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mixture of psychometric applications and important statistical issues relating to pro- conference will encompass relevant topics
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methods are welcome, but must be received ductivity improvement and decisionmaking for improving quality in the European
by April 1. The conference will be preceded at all levels of business and industry. Many statistical system. Short courses also will
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by a day of technical workshops on R, SAS, leading quantitative financial analysts and be offered. For more information, visit
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and WinBUGS. For more information, industrial statisticians will be participat-
q2008.istat.it or contact Marina Signore,
visit
www.fordham.edu/fcap/conference or ing in the varied and stimulating scientific via C. Balbo 16, Rome, International
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contact Jodi Casabianca, 441 E. Fordham program of invited and contributed papers. 00184, Italy;
q2008@istat.it.
Road, New York, NY 10458; (718) 817- Authors will have the opportunity to
0654;
casabianca@fordham.edu. submit extended versions of their papers
8–12—III European Congress of
for publication in a special edition of the
Methodology, Oviedo, Spain
*30–7/2—1st International Symposium
society’s journal, Applied Stochastic Models
The III European Congress of
on Biopharmaceutical Statistics,
in Business and Industry. For more infor-
Methodology, held in conjunction with
Shanghai, China
mation, visit
www.action-m.com/isbis2008
the Society for Multivariate Analysis in
The International Society for
or contact Milena Zeithamlova, Vrsovicka
the Behavioural and Social Sciences, will
Biopharmaceutical Statistics (ISBS) will
68, 101 00, Prague, International 10, Czech
focus on the improvement of teaching
host its first international symposium to
Republic;
milena@action-m.com.
and research in methodology in the fields
provide an international forum for statistical of social science, health, education, and
professionals across the world to share and 2–4—International Conference of behavior. For more information, visit
exchange information and to improve and Computational Statistics and Data
methodology.cop.es or contact Rolf Steyer,
promote the harmonization of statistical Engineering 2008, London, Am Steiger 3, Haus 1, Jena, International
practice. The symposium will cover a range United Kingdom 07743, Germany; 00493641945231;
of topics in research, development, and reg- This conference is held under the World
rolf.steyer@uni-jena.de.
ulations of drugs, biologics, medical devices, Congress on Engineering 2008 by the
and biotechnologics. The theme is “The International Association of Engineers.
➤10–11—Epidemiology and Biometry
Roles of Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Camera-ready papers and registration are
2008: Recent Statistical Methods in
Globalization.” There will be keynote due March 31, 2008. For more informa-
Epidemiology, Paris, France
speeches and presentations of invited and tion, visit
www.iaeng.org/WCE2008/
This meeting will focus on innova-
contributed talks. Abstracts of contributed ICCSDE2008.html or contact William
tive statistical approaches to the design
talks will be accepted online starting in Young, Unit 1, 1/F, 37-39 Hung To Road,
and analysis of epidemiological surveys.
January 2008. There also will be two days of Hong Kong, International HK, Hong
The program will include invited talks,
preconference short courses June 28–29. For Kong;
wce@iaeng.org.
contributed oral sessions, and con-
more information, visit
www.IsBioStat.org or
tributed posters. Epidemiologists and
contact Jie Chen, 304 Evening Walk Lane,
➤7–18—IOPS Summer School of biostatisticians are expected to propose
Warrington, PA 18976; (215) 491-4623;
Psychometrics and Sociometrics, talks about methods (e.g., presentation,
jie_chen@merck.com.
Wassenaar, The Netherlands illustration, comparisons) or problems
This new initiative of the IOPS Graduate for which epidemiologists are looking for
30–7/4—ICMI/IASE Study Teaching School will provide an intensive course pro- solutions. For more information, visit
Statistics in School Mathematics, gram of master classes in quantitative and
biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr/SFB/fichiers/
Monterrey, Mexico methodological methods outside the regular epidbiom2008.html or contact Michel
This study brings together the mathemat- IOPS course program. The Summer School Chavance, INSERM U780, 16 avenue
ics and statistics education communities is intended for PhD students and postdocs Paul Vaillant-Couturier, Villejuif,
to analyze teaching statistics at the school who have a good background in psycho- International 94807, France; + 33 (0)1 45
level and make recommendations about metrics, sociometrics, statistics, economet- 59 50 63;
chavance@vjf.inserm.fr.
how to train mathematics teachers to bet- rics, or related areas. For more information,
ter succeed in educating statistically liter- visit
www.iops.nl/summerschool or contact
13–18—IBC 2008 Dublin,
ate students. For details, visit www.ugr. Susanna Verdel, Faculty of Social Sciences,
Dublin, Ireland
es/~icmi/iase_study or contact Carmen P.O. Box 9555, Leiden, International 2300
This conference will include 20 invited
Batanero, Facultad de Educación, Campus RB, The Netherlands; +31 71 527 3829;
sessions, other special sessions, contribut-
de Cartuja, Granada, International 18071,
verdel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl.
ed talks, posters, and preconference short
Spain; 34 958243950;
batanero@ugr.es.
courses (July 13). The conference lan-
8–11—European Conference on Quality guage is English. For more information,
in Official Statistics, Rome, Italy
July
visit
www.cpregistrations.com/ibc/2008 or
This biannual meeting is intended to contact John Hinde, Mathematics Dept.,
serve as a European-level forum for NUI Galway, Galway, International GA1,
1–4—ISBIS-2008: International
discussing recent developments and Ireland; +353 91 492043; john.hinde@
Symposium on Business and Industrial
achievements in the field of quality and
nuigalway.ie.
Statistics, Prague, Czech Republic
methodologies for survey statistics, with
This symposium will focus on quantitative
a special focus on official statistics. The
aspects of banking, insurance, finance, and
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