British Region of the
International Biometric Society
Previous Meetings
195th Ordinary Meeting
The 195th Ordinary General Meeting of the British Region was a
one-day meeting held on Thursday 23rd November 2000 at the
Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX.
The programme comprised four scientific sessions.
- Two talks on Infections and Epidemiology:
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Estimating HIV vertical transmission rate and paediatric
AIDS incubation period
David Dunn (MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London)
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Data linkage and data protection in anonymous HIV prevalence studies
Tony Ades (MRC Health Services Research Collaboration, Bristol)
- The retiring President, Tom Kirkwood, gave the
Presidential Address
Biometry in the 21st century: opportunities and threats
- Two talks on Genomics
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Mapping quantitative trait loci in simple and complex pedigrees
Peter Visscher (University of Edinburgh)
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Mapping quantitative trait loci in humans using
variance components methods: advances and obstacles
Lon Cardon (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford)
- Two talks on Population Models
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Mites in a virtual world - models for biological control
Dave Skirvin (Horticulture Research International, Wellesbourne)
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Modelling mixed microbial populations in foods
Jan Van Impe (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
In addition a poster session was held during lunch, with the
Cedric Smith Poster Prize awarded to the author of the best
poster as voted for by delegates at the meeting. The
winning poster was "Ordinal Regression Models for Plant Quality
Score Data" by Nick Parsons (Horticulture Research
International, Wellesbourne).
About 45 members and guests attended the meeting.
196th Ordinary Meeting
The 196th Ordinary General Meeting of the British Region
was a half-day meeting held on Wednesday 7th March 2001 at
the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX.
The programme comprised two scientific sessions.
- Two talks on Epidemiology:
- Scrapie in the midst of the BSE crisis - design of a
national control and eradication programme
Rowland Kao (Institute of Animal Health, Compton)
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BSE - in Britain, in Europe (and Beyond?)
Christl Donnelly (Imperial college School of Medicine)
- Two talks on Experimental Design
- Trojan and incomplete Trojan designs for crop research
Rodney Edmondson (Horticulture Research International)
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Design and ANOVA for experiments involving a field trial
and laboratory analyses
Chris Brien (University of South Australia)
About 22 members and guests attended the meeting.
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here
for further details.
197th Ordinary Meeting
On 12 June 2001 there was an
all-day meeting at Pfizer Research, Sandwich.
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for further details.
198th Ordinary Meeting
On 8 November 2001 there was an
all-day meeting at University College London.
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for further details.
199th Ordinary Meeting
On 22 May 2002 a meeting on Statistical Genetics was held jointly with
the Royal Statistical Society.
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here
for further details.
27 June 2002
Summer meeting at Roslin Institute near Edinburgh.
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201st Ordinary Meeting
On 14 November 2002 there was an
all day meeting at IACR Rothamsted, including the AGM, a session on
genetically modified crops, the
Presidential Address and papers by young biometricians.
See full details,
agenda for AGM,
timetable,
registration form.
20 March 2003
Meeting on issues in medical statistics.
See here for further details.
British Regional Conference, September 2003
This was held at Reading University, 16-18 September 2003.
Conference website
Leaflet in pdf
Full details
Short report
Long report
British Region 2003 AGM, 13 November 2003
This half-day meeting was held at the Royal Statistical Society,
Errol Street, London.
The meeting also included a scientific session devoted
to "spatial statistics".
See full details,
agenda for AGM,
timetable.
Report
204th Ordinary Meeting - "Biomarkers, surrogate
endpoints and proof of concept" -
Wednesday 4 February, 2004
This one-day meeting (0930--1700) jointly organised with
PSI (Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry) was
held at the Royal Statistical Society.
See full details and registration form.
Symposium to honour the 80th birthday of
John Nelder, FRS
29-30th March 2004, Imperial College.
Some more details
Web site.
Rob Kempton Memorial Meeting (205th Ordinary
Meeting)
This one-day meeting was held in Edinburgh on 16
April 2004.
Details of the programme
Summer Meeting and 206th Ordinary Meeting -
Tuesday 22 June 2004, Oxford.
This was hosted by the Clinical Trials Service Unit at the
University of Oxford, and held in the Clarendon Lecture Theatre.
More details
Meeting to honour the 80th birthday of Sir David
Cox, FRS
23 June 2004
This one-day meeting, organised jointly with the Royal Statistical
Society, was also held in the Clarendon Lecture Theatre,
University of Oxford.
More details
Fisher Memorial Lecture
Professor A. F. M. Smith delivered the Fisher Memorial Lecture
on 8 September 2004, during the meeting of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science, held in Exeter.
208th Ordinary Meeting and AGM, 11 November 2004
This full-day meeting included Mike Kenward's presidential
address.
See full details,
registration form,
agenda for AGM,
IBS-BR05 Regional Conference,
5th-8th April 2005
This Regional Conference was held at the University of
Leicester, jointly organised with the
Belgian and Netherlands Regions of the IBS.
See poster.
See full report.
Joint meeting with the Royal Statistical Society, London,
17 October 2005
There meeting on "Climate Change Impacts" was held jointly
with the Environmental Statistics Section of the Royal Statistical Society,
at the RSS in London.
Full details
Annual General Meeting and 209th Ordinary Meeting of the British
Region of the IBS, Hinxton, 23 November 2005
This was a a full-day meeting
on Proteomics and Metabolomics.
Poster
Full details
"Farewell Meeting" for Robin Thompson, 19 January 2006,
2pm - 6.30pm, Rothamsted Research
Full details
Chemometrics, March 31st 2006
Central Science Laboratory, York.
Full details
Registration form
Tom Fearn's talk
Philip Jonathan's talk
Svante Wold's talk
Statistical Modelling in the Environment with Special Reference to
Biodiversity and Spatio-temporal Approaches, Paris, 24 May 2006
A joint meeting with the French Region of the IBC and the
Environmental Statistics Sections of the Royal Statistical Society
and the Societé Française de Statistique.
Full details
Statistical Aspects of Safety Data,
28 June 2006
Royal Statistical Society, London
- joint meeting with PSI
Full details
Statistical Ecology, 15 November 2006
Rothamsted Research. This included
the AGM and the Presidential Address by the retiring President,
Joe Perry.
Full details
Report of AGM
Analysing Arthropod Observational Data, 7 February 2007
Joint meeting of the British and Irish Region
of the International Biometric Society and the Royal Entomological Society
Full details
Channel Network Conference, Rolduc (near Maastricht), 8-11 May 2007
The Netherlands Region of the IBS hosted this multi-regional conference.
Full details
Brochure
Poster
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