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Paul Holland and David Rindskopf;
invited speakers include Charles Lewis and
F
or more information about these events, visit www.amstat.org/dateline.
Announcements are accepted from educational and not-for-profit
Michael Edwards. The conference will be
organizations only. Commercial enterprises should contact the ASA
preceded by a day of technical workshops
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on R, SAS, and WinBUGS. For more
information, visit www.fordham.edu/fcap/
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*30–7/2—1st International
Symposium on Biopharmaceutical
Statistics, Shanghai, China
The International Society for
2008
22–25—28th International Symposium Biopharmaceutical Statistics (ISBS) will
on forecasting (ISf2008), nice, france host its first international symposium
The International Symposium on to provide an international forum for
June
Forecasting (ISF) is the premier forecasting statistical professionals across the world
conference, attracting the world’s leading to share and exchange information and
18–20—Workshop on Inference and
forecasting researchers, practitioners, to improve and promote the harmoni-
estimation in Probabilistic Time-Series
and students. Through a combination zation of statistical practice. The sym-
Models, Cambridge, United Kingdom
of keynote speaker presentations, posium will cover a range of topics in
This workshop will include theories
academic sessions, workshops, and social research, development, and regulations
and applications related to probabilis-
programs, the ISF provides many excellent of drugs, biologics, medical devices,
tic approaches to time-series analysis.
opportunities for networking, learning, and biotechnologics. The theme is “The
Viewpoints and experiences from research-
and fun. For more information, visit http:// Roles of Statistics in Biopharmaceutical
ers belonging to different communities—
forecasters.org/conf-isf.html or contact Pam Globalization.” There will be keynote
including machine learning, statistics, and
STROUD, 53 Tesla Ave., Medford, MA speeches and presentations of invited
statistical physics—are particularly encour-
02155; isf@forecasters.org. and contributed talks. Abstracts of con-
aged. More generally, advances in practical
tributed talks were accepted online start-
and theoretical issues related to probabilistic
➤25–28—Workshop on Algorithms
ing in January 2008. There also will be
approaches to time-series modeling—
for Modern Massive Data Sets (MMDS
two days of preconference short courses
including inference, estimation, prediction,
2008), Stanford, California
June 28–29. For more information, visit
classification, clustering, and source sepa-
This workshop will address algorithmic,
www.IsBioStat.org or contact Jie Chen,
ration—are appreciated. Novel application
mathematical, and statistical challenges
304 Evening Walk Lane, Warrington, PA
areas and the challenges they bring are also
in modern statistical data analysis. The
18976; (215) 491-4623;
welcome. For details, visit www.newton.
goals are to explore novel techniques
jie_chen@merck.com.
cam.ac.uk/programmes/SCH/schw05.html
for modeling and analyzing massive,
or contact Silvia Chiappa, Spemannstrasse
high-dimensional, and nonlinearly
38, Tuebingen, International 72076,
30–7/4—ICMI/IASe Study Teaching
structured scientific and internet data
Germany; silvia.chiappa@tuebingen.mpg.de.
Statistics in School Mathematics,
sets. For details, visit mmds.stanford.edu
Monterrey, Mexico
or contact Lek-Heng Lim, 873 Evans
This study brings together the mathematics
18–20—Summer Institute of Applied
Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3840; (510)
and statistics education communities to
Statistics, Provo, Utah
642-8576; lekheng@math.berkeley.edu.
analyze teaching statistics at the school level
The 33rd Annual Brigham Young
and make recommendations about how to
University Summer Institute of Applied
26–27—fordham Council on
train mathematics teachers to better succeed
Statistics is titled “Bayesian Clinical Trials”
Applied Psychometrics Conference,
in educating statistically literate students.
and will be presented by Scott M. Berry
Bronx, new York
For details, visit www.ugr.es/~icmi/iase_study
of Berry Consultants. The course will
This conference will focus on defining
or contact Carmen Batanero, Facultad de
describe recent Bayesian innovations in the
psychometrics and its applications, the
Educación, Campus de Cartuja, Granada,
design and analysis of clinical trials. For
lack of adequate training, and the need for
International 18071, Spain; 34 958243950;
more information, visit statistics.byu.edu/
expertise. There will be a mixture of paper
batanero@ugr.es.
summer_institute or contact Kathi Carter,
and poster sessions that aim to expose
230 TMCB, Provo, UT 84602; (801)
the many facets of psychometrics and its
422-4506; kathi_carter@byu.edu.
applications. Keynote speakers include
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