Part B Statistical Lifetime Models
BS3b/OBS3b, Hilary Term 2014
- Lecturer: James Martin (email martin (at) stats.ox.ac.uk)
- Class tutors: David Steinsaltz, James Martin
- Teaching assistants: Eleonora Kreačič, Franz Rembart, Fiona Skerman
Timetable
- Lectures: HT 2014 weeks 1-8: Thursday 3pm and Friday 3pm
in Lecture Room 2 (Maths Institute)
- Classes: weeks 3-6, week 8, and the last class at the beginning of Trinity term.
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Trinity term revision:
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Monday week 3, 2.15-3.45pm, Seminar Room, 1 South Parks Road: Consultation session.
(These are "office hours"; come with any queries etc - I will not make a
presentation).
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Monday week 4, 2pm, Lecture Room, 1 South Parks Road: Revision lecture.
I will cover the 2012 exam paper, and also bits of the 2013 questions
as far as time permits.
(Or email me if there are particular other things you would like me to cover).
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Tuesday week 5, 2pm-3.30pm, Seminar room, 1 South Parks Road: Consultation session.
Example sheets
Material from lectures
David Steinsaltz's
lecture notes from a previous version of the course
(the syllabus is the same).
Lecture 1:
Slides
Edmund Halley,
An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind
,
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 17, 1693.
George Louis Leclerc de Buffon,
Essai d'arithmetique morale
, 1777.
Gregory M. Erickson, Philip J. Currie, Brian D. Inouye and Alice A. Winn,
Tyrannosaur Life Tables:
An Example of Nonavian Dinosaur
Population Biology,
Science vol. 313, pp. 213-217, 2006.
Lecture 3:
Slides
,
Example life table
Lecture 4:
Slides
Lecture 5:
ONS life expectancy report
Lecture 6:
Slides
Lectures 7-8:
Slides
Lecture 10:
Notes on the cohabitation example.
Kathleen Kiernan,
The rise of cohabitation and childbearing outside marriage in
Western Europe,
International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family vol. 15, pp. 1-21, 2001.
Lecture 12:
Slides
Lecture 16:
Slides