Published three times a year, the ISI Newsletter provides a broad overview of the Institute's activities, and also includes additional information of interest to statisticians. The Newsletter is sent to all members of the ISI and its Sections (approx. 5,000) as part of their membership.
Editors: Dr. M.P.R. Van den Broecke and Mr. D. Berze. Copy Editor: René Keijser
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Message from the President
This first issue of our ISI Newsletter for 2001 gives me the occasion to wish you, at the dawn of this New Millennium, an exciting and successful year – a year in which information will play an ever increasing role in the life of the international community and will be an indispensable basis for sustainable development, to be realised through the attainment of peace, freedom, prosperity, security and justice. Last year, the IAOS Conference held in Montreux, Switzerland, successfully illustrated how we statisticians can develop new methods and new tools to contribute to this fundamental goal for mankind.
Mournfully, I regret to begin this first message of the 3rd Millennium by announcing that one of our honorary members, Professor Leslie Kish, aged 90 and member of the ISI for 30 years, has passed away at the beginning of last October. When we learnt this sad news, it was too late to announce it in the previous issue of the ISI Newsletter. Leslie Kish provided the ISI, IASS and the whole statistical community with the benefits of his invaluable and uninterrupted personal support. Thank you, Leslie, for being with us during all your professional life. You may find a tribute to his memory prepared by ISI honorary member Ivan Fellegi. The ISI Council and the ISI Permanent Office expressed their sincere condolences to his family and to the University of Michigan.
I would like to invite you to look at the results of the election of the ISI Officers for the term 2001 – 2003, which are presented here. Although these results have still to be formally approved by our next General Assembly in Seoul, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the 873 members who participated in the election process by sending back their ballot and all candidates for their active support to ISI. Let me also congratulate the newly elected team who will start to work at the completion of the Seoul Session.
As I reported in my previous message, ISI Director, Marcel Van den Broecke, Assistant Director, Daniel Berze, and myself, visited the hosts of our next Session in Seoul last October (which included also visits to the Prime Minister and the Mayor of Seoul). I can say that the venue for the Session is really very impressive and the working atmosphere of both the National Organising Committee and the Local Programme Committee is excellent. Undoubtedly the Session will be a great success. We have also participated, together with several ISI and ISI Section members (e.g. IASE President Brian Phillips) to celebrate the International Statistical Education Centre (ISEC) Golden Jubilee. ISEC was created in 1950, at the suggestion of Prasanta Mahalanobis, by the ISI and the Indian Statistical Institute, with the help of UNESCO. A total of 1,296 students from 60 different countries have been trained in Calcutta over a period of 50 years. The celebration included a two-day scientific seminar in Delhi focussing on the main challenges statisticians have to face today, followed by a two-day conference examining statistical education in the ISEC Calcutta facility and general issues in statistical education. I hope we will be able to continue to provide support to ISEC in the coming years in despite of our financial constraints. We are grateful to our ISEC hosts for their excellent work in organising these conferences, to the Indian Government and UNESCO for providing financial support for the conference.
A gathering of ISEC conference participants
Also on November 30 and December 1, 2000, our Council met in Voorburg at the ISI Permanent Office. A total of 16 Council members (out of the 30) were present. In particular, all the Sections were represented, in general by their President. This Council meeting is the only one to be held between two plenary ISI Sessions. This Council meeting was preceded and followed by meetings of the Executive Committee. Although the agendas of these meetings were long and detailed, I would like to provide you with a brief overview of some of the more important topics that were discussed.
I would like to first inform you about the Council’s support for my initiative to revise the ISI Statutes and By-Laws. The actual texts have been adopted in 1984, more than 15 years ago. Some ISI practices have changed in the course of time and our Statutes and By-Laws should be modified in order to reflect these new methods of operation. All ISI members have received a letter explaining the proposed changes. Please do not view this initiative as an unimportant bureaucratic procedure: at least one-third of the membership (i.e. around 670 members) should vote upon the proposal; of course, you are free to accept, reject or abstain each of the nine proposals, but please do submit your VOTE as soon as possible! It’s important for the life of our Institute. We are counting upon you and your ballot will count. Thank you for your support in this activity!
Concerning our next Session in Seoul in August, the ISI Director and I provided Council with a report regarding our visit in Seoul and, together with Richard Gill (the chairman of the ISI Programme Co-ordinating Committee) we informed the Council members of the excellent preparatory work made by our Korean colleagues: the internal deadlines are being met; eighty-four invited paper meetings are being planned included a number of meetings organised by guest organisations. During the Council meeting, we also welcomed the President and the Chief of the Executive Secretariat of the 2003 German National Organising Committee, Dr. H.G. Merk and Mr. Bernd Störtzbach. They provided an impressive description of the preliminary work that has already taken place. You may obtain a lot of information about both these events by looking at the two web-sites updated respectively by the Korean and German NOCs: www.nso.go.kr/isi2001 and www.isi-2003.de.
President-Elect Dennis Trewin gave some preliminary impressions of the 55th ISI Session he will organise with his Australian colleagues on April 5–12, 2005. We have exchanged some information about the possible host countries for the 56th Session in 2007 and I’m confident that we will reach the stage such that we can announce our choice in the forthcoming ISI Newsletter, as well as for the 57th Session in 2009. By running through the pages of this Newsletter issue, you may learn about some other seminars, cutting edge conferences, and meetings organised by the ISI and/or its Sections, that provide proof of the vitality of our Institute.
Publication issues are a recurring theme during the meetings of the ISI leading bodies. In a previous issue of the Newsletter, I had reported that we are now ready to electronically publish Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts (STMA) in a CD-ROM format. Plans are being made to include back issues of Short Book Reviews in this new electronic product. Negotiations are taking place with CIS to explore the advisability of a joint marketing collaboration. Statisticians of the Centuries, edited by Chris Heyde, will be published this year. The work for preparing the 6th edition of the ISI’s Dictionary of Statistical Terms has started under the leadership of its chief editor Yadolah Dodge, and negotiations are underway with Oxford University Press to publish this in 2002. One of the most exciting achievements is certainly the internet version of the Glossary of Statistical Terms, thanks to the tremendous support provided by Eurostat to this project; you may access this Glossary via the ISI website http://www.cbs.nl/isi/glossary.htm and I invite all users to send their comments, proposed additions, etc. to ISI volunteer Johan Dragt, who has been responsible for developing the database of statistical terms on which the Glossary is based. Our main task in the near future is certainly to improve the coverage of this Glossary. Finally, the Council has been informed of the appointment by the ISI Publications Committee of new co-editors for the International Statistical Review (ISR), Asta Manninen (Finland) and STMA, F. W. Steutel (The Netherlands).
Finally, the ISI Council discussed several matters concerning committee activities. First, the chairman of the ISI Committee on Environmental Statistics, Larry Cox, informed the Council that his Committee would like to form a new ISI Section and the Executive Committee has considered the advantages and disadvantages of such a move. This matter will be further considered in forthcoming meetings of the Executive Committee and Council. The Council has also expressed its support for the orientations proposed in the document produced by the Committee on Women in Statistics (please refer to the previous issue of the Newsletter for further details) to stimulate additional female ISI membership. The Council has approved the creation and the terms of reference for a new ISI Committee, the Committee on Professional Ethics, which will be chaired by Dr. Eckart Elsner (Germany). It also adopted new terms of reference for the ISI Committee on Risk Analysis chaired by Dr. John Bailar (USA). Finally, it approved a proposal to establish ISI Service Awards to replace the former ISI Service Medals, in response to the motion presented by ISI honorary member Jim Durbin during the last General Assembly meeting in Helsinki. All these matters will be described in detail in the Report that will be presented to the meeting of the General Assembly in Seoul.
As you can see, the ISI and its Sections are very much alive but also their scientific contributions to the world statistical community are of fundamental importance. In the coming days you will receive Information Bulletin No. 2 for the Seoul Session. I hope most of you will return the registration forms as I’m sure that Seoul will be a great occasion to meet and have productive and pleasant scientific and informal discussions. I hope you will not miss this occasion offered by the first major statistical event of the Third Millennium.
Jean–Louis Bodin,
President ISI
Message from the Director
Thank you for all the good wishes we received at the ISI Permanent Office for the year 2001. We extend the same wishes to you in the hope that you will have a fruitful and successful year. A warm welcome is also extended to the sixty-eight new ISI ordinary members who were elected in the first and second rounds of the 2000 elections (more). In view of the fact that the average age of ISI-membership continues to rise, I would like to encourage our members to propose statisticians for membership who are prominent in their field but who are not yet a member of the ISI. Details of the procedure for submitting names of such potential ISI-members can be found on our web site (http://www.cbs.nl/isi/membership.htm). The results of the elections of new ISI Council and Executive Committee representatives for 2003–2005 period, including the position of President-Elect, are announced here.
This year will be a year full of ISI activities, the most prominent one being the fifty-third ISI Session in Seoul, Korea. The scientific program has now been established, and the session promises to be a very interesting one. You may expect to receive the second bulletin informing you about all the necessary details in March. It will be sent to all those individuals who responded to the first bulletin by submitting the preliminary registration form contained therein. You can also receive the second information bulletin by sending an e-mail to isi2001@nso.go.kr requesting it. All those who have expressed the intention to present a contributed paper, as well as those who will present an invited paper should send in their registration form to ensure that their paper will be included in the electronic and hard copy version of the Session Proceedings, traditionally referred to as the “Bulletin”. More information regarding the Session in Seoul can be found on pages 5–17 of this Newsletter.
I am pleased to announce that we have now put an up-to-date membership list on our web site at (http://www.cbs.nl/isi/isimembers.pdf) which contains all ISI members with name, affiliation, city, country, telephone, fax and e-mail address as far as available, excepting those members who have responded to our earlier announcement, specifically specifying which contact information they wished to have suppressed. The list, a PDF file, is updated on a regular basis.
Another search feature has also been introduced at our website at (http://www.cbs.nl/isi/list.htm) as a helpful source of information. This facility lists the names and addresses of various national and international statistical organisations, including various United Nations organisations, specialised agencies, governmental organisations and statistical societies. It also contains a handy feature that allows one to select a country and obtain the relevant details regarding the national statistical office for a particular country, as well as details regarding its national statistical association and/or society. We try to keep these lists as topical as we can, and would appreciate receiving your updates and additional information should any corrections or updates be required.
For the benefit of those who live in developing countries or have an interest in them (with specific regards to Africa), I would also like to draw attention to an initiative of a non-profit organisation located in Germany and called “Technology Transfer: Africa” which aims at bridging the digital gap between developed and developing countries. For more information see (http://www.equalaccess-initiative.com).
Let me conclude by pointing out that the ISI-Development Fund which supports statisticians from developing and transition countries who present a paper at a meeting of the ISI or one of its Sections, still has some funds available for this purpose, on a first come first serve basis. An application form can be downloaded from our web site (http://www.cbs.nl/isi/devfundtxt.htm) or be sent by mail in hard copy format on request.
Marcel van den Broecke
Director
Membership Elections 2000
We congratulate sixty-eight new ISI Ordinary Members who were elected in the first and second rounds of the 2000 elections. A list containing the names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of these new members may be viewed at (http://www.cbs.nl/isi/isimembers.pdf).
Abu-Libdeh, Hasan (Palestine)
Albert, Jose R. (Philippines)
Argüeso Jiménez, Antonio J. (Spain)
Arminger, Gerhard (Austria)
Balbi, Simona (Italy)
Bichot, Jacques (France)
Bond, Derek (UK)
Bose, Mausumi (India)
Brachinger, Hans W. (Germany)
Chaganty, Narasinga R. (USA)
Choi, Jong-Hoo (Korea)
De Gunst, Mathisca (The Netherlands)
Dehling, Herold G. (Germany)
Domanski, Czesław K. (Poland)
Dwijosumono, Subagio (Indonesia)
Esposito, Vincenzo (Italy)
Farrar, Martha S. (USA)
Gadag, Veerabhadra (India)
Gambino, Jack (Canada)
Hassan, Abdulah (Ethiopia)
Hox, Joop (The Netherlands)
Ishida, Akira (Japan)
Jones, Michael C. (UK)
Kamps, Udo (Germany)
Keita, Naman (Mali)
Lee, Dong-Myeong (Korea)
Lefranc, Christophe (France)
León, José R. (Venezuela)
Li, Gang (China)
Lin, Miao-Hsiang (China)
Mallick, Bani K. (India)
Mammen, Enno M. (Germany)
Mase, Shigeru (Japan)
Mesbah, Mounir (Algeria)
Moreau, Sylvain J. (France)
Morikawa, Toshihiko (Japan)
Nadarajah, Saralees (Sri Lanka)
Naik-Nimbalkar, Uttara (India)
Nam, Buhn (Korea)
Nascimento Silva, Pedro L. (Brazil)
Portier, Christopher J. (USA)
Rajarshi, Manohar (India)
Rivière, Pascal (France)
Ruiz Espejo, Mariano (Spain)
Sanso, Bruno (Venezuela)
Schimek, Michael G. (Austria)
Selçuk. Ayşe S. (Turkey)
Shabaneh, Luay A.-H. (Palestine)
Shakhatreh, Hussein I. (Jordan)
Shipp, Stephanie S. (USA)
Singh, Harshinder (India)
Sinha, Debajyoti (India)
Smith, Stephen L.J. (USA)
Sreehari, Maddipatla (India)
Steerneman, Antonius G.M. (The Netherlands)
Tiwari, Ram C. (USA)
van der Laan, Mark (The Netherlands)
van der Vaart, Aad W. (The Netherlands)
Verde, Rosanna (Italy)
Verdier, Pierre H. (France)
Villan, Ildefonso (Spain)
Wan, Alan Tze Kin (China)
Wang, Suojin (USA)
Ward, Denis (Australia)
Yadohisa, Hiroshi (Japan)
Zalkind Irony, Telba (Brazil)
Zen, Mei-mei (China)
Zoppè, Alice (Italy)
Existing ISI members are urged to nominate potential new members to ISI membership. The future of our organisation depends upon our ability to generate new qualified members. Details about ISI (and ISI Section) membership and ISI member nomination forms can be found at (http://www.cbs.nl/isi/membership.htm).
ISI Officer Election – Results
A tabulation of the 873 ballots regarding ISI Officers resulted in the election of the following persons:
President-Elect (2001-2003)
Stephen M. Stigler (USA)Vice Presidents
Jae Chang Lee (Korea)
Denise A. Lievesley (UK)
Jef L. Teugels (Belgium)Council
Jayant V. Deshpande (India)
(2001-2005) Nicholas I. Fisher (Australia)
Frederick W.H. Ho (Hong Kong S.A.R., China)
David S. Moore (USA)
Sylvia Richardson (France)
Paul Switzer (USA)
Ib O. Thomsen (Norway)
Norbert Victor (Germany)Present Council members who will be continuing their service for a further two years are: Luigi Fabbris (Italy)
Catherine Huber-Carol (France)
Youri Ivanov (Russia)
Farhad Mehran (Iran)
Stephan Morgenthaler (Switzerland)
Ryoichi Shimizu (Japan)The formal approval of the election results is due during the Seoul Session by the General Assembly that is scheduled for August 27, 2001. We are grateful to all candidates for their enthusiasm and willingness to support the ISI. The newly elected team, under the leadership of incoming President Dennis Trewin will start its work at the completion of the Seoul Session in August.
ISI Executive Committee for the 2001-2003 Period (subject to the formal General Assembly approval):
Dennis Trewin Stephen M. Stigler Jae Chang Lee Denise A. Lievesley Jef L. Teugels
53rd ISI Session—Seoul 2001
The National Organizing Committee (NOC) is working hard to ensure that this upcoming Session will be a success and hopes to satisfy the expectations of all participants who are involved in the Session.
Information Bulletin No. 2
The second Information Bulletin will be distributed in March 2001 by airmail to all those who have completed the “Preliminary Registration forms”. Please note that Bulletin No. 2 will also be accessible from our Session website (http://www.nso.go.kr/isi2001).
Anyone who wishes to receive a copy of Bulletin No. 2 by airmail may contact the Executive Secretariat of the 53rd ISI Session.
Auditorium in the COEX (meeting venue) with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities newly built last year
Scientific Programme
The Scientific Programme of the 53rd ISI Session consists of the Invited Paper Meetings and the Contributed Paper Meetings. A Tutorial Course on Data Mining will also be held one evening during the Session as a special event. A list of invited paper meetings is included elsewhere in this Newsletter.
Invited Paper Meetings
The updated programme of the Invited Paper Meetings will be published in Bulletin No. 2. Each Invited Author should submit a draft (preliminary) version of his/her invited paper to the meeting organizer by February 22, 2001 so that the organizers can advise on the content. The deadline for submitting the manuscripts of the Invited Papers is April 22, 2001. As for the Invited Paper Meetings, at the Seoul ISI Session we are extremely honored to announce that two Nobel-prize winners have agreed to give special presentations at the IP Plenary Meeting during the Session.
Contributed Paper Meetings
Anyone actually participating in the ISI Session may present a contributed paper at the Session. All contributed authors are requested to classify their papers according to the indicative list of topics published in Bulletin No. 1 and Bulletin No. 2. The deadline for submitting the manuscripts for the Contributed Papers is April 22, 2001. The final programs including the date and time of presentation for each author will be published in Information Bulletin No. 3, which will be forwarded to all registrants in July 2001.
ISI Delegation poses with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea (October 2000).
From the left to right:
Mr. Daniel Berze (Assistant Director, ISI Permanent Office)
Dr. Marcel P.R. Van den Broecke (Director, ISI Permanent Office)
Mr. Young-Dae Yoon (Commissioner, Korea National Statistical Office)
Mr. Han-Dong Lee (Prime Minister, Republic of Korea)
Mr. Jean-Louis Bodin (President, ISI)
Professor Jae-Chang Lee (Chair, Local Programme Committee)
Mr. Bong-Ho Choi (Chief, Executive Secretariat).Statistics on Preliminary Registration
As of the end of January 2001, 800 persons from 79 different countries have completed the Preliminary Registration for the 53rd Session of the ISI. The actual number of preliminary registrants is expected to increase during the month of February 2001. Among these preliminary registrants, 180 persons are female, and 376 persons are non-members of the ISI and its Sections. Anyone who wants to become a member of the ISI or its Sections should address their request for ISI membership nomination form or ISI Section application form to the ISI Permanent Office (website: http://www.cbs.nl/isi).
Among the 800 preliminary registrants, 520 persons are authors of a Contributed Paper. With respect to the desired hotel category that preliminary registrants have requested, around 70 percent of these registrants expressed a preference for “First Class” or “Economy Class”, as opposed to “Super Deluxe” or “Deluxe Class”. From this trend, we can assume that early reservations may be desirable for those who want to stay at First Class or Economy Class hotels. Most registrants (80%) have taken advantage of the internet by transmitting their forms through our website. The data of all preliminary registrants who have sent their Preliminary Registration form by e-mail, fax or airmail, instead of through our website have also been included in our website database. The list of the Preliminary Registrants according to nationality is available from the Newsboard via the website (http://www.nso.go.kr/isi2001).
Please feel free to visit this website anytime to see who will be attending this upcoming Session.
Final Registration
Please note that “Preliminary Registration” will close at the end of February 2001 and “Final Registration” will start on the Session website as of March 1, 2001. Anyone who wishes to attend the Session but missed the deadline (February 28) for the submission of the Preliminary Registration form will be permitted to directly transmit their Final Registration form without needing to submit the Preliminary Registration form. Please note that the registration fee will increase as of June 1, 2001 and that all authors of the Contributed Papers should process their Final Registration on or before June 1, 2001 to ensure that their papers will be included in the program and in the Conference Volume of Contributed Papers. Final Registration can be made by either of the following three methods:
· Through our website: Please go to the Session website (http://www.nso.go.kr/isi2001) and click on “Final Registration”. You can type your e-mail address and find the Final Registration Form. Some of your personal information will appear on that form if you have already signed up for preliminary registration. Just fill in the rest of the form and send by clicking on “Transmit”.
· By fax: See the Final Registration Form attached in Information Bulletin No. 2.
· By airmail: See the Final Registration Form attached in Information Bulletin No. 2.Registration fee
A list of registration fees is available in Bulletin No. 1, No. 2 and also on our Session website. The registration fees for participants include admission to all scientific meetings, exhibitions, the Welcome Reception, the Reception by the Mayor of Seoul, Korean Night (Cultural Performance), and various materials required for the conference, such as conference bags, name badges, program books, Proceedings (cd-rom included), KNSO’s publications, stamp albums, memo pads and pens, souvenirs for participants, souvenir badges, exhibition directories, participants lists, travel guide books, map of subway lines…etc.
Hotel Reservation
Participants can get the necessary information for each type of accommodation and make the appropriate reservations using the Registration Form on the Session website from March 1, 2001. The NOC has tried its best to secure as many rooms as possible for the ISI participants, however, early reservations are recommended because unfortunately reservations will be made on a “first-come, first-served” basis. Furthermore, some hotels may not be able to accommodate all of the applicants’ requests.
How to create Papers
Authors can produce papers by using software from Microsoft Word, WordPerfect and Latex. In the case of Microsoft Word, WordPerfect and Latex, authors can produce papers using the ready-made style sheets or templates which can be downloaded from our Session website (http://www.nso.go.kr/isi2001).
In case authors would like to create papers using some other text editor, they should save their papers as a PDF file. The maximum length of Invited Papers is 4 pages and that of Contributed Papers is 2 pages in single space at A4 size. However, during their presentations in the meeting rooms, authors are free to circulate a longer (extended) version of their paper or a hand-out (presentation material) to the audience, if they want. The instructions for creating the manuscripts are also published in the Information Bulletin No. 1, No. 2 and on our website.
How to submit Papers
Authors who have completed the papers according to the above explanations can then submit their papers using one of the following three methods.
· Through our website: Please visit the Session website and click on “Paper Submission”. You can type your e-mail address and find the Paper Submission Form, in which some information has already been included in the Form if you have previously processed your Preliminary Registration. On that form, you can download the file of your paper which was made by either Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Latex, PDF and can send it by clicking the “Transmit” button. This may be the most convenient way for most authors to submit their papers.
· By e-mail: You can send your paper by e-mail with an attached file that was made by either Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Latex, PDF. In this case, you should also send your Paper Submission Form together with the paper.
· By airmail: You can send your paper by airmail to the Executive Secretariat. In this case, you should also enclose your Paper Submission Form attached in the Bulletin No. 2 and the diskette of the paper, together with the hardcopy of the paper in an envelope. The special composition sheets will be mailed to the persons who expressed their wishes to submit papers by airmail in Preliminary Registration, by 15 February 2001.
All authors of Invited and Contributed Papers should submit the final manuscript of their papers by
April 22, 2001.
Korean traditional dance
Social Programs
Several inspiring and relaxing social programs will also be offered to participants and their families during the Session. In addition to the Welcoming Reception, the Reception by the Mayor of Seoul, and the Farewell Party, a fantastic cultural performance named “Korean Night” will hopefully provide participants with an unforgettable experience in Seoul. On Saturday afternoon during the Session, participants will be able to enjoy tour programs such as the Kyongbokkung Palace Tour, the Korean Folk Village Tour, the Korean Tea Ceremony Tour and the Chongmyo Confucian Shrine Tour. On Sunday, participants can join various programs such as the World Ceramic Exposition, Pukhansan Mountain Climbing, Kwangnung Arboretum and Military Defense Tour. Special one night/two day tour programs from Saturday afternoon to Sunday are also available and are scheduled as follows:
· Kyongju Tour:
Kyongju was the capital of the Shilla Dynasty. Here, you can get a taste of ancient Korea and the golden-age of Korean Buddhism such as the Sokkuram Grotto, a UNESCO World Heritage site.· Mt. Soraksan Tour:
Soraksan is one of the most beautiful mountains in Korea and has its own special beauty in each of Korea’s four seasons. During the summer, its numerous peaks are covered with clouds and fog. Spectacular rocks look like fairies under the full moon in the dark sky. A treasury of wildlife with Asian black bears, 1,200 types of flora, including the unique Edelweiss, Uisangdae Pavilion, the Reunification Observation Post and the Kyongpodae beach, etc will dazzle the participants.· Andong Traditional Architecture Tour:
Andong is a small town in the southeastern part of Korea famous for preserving an authentic tradition of old Korean culture developed by the yangban, or the noble class, of the late Choson Dynasty. Hahwe village in Andong was even visited by Queen Elizabeth II in 1999.
Queen Elizabeth II visiting Hahwe village in 1999, which still preserves an authentic tradition of old Korean culture.
There will also be wonderful tour programs for accompanying persons. Participants and Accompanying Persons can apply for the tour programs in the Final Registration Form. More detailed information for each of these excursions will be published in the Information Bulletin No. 2 and on our Session website.
Special Airfare Rates
Korean Air has been designated as the Official Carrier of the Session. This agreement has been made between the National Organizing Committee and Korean Air and stipulates that any registrant who is attending the 53rd Session of the ISI will qualify for a 20% discount off the current market airfare for Business and Economy Class to and from Seoul. Participants who wish to purchase their air tickets should show a copy of their Registration Acknowledgement to the nearest Korean Air office. The NOC is also discussing possible arrangements with Asiana Airlines.
Information Desk at the Airport
At the International Airport, there will be an ISI Information Desk which will station full-time ISI staff members during the Session to help all ISI participants take local transportation to their place of accommodation.
Exhibition
The “International Statistical Exhibition (ISE)” will be held in conjunction to the ISI Session. The Exhibition will feature displays of major hardware and software items as well as other related technological equipment by numerous international and local vendors. Those who wish to participate in the exhibition are required to send their application form, which is included in our website, to the Executive Secretariat by June 30, 2001. The manual for exhibitors, which includes detailed information on the installation booth, exhibits and custom clearance etc. will be provided to those companies/organizations that have sent in their application forms. For more details, please log on to our website at (http://www.nso.go.kr/isi2001).
Biwon (Secret Garden), one of the Choson Dynasty(1392-1910) palaces
Important Deadlines
April 22, 2001:
Authors should submit the final manuscripts of their papers to the Executive Secretariat.
June 1, 2001:
The increased registration fee takes effect. The authors of Contributed Papers are to submit their registration fees by this date to ensure that their papers will be included in the programme and in the Conference Volume of Contributed Papers.
Satellite Meetings and Short Courses of the 53rd ISI Session
Dates Meeting/Courses Place Organizers Contact Aug. 2 ~ Aug. 3 Matrix Conference Voorburg, The Netherlands
(ISI Permanent Office)Statistics Netherlands - ISI Dr. George Styan
(styan@total.net)Aug. 18 ~ Aug. 22 IASS Short Courses · Survey Sampling · Variance Estimation · Small Area Estimation · Non-sampling Error · Editing & Imputation Seoul, Korea (COEX) IASS - KASS Dr. Dan Kasprzyk
(daniel_kasprzyk@ed.gov) Dr. Kay-O Lee
(kayolee@hanimail.com)Aug. 20 ~ Aug. 21 Meeting on Recent Advances in Biostatistics Taejon, Korea (KAIST) Prof. Young Jack Lee Prof. Young-Jack Lee
(jacklee@westat-korea.com)Aug. 21 ~ Aug. 22 IASE Satellite Conference on Statistical Literacy Seoul, Korea (COEX) IASE - KASE Prof. Yong Goo Lee
(leeyg@cau.ac.kr)Aug. 20 ~ Aug. 21 The 2nd International Symposium on Industrial Statistics Yokohama, Japan (Keio University) The ISI Committee for Statistics in Business and Industry Prof. Chihiro Hirotsu
(hirotsu@ge.meisei-u.ac.jp)Aug. 30 ~ Aug. 31 IAOS Satellite Meeting on Statistics for Information Society Tokyo, Japan Statistics Bureau of Japan - Japan Statistical Association · IAOS Mr. Akihiko Ito
(jsa@jstat.or.kr)Aug. 30 ~ Sept. 1 International Conference on New Trends in Computational Statistics Osaka, Japan (Osaka Univ.) IASC - Japanese Society of Computational Statistics Prof. Yutaka Tanaka
(tanaka@stat1.stat. ems.okayama-u.ac.jp)Aug. 30 ~ Sept. 1 International Conference on Statistical Challenges in Environmental Health Problems Fukuoka, Japan (Fukuoka Soft Research Park) International Biometric Society
(The Japanese Region)Prof. Takashi Yanagawa
(yanagawa@math.kyushu-u.ac.jp)For more detailed information, please see Bulletin No. 1, No. 2 or the website (http://www.nso.go.kr/isi2001).
Schedule for the 53rd Session of the ISI
07:30-09:00 09:15-11:30 11:45-13:15 13:15-15:30 15:45-18:00 Evening 21 Aug.(Tue.) Registration
22 Aug.(Wed.) Registration
Opening Ceremony Welcome Reception
23 Aug.(Thur.) Administrative Meetings Scientific Meetings Administrative Meetings Scientific Meetings Scientific Meetings Seoul City Reception 24 Aug.(Fri.) Administrative Meetings Scientific Meetings Administrative Meetings Scientific Meetings Scientific Meetings Tutorial on Data Mining 25 Aug.(Sat.) Scientific Meetings Mid-Session Tour
26 Aug.(Sun.) Mid-Session Tour Guest Societies
Dinner Meeting27 Aug.(Mon.) Administrative Meetings Scientific Meetings Administrative Meetings Special Keynote Addresses* ISI General Assembly Korean Night 28 Aug.(Tue.) Administrative Meetings Scientific Meetings Administrative Meetings Scientific Meetings Scientific Meetings Farewell Party 29 Aug.(Wed.) Administrative Meetings Scientific Meetings Administrative Meetings Scientific Meetings Scientific Meetings * Special Keynote Addresses invited by ISI President
Tentative Administrative Meetings Programme
Date (7:30–9:00) (9:15–11:30) (11:45–13:15) (13:15–15:30) (15:45–18:00) Evening Aug. 22 (Wed.) – ISI Outgoing
Executive Comm.Registration Registration Opening Ceremony Welcoming Reception Aug. 23 (Thur.) · ISI Environment Comm.
· IAOS Exec. Comm.
· Joint meeting of the Incoming Programme Comm. and Programme Co-ordinating Comm. and representatives of Outgoing Programme and Programme Co-ordinating Comm.s and both Local Prog. Comm. Chairs
· International Statistical Training Centres Working Group
· ISI Member Auditors
· IASS Council· Scientific Meetings · ISI Nominations Comm. I
· ISI Programme Comm. I
· Jan Tinbergen Awards Comm.
· BS East Asian & Pacific Reg. Comm.
· BS European Regional Comm.
· SCORUS Meeting
· Mahalanobis Comm.
· Women in Statistics Comm. Meeting
· IASS General Assembly· Scientific Meetings · Scientific Meetings · Seoul City Reception Aug. 24
(Fri.)· ISI Programme-Co-ordinating Comm. I
· BS Publications Comm.
· Life Sciences Comm.
· Khowarizmi Comm.
· Travel & Tourism Comm.
· Incoming & Outgoing ISI Council· Scientific Meetings · IAOS Programme Comm.
· BS Programme Comm.
· IASE Programme Comm.
· IASC Programme Comm.
· IASS Programme Comm.
· Irving Fisher Comm. on Central Bank Statistics
· Official Lunch with German LOC representatives
· IASE Executive Comm.· Scientific Meetings · Scientific Meetings · Tutorial Course on Data Mining Aug. 25
(Sat.)– · Jan Tinbergen Winning Paper Presentations
· Scientific Meetings· Social Programme · Social Programme · Social Programme · Chief Statisticians Reception Aug. 26
(Sun.)· Social Programme · Social Programme · Social Programme · Social Programme · Social Programme · Guest Societies Dinner Meeting Aug. 27
(Mon.)· Open meeting hosted by Women in Statistics Comm.
· IASE General Assembly
· BS Council meeting
· IASC Council meeting I
· Agricultural Statistics Comm.
· ISI Statistics in Business & Industry Comm.
· ISI Comm. on Risk Analysis· Scientific Meetings · IAOS General Assembly
· History of Statistics Comm.
· Sports Statistics Comm.
· BS Comm. for Probability & Statistics in the Physical Sciences
· IASC Council meeting II· President’s IP Meeting · ISI General Assembly & Jan Tinbergen Award Presentations · Korean Night Aug. 28
(Tue.)· IASC General Assembly
· Dictionary of Statistical Terms Editorial Comm.
· ISI Comm. on Professional Ethics
· Open Meeting of Statistical Societies
· IASS Executive Comm.· Scientific Meetings · BS General Assembly
· ISI Nominations Comm. II
· ISI Programme Comm. II
· ISI Publications Comm.
· ISI Service Certificates Review Comm.· Scientific Meetings · Scientific Meetings · Farewell Party Aug. 29
(Wed.)· IASC EARS BoD
· Mercator Comm. on GIS· Scientific Meetings · ISI Programme Co-ordinating Comm. II
· ISI Incoming Executive Comm.· Official Lunch with Australian LOC representatives
Topics for Invited Paper Meetings
0. Special Keynote Addresses
Speakers: James Heckman (USA)
Daniel McFadden (USA)
1. President’s invited paper meeting
Organizer: Jean Louis Bodin, France
Papers:
1) The public perception, political persuasiveness, and professional profile of statistics – can statistical societies make a difference?
Denise Lievesley (UK)
2) Statistics, Development and Human Rights
Carlo Malaguerra (Switzerland)
3) Ombre ou Lumière: du bon usage des statisticiens dans le débat social
Pierre Tournier (France)
4) Measures to capture poverty-a review of recent experiences
Tim Marchant (World Bank)
Lionel Demery (World Bank)
2. Statistics in Korea: History, Role in Economic Development and Current Statistical System
Organizer: Moon Sup Song, Korea
Papers:
1) The instrumental precipitation records during the last 220 years in Seoul, Korea
Jeong-Soo Park (Korea)
Hyun-Sook Jung (Korea)
Myung-Hoe Huh (Korea)
Sinsup Cho (Korea)
2) Korea’s growth planning and statistical credibility
Inchul Kim (Korea)
3) Development history of statistical system and activities
Bong-Ho Choi (Korea)
Kyung-Tae Kim (Korea)
Discussants: to be announced
3. Asian Statistical Forum
Organizer: Jae Chang Lee, Korea
Papers:
1) to be announced
Eun-Pyo Hong (OECD)
Guy Shuller (Luxembourg)
2) to be announced
Dennis Trewin (Australia)
3) to be announced
Tomas Africa (The Philippines)
Rose Venzuela-Ignacio (The Philippines)
4) to be announced
Yuki Miura (Japan)
Discussants: to be announced
4. Internet:
Network Management and Engineering PerformanceOrganizer: Glenn Stone, Australia
Papers:
1) Internet traffic data
W.S. Cleveland (USA)
2) Balanced allocations in fully-connected networks
Malwina Luczak
Discussants: to be announced
5. Statistics in Bioinformatics
Organizer: Charles E. Lawrence, USA
Papers:
1) Stochastic models for non-local interactions in biological sequences
Scott Schmidler
2) A Bayesian algorithm for Local Sequence Alignment
Bobbi Jo Webb
3) Bayesian Models for Gene Structure Prediction
Sudeshna Adak
Discussants: Jun Liu (USA)
6. Perfect Simulation
Organizer: James Allen Fill, USA
Papers:
1) The randomness: A new method for sampling from difficult distributions
Mark Huber (USA)
2) Perfect slice samplers
Antonietta Mira (Italy)
3) Using perfect tempering
Geoff Nicholls (New Zealand)
Discussant: David Bruce
7. Spatial Statistical Modeling, with Environmental Applications
Organizer: Noel Cressie, USA
Papers:
1) A spatial statistical model for studying the impact of climate variation on wetlands in the U.S. prairie pothole region
J. Andrew Royle (USA)
Christopher K. Wikle
Mark Koneff
2) Spatio-temporal modeling of environmental-monitoring data
Hsin-Cheng Huang (China)
3) models and computations for nonstationary spatial processes
Richard L. Smith (USA)
Montserrat Fuentes
Discussant: Alfred Stein (The Netherlands)
8. Clinical Trials of Herbal Medicine
Organizer: Young Jack Lee, Korea
Papers:
1) to be announced
Stanley Azen (USA)
2) to be announced
Benny Zee (Canada)
Discussants: to be announced
9. Large Data Bases and Medical Research
Cancelled
10. Technology in Statistical Education
Organizer: Tae Rim Lee, Korea
Papers:
1) to be announced
Jungjin Lee (Korea)
2) to be announced
Marta Bilotti Aliaga (USA)
3) to be announced
Kay Lipson (Australia)
4) to be announced
Sakurai Naoko (Japan)
Discussants: Masakasu Murakami (Japan)
Joongkweon Shon (Korea)
11. Women's Contributions to Leadership in Statistical Education
Organizer: Martha Aliaga, USA
Papers:
1) The role of the internet in statistical education, my contribution in South Korea
Tae Rim Lee (Korea)
2) Leadership in research on teaching and learning statistics
Pilar L. Iglesias (Chile)
Gloria Icaza
3) Women’s role in shaping future directions in statistical education
Shyamala Nagaraj
Ann Lee Wang
4) Women as statistical educators
Elsa C. Servy (Argentina)
Discussants: Mary H. Regier
Mary Gray
12. Quality Programs in Statistical Agencies
Organizer: Gordon J. Brackstone, Canada
Papers:
1) Towards a balanced TQM system at statistics Finland
Heli Jeskanen-Sundström (Finland)
Pentti Pietila (Finland)
2) Production and presentation of official statistics; Strategies for managing quality
John Cornish (New Zealand)
Robert Templeton (New Zealand)
Kenneth Miller (New Zealand)
3) Eurostat’s approach to quality
Werner Grunewald (Eurostat)
Yves Franchet (Eurostat)
4) Educated use of information about data quality
Geoff Lee (Australia)
Bill Allen (Australia)
5) Quality management in the UK office for national statistics
Susan Linacre (Australia)
David Fenwick (UK)
Discussants: Romulo A. virola (The Philippines)
Dong-Myeong Lee (Korea)
13. Combining Data from Different Sources
Organizer: Tim Holt, UK
Papers:
1) A comparative study of the quality of income statistics based on interview surveys and/or administrative records
Irmeli Penttila (Finland)
Leif Nordberg (Finland)
2) Combining unemployment benefits data and LFS data estimate ILO unemployment for small areas: An application of a modified Fay-Harriot method
R. Ambler
D. Caplan
R. Chambers
M. Kovacevic
S. Wang
3) Combining survey and administrative data for Singapore’s census of population 2000
Leow Bee-Geok
Koh Eng-Chuan
Discussant: Photis Nanopoulos (Luxembourg)
14. The Role of Official Statistics in University Curriculum
Organizer: Reiner Staeglin, Germany
Papers:
1) to be announced
Carmen Feijo (Brazil)
2) to be announced
Erkki Pahkinen (Finland)
Risto Lehtonen (Finland)
Discussants: to be announced
15. Education and the Internet & Effective Structures for the Net
Organizer: Brian Phillips, Australia
Papers:
1) Teaching data analysis with online access to official statistics
Larry Weldon (Canada)
2) Distance learning: Eurostat’s activities
Photis Nanopoulos (Eurostat)
3) Classroom experiences in using the net for teaching
Carl Lee (USA)
4) Educational use of official statistics in Australia and Vietnam
John Pidgeon (Australia)
Discussant: Ada Van Krimpen (The Netherlands)
16. Internet and Innovative Data Dissemination
Organizer: Heli Jeskanen-Sundström, Finland
Papers:
1) Implications for dissemination strategies of the internet as a new channel
Brian Pink (New Zealand)
2) The internet and the SDDS: Leveraging new technology to increase interaction between users and web sites
Carol Carson (IMF)
3) Market research and the evolution of internet publishing at statistics Canada
David Roy (Canada)
Discussants: Paul Cheung (Singapore)
Günther Kopsch (Germany)
17. Internet Data and Innovative Collection
Organizer: Warren Mitofsky, USA
Papers:
1) Errors in web surveys
Vasja Vehovar (Slovenia)
Katja Lozar
Zenel Batagelj
2) Web surveys: The questionnaire design challenge
Mick P.Couper (USA)
3) Probability-based survey research on the internet
Karol Krotki (USA)
Discussant: Warren Mitofsky (USA)
18. Disclosure Control and Data Access
Organizer: Luigi Biggeri, Italy
Papers:
1) Some methods of local recording for disclosure control of microdata sites
Akimiki Takemura (Japan)
2) Web systems that disseminate information but protect confidential data
Alan F. Karr (USA)
Ashish P. Sanil (USA)
Discussants: Steve Fienberg (USA)
Lucia Buzzigoli (Italy)
19. Multiple Frame Surveys
Organizer: Álvaro González-Villalobos, Argentina
Papers:
1) Multiple Frame sample surveys: Advantages, disadvantages and requirements
Elisabetta Carfagna (Italy)
2) Application of multiple frame designs in agricultural survey programmes
Mirane M. Carrilho (Brazil)
3) A National agricultural survey in Ukraine using multiple frame methods
William H. Wigton (USA)
John Litschauer (USA)
Nick Kobets (Ukraine)
Oleg Prokopenko (Ukraine)
Discussant: Heung-Keun Oh (Korea)
20. Measurement of E-commerce
Organizer: Paul Cheung, Singapore
Papers:
1) Measuring the U.S. electronic economy: Lessons learned
Barbara K. Atrosti (USA)
2) ABS electronic commerce statistics and methodological issues encountered
Tim Power (Australia)
3) EC-learnings: Experience and future strategies for measuring
e-commercePeter Bogh Nielsen (Denmark)
4) Developing indicators for the new digital economy:measuring internet electronic commerce
Thomas R. Spacek (USA)
Sam Weerahandi (USA)
5) Learning from e-commerce: Incomplete data and decision support
Abhinanda Sarkar (India)
Discussant: Hermann Habermann (USA)
21. Issues of Risk Assessment in Asian Countries
Organizer: Byung-Soo Kim, Korea
Papers:
1) Quantitative methods for food and diet safety assessment
Lutz Edler (Germany)
2) Beyond dose response: Describing long-term health effects of radiation exposure
Dale Preston (Japan)
3) Statistical issues encountered in the risk assessment of pesticides and herbicides
A. John Bailer (UK)
Discussants: Jongsei Park (Korea)
Kiyohiko Mabuchi (USA)
22. Marine Resource Estimation
Organizer: Tore Schweder, Norway
Papers:
1) Shipboard sighting surveys: methodological developments to meet practical needs
Steve Buckland (UK)
2) Quantification of uncertainty in fishery stock assessments: Statistical challenges in the provision of management advice for southern bluefin tuna
Tom Polacheck (Australia)
3) Allele sharing methods for estimating population size
Hans Julius Skaug (Norway)
Discussants: Elja Arjas (Finland)
Gudmund Host (Norway)
23. Recent Works of Young Korean and Japanese Probabilists on Stochastic Numerical Analysis
Organizer: S. Ogawa, Japan
Papers: to be announced
Geon-Ho choe (Korea)
Dong-Han Kim (Korea)
Hyek Yoo (Korea)
Hiroshi Sugita (Japan)
Katsusi Fukuyama (Japan)
Kenji Yasuatomi (Japan)
Discussants: to be announced
24. Topics in Human Genetics
Organizer: Takashi Gojobori, Japan
Papers:
1) to be announced
Walter Fitch (USA)
2) to be announced
Hiroshi Tanaka (Japan)
3) to be announced
Aravinda Chakravarti (USA)
Discussant: Edward C. Holmes (UK)
25. Sampling Problems in Biology and Epidemiology
Organizer: Per Kragh Andersen, Denmark
Papers:
1) New methodology for wild animal data
Byron J.T. Morgan (UK)
2) Recent developments in forestry sampling
Jennifer Brown (New Zealand)
3) Cohort sampling in epidemiological studies
Ornulf Borgan (Norway)
Discussant: J.C. van Houwelingen (The Netherlands)
26. Noncompliance in Clinical Trials
Organizer: Hans van Houwelingen, The Netherlands
Papers:
1) Life is not perfect: noncompliance analysis in practice
Els Goetghebeur (Belgium)
2) Different issues arising in estimating the effects of dynamic and non-dynamic treatment regimes under non-compliance
Andrea Rotnitzky (USA)
3) Adjusting for noncompliance with special reference to screening trials
Jack Cuzick (UK)
Discussant: Per Kragh Andersen (Denmark)
27. Relation between Biomathematical Modelling and Biostatistics
Organizer: Frank G. Ball, UK
Papers:
1) Living (and dying) in a deterministic world
Christl Donnelly (UK)
2) Stochastic modeling of polymerase chain reaction and related biotechnologies
Fengzhu Sun (USA)
3) Statistical methods for deterministic biomathematical models
William Welch (Canada)
Discussants: Tom Britton (Sweden)
Gavin Gibson (UK)
28. Spatial Statistics in an Agricultural Environment
Organizer: Alfred Stein, The Netherlands
Papers:
1) Invasive species in extensive farming systems: Spatial statistics for dynamics characterization
Pascal Monestiez (France)
2) Multivariate geostatistics for precision agriculture
Noel Cressie (USA)
Jay Ver Hoef (USA)
3) Statistical prospects of environmental issues in sub-Saharan Africa – a study from Niger
Mohammadou Gandah
Discussant: Larry Cox (USA)
29. The Role of Statistical Science in the Assessment of Air Quality
Organizer: Lawrence H. Cox, USA
Papers:
1) Spatial trends and spatial extremes in south ozone
Seokhoon Yun (Korea)
Richard L. Smith (USA)
2) Multivariate receptor modeling for air quality space and/or time
Eun Sug Park (USA)
Peter Guttorp (USA)
3) Air pollution and daily mortality in seven major cities of Korea, 1991–1997
Jong-Tae Lee (Korea)
Ho Kim (Korea)
Ho-Jang Kwon (Korea)
Joel Schwartz
David C. Christiani (USA)
Discussant: Paul Switzer (USA)
30. Statistics for Financial Stability
Organizer: Philip Turnbull, UK
Papers:
1) The perspective of international organisations
Paul van den Bergh (Switzerland)
Charles Enoch (USA)
2) The perspective of a central bank of a developed country
Sarah Wharmby (UK)
3) Monitoring statistics for financial stability of a small-opened economy
Sunny Yung (Hong Kong, SAR, China)
Discussants: Jean-Marc Israel (Germany)
Federico Signorini (Italy)
31. Millenium Anniversary: Thomas Bayes, b.1701
Organizer: Anthony Edwards, UK
Papers:
1) The reverend Thomas Bayes, FRS: A biographical sketch
David R. Bellhouse (USA)
2) The minor works of Thomas Bayes
Andrew I. Dale (South Africa)
3) De Moivre’s central limit theorem and its possible connections to Bayes’s Essay
Ivo Schneider (Germany)
Discussants: Stephen M. Stigler (USA)
A.W.F. Edwards (UK)
32. Border and Household Surveys
Organizer: Scott Meis, USA
Stephen L. Smith, Canada
Papers:
1) The re-design of the Canadian international travel survey
Bradley Ruth (Canada)
Jocelyn Lapierre (Canada)
2) The world tourism organization’s multi-national tourism expenditure survey study
Joaquin Garcia Eguiagaray (Canada)
3) Challenges to border surveys in Southeast Asia
John Koldowski (Thailand)
4) to be announced
Discussants: to be announced
33. Contemporary Methods in Quality Management
Organizer: Ronald Does, The Netherlands
Papers:
1) Statistical issues in quantitative quality programs
E.R. van den Heuvel (The Netherlands)
2) Statistics and performance measurement
Nicholas I. Fisher (Australia)
3) Six Sigma and its role in quality management
Discussant: No discussant
34. Measuring the Status of Women and Minorities in Society
Organizer: Nanjamma Chinnappa, India
Papers:
1) Micro-simulation studies measuring the status of women and minorities in organizations
Garnett Picot (Canada)
Ted Wannell (Canada)
2) Women’s contributions to the workforce: Are new measures needed?
Martha S. Farrar (USA)
Fred A. Vogel (USA)
3) Measuring the status of women in society – The case of developing countries
Malati Pochun (Mauritius)
Discussants: Lynne Billard (USA)
Heidi Arboleda (Thailand)
35. Robust Inference and Model Building
Organizer: Ronchetti Elvezio, Switzerland
Papers:
1) Globally robust inference procedures
Ruben H. Zamar (Canada)
2) Large approximating data
P. Laurie Davies (Germany)
3) Robust statistical analysis of financial models for the short term rate
Fabio Trojani (Switzerland)
Discussant: Marianthi Markatou (USA)
36. Recent Advances in Survival Analysis
Organizer: Winfried Stute, Germany
Papers:
1) A ‘missing-plot’ technique for goodness-of-fit tests with censored data
Arusharka Sen (India)
2) Life table and accelerated failure time model in biodemography
Fushing Hsieh (China)
3) Proportional hazards regression model with unknown link function
Jane-Ling Wang (USA)
Discussant: Ricardo Cao (Spain)
37. Memorial Meeting for Lucien Le Cam, George Matheron and John Tukey
Organizer: Nick Fisher
Papers:
1) Appreciation of Lucien Le Cam
Rudy Beran (USA)
2) Appreciation of George Matheron
Adrian Baddeley
3) Appreciation of John Tukey
Karen Kafadar
Discussant: No discussant
38. Hidden Markov Chains
Organizer: Timo Koski, Sweden
Papers: to be announced
Rafail Hasminsky
Peter J. Bickel (USA)
Discussants: to be announced
39. Statistics for Spatial and Spatial-Temporal Processes
Organizer: Adrian Baddeley, Australia
Papers:
1) Simulation and estimation of Lévy random fields
Katja Ickstadt (Germany)
2) Fitting Gaussian Markov random fields to Gaussian fields
Haakon Tjelmeland (Norway)
Discussants: to be announced
40. Martingale Methods in Financial Modelling
Organizer: Marek Musiela, Australia
Papers:
1) Utility based asset valuation in incomplete markets
Thaleia Zariphopoulou (USA)
2) Modeling of default-free and defautable forward libor and swap rates
Marek Rutkowski (Australia)
3) Non parametric estimation of copulas for time series
Oliver Scaillet (Belgium)
Discussants: to be announced
41. Functional Data Analysis
Organizer: Douglas G. Simpson, USA
Papers:
1) The registration problem in functional data analysis
Alois Kneip (Germany)
2) Quadratic regression for functional data
Ricardo Fraiman (Argentina)
3) High dimension-low sample size data analysis
J. Stephen Marron (USA)
Discussant: John Rice (USA)
42. Analysis of High-Dimensional Data
Organizer: David Rocke, USA
Papers:
1) Dimension adjustment methods
Christope Croux
2) Robust principal components
Claudia Becker
3) Some dimension reduction ideas for analyzing micro array gene expression data
Ker-Chau Li
Discussants: to be announced
43. IAOS Forum: Enhancing Statistical Capabilities in Developing/ Transition Countries
Organizer: Paul Cheung, Singapore
Papers:
1) to be announced
Hermann Habermann (USA)
2) to be announced
Carol Carson (USA)
3) to be announced
Svante Öberg (Sweden)
4) to be announced
Sid David (The Philippines)
5) to be announced
Tony Williams (UK)
Discussants: to be announced
44. Statistical Physics Methods and Combinatorial Optimization
Organizer: Sung-Chul Lee, Korea
Papers:
1) Coalescing and annihilating random walks
Harry Kesten (USA)
2) Car parking for mathematicians
Mathew Penrose (UK)
3) Phase transitions of random graph and random satisfiability problem
Jeong Han Kim (Korea)
Discussants: Intae Jeon (Korea)
Yong Moon Park (Korea)
45. Analysis of Online Monitoring Data
Organizer: Wolfgang Schmid, Germany
Papers:
1) A review of recent nonparametric change point detection prodecures
Juergen Franke (Germany)
2) Analysis of online monitoring data from intensive care
Ursula Gather (Germany)
3) Projection pursuit methods for cluster identification and outlier detection with multivariate data
Daniel Peña (Spain)
Discussants: Manfred Deistler (Austria)
Changsoon Park (Korea)
46. Statistics in Information Retrieval
Organizer: Jung Jin Lee, Korea
Papers:
1) Statistical Issues in the Evaluation of Information retrieval systems
Paul B. Kantor (USA)
2) Understanding TREC Results- the role of statistics
Paul Over (USA)
3) Chinese Word Segmentation with statistical evidence
Joon Ho Lee (Korea)
Discussants: to be announced
47. Monte Carlo Filtering
Organizer: Dominic Lee, Singapore
Papers:
1) Some aspects of sequential importance sampling
Jun Liu (USA)
2) Non-linear filtering and smoothing using interacting particle systems and historical processes
Pierre Del Moral (France)
3) Applications of Monte Carlo particle filters in signal processing
Petar M. Djuric (USA)
Discussants: Neil Gordon (UK) & Arnaud Doucet (Australia)
48. Interactive Graphical Data Analysis/Statistical Visualization
Organizer: Todd Ogden, USA
Papers: to be announced
Webster West (USA)
Ed Wegman (USA)
Di Cook (USA)
Discussants: to be announced
49. Statistical Methods for Intrusion Detection
Organizer: D. J. Marchette, USA
Papers:
1) New adaptive batch and sequential methods for rapid detection of network traffic changes with emphasis on detection of
“Denial-of-Service” attacksB.L. Rozovskii (USA)
R. Blazek (USA)
2) Using importance sampling to compute p-values in computer intrusion detection
D. Naiman (USA)
3) Functional Data Analysis of Network Traffic for Intrusion detection
J. Solka (USA)
Discussants: to be announced
50. Computational Issues in Nonparametric Bayesian Nonparametrics
Organizer: Lancelot James, USA
Papers:
1) Bayesian nonparametric methods in event history
Yongdai Kim (Korea)
2) Computations for bayes nonparametric problems:
Weighted Chinese restaurant processesAlbert Y. Lo (Hong Kong, SAR, China)
3) Some theory and applications stick-breaking priors to bayes nonparametrics
Hemant Ishwaran (USA)
Discussants: Sehyung Kwon (Korea)
Lancelot F. James (USA)
51. Statistical Image Analysis: Human Brain Mapping
Organizer: Dan Naiman, USA
Papers:
1) A bioelectromagnetic inverse problem
Jiayang Sun
Richard Greenblatt
2) Assessing the significance of excursion regions in brain imagery via importance sampling
Carey Priebe (USA)
Daniel Naiman
Jiang Hu (USA)
3) A general statistical analysis of MRI data
Keith Worsely (Canada)
Discussants: to be announced
52. Non- and Semiparametric Smoothing Regression
Organizer: Michael Schimek, Austria
Papers:
1) Nonparametric analysis of covariance
Holger Dette
Natalie Neumeyer
2) Comparing nonparametric surfaces
Adrian Bowman (UK)
3) Joint semi-parametric modeling of mean and dispersion
Arunas Verbyla
Discussants: Peter Hall (Australia)
Paul Speckman (USA)
53. Simulation from Complicated Multivariate Distributions
Organizer: Ehsan Soofi, USA and Iran
Papers:
1) A family of j-shaped multivariate distributions
Samuel Kotz (USA)
Saralees Nadarajah (USA)
2) A procedure on estimating certain time dependent spectra
A.R. Soltani (Iran)
3) Simultations of dirichlet distribution under moment constraints
Refik Soyer (USA)
Thomas A. Mazzuchi (USA)
Ehsan S. Soofi (USA)
Discussants: Morteza Jamshidian (USA)
Ehsan S. Soofi (USA)
54. Optimization Techniques in Statistics
