Dear Allstaters,
Please find below a reminder about an RSS Leeds/Bradford Local Group joint meeting with the RSS
Medical Section to be held on Tuesday 31st October. 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: Tuesday 31 October, 2pm-5.10pm, Worsley Building, University of Leeds (tea from
1.30pm) Joint meeting with Medical Section
Meeting to be followed by meal. Contact Mark Gilthorpe ([log in to unmask]) if you wish to go
for the "early bird" meal (£21 per head).
Nutrition, Obesity and Health
Speakers to include:
Janet Cade (University of Leeds)
Welcome and overview
Darren Greenwood (University of Leeds)
Measurement in nutrition: you are what you say you eat - measurement error in dietary research
Jonathan Sterne (University of Bristol)
Measurement in obesity: can we use instrumental variables approaches to estimate the causal effect
of BMI on mortality?
Tim Cole (University College London)
Assessment of growth: Z-scores, distance and velocity - why skewness changes with age
Robert West (University of Leeds)
Assessment of obesity: adipose tissue and metabolic inflexibility
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