The migration
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In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been doing lots of work to migrate my website and the blog to a fully-integrated version based on Hugo and blogdown. THE NEW ADDRESS IS http://www.statistica.it/gianluca/blog. Plenty of people have written very good and detailed templates on how to migrate from other blogging platforms, so I won’t bother adding mine… I think overall the transition has been OK — some hiccups mostly due to my limited proficiency with pure html, but I did manage to turn the basic (well, I say basic, but it’s actually pretty good and advanced!) academic ..read more
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Not long until abstract submission deadline...
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Registration and Abstract Submission Open for BAYES 2018: Bayesian Biostatistics Workshop - Satellite of ISBA 2018 20th – 22nd June 2018 @ Homerton College, Cambridge, UK www.bayes-pharma.org *Not long until abstract submission deadline – 31st March 2018*  Overview Bayesian statistics is increasingly taking on a leading role in all areas of biomedical research, continually challenged by emerging questions in clinical medicine and public health. This workshop will bring together scientists interested in the latest applications and methodological developments of ..read more
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Free tweets
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As part of their marketing strategy, Springer have tweeted a link to free download of Chapter 1 of our BCEA book. The tweet went out last Friday, but I think there's still time ..read more
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HTA R Us
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3y ago
Together with colleagues around the UK, we're organising a workshop on the use of R for statistical modelling in health economic evaluation (broadly speaking, "cost-effectiveness analysis"). It's good that this is exciting news (contributing to taking my mind off all the politics & elections in the world...). But I think this really is exciting news, with a very good line up of speakers/talks. And I really think the objectives of this workshop are very interesting $-$ I think, ultimately, we'll aim at also creating a repository for files/examples/models/templates so that people can ..read more
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Job advert
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We have a job opening at UCL $-$ this time is in the Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology and is for a Research Associate in Health Economics. Full details below. Applications are invited for a Research Associate in Health Economics to join the growing number of health economics researchers at UCL and its partner institutions. The post will join the Health Economics Analysis and Research Methodology Team in the Institute for Clinical Trials and Methodology (ICTM) at UCL, working primarily with the Comprehensive Clinical Trials Unit (CCTU). The post focuses primarily on economic eva ..read more
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Commonwealth Games
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3y ago
Earlier this week, we found out that we have secured the Commonwealth Share Scholarship for our Master Programme in Health Economics & Decision Science. The Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme is a joint initiative between the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (with funding from the Department for International Development (DFID), and UK universities, to support scholarships for students from developing Commonwealth countries who would not otherwise be able to study in the United Kingdom. The aim of the scheme is to assist students from developing Commonwealth countries who are of ..read more
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Significance early-career writing competition
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We've just issued the call for entries for our 2018 writing competition for early-career statisticians. Details of the competition are available online here. The competition is open to: (1) Students currently studying for a first degree, Master's or PhD in statistics or related subjects; and (2) Graduates whose last qualification in statistics or related subjects (whether first degree, Master's or PhD) was not more than five years ago. Last year’s winner, Kevin Lin, analysed user activity on the social media site, Reddit, to see whether young people were now more engaged ..read more
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Acro-juggling
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3y ago
Yesterday, we held our UCL Health Economics Network Symposium.  Kobi has been poorly since Friday, which of course has coincide with a particularly busy week end/start to the new week... Sunday night was particularly bad and we managed to accomplish a trip to A&E (luckily all is good) and some healthy running around so that someone was at home with him at any given time, while teaching and, in fact, going to the Symposium (the picture to the left shows Marta and I practising our acro-juggling...). Anyway, despite being low on sleep and rather high on coffee, I managed to talk about ..read more
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PhD studentships @ UCL
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My department at UCL has been allocated 1 EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) award for 2018/19. The award will be 4 years in duration (or 6 years for part-time candidates), covering UK/EU fees, minimum RCUK stipend and a small allowance for consumables. To be eligible for the full award a student must have no restrictions on how long they can stay in the UK and have been ordinarily resident in the UK for at least 3 years prior to the start of the studentship. Marta and I have a joint project on "An integrated Bayesian approach in air pollution and health studies: linking exposure, hea ..read more
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501 days of Summer (school)
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3y ago
As I anticipated earlier, we're now ready to open registration for our Summer School in Florence (I was waiting for UCL to set up the registration system and thought it may take much longer than it actually did $-$ so well done UCL!). We'll probably have a few changes here and there in the timetable $-$ we're thinking of introducing some new topics and I think I'll certainly merge a couple of my intro lectures, to leave some time for those...  Nothing is fixed yet and we're in the process of deliberating all the changes $-$ but I'll post as soon as we have a clearer plan for the r ..read more
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