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ALL WELCOME Royal Statistical Society HERTS/BEDS LOCAL GROUP On Wednesday 10 May at 6.30pm at the Statistics Department, IACR-Rothamsted, Harpenden. To be preceded by AGM at 6.15pm. Tea from 6.00pm. There will be a guided tour of the farm at Rothamsted before the meeting, commencing at 4.30pm. If you wish to participate in the farm tour, please contact Suzanne Clark, tel: 01582 763133 x2742 or e-mail: [log in to unmask], BY WEDNESDAY 3RD MAY. PAUL VERRIER (Bioinformatics Department, IACR-Rothamsted) Making the best of an 'ERA' "One hundred and fifty years of experimentation at Rothamsted has produced quite a few observations. Many experiments have been long-term in their nature and we potentially have a resource that could give an insight into environmental changes that have occurred over this period. In addition, modern statistical techniques, coupled with greater computing power, give the opportunity to delve deeper into the data to draw further conclusions. At Rothamsted we have been addressing the collection of this 'old' data and have developed appropriate systems to enable us to clean, validate, store and selectively retrieve these disparate sets of data. The system, which is known as the Electronic Rothamsted Archive, and the uses to which we are putting it will be described, together with some examples of how the discipline the system enforces is giving experimentalists and their statisticians a few headaches." Further information, directions, etc., available from Suzanne Clark (details above) or Michaela Cottee (details below) ================================================================ Dr. Michaela J. Cottee E-mail: [log in to unmask] Statistics Group Phone: +44 (0)1707 284377 University of Hertfordshire Fax: +44 (0)1707 284799 College Lane, Hatfield Hertfordshire, UK. AL10 9AB ================================================================ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%