There is now just one week left to submit your abstract for a contributed talk at the Royal Statistical Society’s
2016 International Conference which will take place in Manchester from 5-8 September.
Submissions are welcome for talks or posters on any topic related to statistics and the use of data.
The deadline for talk submissions is 31 March. Online abstract submissions can be made
here.
The RSS Conference provides a unique opportunity in the UK for anyone interested in data analysis and statistics to come together to share information and network. The conference
regularly attracts over 450 participants from all over the world, ranging from senior academic statisticians through to new graduates and postgraduate students, with strong representation from the public sector as well as statisticians and data scientists
working in industry or as independent consultants.
Plenary speakers in 2016 will include
Christl Donnelly (Imperial College London), Dame Anne Glover (former Chief Scientific Adviser, European Commission) and Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University). They are joined by Noel Cressie (University of Wollongong) who will give
the Barnett Lecture.
Topic streams at the conference will include:
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Data Science
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Environmental Statistics
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Medical Statistics
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Methods & Theory
·
Social Statistics
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Spatial Statistics
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Teaching & Communicating Statistics
Invited sessions are expected to include:
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Applications of machine learning in biostatistics
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Bringing official statistics to a wider audience
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Communicating statistics to non-specialist university students
· Compositional
data analysis
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Confronting risk: Statistical perspectives on life, death and disaster
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Functional data analysis for earth observation
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Organising Big Data’s contribution to policy
· Recent
advances in statistical learning
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Social network analysis
· Spatial
statistics for tropical disease control
· Statistical
methods for health informatics
·
Unpacking data visualisation
Paul Gentry
Conferences & Events Manager
The Royal Statistical Society
12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
Direct dial: (44) 020 7614 3918
The RSS is a registered charity No. 306096
RSS 2016 Conference will take place in Manchester, 5-8 September. More information at
www.rss.org.uk/conference2016