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Congratulations to Professor Jane Hutton and Dr Judith Anzures-Cabrera on being awarded the Gopal Kanji Prize by the Journal of Applied Statistics and Taylor & Francis

The article investigated the long-term survival of A-bomb survivors, comparing people who entered a special benefit as soon as they were offered with those who delayed registering as an A-bomb survivor. We developed models to assess the impact of delay on the rates of death from different causes of death. The cancer death rates for men are slightly higher for those who delayed entry than those who took benefits immediately. For women, delayed entry is associated with increased risk of cancer, but decreased risk of death form heart disease and other causes.

(The prize is announced in the journal's page: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02664763.asp)

http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3330/1/WRAP_Hutton_competing_risks.pdf

The Department of Statistics is pleased to be a partner in the newly announced ESRC Doctoral Training Centre at Warwick.  This new funding from ESRC will provide exciting PhD opportunities for students whose interests are in statistical methodology for social-science applications.  The first studentships under this scheme will be available from October 2011, and more details will be announced shortly.  (Departmental contact: David Firth)

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

Professor Wilfrid Kendall has been elected as a member of the Council of the London Mathematical Society for 2 years from January 2011.