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Statistical Science News
Dr Aidan O'Keeffe to join MRC-funded project within the department
The MRC funded project "The regression discontinuity design: a novel approach to evaluating the effects of drugs and treatments in primary care" will officially begin in September 2013 when Dr Aidan O'Keeffe (currently at MRC Biostatistics Unit) will join as Research Associate. Dr O'Keeffe will be based in the department and will work under the supervision of Dr Gianluca Baio. More...
Published: May 18, 2013 2:50:34 PM
Meeting on variable selection and dimension reduction in clustering and classification
On 8-9 November 2013, the UCL Department of Statistical Science will host a joint meeting of the British Classification Society and the Data Analysis working group of the German Classification Society with focus topic "Variable Selection and Dimension Reduction in Clustering and Classification", organised by Dr Christian Hennig. Everybody is welcome. More...
Published: May 18, 2013 2:47:00 PM
Dr Gareth Peters a cooperative researcher in Japanese KAKENHI grant success
Dr Gareth Peters is a co-investigator on a successful three year joint research grant proposal with Professor Tomoko Matsui from the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo, Professor Kazuya Takeda from Nagoya University and Professor Konstantin Markov from the University of Aizu. Funding has been awarded from 2013 to 2016 and is provided by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under the KAKENHI grant scheme. The project will grow and strengthen research collaboration between UCL and several Japanese institutes. More...
Published: Apr 19, 2013 3:05:39 PM
Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Statistical Science Now Available
Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship to conduct research in a branch of probability or statistics, commencing in September 2013. This funding is provided by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). More...
Published: Apr 10, 2013 11:04:01 AM
Professor Patrick Wolfe receives 5-year research fellowship
Professor Patrick Wolfe has been awarded a senior research fellowship in the mathematical sciences from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, entitled "Statistical Theory and Methods to Transform our Understanding of Network Data". It will provide support for his work in statistical modelling and inference for graphs and networks over the next 5 years. Postdoctoral positions will be advertised shortly. More...
Published: Mar 25, 2013 3:40:16 PM
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