Contents Keynote Talk 1 - Tuesday 14:00 P. Green : Colouring and breaking sticks, pairwise coincidence losses and clustering expression profiles ......................... 1 Session 1 - Tuesday 15:20 J. Haslett and A. Parnell : Monotone smoothing: application of a compound Poisson-Gamma process to modelling radiocarbon- dated depth chronologies .......................................... 2 C. Gormley and B. Murphy : A grade of membership model for rank data ................................................................. 4 I. Ha, Y. Lee and Y. Pawitan : Genetic Mixed-Effect Models for Twin Lifetime Data under LTRC ....................................... 6 C. Walsh : Trials and Observations. Combining Evidence. ...... 8 T. Fizpatrick : Industrial and applied statistics using the SAS sys- tem .................................................................. 9 Keynote Talk 2 - Wednesday 9:00 A. Rodnitzky : Estimating optimal dynamic treatment regimes from observational studies: can we hope to succeed? ................ 10 Keynote Talk 3 - Wednesday 9:50 D. Clayton : Statistical analysis of genome-wide case-control stud- ies of genotype-phenotype associations ......................... 11 Session 2 - Wednesday 11:00 J. Einbeck and J. Newell : A comparative study of nonparametric derivative estimators ............................................. 12 N. Coffey, K. Hayes, O. Donoghue and A. Harrison : Functional Data Analysis and the Linear Mixed Effect Model .................. 15 H. Ding, G. Claeskens and M. Jansen : Wavelet Regression for Lack- of-Fit Tests in Semiparametric Mixed Models ................. 18 N. Fitzgerald, F. O’Sullivan, G. Newman, D. O’Mahony and N. O’Donovan : Statistical Characterisation of Errors in Estimation of Haemody- namic Parameters from Bolus Tracking with Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging. .............................................. 20