Shelly The Statistician 48, 289-290 (1999).

6) Robust Nonparametric Statistical Methods , by T.P. Hettmansperger and J.W. McKean The Statistician 48, 286-287 (1999).

5) Statistics for Corpus Linguistics , by M.P. Oakes. Journal of Applied Statistics, 26, 529-530 (1999)

4) Multivariate Statistical Analysis: a first course, by G.A. Marcoulides and S.L. Hershberger. The Statistician, 47, 724-725. (1998)

3) Linear and Non-linear Models for the Analysis of Repeated Measurements , by E.F. Vonesh and V.M. Chinchilli. The Statistician, 47, 411-412. (1998)

2) Modelling Multigroup Populations , by R. Schoen The Statistician, 39, 90-91. (1990)

1) Mathematics in Archaeology , by C. Orton. Anales de Antropología, 19, 222-225 (1983)

Letters in Academic journals

5) Salib, E., Cortina-Borja, M. and Anderson, D. (2007) Hot Weather and Suicide… a real risk or a statistical illusion. (eLetter) British Journal of Psychiatry, 191.

4) Townsend, C.L., Cortina-Borja, M., Peckham, C.S. and Tookey, P.A. (2007) Response to Kourtis et al ‘Use of antiretroviral therapy in pregnant HIV-infected women and the risk of premature delivery: a meta-analysis’ AIDS, 21, 1831.

3) Salib, E. and Cortina Borja, M. (2006) Reply to: "Chronomics of suicide: Effect of space weather on suicide victims at birth and at death" (Letter to the Editor). British Journal of Psychiatry,189, 568.

2) Fosi, T. Cortina Borja, M. Scott, R. and Neville, B.G. (2006) Reply to: “Cognitive competence at the onset of West syndrome”. (Letter to the Editor) Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 48, 942.

1) Newell M.-L., Coovadia H., Cortina-Borja M., Rollins N., and Dabis F. (2005) Mortality of infants born to HIV-infected mothers in Africa. The Lancet 365, 121-122.

Conference Abstracts

39) Phillips, P. H.; Cortina Borja, M.; Millar, M.; Thalib, L.; Kempley, S.; Gilbert, R. Intensity of care is the major determinant of coagulase-negative staphylococcal bacteraemia in NICU: implications for risk adjusted surveillance of hospital-acquired infections. 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Munich, April 2007. International Journal Of Antimicrobial Agents 29; S558

38) Donald J Lehmann, Mario Cortina-Borja, Onofre Combarros & A David Smith. Why Epistasis? – Understanding Complex Diseases. Conference on Brain ageing and dementia in developing countries, Nariobi, Kenya, April 2007.

37) Customized fetal weight estimation at term / Fiore, S.; Cortina-Borja, M.; Severi, F.; Ferrazzi, E. Ultrasound In Obstetrics and Gynecology - 2006 ; VOL 28; NUMBER 4 ; Pages: 590-590

36) Townsend, C, Cortina-Borja, M., Peckham, C. and Tookey, P. Mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1990-2004. 14th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. Los Angeles, February 2007 (poster presentation).

35) Patel, D., Cortina-Borja, M., Thorne, C., and Newell, M.-L. Time to Undetectable Viral Load after HAART Initiation in HIV-infected Pregnant Women in Europe. 14th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. Los Angeles, February 2007 (poster presentation).

34) Hardelid, P. Dezateux, C. Cortina Borja, M, Foo, Y, and Scriver, CH. Did phenylketonuria (PKU) arise from the Out-of-Africa migration? American Society of Human Genetics Conference, Toronto, October 2006 (oral presentation) Presented in part at the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Scientific Meeting, Oct. 10-13, 2006. New Orleans, LA, USA. Scriver CR, Hardelid P, Cortina-Borja M, Munro A, Jones H, Cleary M, Champion M, Foo Y, Dezateux C. Did PKU arise after the Out-of-Africa migration? Abst. 995A. Am J Hum Genet Suppl. P. 196. 2006

33) Townsend C, Cortina-Borja M, Peckham C, Tookey P. Premature delivery in women receiving HAART: data from national HIV surveillance in the UK and Ireland, 1990-2005. HPA Conference, Warwick 2006.

32) Tookey PA, Peckham CS, Brown D. Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) infection in the UK and Ireland: active surveillance through the BPSU 1986-1991 and 2004-2005, to monitor changes in prevalence, management and outcome over time (poster). HPA Conference, Warwick 2006

31) Townsend CL, Tookey PA, Cortina-Borja M, Peckham CS. Prematurity and antiretroviral therapy: population-based HIV surveillance in the UK and Ireland, 1990-2005. 16th International AIDS Conference, Toronto 2006. Abstract MOPE0532

30) Bitner-Glindzicz, M., Bajaj,Y., Sirimanna, T., Quader, P., Jenkins, L., Loughlin, S., Cortina-Borja, M. and Albert, D. Aetiology of sensorineural hearing loss in British Bangladeshi children in East London. British Human Genetics Conference, York, September 2006 Journal of Medical Genetics 43: S44-S44 Suppl

29) Fiore, S., Cortina Borja, M, Severi, F. and Ferrazzi, E. Customised fetal weight estimation at term. 16th World Congress on Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, London, September 2006. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology - 2006 ; Vol 28; Number 4 ; Pages: 590-590

28) Cortina Borja, M. Modelling bivariate circular distributions and their applications in Epidemiology. Royal Statistical Society, Belfast, September 2006

27) Townsend, CL, Cortina-Borja, M, Peckham, CS and Tookey, PA. Premature delivery in women receiving HAART: data from national HIV surveillance in the UK and Ireland, 1990-2005. Health Protection Agency conference, Warwick, September 2006

26) Townsend, CL, Tookey, PA, Cortina-Borja M, and Peckham, CS. Prematurity and antiretroviral therapy: population-based HIV surveillance in the UK and Ireland, 1990-2005. XVI International Aids conference, Toronto, August 2006 Abstract MOPE053

25) Cortina Borja, M. (2005) Analysing circular responses using generalized additive models for location, scale and shape. British, Belgian, Netherlands and French Regions of the International Biometric Society. University of Leicester

24) Cole, TJ, Pan, H, Cortina Borja, M, (2005) British, Belgian, Netherlands and French Regions of the International Biometric Society. University of Leicester

23) Newell, M.-L., Thorne, C., Bunders, M., Cortina-Borja, M, and European Collaborative Study (2005). Predicting Disease Progression in Vertically HIV-1-infected Children Using both First-year Slope and Age 1 Year Absolute Value of 3 Immunologic Markers. 12th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Boston.

22) Logan L.E., Cliffe S., Ncube F., Cortina-Borja M., Tookey P.A. Williams D. and Parry J.V. (2004) Monitoring HIV infection in a low risk, diverse population in the United Kingdom, HPA Conference, Warwick.

21) Logan LE, Tookey PA, Cliffe S, Cortina-Borja M, Williams D, Parry JV, Ncube F (2004) Monitoring HIV infection in a low risk, diverse population in the UK. International Conference on AIDS, Bangkok, abstract no MoPeC3587,

20) Newell, M.-L., Coovadia, H., Cortina-Borja, M., Rollins, N., Gaillard, P., and Dabis, F. (2004) Mortality of infected and uninfected infants born to HIV infected mothers in Africa: Infants, HIV and Mortality in Africa (IHMA) Study. South African AIDS conference, Durban, and XIIth ICASA, Nairobi (abstract LB1098982), and 11th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, San Francisco, CA, USA, (abstract 155).

19) Milton, J., Logan, S., and Cortina Borja, M. (2003) The effect of exclusion of patients on baseline risk factor comparability in randomised controlled trials in neonatal intensive care. XI Cochrane Colloquium, Barcelona.

18) Milton, J., Logan, S., Cortina Borja, M., Pindoria, S., and Higgins, J.P.T. (2003) The effectiveness of allocation concealment in randomised controlled trials of interventions for neonatal intensive care. XI Cochrane Colloquium, Barcelona.

17) Devlin AM, Lehmann DJ, Smith AD, Morgan K, Cortina Borja M, McIlroy SP, Jagust WJ and Halsted CH. (2003) Glutamate Carboxypeptidase Ii (Gcpii) H475y allele in Alzheimer’s disease. Fourth Internacional Conference on Homocysteine Metabolism; Basel, Switzerland.

16) Pallett, D.W., Thurston, M.I., Cortina-Borja, M., and Cooper, J.I. (2003) Assessment of possible consequences of the release of virus resistant transgenic plants for wild UK Brassica rapa populations. International conference on Introgression from Genetically Modified Plants into wild relatives and its consequences, Amsterdam.

15) Murphy D., Cortina Borja, Phipps K, Michalski A, (2002) An investigation of seasonal variation in children’s brain tumours. International Society of Paediatric Oncology conference, Porto, Portugal.

14) Cliffe, S., Newell, M.-L., Cortina Borja, M. and Nicoll, A. (2002) Interpreting neonatal seroprevalence HIV data: importance of differential fertility. 14th International AIDS Conference, Barcelona. (abstract no. WePeC6086).

13) Cortina Borja, M., Newell, M-L., Thorne, C., and Peckham, C.S. (2002) Modelling growth patterns in children born to HIV-1 infected mothers in Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Statistical Society International conference, University of Plymouth.

12) Lehmann, D.J., Williams, J., Warden, D., Smith, A.D. , McBroom, J., and Cortina Borja, M., (2002) The genetics of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease: identification of relevant subsets by meta-analysis. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders, Stockholm.

11) Cortina Borja, M. and Perera Salazar, R. (2001) Forecasting records. XVI Foro Nacional de Estadística, Asociación Mexicana de Estadística, Guadalajara, Mexico

10) Gras, L., Cortina Borja, M., Dunn, D.T., and Gilbert, R.E. (2001). Probability model for estimating the risk of mother to child transmission of toxoplasma infection. The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications conference on mathematical modelling and statistical analysis of infectious diseases, University of Cardiff

9) Gray, L., Cortina Borja, M. and Newell, M-L. (2001) A fractional polynomial mixed-effects model for repeated RNA viral load measurements in HIV-infected boys and girls from birth. International Society of Biometrics, Stockholm.

8) Cortina Borja M. and Perera-Salazar, R. (2000) Inference in record processes.Royal Statistical Society International conference, University of Reading

7) Taggart, D.P., Browne, S.M., Wade, D.T., Cortina Borja, M. and Halligan, P.W. (2000)

Do platelet activating factor antagonists reduce cerebral injury after cardiac surgery? British Cardiac Society

6) Taggart, D.P., Browne, S.M., Wade, D.T., Cortina Borja, M. and Halligan, P.W. (2000) Does S100 release predict cognitive dysfunction after coronary artery bypass surgery? British Cardiac Society

5) Aguirre-Torres, V. and Cortina Borja, M. (1999) On joint normality in structural econometric models. Proceedings of the XVII Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Cancun, Mexico.

4) Davidson, L.L., Dick, M.C., O'Neill, C. Keene, J., Deasey, H. and Cortina Borja, M. (1999) Breastfeeding, Vitamin K and bening Jaundice in the new-born: issues for health policy and health promotion. Proceedings of the 1999 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom.

3) Drake, M.J., Savic, G., Cortina Borja, M., Charlifue, S. and Gardner, B.P. (1999) Urological status in chronic spinal cord injury; a cohort study. Proceedings of the International Medical Society of Paraplegia, Denver, Colorado.

2) Hogan, S.C., Cortina Borja, M. and Moore, D.R. (1998) A prospective study of the development of binaural hearing in humans. Proceedings of the British Society of Audiology Annual Conference, Hull.

1) Stuart-Smith, J. and Cortina Borja, M. (1998) A preliminary investigation of tone in British Panjabi. In Abbi, A. (ed.) Proceedings of the XVIII South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable. Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi.

Non-refereed papers

12) McElduff,F., Mateos,P., Wade,A., Cortina-Borja,M. (2008) What's in a name? The frequency and geographic distributions of UK surnames. Significance 8, 189-192

11) Cortina Borja, M and Haigh, J. (2007) The Birthday Problem. Significance, 4, 124-127.

10) Cortina Borja, M., Eagle, M.J., Houlot, V. and Williams, S. (1999) Spatial-Temporal analysis of windspeed in Great Britain and Ireland. Proceedings of the spatial-temporal modelling and its applications workshop, University of Leeds, pp 133-136.

9) Cortina Borja, M. and Robinson, A. (1997) A K-sample multivariate runs test. Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of Multidimensional Data Analysis, Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, 298-302

8) Cortina Borja, M (1995) Graph-Theoretic Generalized Correlation Coefficients in Multivariate Data Analysis. Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis – International Symposium, Dublin, 88-98

7) Cortina Borja, M. (1995) A model for word counting. Boletín de la Asociación Mexicana de Estadística, 8 6-9.

6) Aguirre-Torres, V. and M Cortina Borja, M. (1995) Checking Normality in Possibly Nonlinear Simultaneous Equations Models. Proceedings: American Statistical Association, Business and Economic Statistics Section, 204-209

4) Nieto, L.E. and Cortina Borja, M. (1995) A socieconomic classification of the Mexican municipalities. Proceedings of the X Foro Nacional de Estadística, Asociación Mexicana de Estadística, Oaxaca, Mexico, 167-173

3) Cortina Borja, M (1994) A Comparison of Nonlinear Correlation Tests. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, University of Exeter, pp. 401-412.

2) Cortina Borja, M. (1994) The Mexican Football team: modelling goal scoring. Boletín de la Asociación Mexicana de Estadística, 7, 15-18.

1) Cortina Borja, M. and Valiñas Coalla, L. (1988) Mathematics and Computers in Mexican Anthropology. Bulletin of Information on Computers in Anthropology, 6, 21-23.