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For more information about all sorts of services for disabled children in Kent, go to the Kent Local Offer, which is hosting on the Kent County Council website. The Local Offer includes information about schools, health, social care, leisure activities, clubs etc and aims to be a "one-stop-shop" for information. Please following this link to get to the local offer http://www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children/special-educational-needs
In addition to the local offer, the list below includes a range of local clubs, support groups and networks for disabled children, young people and their families. Text in orange is a link: click on it to go through to the organisation's website or other resource. Let us know if you find any links that aren't working, or have a group to add. The list is alphabetical, in order of the charity, group or project's name. Scroll down to see more.
Thanet ADDers support page for families of children / young people with ADHD and ADD.
ADHD Sheppey Support Group has been running for nearly 4 years and meet every Friday at the Healthy Living Centre, Sheerness at 3:30pm. They also organise activities for families affected by ADHD, and offer ADHD Awareness classes. Additionally, they offer Level 2 courses in Managing ADHD in the Mainstream Classroom. Please contact Beverley – 01795 394508 / 07968 023050 for more information.
Art of Sound is a project by Turner Contemporary and Pie Factory Music exploring the impact that music and art can have on disabled and non disabled young people living in Thanet. Open to 13-18 year olds, new recruits welcome from end of January. For more information contact Keiko Higashi on 01843 233017 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Be Our Buddy is a befriending project run by Voluntary Action Witithin Kent (VAWK) for children with mild-moderate disabilities, helping them access a mainstream club or group they are interested in but do not have the confidence to attend alone. VAWK match volunteer befrienders to the young people who will meet them at the club and give them extra support. You can download the project profile here, the referral form here and the Parents' Handbook here. For more information contact Matt Gough on 07525071671 email@example.com for Thanet, or Emily Fawcett on 07712 880387 firstname.lastname@example.com for Swale and Canterbury.
Beach Within Reach is a local charity that is working with Thanet District Council to open up access for wheelchair users to Thanet's beaches. The group is providing new chairs that are made in the USA and especially designed to give access over fine sand. Four chairs will be located on Margate main beach, two at Broadstairs and four at Ramsgate main sands with potentially a further 17 chairs to follow at smaller beaches around Thanet. All the chairs will be available direct from the Beach Life Guards for a small returnable deposit and proof of identify. Call Beach within Reach on 07946 029062 for more information.
Canterbury City FC are offering the chance for individuals with any impairment and of any age, the chance to join their weekly training sessions and LD league matches held bi-monthly. This takes place every Wednesday between 6 and 8pm at Simon Langton School in Canterbury. Please contact Tony Newington on 07740084923 or email email@example.com for more information.
Carers first home and community short breaks are a service set up to provide carers with some support for children with learning or physical disabilities aged 4-18 in a special school or special unit. They can provide respite in the day, evening, weekends and over night. For more information please contact Susan Ashburn on 01634 582 132. Carers First also provide practical support, advice and information to carers across Kent and Medway. For more information please call 01732 357555.
The Centre for Independent Living Kent, or CILK, was formed in April 2002 to support the positive promotion and uptake of direct payments and independent living for Disabled People (adults) living in Kent. The charity offers peer support, advocacy, helping with sorting our direct payments, training and information services.
Cool Crew is a youth club for young people with disabilities and their non-disabled peers that runs at the Quaterdeck Youth Centre, Margate every Thursday evening from 6.30 – 8.45pm. It is open to all young people aged 11-19 with a disability. Parents are not expected to stay with their children. For more information phone Justin Wanstall, SeniorYouth Work Practitioner on 01843 292927 or email email@example.com
Crossroads Care East Kent supports parent carers by offering high quality replacement care for children with care needs. Referrals can be made by anyone, including Carers themselves, in person, by telephone or in writing. For more information contact Lorraine Williamson on 08450 956700 or Crossroads Care East Kent, 16 Reculver Road, Herne Bay, Kent CT6 6LE.
CPC kent smiley steps centre is a free service for children aged 1-11 with cerebral palsy or similar motor disorder. For more information please contact Natalie Smith on 01634 220330
Crossroads Care Medway offer respite for carers of children aged 4-18 with physical or learning disabilities, who are in a special school or specialist unit. They offer support on days, evenings, weekends and overnight. For more information please contact Margaret Catlin on 01634 868885.
Demelza Hospice Care For Children in Bobbing, is for children aged 0-19 years with a life limiting or threatening illness. Demelza also provides outreach services for children who meet their criteria. For more information please contact Zoe Hill, Family Support Worker Kent on 01795 845175 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
East Kent MENCAP provides opportunities and choices in East Kent for adults and children with learning disabilities, to enable them to achieve the things that they want out of life and to be valued, treated equally, listened to and included. They run a variety of groups and services – for detail phone EK Mencap on 01843-224482 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
The Fathers' Club recognized the gap in support for fathers and grandfathers and, to bring support and guidance, a specific fathers meeting group was formed. Since its inception, the Club has assisted over 300 fathers, including a number of grandfathers and, indirectly, their immediate families. There is no charge for membership and there is a library of relevant book titles held by The Parents Consortium that members may turn to for advice and guidance. Members also have access to databases and information held by the club and other supporter friends that contain answers to a wide range of problems that such families may encounter. For further information, please contact Andy Young on the following email address: email@example.com .
Find a Voice is a Kent-wide charity that supports children and adults who have a severe speech, language or communication difficulty, and who may require some form of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) support. This can include signing, symbols or a communication aid. Support is provided in person, by telephone and via the website.
Friends Club, Sittingbourne promotes self expression and inclusion of disabled young people aged 12-25 through sports and arts including residential weekends. For more information, please contact Ben on 01795 423836.
Healthy Living Centre – Sheppey HLC run a scheme known as Sheppey Matters, this provides young people with fun activities and a Friday evening youth centre to go to and hang out with their friends. The centre is fully accessible and children with any disability are welcome. For more information please contact Nigel Martin on: 01795 585335.
Home-start Sittingbourne and Sheppey (tel 01795 429007) Home-start Thanet (tel. 01843 866344) and Homestart Canterbury Coastal (tel. 01227 472050) offer support to any family that has at least one child under 5 years of age . Support is provided in families' homes by volunteers who are parents themselves. They offer practical help, share information on local services and knowledge of family life. Some of Home-start's volunteers have children with disabilites. You can also find out more from the nationam Home Start webpage.
Independent Support Kent In Kent the Independent Support Service is provided by the Kent Disabled Children's Parent Driven Consortium with Parents Consortium acting as the Lead Agency. Parents and Young People can access the service by calling a free phone number which will be responded to by a trained Independent Supporter who will give initial information and support and if more intensive longer term support is needed they will then coordinate support for individuals through the locally based IS workers employed in each of the 4 partners within the consortium. The IS workers will help support families who have a child or young person with special educational needs or disabilities as they go through the process of a statutory assessment to develop an Education, Health Care Plan (EHCP) or to convert an existing Statement of Special Educational Need to a new EHCP.
KASBAH provides support services including advice, training and short breaks to people with phyiscal and/or learning disabilities throughout Kent. The charity was originally formed by parents of children with Spina Bifida or Hydrocephalus, but its services are now available to all. For more information contact the office at Northfleet on email@example.com or phone 01474 536202. A Thanet base is currently being set up.
Kent Association for the Blind offer free weekend and holiday sessions for children and young people aged 0-25. For more information please contact Alan Whetherly on 01634 332929.
Kent Autistic Trust Family Support provides information, advice and support for parents and carers of children with autistic spectrum conditions. For more information email Jo Blamires on email@example.com or phone 01634 405168
Kent Parents as Equal Partners (Kent PEPS) is a virtual parent forum for parents of children and young people who have special educational needs in Kent. Kent PEPS aims to actively involve parents in planning and making decisions about services for their children. The organisation issues regular newsletter to members.
Kent Wide Down Syndrome Group provides information and advice, regular meetings, events and signposting for families of children with Down Syndrome in Kent. For more information, click the website link, or call 07787 947142
Kent Young Carers offers support to young people, including siblings, aged 5-18 who are caring for somebody with a disability, illness, disability, mental health or drug / alcohol issue. They offer chill clubs, support, information and advice. Telephone 0300 111 111 0 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Kentish Retts Angels is the official support group for parents and carers all over Kent with a child suffering from Rett Syndrome. The group meets twice a year, in summer and winter. For more information, please contact Lorraine Hockey on email@example.com
MAGIC is a specialist Autism group in Strood offering stay and play sessions for children with, or in the process of getting an ASD diagnosis. For more information please contact 01634 292015.
me2, run by Young Kent, is a mentoring service that teams up young mentors with disabled young mentees. Disabled young people are supported to attend mainstream clubs and events on a regular basis. The project is currently recruiting in Canterbury district. For more details contact Jon Rees of Young Kent on 07525 324949.
MCCH is a charity that supports nearly 2000 people with a learning disability, mental health issue and autism throughout London and the South East. MCCH has built a reputation for quality services which put the individual first.
More Than Words was founded in January 2015 to help children with communication difficulties and their families. They offer free Makaton Courses to parents/relatives/carers of any child with communication difficulties.
National Autistic Society – Thanet branch is the local branch for families affected by autism or Asperger syndrome offering information and support. A weekly club is held at the Quarterdeck, Margate on Saturdays from 5pm-8pm for all ages. Contact Julia Geer, Branch Officer on 07833 293263 for more information.
Parklands Holiday Play Scheme in Gillingham is for children aged 6-18 years with a severe or complex learning or physical disability. Children need a formal diagnosis. For more information please contact Caren Smith on 01634 338 509.
Quarterdeck Youth Centre in Margate offers an Aiming High youth club for young people with a disability aged 13-19 and their siblings and friends on Thursdays 7-9pm. Fun activities suitable for all abilities, and entry is free. The youth centre is fully accessible. For more information contact Michael Bailey on 01843 292927 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
The RADAR National Key Scheme (NKS) offers independent access to disabled people to around 9,000 locked public toilets around the country.When a Council joins the scheme, standard locks are fitted to their accessible toilets and keys are made available to people with disabilities. In addition to public conveniences, toilets for disabled people provided by a wide range of other public, voluntary and commercial organisations have been fitted with the NKS lock. So it can now be found in shopping centres, country parks, railway and bus stations, bars, motorway service areas and sports venues. Thanet, Swale and Canterbury are all members of the scheme. RADAR keys can be bought from the councils for a small charge, or online.
Sheppey Youth Club for Special Needs runs every Friday evening at the Sheppey Healthy Living Centre, for age ranges 8-12 and 13-25. For more information contact Sheppey Matters on 01795 583547.
Skillnet Group Community Interest Company is a social enterprise working with people with learning difficulties. Any profit they make is re-invested to support their work and local communities. Their mission is to support people with learning difficulties to speak up, make choices, be heard and taken seriously. They support people with and without learning difficulties to work together equally to develop projects and support networks and to challenge attitudes about disability.
SNAAP (Special Needs Advice and Activities Project) is based at Windchimes in Herne Bay and provides clubs, days out and projects for disabled children, young people and their families living in the Canterbury district. For more information contact the SNAAP office on 01227 367555.
SPOTS is a support group for families of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder living in Thanet. It is run by parents and carers. Meetings take place at Garlinge Children's Centre and Newslands Children's Centre on alternate Fridays, term time only. For more information call 07717 064944 or 07788 670721, oremail email@example.com
Square Pegs Drama Club is a not-for-profit group based in Maidstone, Kent, who help young people to develop communication and social skills, confidence and self esteem through weekly drama workshops, theatrical performances and social events. They work with young people age 16-25 who have a learning disability, social communication difficulties or who find it hard to fit in with mainstream activities. They run regular sessions in Canterbury from the University of Kent campus. If you are interested in joining as a member, or would like to consider helping as a volunteer, please contact email@example.com / 07880 794816.
Step and Learn conductive education is a charity dedicated to assisting the physical and educational needs of children with Cerebral Palsy and associated motor difficulties. Their aim, like that of Andras Peto the Hungarian founder of Conductive Education, is to view the child holistically educating and motivating the child through play to become active participants in their lives. There is an early intervention programme for 0-5s, services are free, and parents are actively involved. Based at Strood. Phone 01634 787951 for more information, or see their flyer here
Thanet and District Sports Association for Disabled People (TADSAD) TADSAD hold an Archery club on Wednesday evenings from 7-9pm during school terms, at The Ramsgate Sports Centre. The cost is £3.50 per head, and all attendees must have a carer with them. TADSAD also run mixed sports evenings on Fridays at the same venue 7.00-8.30 pm. For more information contact Fay Hatton on 01843 228865 or email email@example.com
Thanet Galaxy Pan Disability Football Club provides structured coaching and competition for footballers of all ages, male or female with physical, learning, emotional or behavioural disabilities. For more info email Steve Lancaster email@example.com or call 07984145106
Westbere sailing opportunities are a great charity set up to help disabled people of any age or ability get onto the water and enjoy sailing.
Young Healthy Minds is a newly commissioned early intervention service, commissioned by Kent County Council to deliver emotional well being support to children and young people aged 4-18. Young Healthy Minds is for children and young people presenting issues which may include, but are not limited to: • Anxiety/phobias • Low mood • Behavioural difficulties as a result of emotional needs • Low self –esteem • Poor self image • Relationship/ social interaction issues • Loss/ attachment/ bereavement issues
Young Kent provide youth sessions for disabled children in a mainstream inclusive environment for children aged 13-19 years. For more information please contact 01622 351150.


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When you're looking for a fast, flavorful meal, look no further than fish! Parmesan cheese and special seasonings add a bit of an Italian flair to these fillets. Not only is this recipe low in fat, it's delicious as well. So it's sure to please everyone in the family.
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- 1-1/2 pounds cod or haddock, cut into 3/4-inch pieces
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup crushed wheat crackers or seasoned dry bread crumbs
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 tablespoon dried parsley flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- Place fish in a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Brush with butter. In a small bowl, combine the remaining ingredients; sprinkle over fish.
- Bake, uncovered, at 425° for 10-15 minutes or until the fish flakes easily with a fork. Yield: 4 servings.
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"I used 1 lb. flounder fillets, defrosted. I used my microwave oven to defrost the fish by weight. I used 1/2 cup Italian bread crumbs and 3 Tbsp. butter, melted and kept the Parmesan cheese and Italian seasoning the same amount. I omitted parsley flakes. I did bake fish 15 to 20 minutes at 425o F. This dish was really tasty! Thank you for sharing! delowenstein"
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Sykes, who developed his Tampa-based Sykes Enterprises into a world-wide information technology conglomerate of 24,000 employees before retiring in 2004, said June 4 he had recently closed on property in Kentucky, but declined to confirm the new location as ClassicStar Farm, which is located just south of Frankfort off historic Versailles Road.
"We are just consolidating our operations into Kentucky," Sykes said. "Cloverleaf is staying in business, and the horses we have within Cloverleaf will remain Cloverleaf horses."
Sykes said the move was a practical one, noting most of his more recent Thoroughbred purchases have been at Kentucky auctions. Rather than move mares and racing prospects back and forth from Florida to Kentucky, Sykes said it made sense to have everything assembled at one location.
When contacted by The Blood-Horse, ClassicStar managing partner Tony Ferguson said he couldn't comment on any rumored sale of property.
"At the proper time I will be able to share information," Ferguson said.
ClassicStar signs once located in front of the 500-acre farm and on Versailles Road had been removed by late in the afternoon of June 4. The property was purchased for more than $6 million combined in 2002-2003 from Under The Rainbow Inc. and Applewood Farm, respectively, according to county records.
The ClassicStar enterprise, which once also featured former marketing director S. David Plummer and members of his family, is the subject of about two dozen lawsuits in at least six states, according to a recent affidavit filed in a Florida federal court.
Several of the legal disputes stem from customers who bought into controversial lease-mare programs promoted by ClassicStar and related entities in the early part of this decade. Raids in which federal officials seized documents and related material took place in February 2006 at both the Kentucky farm and the Utah ranch of Plummer. The status of that investigation is unknown, as officials with the Oregon U.S. District Attorney's Office have repeatedly declined to comment on its ongoing investigation.
Sykes said he hasn't decided what he is going to do with his Florida farm property located near Ocala, which has grown to about 1,000 acres since he first purchased the former 650-acre Due Process Farm of Robert E. Brennan in 1996.
"I have quite a few options," Sykes said, mentioning he could keep the property as is, sell it, or develop it himself for another usage. "I have just been taking one step at a time. I am maintaining the farm and will maintain a crew there as long as I keep it."
In an interview last September, Sykes estimated the Florida farm equine population, which includes 12 stallions, at about 80 horses in training and 120 broodmares during peak periods. Sykes has notified the clients of his Florida farm to move their horses by July 1.
"Everyone has been very cooperative," he said.
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"The official word is that Mr. Sykes has bought a farm in Kentucky," Fernung said. "He has decided to consolidate his operations."
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The 45 piece band, which will be the first FMU Ensemble to perform in main auditorium, will present a program filled with energy and spirit according to Kelly Jokisch, the director of the band.
The College/Community Band is a college organization of high-caliber instrumentalists who contribute their talents to provide musical entertainment for college functions and community events.
Membership is open to all FMU students and area residents who are experienced concert band instrumentalists. Performances include traditional concert band music as well as popular and show music. Most of the 18 student members are supported by scholarship money regardless of choice of major.
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Beginning with the spring 2002 semester, band rehearsals were rescheduled to Tuesday evenings and adult musicians from the region were invited to participate.
In addition to the fall performance the group will perform two more concerts at the PAC. The winter concert is on February 7, 2012 and the spring performance will be on April 17, 2012.
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Determine max weight capacity of deck
Anyone know how to determine the max weight your deck will support? I'm looking at getting a hot tub (800 liters) and want to place it on a raised portion of my deck. Just don't know if I should be concerned?
Normally available code for deck design does not include placement of a hot tub on the deck. For example, see item 5 on page 2 of the International Residential Code 2006 edition deck design, which specifically states that the code does not apply to placement of hot tubs on decks. So unless your deck was designed to a code that included placement of a hot tub (unlikely), or was specifically designed by an engineer to support a hot tub (unlikely), you need to do some computations to determine the strength of the deck before you put an 800 kg tub on it.
The process to determine the strength of the deck works as follows:
1. Determine the maximum load the deck is expected to be subjected to. This requires knowledge of the location of the hot tub, any additional loads to be placed, and assignment of live load on the remainder of the deck. Include loads due to sloshing of water, seismic if applicable, and wind.
2. Prepare a detailed drawing showing all structural elements that will be impacted by the hot tub, including posts, beams, joists, and deck material.
3. Analyze all impacted structural elements for all possible failure modes, which would include bending, shear, direct compression, buckling, and possibly torsion.
4. Evaluate the factor of safety afforded by the structure, make necessary structural improvements as required.
Since you are well outside code, you probably need an engineer for this one. Alternatively, put the hot tub on the ground.
LOTS of BIG wood...
And now an actual BIG thanks to Dan Holzmen for providing an answer... Which is what this forum is used for.
THANKS DAN!!! I'll be working on figuring this out.
If you have an existing ledger attached deck system, don't forget to examine the connection of the attachment and any existing/rot/deterioration that could have affected the "house of cards" that a ledger attached deck is subjected to. - Not all loads go only vertical, since any vertical movement can cause a horizontal movement. The loads used in design are for perfect construction and are not for existing conditions.
There is always a Dr. Obvious that has seen many problems and is in high demand after the fact. Most profit from early opinions that result in bigger problems, but hate to see the results. The catch terms are "substandard maintenance", "deferred maintenance" and "unanticipated loads" when original designs are relied on.
A hot tub is an "attractive nuisance" and does attract more activity and concentrated loads beyond the tub and water weight and the average square footage loading and can be compounded by additional height.
of course you put more and more hot tubs on your deck till it falls then you rebuild the same way and you know how much it will hold
As someone that has a 500 gal. (1900 L) hot tub on a second story deck, you NEED an engineer to draw up some plans. what if your deck collapses and someone is injured? If an engineer sealed the plans you are better off. The engineer would take other loads into consideration too such as snow.
You cannot just place a hot tub on an elevated deck.
The hot tub should have its own dedicated structural support system. This is sometimes accomplished by building what is essentially a "mini" deck of multiple footings and beams underneath the hot tub, and installing the actual deck around it (tub recessed with deck elevated around it). Or, by building a reinforcing system of multiple footings and beams under the deck location where the hot tub will be going.
If you want to do this correctly, you don't want to "guess". You should get it done professionally from a qualified, experienced, and educated source.
I was not put off nor do I need a degree.... I am fortunate that I am friends with an engineer and he will be figuring it out for me... :)
And that's the only reason I'm not put off because if I didn't have an engineer friend I would of said forget it LOL
Thanks again for all the input. It is appreciated! If it turns into a project I'll post some pics.
I admire the thick skin, BTW. You got some flak there, but you took it gracefully.
Best of luck!
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The Department of Statistics congratulates our 2015-16 MSc student prize winners Adam Bassett and Ke Yu. Two prizes of £500 each have been awarded through the generous support of Winton.
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We are very proud to announce that four members of staff in the Deaprtment of Statistics have won an LSE Excellence in Education award! Huge congratulations to Professor Pauline Barrieu, Professor Irini Moustaki, Professor Fiona Steele and Dr Hao Xing. Professor Moustaki says "When I first started teaching I learnt that you have to be very understanding. It's important to bring humanity into the classroom, and encourage students to help and learn from each other." Professor Moustaki was interviewed and her comments can be found on the Education blog here. It makes for a very interesting read.
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A memorial conference for the distinguished Australian statistician Peter Hall takes place at the University of California, Davis on 30 September to 1 October 2016. Peter, who sadly died on 9 January 2016, was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Statistics at LSE. He is remembered with a great deal of respect and affection by all who knew him.
The ACEMS Workshop in Honour of Peter Hall takes place at the University of Melbourne on 10-12 December 2016.
To quote from the workshop website, "On 9 January 2016, in Melbourne, Australia, the statistics community lost one of its greatest statisticians, Peter Hall. This workshop will gather friends and colleagues of Peter to celebrate this exceptional man and his unique contributions to statistics."
Posted on 21 July 2016
The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) has invited Meena Kotecha to organise a session for their upcoming Annual International Conference. Meena's invited session entitled "Communicating Statistics: Communication statistics to non-specialist university students" is scheduled on 8th September 2016 from 10:10am to 11:30am. Meena's session details are now available here.
Meena noted that 'My invited session was well attended and well received. It was followed by lively discussion and questions. Moreover, it generated enormous interest in my research and led to research collaboration invitations which I am extremely excited about'.
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Professor Kostas Kardaras will give a mini course at the 9th European Summer School in Financial Mathematics, St Petersburg, 29 August 2016 to 2 September 2016. The title of this course is 'Market viability and hedging beyond NFLVR'.
Professor Kardaras is a member of the Rick and Stochastics group. He is the Chair of the Research Committee in the Department of Statistics.
Posted on 8 July 2016
The Department of Statistics is delighted to invite you to watch this short film documenting the discussion among academics, students and others about LSE's research informed social science education, held at the School's Education Symposium on 11 May 2016. This event was ornised by the Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) and the film includes contributions by our Assistant Professorial Lecturer Dr James Abdey.
Posted on 19 August 2016
The Department of Statistics congratulates our 2015-16 BSc Actuarial Science students Kin Shing Lam and Teck Stern Lim who are the joint recipients of the Winton Prize for academic excellence in statistics with financial applications. Two prizes of £500 each have been awarded through the generous support of Winton.
Kin Shing Lim told us, "I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the Department of Statistics for the support throughout the years and Winton for giving me the prize. It means a lot to me."
Teck Stern Lim added, "I am truly honoured to have been awarded this prize. I would like to take this opportunity to thank LSE for the endless support and of course to Winton for giving me this honour. It goes to show that my efforts and dedication over the past years have been recognised and am truly grateful for that."
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Posted on 10 August 2016
Many congratulations to all of our UG and MSc students in the Department of Statistics who graduated on 13th July 2016! Remember to register with the LSE Alumni online community, a hub through which alumni of LSE can stay in touch with the School, network with one another and access a range of exclusive benefits and services. Keep in touch and best wishes for the future.
Posted on 15 July 2016
The Rajendra Bhansali Prize for Best Overall Performance by an MSc Risk and Stochastics Student has been awarded to Stan Graumans, a graduate from our MSc in Risk and Stochastics in the 2015-16 academic session.
The Rajendra Bhansali Prize is donated by Rajendra Bhansali, graduate (BSc(Econ), 1967 and PhD, 1971) and former member of staff (1967-68) of the LSE and now Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Liverpool. Professor Bhansali is pictured here with Stan at our graduation reception.
Professor Pauline Barrieu is a plenary speaker at the 9th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society in New York on 15-19 July 2016. The title of the talk is 'Assessing Financial Model Risk'.
Professor Barrieu is the Head of Department elect of the Department of Statistics and a member of our Risk and Stochastic group. She is also Co-Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS).
On the 5th July, Meena Kotecha and nine LSE students presented at the APT conference which was jointly organised by LSE and the University of Greenwich. Meena's paper abstract can be accessed here and also highlights the names of the nine LSE students.
Posted on 14th July 2016
Colleagues in the Department of Statistics recently gathered to acknowledge the end of Chris Skinner's term as Head of Department. In time-honoured tradition, the occasion was marked with cake in the Leverhulme Library.
The Department would again like to take this opportunity to thank Chris for his hard work and dedication over the past 3 years. Chris will be succeeded by Professor Pauline Barrieu.
Posted on 13 June 2016
Professor Chris Skinner (Head of the Department of Statistics and a member of our Social Statistics group) is one of the organisers of a Scientific Programme on Data Linkage and Anonymisation at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge from 4 July to 21December 2016.
'Data Linkage and Anonymisation: Setting the Agenda', the first of four workshops in the programme, takes place on 5 to 8 July 2016. This workshop has been co-organised by Professor Skinner with Professor Natalie Shlomo from the University of Manchester.
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Congratulations to our Graduate Teaching Assistants and PhD students Victory Idowu, Ragvir Sabharwal and Yajing Zhu, recipients of the 2016 LSE Class Teacher Awards. These achievements were celebrated at the Teaching Awards Celebration on 11th May 2016.
Posted on 12 May 2016
The Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy (SADL) programme was launched in October 2013.
This year seven of the nine senior Ambassadors are from the statistics department and have played a major role in helping with the planning and teaching of workshops.
Dr Jane Secker (Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor) has praised the impact the statistics students have had on making SADL a success.
SADL and Statistics: an interview with Professor Pauline Barrieu, our Deputy Head of Department and a member of our Risk and Stochastics Group. Professor Barrieu is also Co-Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS).
Posted on 12 May 2016
Thank you to all the speakers and delegates who participated in the 10th Risk and Stochastics Conference on 21 and 22 April 2016, and a big thanks to Winton for hosting the conference.
Posted on 25 April 2016
PhD students and members of staff from the Department of Statistics visited the Big Bang Data exhibition at Somerset House on Wednesday 24 February.
Posted 7 March 2016
We are delighted to announce that our very own Meena Kotecha has been named an 'LSE Innovator' by the Learning Technology and Innovation (LTI) department at LSE. The title describes people who are leading and living innovative practice in their teaching. Meena has been teaching MA107, ST102 and MG211.2 since October 2006. You can read about the secret of her success, and view her short video interview here.
In addition to this, Meena has recently been invited to speak at the RSS 2016 International Conference on the subject "Communicating Statistics to Non-specialist University Students." Meena will present with two academics whom she has invited from UCL and the University of Manchester to cover degree paths such as life sciences and medical science. You can view more information on the Conference here.
The Department would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Meena on her achievements.
We are deeply saddened by the news that Professor Peter Hall, LSE Centennial Professor in 2000-2002, Fellow of the Royal Society, Foreign Member of the National Academy of Science (USA), and Fellow of Australian Academy of Science, passed away on 9 January 2016.
Our condolences are extended to his family.
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The Winter 2015 Graduation Ceremony for Department of Statistics postgraduate students took place on 14 December 2015. Eileen Boyce attended the post-ceremony reception on behalf of Winton to congratulate Finbarr O'Donoghue, the recipient of the Winton Prize for Best Dissertation in MSc Statistics/MSc Statistics Financial Statistics.
We extend our congratulations to all our students who graduated in 2015.
Posted on 15 December 2015
Students in the Department of Statistics had their Christmas party at Sway in Great Queen Street (WC2B) on 30 November 2015. Some more photos can be viewed here.
Posted on 3 December 2015
PhD students and staff braved the cold weather on 24 November 2015 to go ice skating at Somerset House.
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Martin Clarke, the Government Actuary, gave the annual Worshipful Company of Actuaries lecture to our Actuarial Science undergraduate students on 9 November 2016. The title of his lecture was Financial Risks in Government.
Abstract: As a specialist adviser on some of the major financial liabilities of government, the Government Actuary is well-placed to reflect on the attitude to risk within Whitehall and to describe the professional challenges of his unique position.
Actuarial involvement in government can be traced back to the 19th century and the Government Actuary's Department has been around for nearly 100 years. The current Government Actuary will explain the role of actuaries in government today, focusing on areas which are distinct from private sector work:
1) Intergenerational fairness in pensions and social security - the rate of exchange for risks that are underwritten across generations and the levers that government has to manage them.
2) The quantification and risk mitigation for contingent liabilities and other sovereign risks. Some recent case studies of government initiatives supported by actuarial analysis.
3) The support of robust decision-making through professionally-sourced analysis. How the analytical professions including actuaries interface across government to inform policy-making.
Dennis Tay received the annual WCA award for best actuarial science student.
Posted on 20 November 2015
The team behind the BBC programme Climate Change by Numbers, which included Professor Leonard Smith, Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS), has won the gold AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in the category of 'In-Depth Reporting'.
The awards recognise outstanding reporting for a general audience and honour individuals (rather than institutions, publishers or employers) for their coverage of the sciences, engineering and mathematics.
The judges said that the team "used clever analogies and appealing graphics to discuss three key numbers that help clarify important questions about the scale and pace of human influence on climate. The program featured a trio of mathematicians who use numbers to reveal patterns in data, assess risk, and help predict the future."
Posted on 20 November 2015
This half-day session takes place at the Royal Statistical Society on Tuesday 9 February 2016. It has been organised by Dr Sara Geneletti, a member of our Social Statistics group, who will introduce the sessions. Three data situations are explored where units have been randomised in some way without a trial taking place. The speakers are Vanessa Didelez (University of Bristol), Dominik Hangartner (LSE and University of Zurich) and Ioannis Bakolis (King's College London).
Please visit the Royal Statistical Society Stats Life events calendar for more information.
Posted on 17 November 2015
Thank you very much to all our students and staff who attended the "Probability and Statistics: Tools for Understanding the World" residential weekend at Cumberland Lodge on 13-15 November 2015. This included a special talk entitled Predictions, probability and JEDI insights by Professor Leonard Smith, the Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS)
Just six weeks after its launch, the Maths & Stats Support Centre has established itself as the go-to source of advice for students on LSE's core quantitative courses. Please read the full blog entry by Academic developer Mark Baltovic here.
Posted on 13 November 2015
LSE has released the findings of a five-year research project tracking the impact of climate change on the insurance sector.
The multi-million pound project, undertaken by the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, has involved more than 30 academics, government and industry bodies, all working together to analyse the financial risks and opportunities posed by climate change.
Sponsored by Munich Re, one of the world's leading insurance reinsurers, the project has linked scientific findings of climate change with their economic impact on financial products, disaster loss insurance and forecasting.
Established in October 2008 with a multi-million pound budget over a five-year period, the Programme funded LSE researchers, visiting professors and a PhD student, as well as events and activities. The Programme's research was directed by Professor Leonard Smith, Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS).
Professor Smith said: "These findings pull together in one place the major insights and accomplishments achieved, from posters to presentations, with the full literature available. It shows what can be accomplished when industry and academia work in concert."
The Report can be downloaded here and includes the abstracts of two technical papers co-authored by Professor Pauline Barrieu, the Deputy Head of the Department of Statistics and Co-Director of CATS.
Posted on 11 November 2015
2015 is a year of Bowley anniversaries – 120 years since his first lecture at LSE, 100 years since his appointment as Professor of Statistics and 80 years since his retirement in 1935.
Arthur Bowley was born in Bristol in 1869. Aged two when his father James Bowley died he was brought up by his mother, Maria Johnson, and a supportive extended family. In 1879 he entered Christ's Hospital eventually specialising in mathematics and receiving annual prizes. In 1888 went to Trinity College Cambridge with a scholarship in mathematics, apparently destined to be a mathematics teacher. Bowley's burgeoning interest in social conditions – reading Fabian Society pamphlets and subscribing to the Economic Journal – encouraged his interest in the developing discipline of statistics.
Read the full article at LSE History, celebrating 120 years of LSE.
Published on 6 November 2015
Professor Pauline Barrieu, our Deputy Head of Department and a member of our Risk and Stochastics group, gave an invited talk on Assessing Financial Model Risk at INFORMS 2015 annual meeting. The event took place at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on 1-4 November 2015. Professor Barrieu's talk was chaired by Patrick Cheridito, Princeton University.
Abstract: Model risk has a huge impact on any risk measurement procedure and its
quantification is therefore a crucial step. In this paper, we introduce three quantitative measures of model risk when choosing a particular reference model within a given class: the absolute measure of model risk, the relative measure of model risk and the local measure of model risk. Each of the measures has a specific purpose and so allows for flexibility.
The institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is the largest society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research (O.R.), management science and analytics.
Posted on 4 November 2015
Statistics without Mathematics, a new book written by Professor Emeritus David J Bartholomew, is now available from Sage Publications. The books deals with the ideas that drive statistics and is an ideal primary for students who need an introduction to the concepts of statistics. The book provides an informal introduction that sets out the conceptual tools required by anyone undertaking statistical procedures for the first time and those needing a fresh perspective whilst studying the work of others.
Key topics include variability; standard distributions; correlation; relationship; sampling; inference
Professor Bartholomew joined LSE in 1973 and remained with us until his retirement in 1996. He was a Pro-Director between 1988 and 1991. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society between 1993 and 1995 and is a Fellow of the British Academy.
In December 2011 the Department of Statistics held a conference honouring the scientific achievements of Professor Bartholomew. Photos from that conference can be viewed here.
Posted on 2 November 2015
Professor Pauline Barrieu, a member of our Risk and Stochastics group, gave a public lecture on Assessing financial model risk at Collegium Helveticum (a joint initiative of ETH Zürich and the University of Zurich) on Thursday 8 October 2015.
Abstract: Model risk has a huge impact on any financial or insurance risk measurement procedure and its quantification is therefore a crucial step. In this paper, we introduce three quantitative measures of model risk when choosing a particular reference model within a given class: the absolute measure of model risk, the relative measure of model risk and the local measure of model risk. Each of the measures has a specific purpose and so allows for flexibility. We illustrate the various notions by studying some relevant examples, so as to emphasize the practicability and tractability of our approach.
Please see further information here.
You can listen to an audio recording of the lecture here.
Posted on 13 October 2015
The department is proud to announce that Dr James Abdey is one of the five inaugural LTI LSE Innovators case studies. James is a passionate advocate of student learning and innovative pedagogy, as well as being an engaging teacher who uses technology for the betterment of the student experience.
Learning Technology and Innovation (LTI) supports innovation in teaching and learning with technology at the LSE. Its series of case studies, LSE Innovators, highlights the people who are leading innovative practice in their teaching.
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Posted on 13 October 2015
Anna Louise Schröder, a member of our Time Series group, is the second recipient of the department's annual PhD Student Research Poster Prize of £500 for her research poster Frequency-Specific Change-Point Detection in Multichannel EEG Seizure Recordings.
Anna is in the fourth and final year of her PhD and is supervised by Professor Piotr Fryzlewicz. Her research interests include nonstationary time series, in particular change-point detection in mean and variance, as well as in time-varying spectra, with applications to finance and neuroscience.
Please view a PDF copy of the poster here.
Posted on 7 October 2015
Professor Irini Moustaki, a member of our Social Statistics group, was a keynote speaker at the 12th Conference of the section of methods and evaluation of the German Psychological Society (12. Tagung der Facgruppe Methoden & Evaluation der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie). The conference took place at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena on 16-18 September 2015 and Professor Moustaki's talk was on "Modelling item missingness in cross-sectional multivariate data and drop out in longitudinal multivariate data: a latent variable approach".
Abstract: Sample surveys collect information on a number of variables for a randomly selected number of respondents. Among other things, the aim is often to measure some underlying trait(s) of the respondents through their responses to a set of questions and that is often achieved by fitting a latent variable model.
Surveys are either cross-sectional or longitudinal and missingness occurs in both. Cross-sectional surveys often suffer from item non-response where longitudinal surveys suffer from drop out and item non-response. A latent variable approach is adopted for handling non-ignorable item non-response and drop out. Various model specifications are proposed to model the missing data mechanism together with the measurement and structural model. The model for the missing data mechanism will serve two purposes: first to characterize the item non-response/ drop-out as ignorable or non-ignorable and consequently to study the patterns of missingness/drop out and characteristics of non-respondents but also to study through a sensitivity analysis the effect that a misspecified model for the missing data mechanism might have on the structural part of the model.
The models proposed will be applied to real data from the European Social Survey and the British Household Panel Survey.
Posted on 23 September 2015
Professor Kostas Kardaras, a member of our Risk and Stochastics group, will give a short series of Minerva Foundation lectures at Columbia University (Department of Mathematics) on 13, 16, 20 and 22 October 2015. The title is "Monotone convex analysis on $L^0_+$".
Abstract: Of importance in the field of Mathematical Finance and Economics is the space $L^0$, consisting of all equivalence classes of measurable functions built over a sigma-finite measure space equipped with the topology of convergence in measure. The absence of local convexity of the $L^0$-topology renders the use of traditional functional-analytic methods---especially those relying on the Hahn-Banach theorem and its offspring---impossible. In this series of talks, we shall develop a theory for monotone (nondecreasing) convex and concave functionals on $L^0_+$, the nonnegative orthant of $L^0_+$. Classical results in convex analysis, such as Fenchel-Moreau duality, have appropriate equivalents through a natural, but non-classical, ``duality'' pairing of $L^0_+$ with itself. Standard topics such as arbitrage theory, utility maximization and existence of equilibrium will be presented as applications of the abstract theory. If time permits, certain deeper results on the structure of $L^0_+$ will also be discussed.
Posted on 22 September 2015
Professor Leonard Smith, Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS), is a keynote speaker at the 3rd National eScience Symposium Accelerating Scientific Discovery in Amsterdam on 8 October 2015. Professor Smith's talk will be on "Doing Science in the Dark".
Posted on 21 September 2015
Professor Pauline Barrieu (Deputy Head of the Department of Statistics, Co-Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series and a member of our Risk and Stochastics group) will give a public lecture on Assessing financial model risk at Collegium Helveticum (a joint initiative of ETH Zürich and the University of Zurich) on Thursday 8 October 2015.
Please see further information here and here.
Posted on 18 September 2015
Dr Wicher Bergsma (Associate Professor in our Social Statistics group) and Professors Piotr Fryzlewicz and Qiwei Yao were amongst the participants at the Non-likelihood Based Statistical Modelling event at the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology (CRiSM), University of Warwick, on 7-9 September 2015. The scientific organiser of this workshop was Professor Emeritus Howell Tong, Chair in Statistics at LSE from 1999 until his retirement in 2009.
Posted on 10 September 2015
The Department of Statistics is deeply saddened to report that Claus Moser, Baron Moser, of Regent's Park in the London Borough of Camden, died on 4 September 2015 at the age of 92. Baron Moser first taught at LSE in 1943 at the invitation of Sir Maurice Kendall. Following service in the Royal Air Force he returned to LSE in 1946 and became Professor of Social Statistics in 1961. He was appointed Director of the Central Statistical Office by Harold Wilson, then Prime Minister, in 1967 and made a Knight Commander of the Bath (KCB) in 1971. He was made a life peer in 2001.
Posted on 7 September 2015
The video of Professor Pauline Barrieu discussing her approach to modelling and changing trends in the financial markets has now been viewed more than 1,000 times. Watch the video on You Tube.
Professor Barrieu is the Deputy Head of the Department of Statistics and a member of our Risk & Stochastics group. She is also the Co-Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS). Her research interests are focused on model uncertainty, insurance-linked securitization, contract designing, environmental economics and financial mathematics.
Posted on 7 September 2015
The Centre for Statistical Methodology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) will host the 4th annual meeting of the UK Causal Inference Meeting (UK-CIM), which will take place from Wednesday 12 April 2016 to Friday 15 April 2016. This meeting is co-organised by LSE. A selection of pre-conference courses will take place on Tuesday 12 April 2016.
The UK-CIM is an initiative to organise a regular UK based meeting on causal inference as a collaborative effort across the methodology research community in the health, economics and social sciences.
Please visit the conference website here.
In the second of a series of meetings bridging the London and Paris mathematical finance communities, a two-day London-Paris Bachelier Workshop on Mathematical Finance takes place in the Great Hall at King's College London on Friday 25 September 2015 and Saturday 26 September 2015.
The purpose of the workshop is to exchange information about recent research being carried out in the two communities, and to encourage cross-channel research collaborations.
Speakers include Dr Hao Xing, a member of the Risk and Stochastics group in the Department of Statistics, as well as Dr Christoph Czichowsky of the financial mathematics group in the Department of Mathematics. Dr Luciano Campi (Risk and Stochastics group) is a member of the organising committee.
Please visit the workshop website, here.
Posted 3 September 2015
The Department of Statistics says a big thank you to all the speakers and delegates who participated in the Current Challenges in Financial Mathematics and Economics workshop in August 2015.
Posted on 27 August 2015
Professor Irini Moustaki, a member of our Social Statistics group, taught Latent Varaible Modelling and Structural Equation Modelling for Social Sciences Research on 17 to 21 August 2015 as part of the Methods Summer Programme.
Further Methods Summer Programme courses were taught be Dr James Abdey (Statistical Methods for Social Research using SPSS) and Dr Matteo Barigozzi (Factor Models in Time Series with Applications in Macroeconomics and Finance).
Posted on 21 August 2015
Imelda Noble, Sarah McManus and Steve Ellis from the Department of Statistics joined professional services staff colleagues from other departments on Wednesday 5 August 2015 to volunteer for clearing work at Hackney City Farm.
Posted on 7 August 2015
The inaugural Rajendra Bhansali Prize for Best Overall Performance by an MSc Risk and Stochastics Student has been awarded to Hua Li, a graduate from our MSc in Risk and Stochastics and the staff-student liaison representative for the programme in the 2014-15 academic session.
The Rajendra Bhansali Prize is donated by Rajendra Bhansali, graduate (BSc(Econ), 1967 and PhD, 1971) and former member of staff (1967-68) of the LSE and now Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Liverpool, who is pictured here with Hua Li at our graduation ceremony.
Posted on 20 July 2015
Irini Moustaki, Professor of Statistics in our Social Statistics group, has been appointed as Honorary Professor in the Department of Psychological Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. This is for the period 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2018.
Posted on 2 July 2015
IRT modelling in the presence of zero-inflation with application to psychiatric disorder severity, authored by Melanie M Wall (Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute), Jung Yeon Park (Columbia University) and Irini Moustaki (LSE), is now available to read at Applied Psychological Measurement (OnlineFirst). Also see LSE Research Online.
Abstract: Item response theory (IRT) has been increasingly utilized in psychiatry for the purpose of describing the relationship among items in psychiatric disorder symptom batteries hypothesized to be indicators of an underlying latent continuous trait representing the severity of the psychiatric disorder. It is common to find zero-inflated (ZI) data such that a large proportion of the sample has none of the symptoms. It has been argued that standard IRT models of psychiatric disorder symptoms may be problematic due to the unipolar nature of many clinical traits. In the current article, the authors propose to address this by using a mixture model to approximate the unknown latent trait distribution in the IRT model while allowing for the presence of a nonpathological subgroup. The basic idea is that instead of assuming normality for the underlying trait, the latent trait will be allowed to follow a mixture of normals including a degenerate component that is fixed to represent a non-pathological group for whom the psychiatric symptoms simply are not relevant and hence are all expected to be zero. The authors demonstrate how the ZI mixture IRT method can be implemented in Mplus and present a simulation study comparing its performance with a standard IRT model assuming normality under different scenarios representative of psychiatric disorder symptom batteries. The model incorrectly assuming normality is shown to have biased discrimination and severity estimates. An application further illustrates the method using data from an alcohol use disorder criteria battery.
Professor Moustaki is a member of our Social Statistics group.
Posted on 26 June 2015
PhD students, alumni and staff in the Department of Statistics got together at Finsbury Leisure Centre on 11 June 2015 for a friendly badminton competition. Very special thanks go to Baojun Dou (a PhD student in our Time Series group), Cheng Li (a PhD student in our Risk & Stochastics group) and Shaojun Guo (a research officer in our Time Series group) for organising this.
Pictured below
Back row: Qiwei Yao; Ali Habibnia; Wicher Bergsma; Piotr Fryzlewicz; Cheng Li; Shaojun Guo
Front row: Yajing Zhu; Jia Wei Lim; Phoenix Feng; Wenqian Cheng
Posted on 12 June 2015
Dr Matteo Barigozzi, a member of our Time Series group, is one of the confirmed speakers at the Econometrics of Networks Workshop, organised by the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Cambridge. This workshop takes place on 14 June 2015.
Dr Barigozzi's talk is 'NETS: Network Estimation for Time Series' (joint work with Christian Brownless, Universitat Pompeu Fabra).
Dr Beatrice Acciaio and Professor Kostas Kardaras, members of our Risk and Stochastics group, will be plenary speakers at the 7th General Advanced Mathematical Methods in Finance and Swissquote Conference 2015 on 7-10 September 2015 at the Swisstech Convention Centre, EPFL, Switzerland. Professor Pauline Barrieu, our Deputy Head of Department and also a memember of our Risk and Stochastics group, is a member of the scientific committee for this conference.
Posted on 11 June 2015
Professor Pauline Barrieu, our Deputy Head of Department and a member of our Risk and Stochastics group, is a member of the scientific committee for the IME 2015 conference at the University of Liverpool on 24-26 June 2015. The plenary speakers are Søren Asmussen, Montserrat Guillén and Stéphane Loisel.
Professor Barrieu is the Co-Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS).
The British Polling Council (BPC) has announced further details of the inquiry into the performaance of the opinion polls that is has established in collaboration with the Market Research Society (MRS). Under the chairmanship of Professor Patrick Sturgis, Director of the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) at the University of Southampton, the inquiry is charged with the task of establishing the degree of inaccuracy in the polls, the reasons for the inaccurancies it identifies, and whether the findings and conduct of the polls were adequately communicated to the general public.
The membership of the inquiry panel includes Jouni Kuha, Associate Professor of Statistics and Research Methodology at LSE. Dr Kuha is the Head of the Department of Methodology and a member of the Social Statistics group in the Department of Statistics.
Posted on 9 June 2015
We say a fond farewell to Penelope Smith, our undergraduate administrator, who is leaving us temporarily while she and her husband Darren await the birth of their first child. Everyone in the department wishes Penny the very best in the coming months and looks forward to her return. Some of our staff are pictured here with Penny, with a cake baked especially for the occasion by our department manager, Imelda Noble.
Professor Pauline Barrieu discusses her approach to modelling and changing trends in the financial markets. Watch the video on You Tube.
Professor Barrieu is the Deputy Head of the Department of Statistics and a member of our Risk & Stochastics group. She is also the Co-Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS).
More videos from the "Gearty Grillings" series can be viewed here.
Posted on 4 June 2015
Wicher Bergsma, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and a member of our Social Statistics group, helped pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to develop a better way to analyse vaccine trials.
You can read more here and download a PDF copy of the impact case study.
Posted on 1 June 2015
Our PhD student Ali Habibnia (Time Series group and Systemic Risk Centre) presented his research poster Nonlinear forecasting with many predictors by neural network factor models at the LSE Research Festival exhibition on 21 May 2015, where is was chosen as "highly commended research". Ali had previously won a prize of £500 for this poster, awarded by the department's Research Committee.
You can view the poster here.
Ali Habibnia with our Head of Department, Professor Chris Skinner.
Posted on 22 May 2015
The department's annual PhD Presentation Event took place on 19 and 20 May 2015, affording our MPhil and PhD students an opportunity to present their research topics and findings to an audience of fellow students and staff. A big thank you goes to everyone who presented at and attended this event, which was hosted by Dr Angelos Dassios, our Doctoral Programme Director.
More information about the event can be viewed here.
Professor Hui Wang from the School of Finance at the Central University of Finance and Economics has been appointed as a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Statistics for the period 14 August 2015 to 13 August 2016.
Professor Hui's visit is hosted by Professor Qiwei Yao of our Time Series group.
Posted on 14 May 2015
Jouni Kuha, Associate Professor of Statistics and Research Methodology and Head of the Department of Methodology at LSE, explains the detail behind the exit poll forecast and indicates some of the difficulties in putting together a forecast under considerable time pressures. Please read his blog entry here.
Posted on 7 May 2015
Dr Milt Mavrakakis, Dr James Abdey, Dr Anastasia Kakou and Dr Jose Pina-Sánchez from the Department of Statistics attended the LSE Student-led Teaching Excellence Awards reception in the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre on 5 May 2015. Milt, Anastasia and Jose won Class Teaching Awards. James won an Award for Inspirational Teaching and was highly commended.
Posted on 6 May 2015
Dr Elena A Erosheva, Associate Professor of Statistics and Social Work, from the Centre for Statistics and Social Sciences at the University of Washington visited the department between 27 April 2015 and 4 May 2015. This visit was hosted by Professor Irini Moustaki of our Social Statistics group. During her visit, Elena gave a talk on Life-Course Data Analysis: A Generalized Hierarchical Unimodal Curve Registration Approach.
Abstract: A major aim of life course data analysis is to describe the within- and between-individual variability in a behavioural outcome, such as crime or drug use. Popular methods for analysing individual behavioural trajectories -- group-based trajectory and growth mixture models -- rely on a combination of growth curve and mixture modelling. Applications of these methods have been popular with criminologists and developmental psychologists, and are quickly expanding to other areas such as clinical medicine and public health. Most commonly, these applications seek to identify distinct trajectory patterns. In this talk, I start by describing these traditional approaches to life course data analysis, and summarize observations on the statistical practice. I then present an alternative approach, Unimodal Curve Registration (UCR). This approach allows researchers to describe individual criminal careers via individual-specific phase and amplitude departures from the unimodal population age-crime curve. The generalized hierarchical UCR approach accommodates different types of outcomes via underlying latent Gaussian random variables, and allows for covariate effects on phase and amplitude. The ideas are illustrated using (a) scale data on antisocial behaviour from Montreal Longitudinal and Experimental Study and (b) self-reported counts of yearly marijuana use from the Denver Youth Survey.
Joint work with Donatelo Telesca and Ross Matsueda
Posted on 5 May 2015
Ali Habibnia, a PhD candidate in the Department of Statistics (researcher in the Systemic Risk Centre and Time Series research group) will present his research poster entitled Nonlinear forecasting with many predictors by neural network factor models at the LSE Research Festival Exhibition on 21 May 2015.
More information about the festival can be viewed here.
Posted on 1 May 2015
Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné, Professor in the Département des affaires internationales at HEC Montréal, and Pauline Barrieu, Professor in the Department of Statistics and Co-Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series, give a talk on 30 April 2015 on Economic Policy when Models Disagree in the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science.
Abstract: This paper introduces a general approach to conceive public policy when there is no consensual model of the situation of interest. This approach builds on one basic attribute of rational policymakers -- namely their ability to appraise their experts' scenarios and forecasts -- and uses only one normative criterion: that the value to policymakers of a remedy's projected outcomes meets their willingness to escape the current situation. Unlike the methods currently put forward in the literature, it does not need -- but is compatible with -- a representative policymaker's objective function (as in the ambiguity aversion literature), a reference model (as in robust control theory) or some prior probability distribution over the set of supplied scenarios (as in Bayesian model-averaging). It can handle situations where policy decisions are made through collective deliberations and voting. Policies constructed in this manner are shown to be effective, robust, simple and precautionary in a precise and intuitive sense.
More information can be viewed here.
Professor Sinclair-Desgagné is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Statistics.
Posted on 30 April 2015
We are delighted to be able to announce that Dr James Abdey has been Highly Commended in the category of Award for Inspirational Teaching in the Student-led Teaching Excellence Awards 2015.
The awards are run by the LSE Students' Union, supported by the Teaching and Learning Centre and sponsored by the LSE Annual Fund.
Posted on 24 April 2015
Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy (SADL) is a programme currently open to undergraduate students in the Departments of Statistics, Social Policy, International Relations and Law. It is run by Learning Technology and Innovation (LTI) and the Library and it is now in its second year.
This year the SADL team appointed four Senior Ambassadors who completed the programme in 2013-14. The Seniors are all Statistics students and include third year student Seow Wei Chin and second year students Djelila Delior, Simran Masand and Eugene McGeown. Their role was to help plan and run the workshops in conjunction with LTI and Library staff and to supervise a group project which was presented at the end of the programme..
Please read more here (PDF download).
Posted on 23 March 2015
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (JEBS) has chosen Professor Irini Moustaki of our Social Statistics group as the Outstanding Reviewer for 2014. An award ceremony takes place at the Journal Publications Committee Reception in Chicago on 16 April 2015.
Posted on 11 March 2015
As part of the Methods Summer Programme (Quantitative Social Research Methods), Professor Irini Moustaki will teach ME115 Latent variable modelling and structural equation modelling for social sciences research on 17-21 August 2015.
Posted on 9 February 2015
As part of the Methods Summer Programme (Methods for Economists), Dr Matteo Barigozzi will teach ME111 Factor models in time series with applications in macroeconomics and finance on 24-28 August 2015.
As part of the Methods Summer Programme (Quantitative Social Research Methods), Dr James Abdey will teach ME108 Statistical methods for social research using SPSS on 17-28 August 2015.
Dr Erica L Thompson, a Research Officer working in the Centre for the Analysis of Time series (CATS), played a key role in the interpretations and presentation of the IPCC climate projections, translating changes in lifestyle/policy into impacts. Please read the press release here.
Professor Leonard Smith is the Director of CATS and Professor Pauline Barrieu is Co-Director. Professor Emeritus Henry Wynn is the Chair.
Posted on 28 January 2015
Journées à la mémoire de Marc Yor, a special conference in memory of Professor Marc Yor, who died on 9 January 2014, takes place in Paris on 3 to 5 June 2015, organised by the LPMA (Probabilities and Random Models Laboratory). Marc was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Statistics and an inspiration to all who knew him.
Please visit the conference website here.
Please read an obituary of Marc, written by Hélyette Geman and Monique Jeanblanc, here.
Posted on 20 January 2015
The Improving weather forecasts to avoid disruptions, damage and disaster REF impact case study film by Professor Leonard Smith has the highest hit rate of any LSE research impact film (as of 13/01/2015). You can watch the film here.
Professor Smith is the director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS).
Posted on 14 January 2015
Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné appointed Visiting Professor
We are very pleased to announce that Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné, Professor in the Département des affaires internationales at HEC Montréal, has been appointed as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Statistics. This appointment is for a period of three years from 1 December 2014 to 30 November 2017.
Posted on 15 December 2014
Heriot Watt Honorary Degree awarded to Ragnar Norberg
Heriot-Watt University has awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctorate) to Professor Ragnar Norberg of the University of Lyon 1 (Institut de Science Financiere et d'Assurances - ISFA). Professor Norberg was a Professor of Statistics at LSE from 2000 to 2010 and is now Emeritus Professor of Statistics. He was a founder member of our Risk and Stochastics group and the 2015 Risk and Stochastics Conference at the Royal Statistical Society is held in his honour.
Posted 25 November 2014
More of us are heading down social ladder, new research shows
A study by Oxford University and LSE shows that, contrary to what is widely supposed, there has been no decline in social mobility in Britain over recent decades but more of us are moving down rather than up the social ladder. The study looked at a total of more than 20,000 British men and women in four birth cohorts from 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1980-84.
'The mobility problem in Britain: New findings from analysis of birth cohort data', by Associate Professor Erzsébet Bukodi, Dr John Goldthorpe and Dr Lorraine Waller of Oxford University, with Dr Jouni Kuha (LSE, departments of Methodology and Statistics), is published in the early online issue of the British Journal of Sociology on Thursday 6 November 2014.
The researchers used data from the National Survey of Health and Development (1946), the National Child Development Study (1958), the British Cohort Study (1970) and the UK Household Longitudinal Study (1980-84).
Posted 7 November 2014
Irini Moustaki to assume the role of Editor-in-Chief of Psychometrika
With effect from 1 November 2014 Professor Irini Moustaki takes up the post of Editor-in-Chief of Psychometrika, the scientific journal of the Psychometric Society. This post is for a period of four years.
Posted 22 October 2014
ESRC future research leaders fellowship awarded to Dr Myrsini Katsikatsou
The department is delighted to announced that Dr Myrsini Katsikatsou has been awarded an ESRC future research leaders fellowship, total value £242,870. The research project, "Methods of analysis and inference for social survey data within the framework of latent variable modelling and pairwise likelihood", will start on 1 October 2014 for a period of 36 months.
Dr Katsikatsou is currently the research officer on the NCRM/ESRC research grant "Item nonresponse and measurement error in cross-national surveys: methods of data collection and analysis" held by Dr Jouni Kuha.
Posted 18 July 2014
Themed edition of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics)
Dr Jouni Kuha and Professor Irini Moustaki have collaborated as guest associate editors to produce a special themed edition of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), volume 63 (2), pages 191-360, February 2014. Originating in a two-day conference on social statistics at the LSE in December 2011, organised by Professor Moustaki to honour the scientific contributions of Professor Emeritus David J Bartholomew, the papers in this edition represent a wider range of styles than is usual for the journal.
Posted: 18 March 2014
Professor Marc Yor (1949 - 2014)
We are deeply saddened to report that Professor Marc Yor has died. He was liked and respected by all who knew him and will be greatly missed. Our condolences are extended to his family.
Marc Yor made pioneering contributions to research on stochastic processes and their applications in financial mathematics. He had been a professor at Paris VI since 1981 and was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Statistics at LSE.
Posted : 10 January 2014
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