Apologies for the inaccuracy in Dr Donnelly's abstract previosly broadcast.
Please find the corrected abstract for Dr Donnelly's presentation below
Royal Statistical Society Highland Local Group
Meeting announcement
Thursday December 9th
6pm Meston Building Rm 302, University of Aberdeen
Speaker: Dr Christl Donnelly (Wellcome Centre, University of Oxford)
title: BSE Incidence and Case clustering - Is Scotland a special case?
Abstract: The national incidence of BSE continues to decline, but
international debates continue about the potential risk posed by the
remaining infected animals. The heterogeneity seen in the incidence of
reported BSE cases in Great Britain is investigated, with particular
emphasis on Scotland (an area of reduced per-capita BSE incidence throughout
the epidemic). The understanding of clustering obtained from simple
descriptive statistics is used to inform the construction of a detailed
stochastic simulation model of BSE transmission dynamics, and to review
potential holding-level survival models.
web page:http://www.maths.abdn.ac.uk/maths/department/rss/highlands.html
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Dr Andrew B. Lawson
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen
AB24 3UE
UK
phone: 44-1224-272615 (voice mail)
fax: 44-1224-272607
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