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Publications

L. Alkema, A. E. Raftery, S. J. Clark (2007);
“Probabilistic Projections of HIV Prevalence Using Bayesian Melding".
The Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 1, No. 1, 229-248.

T. Brown, J. A. Salomon, L. Alkema, A. E. Raftery, E. Gouws (2008);
"Progress and challenges in modelling country-level HIV/AIDS epidemics: the UNAIDS Estimation and Projection Package 2007".
Sexually Transmitted Infections, Vol 84 (Suppl I), i5 - i11.

L. Alkema, A. E. Raftery, T. Brown (2008);
"Bayesian melding for estimating uncertainty in national HIV prevalence estimates".
Sexually Transmitted Infections, Vol 84 (Suppl I), i11 - i16.

Presentations

"Assessing Uncertainty in Fertility estimates in Western Africa"

• Human Mortality Database Symposium, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR),
  Rostock, Germany (June 2008)
• Working Group on Applied, Bayesian and Computational Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle (April 2008)

"“Assessing Uncertainty in Fertility Estimates and Projections using a Bayesian Hierachical Model"

• Annual meeting of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences collaborative research group
  on Bayesian modeling and computation for networks, Washington State (May 2008)
• Annual meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans (April 2008)
• Centre for Actuarial Research (CARe), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (August 2007)
• United Nations Population Division, New York (November 2006)

"Incorporating uncertainty in population projections"

• United Nations Population Division, New York (April 2007)

"Identifying poverty groups in Nairobi's slum settlements: A latent class analysis approach"

• Annual meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans (April 2008)
• Indepth annual conference and scientific meeting, Nairobi, Kenya (September 2007)
• African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya (June 2007)

“Probabilistic projections of HIV prevalence using Bayesian meling"

• Annual meeting of the Actuarial Society South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa (August 2007)
• Medical Council South Africa, Cape Town (July 2007)
• Annual meeting of the Population Association of America, New York (April 2007)
• African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya (January 2007)
• International workshop on data, algorithms and decision making, Trest, Czech Republic (December 2006)
• UNAIDS reference group technical meeting, London (October 2006)
• United Nations Population Division, New York (June 2006)
• Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, US (February 2006)
• Model-based clustering working group, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, US (December 2005)