MEETINGS
Great JSM Sessions All Day Every Day
Program Chair Highlights Some Here
Traugott, chair of AAPOR’s committee of Harnessing Bibliographic data
Russell V. Lenth, 2008
election polls; Cliff Zukin, former head Tuesday, August 5, 8:30 a.m.
JSM Program Chair
of the Eagleton-Rutgers Poll; and Kathy Hadley Wickham will discuss rejuvenat-
Frankovic, head of polling for CBS. The ing the Current Index to Statistics, and Jim
discussant will be Clyde Tucker, head stat- Pitman will outline the best bibliographic
istician for CNN election night. database services.
Sample Size and Related Issues
What Can Statistical Methods tell
T
he technical program for the Denver
Wednesday, August 6, 8:30 a.m.
meetings is in place, and you can
Us about Steroid Use and Its effects
Ralph O’Brien will give an overview
view it online at
www.amstat.org/
among Major League Baseball
and talk about appropriate error rates,
meetings/jsm/2008/onlineprogram. The
Players?, organized by Michael Schell
and Keith Muller will show how to use
meetings start Sunday afternoon, August 3,
and Jim Albert, Wednesday, August 6, 8:30
internal-pilot designs.
and continue through Thursday morning,
a.m.
August 7. In any one of the 13 regular time
The recent Mitchell Report summa-
Additional Highlights
slots during this period, you have 35 podi-
rizes major league baseball’s investiga-
Memorial sessions for Randy Sitter
um sessions to choose from, including invit-
tion into the use of anabolic steroids and
(Sunday at 4:00 p.m.), Paul Minton
ed sessions organized by our excellent pro-
human growth hormone to enhance per-
(Monday at 8:30 a.m.), Mollie Orshansky
gram committee, topic-contributed sessions
formance. A panel discussion will focus
(Tuesday at 2:00 p.m.), and Jack Lee
organized by grassroots efforts of partici-
on how baseball performance is measured,
(Wednesday at 8:30 a.m.).
pants, and regular contributed sessions.
whether there are unusual patterns in the
College Bowl sessions Tuesday morn-
In addition, there are more than 300
performance statistics of some well-known
ing at 8:30 and 10:30.
invited and contributed poster presenta-
players, and how to adjust these measures
Keynote speakers, including the
tions. Every poster will be available for
to make fair comparisons across eras. The
President’s Invited Speaker, Mark
viewing for a full day, and presenters are
panelists will be two statisticians (Albert
McClellan, Monday at 4:00 p.m.; the
scheduled to be there with them during
and Schell) and two sabermetricians from
Deming Lecturer, Donald Berwick,
one of the regular session times on Monday,
outside the statistical community (Andrew
Tuesday at 4:00 p.m.; ASA President Tony
Tuesday, or Wednesday. Invited posters
Dolphin and Phil Birnbaum). All four
Lachenbruch Tuesday at 8:00 p.m.; and
include a session on class projects (Monday
have written extensively on baseball.
the COPSS Fisher Lecturer, Ross Prentice,
at 8:30 a.m.), clinical trial designs (Tuesday
at 10:30 a.m.), and modeling in ecology
Introductory Overview Lectures
Wednesday at 4:00 p.m.
Invited sessions (including The
(Wednesday at 8:30 a.m.). In addition, the
Introductory overview lectures are another
American Statistician’s panel discussion on
Section on Survey Research Methods will
popular offering at JSM. They provide an
The Black Swan); the Noether Award ses-
hold a contributed poster competition ses-
orientation to important and timely statis-
sion; sessions organized by ASA chapters,
sion Monday at 10:30 a.m.
tical topics. This year’s IOLs include the
committees, and interest groups; and six
following:
Late-breaking Sessions
invited sessions organized by outside soci-
eties, such as Mu Sigma Rho, the American
Every year since 2002, JSM has featured Interdisciplinary Communications:
Geophysical Union, and the International
late-breaking sessions on recent topics of Functional data analysis and
Society of Bayesian Analysis.
broad interest. For 2008, I am pleased to differential equation Models
There are many other interesting and
highlight the following sessions: Sunday, August 3, 4:00 p.m.
unusual sessions all day every day. The
James O. Ramsay will present ideas
tough part is deciding which to attend—
the accuracy of election Polls, organized relating to dynamical models, and Hulin
and keeping track of them. Visit www.
and chaired by David Marker, Monday, Wu will speak on inverse problems of
amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2008/onlineprogram
August 4, 2:00 p.m. differential equations.
and use the “My Program” tool to compile
Polls have obviously been in the news
a great deal lately, and they have been the
Missing and Coarse data
your schedule.
subject of much criticism, especially in
Monday, August 4, 8:30 a.m.
Enjoy the meetings, and when you meet
session organizers and section program
the aftermath of the New Hampshire pri-
Missing data can bias an analysis.
chairs, be sure to thank them for their hard
mary. This session will focus on the various
Roderick Little will give an introduc-
work. Assembling a program with 450 ses-
sources of error in polls, and how we can
tion to multiple imputation, and Daniel
sions and 3,000 speakers has been compli-
do a better job communicating poll results
Heitjan will speak about coarse data—a
cated, but these terrific people have made it
in the media. The speakers will be Michael
type of incomplete data.
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