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For he's a jolly good fellow Adrian Jull has been elected a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry for his outstanding contribution to the profession of chemistry in the field of chemical education. Top achievement by Massey graduate Massey BSc graduate of the early 1970s, Robert G Buckley, has been awarded, with Jeff Tallon, the inaugural Prime Minister's Science Prize for outstanding achievement in Science. The award recognises their contributions in creating a new high-value High Temperature Superconductivity industry for New Zealand. Bob now manages the IRL's HTS group. Drs Buckley and Tallon receive prize money of $500,000, with $400,000 going to IRL for continued development of HTS technology. Budding Scientists win at Manawatu Science Fair Dinithi Bowawte (PNINS) was awarded the IFS Chemistry Prize for her project 'A convenient truth' while the IFS Physics Prize went to Callum Judd (Ross Intermediate) for 'Conquering corners' - How best to turn a corner while speed skating - and Lane Huffman-Devey (PNINS) received the IFS Statistics Prize for 'Guided by the light' - A driveway lighting system. | Coming Events
Empirical likelihood-based interval estimation in biomedical problem settingsProfessor David E. MatthewsStatistics & Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Statistics Seminar Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation is now more than 50 years old, dating back to the Kaplan-Meier estimator and the related results of Thomas and Grunkemeier on pointwise interval estimation via the likelihood ratio statistic. However, Owen's pioneering 1988 paper in which he coined the term "empirical likelihood" spawned a fruitful new thread in statistical technology. In this talk I sketch the empirical likelihood solutions to several related biomedical problems, and identify their close connection to parametric estimation. As time permits, we will look at the estimation of diagnostic test likelihood ratios, both when the test result is a simple binary outcome and when the response measurement scale is continuous. We will also consider the problem of estimating the number needed to treat, a study outcome measure that is widely used to report the findings of clinical studies. Examples from the CA 19-9 diagnostic test in pancreatic cancer patients, and the NASCET clinical trial of carotid endartarectomy will be used as concrete illustrations of the underlying notions. NZSA /Statistical Methodologies 2010 ConferenceStatistics Conference Mark your diaries for this International Conference on Statistical Methodologies and Related Topics in conjunction with NZSA Annual Conference. http://nzsa_cdl_2010.massey.ac.nz |
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