Urban & regional systems (1)
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Date: Thursday 20 th July
Venue: Room 1, 1st floor, Arumugam Building
Time: 9.15-12.45
Title: Optimising the Use of Partial Information in Urban and Regional Systems
Organiser: Professor Hugh Neffendorf, Katalysis; University of Southampton
OPUS (Optimising the Use of Partial Information in Urban and Regional Systems) is a three year European Commission (Eurostat) project that has been developing a generic statistical framework for the optimal combination of complex spatial and temporal data from survey and non-survey sources. See www.opus-project.org . It will have reached its conclusion in April 2006. The sessions will report on the findings, methodology, metadata framework and tools developed by OPUS and will also include presentations by other specialists involved in Bayesian statistical analysis and data combination.
Morning Session: OPUS Method Development
Chair: Professor Marcus Wigan, Oxford Systematics, Australia; Napier University
9.15-9.45 |
Introduction: the challenge of OPUS John Polak, Imperial College |
9.45-10.45 |
The OPUS Methodology (theory: into practice) Miles Logie, Minnerva/ CharlesLindveld, Imperial College – including demonstration |
| 10.45-11.15 | Coffee/tea |
11.15-12.00 |
Explaining Statistical Models through Metadata Andrew Westlake, SASC |
12.00-12.30 |
Comparing methods for data combination Dean Judson, US Bureau of the Census |
12.30-12.45 |
Discussion of OPUS methodology |
| 12.45-14.00 | Lunch - In the break, before and after lunch, the OPUS tools will be on show |
Further programme details available
(including slides, presentations and background information as appropriate)
Afternoon session - Practical Applications
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