INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON THE ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
OF DISEASE CLUSTERS AND ECOLOGICAL STUDIES
16 - 17 December 1999
at the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX, followed
on 18 December by a BAYESIAN SOFTWARE WORKSHOP <workshop.htm>at Imperial
College
Jointly hosted by The Royal Statistical Society and the Small Area Health
Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial
College, London, UK.
PROGRAMME
DAY ONE: CLUSTER DETECTION: PHILOSOPHY, METHODOLOGY, AND APPLICATION
Freda Alexander (UK), Julian Besag (US) ), John Bithell (UK),Jack Cuzick
(UK), Helen Dolk (UK) Geoffrey Jacquez (US),Leo Knorr-Held (G), Martin
Kulldorff (US) Andrew Lawson (UK), Ray Neutra (US), ), Ken Rothman (US), Jon
Wakefield (US) Dan Wartenberg (US).
DAY TWO: ECOLOGICAL STUDIES: PHILOSOPHY, METHODOLOGY, AND APPLICATION
Nicky Best (UK) Sarah Darby (UK), Ian Diamond (UK), Peter Diggle (UK),
Andrew Gelman (US), John Nelder (UK), Sylvia Richardson (FR), Jamie Robins
(US), Lianne Sheppard (US), Anthony Staines (IRL) Jon Wakefield (US),
Stephen Walter (US).
**PLUS ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS**
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Refereed proceedings will be published in the Journal of the Royal
Statistical Society Series A, following usual peer review.
Jon Wakefield (email: [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) can be contacted for information of a
technical nature on the conference and Nicky Best ( Tel. 0171 594 3320,
email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) can be contacted for
information on the workshop.
REGISTRATION FEES: Conference attendance costs £120.00, including
refreshments, lunch, and a conference buffet dinner. The Bayesian software
workshop costs £30.00, including refreshments and lunch.
CHEQUES IN UK STERLING ONLY, payable to 'Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine' should be sent to Ms Anne O'Farrell, Department of
Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, Norfolk
Place, London W2 1PG, UK. For organisational information, please contact
Anne on: telephone: +44 (0) 171 594 3318; Fax: +44 (0) 171 402 2150; email:
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
This conference is supported by the EU BIOMED programme (PL96-3488) and by
the ESRC (H519255036).
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