Fleiss, Joseph L †

Joseph L. Fleiss was a biostatistician who made important contributions to the analysis of diagnostic reliability, clinical trials, and categorical data. He was born on November 13, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York, and he died on June 12, 2003, in Ridgewood, New Jersey. This encyclopedia entry describes his impact on research in psychiatry, dentistry, and cardiology and traces his career as a researcher, professor, and department chair at Columbia University in New York City. It highlights Fleiss's impact on clinical trials and as an author of more than 200 scientific papers and of accessible biostatistics texts on rates and proportions, and on clinical trials. Keywords: statistical methods for rates and proportions; Kappa values; clinical trial; Columbia University

[1]  J. Fleiss,et al.  Quantification of agreement in psychiatric diagnosis. A new approach. , 1967, Archives of general psychiatry.

[2]  B. Everitt,et al.  Large sample standard errors of kappa and weighted kappa. , 1969 .

[3]  J. Fleiss,et al.  The psychiatric status schedule. A technique for evaluating psychopathology and impairment in role functioning. , 1970, Archives of general psychiatry.

[4]  J. Fleiss.  Measuring nominal scale agreement among many raters. , 1971 .

[5]  Jacob Cohen,et al.  The Equivalence of Weighted Kappa and the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient as Measures of Reliability , 1973 .

[6]  J. Fleiss,et al.  A Re-analysis of the Reliability of Psychiatric Diagnosis , 1974, British Journal of Psychiatry.

[7]  J. Fleiss.  Measuring agreement between two judges on the presence or absence of a trait. , 1975, Biometrics.

[8]  J. Fleiss,et al.  The global assessment scale. A procedure for measuring overall severity of psychiatric disturbance. , 1976, Archives of general psychiatry.

[9]  J. Fleiss,et al.  Intraclass correlations: uses in assessing rater reliability. , 1979, Psychological bulletin.

[10]  J. Fleiss.  Multicentre clinical trials: Bradford Hill's contributions and some subsequent developments. , 1982, Statistics in Medicine.

[11]  J. Fleiss,et al.  Design and analysis of plaque and gingivitis clinical trials. , 1986, Journal of clinical periodontology.

[12]  J. Fleiss,et al.  Analysis of data from multiclinic trials. , 1986, Controlled clinical trials.

[13]  J. Fleiss,et al.  Quantification of agreement in psychiatric diagnosis revisited. , 1987, Archives of general psychiatry.

[14]  N W Chilton,et al.  Within-mouth correlations and reliabilities for probing depth and attachment level. , 1987, Journal of periodontology.

[15]  J. Fleiss,et al.  A critique of recent research on the two-treatment crossover design. , 1989, Controlled clinical trials.

[16]  T. Therneau,et al.  Nonfatal myocardial infarction is, by itself, an inappropriate end point in clinical trials in cardiology. , 1990, Circulation.

[17]  J. Fleiss,et al.  A study of inter- and intra-examiner reliability of pocket depth and attachment level. , 1991, Journal of periodontal research.

[18]  J. Fleiss.  General design issues in efficacy, equivalency and superiority trials. , 1992, Journal of periodontal research.

[19]  J. Fleiss,et al.  Recommended revisions to American Dental Association guidelines for acceptance of chemotherapeutic products for gingivitis control. Report of the Task Force on Design and Analysis in Dental and Oral Research to the Council on Therapeutics of the American Dental Association. , 1994, Journal of Periodontal Research.

[20]  S. Zimmerman,et al.  Proposed guidelines for American Dental Association acceptance of products for professional, non-surgical treatment of adult periodontitis. Task Force on Design and Analysis in Dental and Oral Research. , 1994, Journal of periodontal research.