[Forum SIS] MEETINGS: two linked scientific meetings at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

[Bianca.DeStavola a lshtm.ac.uk]

Thursday  29 March 2012, 1:30-5:00pm

Model selection for genetic and epidemiological data
Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University and LSHTM): Challenges for model
selection in etiologic studies
Christian Robert (Universite Paris Dauphine): ABC model choice and
relevant summary statistics 
Doug Speed (University College London): Improved Heritability
Estimation using Linear Mixed Models
 
David Clayton (University of Cambridge): Link functions in multi-locus
genetic models

International Biometric Society – British and Irish Region (IBS-BIR)
Spring Meeting and  LSHTM Centre for Statistical Methodology Meeting
For further details see the IBS-BIR
http://bir.biometricsociety.org/events/model-selection. There will be a
small cost to attend the meeting. 
 
Thursday  29 March and Friday 30 March 2012
 
Intervention Research to improve health in developing countries:
Progress and future challenges
Celebrating 40 years of the MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group
Brian Greenwood, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 
Peter Piot, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 
Peter Smith, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 
Tore Godal, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

For further details see
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/2012/03/celebrating-40-years-of-the-mrc-tropical-epidemiology-group
 There will be a small cost to attend the meeting. Participants to this
meeting can attend the first.
 
 
Centre for Statistical Methodology
http://csm.lshtm.ac.uk/
 
 
Centre for Statistical Methodology
http://csm.lshtm.ac.uk/
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