A reminder of next week's meeting:
THE CAMBRIDGE STATISTICS DISCUSSION GROUP
Wednesday 29th November 2006 7:15 for 7:45
Statistical Laboratory,
Centre for Mathematical Sciences,
Wilberforce Road
Cambridge
'Aftermath' to Royal Statistical Society's report
('Performance Indicators: Good, Bad, and Ugly') on Performance
Monitoring in the Public Services
Sheila Bird
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Abstract:
After a brief introduction to the RSS report and its recommendations,
Sheila will outline the aftermath for the RSS Working Party
(workshops, roadshows, political and media, consultations, and
methodological) with specific reference to criminal justice and
'war on drugs' applications. The RSS report Performance indicators:
good, bad, and ugly JRSS A, 168, 1-27, 2005 is freely available
on-line at http://www.rss.org.uk/PDF/PerformanceMonitoring.pdf.
Speaker:
Professor Sheila Bird is a Senior statistician at MRC Biostatistics
Unit, Cambridge and visiting professor of Department of Statistics
and Modelling Science, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
Previous posts at Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
Co-author of Statistics and Practice and of Transplantation: Sense and
Sensitization. Past member of Medical Section Committee (1976-1979);
member of RSS working parties on official statistics (1989-91) and on
drugs and drug regulation; Chair of RSS Working Party on Performance
Monitoring in the Public Services (2003-04); member of scientific programme
committee for RSS99 on risk and co-organiser of one-day meeting on drugs
and criminal statistics (1999) and appraisal of cost-effectiveness (2001).
Statistician-member of UK's appraisal committee for National Institute for
Clinical Excellence (1999-2005), Home Office's Science and Technology
Reference Group, scientific committee of European Monitoring Centre for
Drugs and Drug Addiction (2001-2005), and formerly of EU's ad hoc
BSE/TSE subgroup.
Directions:
The main entrance is reached from Clarkson Road by going along the
footpath to the right of the Newton Institute, and turning left through the
gatehouse towards the main building (Pavilion A), which has a glass front and
a curved grassed roof. The main entrance is in the middle of the glass
front. Coffee before the talk will be in the common room in Pavilion D,
and the talk will be in Meeting Room 5 in Pavilion A. Free Parking is
available after 5pm on Clarkson and Wilberforce Roads.
Next Meetings (2007):
6th February - Julia Gog (DAMTP).
7th March - Zoubin Ghahramani (Engineering) on 'Retrieving Information
using a Bayesian Model of Generalization'.
4th April - Matt Whiley (Amgen).
Supper: Some members eat regularly in the University Centre before
each talk meeting in the downstairs bar at 6pm. Feel free to join them.
Subscriptions: of 1 pound are now due for attending the 2006-2007 session.
Secretary: Peter Watson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF;telephone 01223 355294 Extension 801;
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