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invites you to be part of this conference. ➤13–14—Fall North American Stata
December
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For details, visit www.rakeconconf.ae or Users Group Meeting, San Francisco,
contact Mohamed El-Bassiouni, P.O. Box California
1–3—2008 International Conference on
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17555, Al-Ain, UAE, International 17555, Talks will be on a variety of topics related to
Applied Probability and Statistics (CAPS
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United Arab Emirates; +9713 7133386; the use of Stata in research and teaching. All
2008), Hanoi, Vietnam
y.bassiouni@uaeu.ac.ae. talks are intended for a general audience with
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This conference aims to promote practical
mixed levels of expertise in Stata and statis-
applications of probability and statistics, S
*10–11—Categorical Latent Variable
tics. There will be several invited speakers,
particularly in business and industry, and
Modeling in Mplus, Ann Arbor,
and Stata developers will attend to present
to strengthen international relations among
Michigan
and take notes during the popular “wishes
researchers in these areas. Contributed
This short course will focus on recent
and grumbles” session. The deadline for sub-
papers may be on applied probability or any
advances in latent variable modeling.
mitting abstracts is September 30; registra-
area of statistics. The conference will be of
Models and applications will be discussed
tion is $160 for both days ($65 for students).
interest to both researchers and practitioners
using the general modeling framework of
For details, visit www.stata.com/meeting/
from business and industry. For more infor-
the Mplus program (www.statmodel.com).
fnasug08 or contact Sophia Rabe-Hesketh,
mation, visit www.action-m.com/CAPS2008
An overview of conventional and new tech-
3659 Tolman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720;
or contact Nam-Ky Nguyen, IPO Box 135,
niques will be given, including complier-
(510) 642-5287; sophiarh@berkeley.edu.
Hanoi, International Hanoi, Vietnam;
average causal effect estimation (regression
(844) 754-5125; nkn@designcomputing.net.
mixture analysis), latent class analysis, factor ➤20–22—Statistical Regularization
and IRT mixture modeling, latent transi- and Qualitative Constraints: Inference
5–7—BIT Life Sciences’ 2nd Annual
tion analysis, growth mixture modeling, Algorithms, Asymptotics, and
World Congress of Gene-2008 (WCG
and survival analysis with latent variables. Applications, Göttingen, Germany
2008), Guangzhou, China
For each topic, issues of model specifica- The goal of this conference is to bring
This conference will promote the develop-
tion, identification, ML estimation, testing, together international researchers with an
ments of gene science and technology by
and model modification will be discussed. interest in statistical regularization and
allowing attendees to exchange ideas, make
Mplus input setups will be provided, and members of the newly founded German-
acquaintances, and become familiar with
Mplus output is used for the interpretation Swiss (DFG-SNF) research group—
the most recent science and technology
of analysis results. For details, visit www. FOR916—to initiate scientific exchange.
in the field. For more information, visit
umich.edu/~cscar/workshops/MPlus.html For more information, visit www.stochastik.
www.bitlifesciences.com/wcg2008 or contact
or contact Brady West, 3550-C Rackham math.uni-goettingen.de/forschergruppe/
Amy Guo, 26 Gaoneng St., R405, Dalian
Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; conference.html or contact Klaus Frick,
Hightech Zone, Dalian, International
(734) 764-5286; bwest@umich.edu. Maschmuehlenweg 8-10, Göttingen,
116025, China; 0086-411-84799609-813;
International 37073, Germany; for916@
amy@genecongress.com.
12–14—International Workshop on
math.uni-goettingen.de.
Flexible Modeling: Smoothing and
*8–12—64th Annual Deming
Robustness, Leuven, Belgium ➤30—Using Modern Statistical Methods
Conference on Applied Statistics, Atlantic
The general theme of this workshop is semi to Improve Your Organization,
City, New Jersey
and nonparametric analysis and robust Hanoi, Vietnam
The purpose of this conference and
statistical methods. Other themes include This one-day workshop aims to help leaders
the following two-day short courses is
flexible smoothing and penalization, model and managers learn how modern statisti-
to provide a learning experience around
selection, nonparametric functional estima-
cal methods can help improve all aspects of
recent developments in statistical method-
tion, modeling dependencies and inference
their organizations. The first half is directed
ologies. The conference is composed of
for copulas, robust multivariate outlier
toward leadership and senior management
12 three-hour tutorials on current statistical
detection, and semi and nonparametric
and focuses on identifying a set of key met-
topics of interest. Recognized experts
methods in time-series analysis. There will
rics to tell them how their organizations are
in applied statistics will give lectures and
be invited talks, contributed talks, and
performing and what they need to work on
short courses based on their recently pub-
poster sessions. Also, a short course for doc-
next to have the biggest effect. The second
lished books. For more information, visit
toral students will follow. For details, visit
half is directed toward middle management,
www.demingconference.com or contact
wis.kuleuven.be/stat/fmsr2008.php or contact
statisticians, and engineers working in busi-
Walter Young, 16 Harrow Circle, Wayne,
Irène Gijbels, Celestijnenlaan 200B, Leuven
ness and industry. It reviews up-to-date
PA 19087-3852; (610) 989-1622;
(Heverlee), International B-3001, Belgium;
statistical tools and techniques that enable
demingchair@gmail.com.
+32-16-322018; irene.gijbels@wis.
organizations to substantially improve the
kuleuven.be.
efficiency of their operations, including best
practices in product and process design,
➤15–16—Winter Workshop on
quality improvement, and variation reduc-
Mathematical Statistics Bratislava 2008,
tion. For details, visit www.action-m.com/
WWMS ’08, Bratislava, Slovakia
CAPS2008/workshop.php or contact Nam-
Friends, colleagues, and students of Andrej
Ky Nguyen, c/o Yiu-Fai Yung, 104 Linton
Pázman will celebrate his 70th birthday
Banks Place, Cary, NC 27512;
by offering this workshop, intended to be
(844) 221-2811; nkn@designcomputing.net.
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