Physical and Engineering Sciences
Short Courses Slated for FTC, JSM
Tena Katsaounis, SPES Continuing Education Chair
T
he ASA Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences is
sponsoring a unique short course about data quality and
record techniques, taught by Thomas N. Herzog and Fritz
Scheuren, at the Fall Technical Conference, October 9–10, 2008, in
FTC Short Course
Mesa, Arizona.
The workshop is designed to help practitioners gain a deeper
Based on Data Quality
understanding, at an applied level, of the issues involved in improv-
and Record Linkage
ing data quality through editing, imputation, and record linkage.
The workshop is intended to be an introduction to the authors’
Taught by
text book, Data Quality and Record Linkage. While the text pro-
vides a mixture of practical advice, mathematical rigor, manage-
Thomas N. Herzog
ment insight, and philosophy, the emphasis in this workshop will
and Fritz Scheuren
be on practical advice and philosophy. To accomplish this, the
authors will discuss a range of applications, including mortgage
When
finance, medical and biomedical research, highway safety, social October 9–10, 2008
insurance, and survey sampling.
At the end of the workshop, participants should have insight into Where
how to improve the quality of their databases by using basic data
FTC, Mesa, Arizona
quality tools and record linkage techniques, either within a single
database or across two or more databases. Participants will receive
course handouts and a copy of the textbook at a reduced price.
Scheuren (
scheuren@aol.com) is vice president for statistics
JSM Short Course
with the National Opinion Research Center at The University
of Chicago. He is a former president of the American Statistical
Optimal Experimental
Association and a Fellow of both the ASA and the American Designs
Association for the Advancement of Science. He earned his PhD
from George Washington University. Taught by
Herzog (
Thomas.N.Herzog@hud.gov) is chief actuary at the U.S.
Alex N. Donev and
Department of Housing and Urban Development. He is the author
or coauthor of four text books, including the text on data quality
Randy Tobias
and record linkage written with Scheuren and Bill Winkler of the
U.S. Census Bureau. He earned his PhD from the University of
When
Maryland. He is also an associate of the Society of Actuaries.
August 2, 2008
For more information about this conference and workshop, visit
www.asq.org/cpi.
Where
JSM, Denver, Colorado
Short Course at JSM 2008
If you are going to the Joint Statistical Meetings this year, mark
your calendar for the one-day short course titled “Optimal
Experimental Designs” and sponsored by the Section on Physical
and Engineering Sciences. The course is offered August 2 from
8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. and will be taught by Alex N. Donev of the Tobias. Please check the JSM 2008 online program at www.amstat.
University of Manchester and Randy Tobias of SAS Institute Inc. org/meetings/jsm/2008/onlineprogram for details and course location
The course is designed for statisticians and experimenters who and time.
need optimal designs as one tool in their kit to handle nonstan- Donev is a senior lecturer in statistics at the University of
dard experimental situations. Emphasis throughout will be on the Manchester, UK. Prior to taking his current job, he worked in
practical aspects of these methods, from using practical software different academic departments in the UK and Bulgaria, as well
tools to construct optimal designs to understanding the practical as for AstraZeneca.
ramifications of their theoretical characteristics. Tobias is the manager for Linear Models Research and
The course material will be based on the recent book, Optimum Development at SAS Institute Inc. and the developer of many SAS
Experimental Designs with SAS, by A. C. Atkinson, Donev, and tools for experimental design, including the OPTEX procedure. ■
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