C
26–27—Fordham Council on Applied de Cartuja, Granada, International 18071, 8–11—European Conference on Quality
ALEND
Psychometrics Conference, Bronx, New Spain; 34 958243950;
batanero@ugr.es. in Official Statistics, Rome, Italy
York This biannual meeting is intended to
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This conference will focus on defining
July
serve as a European-level forum for dis-
OF E
psychometrics and its applications, the cussing recent developments and achieve-
lack of adequate training, and the need for
1–4—ISBIS-2008: International
ments in the field of quality and method-
VENT
expertise. There will be a mixture of paper
Symposium on Business and Industrial
ologies for survey statistics, with a special
S
and poster sessions that aim to expose
Statistics, Prague, Czech Republic
focus on official statistics. The conference
the many facets of psychometrics and its
This symposium will focus on quan-
will encompass relevant topics for improv-
applications. Keynote speakers include
titative aspects of banking, insurance,
ing quality in the European statistical
Paul Holland and David Rindskopf; invit-
finance, and important statistical issues
system. Short courses also will be offered.
ed speakers include Charles Lewis and
relating to productivity improvement
For more information, visit q2008.istat.
Michael Edwards. The conference will be
and decisionmaking at all levels of busi-
it or contact Marina Signore, via C. Balbo
preceded by a day of technical workshops
ness and industry. Many leading quan-
16, Rome, International 00184, Italy;
on R, SAS, and WinBUGS. For more
titative financial analysts and industrial
q2008@istat.it.
information, visit
www.fordham.edu/fcap/
statisticians will be participating in the
conference or contact Jodi Casabianca, 441
varied and stimulating scientific pro- 8–12—III European Congress of
E. Fordham Road, New York, NY 10458;
gram of invited and contributed papers. Methodology, Oviedo, Spain
(718) 817-0654;
casabianca@fordham.edu.
Authors will have the opportunity to The III European Congress of
submit extended versions of their papers Methodology, held in conjunction with
*30–7/2—1st International Symposium for publication in a special edition of the the Society for Multivariate Analysis in
on Biopharmaceutical Statistics, society’s journal, Applied Stochastic Models the Behavioural and Social Sciences, will
Shanghai, China in Business and Industry. For more infor- focus on the improvement of teaching
The International Society for mation, visit
www.action-m.com/isbis2008 and research in methodology in the fields
Biopharmaceutical Statistics (ISBS) will or contact Milena Zeithamlova, Vrsovicka of social science, health, education, and
host its first international symposium to 68, 101 00, Prague, International 10, behavior. For more information, visit
provide an international forum for sta- Czech Republic;
milena@action-m.com.
methodology.cop.es or contact Rolf Steyer,
tistical professionals across the world to Am Steiger 3, Haus 1, Jena, International
share and exchange information and to
2–4—International Conference of
07743, Germany; 00493641945231; rolf.
improve and promote the harmonization
Computational Statistics and Data
steyer@uni-jena.de.
of statistical practice. The symposium will
Engineering 2008, London, United
cover a range of topics in research, devel-
Kingdom 10–11—Epidemiology and Biometry
opment, and regulations of drugs, biolog-
This conference is held under the World 2008: Recent Statistical Methods in
ics, medical devices, and biotechnologics.
Congress on Engineering 2008 by the Epidemiology, Paris, France
The theme is “The Roles of Statistics in
International Association of Engineers. This meeting will focus on innovative
Biopharmaceutical Globalization.” There
For more information, visit www.iaeng. statistical approaches to the design and
will be keynote speeches and presentations
org/WCE2008/ICCSDE2008.html or con- analysis of epidemiological surveys.
of invited and contributed talks. Abstracts
tact William Young, Unit 1, 1/F, 37-39 The program will include invited
of contributed talks will be accepted
Hung To Road, Hong Kong, International talks, contributed oral sessions, and
online starting in January 2008. There
HK, Hong Kong;
wce@iaeng.org. contributed posters. Epidemiologists and
also will be two days of preconference
biostatisticians are expected to propose
short courses June 28–29. For more infor-
7–18—IOPS Summer School of
talks about methods (e.g., presentation,
mation, visit
www.IsBioStat.org or con-
Psychometrics and Sociometrics,
illustration, comparisons) or problems
tact Jie Chen, 304 Evening Walk Lane,
Wassenaar, The Netherlands
for which epidemiologists are looking
Warrington, PA 18976; (215) 491-4623;
This new initiative of the IOPS Graduate
for solutions. For more information,
jie_chen@merck.com.
School will provide an intensive course
visit
biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr/SFB/fichiers/
program of master classes in quantita-
epidbiom2008.html or contact Michel
30–7/4—ICMI/IASE Study Teaching
tive and methodological methods outside
Chavance, INSERM U780, 16 avenue
Statistics in School Mathematics,
the regular IOPS course program. The
Paul Vaillant-Couturier, Villejuif,
Monterrey, Mexico
Summer School is intended for PhD
International 94807, France; + 33 (0)1 45
This study brings together the mathemat-
students and postdocs who have a good
59 50 63;
chavance@vjf.inserm.fr.
ics and statistics education communities
background in psychometrics, sociomet-
to analyze teaching statistics at the school
rics, statistics, econometrics, or related
13–18—IBC 2008 Dublin, Dublin,
level and make recommendations about
areas. For more information, visit www.
Ireland
how to train mathematics teachers to
iops.nl/summerschool or contact Susanna
This conference will include 20 invited
better succeed in educating statistically
Verdel, Faculty of Social Sciences, P.O.
sessions, other special sessions, contributed
literate students. For details, visit www.
Box 9555, Leiden, International 2300
talks, posters, and preconference short
ugr.es/~icmi/iase_study or contact Carmen
RB, The Netherlands; +31 71 527 3829;
courses (July 13). The conference lan-
Batanero, Facultad de Educación, Campus
verdel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl.
guage is English. For more information,
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