Statistical Consulting
Papers, Posters, Roundtables
Planned for JSM
Cynthia R. Long, Section Publications Officer
T
his year’s Joint Statistical Meetings will take place from We also have roundtables with lunch you may want to
August 1–6 in Washington, DC. The Statistical consider attending. The Current State and Future Role of Pro
Consulting Section is sponsoring two invited sessions: Bono Statistical Consulting and Setting Consulting Rates
Doubly Robust Estimation for Empirical Policymaking on take place on August 4, and Academic Statistical Consulting
August 2 at 2 p.m. and Making Research Data Public: Centers Serving Commercial Clients and Indemnification
Intelligible or Just Available? on August 4 at 10:30 a.m. for Consultants and DSMB Members: Who Protects Whom?
We also are sponsoring a topic-contributed panel session, take place on August 5.
So You Want to Be an Expert Witness?, on August 1 at 2 Also come by the Renaissance Washington Hotel on August
p.m.; topic-contributed poster presentations during the ses- 4 from 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. for the section business meeting
sion titled Experiences in Consulting at Virginia Tech on and mixer. This is a great chance to meet section members and
August 1 at 2 p.m.; and a topic-contributed paper session, enjoy each other’s company, as well as good food and drink.
Statistical Consulting with Limited Resources on August The short business meeting follows the mixer and will include
6 at 10:30 a.m. A contributed paper session, Applications an introduction of the section officers, the financial report,
in Statistical Consulting, will take place on August 5 at and JSM program reports. There also will be door prizes, as
8:30 a.m. always. We hope to see you there. ■
Statistics in Defense and National Security
Section to Have First JSM Mixer
Wendy L. Martinez, SDNS Section Chair
W
e have some wonderful events • Expected and Observed Fisher Next, we will have our first section
planned for members of the Information in Variance Estimation mixer, to be jointly hosted by the Risk
Section on Statistics in Defense for Maximum Likelihood Estimates, Analysis Section and SDNS. This is open
and National Security, including some Xumeng Cao of The Johns Hopkins to all SDNS members and those who are
great sessions and roundtable luncheons University interested in SDNS activities. The mixer
about protecting privacy, combating biot- will take place from 6–8 p.m.
errorism, and more. In particular, we are
• An Efficient Approach for Finding
JSM will provide many opportuni-
proud to announce two events that will
Optimal Resource Allocations
ties to network and plan for next year,
take place on August 3.
in a Missile Reliability Study,
so we hope you will join us for all
First, we are sponsoring a poster ses-
Jessica Chapman of St. Lawrence
the festivities.
sion that will be located on the street
University
I know we are anticipating the great
bridge of the convention center at 2:00
• Fixed-Width Confidence Bands for
events to take place in Washington,
p.m. This session will include the fol-
ROC Curves with a Generalized
DC, but it is now time to start thinking
lowing poster presentations:
False Positive Interval, Daniel Katz
about the JSM 2010 invited program.
• Opinion Pooling on Maps,
of The Johns Hopkins University
Jeffrey L. Solka is the JSM 2010 SDNS
Jonathon Wilson of San Diego State
Applied Physics Laboratory
Program Chair, and he would like to
receive your ideas and proposals for
University
invited sessions. Send your thoughts to
jlsolka@gmail.com. ■
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