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ANNOUNCEMENT
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A two-day short-course on hierarchical modelling of spatial and temporal data
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to be given by Professor Alan Gelfand (Duke University, USA),
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI)
University of Southampton, Southampton, UK,
Monday, May 23 and Tuesday, May 24, 2005.
This two-day course will provide an overview of current ideas
in statistical inference methods appropriate for analysing
various types of spatially point referenced data which may also
vary temporally. A number of real life data sets covering
environmental pollution monitoring, epidemiological disease mapping,
and social and economic problems such as movement of house price will be
used as running examples in the course.
For further information about the short-course, see the website:
http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/s3ricourse/
The short-course will be followed by a workshop
on recent advances in modelling spatio-temporal data.
The aim of the workshop is to discuss recent developments in modelling
spatio-temporal data across a wide range of application areas
and identify directions for future work.
The workshop will feature oral presentations by several international
experts, poster presentations and round table discussion groups.
For further information see the workshop website
http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/s3riwshop/
The numbers of participants on both the workshop and the short-course
are strictly limited, and for this reason we encourage you to register
as soon as possible. Information and registration
forms are available from the above websites.
Please contact the workshop organisers with any queries:
Sujit Sahu and Sue Lewis
S3RI
School of Mathematics
University of Southampton
Southampton, SO17 1BJ
UK
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