Royal Statistical Society Highland Local Group

	Meeting announcements


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Date:23rd November 2000
time: 6pm
place: Meston Building 302, Kings College, University of Aberdeen

Speaker: William Browne, Institute of Education, London


Title:
'Multilevel modelling in MLwiN : What's new and what's still do come'

Synopsis:
This talk will be part talk and part software demonstration as I intend to
convey some of the basics of multilevel modelling by using the software
package MLwiN. My talk will be in two parts.
A new version of MLwiN was released to the user community in February this 
year and contains many new features. In the first part of my talk I intend
through the tutorial exam dataset example to explain some of the basics of
multilevel modelling, contrast some of the estimation methods and show some
of the new graphing and diagnostics procedures.
 The Multilevel modelling team at the IOE which I am a member of has
recently received a large 3 year grant to investigate methods for fitting
more complex 
multilevel models to social science datasets. This constitutes assessing
what models social science researchers are likely to want to fit and which
method is best for which model. In the second part of my talk (depending on
time) I will talk on up to four areas in which I have recently implemented
MCMC based solutions to these problems
a) Multilevel models with complex level 1 variation.
b) Cross-classified and multiple membership models.
c) Multivariate normal response multilevel models with missing responses.
d) Measurement error problems in multilevel models. 

tea: 5.45pm 



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Date: January TBA
time: TBA
Place: Marine Laboratory, Torry, Aberdeen

Speaker: Rob Fryer (Marine Lab Aberdeen)

Title and synopsis TBA

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Dr Andrew B. Lawson
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen
AB24 3UE
UK

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