Statistics in the Environment
Sessions, Workshop Top Event List
Devin Johnson, Section Publications Chair
Modeling in ecology (Invited Poster
E
NVR is sponsoring several invited
Spatio-temporal dynamic Models,
paper and poster sessions at JSM 2008.
organized and chaired by Christopher
Presentation), organized by Mevin
Following is a list of titles. For session
Wikle of the University of Missouri
Hooten of Utah State University and
details, locations, and times, visit the JSM chaired by John Castelloe of SAS
online program at www.amstat.org/meetings/
Health/Biological Imprint of Climate
Institute Inc.
jsm/2008/onlineprogram.
and atmospherics, organized by
Montserrat Fuentes of North Carolina
the Role of Statisticians in
Statistical Issues for Biodiversity
State University and chaired by Sudipto
Understanding Climate Change,
assessments, organized by Ron
Banerjee of the University of Minnesota
organized by David Marker of Westat
McRoberts of the U.S. Forest Service and and chaired by Peter Bloomfield of The
chaired by Estell Russek-Cohen of the
developments in Spatial/
University of North Carolina
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
environmental Health Modeling, orga-
nized and chaired by Ying MacNab of
Statistical aspects of Regional Climate
the University of British Columbia
Modeling, organized and chaired by
Richard Smith of The University of
North Carolina
Also, the ENVR mixer/business meeting
Biopharmaceutical is tentatively set for Monday, August 4, at
6:00 p.m. Check the JSM online program
JSM 2008: A Report from the Section
to learn the exact date and time.
Kalyan Ghosh, 2008 Section Program Chair
Upcoming ENVR Workshop
T
he 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings are on the horizon, coming up August 3–7 in
A workshop, titled “Statistical Issues
Denver, Colorado. Continuing Education classes start Saturday, August 2.
in Monitoring the Environment,” will be
The Biopharmaceutical Section is (co)sponsoring four invited, 24 topic-
held October 22–24, 2008, at the National
contributed, and 17 contributed sessions this year. The sessions cover a variety of topics,
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
from the discovery to the late phase of drug and device development. The section also is
in Boulder, Colorado. The workshop will
sponsoring 16 roundtables with lunch and three Continuing Education classes on relevant
cover state-of-the-art applications and sta-
topics in drug development. Significant efforts have been made to distribute the large num-
tistical methods in environmental monitor-
ber of activities across the five days, including Sunday afternoon and Thursday morning.
ing. Sessions on applications include moni-
Sponsored CE Courses
toring in ecology, monitoring in air quality,
monitoring of aquatic resources, and moni-
Analysis of Clinical Trials: Theory and Applications, by Alex Dmitrienko,
toring of climate change and its impacts.
Christy Chuang-Stein, and Keaven Anderson
The spatio-temporal data collected in
Analysis of Censored Health Outcomes Data: Developments for the Last 10 Years, environmental monitoring present inter-
by Heejung Bang and Hongwei Zhao esting and challenging statistical problems,
Evaluating Probability of Success for Internal Decisionmaking in Early Drug
such as modeling of space-time correlation,
Development, by Narinder Nangia, Martin King, and Jane Qian
analysis of the huge amount of correlated
data, and analysis of high-frequency moni-
Sponsored Invited Sessions
toring data. Technical sessions will cover
recent developments in statistical meth-
New Directions in Safety Planning and Analysis for Clinical Development
ods for environmental data. A one-day
Nested and Crossed Random Effects in Nonlinear Models
short course on the analysis of spatial and
Adaptive Designs: Perspectives from Academia, Industry, and Regulatory
spatio-temporal data will be offered and
Imaging Biomarkers in Oncology
taught by Doug Nychka. There also will
be a poster session, the abstracts of which
In addition to the above sessions, the section is cosponsoring 20 invited sessions. need to be submitted by September 23,
And as is the case every year, the section will award the presenters of the 2007 best con-
2008. For more information, visit www.
tributed paper and the 2008 best student paper. These awards will be presented at the
stat.purdue.edu/envr or contact Hao Zhang,
meeting (and mixer). Information about section activities will be available at the mixer,
Department of Statistics, Purdue University,
and members will have a chance to network with others and give feedback.
West Lafayette, IN 47906; (765)496-9548;
We look forward to seeing you in Denver this August.
zhanghao@purdue.edu. n
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