roxygen2 7.1.0: a handful of bug fixes + more support knitr-style execution of R code within docs thanks to Gábor Csárdi @[email protected]. See tidyverse.org/blog/2020/03/r… for more details #rstats

1. The govt strategy on #Coronavirus is more refined than those used in other countries and potentially very effective. But it is also riskier and based on a number of assumptions. They need to be correct, and the measures they introduce need to work when they are supposed to.

In line with the latest Government advice on COVID-19, the university has now suspended all face-to-face teaching as we transition to remote learning for all taught programmes from Monday 23 March. brighton.ac.uk/coronavirus Thread below for more key updates:

Our president elect and co-chair of the RSS task force on COVID-19, Sylvia Richardson CBE gives her expert view on the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation projections sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reactio…

A must read article by ⁦Sylvia Richardson CBE⁩ and ⁦David Spiegelhalter⁩. theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…

statsandr.com/blog/a-package…

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Mathematics (0.60 FTE) at University of Brighton jobs.ac.uk/job/CAB591/lec…

Excited to announce three online talks from Camille Maringe, Francesca and Paul Lambert on Advances in Survival Analysis. Organised by the Biometric Society (British and Irish Region). Tuesday 22nd September 15.00-17.00 BST. eventbrite.co.uk/e/advances-in-…

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IBS:BIR meeting - “Estimating Abundance and Beyond” - 11th Nov - speakers Ruth King @AntonyOverstall David Borchers. For more details and how to register - see: biometricsociety.org.uk/events/abundan…

Continuing our work in 2021 fostering interdisciplinary collaborations #Computing Applications #DigitalHealth with Prof Mouratidis karina rodríguez @NatalieEdelman Dr C Aicken Dr Theo Fotis Anestis Touloumis Dr E Ford University of Brighton Sport and health sciences BSMS CEMInfo UoB Research Services

The abstract submission deadline for CNC21 has been extended to January 29th👇👇

PhD studies event at our Centre: Celebrating the work of our #PhD students and discussing ways to collaborate and support existing and future projects #research University of Brighton Brighton Doctoral College UoB Research Services

An opportunity to join our maths/stats team at University of Brighton starting this Fall 👇👇👇 Job Vacancy at the University of Brighton: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Mathematical Sciences jobs.brighton.ac.uk/SM3020-21-189

We've raised concerns with Birkbeck University expressing serious concern with their proposed cuts to their mathematics and statistics courses Co-signed by our former president Sylvia Richardson CBE with London Mathematical Society, IMA & Edinburgh Mathematical Society lms.ac.uk/sites/default/…

Call now open for the Young Biometrician Award 2023 #YBA_2023, closing date 30 June.

Updated R📦{multgee}! Users can now compute criteria to guide them for variable selection and for the selection of association structure. #rstats