• Monday 05 October - Tuesday 06 October 2020

Variability: How to Deal with It, Interpret It, and Learn from It

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  • Date

    Mon 05 - Tue 06 Oct 2020

  • Location

    Online Symposium

Monday 5 – Tuesday 6 October 2020 

Organisers:

 

Michael Tipton, University of Portsmouth, UK  

 

Igor Mekjavic, Insitut Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia 

 

Humans, other animals and engineering systems exhibit a wide range of individual responses to different stressors. Variability is ubiquitous, but we often choose to ignore it, hide it or delete it. Outliers are frequently removed from data sets and variability is hidden or ignored by use of summary statistics such as mean and mode.

 

The aim of this symposium was to consider when and how individual variability should be embraced as an important source of information. On the mornings of Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 October, physiologists, clinicians, statisticians and mathematicians gave examples of variability in data from a wide range of human, animal and engineering investigations. They then provided recommendations regarding research design and analytical methods that allow researchers to better understand, interpret, and learn from the variation in their data.

 

In addition to this online symposium, the organisers plan to run an in-person workshop in September 2021 where attendees will have the opportunity to work through their data sets with expert statisticians. Further information about this will be provided soon. 

 

This virtual event and the in-person workshop in 2021 were sponsored by the Energy Institute and have been organised in collaboration with the European Space Agency.

Co-authors: Panagiotis Miliotis1, Alexandros Sotiridis1 and Vassilis Klissouras1
1National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Co-authors: Alexandros Sotiridis1, Jo Corbett2, Michael J. Tipton2 and Igor B. Mekjavic3
1National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; 2University of Portsmouth, UK; 3Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Co-authors: Eric Rullman1, Adam C. McDonnell2, Liz Simpson3, Ian Macdonald3 and Igor B. Mekjavic2
1Karolinska Institutet, Sweden; 2Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 3University of Nottingham, UK

Co-authors: Helio Fernandez Telios1, Igor B. Mekjavic2 and Leja Dolenc-Grošelj3
1iMec, Belgium; 2Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia;  3University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia

Co-authors: Bruno Grassi1, Michail E. Keramidas2, Ola Eiken2 and Igor B. Mekjavic3
1University of Udine, Italy; 2KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; 3Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Co-authors: Nektarios Stavrou1 and Igor B. Mekjavic2
1National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; 2Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Co-authors: Michael J. Tipton1, Heather Massey1 and Clare Eglin1
1University of Portsmouth, UK

Co-authors: Lisa Martin1, Frank Golden1 and Michael J. Tipton1
1University of Portsmouth, UK

Co-authors: Andreas Flouris1 and Igor B. Mekjavic2
1University of Thessaly, Greece; 2Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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