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It is with great pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2025 Young Biometrician Award is Dr Ioannis Rotous for his paper "A Pólya Tree modelling framework for batch-mark data". This paper presents a novel Bayesian nonparametric framework for analysing batch-mark data, where animals are marked in groups rather than uniquely, using a Pólya ...

Report – Young-ISA Webinar Joint with the BIR Committee on Statistical Ecology Gabriel Rodrigues Palma The online event took place on Thursday, April 10th, 2025, as a collaboration between the Young Irish Statistical Association (Young-ISA) and the British and Irish Region (BIR) of the International Biometric Society. The event ran smoothly ...

The Art of Statistical Consultancy including Presidential Address Kirsty Hassall The afternoon event took place on 3rd December, 2024 in the lovely de Hardy room of the London Mathematical Society building in Russell Square. We had a hybrid setup which had a few hitches for which I can only apologise. The meeting was attended by approximately ...

We are deeply saddened to learn that Prof. Peter Armitage – former President and Honorary Life Member of the International Biometric Society – died last week, aged 99 years. We remember Peter for the depth and breadth of his statistical insight, the kindness and generosity of his dealings with scientific colleagues, and not least for the selflessness ...

2023 Young Biometrician Award We are happy to announce that the winner of the 2023 Young Biometrician Award is Dr Oliver Crook , a Florence Nightingale Fellow (Senior Research Associate) in the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, for his paper “Semi-Supervised Nonparametric Bayesian Modelling of Spatial Proteomics” (The Annals of Applied ...