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17:25, Wed 28 Sep 2011
A direct upshot of the 2008 CRiSM workshop on composite likelihood methods is a special issue of the major international journal Statistica Sinica, with 14 new peer-reviewed papers on this topic. The special issue was edited by N Reid (U Toronto), B Lindsay (Penn State U) and K-Y Liang (Johns Hopkins U), and can be found online at
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13:22, Mon 13 Dec 2010
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James Curran visited Warwick CRiSM for two extended periods in 2009 to work on a book introducing modern statistical methods to forensic scientists. The book is now out! For details click on the image. |
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11:17, Fri 19 Nov 2010
The new exit-polling techniques developed for elections in 2001 and 2005 by David Firth (in collaboration with John Curtice of Strathclyde University; see Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 171, 509–539 for the full details) were used again at the General Election held on 6 May 2010.
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09:10, Mon 10 May 2010
In the latest national Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008) the Department of Statistics had a quarter of its research activity assessed at the RAE's very highest quality level (level 4*, "Quality that is world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour").
Among the top 5 ranked Statistics research groups, the Department of Statistics was one of the two largest.
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06:34, Tue 6 Jan 2009
At the Royal Statistical Society's annual conference on 3 September, Professor Gareth Roberts was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver for 2008.
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15:59, Thu 4 Sep 2008
New funding just announced by ESRC will allow the successful Lancaster-Warwick "node" of the National Centre for Research Methods to expand in three ways: into the future, into a third partner university, and into a further substantive research field.
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CRiSM,
ESRC
12:03, Fri 8 Feb 2008
Even before its first full year of operation in 2007-8, the new EPSRC-funded Academy for PhD Training in Statistics (APTS) has signed up more than 20 member institutions, including three from outside the UK.
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12:08, Mon 1 Oct 2007
The 2007 John M Chambers Statistical Software Award of the American Statistical Association is to be made to Dr Heather Turner and Professor David Firth, for their gnm package. The Chambers Award aims to encourage innovative and well-designed statistical software, and is awarded annually to one project worldwide.
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10:12, Wed 18 Jul 2007
PhD student Ioannis Kosmidis
has won the award for Best Scientific Content in a Poster Presented by
a Student at this year's International Workshop on Statistical
Modelling (Barcelona, July 2007).
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Students,
Postgrad
10:07, Wed 18 Jul 2007
