Wednesday morning round-up

Session 3A Retrospective read paper meeting (invited)

Yoav Benjamini (Tel Aviv University)
Discovering the false discovery rate

Session 3B International statistics 2 (invited)

Sally C Morton (American Statistical Association/RTI International)
Present and future challenges in statistics, and collaborative solutions

Marie Bohatá (EuroStat)
The role of the European Union in mastering the challenges for official statistics

Session 3C Agriculture and environment
Jon Barry (Cefas)
A model-based framework for the estimation of species richness from grab samples

Esben Budtz-Joergensen (Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen)
Different approaches to model averaging in environmental risk assessment

Sebastian Dietz (University of Passau, Germany)
A multivariate cointegration approach to the influence of bioethanol and biodiesel on the price levels of certain agricultural commodities

Alan Kimber (University of Southampton)
Ripeness of bananas and manure: a prediction problem using a least squares support vector machine

Session 3D General (contributed) 2

Jian Zhang (University of York)
Semiparametric plaid models with applications

Neil Spencer (University of Hertfordshire)
Detecting misspecification in the multilevel model using the forward search

Biiman Chakrobarty (University of Birmingham)
On a multivariate generalisation of quantile-quantile plot

Session 3E Complex interventions in primary care (invited)

Michael J Campbell (University of Sheffield)
Patient decision aids in primary care

Nigel Stallard (Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick)
Designing clinical trials of complexinterventions – what can we learn from adaptive designs for drug trials?

Toby Prevost (King's College London)
Meta-analysis methods for planning and evaluating behaviour-change interventions

Session 4A The surveillance society and the role of the statistician (Invited)

Stephen Penneck (ONS Director of Methodology)

Hugh O’Donnell MSP

Andrew Garratt (RSS Press and Public Affairs Officer)

Session 4B Statistical image analysis (invited)

Kanti V Mardia (University of Leeds)
Has there been any real impact of statistics on image analysis in the last three decades?

Elke Thönnes (Department of Statistics, University of Warwick)
Characterising HRCT lung images using integral geometry

Gerie van der Heijden (Netherlands)
Particle filters for controlling robots

Session 4C Agricultural statistics (invited)

Roger Payne (VSN International)
90 years of research and collaboration by statisticians in agricultural research

Iain McKendrick (Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland)
Statistical models of veterinary diagnostic test characteristics: applying statistics for farmers and policy makers

Martin Boer (Biometris, WUR, Netherlands)
A mixed-model quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis for multipleenvironment trial data

Session 4D Statistical analysis of longitudinal data (contributed)

Dylan Kneale (Institute of Education, University of London)
A cross-cohort comparison to examine changing patterns in leaving the parental home in Britain across three decades (1974-2004)

Paola Zaninotto (UCL)
Socioeconomic status and age trajectories of health among the older

Jenny Head (UCL)
Estimating social inequalities in trajectories of health decline in studies with informativedrop-out: a sensitivity analysis

Amanda Sacker (University of Essex)
A multiple process latent transition modelof poverty and health

Session 4E Health-related 3 (contributed)

Stephen Duffy (Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry)
Problems and methods in deciding frequency of cancer screening

Marc Saez (GRECS, University of Girona, Spain)
Spatial variability in relative survival from female breast cancer

Paddy Farrington (Open University)
Self-controlled case series analyses with event-dependent observation periods

Karen J Cairns (Queens University Belfast)
Using discrete event simulation to assessthe impact of a colorectal screening programme

Session 4F Census and crime (contributed)

Jane Naylor (Office for National Statistics)
Balancing risk and utility – statistical disclosure control for the 2011 UK Census

Elizabeth Merrall (MRC Biostatistics Unit)
Multi-modal sentencing – potential forreduced pressure on the prison system and an in-built randomised controlled trial to assess impact on re-incarceration rates and costs