RSS General Applications Section Meeting on
Statistical Analysis of Historical Data
Tuesday 9th March, 2004 2:00 - 5:30
The meeting will be in the RSS HQ, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX
(nearest Tube station is Barbican)
Directions can be found in:
http://www.rss.org.uk/about/direction.html
2:00 Professor April McMahon
Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield
Language Classification by Numbers?
2:45 Dr Jim Oeppen
Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
and Max Planck Institute for Demography
Survival analysis with historic data:
problems of double-censoring, truncation, and unobserved heterogeneity
3:30 TEA
4:00 Mr Christopher Langford
London School of Economics
The age pattern of mortality in the 1918-19 influenza pandemic:
An attempted explanation based on data for England and Wales
4:45 Mr Barry Trevelyan and Professor Matthew Smallman-Raynor
School of Geography, University of Nottingham
and
Professor Andrew D. Cliff
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Abstracts can be found in:
http://www.rss.org.uk/groups/GAS/march2004.html
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Mario Cortina Borja
Senior Lecturer in Statistics
[log in to unmask] Phone +44(0)20 7905 2113 Fax +44(0)20 7905 2381
Paed. Epid. & Biostats, Institute of Child Health, UCL, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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