PS I should have added that due to popular demand we've just made 100 new places available, in case you've previously been unable to register.
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> A final reminder of our schools event on Wednesday 15 June, hosted with the University of Glasgow at the 2016 Glasgow Science Festival. Details below and at https://sites.google.com/site/rssglasgow/events
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> Wednesday 15th June - Glasgow Science Festival lecture event: "Yeah, but is it significant?”
> • Statistical experts Jennifer Rogers and Liberty Vittert describe how to think mathematically about chance and risk and how to unpick causality from noisy data in real life settings. This is a two-hour lecture schools event aimed at senior level secondary pupils (S5 - S6), hosted jointly by Glasgow University and the Glasgow local group of the Royal Statistical Society as part of the 2016 Glasgow Science Festival.
> • Time & place: 10:00-12:00, Wednesday 15th June, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow. Please register at https://sites.google.com/site/rssglasgow/events
> • Summaries:
> • Dr Liberty Vittert: How to win the lottery and get away with murder. Statistics plays an incredible role in our everyday lives, you just don't know about it. From murder trials, to the lottery winner, to chances of survival with cancer, statistics and probability is in everything. Dr. Liberty Vittert is currently serving as the Mitchell Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. She has become a TV regular, both as The American Cook (making American-style cuisine with a bit of a mathematical twist), and as an expert statistician detailing the probabilities of certain event occurring such as the recent $1.6 billion Powerball. Come find out how statistics and probability determines just about everything.
> • Dr Jennifer Rogers: Yeah, but is it significant? You've just tossed a coin ten times and eight of them were heads. Sunderland win their next five games of the Premiership season. In clinical trials for a new treatment for chronic headaches, 40% get better within 24 hours. But so what, sometimes these things happen just by chance, right? As a statistician, it is my job to decide whether any differences I see in data are likely to be just by chance, or whether they are 'statistically significant'. But how much evidence do you need before you can say that what you see is significant and how do you untangle causality from chance? Dr. Jennifer Rogers is a research fellow in the Department of Statistics at Oxford University with interests in statistical methodology and applications in health care. In 2014 she was elected the Royal Statistical Society Guy Lecturer, and can now be regularly found presenting in schools, pubs and on stage.
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