The next meeting of the Glasgow local group of the Royal Statistical Society will be on Tuesday 30th of April at 17:30. Hopefully, you’ll be able to join us then at the University of Glasgow in the Ben Cruachan seminar room at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit on 200 Renfield Street, Glasgow, G2 3QB.
Full details and registration link below and at our website:
https://sites.google.com/site/rssglasgow/events
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RSS Glasgow Local Group committee
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Speaker: Eric Silverman, Research Fellow, MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit
Time: 17:30-19:00.
Place: MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, top floor, Herald Building, 200 Renfield Street, Glasgow, G2 3QB (map).
Summary: Public health research faces major challenges that cannot be addressed effectively with straightforward interventions, such as combatting the spread of obesity. As a result the field of complex systems science, and related methods like agent-based models (ABM), have become increasingly popular as a means to understand these difficult issues. However, building an ABM is markedly different from building a mathematical model, and frequently the two approaches are best used to answer entirely different kinds of research questions. In this talk, I will outline the theory and practice of ABM, and discuss how computational and statistical approaches can work together to help us understand and address complex public health challenges.
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