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| Unless otherwise stated, meetings take place at 5.45 pm on the second Tuesday of the month in Lecture Room B4, Napier University, Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh. Non-members are welcome. |
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Tuesday 23rd September 1997
2 pm - 5 pm |
Joint meeting with the RSS Environmental Statistics Study Group on
Biodiversity
Andrew Gillison (Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia)
Claude Gascon (Ecologia INPA, Manaus, Brazil)
David Hirst (Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland, Macauly Land
Research Institute)
Tuesday 14th October 1997
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Anne Hawkins (Director, RSS Centre for Statistical Education, University
of Nottingham)
| The first 'R'
Tuesday 11th November 1997
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Howard Kirby (Transport Research Institute, Napier University)
| Neural nets, statistics and motorway traffic: explorations of how to detect incidents and make short-term forecasts
Tuesday 10th February 1998
| 6 pm |
J Stuart Hunter (Princeton University)
| Box-Jenkins meets Shewhart-Deming Abstract An approach to process control based on the work of Box and Jenkins will be reviewed along with the more traditional methodology of Shewhart and Deming. Some new material on a bivariate extension will also be discussed.
Tuesday 10th March 1998
| 6 pm in Room H9
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Discussion on the Government's proposal for an independent national
statistical service
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Tuesday 12th May 1998
| 6 pm in Room H9
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Dave Signorini (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh)
| The enrolment of patients in multiple randomised controlled trials - method or madness? Abstract The enrolment of patients in more than one RCT is consistently frowned upon by clinical trialists, even to the extent of being included in the trial exclusion criteria. Is this prohibition statistical folklore or fact? This talk will discuss the practical and pragmatic advantages and the analytical and inferential implications of a 'family' of trials allowing multiple randomisations to sequential or simultaneous trials. The arguments are illustrated by an ongoing trial in stroke medicine, where patients may be randomised more than once between nutritional support policies. |
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Chris Theobald (Chairman) Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Edinburgh The King's Buildings Edinburgh EH9 3JZ Tel. 0131 650 4878 Fax 0131 650 6553 email: cmt@maths.ed.ac.uk |
Jill Sales (Secretary) Department of Mathematics Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh EH10 1DT Tel. 0131 455 2638 Fax 0131 455 2651 email: j.sales@napier.ac.uk |
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Janet Hussey (Treasurer) Edina Software Limited 26 Comely Bank Edinburgh EH4 1AJ email: j.hussey@edina.demon.co.uk |
Ann Beilby (Firrhill High School) Chris Glasbey (Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland) Ann Gould (Scottish Cancer Therapy Network) Sandy Stewart (Scottish Office Agriculture Environment and Fisheries Department) Pam Warner (Medical Statistics Unit, University of Edinburgh) |
Last updated on 5th March 1998