REMINDER
PLACES ARE STILL AVAILABLE ON THIS: ATTENDEEES SHOULD REGISTER IN ADVANCE
Joint Meeting of the Social Statistics Section/ General Applications Section
December 5th 2007 9.00 am to 5.30 pm at the Society, 12 Errol Street
London, EC1Y 8LX.
RECENT ADVANCES IN MULTILEVEL MODELLING METHODOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS
09.00-9.15 Registration
9.15: Mark Gittoes (Higher Education Funding Council)
Multilevel modelling: an essential analysis?
10.00: Ian Plewis (University of Manchester)
Ethnic group differences in education attainments and progress revisited
11.00: George Leckie (University of Bristol)
Modelling the impact of pupil mobility between schools and neighbourhoods
on school differences in educational achievement
11.40: Bengt Muthén (University of California, Los Angeles)
& Tihomir Asparouhov (Muthén & Muthén)
Multilevel mixture modelling methods
12.20:James Carpenter (London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine)
Analysis of multilevel datasets with missing observations: links between
multilevel models and multiple imputation
THERE WILL BE LUNCH 13.00-14.00
14.00: Anders Skrondal (London School of Economics)
& Sophia Rabe-Hesketh ((University of California, Berkeley)
Diagnostics and prediction for generalized linear mixed models
14.40: Nuoo-Ting (Jassy) Molitor, Sylvia Richardson, Nicky Best (Imperial
College London) & Chris Jackson (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge)
Bayesian graphical models for combining mismatched administrative and
survey data: application to low birth weight and water disinfection by-
products
15.50: William Browne, Martin Green, Fiona Steele (University of Bristol)
& Mousa Golalizadeh (University of Nottingham)
Use of centred parameterisations and MCMC estimation to fit discrete-time
survival models
16.30: Harvey Goldstein & Daphne Kounali (University of Bristol)
Modelling multilevel multivariate response data for arbitrary distributions
ABSTRACTS may be viewed on the Centre for Multilevel Modelling website at
http://www.cmm.bris.ac.uk/MLwiN/tech-support/workshops/materials/Abstracts-
dec-07.pdf . All are welcome but advance registration is required.There
will be a fee for the meeting: Retired/Student/EDA Fellows £25,
Cstats/GradStats£30, Fellows £35, Linked Associates£45, None of the
above,£60: Please use registration form at
http://www.cmm.bris.ac.uk/MLwiN/tech-support/workshops/materials/Reg-5-Dec%
2007.doc
reserve a place, or e-mail [log in to unmask] . Contacts: Fiona Steele
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