School of Mathematics

Prof. Ruth King presented keynote at RSS annual conference

On Thursday 10th September, Prof. Ruth King presented a keynote lecture at the Royal Statistical Society's Annual Conference.

The keynote - The past, present and future of capture-recapture - gave a history of capture-recapture techniques and their associated applications, as well as examples of unreliable population estimates when blindly applying the standard approach. Ruth also outlined modern data collection developments that have led to further statistical challenges and discussed some of the associated novel techniques that have been developed to address these issues.

More information on the RSS Annual Conference

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