A virtual discussion covering the statistical aspects of Covid- 19 Monday 29 June, 17.30 to 19.00 The Parliamentary & Scientific Committee, an All-Party Parliamentary Group, and the oldest, having been formed in 1939, will be holding a Zoom discussion meeting on Monday 29 June, from 5.30pm to 7.00pm covering statistical aspects of Covid-19. Professor Olly Johnson […]
Archive | June, 2020
Undergraduate students tackle coronavirus testing as part of their final projects
Ellen Brown and Jack Burgess both completed their final year projects on group testing, an area that is currently being directly applied to efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Group testing is an area of mathematics that falls between statistics and combinatorics. It looks at subsections of a population that are in some way defective, […]
