GENERAL APPLICATIONS SECTION
Careers in Statistics
Tuesday 12th March, 5pm (Tea 4.30pm) at the RSS, Errol Street, London
Comparing effects of early environmental factors on childhood height:
a two generation study
Leah Li
(Institute of Child Health, UCL)
Early life environmental factors have been found to be associated with
childhood height in a wide variety of populations. This study uses the
1958 British birth cohort and a sub-sample of their offspring to
investigate the changing roles of some early life factors on height across
two generations: the cohort members and their offspring. A two-level
mixed effects model is applied taking into account the hierarchical
structure of the data.
Modelling the performance of hedge fund managers
Miguel Ancona-Navarrete
(Man Investment Products)
Hedge fund managers allocate capital to investment instruments in order to
profit not only when financial markets rise, but also when they fall.
Their products, known as hedge funds, are often constructed to be
uncorrelated to stock market indices in order to diversify an investor's
portfolio and offer a fixed return level under controlled risk. We are
interested in modelling the performance of hedge fund managers to predict
their future performance and asses the main features of their investment
styles based on historical performance. This talk overviews the main
issues regarding the modelling of hedge funds and illustrates these using
simulated data.
Statistics in the Outback
James McBroom
(Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
The health of indigenous Australians living in remote areas is amongst the
worst in the world. Most (but not all) of these communities are located in
Australia's Northern Territory. This area encompasses geological and
climatological extremes - from the desert areas surrounding Uluru and
Alice Springs to the tropical climes of Kakadu and Darwin. In this talk
I'll discuss the genetic differentiation of human - and dog - derived
Scabies mites, as well as modelling endemic, concurrent carriage of
multiple strains of the bacteria Haemophilus influenzae in Aboriginal
infants, sensitivity and specificity analysis of mobile Malaria detection
kits for use in endemic malarial areas, modelling growth curves of
Aboriginal infants in outback communities, and the analysis of community
based, longitudinal clinical trials conducted on an isolate island
community to the north of Darwin.
ALL ARE WELCOME
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Dr Karen Vines (Secretary, GAS)
Department of Statistics
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
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