<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>csdg/archive/0910</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>13</revnumber><date>2013-03-08 10:17:25</date><authorinitials>localhost</authorinitials><revremark>converted to 1.6 markup</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>12</revnumber><date>2010-05-11 09:01:29</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>11</revnumber><date>2010-05-11 09:00:11</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>10</revnumber><date>2010-03-31 08:45:45</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>9</revnumber><date>2010-03-03 11:20:33</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>8</revnumber><date>2010-03-03 10:26:29</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2010-02-26 09:58:49</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2010-02-26 09:57:19</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2010-02-26 09:57:10</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2010-02-09 16:07:01</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2009-11-20 10:18:05</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2009-10-21 09:08:15</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2009-10-21 09:06:12</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>2009- 2010 Session</title><para>Attachments are in pdf format. </para><para><emphasis role="strong">20th October</emphasis> – Andrew <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910/statswiki/McGuinness#">McGuinness</ulink> (EMB Consulting) on <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=NOT21a.pdf">'Monte Carlo methods in General Insurance'.</ulink> Some of the models mentioned in the talk can be implemented in R. In particular details in R of the GLM fitted to the Mack model (section 3.5 in the pdf file) are given <ulink url="http://toolkit.pbworks.com/R-Examples-For-Actuaries">here.</ulink> </para><para><emphasis role="strong">19th November</emphasis> – Anne Campbell (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and former MP for Cambridge) on <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=NOT21b.pdf">'Would statistics help your MP?'</ulink> </para><para><emphasis role="underline">2010</emphasis> </para><para><emphasis role="strong">9th February</emphasis> – Tony Sabin (Amgen) on  <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=NOT211.pdf">'Predicting the probability of developing a successful cancer therapy'.</ulink> Powerpoint slides of Tony's talk are <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=cancer.ppt">here.</ulink> </para><para><emphasis role="strong">2nd March</emphasis> – Bill Janeway (Warburg Pincus &amp; Cambridge University) on <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=NOT212.pdf">'Six impossible things before breakfast...revisited:Lessons from the crisis'.</ulink> Powerpoint slides of Bill's talk are <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=economy.ppt">here.</ulink> </para><para><emphasis role="strong">30th March</emphasis> – Doug Easton (CRUK Genetic Epidemiology Unit) on <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=NOT213.pdf">'Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer'.</ulink>  </para><para><emphasis role="strong">10th May</emphasis> - Tim Sparks (Poznan University of Life Sciences) on <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910/statswiki/csdg/archive/0910?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=NOT214.pdf">'Harmless Pastime or Serious Science? 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