As part of the annual Irish Statistical Association’s form, CASI (11th-13th May), which this year took place in Trinity College Dublin, a BIR contributed session was held. The session was organized so that at least an author/ co-author is member of the BIR or a member of the Biometric society in general. The speakers and their titles are detailed below;
Chair: Silvia D'Angelo
11.00 - 11.20 Rishabh Vishwakarma Can we confirm the null hypothesis? Quantifying functional redundancy between species in an ecosystem
11.20 - 11.40 Litty Mathew A method for testing the variability of predictions across multiple responses in multivariate regression models
11.40 - 12.00 Clarice Garcia Borges Demétrio Discrete survival models for biological pest control
12.00 - 12.20 Hollie Hughes Accuracy and efficiency in Bayesian spatial modelling: real-world and simulated evaluation of BYM2 computation
12.20 - 12.40 Marta Cipriani Model-based dynamic prediction in mixture cure models
The special session was well attended and attendees were given information about the BIR and a QR code to access the membership page at the beginning. Students were especially encouraged to become members. The session had five speakers that were either members of the ISA or BIR, or associated with the wider IBS. Talk topics ranged from modelling ecosystem function relationships with biodiversity to spatial Bayesian methods, survival analysis and multivariate methods.