With: International Development Section of the Royal Statistical Society. Award: Mardia Prize, Royal Statistical Society Project A series of workshops to develop a framework for statistical contributions to interdisciplinary work on the sustainable management of natural resources for poverty alleviation Motivation In low income countries, many poor people are dependent on the use of and […]
Inferring survival rates of discarded plaice from fishing vessesls
CEFAS with funding from DEFRA. Aim To estimate the proportion of plaice that might survive being returned to the sea when they are caught accidentally whilst fishing for other species. This is so that CEFAS can provide scientific evidence to guide DEFRA’s decision making about the implementation of the EU Common Fisheries Policy. Specifically, about whether […]
How to quantify everyone’s (lack of) knowledge to help make better decisions
I’m running a short workshop at the Conservation Optimism conference on 21 April 2017. The workshop aims to demonstrate how background knowledge from different experts, both stakeholders and scientists, can be quantified and used to complement other data sources from more formal scientific studies. In the last 20 years, as Bayesian methods have flourished, statisticians […]
