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Apologies for cross-posting. *One-day Symposium on "Contemporary Statistical Methods for Medical Research"* The UCL and Partner Trust' (UCLP) Biostatistics Network are organising their third one-day Symposium on "Contemporary Statistical Methods for Medical Research", to be held at UCL on *+18th September 2014* ( www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/biostatistics/symposium). The Network was established to improve communication and research collaboration between medical statisticians working in UCLP and to raise the profile of Biostatistics in Medical Research. Regular research seminars have been organised by the Network since 2009 ( www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/biostatistics/seminars) and this is the third edition of the symposium. There will be two sessions, with three talks each. The topics of the sessions are: 1. Risk prediction models in Health research - Ian White, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge - Ewout Steyerberg, University Medical Center, Rotterdam - Menelaos Pavlou, UCL Statistical Science 2. What you *cannot* do with observational data - Irene Petersen, UCL Primary Care and Population Health - Frank Windmeijer, Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol - Aidan O'Keeffe, UCL Statistical Science. The titles of the sessions will be announced soon. A poster session is also planned at the symposium for participation by UCL PhD students and research fellows/research associates working in Medical Statistics in UCL. Attendance will be free for members of UCL. A fee of £25 will be charged for non-UCL participants. For additional information and registration, please contact Dr Gianluca Baio ([log in to unmask]). *Gianluca Baio* *Lecturer in Medical Statistics* Department of Statistical Science University College London 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK Telephone +44(0)20 7679 1248 (internal: 41248) Fax +44 (0)20 7383 4703 Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/people/gianlucabaio<http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakgba/> Blog: http://gianlubaio.blogspot.co.uk You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.