Tom Lane is the Program Chair for the 2005-2006 year.
Contact him with suggestions for the chapter's program.
The events listed below are already scheduled. See the latest
copy of your chapter newsletter for more information.
The ASA Dateline page
lists other meetings and events, and may also
include chapter events and other events in New England.
- September 19, 2005 - Evening Lecture Series
- Empirical Bayes Methods for Estimation of Adverse Event Rates in Clinical Trials and Active Surveillance
- William DuMouchel, Lincoln Technologies
- At
Buckingham, Browne, and Nichols (Pratt Room, Upper School), Cambridge
- 6:30 - 7:00 light dinner, 7:00 - 8:00 presentation
- October 22, 2005 - Short Course
- Basic Concepts of Statistical Inference for Causal Effects in Experiments and Observational Studies
- Donald B. Rubin, Harvard University;
Elizabeth A. Stuart, Mathematica Policy Research
- At
Smith College, Northampton
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Check-in, 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM Course
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Registration information
- November 12, 2005 - Short Course
- Negative Binomial Regression: Modeling Overdispersed Count Data
- Joseph M. Hilbe, Arizona State University
- At
The MathWorks, Natick
- 9:00 - 9:30 AM Check-in, 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM Course (1 hour break at noon)
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Registration information
- December 9, 2005 - Daytime Lecture
- Sampling in a Data-Rich World
- Fritz Scheuren, ASA President
- At
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- 11:00 AM
- December 15, 2005 - Evening Lecture Series
- A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities
- Caroline Minter Hoxby, Harvard University
- At
Buckingham, Browne, and Nichols (Pratt Room, Upper School), Cambridge
- 6:30 - 7:00 light dinner, 7:00 - 8:00 presentation
- January 21, 2006 - Party
- Annual winter potluck dinner and party
- At the home of Katherine Monti
- 6:00 pm
- See the newsletter for details
- February 23, 2006 - Mosteller Statistician of the Year Banquet
- Seeing Statistical Structure
- Carl Morris, Harvard University
- At Frontier Science, Brookline
- 6:00 - 6:30 PM social, 6:30 - 7:15 PM dinner, 7:15 - 8:15 PM presentation
- March 4, 2006 - Mini-Conference on Distance Learning
- Distance Education, the Way of the Future?
- Dominique Haughton, Bentley College (organizer)
- At Bentley College
- 9:30 Registration, presentations from 10-12:30
- April 10, 2006 - Evening Lecture Series
- Design and Analysis of Dose-Response Clinical Trials
- Naitee Ting, Pfizer Global Research and Development
(slides), and
James MacDougall, Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging Group
(slides)
- At Frontier Science, Brookline
- 6:30 dinner, 7:00 lecture (election and Mu Sigma Rho ceremony in between)
- May 17, 2006 - High School Statistics Day
- Program organizers: Bob Goldman (Simmons), Joan Weinstein (Pine Manor),
Rob Carver (Stonehill)
- Keynote speaker: Lisa Sullivan (Boston University School of Public Health)
- At Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill
- 8:30 - 1:00
- May 31, 2006 - Daytime Lecture
- Statistics in Medical Devices versus in Pharmaceutical Drugs: Viva la Difference
- Greg Campbell, FDA
- At BattelleCRO, Newton, MA (formerly CareStat)
- Lecture begins at 3:00 p.m.
Most events require advance reservations through
Sue Perry at 617-965-8000 x 21, or
sperry@rhoworld.com.
Previous schedules for
2000-2001,
2001-2002,
2002-2003,
2003-2004, and
2004-2005.
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