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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/statistics-and-actuarial-science/events/david-spro
 tt-distinguished-lecture-professor-peter-diggle
LOCATION:STC - Science Teaching Complex 200 University Ave West Room: STC 0
 050 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:David Sprott Distinguished Lecture by Professor Peter Diggle\,\nLan
 caster University
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:A TALE OF TWO PARASITES: HOW CAN GAUSSIAN PROCESSES CONTRIBUTE 
 TO\nIMPROVED PUBLIC HEALTH IN AFRICA?\n\nIn this talk\, I will rst make so
 me general comments about the role of\nstatistical modelling in scientic r
 esearch\, illustrated by two\nexamples from infectious disease epidemiolog
 y. I will then describe in\ndetail how statistical modelling based on Gaus
 sian spatial stochastic\nprocesses has been used to construct region-wide 
 risk maps to inform\nthe operation of a multi-national control programme f
 or onchocerciasis\n(river blindness) in equatorial Africa. Finally\, I wil
 l describe\nwork-in progress aimed at exploiting recent developments in mo
 bile\nmicroscopy to enable more precise local predictions of community-lev
 el\nrisk.
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