The next meeting of the RSS Medical Section will be TOMORROW Tuesday,
October 26th, starting at 3.30pm (tea at 4.15pm)at the Royal Statistical
Society Headquarters, 12 Errol Street, LONDON.
Further location details can be found at http://www.rss.org.uk/index2.html
SOME STATISTICAL ISSUES IN FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING:
BACKGROUND AND ISSUES
Ian Ford
Robertson Centre for Biostatistics
University of Glasgow
SYNOPSIS: Brief overview of the history of fuctional neuroimaging,
mentioning autoradiography, SPECT and PET in some details. Discussion of
activation experiments and associated statistical approaches to testing -
model based approaches vs nonparametric methods with an example from PET.
EXAMPLES
Andrew Holmes
Robertson Centre for Biostatistics
University of Glasgow
SYNOPSIS: Review of statistical problems in fMRI, with a number of
illustrative examples.
Unfortunately the details didn't quite make it onto the diary card,
so I'd be very grateful if you could let other interested colleagues, who
may not be on allstat, know about it.
Many thanks,
Keith.
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Dr Keith R. Abrams
Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Department of Epidemiology & Public Health
University of Leicester
22-28 Princess Road West
Leicester, U.K.
LE1 6TP
Tel +44 (0)116 252 3217
FAX +44 (0)116 252 3272
e-mail [log in to unmask]
WWW http://www.prw.le.ac.uk/epidemio/
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