Risk Analysis
First Risk Analysis Mixer a Success
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or the first time, the section on Cardiopulmonary Hospital Admissions contributed, and five contributed. The
Risk Analysis jointly sponsored a in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, invited paper sessions illustrated the
mixer with the Section on and Simulated Data.” Second prize was wide range of members’ interests: social
Statistics in Defense and National awarded to Tim van Erven of Centrum network analysis of the spread of disease;
Security at JSM. The event was success- Wiskunde & Informatica Amsterdam, terrorist risk assessment, personal credit
ful, attracting 50 members from the two The Netherlands, for his paper (with risk, and chronic occupational disease;
sections. Highlights included presenta- Peter Grunwald and Steven de Rooij), health effects of climate change; mac-
tions of awards, discussion of future “Catching Up Faster by Switching roeconomic forecasting; and quantita-
plans, and a prize raffle where many of sooner: A Prequential solution to the tive security and cybersystems. The two
those present won books, software, and AIC-BIC Dilemma.” topic-contributed sessions illustrated
vouchers. We plan to make the joint The section will hold the student some of the more theoretical interests
mixer a regular JSM event. paper competition again in 2010; sec- of section members: predictive and pre-
The main awards given by the Risk tion members should bring the award to quential statistics and semiparametric
Analysis Section were for the student the attention of students. Additionally, procedures in statistical analysis.
paper competition. First prize went there will be an award for the best talk Section officers welcome feedback,
to Ya-Hsiu Chuang of the University given at a contributed paper session. including alternative suggestions for
of Pittsburgh for her paper (with This year’s winner will be announced in future activities. If you have questions or
Sati Mazumdar), “Bayesian Model the future. comments, email Richard Smith, section
Averaging in Health Effect Studies: Risk Analysis cosponsored 12 chair, at
rls@email.unc.edu. n
Sensitivity Analyses Using PM10 and JSM sessions—five invited, two topic-
Statistics in Epidemiology
Section Lauds Award Winners
Dylan small, Publications Officer
T
he Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE) section would like Megan Othus, Harvard University
to congratulate Tyler van der Weele of Harvard
Sherri Rose, University of California at Berkeley
University for his winning paper, “Sufficient Cause
Interactions for Categorical and Ordinal Exposures.” He
Colleen Sitlani, The University of Washington
received the 2009 SIE Young Investigator Award during JSM
Xiaoru Wu, Columbia University
in Washington, DC.
The section also would like to congratulate the following
Yan Zhou, University of Michigan
winners of the SIE Graduate Student Travel Award:
Hong Zhu, The Johns Hopkins University
Mike Baiocchi, University of Pennsylvania
Hongjian Zhu, University of Virginia
Yu-Jen Cheng, The Johns Hopkins University
Thanks go to 2009 Section Program Chair Amy Herring
Chongzhi Di, The Johns Hopkins University
for her hard work on the awards competitions. Thanks also go
Xiaoyi Gao, North Carolina State University
to Elizabeth Brown, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Stephen Cole, David
Dunson, Michael Elliott, Stephen Gange, Debashis Ghosh,
Ying Guo, University of Michigan
Yi Li, Bhramar Mukherjee, Philip Rosenberg, Guosheng Yin,
Zhaowei Hua, The University of North Carolina
Donglin Zeng, and Haibo Zhou for serving on the paper
review committee.
Arun Krishna, North Carolina State University
Details for the 2010 Young Investigator and Graduate
Shih-Yuan Lee, University of Michigan Student Travel awards competitions will be announced
in December. n
Hui Nie, University of Pennsylvania
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