FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
PLEASE NOTE CLOSING DATE FOR REGISTRATIONS IS THIS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3.
Places are filling up fast, so please book this week as late registrations
may well not be accepted.
The History of Statistics, 1900 ± 30
A One-Day Conference
The Department of Statistics and the Centre for the History of the
Mathematical Sciences, both at the Open University, are proud to present
the above one-day conference to be held on
Wednesday, December 15th, 2004
at the Open University campus in Milton Keynes. The conference costs
just £15 (including lunch and coffee/tea). The registration deadline is
Friday, 3rd December, 2004.
Timetable:
10.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
10.55 WELCOME
11.00
Professor ANTHONY EDWARDS, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge,
John Venn as Statistician.
11.45
Mr CHRIS PRITCHARD, McLaren High School, Callander, and Open University
Research Student,
Francis Galton and George Darwin's 'Common Family
Weakness for Statistics'
12.30 LUNCH
1.45
Dr EILEEN MAGNELLO, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine,
University College, London,
Karl Pearson and the Origin of Modern Statistics: an
Elastician Becomes a Statistician
2.30
Professor Sir DAVID COX, Nuffield College, Oxford,
Statistical Theory and Methods in the First Third of the
20th Century
3.15 TEA
3.45
Mr JOHN ALDRICH, Department of Economics, University of Southampton,
Information and Economics in Fisher's Design of Experiments
4.30
Professor STEPHEN SENN, Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow,
An Early "Atkins Diet"; R.A.Fisher Analyses a Medical "Experiment"
5.15 CLOSE
For further details, including abstracts, see the conference website at
http://statistics.open.ac.uk/Historyofstats/historyofstats.html
You can either use the fancier registration form available on the website
or the ASCII version thereof printed below.
We hope to see you in Milton Keynes on 15th December.
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The History of Statistics, 1900 ± 30 - Registration Form
Completed forms should be returned to:
The History of Statistics, 1900 ± 30,
Department of Statistics,
The Open University,
Walton Hall,
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Fax: (01908) 652140
Email: [log in to unmask]
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Please send one of these forms for each delegate.
The registration deadline is 3rd December 2004.
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Delegate Contact Information:
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Surname
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Please indicate any special dietary or disability requirements
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Conference Fee
The registration fee includes lunch and tea/coffee/biscuits at session breaks.
The registration fee is £15.
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Cancellation Details:
Cancellation on or before 3rd December 2004 - full refund.
Cancellation after 3rd December 2004 - no refund given.
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Payment of Fees:
Method of payment (please select appropriate method):
Cheque drawn on a UK bank in pounds sterling, payable to "The Open University"
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