s
e
NT
e
V
OF
››* 18–20—32nd Annual Midwest 25–29—41st Annual Conference of the and scholarships are given to selected
AR
Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop French Statistical Society, Bordeaux, graduate students who present con-
(MBSW), Muncie, Indiana France tributed papers. For details, visit www.
Cosponsored by Ball State University For information, visit
www.sm. stat.sfu.ca/~boxint/src2009 or contact
ALEND
C and the Biopharmaceutical Section of
u-bordeaux2.fr/JDS2009/index.html Boxin Tang, Department of Statistics
the ASA, this workshop will be held or contact Marta Avalos, 146 rue Leo and Actuarial Science, Burnaby, British
at the Alumni Center of Ball State Saignat, Bordeaux, International 33076, Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada, 778-782-
University. Michael O’Connell (Tibco) France; 33 557 5715 34; Marta.Avalos@ 4898,
boxint@stat.sfu.ca.
will present a half-day short course, titled
isped.u-bordeaux2.fr.
“Integrating Graphics and Statistics
Across Pharmaceutical Research and
31–6/3—37th Annual Meeting of
Development.” Plenary speakers include
*27–29—2009 Spring Research the Statistical Society of Canada,
Scott Evans (Harvard) and Paul Stang
Conference on Statistics in Industry Vancouver, Canada
(J&J). Invited talks will be presented in
and Technology, Vancouver, British This conference will bring together
four parallel tracks: clinical, discovery/
Columbia academic, governmental, and industrial
pre-clinical, nonclinical, and post-
This conference aims to promote researchers, as well as users of statistics
marketing. There will also be a con-
research in statistical methods that and probability. It will present workshops
tributed poster session. Poster abstracts
address problems in industry and and invited and contributed sessions.
must be submitted by April 20, 2009.
technology and to stimulate interac- The SSC features sections in biostatistics,
Students may submit posters for the
tion among statisticians, researchers survey methods, business and industrial
Charlie Sampson Award. For details,
in the application areas, and industrial statistics, and probability. Consequently,
visit
www.mbswonline.com or contact
practitioners. It also strives to encour- the program will include papers in all
Melvin Munsaka, One Takeda Parkway,
age graduate students to pursue careers areas of statistics and probability. About
Deerfield, IL 60015; (847) 582-3533;
in industry and technology; students 450 statisticians are expected to par-
mmunsaka@tgrd.com.
are charged a reduced registration fee, ticipate. For more information, visit
www.ssc.ca or contact Christian Léger,
University of Montréal, Department
of Mathematics and Statistics, CP
6128 Succursale Centreville, Montréal,
Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada; (514) 343-
7824;
leger@dms.umontreal.ca.
June
*2–5—2009 Quality & Productivity
Research Conference, Yorktown
Heights, New York
The conference theme is “Data,
Statistics, and Vision Lead to Great
Decisions.” The focus, as always, will be
on presenting leading edge research by
academic and industrial statisticians and
showing the best new statistical methods
for improving industrial quality and pro-
ductivity. There will be a pre-conference,
full day course on June 2, followed by
two and a half days of plenary/invited/
contributed/tutorial sessions and spe-
cial events. For more information, visit
research.ihost.com/qprc_2009 or contact
Emmanuel Yashchin, IBM T. J. Watson
Research Ctr., P.O. Box 218, Yorktown
Heights, NY 10598; (914) 945-1828;
yashchi@us.ibm.com.
44 AMsTAT NeWs JANUARy 2009
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80