ISI - International Statistical Institute Newsletter Volume 28, No. 1 (82) 2004 - Sections
Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability
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Editorial Address | Enno Mammen, Department of Economics, University of Mannheim, L 7, 3-5, 68131 Mannheim, Germany Tel: +49-621-181 1945 E-mail: emammen@rumms.uni-mannheim.de |
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This Contribution was edited by Enno Mammen, Scientific Secretary of BS
Editorial
This edition contains reports on upcoming scientific meetings sponsored or co-organised by BS. For more information, see also the electronic version of "Bernoulli News".
Bernoulli
6th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society and 67th Annual Meeting of the IMS, Barcelona 26-31 July 2004
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The Sixth edition of the joint meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society will take place in Barcelona in July 2004. Scheduled every four years, the joint IMS/BS meetings are the major worldwide events in Probability and Statistics. |
The programme covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics, and in applications such as mathematical finance and statistical bioinformatics. The programme includes up to twelve Special Invited Lectures given by leading specialists, thirty-five Invited Paper Sessions and a large number of contributed talks. There will be the following Special Invited Lecturers: Iain Johnstone (IMS Wald Lecture, 3 sessions), Peter Bickel (IMS Rietz Lecture), David Aldous (Kolmogorov), Wendelin Werner (Levy), Jun Liu (Bernoulli), Steffen Lauritzen (Laplace). IMS Medaillon Lecturers: Vladimir Koltchinskii, Evarist Giné, Cun-Hui Zhang, Alison Etheridge.
The venue of the meeting is the old building of the University of Barcelona, located downtown. The city of Barcelona offers many attractions both cultural and touristic, such as a rich variety of modernist art and beautiful beaches. On behalf of the Scientific and Organising Committees, we are glad to invite you to come to Barcelona. Your participation will ensure that the 2004 IMS/BS meeting will become an unforgettable scientific event.
The Local Organising Committee consists of:
Joan del Castillo (UAB), José M. Corcuera (UB), Arturo Kohatsu-Higa (UPF), David Márquez-Carreras (UB), Chairman David Nualart (UB), Carles Rovira (UB), Marta Sanz-Solè (UB), Frederic Utzet (UAB).
Scientific Programme Committee:
Wilfrid Kendall, Enno Mammen, Susan Murphy, David Nualart, David Brillinger, Rainer Dahlhaus, Michel Delecroix, Sara van de Geer, Wenceslao Gonzales-Manteiga, Yosihiko Ogata, Michael Sørensen, Doug Nychka, Gerard Ben Arous, Evarist Giné, Russell Lyons, Thomas Mikosch, Chris Rogers, Roberto Schonmann, Anton Wakolbinger, Ofer Zeitouni, Simon Tavaré.
Invited sessions and organisers:
Biological networks - modelling and inference (Marianne Huebner)
Inference for dynamical spatial/temporal models (Valerie Isham)
Mathematical finance (Nizar Touzi)
Modelling spatial and temporal dependence for extremes (Richard A. Davis)
Statistical genetics (David Clayton)
Statistics in molecular biology (Terry Speed)
Statistical methods in brain mapping (Keith Worsley)
Statistics in finance and econometrics (Yacine Ait-Sahalia)
The interface of insurance and finance (Ragnar Norberg)
Brownian motion (Yuval Peres)
Coalescents, coagulation and fragmentation (Jean Bertoin)
Concentration inequalities (Sergey Bobkov)
Conformal invariance and stochastic Loewner evolutions (Wendelin Werner)
Large deviations (Erwin Bolthausen)
Measure-valued processes and SPDE (Jean Francois LeGall)
Metastability (Frank den Hollander)
Mixing of finite Markov chains (Dana Randall)
Percolation, statistical mechanics, interacting particle systems (Agoston Pisztora)
Probability on graphs (Jeff Steif)
Random Matrices and Related Processes I (Alexander Soshnikov)
Random Matrices and Related Processes II (Alan Edelman)
Random walks in random environments and random media (Nina Gantert)
Function estimation (Alexandre Tsybakov)
Applications of particle filtering in statistics (Arnaud Doucet)
Causality and multi-stage decision problems (Jamie Robins)
Dimension reduction for high dimensional data (Ker-Chau Li)
False discovery rates (Felix Abramovich)
Model choice and goodness of fit in nonparametrics (Winfried Stute)
Machine learning in complex structures (Peter Bartlett)
Nonparametric analysis for time series (Qiwei Yao)
Statistical analysis of point processes (Rick Shoenberg)
Statistical inference for stochastic differential equations (Mathieu Kessler)
Function space valued modelling (Anestis Antoniadis)
Biostatistics (Niels Keiding)
Graphical models in statistics (Thomas Richardson)
Further Information:
IMS/Bernoulli Society Meeting
IMUB, Barcelona 08007
SPAIN
Tel: (+34) 93.402.13.85
Fax: (+34) 93.403.59.63
E-mail: wc2004@imub.ub.es
Website: http://www.imub.ub.es/events/wc2004/index.html
Bernoulli The main event of the Latin American Chapter, CLAPEM (Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadistica Matematica), will take place in Punta del Este, Uruguay, from 22 to 26 March 2004. Ernesto Mordecki is the Chair of the Organising Committee (website: http://imerl.fing.edu.uy/clapem ). CLAPEM takes place every two years. CLAPEM includes a series of short courses, aimed to introduce Ph.D. students and young colleagues to major areas of current research, as well as a series of invited lectures and contributed talks. This year short courses will be given by Víctor de la Peña, Aart van der Vaart, Hermann Thorisson, Nanny Wermuth, David Cox and Simon Tavaré. Invited lectures will be held by Yuval Peres (opening lecture), Miguel Abadi, Jean Bertoin, Rolando Biscay, Tom Britton, Alejandra Cabaña, Juan Cuesta, Antonio Cuevas, Eustacio del Barrio, Georgina Flesia, Marc Lavielle, Michel Lédoux, José Rafael León, Gábor Lugosi, Enno Mammen, Servet Martínez, Laurent Saloff-Coste, Mark van der Laan, Maria Eulália Vares and Víctor Yohai.
Bernoulli Upcoming events under the auspices of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society include:
This is the first European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS) following the new ideas of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society. The renewed EMS wants to be a central international event in all areas of statistics and probability, including methodological statistics, applied and computational statistics, probability theory, stochastic processes and applied probability. The scientific programme will be interesting and broad, making the Conference appealing for scientists, graduate and postgraduate students in all these areas. The scientific programme will be broader than in past EMS, with more space to important applications of our disciplines. The programme will also aim at cross-fertilisation between the various areas, through special invited speakers and sessions, which bridge between theory and practice, inference and stochastic models. We hope to see an increase in terms of participation and contributed talks. We encourage students and young statisticians to join the meeting in Oslo. In order to make this possible, we will be offering accommodation near campus (with good standards) at a very good price for those, students and non-students, who do not wish to stay in a more conventional hotel. We currently estimate the on-campus accommodation to cost circa €200 for the whole period. (In fact, due to local rules, the rent will be for two full weeks. We are currently working on the possibility of organising a training event during the week preceding the Conference, for those who would be interested.) Of course, we will offer traditional hotel accommodation too. In summary, we try to organise a conference for each budget. This is the 25th EMS and we are planning to mark this round number by looking back into the history of the EMS. We wish to collect and publish historical material from the whole series of the EMS. Do you have interesting material, especially from the first 15 EMS? Would you be interested in joining a small group planning this activity? Please contact us if so ( Arnoldo.Frigessi@nr.no ). Expected arrival of participants is Saturday, 23 July 2005. The meeting starts on Sunday 24th in the morning, because we want to make full use of over-the-weekend low airfares. The Conference will close on the afternoon of Thursday 28th. For us, "low cost" is an important issue. The reason why the Conference is in July, and not in August as is the tradition, is to use the campus facilities in full in absence of regular classes, and to profit from the long warm summer days of July. The Scandinavian summer is a unique experience! The Scientific Programme Committee is chaired by Aad van der Vaart (Free University Amsterdam & Eurandom) and includes Ørnulf Borgan (Oslo), Jeffrey Steif (Gothenburg), Gareth Roberts (Lancaster), Sylvia Richardson (Imperial College), Ursula Gather (Dortmund), Tomasz Rolski (University of Wroclaw). The Local Organising Committee includes Arnoldo Frigessi (Norwegian Computing Centre & University of Oslo), Chair, and Nils L. Hjort (Oslo), Deputy. For more information, please see the Conference website http://www.ems2005.no/ . Bernoulli Society members are invited to make suggestions for invited speakers and sessions. Please send an e-mail to the Chairman of the Scientific Programme Committee. For more information on other recent Committee activities, see also http://www-m4.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/m4/erc/ .
Bernoulli It is proposed to hold a four-day International Workshop in Applied Probability (IWAP) on March 22-25, 2004, at the University of Piraeus, Greece. We are planning to have an interdisciplinary Conference in the field of probability. Applied probability is a broad research area that is of interest to scientists in diverse disciplines, including anthropology, biology, communication theory, computer science, economics, epidemiology, finance, geography, linguistics, medicine, meteorology, operations research, psychology, quality control, reliability theory, sociology and statistics. The aim of this workshop is to bring together and to foster exchanges amongst scientists working in the applications of probability to any field, including those listed above. The format of the workshop will be: two plenary speakers (one hour talks, including a 10 minute discussion) each day, followed by four invited sessions (two run in parallel at a time) of four speakers to present 30 minute talks, including a 5 minute discussion. Participants are going to be encouraged to submit their contributions to the journal Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability. Moreover, we are considering publishing a volume of review articles based on selected presentations of senior scientists.
The plenary speakers, listed below, are leading researchers in the field of probability with a strong interest in applications. They are world wide recognised scientists, who have published many important articles and books in the field of probability and whose work has been supported by research grants of major agencies and institutions. The Scientific Programme Committee includes leading scientists in diverse areas of research in probability from all over the world, which will ensure a strong and a broad programme and participation from scientists from all over the world. The workshop Chairs are committed to encourage the participation of young scientists, women and minorities at IWAP and have already made progress to achieve this goal. The proposed workshop will be built on the success of the IWAP 2002, which took place at the University of Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela, on January 14-17, 2002. Seventy researchers from fifteen countries attended that workshop. Eight plenary lectures and fifty-three invited lectures were presented. Selected research publications are going to be published in two special issues of the journal Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability. Selected review articles will appear in a volume "Applied Probability - Recent Advances" to be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. IWAP 2002 was co-sponsored by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Latin American Section of the Bernoulli Society. Financial support was provided by several organisations, including the IMS and NSA.
Workshop Committees
Workshop Chairs: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Joseph Glaz, Henryk Gzyl, Markos Koutras, Jürg Hüsler, Jose Luis Palacios Local Organising Committee: M.V. Koutras (Head), mkoutras@unipi.gr , S. Chadjiconstantinidis (Vice-Head), D.L. Antzoulakos (Secretary), M. Boutsikas (Treasurer).
Scientific Programme Committee: N. Balakrishnan, Andrew D. Barbour, Henry W. Block, Louis H.Y. Chen, Noel Cressie, Richard Davis, Pablo Ferrari, Richard Johnson, Claudia Klüppelberg, Tze Leung Lai, Ingram Olkin, Phil Pollett, Allan Sampson, Moshe Shaked, Jozef Teugels.
Organisers of Invited Sessions: Barry C. Arnold, N. Balakrishnan, Andrew D. Barbour, Viktor Benes, Henry W. Block, Philip J. Boland, Louis H.Y. Chen, James C. Fu, Nancy Lopes Garcia, Anant Godbole, George Haiman, Richard Johnson, Claudia Klüppelberg, Nikolaos Limnios, Bo Lindqvist, David Mason, M. Nikulin, Ingram Olkin, Phil Pollett, Moshe Shaked, Jozef Teugels, Bill Woodall, Hisashi Yamamoto.
Plenary Speakers
Paul Deheuvels, Luc Devroye, Marc Goovaerts, Peter Hall, Holger Rootzen, Sheldon Ross, Michael Steele, Prasad Tetali.
IX CLAPEM (Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática)
Date: 22-26 March 2004
Place: Montevideo, Uruguay
Website: http://imerl.fing.edu.uy/clapem
Contact: lpe@fing.edu.uy
See also above for more information.
Bernoulli Date: 23-26 March 2004
Place: Karlsruhe, Germany
Website: www.stoch2004.uni-karlsruhe.de/stoch2004/index_en.html
Continuing the series of Stochastik-Tage, held in Marburg 1993, Freiberg 1996, München 1998, Hamburg 2000, and Magdeburg 2002, the Fachgruppe Stochastik has organised the Sixth Stochastik-Tage at the University of Karlsruhe (TH). In the tradition of the previous Conferences, the Karlsruher Stochastik-Tage provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of new results in the area of probability and statistics. The Conference is open for all participants from universities, business, administration and industry. Conference languages are German and English.
Program Committee:
Claudia Czado, Rainer Dahlhaus, Lutz Duembgen, Friedrich Goetze, Wilfried Grecksch, Norbert Henze, Waltraud Kahle, Friedrich Liese, Volker Schmidt (Chair), Dietrich Stoyan, Anton Wakolbinger.
Local Organising Committee:
Wolfgang Bischoff, Nina Gantert, Norbert Henze (Chair), Christian Hipp, Dieter Kadelka, Bernhard Klar, Günter Last, Wolfgang Stummer, Karl-Heinz Waldmann.
Sections & Invited Speakers:
1.Stochastic Analysis
Chair: Sylvie Roelly, Potsdam
Invited Speaker: Patrick Cattiaux, Paris
2.Limit Theorems and Large Deviations
Chair: Erwin Bolthausen, Zürich
Invited Speaker: Alice Guionnet, Lyon
3.Stochastic Geometry, Spatial Statistics and Image Analysis
Chair: Wolfgang Weil, Karlsruhe
Invited Speaker: Eva B. Vedel Jensen, Aarhus
4.Random Structures, Algorithms and Simulation
Chair: Matthias Löwe, Münster
Invited Speaker: Jeffrey Steif, Göteborg
5.Time Series and Stochastic Processes
Chair: Hans-Rudolf Künsch, Zürich
Invited Speaker: Tobias Ryden, Lund
6.Stochastic Models in the Sciences
Chair: Hans-Otto Georgii, München
Invited Speaker: Yvan Velenik, Marseille
7.Extreme Values and Risk Modelling
Chair: Claudia Klüppelberg, München
Invited Speaker: Andreas Kyprianou, Utrecht
8.Nonparametrics, Semiparametrics and Resampling
Chair: Enno Mammen, Heidelberg
Invited Speaker: Oliver Linton, London
9.Mixtures, Bayesian Methods and Markov-Chain-Monte-Carlo
Chair: Katja Ickstadt, Dortmund
Invited Speaker: Robert L. Wolpert, Durham, North Carolina
10.Multivariate Statistics and Model Checks
Chair: Winfried Stute, Gießen
Invited Speaker: Miguel Delgado, Madrid
11.Stochastic Methods in Optimisation and Operations Research
Chair: Silvia Vogel, Ilmenau
Invited Speaker: Georg Pflug, Wien
12.Quality Control, Reliability and Experimental Design
Chair: Elart v. Colani, Würzburg
Invited Speaker: Monica Dumitrescu, Bucaresti
13.Finance and Insurance
Chair: Walter Schachermayer, Wien
Invited Speaker: Paul Malliavin, Paris
14.Statistics in Genetics and Bioinformatics
Chair: Arndt von Haeseler, Düsseldorf; Dirk Metzler, Frankfurt
Invited Speaker: David Balding, London
15.Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
Chair: Peter Bühlmann, Zürich
Invited Speaker: Bin Yu, Berkeley
16.Stochastics in Industry
Chair: Friedrich Jondral, Karlsruhe
Invited Speaker: Bernd Friedrichs, Backnang
17.Open Session
Chair: Wolfgang Bischoff, Eichstätt
Plenary Lectures:
1.Extremes of Gaussian Processes
Jürg Hüsler (Bern)
2.Universality of Distributions from Random Matrix Theory
Kurt Johansson (Stockholm)
3.Stochastic Geometry in Physics
Klaus Mecke (Stuttgart)
4.Nonparametric Methods for Functional Data
Hans-Georg Müller (UC Davis)
Bernoulli Location: Protaras, Cyprus
Date: 09-12 June 2004
Website: http://www.ucy.ac.cy/~rats/
Organised by: Efstathios Paparoditis (Cyprus), Theofanis Sapatinas (Cyprus), Rainer von Sachs (Belgium).
Distribution Theory, Order Statistics and Inference - A Conference in Honour of Barry C. Arnold
Location: Santander, Spain
Date: June 16-18, 2004
Organisers:
Prof. N. Balakrishnan ( bala@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
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Prof. Enrique Castillo ( castie@unican.es
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Prof. Jose-Maria Sarabia ( sarabiaj@unican.es
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Purpose: This International Conference is being organised to celebrate the occasion of Professor Barry C. Arnold turning 65. The areas of Order Statistics, Distribution Theory and Inference, in which Barry Arnold has made fundamental and pioneering contributions, will be the primary areas of focus at this Conference. For further details, please contact any of the three organisers at the addresses given above.
International Biometric Conference 2004 and 2004 Australian Statistical Conference
Date: 11-16 July 2004
Place: Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Website: http://www.ozaccom.com.au/ibc2004/
This Conference will be held in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 14 18 July 2004, and is organised by Anthony Davison, Yadolah Dodge and Nanny Wermuth. The invited speakers include: Ole Barndorff-Nielsen (Aarhus), Sarah Darby (Oxford), David Firth (Oxford), Peter Hall (Canberra), Valerie Isham (University College, London), Peter McCullagh (Chicago), Nancy Reid (Toronto), Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe (Princeton), Andrea Rotnitzky (Harvard), Neil Shephard (Oxford), Nanny Wermuth (Mainz), Scott Zeger (Johns Hopkins). For more information, see http://www.unine.ch/statistics/cox/Welcome.html .
Bernoulli An international Conference on Stochastic Networks will be held July 19-24, 2004, at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques associated with the Université de Montréal. This week-long workshop will continue a tradition of similar meetings held at irregular intervals over the last fifteen years or so, starting with the one organised by Tom Kurtz in Madison in 1987, continuing with Conferences in Minneapolis and Edinburgh during the 1990's, then returning to Madison in 2000. The most recent such meeting was the 2002 meeting held at Stanford University. These meetings have brought together mathematicians and applied researchers who share an interest in stochastic network models.
Like its predecessors, the Montréal Stochastic Networks Conference (Sponsor: Centre de Recherches Mathématiques) will emphasise new model structures and new mathematical problems that are motivated by contemporary developments in business and technology, with particular emphasis on data networks and electronic business. We expect to have talks on other application areas too, like manufacturing and supply chain management, and on mathematical methods for stochastic network analysis. There will be invited talks over a six-day period (Monday through Saturday), with plenty of time in the interstices for informal discussion. For queries, please contact Peter Glynn ( glynn@stanford.edu ). The Programme Committee consists of Jim Dai, Peter Glynn, Bruce Hajek, Frank Kelly, Tom Kurtz, and Ruth Williams. For details, see http://www.stanford.edu/group/stochnetconf/ .
The 2004 Bernoulli Society World Congress, and IMS Annual Meeting, will be held in Barcelona, Spain, 26-30 July 2004. The location will be the historic building of the University of Barcelona, located in downtown Barcelona. See also above for more information.
Date: August 30-September 3, 2004
Location: Laredo, Spain
One of the main objectives in Mathematical Statistics is to know the asymptotic behaviour of the statistical procedures. This motivated throughout the last century a parallel evolution of the complexity of the proposals for procedures and of the complexity of the mathematical techniques necessary for justifying their use.
Beginning with the Functional Central Limit Theorem and the Invariance Principle, the currently called Empirical Process Theory collected from the 1950’s is a number of techniques, results and points of view which have showed their ability to solve a great diversity of problems of this nature, as well as to motivate new statistical procedures. In fact, the evolution of this theory is a good indicator of the vast transformation that Probability and Statistics experienced during the past century.
This school intends to put young researchers in contact with four of the main representatives of the development of the Empirical Process Theory, so that they can take advantage of all of the representatives’ experience.
Therefore, the school will be devoted to disseminating the power of this theory through courses that will be given by representative members of the main working groups, who have contributed and contribute to the development of the theory. The courses will also give a vision of the present perspectives of study, as well as the more significant statistical applications of the theory: bootstrap, functional estimation, censored data, tests of fit, oracle inequalities.
The school will be based on the following four courses (of seven and a half hours each):
BASICS OF EMPIRICAL PROCESSES (Evarist Giné, University of Connecticut, USA)
GOODNESS-OF-FIT TESTS (Eustasio del Barrio, University of Valladolid, Spain)
ORACLE INEQUALITIES AND REGULARISATION (Prof. Sara van de Geer, University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
LOCAL BEHAVIOUR OF EMPIRICAL PROCESSES AND APPLICATIONS (Paul Deheuvels, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France)
Price and Grants:
The registration fee is €100. The organisation has been able to get some financial aid from the SCH Bank, which will allow them to offer 50 accomodation grants, including half board in double rooms for 6 days each and 6 transportation grants, with a maximum of €1,000.
More information can be found on the school’s home page http://www.eio.uva.es/ems/.
See also above.
Please visit the new Bernoulli Society website at http://isi.cbs.nl/bs/bshome.htm .
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Editorial Address | Vice-President: Rob Edwards, Deputy Australian Statistician, Australian Bureau of Statistics Tel: +61 2 6252 5841 - Fax: +61 2 6252 8080 E-mail: rob.edwards@abs.gov.au |
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| President | Heli Jeskanen-Sundström, Statistics Finland, FIN-00022 Statistics Finland, Finland
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Rob Edwards Reports:
Planning of the IAOS/IASS Conference on “Poverty, Social Exclusion and Development: a Statistical Perspective”, Jordan, 29 November-1 December 2004.
Planning of the IAOS activities for the 55th Session of the ISI to be held in Sydney, 5-12 April 2005, and the two IAOS Satellite meetings.
Changes to the IAOS website.
Revitalising the IAOS.
Officers for the period 2003-2005 are:
President Heli Jeskanen-Sundström (Finland)
President-Elect Hermann Habermann (USA)
Vice-Presidents Ida Stamhuis (The Netherlands)
Hussein Shakhatreh (Jordan)
Pali Lehohla (South Africa)
Rob Edwards (Australia)
SCORUS
Representative Derek Bond (United Kingdom)
Treasurer Daniel Berze (Director of the ISI)
IAOS
The Department of Statistics from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is hosting this joint IAOS/IASS Conference, which is scheduled to be held from Monday, 29 November, to Wednesday, 1 December 2004, in Amman, Jordan.
Sixteen meetings are foreseen, grouped around four domains:
- Definitions and approaches for the measurement of poverty;
- Poverty statistics (sources, tools, results, ...);
- Limits and uncertainties of Statistics; Social Exclusion;
- Information systems on Poverty and Social Exclusion; Poverty and Development Policies.
Additional information on the organisation of the Session may be found on the website set up by the Department of Statistics (DOS) of Jordan: http://www.dos.gov.jo/ioas/iaos/iaos-iass2004.htm .
The ISI Programme Co-ordinating Committee met during the 54th ISI Conference to discuss the Scientific Programme for the 55th ISI Conference in Sydney (Australia), which will take place from 5 to 12 April 2005. The list of the IAOS Invited Papers meetings, prepared by the IAOS Scientific Programme Committee chaired by Fred Ho, is the following:
• IAOS Forum
• Asian Statistical Forum
• Impact of the “international indicators of development” movement on national statistical programme priorities
• Statistical measurement issues requiring collaboration among NSO’s
• Statistics on international migration
• Response burden and public cooperation in statistical surveys
• The role of official statistics in innovation, knowledge management and development of the new economy
• The regional and urban dimension of official statistics: small area statistics and data of particular relevance to regional and urban planning
• Standards for regional and urban indicators
The IAOS also looks forward to organising some meetings together with the other ISI Sections, like IASS, IASE and the Irving Fisher Committee, on topics of joint interest. If you want to get more information on the IAOS Programme at this stage, please contact Fred Ho (e-mail: fwhho@censtatd.gov.hk ).
Preparations are ongoing to organise two IAOS Satellite meetings during the 2005 Sydney ISI Session. New Caledonia will host a Satellite meeting before the ISI Session on the topic “Issues for Official Statistics for Small Countries (Especially Island Nations)”. This will be held in Noumea between 31 March–2 April 2005. The second meeting will be held after the ISI Session in New Zealand and it will be hosted by Statistics New Zealand. The topic is “Challenges in Measuring Small and Indigenous Populations”. More information on both meetings follows.
(a) Satellite Meeting on Issues for Official Statistics for Small Countries (Especially Island Nations)
Come to Noumea on your way to ISI!
The IAOS is sponsoring a meeting from 31 March to 2 April 2005 to discuss "Issues for Official Statistics for Small Countries (Especially Island Nations)".
Among the issues being considered are:
1. The role, relevance, importance of the millennium development goals (MDG's) for small nations. This would cover issues of capacity building and sustainability as well.
2. Technology - problems and solutions for small nations. The Secretariat for the Pacific Community (SPC) (the host of the meeting) has developed an international database - PRISM - that provides some unique solutions for small nations. The session may also cover software and hardware issues, remote sensing and satellite technology, and how small nations can take advantage of technology.
3. Use and relevance of international standards. Very few small nations have, for example, adopted SNA 95.
4. Sampling and estimation issues for small countries.
Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia, is a beautiful part of the South Pacific. It has direct air links with Paris, Tokyo, New Zealand, Australia and a number of smaller Pacific nations. It is an ideal location for such a meeting, being a relatively small French territory of about 220,000 people, and the headquarters of the SPC has been providing technical support in statistics to 22 island countries in the Pacific for over 30 years.
For more information, contact Gerard Baudchon at itsee@itsee.nc or
Brian Doyle at briandoylestats@yahoo.com.au
(b) Satellite Meeting on Challenges in Measuring Small and Indigenous Populations, 14-15 April 2005, Wellington, New Zealand
In conjunction with the ISI 2005 Conference to be held in Sydney, Australia, the IAOS Satellite meeting on “Challenges in Measuring Small and Indigenous Populations” will be held in Wellington, New Zealand, on 14-15 April 2005. New Zealand is famous for its alpine wilderness scenery, pristine beaches, and a huge range of sporting and cultural activities available for visitors. Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand, and was the site of the recent world première of the Lord of the Rings movie. It is just under three hours flight from Sydney, Australia. The Conference venue will be Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand’s national museum, which is situated close to all facilities, is right on the waterfront in Wellington and has high quality conference facilities. The Satellite meeting will be hosted by Statistics New Zealand, the national statistical office of New Zealand.
The general theme of the Satellite meeting is Measuring Small and Indigenous Populations.
Proposals for papers are invited on topics related to the Conference theme. While the main focus is on methodological issues, the Satellite Conference will also be of direct interest to economic and social researchers as the theme encompasses the challenges of measuring small domains in economic, social and population statistics. Among the themes likely to be covered by papers are: statistical methods used to collect information in censuses or other large scale surveys; measurement and improvement of data quality; the derivation of indicators on indigenous populations; communities or subnational areas; statistical use of administrative data sources; experience with data integration initiatives; small area estimation; and other new developments in satisfying the growing demand for disaggregated statistical measures.
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please contact the Conference Organisers. All enquiries should be addressed to Mansoor Khawaja, Chief Demographer, Statistics New Zealand, Private Bag 4741, Christchurch, New Zealand; E mail:
ISIsatellite@stats.govt.nz
or Telephone: +64 3 9648794.
The Statistics New Zealand website http://www.stats.govt.nz/ISIsatellitemeeting
will carry further information on the Satellite meeting, including details of registration, the availability and details of accommodation, and links to other sites of interest.
More information on Wellington can be found at: www.wellingtonnz.com/AboutWellington
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Information on Te Papa can be found at: www.tepapa.govt.nz
Responsibility for the IAOS website now resides with Statistics Finland. The new website was opened on 31 October 2003 with the following address:
www.stat.fi/iaos
Comments on the website are welcome and can be sent to: iaos.webmaster@stat.fi
IAOSDuring the ISI Berlin Session, a special meeting on “Revitalising the IAOS” was organised. The aim of the meeting was to discuss how we can ensure that the IAOS plays a vital and dynamic role in the field of official statistics. Due to the timeframe for the General Assembly, discussions are always restricted as a result of the administrative matters; it was felt useful to continue the exchange of views at this open meeting. More than 30 participants were able to attend. The discussion was opened by Ms. Denise Lievesley, former President of the IAOS.
As the background for the discussion were the concerns expressed by many members about the future of the IAOS, given the levelling off in IAOS membership and the average age of present members is increasing. At the same time, the demands for official statistics and their quality are increasing and the needs for networking with the users of official statistics are becoming more and more important. The role and the profile of the IAOS are not very well known amongst the international statistical society, not even amongst our own members. Further, the new electronic means to facilitate the activities and contacts amongst the members is not very efficiently used within the IAOS.
During the lively discussion, a number of views and ideas were presented to strengthen the IAOS. A more extensive summary of the special meeting is contained on the IAOS website, see
http://tilastokeskus.fi/iaos . Comments and suggestions are actively encouraged, and can be sent to IAOS President: Heli Jeskanen-Sundström at
Heli.Jeskanen-Sundstrom@stat.fi
The Executive Committee will work with these issues and, later on, suggest a list of measures to the members.
Submitted by: Wendy Thomas
Following the ISI Conference in August, SCORUS, The International Network for Regional and Urban Statistics, launched a new website for discussing issues related to regional and urban statistics. The website and discussion list is a place were practitioners and researchers in regional, urban and suburban statistics can connect with others involved in comparative statistical data, standards, and methods development to gain insights, share experience, and most importantly to develop an international network focused on this important area of statistics. The discussion forum is open to all interested individuals and we encourage you to stop by, join a discussion or start one of your own. IAOS
Standing Committee on Regional and Urban Statistics
The SCORUS website can be found at http://www.scorusnet.com .
Currently on the SCORUS site, you will find the full programme of the Berlin Conference, Youth Assistance in Big Cities, Focus 2004: “The Family Situation” (19-21 January 2004). As an international get-together of social workers, planers, researchers, statisticians and others, this Conference focuses on statistical and research results concerning young people.
In addition, the Proceedings of the SCORUS Potsdam Conference has been posted in both its entirety and as individual discussion topics focused on the three workshop areas: Territorial Units, Meta Data, and Social Cohesion. The results of this Conference will be carried forward into the sessions of the Biennial SCORUS Conference described below.
Date: 19-21 May 2004
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Understanding change is the prerequisite of any effective policy. SCORUS, The International Network for Regional and Urban Statistics, wants to support urban and regional policy by improving its knowledge base.
With its Biennial Conference, SCORUS provides a forum for statisticians, planners and researchers interested in improving the knowledge about cities and regions, addressing the international comparability of statistical data, and developing international standards for urban and regional indicators.
In the context of cities and regions, it is our goal to understand the underlying of past change in different locations, learn from this analysis, apply it to assessments of projected change, inform programmes for influencing the direction of future change, and evaluate the effectiveness of various strategies for change.
To improve the knowledge base for understanding and managing change through international comparisons, this Conference will start off with an analysis varying systems of urban and regional statistics in different countries in the world.
The main topics will be social cohesion and economic diversity. What is the information needed in order to facilitate changes in both? Are the challenges and opportunities the same for developed and developing countries? Special attention will be paid to countries in all parts of the world facing rapid transition. The discussion will cover temporal and spatial change as well as socio-economic dynamics.
As the International Network for Urban and Regional Statistics, SCORUS focuses on improving the international comparability of statistical data and developing international standards for urban and regional indicators. The 2004 Conference will build on the outcomes of the Potsdam meeting on standard, and continue developing the working agenda of the organisation.
The following topics will be covered in this year's Conference with an emphasis on comparative statistical data, standards and methods development, and transitional economies:
• Measuring and understanding change in social cohesion (what are the relevant indicators?);
• Measuring and understanding change in economic diversity (clusters, competitiveness, innovation, infrastructure);
• The organisation of urban and regional statistics in <country> (political and administrative background, agencies involved, database management);
• Comparable statistics for urban and suburban areas in <country>;
• Territorial structure and standard regional reference systems in <country>;
• International comparative statistics on social cohesion and economic diversity;
• Quality assurance in regional and urban statistics (timeliness, accuracy, relevance for users, comparability);
• Measuring the dichotomy between urban and rural development.
Sessions will be organised to bring together papers from various countries in order to highlight both common and disparate approaches to information collection, analysis, and programme development.
It is not too late to submit an abstract for a paper presentation. Please use the on-line form on the Conference site. In addition, send an e-mail to the Programme Chair, Berthold Feldmann ( Berthold.Feldmann@cec.eu.int ), notifying him that you have submitted an abstract.
For further information on the Conference and the location, check the Conference website at http://www.pop.umn.edu/scorus/
or contact Wendy Thomas, Local Arrangements Chair, wlt@pop.umn.edu
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Editorial Address | Susan Starkings, Learning & Development
Centre, South Bank University, Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7815 7455 Fax: +44 (0)20 7815 6464 E-mail: starkisa@lsbu.ac.uk |
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| Forthcoming Conferences with Statistics Education Components |
From left to right: Lisbeth Cordani (Vice-President, Brazil), Chris Wild (President, New Zealand), Carmen Batanero (Past President, Spain), Chris Reading (Vice-President, Australia), Carol Joyce Blumberg (Vice-President, USA), Larry Weldon (Vice-President, Canada), Gilberte Schuyten (President-Elect, Belgium), Susan Starkings (Vice-President, UK)
IASE statutes give the possibility of nominating honorary members as a way of recognising the work and dedication of some of our members. It was with great pleasure that the IASE Executive Committee approved the nominations of both Maria-Gabriella Ottaviani and Brian Phillips, who were Presidents in the period 1997-1999 and 1999-2001, and whose work has contributed significantly to the success and growth of our Association. They join our two other honorary members David Moore and Anne Hawkins.
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Two of the many new features of the website are as follows:
1. The “Members” page where members have a login. Members can add and change their profile and contact details. This will enhance communication between IASE members and stimulate cooperation.
2. The “Publications” page. Our top priority here has been to enable you to quickly locate for download IASE publications and proceedings. There are already over 500 papers here. Use the left-hand panel to locate them.
The IASE Publications pages at http://course1.winona.edu/cblumberg/pubshomepage.htm are still active and vital. These latter pages are particularly valuable for information about print publications of IASE, ISI and related organisations, and other information about statistical education resources on the web. If you have any problems, please e-mail iase@stat.auckland.ac.nz giving details of the difficulties you experienced.
Please visit the new site, become a member of IASE, update your profile, communicate with IASE members and generally have a look at what is there.
Website: http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/icots7/
(Information on Salvador de Bahia is available at http://www.salvadorconvention.com.br/english/)
The ICOTS 7 Programme Committee is busy with the initial preparations for the Conference. The international Programme Committee, for the above Conference, is as follows:
Chair: Carmen Batanero (Spain), batanero@ugr.es
Programme Chair: Susan Starkings (UK), starkisa@lsbu.ac.uk
Editors of Proceedings: Allan Rossman (USA), arossman@calpoly.edu
and Beth Chance (USA), bchance@calpoly.edu
Scientific Secretary: John Harraway (New Zealand), jharraway@maths.otago.ac.nz
Local Organisers Representative on the IPC: Lisbeth Cordani (Brazil), lisbethk@terra.com.br
Topic and Topic Convenors are:
Topic 1. Working Cooperatively in Statistics Education
Lisbeth Cordani (Brazil), lisbethk@terra.com.br
Mike Shaughnessy (USA), mike@mth.pdx.edu
Topic 2. Statistics Education at the School Level
Dani Ben-Zvi (Israel), dbenzvi@univ.haifa.ac.il
Lionel Pereira (Singapore), lpereira@nie.edu.sg
Topic 3. Statistics Education at the Post Secondary Level
Martha Aliaga (USA), martha@amstat.org
Elisabeth Svensson (Sweden), elisabeth.svensson@esi.oru.se
Topic 4. Statistics Education/Training and the Workplace
Pedro Silva (Brazil), pedrosilva@ibge.gov.br
Pilar Martín-Guzmán (Spain), pilar.guzman@uam.es
Topic 5. Statistics Education and the Wider Society
Brian Phillips (Australia), BPhillips@groupwise.swin.edu.au
Philip Boland (Ireland), Philip.J.Boland@ucd.ie
Topic 6. Research in Statistics Education
Chris Reading (Australia), creading@metz.une.edu.au
Maxine Pfannkuch (New Zealand), m.pfannkuch@auckland.ac.nz
Topic 7. Technology in Statistics Education
Andrej Blejec (Slovenia), andrej.blejec@uni-lj.si
Cliff Konold (USA), konold@srri.umass.edu
Topic 8. Other Determinants and Developments in Statistics Education
Theodore Chadjipadelis (Greece), chadji@polsci.auth.gr
Beverley Carlson (USA), bcarlson@eclac.cl
Topic 9. An International Perspective on Statistics Education
Delia North (South Africa), delian@icon.co.za
Ana Silvia Haedo (Argentina), haedo@qb.fcen.uba.ar
Topic 10. Contributed Papers
Joachim Engel (Germany), Engel_Joachim@ph-ludwigsburg.de
Alan Mc Lean (Australia), alan.mclean@buseco.monash.edu.au
Topic 11. Posters
Celi Espasandín López (Brazil), celilopes@directnet.com.br
So far, the Local Organising Committee consists of the following people:
Pedro Alberto Morettin (Brazil), local Chair, pam@ime.usp.br
Lisbeth K. Cordani (Brazil), lisbeth@maua.br
Clélia Maria de C. Toloi (Brazil), clelia@ime.usp.br
Wilton de Oliveira Bussab (Brazil), bussab@fgvsp.br
IASE
We are glad to announce that the fourth issue of the Statistics Education Research Journal (SERJ Vol. 2, No. 2, Nov. 2003) is now available from the SERJ web page at http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/serj or directly at http://fehps.une.edu.au/F/s/curric/cReading/serj/current_issue/SERJ2(2).pdf
This is the last issue of SERJ co-edited by Carmen Batanero. The Association owes her an enormous debt of gratitude for all the work and vision that she (with co-editor Flavia Jolliffe) put into starting SERJ and making it a reality. Carmen has stepped down to make room for her new role as lead organizer of ICOTS 7. She will continue as an Associate Editor. Thanks are also due to Assistant Editor Chris Reading.
Stepping into Carmen’s co-editorial shoes is Iddo Gal of the University of Haifa. He is perhaps best known to statistics educators as co-editor with Joan Garfield of The Assessment Challenge in Statistics Education (IOS Press /ISI, 1997) and for his groundbreaking article, “Adults’ statistical literacy: meanings, components, responsibilities” in the International Statistical Review in 2002.
Highlights of Vol. 2, No. 2 includes a comprehensive paper by Jane Watson and Rosemary Callingham on the measurement of statistical literacy, Flavia Jolliffe on the building of a database of research in statistical education, and Jamie D. Mills’s critique of texts, which incorporate SPSS.
Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields, June 9-12, 2004, Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
The Conference will provide many opportunities for academics and professionals from statistics and/or mathematics related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines. Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are welcome. For more information, e-mail
statistics@hicstatistics.org or see the website http://www.hicstatistics.org/
The 10th International Congress on Mathematics Education, July 4-11, 2004, Copenhagen
Chair: Mogens Niss,
icme10-IPC@ruc.dk
The venue will be the Technical University of Denmark, located in a northern suburb of Copenhagen. The IASE will be collaborating in the organisation of specific statistics education activities in the Conference. The Conference website is: http://www.icme-10.dk/
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Statistical computing provides the link between statistical theory and applied statistics. As at previous COMPSTATs, the Scientific Programme will cover all aspects of this link, from the development and implementation of new statistical ideas through to user experiences and software evaluation. The Programme should appeal to anyone working in statistics and using computers, whether in universities, industrial companies, government agencies, research institutes or as software developers.
Following extensive discussions over the last year, ERS IASC have introduced a number of changes to the format of the Scientific Programme for COMPSTAT 2004 in Prague. The motivation for these changes was to try to revitalise the Programme by giving more focus to the individual sessions, involve more people in the planning of sessions, and make links with other societies like Interface and IFCS involved in statistical computing.
For more information, see the website http://compstat2004.cuni.cz or e-mail compstat2004@cuni.cz
Carol Joyce Blumberg is updating and preparing for publication a presentation that she gave at the ISI Biennial Session in 2001. It is titled “Is There Life Beyond Introductory Statistics”. It deals with the variety of non-introductory courses for non-mathematics and non-statistics first degree students in higher education institutions around the world. If your institution offers such courses or if you have any opinions on the questions listed below, please e-mail her at cblumberg@winona.edu or send by fax to +1-507-457-5376 or by mail at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Winona State University, Winona MN 55987-5838, USA. Your help will be acknowledged in the final manuscript.
Questions:
1. What is your definition of introductory statistics?
2. What statistics courses does your institution teach beyond introductory statistics that are REQUIRED for any non-mathematics or non-statistics degree students and why? Also, please indicate which majors take each of these courses.
3. What statistics courses does your institution teach beyond introductory statistics that are OPTIONAL for any non-mathematics or non-statistics degree students?
4. Which of the OPTIONAL courses are most often taken and which majors tend to take each of these courses?
5. Why do students take these OPTIONAL courses?
6. Why do many students NOT take any statistics beyond introductory statistics?
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International Association for Statistical Computing
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Editorial Address | Joyce C. Niland, Ph.D., Chair of Division of Information Science, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA Tel: (626) 359-8111; Fax: (626) 303-5912 E-mail: jniland@coh.org |
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| President | Stanley P. Azen, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA 90033 Tel: (323) 442-1810; Fax: (323) 442-2993 E-mail: sazen@usc.edu |
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Stanley Azen reports:
During the past months, the IASC Council has formed administrative committees to facilitate the planning and operation of the IASC. Committee Chairman and Committee members are listed below.
• Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi (Co-Chair, Italy)
• Wing K. Fung (Co-Chair, Hong Kong)
• Jaromir Antoch (Czech Republic)
• Anthony C. Atkinson (UK)
• Christophe Croux (Belgium)
• Edwin Diday (France)
• James Gentle (USA)
• Paolo Giudici (Italy)
• Henk Kiers (The Netherlands)
• Erricos John Kontoghiorghes (Switzerland)
• Jung Jin Lee (Korea)
• Masahiro Mizuta (Japan)
• Thomas Yee (New Zealand)
• Michael Schimek (ex-officio, Austria)
IASC Publications Committee:
• Ehsan Soofi (Chair, USA/Iran)
• Murray Cameron (Australia)
• Moon Yul Huh (Korea)
• Carey Priebe (USA)
• David Scott (USA)
• Refik Soyer (USA/Turkey)
• Antony Unwin (Germany)
Ex-officio:
• Stan Azen (USA, Editor)
• Erricos Kontoghiorghes (Switzerland, Co-Editor)
• Jae C. Lee (Korea, Co-Editor)
• Allmut Hörman (Germany, Managing Editor of SSN)
IASC Election and Nomination Committee:
• Gilbert Saporta (Chair, France)
• Jaromir Antoch (Czech Republic)
• Ivette Gomes (Portugal)
• Malcolm Hudson (Australia)
• Jungi Nakano (Japan)
• David Scott (USA)
• Javier Trejos (Costa Rica)
• Maurizi Vichi (Italy)
• Stan Azen (ex-officio, USA)
• Jae C. Lee (ex-officio, Korea)
IASC Electronic Affairs Committee and Public Relations:
• Gianfranco Galmacci (Chair, Italy)
• James Baurley (CSDA-SSN website, USA)
• Vincenzo Esposito (Italy)
• Jung Jing Lee (IASC flier, Korea)
• Junji Nakano (Japan)
• Michael Minotti (USA)
• Masahiro Mizuta (ARS, Japan)
• Adalbert X. Wilhelm (Germany)
IASC Nomination Committee for ISI Membership:
• Malcolm Hudson (Co-Chair, Australia)
• Yuichi Mori (Co-Chair, Japan)
• Carlo Lauro (Italy)
• Javier Trejos (Costa Rica)
• Ed Wegman (USA)
• Stan Azen (ex-officio, USA)
• Jae C. Lee (ex-officio, Korea)
IASC Membership Committee:
• Lutz Edler (Chair, Germany)
IASC/INTERFACE Liason:
• Michael Schimek (Chair, Austria)
• Ed Wegman (USA)
IASC/Iranian Statistics Conferences Liaison:
• Ehsan Soofi (Chair, USA/Iran)
IASC Affiliated Membership Nominee:
• Jaromir Anotch (Chair, Czech Republic)
IASC/IFIP Liason:
• Gianfranco Galmacci (Chair, Italy)
IASC/IFCS:
• Vincenzo Esposito Vinci (Chair, Italy)
The following IASC-sponsored conferences and workshops are planned for 2004.
Statistical computing provides the link between statistical theory and applied statistics. As with previous COMPSTAT Conferences, the Scientific Programme will cover all aspects of this link, from the development and implementation of new statistical ideas through to user experiences and software evaluation. The COMPSTAT 2004 Programme will appeal to anyone working in statistics and using computers, whether in universities, industrial companies, government agencies, research institutes or as software developers. The last day for submitting contributed papers is February 2, 2004. For more information, go to the website:
http://compstat2004.cuni.cz or write to:
compstat2004@cuni.cz .
The Scientific Programme for COMPSTAT 2004 is organised as follows:
Keynote Lectures:
• S. van Huffel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (B). Bridging the gap between statistics, computational mathematics and engineering.
• Barron, Yale University (USA). Function fitting with many variables: Neural networks and beyond.
• Chun-houh Chen, Academia Sinica Taipei (TW). Dimension free data visualisation and information mining.
• W. Grossmann, Universität Wien (A), M. Schimek, Universität Graz (A), and P. Sint, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Wien (A). Thirty years of COMPSTAT and key steps of statistical computing.
Invited Organised Sessions:
• ADVANCES IN MULTIPLE TIME SERIES MODELLING: PRESENT IMPACT AND FUTURE POTENTIAL: G. Tunnicliffe-Wilson (Lancaster, GB). Invited speakers: J. Hanousek (CZ); R. Tsay (USA); G. Tunnicliffe-Wilson (GB).
• APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS METHODS: E. Wegman (USA). Joint session with the Interface Society. Invited speakers: A. Braverman (USA); K. Kafadar (USA); A.R. Martinez (USA).
• COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS IN RISK CALCULATION AND RISK ASSESSMENT: L. Edler (Heidelberg, D). Invited speakers: L. Held (D); H. Heinzl and M. Mittlboeck (A); J. Groos and A. Kopp-Schneider (D).
• COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS OF OPTIMUM MODEL BASED DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS: H. Nyquist (Stockholm, S). Invited speakers: H. Nyquist (S); Weng Kee Wong (USA).
• COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS OF ROBUST STATISTICAL METHODS: C. Croux (Leuven, B). Invited speakers: A.C. Atkinson (UK) and M. Riani (I); F. Critchley (UK); U. Gather (D).
• COMPUTATIONAL SEARCH IN CLASSIFICATION AND CLUSTERING: D. Banks (USA) and IFCS. Joint session with the International Federation of Classification Societies. Invited speakers: D. Banks (USA); P. Hansen (CAN); H. Kiers (NL).
• DATA VISUALISATION: D. Cook, Iowa State University (USA). Invited speakers: H. Hofmann (USA); D. Swayne (USA); M. Theus (D).
• E-STATISTICS: J. Nakano (JP) and ARS IASC. Session of the Asian Regional Section of IASC. Invited speakers: W.K. Fung (Hong Kong China); M.Y. Huh (KOREA); R. Shibata (JP).
• FUNCTIONAL DATA: MODELLING AND APPLICATIONS: F. Ferraty and STAPH (Working Group on Functional Analysis) with LPS, GRIMM and INRA in Toulouse (F). Invited speakers: A. Cuevas (E); A. Kneip (D); J. Ramsay (CAN).
• HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA ANALYSIS: E. Wegman (USA). Joint session with the Interface Society. Invited speakers: G. Ostrouchov (USA); C.E. Priebe (USA); D.W. Scott (USA).
• MACHINE LEARNING AND NEURAL NETWORKS: V. Kurkova, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Computer Science (CZ). Invited speakers: S. Amari (JAP); V. Kurkova (CZ); T. Poggio (USA).
• MODERN TRENDS OF TEACHING STATISTICS FOR THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: M. Mueller, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Kaiserslautern (D). Invited speakers: K. Cramer jointly with U. Kamps (D); E. Neuwirth (A); G. Saporta (F).
• NEW APPROACHES TO MODEL BASED CLUSTER METHODS: D. Pena, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (E). Invited speakers: T. Hastie (USA); D. Pena (E); A. Raftery (USA).
• PLS TOOLS FOR REGRESSION AND STRUCTURAL MODELLING: V. Esposito Vinzi, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (I). Invited speakers: H. Martens (DK); S. Wold (S); M. Tenenhaus (F).
• STATISTICAL BIOCOMPUTING: Michael Schimek, Universität Graz (A). Invited speakers: R. Gentleman (USA); D.B. Carr (USA); M. Schimek, Universität Graz (A).
Tutorials
• G.H. Golub, Stanford University (USA). Numerical methods for statisticians.
• K. Hornik, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (A). R: The next generation.
Contributed Talks or Posters
Participants are encouraged to present contributed talks, or to submit posters on the following topics:
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Partial Least Squares |
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Image Analysis |
Resampling Methods |
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Bayesian Methods |
Internet Based Methods |
Robustness |
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Biostatistics |
Machine Learning |
Simulations |
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Classification |
Metadata |
Smoothing |
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MCMC |
Spatial Statistics |
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Data Imputation |
Model Selection |
Statistical Data Mining |
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Multivariate Analysis |
Statistical Software |
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Data Visualisation |
Neural Networks |
Teaching Statistics |
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Nonparametrical Statistics |
Time Series Analysis |
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Numerical Methods for Statistics |
Tree Based Methods |
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Official Statistics |
WEB Mining |
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• Workshop of the Working Group Matrix Computations and Statistics of ERCIM on Numerical Methods in Statistics. Prague, August 27-29, 2004.
• Chemometric Conference CHEMSTAT 2004. Pardubice, August 30-September 2, 2004.
• CDAM VII. International Conference Computer Data Analysis and Modelling: Robustness and Computer Intensive Methods. Minsk, Belarus, September 6-10, 2004.
Petra Grabaová of the Czech Statistical Office has submitted the following news item. An international conference, Statistics: Investment in the Future, will be held on September 6-7, 2004, at the CNB Congress Centre, Prague, Czech Republic. The Conference is organised by the Czech Statistical Office in cooperation with the Czech National Bank and the School of Economics on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of Czech official statistics. The objective of the Conference is to contribute to the exchange of findings, observations and experience concerning the provision of statistical data for fulfilling the user's needs and the widest possible use of statistics for the current demographic development of society. For more information, go to the Conference website: www.czso.cz/conference2004 or contact the organisers at conference2004@gw.czso.cz .
Professor Stefano Iacus has submitted the following news item. This one week intensive course on Computational and Statistical Aspects of MicroArray Analysis, given in Bressanone, Italy, during June 7-11, 2004, is intended to give new insights on recent advances in statistical and computational results in the study of microarray experiments. The course is intended mainly for people already involved in microarray analysis with sufficient minimal background on biological, statistical and computational aspects of microarray data. Topics will include: networks, analysis of protein interactions, analysis of cohort studies (survival analysis), analysis of designed experiments, among the others. The course is computationally intensive and laboratory sessions are associated with methodology ones.
The course will be given by: Robert Gentleman, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA (co-author of the R Environment System and founder of the Bioconductor research project) and Wolfgang Huber, Department for Molecular Genome Analysis, DKFZ (German Cancer Research Centre), Heidelberg, Germany. The course is organised by the University of Milan and the University of Padua. Additional information can be obtained from the website: http://www.economia.unimi.it/marray/ .
Jeff Solka and David Marchette, Interface Programme Co-Chairs, submitted the following news item. The 36th Symposium of the Interface: Computing and Statistics will be held May 26-29, 2004, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The theme is Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. The Keynote Address will be given by David Draper Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Short courses will be given by Leo Breiman and Adele Cutler (Random Forests) and Rafael A. Irizarry (Gene Expression Analysis). Information can be obtained from the website: http://www.galaxy.gmu.edu/Interface04 or via e-mail: inerface04@electricplay.com .
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International Association of Survey Statisticians
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President | Prof. Luigi Biggeri, ISTAT, Via Cesare Balbo, 16, 00184 Roma, Italy Tel. : +39 06 46731 E-mail : biggeri@istat.it |
| Executive Director | Mr. Michel Péronnet, INSEE/CEFIL, 3, rue de la Cité, 33500 Libourne, France. Tel.: +33 (0)5 57 55 56 02 E-mail: michel.peronnet@insee.fr |
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| Secretariat | c/o Mme Claude Olivier, CEFIL
(INSEE), 3 rue de la Cité, 33500 Libourne, France. Tel.: +33–5–5755–5600 — Fax: +33–5–5755–5620 E-mail: claude.olivier@insee.fr |
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| Executive Secretary | Anna Maria Vespa, Centre d’Etrudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII), 9 rue Georges Pitard, 75015 Paris, France. Tel. :+33-1-53685571 Fax : +33-1-53685501 E-mail : vespa@cepii.fr |
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In the following notes, the main scientific Conferences, meetings and courses organised under the IASS Sponsorship are reported.
With regard to other IASS activities, I have decided to start the procedure for the election of the IASS Officers and Council Members, and will try to revitalise and develop the network of IASS Local Representatives. For these purposes, I have appointed:
-Professor Claudio Quintano ( claudio.quintano@uniparthenope.it
) as Chair of the 2005 Election Nominations Committee;
- Mr. Hiek Som ( hiek.som@fao.org ) as Coordinator of the IASS Local Representatives Network.
Luigi Biggeri
Following the request made in Berlin by some IASS members, an IASS meeting for discussing topics concerning survey methodology will take place during the European Conference on Quality and Methodology in Official Statistics, to be held in Mainz, Germany, from 24 to 26 May, 2004. The meeting is scheduled for Monday, 24 May, from 17:30 to 18:30.
For further information, please contact Ralf Münnich at the following address: ralf.muennich@uni-tuebingen.de
or visit the web page: http://publicstatistics.net
. For more information concerning the Conference, the website address is: http://q2004.destatis.de
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The IAOS/IASS Joint Conference on “Poverty, Social Exclusion and Development: A Statistical Perspective” will be held in Amman, Jordan, from 29 November to 1 December 2004.
An additional day, on the same topic, is foreseen for Arab statisticians.
The Programme Committee is composed as follows:
Mr. Alain Azouvi, Chairman of the Programme Committee ( alain.azouvi@wanadoo.fr
)
Mr. Hasan Abu-Libdeh, Palestinia CBS ( hal@p-ol.com
)
Mr. Jeremiah Banda, UNSD ( banda@un.org )
Mr. Misha Belkindas, World Bank ( mbelkindas@worldbank.org
)
Mr. Derek Bond, SCORUS ( d.bond@ulst.ac.uk
)
Ms. Beverley Carlson, ECLAC ( bcarlson@eclac.cl
)
Ms. Carmen Feijo, IBGE, Brazil ( cfeijo@terra.com.br
, cfeijo@ibge.gov.br )
Mr. Madior Fall, Rio Group ( madior.fall@insee.fr, madior.fall@ens.fr
)
Mr. Hussein Shakhatreh, Jordan DOS ( hshakhatreh@dos.gov.jo
)
The Conference Programme includes Keynote Speakers and scientific meetings with invited papers. The scientific meetings will cover the following topics:
Meeting 1 – Different dimensions of poverty (I)
Meeting 2 – Different dimensions of poverty (II)
Meeting 3 – Approaches of international organisations (I)
Meeting 4 – Approaches of international organisations (II)
Meeting 5 – Local statistics, regional statistics and poverty; rural poverty
Meeting 6 – Tools
Meeting 7 – Specific aspects of poverty: gender; youth; health; ethnic groups
Meeting 8 – Images of poverty
Meeting 9 – International comparisons of poverty
Meeting 10 – Limits and gaps of social statistics: in developing countries; in developed countries
Meeting 11 – Excluded and “underclass” populations
Meeting 12 – Non-market economy and poverty
Meeting 13 – Poverty analysis through anthropologists’ and sociologists’ approaches: «The voice of the poor»
Meeting 14 – Information systems for poverty follow up
Meeting 15 - Poverty and economic and social policies (I)
Meeting 16 - Poverty and economic and social policies (II)
Meeting leaders have been appointed in order to organise each of the previously mentioned sessions. One meeting per day of contributed papers is foreseen, targeted at young statisticians. Further information on the Conference can be found at the following address:
http://www.dos.gov.jo .
The IASS Programme Committee for the ISI Conference, Sydney 2005, is chaired by Pedro Do Nascimento Silva
( pedrosilva@ibge.gov.br ). The topics of the invited paper meetings have been defined. For most meetings, an organiser has already confirmed his commitment. Some meetings are jointly sponsored with other ISI Sections.
The following table reports the sponsoring section(s), the organiser, the title and the number of the invited paper meetings with IASS Sponsorship.
|
Sponsoring Section(s) |
Organiser |
Title |
Number |
|
IASS |
Steven Heeringa |
Developments in the analysis of longitudinal survey data |
53 |
|
IASS |
Ray Chambers |
Use of model diagnostics in survey sampling |
54 |
|
IASS |
Michel Latouche |
Calibration in practice |
55 |
|
IASS |
Lars Lyberg |
Quality measurement and reporting for surveys |
56 |
|
IASS |
(to be confirmed) |
Resampling methods for variance estimation in complex surveys |
57 |
|
IASS |
Pedro Revilla |
Experiences in data collection with Internet surveys |
58 |
|
IASS |
Vasja Vehovar |
Inferential potentials of non-probability samples |
59 |
|
IASS |
Kari Djerf |
Access to micro data while securing confidentiality protection |
60 |
|
IASS |
(to be confirmed) |
Surveys of small and medium sized enterprises |
61 |
|
IASS |
Ibrahim Yansaneh |
Estimation with rotating panel designs |
62 |
|
IASS, IASE, IAOS |
(to be confirmed) |
Educating the media on how best to report statistics |
63 |
|
IASS, IAOS |
Luigi Biggeri |
Response burden and public cooperation in statistical surveys |
35 |
|
IASE, IASS |
(to be confirmed) |
Challenges in the teaching of survey sampling |
83 |
The IASS has defined a preliminary Programme of short courses to be offered just prior to or after the 55th ISI Session, which will be held in Sydney, Australia, April 5-12, 2005.
The courses are led by international high-level experts and are addressed to practitioners, researchers and students in statistics and survey methodology. The Programme includes courses which have already been held in previous ISI Sessions, as well as courses which are offered for the first time.
Funding assistance for supporting statisticians from developing and transitional countries is being sought.
The following courses have been planned. However, the Programme might be modified according to the students’ participation.
Course A: Workshop on Survey Sampling
Presented by: Graham Kalton (Westat)
Steven Heeringa (Survey Research Center, University of Michigan)
The workshop will focus on practical aspects of sampling for household surveys. It will start from basic principles and build up to complex stratified multi-stage sample designs. It will cover the main sampling techniques and also such issues as sampling frames, weighting, and imputation. It will end with an introduction to variance estimation with complex sample designs.
Course B: Variance Estimation in Complex Surveys
Presented by: Wayne Fuller (Iowa State Universtiy)
Kirk Wolter (University of Chicago)
F. Jay Breidt (Colorado State University)
Anthony An (SAS Institute)
The purpose of this course is to provide training in variance estimation in complex surveys for survey statisticians, especially those from developing countries. The course will cover methods of estimating variances for statistics such as means, proportions, ratios, regression coefficients, and statistics arising in the analysis of two-way contingency tables. Both linearisation and replication methods will be discussed. The use of computer software for computing variances of statistics from complex sample designs will be demonstrated and instruction will be given in practical applications. About half of the course will be devoted to implementation on the computer.
Course C: Workshop on Editing and Imputation of Survey Data
Presented by: John G. Kovar (Statistics Canada)
Eric Rancourt (Statistics Canada)
Surveys and censuses conducted by national statistical agencies, research institutes and other survey organisations suffer from various degrees of non-response, even under ideal conditions. In order to try to alleviate the problems caused by non-response, editing and imputation methods are usually applied. Since the process of editing and imputation is time and resource intensive, care must be exercised in controlling the efficiency, as well as the effectiveness of the methods. The aim of this short course is to introduce the students to methods of prevention, detection and treatment of non-response. Evaluation of such methods and their impact on the survey outputs will be highlighted. Existing edit and imputation software will be compared. Numerous examples will be provided to illustrate the material presented.
Course D: Introduction to Survey Quality
Presented by: Paul Biemer (RTI International and University of North Carolina)
Lars Lyberg (Statistics Sweden)
The course is designed for a broad audience that includes experienced survey researchers who would benefit from a better understanding of the survey data quality, as well as others with little or no prior experience in survey methods. It will provide a brief introduction to survey quality using total survey error paradigm. The course begins with a discussion of total survey error and its relationship to survey costs. Then the major sources of survey error are discussed, focusing on four major sources: coverage error, non-response, data processing error and measurement error. We also discuss some methods that are most often used in practice for evaluating the effects of the source on total survey error.
Course E: Statistical Disclosure Control
Presented by: Anco Hundepool (Statistics Netherlands)
Eric Schulte Nordholt (Statistics Netherlands)
Peter-Paul de Wolf (Statistics Netherlands)
The purpose of this course is to provide the participants with an understanding of the methodological aspects of Statistical
Disclosure Control, to train them in solving problems on this topic and to demonstrate the ARGUS software. The meaning and impact of Statistical Disclosure Control can only be appreciated in the light of practical problems and policy related issues. Therefore, some attention is also paid to such topics without putting heavy emphasis on them. Topics covered include theory and methods on microdata, exercises on microdata, demonstration of Mu-ARGUS, theory and methods on tabular data, exercises on tabular data, demonstration of Tau-ARGUS, legal issues, on-site facilities and remote access.
Course F: Design and Analysis of Repeated Surveys
Presented by: David Steel (University of Wollongong)
Craig McLaren (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
This course will consider the interaction between the design of a repeated survey and the methods used for estimation and analysis. The choice of rotation pattern will be considered in terms of the impact on the estimation of levels and changes. Composite and other forms of estimators will be reviewed and the interaction between design and estimation explored.
Estimation of seasonally adjusted and trend estimates from repeated surveys will also be considered.
The Short Courses have also been announced in the Bulletin n°1 of the ISI 2005.
For further information, please contact the IASS Scientific Secretary, Marina Signore, at the following address:
ISI2005_IASS_shortcourses@istat.it
.
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