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Meeting on statistical modelling celebrating Murray Aitkin's 70th birthday by Brian Francis — last modified 2009-12-08 14:22

A one day meeting will be held at the Royal Statistical Society on Thursday April 15th 2010, to celebrate the contributions made by Murray Aitkin to statistical modelling in the social sciences. Murray was Professor of Statistics at Lancaster from 1977 to 1985.

Research to investigate gender and ethnic bias in sentencing by Brian Francis — last modified 2009-10-30 10:23

A new UK/Brazil research project funded by the ESRC will investigate the extent and nature of bias in sentencing, using recently available Brazilian microdata.

New research grant into problem gambling by Brian Francis — last modified 2009-07-07 20:53

A collaboration between the Lancaster-Warwick-Stirling Social Statistics node of the National Centre for Research Methods, the Department of Applied Social Science at Lancaster and the University of Glasgow has successfully won funding of £360000 to study the gambling trajectories of ex-prisoners.

Lancaster's Postgraduate Statistics Centre shortlisted for regional RIBA award by Brian Francis — last modified 2008-04-17 10:07

The Postgraduate Statistics Centre at Lancaster has been regionally shortlisted for a Royal Institution of British Architects (RIBA) award. The Centre provides a location for postgraduate short courses and training in statistics and quantitative methods, and space for innovative teaching and staff-student interaction.

NCRM Lancaster-Warwick Workshop on composite likelihood. Warwick 15-17 April 2008 by Brian Francis — last modified 2007-12-20 22:28

A workshop on the state of the art in composite likelihood techniques for dealing with high-dimensional interdependencies supported by the Lansaester-warwick NCRM node.

Lancaster-Warwick one day conference on the analysis of criminal career data. by Brian Francis — last modified 2007-11-07 13:45

This one-day conference is co-sponsored by the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods and the European society of Criminology, and will be held at the Royal Statistical Society on the 24th January, 2008.

BIAS-Lancaster-Warwick NCRM course on writing R packages by Brian Francis — last modified 2007-11-07 13:35

This one-day short course at Lancaster gives an overivew of the skills needed to write an R package. It will be held on the 15th November, 2007.

2007 Chambers award goes to joint Lancaster-Warwick research by Brian Francis — last modified 2007-06-07 08:47

Software development work partially carried out under the ESRC-funded Lancaster-Warwick node of the National Centre for Research Methods has been awarded the 2007 John M Chambers Statistical Software Award of the American Statistical Association.

Joint UCLA-Lancaster Symposium to explore research methods for mixed data by Brian Francis — last modified 2007-02-23 07:38

The Lancaster-Warwick node of the National Centre for Research Methods is organising a syposium at the University of California, Los Angeles to explore new methodologies for analysing mixed qualitative and quantitative social science data. Data modellers and qualitative researchers will explore methods of gaining more from mixed method studies. A highlight of the symposium is a presentation by Harold Garfinkel, who developed the ethnomethodology tradition in American sociology.

Short course in Longitudinal Data Analysis by Brian Francis — last modified 2008-06-17 08:26

We are curently taking bookings for a advanced short course in Longitudinal Data Analysis, given by Professor Peter Diggle. The course is part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods Lancaster-Warwick node programme, and will be held on 23rd and 24th April, 2007.

Teaching students quantitative methods using resources from the British Birth Cohorts by Christian Cable — last modified 2007-01-26 14:09

ESRC Research Development Initiative - The Centre for Longitudinal Studies will run a two-day workshop at Lancaster University on 28th/29th March 2007, titled 'Teaching students quantitative methods using resources from the British Birth Cohorts.'

The SIMPLE system- helping undergraduates understand statistics by Brian Francis — last modified 2008-06-16 09:23

A new research methods project funded by ESRC at Lancaster This interdisciplinary project will develop a small set of modules and associated delivery system for teaching introductory statistics to social science students early in their undergraduate studies. Familiar and interesting scenarios will be used to enhance students' engagement with quantitative skills and illustrate their usefulness.