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or related areas. For more information, comparisons) or problems for which epi-
visit www.iops.nl/summerschool or contact demiologists are looking for solutions.

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1–4—ISBIS-2008: International
Susanna Verdel, Faculty of Social Sciences, For more information, visit biomserv.
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Symposium on Business and Industrial
P.O. Box 9555, Leiden, International 2300 univ-lyon1.fr/SFB/fichiers/epidbiom2008.
Statistics, Prague, Czech Republic
RB, The Netherlands; +31 71 527 3829; html or contact Michel Chavance,
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This symposium will focus on quantitative
verdel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl. INSERM U780, 16 avenue Paul Vaillant-
aspects of banking, insurance, finance, and
Couturier, Villejuif, International 94807,
important statistical issues relating to pro-
8–11—european Conference on Quality
France; + 33 (0)1 45 59 50 63; chavance@
ductivity improvement and decisionmaking
in Official Statistics, Rome, Italy
vjf.inserm.fr.
at all levels of business and industry. Many
This biannual meeting is intended to serve
leading quantitative financial analysts and
as a European-level forum for discussing 13–18—IBC 2008 Dublin, Dublin,
industrial statisticians will be participat-
recent developments and achievements Ireland
ing in the varied and stimulating scientific
in the field of quality and methodologies This conference will include 20 invited
program of invited and contributed papers.
for survey statistics, with a special focus sessions, other special sessions, contributed
Authors will have the opportunity to sub-
on official statistics. The conference will talks, posters, and preconference short
mit extended versions of their papers for
encompass relevant topics for improving courses (July 13). The conference lan-
publication in a special edition of the soci-
quality in the European statistical system. guage is English. For more information,
ety’s journal, Applied Stochastic Models in
Short courses also will be offered. For more visit www.cpregistrations.com/ibc/2008 or
Business and Industry. For more informa-
information, visit q2008.istat.it or contact contact John Hinde, Mathematics Dept,
tion, visit www.action-m.com/isbis2008 or
Marina Signore, via C. Balbo 16, Rome, NUI Galway, Galway, International GA1,
contact Milena Zeithamlova, Vrsovicka 68,
International 00184, Italy. Ireland; +353 91 492043; john.hinde@
101 00, Prague, International 10, Czech
nuigalway.ie.
Republic; milena@action-m.com.
8–12—III european Congress of
Methodology, Oviedo, Spain 13–19—AACR Cancer Biostatistics
2–4—International Conference of
The III European Congress of Workshop, Sonoma, California
Computational Statistics and Data
Methodology, held in conjunction with For information, visit www.aacr.org or
engineering 2008, London, United
the Society for Multivariate Analysis in contact Mark Mendenhall, 615 Chestnut
Kingdom
the Behavioural and Social Sciences, will Street, 17th Floor, Philadelphia, PA
This conference is held under the World
focus on the improvement of teaching 19106-4404; (267) 646-660; mendenhall@
Congress on Engineering 2008 by the
and research in methodology in the fields aacr.org.
International Association of Engineers. For
of social science, health, education, and
more information, visit www.iaeng.org/
behavior. For more information, visit
14–17—Integrating Computing into the
WCE2008/ICCSDE2008.html or contact
methodology.cop.es or contact Rolf Steyer,
Statistics Curricula, Berkeley, California
William Young, Unit 1, 1/F, 37-39 Hung
Am Steiger 3, Haus 1, Jena, International
This workshop is a hands-on program for
To Road, Hong Kong, International HK,
07743, Germany; 00493641945231; rolf.
faculty members interested in innovating
Hong Kong; wce@iaeng.org.
steyer@uni-jena.de.
statistics courses and curricula to better pre-
pare statistics students to engage in creative
7–18—IOPS Summer School of
10–11—epidemiology and Biometry statistical practice in today’s dynamic, data-
Psychometrics and Sociometrics,
2008: Recent Statistical Methods in rich scientific environment. For details,
Wassenaar, The netherlands
epidemiology, Paris, france visit www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/statcur/
This new initiative of the IOPS Graduate
This meeting will focus on innovative Workshop2/index.html or contact Deborah
School will provide an intensive course pro-
statistical approaches to the design and Nolan, Dept. of Statistics, 367 Evans Hall
gram of master classes in quantitative and
analysis of epidemiological surveys. The MC 3860, Berkeley, CA 94720-3860;
methodological methods outside the regular
program will include invited talks, con- (510) 643-7097; nolan@stat.berkeley.edu.
IOPS course program. The Summer School
tributed oral sessions, and contributed
is intended for PhD students and postdocs
posters. Epidemiologists and biostatisti-
14–19—7th World Congress in
who have a good background in psychomet-
cians are expected to propose talks about
Probability and Statistics, Singapore
rics, sociometrics, statistics, econometrics,
methods (e.g., presentation, illustration,
The World Congress in Probability and
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