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workshop, and series of contributed papers 25–27—Joint Research Conference in the subject. For more information, visit
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and poster presentations will be included. on Statistics in Quality, Industry, and
icors2010.karlin.mff.cuni.cz or contact
For more information, visit
www.ksu.edu/ Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland Jana Jureckova, Department of Statistics,
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stats/agstat.conference or contact John Boyer, The Quality and Productivity Research Sokolovska 83, Prague 8, International
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Department of Statistics, Dickens Hall, Conference and the Spring Research CZ-186 75, Czech Republic; icors2010@
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Conference on Statistics in Industry
karlin.mff.cuni.cz.
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66506; (785) 532-0518;
jboyer@ksu.edu. and Technology will be held jointly at
s
the National Institute of Standards and
29–7/1—International Conference on
Technology (NIST). The goal of the con-
Probability Distributions and Related
May
ference is to stimulate interdisciplinary
Topics in Conjunction with NZSA
research among statisticians, engineers, and
Conference, Palmerston North,
19–22—Conference on Nonparametric
physical scientists in quality and produc-
New Zealand
Statistics and Statistical Learning,
tivity, industrial needs, and the physical
This international conference is devoted
Columbus, Ohio
sciences. The conference will feature pre-
to all aspects of distribution theory and its
This conference will bring together
sentations on statistical issues and research
applications, including discrete, univariate,
researchers in nonparametrics and statisti-
approaches drawn from collaborative
and multivariate continuous distributions;
cal learning from academia, industry, and
research. For more information, contact
copulas; extreme values; skewed distribu-
government in an atmosphere focused
Will Guthrie, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop
tions; conditionally specified distributions;
on the development of both statistical
8980, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8980;
and life distributions in engineering and
theory and methods. The areas are broadly
(301) 975-2854;
will.guthrie@nist.gov.
survival analysis. For more information,
defined, with nonparametrics encompass-
visit
http://nzsa_cdl_2010.massey.ac.nz or
ing distribution-free statistics, rank-based
contact Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan,
and robust statistics, Bayesian nonparamet-
June Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
ric methods, permutation-based methods,
Hamilton, International L8S 4K1,
nonparametric regression, and density esti-
››5–8—IWMS 2010 - 19th
Canada; (905) 525-9140, Ext. 23420;
mation. Statistical learning includes a range
International Workshop on Matrices
bala@mcmaster.ca.
of methods focused on the general goals of
and Statistics, Shanghai, China
discovery, classification, and prediction. Six
This conference will stimulate research and
prominent researchers will present plenary
››30–7/2—2010 International
foster the interaction of researchers in the
talks relating to both fields. There also
Conference of Computational Statistics
interface between statistics and matrix the-
will be eight contributed paper sessions
and Data Engineering, London,
ory. There will be invited and contributed
and two contributed poster sessions where
United Kingdom
papers. Potential participants should visit
junior investigators and graduate students
For details, visit
www.iaeng.org/WCE2010/
www1.shfc.edu.cn/iwms/index.asp for online
are expected to participate. For more infor-
ICCSDE2010.html or contact IAENG
registration and submission of abstracts.
mation, visit www.stat.osu.edu/~nssl2010 or
Secretariat, Unit 1, 1/F, 37-39 Hung To
For details, visit
www1.shfc.edu.cn/iwms/
contact Steven MacEachern, Department
Road, Hong Kong, International, China;
index.asp or contact Yonghui Liu, Shanghai
of Statistics, The Ohio State University,
(852) 3169-3427;
wce@iaeng.org.
Finance University, Shanghai, International
1958 Neil Ave., Cockins Hall, Rm. 404,
201209, China;
IWMS2010@shfc.edu.cn.
Columbus, OH 43210-1247; (614)
July
292-5843;
snm@stat.osu.edu.
››20–23—ISF2010 - 30th International
Symposium on Forecasting, 4–9—IWSM 2010, Glasgow,
23–26—38th Annual Meeting of the
San Diego, California United Kingdom
Statistical Society of Canada, Québec
This conference—attracting the world’s The 25th International Workshop on
City, Québec
leading forecasting researchers, practitio- Statistical Modeling (IWSM 2010) will
This conference will bring together
ners, and students—will include keynote be hosted by the University of Glasgow in
academic, government, and industrial
speaker presentations, academic sessions, Scotland. For more information, visit or
researchers as well as users of statistics and
workshops, and social programs. For contact Claire Ferguson, Department of
probability. Featured will be workshops
details, visit
www.forecasters.org or contact Statistics, 15 University Gardens, Glasgow,
and invited and contributed sessions on
Pam Stroud, 53 Tesla Avenue, Medford, International G12 8QW, Scotland; 0141
all areas of statistics and probability. About
MA 02155; (509) 357-5530; 330 5023;
c.ferguson@stats.gla.ac.uk.
450 statisticians are expected to participate.
isf@forecasters.org.
For details, contact Thierry Duchesne,
*5–9—ISBIS-2010 (International
Université Laval, Département de mathé-
28–7/2—ICORS 2010, Prague, Symposium on Business and Industrial
matiques et de statistique, Pavillon Vachon,
Czech Republic Statistics), Slovenia
Québec, Quebec G1K 7P4, Canada; (418)
The International Conference on Robust The key themes of this conference are
656-2131, Ext. 5077; thierry.duchesne@
Statistics aims to be a forum for the industrial applications of statistical image
mat.ulaval.ca.
development and application of robust analysis, future directions for handling
statistical methods. It is an opportunity large and complex data sets, financial ser-
to meet, exchange knowledge, and build vices, health services, quality and produc-
scientific contacts with others interested tivity improvement, and decisionmaking in
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