Dear Allstaters,
Please note there has been a slight change to the timings for tomorrow's
meeting. We will now start at 2pm, with a tea break 2.50-3.20pm. Thus
the order of speakers will be:
2pm - 2.45pm Patrick Sanders
The Public Health Impact of Landfill Waste Sites
2.50pm - 3.20pm Tea break
3.20pm - 4.05pm Richard Feltbower and Samuel Manda
Detecting Similarities in the Spatial Distribution of Childhood
Leukaemia and Type 1 Diabetes using Bayesian Smoothing
4.10pm - 4.55pm Chris Robertson and Christina Yap
The Long Term Effects of Environmental Pollution on Cause Specific
Mortality in Scotland
Further details, abstracts etc. can be found on our webpage:
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/statistics/rss/
All welcome!
Regards, Paul
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Dr. Paul D. Baxter
Secretary/Treasurer, RSS Leeds/Bradford Local Group,
Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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Leeds/Bradford: Tuesday 11 October, 2pm, Lecture Theatre X, Worsley
Building, University of Leeds (tea from 2.50-3.20pm)
Joint meeting with Medical Section
Environmental Epidemiology
Speakers to include:
Patrick Sanders (Health Protection Agency, Birmingham)
The public health impact of landfill waste sites
Richard Feltbower and Samuel Manda (University of Leeds)
Detecting similarities in the spatial distribution of childhood
leukaemia
and type 1 diabetes using Bayesian smoothing.
Christopher Robertson and Christina Yap (University of Strathclyde)
The Long Term Effects of Environmental Pollution on Cause Specific
Mortality in Scotland
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