This year’s Royal Statistical Society International Conference will take place in Cardiff from 3-6 September.

 

The Conference is attended by over 600 statisticians, data scientists, and users of data from all sectors and from over 30 countries in order to share information and network.

 

Keynote speakers at the conference in 2018 will include:

 

• Sir David Cox
• Sir John Curtice
• Hannah Fry
• Deborah Mayo
• John Pullinger

 

Invited session topics will include:

 

• Surveys, Bayes and the Machine Learning Craze - the future of forecasting elections
• Multilevel Modelling in the Social Sciences
• Bayesian Applications in Social Contexts: Dealing with Data Difficulties
• Gendered trends: women, men and tracing trajectories of change
• Using statistics to understand, predict and evaluate domestic abuse
• Capacity and capability priorities for complex analysis of large longitudinal studies
• Improving and developing international migration statistics to inform public and policy debate
• A new model for publishing GDP
• Measuring multiple deprivation across the UK: what have we learned?
• Exploring the Gender Data Gap
• Modernising data dissemination and pretecting data confidentiality

 

Submissions for contributed and rapid-fire talks plus poster presentations are currently invited on any topic related to statistics, data science and the use of data.  The deadline for submissions for talks is Thursday 5 April (with an extended deadline of 30 June for posters).

 

Registration is also open with an early booking discount available until 5 June.

 

 

Paul Gentry
Conferences & Events Manager

The Royal Statistical Society

12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX

Direct dial: (44) 020 7614 3918

www.rss.org.uk

 

The RSS is a registered charity No. 306096

 

RSS 2018 Conference will take place in Cardiff, 3-6 September.  More information at www.rss.org.uk/conference2018