The Environmental Statistics Section of the RSS jointly organized (with the Edinburgh and Glasgow RSS local groups) a session at The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) on 21st July 2016. The event was held at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, and the session had 3 speakers each representing one of the RSS groups listed above. The speakers and titles were:
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Alastair Rushworth – University of Strathclyde and Glasgow local group – Is time really a healer? Building distributed lag models with varying smoothness penalties.
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Duncan Lee – University of Glasgow and Environmental Statistics Section – Quantifying the spatial inequality and temporal trends in maternal smoking rates in Glasgow.
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Ron Smith – Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Edinburgh local group – Applications of Bayesian belief networks for studying ecosystem services
The session was held in the main conference auditorium and was attended by around 40 participants.