Latest BIR News

Latest News

  • The Art of Statistical Consultancy including Presidential Address Kirsty Hassall The afternoon event took place on 3rd December, 2024 in the lovely de Hardy room of the London Mathematical Society building in Russell Square. We had a hybrid setup which had a few hitches for which I can only apologise. The meeting was attended by approximately ...

  • Prof. Peter Armitage (1924-2024)

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    We are deeply saddened to learn that Prof. Peter Armitage – former President and Honorary Life Member of the International Biometric Society – died last week, aged 99 years. We remember Peter for the depth and breadth of his statistical insight, the kindness and generosity of his dealings with scientific colleagues, and not least for the selflessness ...

  • Young Biometrician Award 2023

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    2023 Young Biometrician Award We are happy to announce that the winner of the 2023 Young Biometrician Award is Dr Oliver Crook , a Florence Nightingale Fellow (Senior Research Associate) in the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, for his paper “Semi-Supervised Nonparametric Bayesian Modelling of Spatial Proteomics” (The Annals of Applied ...

  • Young Biometrician Award 2023

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    The Young Biometrician Award of the British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society and the Fisher Memorial Trust The British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society, jointly with the Fisher Memorial Trust, award a prize every two years for young biometricians who are members of the BIR. Young biometricians are defined ...

  • On 29 November 2022, just over twenty statisticians gathered at the Royal Statistical Society from all corners of Britain and Ireland for the first in-person meeting of our regional biometricians in nearly three years. The meeting began with the society AGM where, after receiving reports from the officers, the most notable item of business was an update ...