Warwick University Department of Statistics, jointly with the Royal Statistical Society West Midlands Local Group (https://sites.google.com/view/rsswmlg), is hosting a free public lecture next week. Peter Diggle, former president of the RSS, will give a talk entitled Statistics: a data science for the twenty-first century.
The talk is open to all. Be sure to share the event with any friends or colleagues who might be interested.
Our event will take place in the Zeeman Building at the University of Warwick, at 18:15 on Wednesday 16th May. Refreshments will be served after the lecture. Please register your attendance (free) at https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/news/wplms/diggleregn-copy
Abstract
The rise of data science could be seen as a potental threat to the long-term status of the statistics discipline. In this lecture, I will argue that, although there is a threat, there is also a much greater opportunity to re-emphasize the universal relevance of statistical method to the interpretation of data. I will describe several recent research projects through which I hope to demonstrate that statistics makes an essential, but incomplete, contribution to the emerging field of ‘electronic health’ research, and will offer some personal thoughts on how the statistics discipline should seize the data science opportunity.
Speaker
Peter Diggle is Distinguished University Professor of Statistics in the Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University. He also holds Adjunct positions at Johns Hopkins, Yale and Columbia Universities, and was president of the Royal Statistical Society (2014-2016).Between 1974 and 1983 Prof Diggle was a Lecturer, then Reader in Statistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Between 1984 and 1988 he was Senior,then Principal, then Chief Research Scientist and Chief of the Division of Mathematics and Statistics at CSIRO, Australia. Prof Diggle's research involves the development of statistical methods for spatial and longitudinal data analysis and their applications in the biomedical, health and environmental sciences. He was awarded the Royal Statistical Society's Guy Medal in Silver in 1997
Venue: Zeeman Building, University of Warwick. Lecture theatre MS.01 is on the ground floor.
For more information, visit the RSS West Midlands web site (https://sites.google.com/view/rsswmlg/), or contact me, David, on [log in to unmask]
Thank you.
David Selby
PhD student
Department of Statistics
University of Warwick
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