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HIGHLIGHTS
2003
Joint Statistical Meetings
2003 ENAR International Biometric Meetings
For
information on the 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings,
August 3 - 7, go
to URL: http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2003/.
Invited Sessions organized
and sponsored by the Risk Section on Thursday, August 7 (8:30-10:20am):
Risk
Analysis in Complex Systems
Organizer:
David L. Banks, Duke
University
Assessing Risks
for Complex Systems: A Case Study in Missiles - Alyson G Wilson,
Los Alamos National Laboratory; Laura McNamara, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Knowledge Modeling,
Data Integration, and Statistical Analysis for a Smallpox Simulation
Study - Dr Sarah E. Michalak, Los Alamos National Labs
Issues in Semiparametric
Regression: A Case Study of Time Series Models of Air Pollution
and Mortality - Francesca Dominici, John Hopkins University; Aidan McDermott,
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Trevor J. Hastie,
Stanford University Dept of Stats & Biostats
Discussion: Nozer
D. Singpurwalla, George Washington University
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Topic Contributed
Sessions organized and sponsored by the Risk Section on Monday,
August 4 (10:30am-12:20pm):
Risk
Analysis in Medicine
Organizer:
David L. Banks, Duke University
Molecular and genetic
modeling of disease risk - Edwin S Iversen, Jr, Duke Univ
Risk Analysis of
the Public Health Impacts of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
- Steven A. Anderson, FDA -Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Finding Simple
Classification Rules for Disease Risk - Mr. Ingo Ruczinski, Johns
Hopkins University
NISS Proteomics
Workshop - Scott C. Schmidler, Section on Medical Informatics
Discussion: Darius
Singpurwalla
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Contributed Sessions
organized and sponsored by the Risk Section on Wednesday, August
6 (8:30-10:20am):
Environmental
Risk Methods
Robust
Estimation of Moments of Environmental Data With One-Sided Detection
Limit -
Ping-Hung Hsieh, Oregon State University; Tsung-Chi Cheng, Department
of Statistics, National Chengchi University
Addressing Model
Uncertainty in Microbial Risk Assessment - Ravi Varadhan, Johns
Hopkins University
Extreme Value Theory
and Incomplete U-statistics Toward Quantitative Evaluation of Food
Risk Exposure Related to Some Contaminants - Jessica Tressou, INR
Corela; Patrice Bertail, CREST Paris X Nanterre
A Modified Estimator
for the Cumulative Covariate Effect in Aalen's Additive Risk Model
- Michael Brent McHenry, University of Pittsburgh; Stewart J. Anderson,
University of Pittsburgh; Chung-Chou H. Chang, University of Pittsburgh; Howard
E. Rockette, University of Pittsburg; Lisa A. Weissfeld, University of Pittsburgh;
Mark Roberts, University of Pittsburgh
Risk Reduction
Through Reliability Improvement - Wai F. Chiu, Harvard University;
Arthur P. Dempster, Harvard University
Sensitivity of
Copulas to Elicited Correlations - Christopher J Lacke, Rowan University
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Contributed Sessions
organized and sponsored by the Risk Section on Wednesday, August
6 (2:00-3:50pm):
Issues
in Financial Risk
Structural Models for Credit Migration - Ngai-Hang Chan, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong; Michael Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Estimating the
Term Structure of Credit Spreads: Callable Corporate Debt - Antje
Berndt, Stanford University
Simulating Conditional
Ratings Transition Matrices for Credit Risk Analysis - Mark S
Coleman
Global Validation
of Linear Model Assumptions - Edsel A. Pena, University of South
Carolina; Elizabeth H. Slate, Medical University of South Carolina
A Partial Proportional
Odds Model on Income Mobility - Ying Lu, Princeton University;
Fengyu Zhang, Duke University Medical Center
Dynamic Backtesting
Methodology to detect flaws in Market Risk models - Jesus Ruiz-Mata;
Victor De La Penia, Columbia University
For
information on the 2003 ENAR International Biometric
Meetings, March 30 - April 2,
go to URL: http://www.enar.org/meetings.htm.
Invited Sessions
organized and sponsored by the Risk Section:
Analysis
of Adverse Event Reports
Organizer:
David Banks, CBER/FDA
Postmarketing Drug
Adverse Event Surveillance and the Innocent Bystander Effect
William DuMouchel, AT&T Shannon Laboratory
Spontaneous Fire
Reports
Michael Greene and Mark Levenson, Consumer Products Safety Commission
Estimating the
Number of Disappeared
Jana L. Asher, AAAS Science and Human Rights Program and Carnegie
Mellon University; Patrick Ball, AAAS Science and Human Rights Program
Statistics
and Counter-Bioterrorism
Organizer:
David Banks, CBER/FDA
Statistical Models
for Anthrax Outbreaks
Ron Brookmeyer and Natalie Blades, Johns Hopkins University
Biosurveillance
for Early Detection of Terrorism
Ken Kleinman, Harvard Medical School
Risk Analysis and
Game Theory
David Banks, CBER/FDA
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