Senn, Peter Thall, Janet Wittes, and Janet
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Workshop in Applied Statistics
Woodcock. A range of topics linked closely
to translational medicine will be examined,
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presented by the Southern California Chapter of the American
and the conference will conclude with a
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Statistical Association
panel discussion to synthesize and challenge
earlier presentations, as well as to propose
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future directions. Registration is limited
California State University at Long Beach
to 150 participants, and the deadline is
April 4, 2008. For more information, visit
March 28, 2008
www.cceb.upenn.edu/biostat/conferences/
ClinTrials08 or contact Donna Zikowitz,
“The Vital Importance of Adjusting for Patient Risk: Risk Adjustment in Dept. of Biostatistics & Epidemiology,
Health Services Research”
634 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive,
Arlene Ash, Boston University
Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 573-2728;
zikowitz@mail.med.upenn.edu.
This workshop will provide an introduction to the major conceptual,
practical, technical, and policy issues related to risk adjustment. Specific
➤*19—New England Statistics
topics to be covered include the need for risk adjustment, the major
Symposium 2008, Boston, Massachusetts
dimensions of risk, the strengths and limitations of different data sources
New England statisticans will share research,
for risk adjustment, the use of multivariate models for risk adjustment,
discuss emerging issues in the field, and
performance measures for risk adjustment models, and propensity scores
network. NESS 2008 will be held at Sargent
and instrumental variables as enhancements to standard modeling.
Hall, Suffolk University Law School, in
downtown Boston. Invited speakers are
For information, contact: Andrew Lo of MIT and Martin Wells of
Harold Dyck Cornell University. In addition, there will be
Department of Information & Dec. Sci. contributed paper sessions, allowing 15 to
California State University, San Bernardino
20 minutes per paper. We invite talks on all
5500 University Pkwy.
aspects of statistics and probability. For more
San Bernardino, CA 92407
information, visit
http://mail.beaconhill.org/
hdyck@csusb.edu
~j_haughton/ness2008home.html or contact
(909) 615-5682
Dominique Haughton, Bentley College,
www.sc-asa.org
175 Forest Street, Waltham, MA 02452;
(781) 891-2822;
ness2008april@gmail.com.
21–25—The International Conference
on Trends and Perspectives in Linear
will combine to organize a single poster University of Warwick. For more informa-
Statistical Inference, LINSTAT 2008,
session and social event. Bursaries for PhD tion, visit
go.warwick.ac.uk/complik2008
in Celebration of Tadeusz Calinski’s
students and researchers within three years or contact David Firth, Department of
80th Birthday, Bedlewo, Poland
of earning their PhD will be made available Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry,
This conference will bring together
to support participation in the workshop. International CV4 7AL, UK; d.firth@
researchers sharing an interest in a variety
For more information, visit go.warwick.
warwick.ac.uk.
of statistical aspects and applications and
ac.uk/bhdworkshop or contact Fabio Rigat,
offer discussion of current developments in
1 Cryfield Cottage, Gibbet Hill Road,
these subjects. The format will involve sev-➤18—University of Pennsylvania
Coventry, International CV4 7AL, UK;
Annual Conference on Statistical eral sessions with plenary and contributed
+447947775967;
f.rigat@warwick.ac.uk.
Issues in Clinical Trials: From Bench to talks, as well as a special session dedicated to
Bedside to Community, Philadelphia, Tadeusz Calinski. Topics to be included so
15–17—Research Workshop on Pennsylvania far include estimation, prediction and test-
Composite Likelihood Methods, The theme of the 2008 conference is ing in linear models, robustness of relevant
Coventry, United Kingdom “Early, Translational, and Proof-of-Concept statistical methods, estimation of variance
This international workshop aims to review Studies: The ‘Go/No Go’ Decisions.” components appearing in linear models,
the state of art of composite likelihood Leading scientists will make presentations generalizations to nonlinear models, design
inference and promote vigorous discussion and lead open discussions on state-of-the- and analysis of experiments, and compari-
of foundations, applications, and future art and developing methods. Speakers son of linear experiments. For details, con-
developments. The workshop will bring include Donald Berry, Marie Davidian, tact Katarzyna Filipiak, Wojska Polskiego
together active researchers in the theory Garret Fitzgerald, Peter Gilbert, Lawrence 28, Poznan, International 60-637, Poland;
and application of composite likelihood for Gould, Frank Rockhold, Lawrence
linstat@au.poznan.pl.
an intense, three-day meeting at CRiSM, Rubinstein, Daniel Sargent, Stephen
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