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 […]
Improving Population Modelling of Effects of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Wild Roach
Brunel University, Exeter University, Bob Burn. Funded by DEFRA Project Research has shown that some fish populations may be affected by exposure to oestrogens in sewage effluent; specifically male roach show signs of feminisation and have reduced reproductive success. This project aims to estimate the impact of the effects of this exposure on the long-term […]
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 […]
