Tuesday round-up

Each day we will set out a list of all the sessions taking place.

We hope that some of the delegates attending the sessions will be able to comment on them through this blog.

NB Details are taken from the Conference Directory and may subsequently have been changed.

Session 1A International Societies 1 (invited)

Bernhard Huitfeldt (President, Swedish Statistical Association)
Swedish Statistical Society - the meeting place for Swedish
statisticians (and friends of statistics)

Avner Bar-Hen (President, French Statistical Society)
Presentation on the French Statistical Society

Maurizio Vichi (President, Italian Statistical Society)

Session 1B Some methodological issues in longitudinal studies (invited)

John Bynner (Longview)
Longitudinal and life course studies – a new interdisciplinary
international journal

Harvey Goldstein (University of Bristol)
Handling attrition and nonresponse in longitudinal data

Bianca de Stavola (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
Stockholm University and Karolina Institute)

Familial and socio-economic influences on foetal growth across
three generations: the Uppsala Birth Cohort Multigenerational
study, Sweden, 1915-2002

Session 1C General (contributed)

David Boniface (University College London)
Components of adjustment to regression sums of squares and their representation on a new generalisation of the Venn diagram

Charles Jones (University of Toronto)
Bootstrap estimation in practice: correcting for sample attrition in Canada’s National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth

Giancarlo Manzi (University of Milan, Italy)
Nonlinear principal component analysis with missing data: a forward imputation approach

Karl Schlag (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
A new method for constructing exact tests without making any assumptions

Session 1D History of statistics (contributed)

Sheila Bird (Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit)
Learning from a random sample of the history of RSS external relations

Martin Forster (University of York)
Surviving slavery: mortality at Mesopotamia, a Jamaican sugar estate, 1762–1832

Christian Lewin
An early statistical framework

Peter Sprent
Statistics in Australia – the adolescent era

Session 1E Health related 1 (contributed)

Geoff Jones (Massey University)
Identifiability of models for multiple diagnostic testing in the absence of a gold standard

George Kafatos (Open University and Health Protection Agency)
Estimating seroprevalence: the impact of assay standardisation

Jaya Satagopan (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
An efficient sampling scheme for identifying an informative subcohort to measure new risk factors for a continuous outcome

Session 1F Census (invited)

Kevin Schurer (University of Essex)
The integrated census microdata project

Paul Boyle (St Andrews)
Linking the Scottish Longitudinal Study back through time

Peter Scrimgeour (General Register Office Scotland)
The 2011 Scottish Census: drawing on the lessons of the past

Session 2C Market research (invited)

David Walter (dunnhumby)
Market research in practice

Anatoly Zhiglivasky (Cardiff University)
Mixed Poisson models for modelling consumer purchase behaviour

Heiko Grossman (Queen Mary University of London)
Experimental designs for conjoint analysis studies

Martina Vandebroek (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Sequential construction of choice sets for estimating the panel mixed
logit model

Session 2D Statistics & public accountability (invited)

Alysson Pollock
Statistics & public accountability: monitoring and evaluating new services delivery policies in the NHS

Alison MacFarlane (City University London)
How did we get here and where are we going: routine health service and public health data

Session 2E Health-related 2 (contributed)

Jane Warwick (Queen Mary University of London)
Mammographic breast density: why the most precise measure may not be
the most clinically useful

William D Grant (SUNY Upstate Medical University)
The statistician and small clinical trials: tales from the front lines

Nick Steen (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
The role of the patient preference arms in the analysis of a comprehensive cohort study

Chris Roberts (University of Manchester)
The design implications of care provider variation for nonpharmacological
treatment trials

Session 2F Statistical challenges in brain imaging (contributed)
Thomas Nichols (GlaxoSmithKline)
Statistical opportunities in brain imaging: a case study with neuroimaging meta analysis

John Aston (University of Warwick)
Twice the fun-ctional: using functional principal component analysis in functional neuroimaging

Giovanni Montana (Imperial College London)
Genomewide multivariate association discovery in imaging genetics studies

Plenary 2
Sir Iain Chalmers (James Lind Library)
Controlled trials and the RSS at 175