RSS HIGHLANDS LOCAL GROUP MEETING
DATE: Thursday, 9/10/2003
TIME: 6 pm
PLACE: Meston Building, University of Aberdeen, Room 302
TEA: 5.45 pm
TITLE:
Investigations into antibiotic resistance by the Veterinary Epidemiology
Unit, Inverness
SPEAKERS:
Malcolm Hall & Roger Humphry, Epidemiology Unit, Scottish Agricultural
College, Inverness
Abstract:
This talk will describe some of the work undertaken by the Epidemiology
Unit of the Scottish Agricultural College in Inverness. Sources and
approaches to analysing data will be described with an emphasis on the
antibiotic resistance of E. coli from cattle as our example. The
results of a survey intended to estimate the prevalence of antibiotic
resistance and its associations with farm management factors led to
questions regarding how antibiotic resistance is defined and measured.
We therefore devised, in collaboration with Graham Horgan
(Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland), an alternative approach of
defining antibiotic resistance based on non-linear regression and the
cumulative density function of the normal distribution. Tests of this
method for a limited number of samples are encouraging and it is
intended to describe some of the issues and discuss possible refinements
arising from these results.
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Everybody welcome (including non-RSS-members and non-statisticians)
Regards,
Claus Mayer,
Secretary, Highlands Local Group
(http://www.maths.abdn.ac.uk/maths/department/rss/highlands.html)
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Claus-D. Mayer | http://www.bioss.ac.uk
Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland | email: [log in to unmask]
Rowett Research Institute | Telephone: +44 (0) 1224 716652
Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK. | Fax: +44 (0) 1224 716608
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