Royal Statistical Society Highland Local Group
Meeting announcements
Date: 13th september 2000
time: 4pm
venue: Macauley Land Use Research Insttitute,
David Fletcher, University of Otago, New Zealand
title:
Assessing the Risk to Hector's Dolphin in New Zealand:
The Statistical Challenges
tea at 3.45pm
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Date: 25 October 2000
Time: 6pm
Venue :Meston Building 302, King's College, University of Aberdeen
Marion Campbell, Programme Director,
Scottish Health Services Research Unit
title: STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS IN HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
The Scottish Health Services Research Unit has a national remit to
research the best ways to provide health care, and to train those
working in the health services in research methods. Most research
projects aim to find out whether novel developments within the
health service really are effective and cost-effective. Principal
methodologies involved in the conduct of these projects are systematic
reviews, pragmatic randomised controlled trials, quasi-experimental
studies, sample surveys and qualitative methods. In this talk, I will
give a brief overview of the statistical methods more commonly used in
this field and will highlight a number of these in more detail. In
particular, I will summarise work being developed within the Unit around
the design and analysis of cluster randomised trials, the incorporation
of the ‘learning curve’ in the evaluation of emerging health technologies
and the individual patient data meta-analysis of surgical trials.
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web page:http://www.maths.abdn.ac.uk/maths/department/rss/highlands.html
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Dr Andrew B. Lawson
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen
AB24 3UE
UK
phone: 44-1224-272615 (voice mail)
fax: 44-1224-272607
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web page:
www.maths.abdn.ac.uk/maths/department/staff/pages/lawson_a.html
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