UNIVERSITY OF EXETER SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES Statistics and OR Seminar programme (Spring 2000) (Includes meetings of the Exeter Local Group of the RSS) January 27th: David Percy (University of Salford) Winning Darts! February 8th: Renato M. Assuncao (UFMG, Brazil) Bayesian Space Varying Parameter Models and Spatial Clustering February 17th: Frank Dunstan (University of Cardiff) Down's Syndrome screening --- how should we assess it? (RSS meeting) March 2nd: Postgraduate seminars: Silvia Maria de Freitas (University of Exeter) Modelling Overdispersion in a Bioassay of Entomopathogenic Fungus Naratip Jansakul (University of Exeter) Score Tests for Zero-Inflated Poisson Models March 9th: John Preater (Keele University) Sequential Selection with Little Information All the above meetings will be held at 2pm in the third level lecture theatre, Laver Building, University of Exeter. Tea will be served after each meeting. Up-to-date information can be found at: http://www.maths.ex.ac.uk/Research/Seminars.html#Statistics For further details, please contact Dr Mark Brewer (Tel: (01392) 264479, E-mail: [log in to unmask]). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Brewer Email: [log in to unmask] School of Mathematical Sciences Tel: +44 1392 264479 University of Exeter, UK Fax: +44 1392 264460 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%