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  Home Page The Royal Statistical Society is one of the oldest statistical societies in the world, dating from 1834 as the Statistical Society of London. The Society is based in London and has a number
• RSS Manchester Student Prize
  The RSS Manchester Student Prize The RSS Manchester Student Prize has been instituted by the Manchester Local Group of the Royal Statistical Society in 2007 to promote the use of statistics across all disciplines. We

• Notes for supervisors
  ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY MANCHESTER STUDENT PRIZE 2009 Notes for the Supervisors/Tutors You are invited to encourage your most promising final-year student(s) to submit a project of an applied nature involving a substantial amount of Statistics
• Entry Forms etc
  ENTRY FORMS You can download the entry form here either as a Word or a .rtf document... When you have completed it, please send it to and good luck! Here too are posters in black
• Student Prize background
  The RSS Manchester Student Prize We are instituting an annual student prize using seed-corn profit from the RSS 2004 Manchester conference. We are approaching leading NW companies, institutions and agencies for support. The sponsor will
• Sponsors
  The RSS Manchester Student Prize We are very grateful for sponsorship from: AstraZeneca Shell
• Winners 2009
  2009 Prize Winners The third annual Manchester Student Prize ceremony took place on 8th July 2009 at Manchester University. The standard of the work of all entrants was very commendable and the winners in particular
• Student Prize Winners 2008
  2008 Prize Winners The second annual Manchester Student Prize ceremony took place on 9th July 2008 at Manchester University. This year it had been decided to split the prize into two streams - one for
• Student Prize Winners 2007
  2007 Prize Winners The inaugural round of the prize has been held and the prize winners selected by a panel of eminent judges. The presentation was made on 20 June. After much deliberation, the final

• Meetings
  Meeting location We now meet in Room G.107 in the Alan Turing Building of Manchester University. This is building 46, by the multi-storey car park backing onto Brook St on the Campus Map. The actual

• 2009-10 Session
  These are the meetings for the 2009-10 session:

• October 14th 2009
  Wednesday 14th October 2009, 2.00pm - 5.00pm at Manchester Dental Education Centre (MANDEC), Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester, M15 6FH (tea will be served about mid-afternoon) (building 41, entrance on corner facing building 35) Joint meeting
• December 2nd 2009
  Wednesday 2nd December 2009, 16.30 - 18.00, Room G.107, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester.Tea and coffee from 4.30 pm. The seminar will also be preceded by a short AGM Ian Plewis (The University of
• February 24th 2010
  Wednesday 24th February, 16.00 - 17.00, Room G.107, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester.Tea and coffee from 3.30 pm. Stephane Hess (University of Leeds) Accounting for uncertainty in modelling travellers' preferences for different bus fare
• March 3rd 2010
  Wednesday 3rd March 2010, 16.00 - 17.00, Room G.107, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester.Tea and coffee from 3.30 pm. Paul Baxter (University of Leeds) Statistical epidemiology - the use of observational and audit data
• May 12th 2010
  Wednesday 12th May 2010 16.00 - 17.00, Room G.107, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester.Tea and coffee from 3.30 pm. Theodore Kypraios (University of Nottingham) Details TBA
• July 7th 2010
  July 7th 2010, 4.00-5.00pm, Room G.107, Alan Turing Building, University of ManchesterTea and coffee from 3.30 pm. ANDRED GARRETT (Quintiles and RSS Vice President) RSS Manchester Student Prize Award

• 2008-09 Session
  These are the meetings for the 2008-09 session:

• October 8th 2008
  October 8th 2008, 2pm to 5pm at MANDEC (Manchester Dental Education Centre), Higher Cambridge Street (tea will be served about mid-afternoon) (building 41, entrance on corner facing building 35) Joint meeting with Manchester University's Biostats
• December 10th 2008
  10th December, 5pm, Room G.107, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester.Tea and coffee from 4.30 pm. AGM (Postponed from July) and RICHARD EMSLEY (University of Manchester) Mediation and moderation of treatment effects in randomly controlled
• January 15th 2009
  SOCIAL STATISTICS IN MANCHESTER 15th January 2009 HANSON ROOM, GROUND FLOOR, HUMANITIES BRIDGEFORD STREET Registration is free - contact: Margaret Martin Draft programme 9.15-9.45 Registration, coffee 9.45-10.00 Introductions from: Professor Luke Georghiou, Associate Dean (Research),
• February 11th 2009
  February 11th, 5pm, Room G.107, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester.Tea and coffee from 4.30 pm. ALEX DONEV (University of Manchester) Optimal Adaptive Designs Adaptive designs gained considerable popularity in recent years due to their
• March 11th 2009
  March 11th, 5pm, Room G.107, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester.Tea and coffee from 4.30 pm. ROBERTO PUCH-SOLIS (Forensic Science Service) Weight of Forensic DNA Evidence Consider the situation where someone has broken into a
• April 29th 2009
  29th April, 5pm, Room G.107, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester.Tea and coffee from 4.30 pm. GRANVILLE TUNNICLIFFE-WILSON (University of Lancaster) The ups and downs of spectral analysis It is some 50 year since Blackman
• July 8th 2009
  July 8th 2009, 4.30pm, Room G.107, Alan Turing Building, University of ManchesterTea and coffee from 4.30 pm. DAVID HAND (Imperial and RSS President) RSS Manchester Student Prize AwardsFor the winners, see Winners 2009.

• 2007-08 Session
  These are the meetings for the 2007-08 session:

• October 10th 2007
  October 10th 2007, 2pm to 5pm at MANDEC (Manchester Dental Education Centre), Higher Cambridge Street (tea will be served about mid-afternoon) (building 41, entrance on corner facing building 35) Joint meeting with Manchester University's Biostats
• December 12th 2007
  12 December, 5pm, Room E32, John Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road (opposite BBC).Tea and coffee from 4.30 pm. CLIVE ANDERSON (University of Sheffield) Statistics for Extreme Values Regulations often require structures such as
• February 13th 2008
  February 13th 2008, 5pm, Room E32, John Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road (opposite BBC).Tea and coffee from 4.30 pm. GILLIAN LANCASTER (University of Lancaster) Lancaster Postgraduate Statistics Centre: Creating enterprise and innovation in
• March 12th 2008
  March 12th 2008, 5pm, Room E32, John Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road (opposite BBC).Tea and coffee from 4.30 pm. TERENCE MILLS (University of Loughborough) Forecasting Compositional Time Series Compositional data sets occur in
• May 14th 2008
  May 14th 2008, 5pm, Room E32, John Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road (opposite BBC).Tea and coffee from 4.30 pm. PHILIP DAWID (University of Cambridge) Interpreting DNA profile evidence in complex disputed paternity cases:
• July 9th 2008
  July 9th 2008, 4.30pm, Mordell Room (G.209), Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester Note the change in venue Tea and coffee from 4.00 pm. SHEILA BIRD (MRC-BSU, Cambridge) AGM and RSS Manchester Student Prize Awards

• 2006-07 Session
  These are the meetings for the 2006-07 session:

• October 11th 2006
  October 11th 2006, 2pm to 5pm at MANDEC (Manchester Dental Education Centre), Higher Cambridge Street (tea will be served about mid-afternoon) (building 41, entrance on corner facing building 35) Joint meeting with Manchester University's Biostats
• December 6th 2006
  December 6th 2006 at MMU Room E34, John Dalton Building (opp BBC), 2.00pm to 5.00pm Note the change from the usual room Joint meeting with the RSS Primary Health Care Study Group Measuring and improving
• February 7th 2007
  February 7th 2007 at MMU Room E32, John Dalton Building (opp BBC), 4.00pm to 6.00pm Young Statisticians Meeting A series of presentations from 'career young' statisticians, with speakers from diverse fields talking about their career
• March 14th 2007
  Wednesday 14th March 2007, 2.00pm - 5.00pm Room 2.10, Sandra Burslem Building, MMU, Lower Ormond Street[Formerly All Saints West - Building 2 on www.mmu.ac.uk/about/locations/allsaints.php] Note the change from the usual room A joint meeting with
• May 16th 2007
  May 16th at MMU Room E32, John Dalton Building (opp BBC), 4.30pm to 6.00pm PETER DIGGLE (Lancaster University, John Hopkins University) Model-based Geostatistics for Tropical Disease Epidemiology Geostatistical methods are relevant when there is scientic
• June 20th 2007
  June 20th 2007 at MMU Room E32, John Dalton Building (opp BBC), 4.30pm to 6.00pm AGM and First Awards of the RSS Manchester Student Prize RSS President Tim Holt

• 2005-06 Session
  These are the meetings for the 2005-06 session:

• October 12th 2005
  October 12th 2005, 2pm to 5pm at MANDEC (Manchester Dental Education Centre), Higher Cambridge Street (tea will be served about mid-afternoon) (building 41, entrance on corner facing building 35) Joint meeting with Manchester University's Biostats
• December 7th 2005
  December 7th 2005 at MMU Room E34, John Dalton Building (opp BBC), 4.30pm for 5.00pm Note the change from the usual room SHIRLEY COLEMAN (ISRU, Newcastle University)Tales from fault hunting Much consultancy in industry is
• January 11th 2006
  January 11th 2006 at MMU All Saints West Building, Room 2.05, 2.00 prompt to 5.30pm (tea at 3.30pm) Room 2.05 in building 2 on this map Joint meeting with the RSS General Applications Section An
• February 15th 2006
  February 15th 2006 at MMU, 4.30pm for 5.00pm JIM FREEMAN, NOELIA OSES (Manchester Business School)Gaming routines in the slot machine industry: An analytical overview Slot machine games have evolved beyond all recognition since the early
• March 15th 2006
  March 15th at MMU, Room E29, John Dalton Building (opp BBC), 4.30pm for 5.00pm MEETING POSTPONED Note the change from the usual room PETER DIGGLE (Lancaster University, John Hopkins University) Model-based Geostatistics for Tropical Disease
• April 26th 2006
  April 26th at MMU, 4.30pm for 5.00pm(preceeded by a short AGM) DAVID FORREST (Salford University) Statistics in sport Application of statistical techniques in the analysis of sport has been wide ranging. My presentation will illustrate

• 2004-05 Session
  These are the meetings for the 2004-05 session:

• October 13th 2004
  October 13th 2004, 2pm to 5pm at MANDEC (Manchester Dental Education Centre), Higher Cambridge Street (building 43, entrance on corner facing building 37) Joint meeting with Manchester University's Biostats Group Theme: "Problems in Survival Analysis"
• December 15th 2004
  December 15th 2004 at MMU, 4.30pm for 5.00pm DAN GROVE Teaching statistics to engineers Many engineers in industry learn statistics, often as Six-Sigma, but decreasingly at undergraduate level and its status among academic engineers is
• February 9th 2005
  February 9th 2005 at MMU, 4.30 for 5.00pm DAVE COLLETT (UK Transplant, Bristol) Some Statistical Problems in Organ Donation and Transplantation There are many important problems stemming from organ donation and transplantation where statistical input
• March 16th 2005
  March 16th 2005 at MMU, 4.30 for 5.00pm PAUL CLARKE (Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London) New predictions of the British vCJD epidemic [This meeting is part of the Royal Statistical Society's contribution
• April 20th 2005
  April 20th 2005 at MMU, 4.30 for 5.00pm IAN WHITE (MRC Biostats, Cambridge) Randomisation-based efficacy estimators in randomised trials: when are they useful? In randomised trials with departures from allocated treatment, it may be desirable
• May 18th 2005
  18th May 2005 at MMU, 4.30 for 5.00pm(preceeded by a short AGM) VLADIMIR VAPNIK (Royal Holloway, London) Problem of empirical inference in machine learning and Philosophy of Science 1. The problem of Empirical Inference is

• 2003-04 Session
  These are the meetings for the 2003-04 session:

• October 15th 2003
  October 15th 2003, 2pm to 5pm at MANDEC (Manchester Dental Education Centre), Higher Cambridge Street Joint meeting with Manchester University's Biostats Group Theme: "Spatial modelling in epidemiology" Modelling of under-detection of cases in disease surveillance
• December 3rd 2003
  December 3rd 2003 at MMU, 4.30pm for 5.00pm, Room E30 for tea, E34 for the talk Statistical resources for Business and Industry John Logsdon, Quantex Research Ltd, Manchester Business and industrial applications have long been
• February 4th 2004
  February 4th 2004, 2pm for 2.30pm at Xaverian College, Rusholme Statistics for Sport: Regression Modelling in Mountain Navigation and Test Cricket Philip Scarf, University of Salford At Headlingley in the Ashes test in 2001 Australia
• March 17th 2004
  March 17th 2004 at MMU, 4.30 for 5.00pm in Room E32 Establishing the probability of Rapid Climate Change Peter Challenor, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton University/NERC North West Europe has a relatively mild climate because the
• April 14th 2004
  April 14th 2004 at MMU, 4.30 for 5.00pm in Room E32 Statistics, Warrington and their Place in the Evolution of Medicine as an Evidence-Based Science Andy Grieve, Pfizer The famous controlled trial by James Lind
• May 26th 2004
  26th May 2004 at MMU, 4.30 for 5.00pm in Room E32 (preceeded by a short AGM) Is there Global warming? Time Series Analysis of Global Temperature anomolies. Tata Subba Rao, UMIST One of the hottest(!)

• 2002-03 Session
  These are the meetings for the 2002-03 session:

• October 16th 2002
  October 16th 2002 at MANDEC (Manchester Dental Education Centre), Higher Cambridge Street at 2pm Joint meeting Manchester University's Biostats Group on "Statistical analysis of images" Robert Aykroyd (Department of Statistics, University of Leeds) Adaptive Bayesian
• December 18th 2002
  December 18th 2002 at MMU, 4.30pm for 5pm Statistical advice - would you pay for it? Larry Furlong, AstraZeneca Much of business can be seen as the management and improvement of processes, or making decisions
• February 4th 2003
  Feb 4th 2003 at Xaverian College, Rusholme at 2.30pm - note Tuesday! (held in the Drama Studio in Redcliffe Building) How to Win Games: Probability Models for Success David F. Percy, University of Salford Phil
• April 2nd 2003
  2nd April 2003 at MMU, 4:30 for 5:00 (a very late March meeting!) Quality Issues in the 2001 Population Census Keith Whitfield, Office of National Statistics Key Statistics from the 2001 Census have recently been
• April 16th 2003
  April 16th 2003 at MMU, 4.30pm for 5pm Whisky Classified - Seminar and Tutored Tasting David Wishart, University of St. Andrews The talk describes the cardinal flavours that can be found in single malt whiskies,
• June 11th 2003
  June 11th 2003 at MMU at 4.30pm for 5.00pm This meeting will include a very short AGM and reportGraham Dunn (Biostats Group at Manchester University) The challenge of patient choice and non-adherence to treatment in

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  Committee Richard Emsley Manchester University John Logsdon Quantex Research Ltd Stephan Rudolfer Manchester University Tony Scallan Manchester Metropolitan University Ian McHale Salford University Georgi Boshnakov Manchester University Mike Tso Manchester University Sally Hollis AstraZeneca Peter
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