This to remind everyone of a meeting on Monday: WHITE ROSE STATISTICIANS MEETING - 10 April 2006, University of Leeds Lecture Theatre X, Level 8, Worsley Building, Clarendon Way, Leeds 14:00 Simon Day (Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) - 'Minimisation: Pros, Cons, and Regulators Stuck in the Middle' 14:50 Sarah Brown (Leeds) - 'Minimisation - Reducing predictability in multi-centre trials while retaining balance within centre' 15:10 break for coffee 15.40 Martin Bland (York) - 'The Half-Normal method for dealing with measurement error: two case studies' 16.20 Mike Campbell (Sheffield) - 'Robust standard errors - what are they and should we always use them?' 17:00 finish All welcome. Martin - *************************************************** J. Martin Bland Prof. of Health Statistics Dept. of Health Sciences Seebohm Rowntree Building Area 2 University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: 01904 321334 Fax: 01904 321382 Web site: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mb55/ ***************************************************