AQMeN Annual Lecture - Statistics - The Science of the Individual
Professor David Hand, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London
Thursday 25th November, 2010, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26
George Street.
The Lecture will begin at 6.30pm and a drinks reception will follow in
the Upper Gallery.
Statistics is often portrayed as the epitome of a depersonalising
discipline. It is seen as squeezing out the unique, the special, and the
individual, to make bland, and occasionally superficially absurd
statements about, for example, the ‘average man’. However, there is
another way to look at much of statistics. This is that its objective is
to combine its aggregate summaries with particular characteristics
of individuals to make highly specific and personal statements about
those individuals.
In this lecture, Professor Hand will develop this notion of statistics
as being about the individual,and describe some of his experiences in
developing and applying statistical tools aimed at making
statements about individuals.
Professor Hand is currently President of the Royal Statistical Society
and he has a wide range of research interests,which include multivariate
statistics, classification methods, pattern detection, the interface
between statistics and computing and he foundations of statistics. His
application of statistical methods has covered a number
of disciplines, including medicine, psychology and finance.
Booking for this event is essential. Visit www.aqmen.ac.uk to secure
your place.
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