Biometrics
Meetings, Awards Highlighted for 2009
Ralitza Gueorguieva, Biometrics Section Publications Officer
T
he ENAR Spring Meeting, to be • Causal Inference with Instrumental in Forestry, Ecology, and Environ-
held in conjunction with sections of Variable Methods mental Sciences
the ASA and IMS, will take place in
San Antonio, Texas, from March 15–18,
• New Statistical Methods for Detecting
• Estimating Curves and Surfaces from
2009. An exciting program has been
Epistasis Interactions in Genome-Wide
Environmental Data
planned that includes strong representation
Association Studies
• Statistical Modeling and Analysis of
from the Biometrics Section.
• Outcome-Dependent Sampling
Brain Imaging Data
The theme of the meeting is “Statistics—
Mapping Data to Discovery.” Peter Diggle, a
• Recent Advances in Meta-Analysis
• Intermediate Bayesian Data Analysis
professor at the Lancaster University School
• Recent Advances in Feature Selection
Using WinBUGS and BRugs
of Health and Medicine with an adjunct
and Its Applications
appointment at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
The tutorials include Methods for
School of Public Health, will give the • Statistical Methods in Genome-Wide
Reproducible Research, Mass Spectrometry-
presidential invited talk, titled “Statistical
Gene Regulation Studies
Based Proteomics, and Genetic and
Modeling for Real-Time Epidemiology.”
Microarray Data Analyses.
The continuing education program con-
Before Diggle’s lecture, up to 20
Two workshops also will be offered.
sists of six half- and full-day short courses,
Distinguished Student Paper awards will
Fostering Diversity in Biostatistics will
tutorials, and roundtable discussions. The
be presented. In addition, Samuel Kou,
topics of the short courses include the fol-
provide a forum for discussion of impor-
assistant professor of statistics at Harvard
lowing:
tant issues related to diversity and target
University and IMS Medallion Lecturer, racial/ethnic groups traditionally under-
will give a talk titled “Statistical Challenges
• Bioconductor for the Analysis of
represented in the field of (bio)statistics.
in Nanoscale Biophysics.” The complete
Genome-Scale Data
The Workshop for Junior Researchers is
invited portion of the scientific program is
• Regression Modeling Strategies
aimed at promoting the career develop-
available at
www.enar.org, and the deadline
ment of junior investigators by bringing
for receiving abstracts is November 15.
• Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis
them together with a prestigious panel of
The Biometrics Section will sponsor six
of Spatial-Temporal Data: Emphasis
senior investigators.
invited sessions on the following topics:
The Tuesday evening social event will
be dinner at Boudro’s Restaurant, famous
for its guacamole and specialty dishes. We
encourage everyone to take a little extra
bayesian biostatistics Conference
time to enjoy San Antonio before or after
the meetings.
Slated for January
2009 Joint Statistical Meetings
Current and prospective users of Bayesian biostatistics are invited to join experts
January 26–28, 2009, for a three-day conference sponsored by the Department of
A topic-contributed session is a nice alter-
Biostatistics at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
native to a contributed session because it is
Participants will have the opportunity to attend two courses on the first day: The
organized around a central topic, the talks are
Use of Bayesian Statistics in Clinical Trials and Applications of Bayesian Methods
longer (20 minutes, rather than 15), and dis-
to Drug and Medical Device Development. On Tuesday and Wednesday, invited
cussants are allowed. Typically, sessions con-
presentations will cover a variety of topics, possibly including comprehensive deci-
sist of four speakers. 2009 JSM Biometrics
sion modeling, prior distributions in clinical studies and drug development, what Section Program Chair Wensheng Guo is
Bayesian methods can provide that traditional methods cannot, Bayesian methods collecting proposals for topic-contributed
in medical journals, Bayesian methods in epidemiology, Bayesian methods and talks. If you are interested in organizing a
medical ethics, how to build a cadre of Bayesian experts, why Bayesian methods are
topic-contributed session, contact him at
not more widely used, how to ensure quality in Bayesian methods, and guidelines
wguo@mail.med.upenn.edu. While the dead-
for publishing Bayesian analyses. Registration fees will be modest. More informa-
line for submitting topic-contributed session
tion is available at
www.mdanderson.org/departments/biostats.
abstracts is February 2, proposals should be
sent to the program chair as early as possible.
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