Statistics Seminars 1999/2000

Department of Statistics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
Telephone: 0191 222 7233, Fax: 0191 222 8020
E-mail: statistics@newcastle.ac.uk

This page contains details of the seminar programme run by the Statistics Department at Newcastle University.

22 October 1999 -M503

Frank Windmeijer (Institute for Fiscal Studies, London)

Two-part multiple spell models for health care demand

5 November 1999 -M503

Clive Anderson (Sheffield)

The largest inclusions within a piece of steel

26 November 1999 -L401

Chris Heyde (Columbia University, New York, USA)

Changing paradigms in statistical inference

10 December 1999 -M503

Robin Henderson (Lancaster)

Spatial Frailty models in survival analysis

21 January 2000 -L401

Gareth Roberts (Lancaster)

Bayesian inference for partially observed diffusion processes

11 February 2000 -L401

Stephen Brooks (Surrey)

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods and their application

3 March 2000 (Date and title to be confirmed)

John Bithell (Oxford)

17 March 2000

Marcel Neuts (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA)

The numerical exploration of Markov chains and point processes

24 March 2000 -L401

John Copas (Warwick)

Sensitivity analysis for funnel plots in meta-analysis

17 April 2000 -L401

Joe Gani (Australian National University, Canberra)

Patterns in sequences of random events

The seminars all take place in L401 (the new seminar room) of Merz Court, unless otherwise stated. Seminars take place at 2.30pm, unless otherwise stated, and are followed by tea, coffee etc.

Abstracts (where available) and up-to-date details of all local statistics seminar programmes are available on the WWW via the Newcastle statistics department pages.

If you want to be added to the email list for statisticians in the North-East of England (storms@ncl.ac.uk), to which announcements of local seminars are usually made, then send an email requesting addition to the list. If you wish to be added to the snail-mail list for the Newcastle seminar programme, then email Stella Knaggs requesting the addition, and giving a snail-mail address (all Durham and Newcastle statisticians should receive a copy automatically).

Further details from David Walshaw.