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Dear Allstatters ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY HIGHLAND LOCAL GROUP Meetings announcement web page: http://www.maths.abdn.ac.uk/maths/department/rss/highlands.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Thursday October 21st at 6PM: venue: room M302 Meston Building, King's College, University of Aberdeen speaker: Andrew Lawson (University of Aberdeen) title: Disease Mapping:some issues abstract: Issues relating to the statistical analysis of disease maps are considered. Relative risk estimation in a Bayesian and non-Bayesian context is considered, in addition to the use of random object models useful in the analysis of localised aggregations of excess risk or clusters. Reference: Lawson, A. B. et. al. (1999) Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment for Public Health. Wiley/WHO, New York ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Wednesday 24th November at 1pm: venue: Fraser-Noble Lecture Theatre, King's College JOINT MEETING WITH ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY speakers: Gillian Raab (Napier University), David Clayton (MRC, Cambridge) programme: 1pm Gillian Raab (Napier University) Balance in Cluster Randomised Trials 2.30 pm coffee break 3 pm David Clayton (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge) Title to be confirmed 4.30 end of meeting ------------------------------------------------------- Following the meeting a meal has been arranged in the private dining room in the Staff Refectory, King's College. Anyone wishing to join the speakers and committee for this meal are most welcome. ABSTRACTS Gillian Raab title: Balance in cluster randomised trials Abstract: Intervention studies where the unit of analysis is a group of individuals, but inferences are required for individuals within the groups, are becoming increasing popular, especially for the evaluation of health policies. Although these studies may involve many individuals, the number of units of randomisation can be small. Thus they can be vulnerable to a poorly balanced randomisation. This talk will review the literature on the design of such cluster randomised studies and disuss the important role of balancing known features of the larger units in the design. David Clayton title: to be confirmed _______________________________________________________ Dr Andrew B. Lawson Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3UE UK phone: 44-1224-272615 (voice mail) fax: 44-1224-272607 email: [log in to unmask] ________________________________________________________ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%