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WSS NEWS |
News about activities of the Washington Statistical Society
A Chapter of the American Statistical Association
December 1997 |
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WSS NEWS |
December 1997 |
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The conference will be held at the Washington National Airport Hilton, close to the Crystal City Metro and to downtown Washington DC and within easy walking distance of the Metro.
The conference web site is http://www.monmouth.com/~healthpolicy (with link from http://www.amstat.org/sections). The web site includes registration and accommodation information, as well as the preliminary program.
On February 23, Bruce Weir will repeat Introduction to Statistical Genetics, a course he introduced at the 1997 JSM and for which he received much praise. It will be held at the George Washington University Alexandria Graduate Education Center in Alexandria, Virginia.
Dan Steinberg will bring CART-Classification and Regression trees to the east coast on March 6, 1998 at the GWAGEC in Alexandria and on the following Monday, March 9, in Philadelphia. He previously taught this program last year at the JSM and in San Francisco in December.
Merck Laboratories will host Ingram Olkin and Joseph Lau, who will teach Meta-Analysis: A Quantitative Approach to Research Integration in the Medical and Health Sciences at the Somerset Conference Center, in Somerset, New Jersey on March 9 and 10. Tuition for this two-day course is $895.
University of Minnesota professors R. Dennis Cook and Sandford Weisburg will travel to New York to teach Re-inventing Regression thru Graphics on March 16, 1998 at Pfizer Biometrics.
Quality Management will be Van Bowen's topic on March 12, 1998 at the University of Richmond, Richmond.
Back in Alexandria, the Washington Statistical Society will feature Howard Hogan's two-day Experimental Data Analysis with Upgraded S+ on March 19 and 20 at the GWAGEC.
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics will meet this spring in Washington, DC, and Peter Bruce hopes that many teachers will attend his Making Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals Easier via Resampling/Simulation, at the GWAGEC on April 1. Dr. Bruce's course was very well attended when he taught it a year ago and again at the JSM in Anaheim.
Classes will fill quickly for these courses, and additional programs are being added frequently. For more information or a registration form for any course, contact Sue Kulesher, sue@amstat.org, Fax 703-684-3422 or consult the ASA website http//:www.amstat.org.
The December meeting of SIGSTAT features a demonstration of ActivStats. The meeting is on December 10 from 12:30 to 1:30 in the 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1800 M St, NW.
Directions to the meeting site and the full schedule is available at http://www.ers.usda.govsigstat/ or on the Members/SIGS page of http://www.cpcug.org. First-time attendees should contact Charlie Hallahan at 202-694-5051 or hallahan@econ.ag.gov to leave their name for gaining entrance to the building.
Annual Holiday Party!!!Come test your sampling skills!The Brickskeller claims they have the largest beer selection in the world, over 500 brands! How many will you have to sample before you agree?
Join your WSS colleagues to conduct your own beer survey!
Please come join your friends and colleagues for a celebration of the holiday season. The 1997 WSS Holiday Party will be held Tuesday, December 9, at the Brickskeller. Dowload the flyer (41 kb as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file) for details and registration information. You can also call Jill Montaquila for more information: (301) 729-1927 (H) or (301) 517-4046 (W).
Tuesday, December 9, 1997 -- 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
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| President Graham Kalton (301) 251-8253 |
Past President Phillip Kott (703) 235-5211 ext. 102 |
President-Elect Dwight Brock (301) 496-9795 |
| Secretary Elizabeth Sweet (301) 457-4865 |
Treasurer Carolyn Shettle (703) 306-1780 |
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| Vice Chair for District 2 of Council of Chapters Andrew A. White (202) 334-2511 |
Council of Chapters Representative Ron Fecso (703) 235-5211 ext. 142 |
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Representatives-at-Large N. Clyde Tucker (202) 606-7371 Sandra West (202) 606-7384 |
Alan R. Tupek (703) 306-1780 David Marker (301) 251-4398 |
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Agriculture & Natural Resources Bill Iwig (202) 720-3895 Stan Freedman (202) 426-1099 |
Economics Linda Atkinson (202) 219-0934 Art Kennickell (202) 452-2247 |
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Methodology Karol Krotki (202) 944-5243 Brenda Cox (202) 484-4231 |
Public Health and Biostatistics Trena Ezzati-Rice (301) 436-7022 ext. 133 Rene Gonin (301) 517-8084 |
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Public Policy Carolee Bush (202) 366-6946 Phil Ross (202) 260-5244 |
Quality Assurance Amrut Champaneri (202) 268-2299 Glenn White (202) 327-6414 |
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Statistical Computing Bob Jernigan (202) 885-3170 Mike Fleming (703) 235-5213 ext. 170 |
Social & Demographic Statistics Michael Horrigan (202) 606-5905 Edith McArthur (202) 219-1442 |
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Short Courses Roberta Sangster (202) 606-7517 Fritz Scheuren (703) 549-1120 |
Data Collection Methods Brad Edwards (301) 294-2021 Linda Stinson (202) 606-7528 |
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Employment Bill Arends (202) 720-6812 |
WSS NEWS Editors Michael Feil (301) 443-4234 Fran Chevarley (301) 436-7093 ext. 153 |
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Electronic Mail Michael L. Cohen (202) 334-3765 Michael Greene (703) 247-1575 S.V. (Vince) Massimini (703) 883-5893 |
Membership Renee Miller (202) 426-1117 Antionette Martin 202) 426-1110 Fritz Scheuren (703) 549-1120 |
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Quantitative Literacy Carolyn Carroll (703) 352-1712 |
Science Fair Lee Abramson (301) 415-6180 |
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Videotapes Mel Kollander (202) 973-2820 |
Social Arrangements Jill Montaquila (301) 517-4046 |
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Local Arrangement Wendy Rotz (202) 874-0969 |
WSS Historian Michael P. Cohen (202) 219-1917 |
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WSS Committee on ASA Fellows Brenda Cox (202) 484-4231 |
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First posted November 21, 1997
Last modified November 21, 1997
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