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Invited Speakers and Sessions

Confirmed Plenary Speakers

  • Tim Davis Director, Quality & Automotive Safety Office, Jaguar & Land Rover
  • Peter Donnelly University of Oxford 
  • Nancy Reid University of Toronto
  • Robert Stine University of Pennsylvania
  • Robert Groves, US Census Bureau 

Other invited speakers to be confirmed

Topics will include:

  • History of statistics
  • Biodiversity 
  • Climate change modelling
  • Building trust in official statistics
  • 2011 UK Census
  • National Statistics
  • Financial statistics
  • Data capture
  • Statistics and the Law
  • Measuring progress
  • Scientific analysis in policy making
  • Primary health care
  • Performance indicators 
  • Adaptive clinical trials
  • Genetics
  • Composite likelihood
  • Epidemics on networks
  • Recent advances in MCMC
  • New computing technology
  • Risk
  • Statistical literacy
The best of the presentations at RSC 2010 and YSM 2010 events will feature in specially arranged sessions.
 
Other invited sessions include a retrospective read paper by Rob Tibshirani on Lasso, and hopefully a Society Ordinary Meeting both of which will be preceded by tutorial sessions.
 
Further sessions will feature the best of the Society Journal papers and Continuing Professional Development.