November 27, 2013

How statistics can help cure cancer

Well, one of the ways.

Professor Terry Speed, an Australian statistician and geneticist, who gave public lectures in New Zealand this year as the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Distinguished Speaker, recently won the (Australian) Prime Minister’s Science Prize.

BBC News Magazine has an interview with him.

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »