Plenary Speakers
- Sir David Cox NuffieldCollege, Oxford
- Sir Iain Chalmers James Lind Library
- John Beddington chief scientific adviser to the UK Government
- Stephen Stigler University of Chicago
- Karen Dunnell (UK National Statistician)
- Denise Lievesley (President ISI)
- Sara Hughes (Chair, PSI)
- David Leslie (University of Bristol)
Other invited speakers include:
- Sally Morton (President) and Ron Wasserstein (Executive Director) American Statistical Association
- Bernhard Huitfeldt (President, Swedish Statistical Association)
- Avner Bar-Hen (President, French Statistical Society)
- Maurizio Vichi (President, Italian Statistical Society)
Topics
- History of statistics
- Climate change
- The surveillance society and the role of the statistician
- Statistics and public accountability for the public services
- Complex interventions in primary care
- Statistical education
- Exploding myths with statistics
- Swine Flu
- Changing data sizes
- History of statistical computing
- Statistics in war
- Methods for structured systems
- Financial risk
- Statistical image analysis
- Future Bayesian computation
- Scotland in statistics
- Statistics for Scottish independence
- Market research
- Censuses in a changing society
- Statistics in educational research
- Agricultural statistics
- Longitudinal studies
- Bioinformatics
- Professional statistical standards
There will also be invited sessions on the themes of influential past papers and the RSS archives as well as invite talks from representatives of sister societies and other statistically-related organisations.
The best presentations from the YSM 2009 and RSC 2009 events will also feature in specially arranged sessions.
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