Statistical modelling advances for social and health data - a meeting to celebrate Murray Aitkin's 70th Birthday <http://socialstatistics.org/aitkinmeeting>
Thursday, 15th April, 2010 at the Royal Statistical Society, Errol Street, London EC1 8LX
Followed by a celebratory dinner at Alba restaurant <http://www.albarestaurant.com> , Whitecross Street, EC1
A one day meeting will be held at the Royal Statistical Society on Thursday April 15th 2010, to celebrate Murray Aitkin's 70th birthday and focusing on advances in statistical modelling in the social and health sciences which have been motivated by his work. Speakers will include Marco Alfo, Antoine de Falguerolles, David Firth, Harvey Goldstein, Peter van der Heijden, John Hinde, Goeran Kauermann, Charles Liu, Nick Longford, and of course Murray Aitkin. The meeting is co-sponsored by the social statistics section of the RSS, the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, and the Science Foundation of Ireland.
Registration <https://online-payments.lancaster-university.co.uk/catalogue/products.asp?compid=1&deptid=6&catID=139&hasClicked=1> is required. The cost of the meeting is £20 and includes tea, coffee and lunch; there are places available at the celebratory dinner following the meeting at an extra cost of £32 including wine. The dinner will be held at the Alba Restaurant (modern italian) close to the RSS.
Please visit http://www.socialstistics.org/aitkinmeeting for registration and timetable.
9.30 Arrival and registration
10.00 Session 1 (Chair Brian Francis)
10.00 Introduction
10.15 Marco Alfo, Sapienza Universita di Roma. Random effect models for longitudinal binary/binomial responses
10.45 John Hinde, National University of Ireland, Galway. Teaching Styles Revisited - 30 Years of Modelling.
11.15 Coffee
11.45-13.15 Session 2 (Chair David Firth)
11.45 Harvey Goldstein, University of Bristol. Multilevel Survival Analysis
12.15 Nick Longford, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Mixture models with a black hole component
12.45 Goeran Kauermann, University of Bielefeld. Penalized Spline Smoothing, Mixed Models and Bayesian Statistics - Three players in a liaison
13.15 Lunch (Optional visit to Bayes Grave)
14.15 -15.45 Session 3 (Chair John Hinde)
14.15 Peter van der Heijden, Universiteit Utrecht. An extended study into the relationships between correspondence analysis and latent class analysis
14.45 Antoine de Falguerolles, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse . Statistical modelling and correspondence analysis: a recollection of the ESRC-CNRS funded research project in statistics (1984-1986)
15.15 David Firth, Warwick University. Extended Bradley-Terry Models for Pair Comparisons
15.45 Tea
16.15 -17.30 Session 4 (Chair Dorothy Anderson)
16.15 Charles Liu, Boston University. Decoupling strength of evidence from uncertainty in model selection
16.45 Murray Aitkin, University of Melbourne. Back to the future
Close 17.30
17.30-18.30 A celebratory drink in the Artillery Arms, Bunhill Row.
18.30 -21.00 Optional dinner at ALBA restaurant, Whitecross street, EC1. Birthday dinner (£32 fixed price
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