Workshop on Bayesian Methods a Success
Partha Lahiri and Eric V. Slud
were displayed in an informal setting, and
refreshments and drinks were served.
There were no parallel sessions, so par-
ticipants were able to attend them all. They
covered topics such as Bayesian methods in
public policy, missing data problems, objec-
tive prior selection, small area estimation,
sample surveys, the relationship between
parametric bootstrap and Bayesian meth-
ods, and accurate approximation to poste-
rior densities. The workshop slides can be
found at
www.jpsm.umd.edu/stat/workshop.
The role of the University of Maryland
Statistics Consortium is to identify and
implement mechanisms that take advan-
Standing (from left): Snigdhansu Chatterjee, Partha Lahiri, Malay Ghosh, Jim Berger, Eric Slud,
tage of the expertise and strength in statis-
Carl Morris; sitting (from left): Rod Little and J. N. K. Rao
tics across campus to create a higher level
of visibility and cooperative effort for the
statistics discipline. In the past, the statis-
tics consortium organized Statistics Day;
There were six invited sessions featuring
T
he Statistics Consortium at the
however, Statistics Day was replaced this
University of Maryland, College James O. Berger, Sudip Bose, Snigdhansu
year by the workshop and a session of dis-
Park, hosted its first two-day work- Chatterjee, Stephen E. Fienberg, Malay
tinguished lectures by James O. Berger and
shop on Bayesian methods frequentists Ghosh, Abram Kagan, Roderick J. A. Little,
J. N. K. Rao, which was attended by more
should know from April 30 to May 1, 2008. Thomas A. Louis, Carl N. Morris, J. N. K.
than 150 people.
The workshop was intended to bring out Rao, Nathanial Schenker, Eric V. Slud, and
The workshop was cosponsored by the
the potential attractive features of Bayesian Alan M. Zaslavsky. Average attendance in
ASA’s Survey Research Methods Section,
statistics in solving real-life problems, the sessions was about 100. A special attrac-
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Office
including complex problems in sample sur- tion of the workshop was a poster session
of Research and Methodology, National
veys and official statistics. held the evening of April 30. Ten posters
Center for Health Statistics, and Washington
Statistical Society. n
More than 5,000 attendees from 46 countries
More than 800 student attendees
More than 500 technical sessions
Sponsored by:
American Statistical Association
125 employers hiring for more than 275 positions
International Biometric Society
(ENAR and WNAR)
80+ exhibitors
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Statistical Society of Canada
register online at
www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2008/onlinereg.
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