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or more information about these events, visit
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Academic and industry statisticians from
Announcements are accepted from educational and not-for-profit
across Texas and neighboring states attend
organizations only. Commercial enterprises should contact the ASA
COTS annually for both social and intel-
Advertising Department at
advertise@amstat.org.
lectual exchanges. The conference features
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a variety of invited presentations by veteran
Indicates events sponsored by the American Statistical Association or one of
researchers and new PhDs. Students are
its sections, chapters, or committees
strongly encouraged to attend and submit
their work to the student poster competi-
›› Indicates events posted since the previous issue
tion. With support from the ASA Traveling
Course Program, COTS will also offer a
pre-conference course. For details, visit
www.shsu.edu/~mth_fbb/2009cots/
2009cots.html or contact Melinda Holt,
1900 Avenue I, Huntsville, TX 77341-
2009
››23–25—21st Annual EuroMeeting,
2206; (936) 294-4859;
mholt@shsu.edu.
Berlin, Germany
The Drug Information Association’s
March Annual EuroMeeting brings together
professionals from the biopharmaceutical
18–20—IAENG International
April
industry, contract service organizations,
Conference on Data Mining and
academic research centers, regulatory agen- ››15–17—Adaptive Design, Sequential
Applications 2009, Hong Kong, China
cies, health ministries, patients’ organiza- Monte Carlo, and Computer Modeling
Topics for this conference include soft
tions, and trade associations. There will be Workshop, Research Triangle Park,
computing, statistical data mining, and
more than 125 sessions in 16 themes and North Carolina
applications. For more information, visit
presentations by more than 350 speakers, This workshop involves SMC research-
www.iaeng.org/IMECS2009/ICDMA2009.
including representatives from the EMEA, ers working on models and methods for
html or contact IAENG Secretariat, Unit
FDA, and regulatory agencies throughout sequential decision and design problems
1, 1/F, 37-39 Hung To Road, Hong Kong,
Europe. For more information, visit www. and researchers working on statistical
International HK, Hong Kong; (852)
diahome.org/DIAHOME/Education or analysis of computer model data with
3169-3427;
imecs@iaeng.org.
contact Marketing Manager, Europe, DIA, a special focus on adaptive design. The
Postfach, Basel, International 4002; +41 61 workshop will generate discussion between
225 51 51;
talana.bertschi@diaeurope.org. these communities to define new compu-
›› *20—Longitudinal Data Analysis,
Chicago, Illinois
tational approaches for design in computer
This course will provide an introduc-
modeling and stimulate novel algorithmic
24–27—6th International Conference
tion to longitudinal data analysis using
research in SMC. For more information,
on Multiple Comparison Procedures,
mixed effects regression models, draw-
visit
www.samsi.info/workshops/
Tokyo, Japan
ing on material from Longitudinal Data
2008smc-adaptive_design200904.shtml
The goal of this conference is to promote
Analysis (Wiley, 2006) and using the new
or contact Jamie Nunnelly, P.O. Box
research and applications of multiple com-
SuperMix statistical software program. The
14006, RTP, NC 27709; (919) 685-9319,
parison procedures and to exchange infor-
basic mixed-effects regression model for
nunnelly@niss.org.
mation about recent research directions.
continuous outcomes will be introduced
The conference will cover many current
and described, including use of polynomi-
topics, including adaptive and sequential 16–18—Twelfth International
als for expressing change across time, the
designs, bioinformatics, clinical trials, Conference on Artificial Intelligence and
multilevel representation of the mixed
genomics, closed testing and partitioning Statistics, Clearwater Beach, Florida
model, treatment of time-invariant and
principle, false discovery rate, and multiple This is an interdisciplinary gathering of
time-varying covariates, and modeling of
endpoints. An important role of the con- researchers at the intersection of computer
the variance-covariance structure of the
ference will be to provide a forum for tech- science, statistics, and related areas. Since
repeated measures. It will be shown how
nical interaction among industry practitio- its inception in 1985, the primary goal
these models can allow for missing data
ners, research scientists, and statisticians. has been to broaden research in both of
across time in terms of the outcome vari-
For more information, visit
www.rs.kagu. these fields by promoting the exchange
able, thus permitting analysis of subjects
tus.ac.jp/mcp2009 or contact Chihiro of ideas between them. We encourage the
who have incomplete data across time. For
Hirotsu, 2-1-1 Hodokubo, Hino-city, submission of all papers in keeping with
more information, visit www.chicagoasa.
Tokyo, International 191-8506, Japan; +81 this objective. For more information, visit
org/Workshops/e032009.htm or contact
42 591 7142;
hirotsu@ge.meisei-u.ac.jp. www.ics.uci.edu/~aistats or contact David
Rick Peterson, 732 North Washington
van Dyk, 2206 Bren Hall, Irvine, CA
Street, Alexandria, VA 22314; (703)
92697-1250;
dvd@ics.uci.edu.
684-1221;
rick@amstat.org.
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