SPRING 2004 SEMINAR PROGRAM FOR THE VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER AND UMIST The full seminar program is given below. For further details please contact either: Peter Neal; [log in to unmask] or Ron Doney; [log in to unmask] Feb 4, 2.00 in room O10, MSS, UMIST Darren Wilkinson, Newcastle; "Bayesian inference for stochastic kinetic genetic networks" Feb 11, 2.15 in room 1.11, Maths Tower, VUM David Firth, Warwick; "Bradley-Terry scaling with explanatory variables and incomplete data" Feb 25th, 2.15 in room 1.11, Maths Tower, VUM Peter Green, Bristol; "Hidden Markov models for disease mapping" Mar 3, TBA in room O10, MSS, UMIST Nial Friel, Glasgow; "Complete Bayesian estimation of hidden Markov random fields" Mar 10, 4.00 in room O10, MSS, UMIST Peter Jupp, St Andrews; "Some Aspects of Quantum Statistical Inference" Mar 17th 2.15 in room 1.11, Maths Tower, VUM Mikis Stasinopoulos, North London; "Generalized Additive Model for Location, Scale and Shape"