MEETINGS
IOLs Open Eyes to the Basics
Wendy Martinez, JsM 2009 Program Chair
H
ave you ever wanted to
Spatial Data Analysis
know the basics of a
August 3, 8:30 a.m.
new area of statistics?
Noel Cressie of The Ohio State
Have you ever been baffled by
University will present a lecture
some of the talks at JSM and
to get you thinking in a new
wanted to have some background
statistical way—spatially. He
before you attended the sessions?
will provide useful information
Well, we have some opportunities
about models for expressing spa-
for you!
tial dependence and emphasize
Consider attending the
hierarchical or multilevel statis-
Introductory Overview Lectures
,
tical models. This IOL will help
(IOLs) at the Joint Statistical
attendees better understand and
Meetings. These special invited ses-
appreciate other spatial statistics will enable researchers to handle
sions are open to all JSM attendees
sessions at JSM. problems in many of the sciences.
for no extra charge, and you do
not have to sign up ahead of time to
Designing Longitudinal Statistical Learning and
attend them. There are five IOLs—
Studies Data Mining
one for each day of the meet-
August 4, 8:30 a.m. August 6, 8:30 a.m.
ing—so take advantage of these
Donna Spiegelman of the Harvard David Hand of Imperial College,
lectures and expand your
School of Public Health will talk London, will provide an interest-
statistical horizons.
about the challenges involved ing lecture on statistical learning
Largely About Largeness:
in designing longitudinal stud- and data mining and examine the
ies, along with various methods past, present, and future of these
Models and Views for
for addressing these problems. two domains. He will describe the
High-Dimensional Data
Software is available at www.hsph. nature of the current tools, as well
August 2, 4:00 p.m.
harvard.edu/faculty/spiegelman/ as the drivers for future develop-
First, Antony Unwin of the
optitxs.html to implement the ments. This IOL on the last day
University of Augsburg will talk
techniques to be described. of JSM will help attendees focus
about ways to explore high-
Spiegelman encourages attendees on the exciting future of statistics
dimensional data through visu-
to download it and bring their in these areas. n
alization. His talk will include
laptops to the lecture.
well-known graphical tools
adapted for this purpose and Causal Inference in
new ideas to spark your interest. Statistics
After you learn how to visually
August 5, 2:00 p.m.
discover the structure in data,
Poster Presentations
Judea Pearl of UCLA will intro-
David Banks of Duke University
duce causal inference in statistics. There are more than 500 poster
will discuss the “curse of dimen-
He will introduce basic principles presentations lined up for JsM this year.
sionality” and how it arises
and simple mathematical tools Every poster will be available for viewing
whenever one does analysis in
that are useful when solving prob- for four hours. Presenters are scheduled
high dimensions. In particular,
lems involving causal inference. to be there with their posters during
this problem becomes worse
The framework Pearl will describe
one of the regular session times. Poster
when the number of dimensions
includes principles based on non-
presentations encourage up-close
exceeds the number of observa-
parametric structural equation
interaction with presenters, so make
tions. Banks will describe some
models and ideas from logic and
sure to stop by, admire your colleagues’
theories and methods to help
graph theory. The resulting calcu-
work, and ask lots of questions.
with these challenges.
lus of causes and counterfactuals
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