Royal Statistical Society
Statistical Computing Section
RSS 2000




Sessions at RSS 2000 at Reading

The section organised two sessions at RSS 2000 as follows:

Computing in Biostatistics

Chair: Mike Talbot (Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland)

"Assessing chromosome conservation from genetic maps" Dave Waddington & D.W. Burt (Roslin Institute, Scotland)

"Generalized linear mixed models: importance sampling" Jian-Xin Pan (Keele University), Robin Thompson (IACR - Rothamsted) & Steve Buckland (University of St Andrews)

"Gibbs sampling for improper distribution" Sujit Sahu (University of Southampton)

Report on this session.

Technologies in Statistical Information

Chair: James Currall (University of Glasgow)

"Gold rush on the infoscape - new frontiers in data discovery and exploitation" Simon Musgrave (UK Data Archive, University of Essex), (slides)

"XML and the DDI: current development and future dreams for statistical accessibility" Hilary Beedham (UK Data Archive, University of Essex) (slides)

"Statistical information exchange in a wired-up world" James Currall (University of Glasgow) (slides)

Report on this session.



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