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In the morning, there will be a tutorial in quantile regression with hands-on using the R packages - quantreg<http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/quantreg/index.html> (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/quantreg/index.html): analysis of independent observations - lqmm<http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lqmm/index.html> (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lqmm/index.html): analysis of clustered data - Brq<http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Brq/index.html> (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Brq/index.html): Bayesian analysis Participants are welcome to bring their own laptop. Details on how to install R and packages can be found here http://cran.r-project.org/. From: Geraci, Marco Sent: 11 April 2013 14:19 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: CONFERENCE: Day on Quantile Regression - The Royal Statistical Society General Applications Section, 29 May 2013 The Royal Statistical Society General Applications Section 29th May 2013, 10:00-16:30 Lecture Theatre, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX Half-day Workshop (including R sessions) 9:30-10:00 Registration Coffee/tea 10:00-12:00 Quantile Regression: A Tutorial (Dr Marco Geraci) 12:00-12:15 Tea/coffee break 12:15-13:15 Bayesian Quantile Regression (Mr Rahim Alhamzawi) ********************************************* 13:15-14:00 Lunch (provided) ******************************************** Research Session 14:00-14:40 Professor Matteo Bottai (Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet) Recent Advances in Methods for Quantiles 14:40-15:20 Professor James Taylor (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford) Forecasting the Exceedance Probability using Asymmetric Laplace Models (Joint work with Keming Yu) 15:20-15:40 Tea/coffee break 15:40-16:20 Dr Paul Northrop (Department of Statistical Science, University College London) Using Quantile Regression to Set Thresholds for Extreme Value Analyses 16:20-16:30 Closure For registration please visit www.rss.org.uk/eventforms<http://www.rss.org.uk/eventforms> For general queries please contact Mr Rahim Alhamzawi ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) http://www.rss.org.uk/site/cms/contentEventViewEvent.asp?chapter=9&e=1480 On behalf of the RSS General Applications Section -- Marco Geraci PhD CStat Lecturer in Biostatistics Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics Institute of Child Health, University College London London WC1N 1EH, UK Phone +44(0)20 7905 2341 Web: http://marcogeraci.wordpress.com/ You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.