Dear Allstaters,
Please find below information on forthcoming RSS Leeds/Bradford
Local Group Meetings. Further details can be found on our webpage:
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/statistics/rss/
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: Wednesday 16 November, 4pm, Roger Stevens Building LT12,
University of Leeds (tea from 3.30pm on Level 9 of the School of
Mathematics)
Denise Lievesley (Health and Social Care Information Centre, Leeds)
The Role of an International Statistician
Statisticians working internationally, usually employed by
international, supra-national or bilateral agencies, face a range of
problems as they try to `make a difference' to the lives of the poorest
people in the world. One of the most difficult is the dilemma between
open accountability and national sovereignty especial in relation to
performance indicators such as the millennium development goals. This
presentation will raise consciousness of the role of statisticians
employed in the international context, explaining some of the
constraints under which they work, addressing principles which ought to
govern the activities of statisticians generally and evaluating the
relevance of such principles to international statisticians in
particular.
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Leeds/Bradford: Wednesday 30 November, 4pm, Roger Stevens Building LT12,
University of Leeds (tea from 3.30pm on Level 9 of the School of
Mathematics)
David Knapp (University of Leeds)
Life, Statistics and Art
Since ancient times fortune or misfortune has inspired great art.
Commerce and Art shared many techniques during medieval and renaissance
periods. More recently artists derided the ideas from statistical
physics and countered by producing "Art of the Absurd". Some used random
processes to create art. The talk will be about interactions between art
and measurement.
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