Department of Statistical Science
The Department of Statistical Science has played a major role in the development of the subject ever since its foundation in 1911 as the Department of Applied Statistics (the first department of statistics in the world), with Karl Pearson as its head.
A variety of courses is on offer at an undergraduate level, with the opportunity to study statistics on its own or combined with a wide range of other disciplines.
Research in Statistical Science is based on a blend of project-based research groups, multidisciplinary collaborations and individual research programmes.
During term-time, weekly research seminars are held on Thursday afternoons. In addition Biostatistics seminars are held monthly on Wednesday afternoons.
The Department also accommodates the office of the Biometrika Trust, which publishes the statistical journal Biometrika.
Statistical Science News
Dr Ricardo Silva to speak at BeneLearn 2012
Dr Ricardo Silva will give an invited lecturer on May 24th at the 21st edition of the annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning (BeneLearn), to be held at University of Ghent. The talk will focus on his past and recent work on graphical models and copula modelling, done jointly with Robert Gramacy (University of Chicago), Charles Blundell and Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit/CSML, UCL). More...
Published: May 21, 2012 10:01:30 PM
Joanna Kaczmarska and Professor Valerie Isham to speak at Workshop on Stochastic Weather Generators
Joanna Kaczmarska and Professor Valerie Isham will give invited lectures at the Workshop on Stochastic Weather Generators to be held at the Station Biologique de Roscoff, Brittany, France from 29 May to 1 June 2012. This workshop will bring together a wide range of researchers, practitioners, and graduate students whose work is related to the stochastic modelling of meteorological variables and stochastic weather generators. More...
Published: May 19, 2012 1:11:16 PM
Professor Valerie Isham to speak at Conference on Statistical Methods for Infectious Diseases
Professor Valerie Isham will give an invited lecture at the Conference on Statistical Methods for Infectious Diseases to be held at the Open University, UK on 23-24 May 2012. The conference will focus on the statistical problems confronting epidemiologists, and the novel statistical methods that might be brought to bear on them. It is aimed at a broad spectrum of epidemiologists, statisticians and modellers working on the various aspects of infectious disease epidemiology. More...
Published: May 19, 2012 1:06:49 PM
Dr Gianluca Baio: Novel health economic evaluation of a vaccination strategy to prevent HPV-related diseases: the BEST study
A paper by Baio et al. has been accepted for publication by Medical Care, one of the leading journals in the field of health care sciences and services. The paper analyses the economic performance of vaccination against Human Papilloma Virus (one of the leading causes to cervical cancer) in conjunction with currently available screening programmes. The papers shows evidence in favour of clinical benefits at sustainable extra costs for the NHS, with clear public health implications. More...
Published: May 18, 2012 11:43:22 AM
Dr Soo Ling Lim: App Store simulation research reported in New Scientist
Dr Soo Ling Lim (UCL Statistical Science) and Dr Peter Bentley (UCL Computer Science) have modelled Apple's App Store marketplace as an ecosystem, revealing what makes it thrive. More...
Published: Apr 16, 2012 3:40:13 PM
Upcoming Events
- Professor Mark Girolami will teach a course on Advanced Computational Bayesian Inference as part of the EPSRC/RSS Graduate Training Programme 2012.The course will be held at the School of Mathematics & Statistics, Newcastle University and runs from 23-27 July. This is the first of a new series of residential graduate training courses provided by the Royal Statistical Society with support from EPSRC. The courses are national and are mainly aimed at PhD students in their second and third years.
- As a member of DARPA's Information Sciences and Technology (ISAT) Board, Professor Patrick Wolfe is chairing the mathematical methods portion of the upcoming DARPA ISAT workshop on The Science and Engineering of Function-Specific Networks, to be held on 7-8 March 2012 in Menlo Park, California.
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