22 January 2015

Workshop Series in Applied Statistics – Statistical Methods in Medical Science

TheDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics held the 2nd day of the Workshop Seriesin Applied Statistics on 22 January 2015. The theme of the day was “StatisticalMethods in Medical Science”. The Department invited Dr Richard Bilonick,Assistant Professor of University of Pittsburgh, and Dr Xiaodan Fan, AssociateProfessor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, to be the guest speakers ofthe event. Our colleague, Dr Marco Yu, also gave a presentation in the workshop.The participants were amazed by how useful statistical models are in the fieldof medical science.

TheWorkshop Series in Applied Statistics is fully supported by Research GrantCouncil of Hong Kong Special Administration Region, China (Project ReferenceNo: UGC/IIDS14/P01/14).

Speakers of the day, Dr Fan (left), Dr Bilonick (middle) and Dr Yu (right), met before the start the of Workshop

Dr Bilonick’s presentation

Dr Yu’s presentation

Dr Fan’s presentation

Dr Bilonick and Dr Fan received a souvenir from the organiser

A group photo of the participants and the speakers