Dear All
*The Centre of Biostatistics *(www.ul.ie/biostatistics) is holding a
2-day event
this week on Thursday & Friday, 17th & 18th, in the *Carlton Castletroy
Park Hotel,
Limerick, Ireland (see http://www.castletroy-park.ie/home.html ).*
On the thursday afternoon there will be a short programme on Randomised
Controlled Clinical Trials, heralding an Inaugural lecture by adjunct
Professor
Victor Kiri head of PACE in Parexel , UK.
The Thursday afternoon programme is as follows:
*Inaugural Lecture Event*
A) Thursday, September 17th
15:00 /*Welcome*/: Professor G. MacKenzie (Director of CBS)
15:10 */Some remarks on randomised controlled trials/*
Prof. G MacKenzie (CBS, UL, Ireland)
15:30 */A new method of analysing treatment by centre interactions/*
Prof. Il Do Ha (Daegu Haany University, South Korea)
16:00 Inaugural Lecture . . .
/*The design and analysis of non-randomised studies*/
Adjunct Professor Victor Kiri (CBS, UL, & PAREXEL UK).
17:30 Wine & Cheese Reception (Convservatory)
All welcome .
*Hope you can make the inaugural.*
On Friday, the 18th, in the Castletroy Park Hotel - there is
the 1st International Workshop on BIO-SI (SFI).
*Registration is required *- please send €40 (coffees & lunch) or
€80 (coffees, lunch & dinner) to [log in to unmask]
or pay on the day. The programme is as follows:
*BIO-SI Workshop* *
A) Friday, September 18th
10:00-10:30 Registration and Coffee
10:30-10:40 Brief Opening Address (*Gilbert MacKenzie & John Hinde*)
10:40-11:30 *Wally Gilks* (University of Leeds) A statistical
base-caller for Illumina next-generation sequencing.
11:30-12:20* Simon Tavaré* (University of Cambridge) – Evolutionary
approaches for studying cancer stem cells.
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:50 *Jianxin Pan* (University of Manchester) - Joint modelling
of mean-covariance structures for longitudinal data: an overview.
14:50-15:40* Jinde Wang* (Nanjing University) - Inequality constrained
statistical models.
15:40-16:00 Coffee
16:00-16:50 *Dankmar Böhning *(University of Reading) - Population Size
Estimation, Non-Parametric Mixtures, Empirical Bayesian Smoothing.
16:50-17:40 *Bent Jørgensen *(University of Southern Denmark) -
Dispersion Models for Extremes.
19:30 Dinner - Castletroy Park Hotel
*Organized by *The Centre of Biostatistics* (www.ul.ie/biostatistics)
*Hope you can make the Workshop.*
Best
Gilbert
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Prof. Gilbert MacKenzie
Centre of Biostatistics,
Room B2034
Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics,
University of Limerick,
Limerick
Ireland
CBS ~ http://www.ul.ie/biostatistics
BIO-SI ~ http://www.ul.ie/bio-si
Gilbert ~ http://www.staff.ul.ie/mackenzieg
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +353 (0)61 213499
Fax: +353 (0)61 334927
ISA ~ http://www.istat.ie.
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