Statistical Science News http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/news-viewer/rss Gareth Ambler 2011-11-21T09:56:37Z Dr Gianluca Baio invited to speak at Bayes Pharma 2013 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/news/news-180513c Dr Gianluca Baio has given an invited lecture on "Introduction to Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation" at the Bayes Pharma 2013 conference, in Rotterdam. Russell G Evans 2013-05-21T11:50:20Z Dr Aidan O'Keeffe to join MRC-funded project within the department http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/news/news-180513b 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. Russell G Evans 2013-05-18T13:50:35Z Meeting on variable selection and dimension reduction in clustering and classification http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/news/news-180513 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. Russell G Evans 2013-05-18T13:47:02Z Dr Gareth Peters a cooperative researcher in Japanese KAKENHI grant success http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/news/news-190413 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. Russell G Evans 2013-04-19T14:05:39Z Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Statistical Science Now Available http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/news/news-100413 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). Russell G Evans 2013-04-10T10:04:03Z