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Special issue of Statistica Sinica on composite likelihoods

Statistica Sinica Jan 2011 front cover

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

http://www3.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/j21n1/21-1.html

Mon 13 Dec 2010, 13:22 | Tags: CRiSM, ESRC, EPSRC

James Curran's book on data analysis for forensic science

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.

Fri 19 Nov 2010, 11:17 | Tags: CRiSM

Another "spot on" success for statistical exit-poll methodology

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.  
Mon 10 May 2010, 09:10 | Tags: Dept, CRiSM, ESRC

Statistics Department research "world leading"

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. 

Tue 06 Jan 2009, 06:34 | Tags: Dept, CRiSM, Postgrad, ESRC, EPSRC

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