Interests, Software and Applications

Areas of methodological interest of members of the Statistics Unit

• Likelihood estimation
• Linear and non-linear modelling
• Markov models
• Multilevel modelling
• Regression methods (linear, logistic and Poisson)
• Resampling methods
• Risk analysis
• Spatial epidemiology
• Survival analysis
• Theoretical statistics

Software packages and languages used

• C/C
• Epi Info/Epi Data
• Excel
• Fortran
• GLIM
• LogXact
• Maple
• Mathematica
• Minitab
• MLwiN
• R
• S Plus 
• SAS
• SPSS
• Stata
• StatXact
• Visual Basic

Some areas of application

• Capture/recapture
• Case-control studies
• Epidemiology
• Infectious disease transmission
• Microbiological surveillance
• Modelling and forecasting
• Outbreak detection/investigation
• Prevalence estimation
• Trend analysis
• Vaccine reactions and efficacy

Last reviewed: 12 July 2010