General Applications Section
A very warm welcome to the General Applications Section (GAS) pages.
The remit of GAS is that it shall be concerned with the exposition, study, informal debate and discussion of statistical subjects across a wide range of fields of application with a view to making statistical developments accessible to a broad general audience.
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The GAS Committee organises a lively programme of about 5-10 meetings public meetings and conference sessions a year on the application of statistics to topical areas.
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Such meetings are generally open without charge to RSS fellows and to the general public although some designated ‘fund-raising’ meetings and courses may charge modest fees to recover expenses
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GAS also regularly joins with other Sections (e.g. Medical, Environmental, Statistical Computing), local groups and other professional organizations to reinforce application interests across the various fields of statistical.
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GAS also supports and encourages the development of special topic working groups (which may ultimately become RSS Sections in their own right).
GAS Officers and Committee members:
Chair: Dr Mario Cortina-Borja (Institute of Child Health) m.cortina@ich.ucl.ac.uk
Vice Chair: Prof Vic Barnett (Emeritus, University of Nottingham) vic.barnett@live.co.uk
Secretary: Dr Paul Clarke (University of Bristol) paul.clarke@bristol.ac.uk
Committee members:
Dr Mark Briers (BAE Systems Detica) mark.briers@cantab.net
Dr Gabriela Czanner (University of Liverpool) G.Czanner@liverpool.ac.uk
Dr Marco Geraci (University College London) m.geraci@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Daphne Kounali (University of Bristol) Daphne.Kounali@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Sarah Lewis (University of Bristol) s.j.lewis@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Pablo Mateos (University College London) p.mateos@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Angela Noufaily (Open University) a.noufaily@open.ac.uk
Dr Julian Stander (University of Plymouth) j.stander@plymouth.ac.uk
Dr Fiona Underwood (University of Reading) f.m.underwood@reading.ac.uk
Dr Veronica Vinciotti (Brunel University) veronica.vinciotti@brunel.ac.uk
The following recent meetings give a good indication of the richness and variety of the topics covered by GAS;
14 May 2012 Surveillance Systems for Outbreak Detection of Infectious Diseases: Nick Andrews (HPA), Paddy Farringdon (Open University), Kim Kavanagh (University of Strathclyde),Yann Le Strat (Institut de Veille Sanitaire, Paris). /site/cms/contentEventViewEvent.asp?chapter=9&e=1286
16 Feb 2012 Recent advances in Monte Carlo methods: Richard Everitt (University of Oxford), Anthony Lee (University of Warwick), Nicolas Kantas (Imperial College), Nick Whitley (University of Bristol), Simon Maskell (QinetiQ and Imperial College).
24 Nov 2011 Towards a theory of applied statistics: David Draper (University of Calinfornia, Santa Cruz) – joint meeting with Avon Local Group. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/research/rss-group.
20 Oct 2011 Statistics in Veterinary Science: William Browne (University of Bristol), Martin Green (University of Nottingham), Christl Donnelly (Imperial College), Theo Kypriaos (University of Nottingham).
26 May 2011 Recent Developments in Observational Epidemiology using Mendelian Randomisation: Debbie Lawlor (University of Bristol), Vanessa Didelez (University of Bristol), Stephen Burgess (MRC Biostatistics Unit), Jack Bowden (MRC Biostatistics Unit), Tom Palmer (University of Bristol), John Thompson (University of Leicester) – Jointly organised with Medical Statistics Section.
20 April 2011 Statistical reliability and lifetime data analysis: Frank Coolen (University of Durham), David Percy (University of Salford), John Quigley (University of Strathclyde), Keming Yu (Brunel University). http://maths.dur.ac.uk/stats/people/fc/LMS-Reliability.html
17 November 2010 Anchoring Vignettes: This meeting was jointly organised with the Social Statistics Section, and led to a special issue of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rssa.2011.174.issue-3/issuetoc).
For more information on GAS activities please contact the GAS Secretary on paul.clarke@bristol.ac.uk
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