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the Workshop website badly - hopefully these are resolved
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Dear All

There are some places left on this
good value course.

Please see  www.ul.ie/wcdm07  for details

The HGLM model class was introduced by Lee & Nelder
in 1996 (JRSS B). It may be viewed as a  GLMM  where the response Y
and the random effect U are both  in the Exponential Family.

In 2001 (in Biometrika)  Lee & Nelder extended the
class in several  important ways and laid the ground
for Double HGLMs  (ie DHGLMs)  - see the discussion
paper in JRSS C (2006) for key details.

The course in HGLMs gets people to first base and
lets them see the scope of the methodology.

A unique feature is the use of  h-likelihood  which avoids
the need for integrating out random effects by affording a
first or second order Laplace approximation to the marginal
Likelihood.  This approach renders MCMC un-necessary in
a very wide class of  statistical models which occur in practice.

The course and the workshop should be of interest to
practising and methodological statisticians alike.
The  course is delivered by  Professor  Roger Payne  who
developed Genstat with Professor John  Nelder at  Rothamsted.

We are very pleased to offer this course at the bargain price
of Euro 120.

Please see www.ul.ie/wcdm07 for details, deadlines and
travel arrangements  - the course may be purchased independently
of the workshop while places exist.

Best wishes

Gilbert



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Prof. Gilbert MacKenzie
Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics,
University of Limerick,
Limerick 
Ireland

CBS ~ http://www.ul.ie/biostatistics

ISA ~ http://www.istat.ie.

Gilbert ~ http://www.staff.ul.ie/mackenzieg

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Tel: +353 (0)61 213499
Fax: +353 (0)61 334927

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