Monte Carlo and Bayesian
Computation with R, by
Maria Rizzo and Jim Albert
Newsletter
We publish the joint newsletter with
Q&P, written in a nontechnical style, as
a means to bring the activities of the sec-
tion to the attention of all our members
and as a forum for articles and discus-
sions on relevant topics.
So when I talk of “reinventing,” I am
not thinking about abandoning ship and
starting over. Rather, I want to research
how we can develop activities that add
figure out whether and how they can be concepts currently used to compare
even more value to a membership in the
implemented. Thanks in advance for images, including feature selection and
section. Section officers are just begin-
your input. I look forward to reading it. distance measures for medical, forensic,
ning to explore this matter and have not
and space-related images.
yet established how the process should
JSM Invited Sessions
go. However, as statisticians, they know The four JSM invited sessions sponsored Advanced Reliability Methods
they need to have data and measurable by SPES this year will cover a diverse set with Applications
goals to help define any actions. of interesting topics and applications. Organizer: I-Li Lu, The Boeing
This is where your help is needed. Read on for a brief overview of each. Company
We need data! We need information, In this session, a group of researchers will
ideas, suggestions, explanations … any- Are the Paradigms for Design of discuss recent developments in reliability
thing you can provide to help guide Experiments Changing? methods and how they are being imple-
our actions. I want to hear from SPES Organizer: Phil Ramsey, University of mented in various settings with view-
members, people who are thinking about New Hampshire points from academia, a research institute,
joining SPES, and people who have left Due to the existence of powerful mod- a national lab, and industry. The speakers
SPES. Consider the following questions: ern statistical software and innova- will discuss accelerated life tests (ALTs)
tive research, new methodologies and
as predictors of field performance, reli-
Why do you join an ASA section? approaches to design of experiments are ability methods used to support aircraft
(Why did you join SPES?/ Why proliferating. Hear more about the pos- maintenance optimization, how emerg-
are you considering joining SPES?/ sibilities of tailored computer-generated ing reliability issues for the world’s largest
Why did you leave SPES?) approaches to design, a new algorithm supercomputers are being addressed, and
for generating near G-optimal designs,
the framework for data and policy analy-
What does SPES (or any other ASA and a new graphical tool to evaluate sis for the detection of nuclear material
section) do that is good? How does designs for screening experiments. entering our nation’s ports.
SPES improve your professional life?
Extracting Information from
Chemometrics
What could an organization such as Images Organizer: Kerby Shedden, University
SPES (or more broadly, the ASA) do Organizer: Joanne Wendelberger, Los of Michigan
to make your professional life better, Alamos National Laboratory In this biannual presentation, the
or to make you more effective in your This session will explore statistical Chemometrics Committee of SPES will
job? What could a section offer you approaches for extracting information discuss the latest advances in the appli-
that would make you want to join? from scientific and engineering images. cations of statistics to chemical data,
Hear about progress on the statistical
including the effect of chemical probes
You need not limit yourself to these analysis of the variation in a popula- on the heterogeneity of localization
questions. We want to know how we tion of curves, comparisons of existing behavior in live cells, screening com-
can improve. Whatever it is, let us know. and newly developed algorithms for pounds for monotone association with
Contact me at
tloughin@sfu.ca or anoth- analyzing mass spectrometry and two- convex combinations of activity predic-
er section officer (see
www.amstat.org/ dimensional gel electrophoresis images, tors over unspecified subpopulations of
sections/SPES for a listing) with any and quantification of corrosion density cell-lines, and a co-training algorithm
all ideas. We can only act on the ideas we based on spatial distribution and vol- for multiview data with applications in
have (100% of the ideas we don’t think ume as a function of aging time through data fusion. n
of will never happen). Leave it to us to the use of digital images, and tools and
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