Medical Statistics Unit Department of Epidemiology & Population Health London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT STATISTICAL SEMINARS SUMMER 1999 ********************************************************************* Wednesday 5th May 1999 4.00pm Room 51/106 Bedford Square Jon Wakefield (Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine) "Assessment of risk in relation to a pre-defined source" ********************************************************************* Wednesday 19th May 1999 4.00pm Room 51/106 Bedford Square Neal Alexander (Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, LSHTM) "Spatial modelling of individual level parasite counts using the negative binomial distribution" ********************************************************************* Wednesday 2nd June 1999 4.00pm Room to be arranged Irene Stratton (Diabetes Research Laboratories, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford) "The UK Prospective Diabetes Study" ********************************************************************* Wednesday 16th June 1999 4.00pm Room to be arranged Mark Dixon (School of Maths, Actuarial Science, and Statistics, City University, London) "Making a million with football models and sports spread betting" ********************************************************************* All meetings will be held at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Tea will be available from 3.45pm in the designated meeting room. Conveners: James Carpenter [log in to unmask] Kiran Nanchahal [log in to unmask] Medical Statistics Unit April 1999 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%