Events
Upcoming Events
27/02/2020
Afternoon Meeting: Statistics in the Natural Environment
Speakers (TBC)
Statistics in the Natural Environment
Past Events
30/05/2019
Afternoon Meeting: Machine Learning in Astronomy
David van Dyk (Imperial College)
Chris Arridge (Lancaster University)
Florent Leclercq (Imperial College)
Ingo Waldmann (University College London)
Machine Learning in Astronomy
14/03/2019
Claire Miller (University of Glasgow)
Global lake water quality, ecological systems and statistical challenges . [abstract]
14/02/2019
Peter Van der Heijden (University of Southampton)
An overview of population size estimation where linking registers results in incomplete covariates, with an application to mode of transport of serious road casualties. [abstract]
06/12/2018
Afternoon Meeting at University of Central Lancashire
Professor Jeremy Oakley (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield)
Professor Paul Garthwaite (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Open University)
Knowledge Elicitation [abstract]
Eliciting probability distributions with SHELF
Quantifying expert opinion about some sampling models that include covariates
20/09/2018
Davide Pigoli (King's College London)
The statistical analysis of acoustic phonetic data: exploring differences between spoken Romance languages [abstract]
23/11/2017
Richard Emsley (Centre for Biostatistics & MAHSC Clinical Trials Unit, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre)
Evaluating Mechanisms in Randomised Trials of Complex Intervention
02/11/2017
Afternoon Environmental Statistics Meeting
Stephen Buckland (University of St Andrews)
Jon Barry (CEFAS)
Gordon Blair (Lancaster)
Clare Rowland (Center for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster)
Alison Johnston (University of Cambridge & Cornell University)
Marcus Rowcliffe (Zoological Society of London) Chris Sherlock, Jon Tawn & Anna Barlow (Lancaster)
Design Principles and Capture Methods for Environmental Modelling
Monitoring the Biodiversity of Regions: Key Principles and Possible Pitfalls
Marine Monitoring - Current Practice and Future Challenges
An Internet of Things for the Natural Environment
Satellite Data, Statistics and Land Cover Applications: Some case-studies
People and Birds: Citizen Science Data for Ecological Monitoring Estimating Abundance from Camera Trapping Data
Stopping-Time Bias for Flood Return Level Estimation
28/09/2017
David Spiegelhalter (University of Cambridge)
Trust in Numbers
13/07/2017
Ben Powell (School of Mathematics, University of Bristol)
Some Developments in Inflation Estimation using Web-Scraped Data
08/12/2016
Deborah Ashby (OBE) (Imperial College London)
Using Statistical Theory, Epidemiology and Clinical Trials for Public Health Impact [abstract]
29/09/2016
Peter Henrys (Center for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster)
Robust Estimates of Natural Capital for GB [abstract]
02/06/2016
Sofia Villar (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge)
The Multi-Armed Bandit Problem and the Design of Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trials: Recent Advances and Remaining Challenges [abstract]
21/01/2016
Danielle Belgrave (Imperial College London),
Christopher Munro (University of Manchester)
The Asthma E-Lab: Discovering Subtypes of Disease with Model-Based Machine Learning [abstract]
26/11/2015
Frank Dunstan (Cardiff University)
A Bayesian Approach to Complex Clinical Diagnoses: A Case-Study in Child Abuse [abstract]
22/10/2015
Peter Diggle (Lancaster University)
Statistics: A Data Science for the 21st Century [abstract]
25/06/2015
Ian McHale (University of Manchester)
Time Varying Rankings Models to Determine the Greatest Sports Players and Teams of All Time [abstract]
26/02/2015
Robin Henderson (University of Newcastle)
Dynamic Prediction for Discrete-Time Recurrent Event Data: Longitudinal Incidence and Prevalence of Infant Diarrhoea [abstract]
04/12/2014
Michael Goldstein (Durham University)
Bayes Linear Uncertainty Analysis for Complex Physical Systems Modelled by Computer Simulators [abstract]
20/11/2014
Sandra Eldridge (Queen Mary, University of London)
Reporting Guidelines for Pilot and Feasibility Trials [abstract]
30/10/2014
Ian Plewis (University of Manchester)
Roger Stern (University of Reading)
Statistics for International Development [abstracts]
19/06/2014
Ruth King (University of St Andrews)
Is Everything a Hidden Process Model? Case Studies in Ecology [abstract]
22/05/2014
Afternoon Meeting
Professor Allan J. Brimicombe (University of East London)
Dr Paul Norris (University of Edinburgh)
Professor Brian Francis, Professor Sylvia Walby, Dr. Jude Towers (Lancaster University)
Statistical issues in understanding domestic violence [abstracts]
Kicking off domestic violence - the football effect
The use of formal and informal reporting mechanisms by victims of partner abuse: a latent class analysis of data from the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey
Measuring high frequency repeat victimisation in domestic violence - discovering the hidden victims and testing a theory
30/01/2014
John Pullinger (Department of Information Systems, House of Commons)
Statistics Making an Impact [abstract]
21/11/2013
Sheila Bird (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge)
Examining the Effectiveness of Naloxone (Take-home; On-release) to Reduce Opiate Overdose Deaths [abstract]
24/10/2013
Catalina Vallejos (University of Warwick)
Robust Bayesian Methods for Survival Analysis [abstract]
04/07/2013
Afternoon Meeting
James Nicholson
Toby Johnson
Mark Latham
Statistics in Society [abstracts]
Making Sense of a Multivariate World
The Use of Statistics in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Using (Useful) Statistics in Football
21/05/2013
One day Meeting
Laurent Gatto (University of Cambridge)
Markus Geesman (Lloyds)
Markus Geesman (Lloyds)
Willem Ligtenberg (Open Analytics)
Practical Statistical Computing: A Workshop on Advanced R [abstracts]
Integrating R and C including using Rcpp
Creating Graphics with googleVis and R
Creating Web Applications with Shiny and googleVis
Parallel Computing and GPU Computing in R
21/03/2013
Karla Hemming (University of Birmingham)
Alan Girling (University of Birmingham)
Stepped-wedge Cluster Randomised Controlled Trials - Some Variations in Design [abstract]
24/01/2013
Andrew Golightly (Newcastle University)
Inference for Population Dynamics in the Neolithic Period [abstract]
06/12/2012
Nicos Pavlidis (Lancaster University)
Classification in Data-Rich Dynamic Environments [abstract]
01/11/2012
Danielle Bewsher (UCLan Solar Physics Group)
Statistical Studies of Coronal Dimming and Coronal Mass Ejection [abstract]
14/06/2012
Young Statisticians Meeting
Patrick Phillips (MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London
Tom Fanshawe (Lancaster University)
Peter Kimani (University of Warwick)
Current Challenges in Medical Statistics
Eradicating the World's Oldest Infectious Disease: Challenges in Designing Clinical Trials for New Treatments of Tuberculosis
Multilevel Models for Cancer Progression
Conditionally Unbiased Estimation in Adaptive Seamless Designs
02/05/2012
Environmental Statistics Meeting
Adrian Bowman & Alastair Rushworth (University of Glasgow)
Caroline Keef (Yorkshire Water)
Keith Beven (Lancaster University)
Aspects of River Flow Modelling
Going with the Flow: Regression Models for River Networks
Spatial Extremes of River Flows
Disinformation and Epistemic Error in Modelling Floods
22/03/2012
Ashley Jones (Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust)
The Use of Systematic Reviews in the Design of Randomised Controlled Trials
23/02/2012
Chris Glasbey (Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland)
Spatio-Temporal Weather Models
26/01/2012
Brian Tom (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge)
The Impact of Simplifying Statistical Modelling Assumptions when Investigating Physical Functional Disability in Psoriatic Arthritis Patients