Dear all, The next seminar in our series of statistics talks for people interested in quantitative methods in biology and medicine will take place on Thursday 21 March 2013 at 11h00 in the Salle Delachaux (Biopôle 2, premier étage, Route de la Corniche 10, Lausanne, M2: Vennes). The speaker will be David Kraus from the IUMSP and University Hospital Lausanne, who will talk about "Statistical analysis when data are functions" Abstract: Functional data analysis (i.e., statistical analysis of collections of functions) deals with situations where individual observations (data units) are whole functions or curves, representing for example the temporal evolution of a process or the geometric structure of an object. We review some basic properties and methods for analysing functional data and illustrate their use on a blood pressure monitoring data set. We discuss practical issues that arise in the analysis of these data and lead to the development of new methods. Hope to see you there ! Frédéric (for the organizers: Jérôme Goudet, Valentin Rousson, Frédéric Schütz)