Dear all,

The MRC Biostatistics Unit will be presenting a stand at 2012 Cambridge 
Science Festival on how we work on improving public health.

You are warmly invited to visit us. Please see details below.

Any help spreading the word will be very greatly appreciated!

With thanks and best wishes,

Rosemary

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        Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th March at Biology Zone


      The Wonders of Biostatistics at 2012 Cambridge Science Festival

The MRC Biostatistics Unit <http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/index.html> 
will be presenting 'The Wonders of Biostatistics' to Cambridge Science 
Festival <http://www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival/> audiences who visit the 
Biology Zone at the New Museums Site.

'The Wonders of Biostatistics' will show you how key ideas in 
biostatistics are used to understand, and improve, the public health. 
Different activities allow visitors to apply these ideas for themselves 
in a series of challenges!

The activities will cover four different, complementary themes:

- How many ducks are there? (Capture-Recapture Studies: used in public 
health for counting hard-to-reach sub-populations) /
Activity organiser: Simon White 
<http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/People/SWhite.html>/

- Looking after your hands (Statistical Modelling of Arthritis) /
/Activity organisers: Brian Tom 
<http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/People/BTom.html> and Aidan O'Keeffe

- Piecing together the jigsaw puzzle in "meta-analysis"/
Activity organiser: Rebecca Turner 
<http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/People/RTurner.html>/

- How random are you? (Use of random numbers in statistics)/
/

/Activity Leader: Ruth Keogh 
<http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/People/RKeogh.html>

/

*/Come and explore with us how biostatistics can be used to improve 
health. Try our four different activities in which your creativity and 
thinking abilities will help you to solve the challenges we'll give you!/*

The Festival will have over 180 events showcasing the boundaries that 
are being broken in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. 
Have a look at the *programme* 
<http://www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival/files/2012/02/Cambridge-Science-Festival-2012-Programme.pdf>to 
find full details of these, and how to locate us in the Biology Zone.

*For further information about 'The Wonders of Biostatistics' at 2012 
Cambridge Science Festival please *visit
http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/NewsandEvents/csf2012.html
****
***For further information about the 2012 Cambridge Science Festival 
please visit **http://www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival/**
*

*/We look forward to seeing you there!
/*

-- 
Rosemary Camperos
Research Information and Outreach Officer

MRC Biostatistics Unit
Institute of Public Health
University Forvie Site
Robinson Way
Cambridge CB2 0SR

Tel No.: +44 1223 760725
Fax: +44 1223 330388
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Website: http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk


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