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Centenary Celebrations

The Department of Statistical Science centenary celebrations took place on Tuesday 18 January 2011.

• RSS News report on the Centenary Celebrations (pdf)

The schedule that day was:

• Introduction, Professor Valerie Isham, Head of UCL-Statistical Science, President of the Royal Statistical Society
• Pearson Lecture, Professor Stephen Stigler (University of Chicago) "Karl Pearson and the Rule of Three"
• Discussion and vote of thanks, Dr. Eileen Magnello (UCL)
• Professor Anthony O'Hagan (University of Sheffield) "O computer, do we love you not wisely but too well?"
• Professor Denise Lievesley (King's College London) "Technology in the capture and liberation of official data"
• Professor David Spiegelhalter (University of Cambridge & MRC) "Graphical models and Bayesian analysis"