Practical Forum
Shop
Brings Together
Industry, Academic
ASA
Statisticians
Tammy Massie, FDA, and Carmen Mak, schering-Plough
T
he 13th annual FDA/ Bootstrap Methods and
Industry Statistics work- Permutation Tests by
shop is scheduled for Tim Hesterberg
September 23–25 at the Capital
Hilton in Downtown Washington, Three plenary sessions will
DC. It is sponsored by the focus on regulatory and statisti-
Biopharmaceutical Section of the cal issues in global harmonization
American Statistical Association, and future directions in safety
with cooperation from the Food analysis. Concurrent sessions will
and Drug Administration cover timely topics in adaptive
Statistical Association. More than
designs, noninferiority trials, bio-
600 statisticians from academia,
markers, quality of clinical pro-
industry, and the FDA will gather
grams, designs of integrated safety
for lively discussions on topics of
and efficacy analysis plans, CMC
interest to all.
issues, food safety, devices trials,
The workshop will feature a
vaccine trials, and veterinary trials.
day of short courses followed by
This year, the luncheon dis-
two days of plenary and concur-
cussions have been expanded to
rent presentations, as well as lun-
two days and follow a new for-
cheon discussions on a variety of
mat. Boxed lunches will be served;
topics. Back by popular demand,
workshop participants will be able
the following eight short courses
to pre-select lunch at the time of
will offer practical solutions to
conference registration. This will
real-life problems:
allow participation at the round-
tables to be available on a first-
come, first-served basis. In addi-
Adaptive Design by Martin
tion, roundtables will be smaller
Posch and Sue-Jane Wang
to foster better discussion.
Data Monitoring Committee by
The Capital Hilton is a pre-
Purchase T-shirts,
Tom Fleming and Janet Wittes
mier meeting site, located in the
books, JSM Proceedings,
heart of downtown Washington,
Analysis of Longitudinal Data
DC. A block of sleeping rooms
and gift items!
with Missing Data by
has been arranged for workshop
Diane Fairclough
attendees. To receive the spe-
Visit the ASA’s online
cial rates, attendees must book
Cox Regression in Practice by
their reservations by August 26.
marketplace at
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Visit
www.amstat.org/meetings/
www.amstat.org/asastore
Special Topics in Survival
fdaworkshop for additional reg-
Analysis by Lee-Jen Wei
istration and hotel information.
Conference organizers and others
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interested in up-to-date informa-
SAVE 10%
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tion, including the preliminary
Benefits: Risk Assessment by
workshop programs and luncheon
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discussion topics, can visit http://
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