Chapter events are arranged by Program Chair Matt Tom.
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 27, 2008 - Symposium
- Major Birthdays of Statistical Ideas and Their Inventors
- Various speakers
- At Harvard University
- 9:45 - 5:00
- (Sponsored by Harvard University)
- October 15, 2008 - Evening Lecture
- Statistical Help for Troubled U.S. Elections
- Arlene Ash, Boston University
- At Boston University School of Medicine
- 6:00 social, 6:30 dinner, 7:30 lecture
To view a recorded video of this talk, go to
blackboard.bentley.edu
and sign on using the "Guest Access" link on the right hand side.
Click on the tab labeled Courses, then go to Affiliated Courses. From there go to Research France
(you can use the search box or scroll down a few pages).
Click on Course Documents, and from there on Arlene. Download the .exe file that is there.
When you double click on it, Centra will install itself on your computer and you will hear
the recording. This works on Windows machines only.
- October 25, 2008 - Short Course
- Applied Logistic Regression
- David W. Hosmer, University of Massachusetts and University of Vermont
- At The MathWorks in Natick
- 10:00 - 3:00
- October 25, 2008 - Symposium
- 13th New England Isolated Statisticians Meeting
- Organizer: Joan Weinstein, Pine Manor College
- At Pine Manor
- 9:30 - 5:00
- November 15, 2008 - Short Course
- Bootstrap Methods and Permutation Tests
- Tim Hesterberg, Google
- At The MathWorks, Natick
- 9:45 - 5:00
- (Co-sponsored by the Boston, Rhode Island, and Connecticut chapters)
- January 24, 2009 - Social
- Annual Winter Potluck Dinner and Party
- At The Muddy Charles Pub, MIT, Cambridge
- 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
- Pre-register by January 17
- February 12, 2009 - Mosteller Statistician of the Year Banquet
- Additive Survival Time Models: What are they and are they useful?
- David W Hosmer, University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of Vermont
- At Simmons College, Boston
- 6:15 social, 6:45 dinner, 7:30 talk
- February 21, 2009 - Career Fair
- Various speakers about statistical careers and graduate study
- At Simmons College, Boston
- 1:00 - 4:30
- March 21, 2009 - Retreat
- Meeting to discuss strategy, build stronger teams, and formulate goals for the chapter
- At Babson College
- 10:00 - 4:30
- March 31, 2009 - Evening Lecture
- Traditional and Likelihood-based Approaches for Comparing Anti-Psychotic Medications
- James O'Malley, Harvard Medical School
- At BB&N Upper School, Cambridge
- 6:15 light dinner, 7:00 lecture
- April 22, 2009 - Evening Lecture
- "Kill All the Quants"?: Models vs. Mania in the Current Financial Crisis
- Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School
- At Suffolk University Law School
- 7:00 light dinner, 7:30 lecture
- April 24-25, 2009 - Conference
- New England Statistics Symposium
- At University of Connecticut, Storrs
- Friday: short course, "Hierarchical Modeling for Spatially-Referenced Data with Applications to Environmental Sciences and Public Health," Sudipto Banerjee
- Saturday: Keynote presentations, parallel paper sessions, reception
- May 13, 2009 - Evening Lecture
- Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and Infections: New Venues for Statistical Applications
- Elena Naumova, Tufts University
- at Bentley University, Center for Marketing Technology, First Floor of the Morison Building. Directions.
- 6:15 light dinner, 7:00 lecture
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,
2004-2005,
2005-2006,
2006-2007, and
2007-2008.
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