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ALLSTAT A UK-based worldwide e-mail broadcast system for the statistical community, operated by HEA Statistics. Broadly speaking, any messages relevant to statistics are welcome, although posters are asked to follow the guidelines in the Introduction. Allstat's web site is http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/allstat
AMAN This list brings together all scientists in the north east of Scotland who are interested in the analysis of microarray data
ARCHIVE-LMSUG A forum for academic researchers & teachers as well as others from local & central government offices interested in labour market statistics. It facilitates discussion on issues related to pay, earnings, employment & unemployment and provides feedback on official statistics to the ONS.
ARGUS Mailing List for the ARGUS project members and associates.
ASSESS-NEWS The list a forum for announcements of events and issues related to ASSESS: The International SPSS User Group, an independent, non-profit making organisation for SPSS Users. See www.spssusers.co.uk for more information.
ASSUME ASSUME (Association of Statistics Specialists Using Microsoft Excel) aims to provide a discussion forum for all those in higher education who make use of the statistical facilities in Excel. Membership is free to all who join this list, upon application to the owner.
BAMM This is a fMRI analysis package to generate individual activation map, group activation map and to derive statistical inference from the activation maps. More information available at http://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/BMU/BAMM.
BUGS The BUGS software carries out Bayesian inference on complex statistical models using Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques. BUGS is freely available from the MRC Biostatistics Unit. This list is for users of BUGS to exchange information and worked examples.
BUGS-DEVELOPERS This list is for those interested in being involved in the future development of the BUGS software, via OpenBUGS.
CENSUS-LEARNING-AND-TEACHING The CENSUS-LEARNING-AND-TEACHING list is used to keep the UK HE and FE community informed about the progress of the JISC 5/99 funded CHCC project. The CHCC Project is developing the Collection of Historical and Contemporary Census Data and related materials (CHCC) into a major learning and teaching resource).
COCHRANE-EMG Closed discussion and information list for members of the Cochrane Economics Methods Group (CEMG)which is a Methods group of the Cochrane Collaboration, full details http://www.cochrane.org. Keywords: health, economic(s),methods,systematic reviews,economic evaluation
CONF-AND-PRIV Confidentiality and Privacy is a burgeoning cross-disciplinary research topic.
COPSTAT The Committee of Professors of Statistics is a forum for debate among U.K. academic Statistics groups. It publishes a Directory of Academic Statisticians and information on postgraduate study and research. The list is to facilitate communication between members of the committee.
CRIM-BCS-USERS 'Crim-Bcs-Users' is a discussion list for those intending to use the British Crime Survey (BCS), Police Recorded Crime data and other CJS statistics. It also serves as a forum to support the work of the Crime & Justice Statistics Network, a user group that operates under the auspices of the British Society of Criminology. The network has also been co-opted to the Statistics User Forum that operates under the auspices of the Royal Statistics Society.
CRS The CRS list is used for the dissemination of information relating to the Census Registration Service and for discussion of the service.
DDA-LTSNMSOR Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 and SENDA 2001(Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (SENDA) 2001 Implications on teaching and learning within the UK HE maths, stats and operational reseach academic community.
DISTANCE-SAMPLING This list is for researchers and practitioners interested in the estimation of wildlife abundance using distance sampling techniques (eg line transects, point transects (VCPs), cue counts, etc). Discussions include survey des ign, analysis methods, software tools, problems and new developments.
ECONOMETRIC-RESEARCH Econometric research functions as a dissemination list for research resources such as conferences, seminars, academic jobs, free software etc.
ENVSTAT Mailing list for announcements relating to environmental statistics. Operated by the Environmental Statistics Section of the Royal Statistical Society.
ESDS-INTERNATIONAL Economic & Social Data Service (ESDS) International mailing list to disseminate information to its users including information on new releases, updates, courses and workshops.
EXACT-STATS The topic is statistical techniques known as Randomisation-Tests/ Permutation-Tests/Distribution-Free-Tests, including computational aspects. The modes of discourse are scholarship, practical consultancy, and advocacy for emergent feasibility of these computationally-intensive techniques.
FAST A discussion list for issues arising from the use of technology in sport. This list invites a range of participants, though the focus is on the humanities and social science of sport technology.
GAS Discussion list about the General Applications Section of the Royal Statistical Society
HEFCW-DATA The HEFCW DATA mailing list is used for discussion and distribution of ideas between the Higher Education Funding Council of Wales and all of its data contacts with the mission of making a better working relationship between all parties involved.
HES-APHOTECH Hospital Episodes Statistics APHO Technical Group for sharing data and knowledge in handling HES database.
HIGHLANDBIOSTATS This list is used by the Highland Biostatistics Group to make announcements and coordinate activities between members that belong to 20 different educational, research, governmental, and business organisations spread throughout the Scottish Highlands.
HSSS Highly Structured Stochastic Systems (HSSS) combine simple local relations to build, via conditional independence, stochastic models that exhibit great complexity. These can be used in areas as diverse as expert systems, genetics and statistical mechanics.
HSUG The activities of the Health Statistics User Group are aimed at maintaining and improving data quality, data access, and the use of health and health statistics. We aim to represent all users of health and health services.
IND-DIFFS The Individual Differences mailing list is used for students, researchers and academics working in the area of individual differences to seek and offer advice and support in the areas of personality, intelligence, mood and motivation and their assessment.
JAPANESE-KNOTWEED The Japanese Knotweed Forum aims to facilitate discussion and communication between all scientists interested in the invasive weed Japanese Knotweed and related species.
LONDONCOSMO The London Cosmology Group: Observational and Theoretical Cosmologists from University College, Imperial College, Queen Mary College and King's College, London.
MAINT-REL List for discussion of the theory and application of mathematical and statistical techniques useful in the context of maintenance and reliability (for example of industrial plant), for publicising relevant meetings, and for e ncouraging dialogue between academics and engineers in industry.
MAPP The list supports researchers who are developing techniques to map political party policy preferences based on official political party documents (primarily, but not exclusively, party manifestos). This field has been developing in political science since the inception of the Manifesto Research Group within the European Consortium of Political Research in 1979.
MATHS-PROM The list will create a network for people involved in promoting maths education and research to the public, policy makers and the media, enabling them to share information and support each others work.
MATHSHEADS This list is intended to provide communications between members of HoDoMS (Heads of Departments of Mathematical Sciences). For details of HoDoMS see the HoDoMS web site, currently located at http://www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/HODOMS/
MATHSHEADS-ADVERTS Membership of MATHSHEADS-ADVERTS is restricted to Heads of Department of Mathematical Sciences and their assistants and is intended for departments to post adverts about available grants, job vacancies and the like.
MBUTTONS The list will support announcements relating to the online multilingual mathematics thesaurus under development at http://thesaurus.maths.org. The thesaurus provides a context help service for e-learning applications in addition to simple browser based access.
NOSOKINETICS This list is to deliver the Nosokinetics newsletter and to facilitate communication/discussion among academia and clinicians interested in health care modelling.
NOSOKINETICS-NEWSLETTER This list is used by the Nosokinetics to distribute the bi-monthly Nosokinetics newsletter.
OFFICIAL-STATISTICS The official-statistics is for announcements and discussion of any aspect of official statistics. It has links to the Official Statistic Committee of the Royal Statistical Society. The list welcomes contributions from the producers and users of official statistics as well as from members of the academic community.
OX-USERS The ox-users list is aimed at all Ox users, in order to discuss problems, share code and provide pointers to resources. Ox is an object-oriented matrix programming language which is used in econometrics/statistics research and teaching. Universities have access to a free version of Ox.
PARADATA In 2009 the NCRM funded NatCen to set up a Network for Methodological Innovation on the Use of Survey Paradata in UK Social Surveys. This network aims to: (1) promote the opportunities and benefits of using paradata for survey design, survey management, survey evaluation and methodological research; (2) identify the potential for improving the cost-efficiency and quality of survey data collection using paradata; (3) stimulate debate about the challenges of using survey paradata; (4)encourage research using survey paradata. What Paradata is: Couper (1998) is accredited with introducing the term “paradata” to the field of survey methodology. It refers to data on the process of collecting data such as number of calls before contact was made, keystroke data, length of interview, cost data, interviewer characteristics, response rates. In 2009 the NCRM funded NatCen to set up a Network for Methodological Innovation on the Use of Survey Paradata in UK Social Surveys. This network aims to: (1) promote the opportunities and benefits of using paradata for survey design, survey management, survey evaluation and methodological research; (2) identify the potential for improving the cost-efficiency and quality of survey data collection using paradata; (3) stimulate debate about the challenges of using survey paradata; (4)encourage research using survey paradata. What Paradata is: Couper (1998) is accredited with introducing the term “paradata” to the field of survey methodology. It refers to data on the process of collecting data such as number of calls before contact was made, keystroke data, length of interview, cost data, interviewer characteristics, response rates.
PCDR A forum for researchers to discuss issues relating to analysis of large primary care databases.
PERINATAL-EPIDEMIOLOGY The European Perinatal Epidemiology Network and its email list is for the promotion and discussion of research in perinatal epidemiology and the evaluation of perinatal care in Europe.
PISA This list is used to discuss issues relating to plagiarism in the assessment of Statistics in higher education. All those who teach statistics either as a specialist subject or within other disciplines (e.g. psychology) are welcome to contribute.
PRIMSTAT The list is for discussion of research ideas and methodology in areas of medical statistics particularly relevant to primary care by statisticians involved in or interested in primary care.
PSYCH-R The Psych-R list is an open email list for peer-support among people using R for work in the psychological arena. R (http://www.r-project.org) is a free language and environment for statistics which is being used increasingly worldwide. The system comprises a core program and support modules and a base set of packages that extend this. On top of this are an enormous set of packages for specialist statistical techniques or application areas including the Bioconductor project (http://www.bioconductor.org/) focused on genetic and related research. There are a number of packages for psychometric and other techniques often used in the psychological arena (http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Psychometrics.html). However, most of the packages have been written on low or near zero budgets and so are documented from the perspective of the expert who wrote the code. This can be inscrutable at worst, or not very helpful for relative newcomers at best, and creates a need for others to write supporting documentation or help the package maintainer provide documentation that helps a wider user base. Similarly, there is a real need for a mutual support system in the spirit of the R project's open source social organisation. For general R issues and for development of R this is provided by the R-help (http://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help) and R-dev (http://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel) email lists but R-help can be overwhelming in its activity and range of subjects and expertise and there seems to be a need for complementary support lists such as psych-R. Joining the list is an undertaking to abide by the general rules for all JISCmail lists (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/policy) AND the specifics for Psych-R which are simple: 1) postings should be on topic, 2) the aim is non-commercial, so any postings about commercial courses, training, consultation etc. should be absolutely specific to the use of R in the psychological arena and not excessive, members posting such topics are strongly encouraged to show their commitment to the spirit and theme of the list by also posting other contributions, 3) the list language is English but be very respectful of the advantage you may have (and we as list owners have) if English is your first or a fluent language for you and help others for whom it is not a language of early fluency: these are often the people contributing most to the R project, 4) more generally, please keep all postings respectful: this doesn't exclude disagreement but this should be specific and to the topic, not against individuals, 5) humour is welcomed but beware that this introduces overloaded linguistic operators and interpersonal and social complexity that is often dangerous in Email lists between strangers: be quick to apologise or explain if humour goes awry or upsets others!
The Psych-R list is an open email list for peer-support among people using R for work in the psychological arena.
R is a free language and environment for statistics which is being used increasingly worldwide. The system comprises a core program and support modules and a base set of packages that extend this. On top of this are an enormous set of packages for specialist statistical techniques or application areas including the Bioconductor project focused on genetic and related research. There are a number of packages for psychometric and other techniques often used in the psychological arena.
However, most of the packages have been written on low or near zero budgets and so are documented from the perspective of the expert who wrote the code. This can be inscrutable at worst, or not very helpful for relative newcomers at best, and creates a need for others to write supporting documentation or help the package maintainer provide documentation that helps a wider user base. Similarly, there is a real need for a mutual support system in the spirit of the R project's open source social organisation. For general R issues and for development of R this is provided by the R-help and R-devel email lists but R-help can be overwhelming in its activity and range of subjects and expertise and there seems to be a need for complementary support lists such as Psych-R.
Joining the list is an undertaking to abide by the general rules for all JISCmail lists AND the specifics for Psych-R which are simple:
PSYCHOLOGYNETWORK-RESMETHODS This list is for the discussion of issues relating to teaching research methods and statistics within Psychology in UK Higher Education.
QB-NEWS Question Bank News provides researchers with current news on the development of the Question Bank web resource and more general Social Surveys news when appropriate.
QUAL-COMPARE The method of Qualitative Comparative Analysis arises both in historical and management research, and in sociological and health research. The aim of QCA is to systematically analyse the possible configurations as a stage of research that follows on from (but also iterates with) a stage of qualitative analysis of cases. In this approach, the 'case' is both the whole set of configurations -- ie the world, really existing as an interlinked whole -- and as a set of comparable 'smaller' objects, e.g. comparing clients, patients, enterprises, or countries. The list exists to promote discussion and debate about QCA and its related variants, such as fuzzy-set social science (Ragin, 2004), realist evaluation (Pawson and Tilley, 1997), and triangulation. The method of Qualitative Comparative Analysis arises both in historical and management research, and in sociological and health research. The aim of QCA is to systematically analyse the possible configurations as a stage of research that follows on from (but also iterates with) a stage of qualitative analysis of cases. In this approach, the 'case' is both the whole set of configurations -- ie the world, really existing as an interlinked whole -- and as a set of comparable 'smaller' objects, e.g. comparing clients, patients, enterprises, or countries. The list exists to promote discussion and debate about QCA and its related variants, such as fuzzy-set social science (Ragin, 2004), realist evaluation (Pawson and Tilley, 1997), and triangulation.
QUANT-GEOG The Quantitative Methods Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG) seeks to promote the use of appropriate quantitative techniques in geographical research and teaching. The membership of the group spans the human/physical divide within the subject; interests include spatial statistics, remote sensing and GIS.
RADSTATS-ANNOUNCE List for announcements relating to statistics about society, and their political context and impact. Moderated by Radical Statistics Group Troika.
RSS-SOCIAL-STATS This is a list for people interested in information about meetings organised by the Royal Statistical Society's Social Statistics Section.
RSSHLG This is the mailing list of the Highlands local group of the Royal Statistical Society
RSSMEDSEC Announcement list for the Medical Section of the Royal Statistical Society.
SIX-SIGMA
SOCIAL-SEQUENCE Information list for researchers in analysis of social sequence data. Includes details of new applications, developments in methodology and events, particularly in the UK.
SSDR-REPS A list to facilitate effective communication with and between the SSDR Site Representatives who are local key contacts for the following units: ESDS, CRS and associated UK census service providers.
STATGEN The STATGEN list is intended to facilitate the exchange of information, ideas and expertise between researchers interested in statistical aspects of genetics. www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~paulj/statgen.html
STYLO-SHAKE Discussion of stylometric analysis of Renaissance drama, especially Shakespeare, to bring literary scholars and statisticians into mutually-beneficial dialogue.
SUPPORT-VECTOR-MACHINES The Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a powerful new learning algorithm based on recent advances in statistical learning theory. SVMs have become one of the standard tools for machine learning and data mining and can perform both classification and regression.
TEACHING-STATISTICS This list is for those concerned with the initial teaching of statistics in all phases of education. It will relate to the objectives of the journal Teaching Statistics and the associated Trust, and will also enable discussion of how to make teaching and learning statistics more effective.
TIMESERIES Time series is enjoying vigorous and novel development. A wide range of scientists, not just statisticians, can use this list to discuss both theoretical and practical aspects of time series analysis and to advertise time series activity (conferences, workshops, preprints, etc).
UNEMPLOYMENT-SICKNESS-BENEFIT any informantion on the effect of unemployment on health. time-series analysis of flows on to and off of benefits.
WISERD-RESEARCHERS List for WISERD Researchers
XBAM List for users and deployers of the XBAM fMRI analysis software developed at the Institute of Psychiatry in London to inform about software updates and to solve user problems
