Stat Consortium

Tentative Program for the Stat Day on April 20, 2004, at the University of Maryland, College Park

 

Organizing Committee:

 

Frank B. Alt, D&IT Department (Business School)

Gregory R. Hancock, Department of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation

Partha Lahiri, Joint Program in Survey Methodology, Chair

Paul J. Smith, Mathematics Department

Roger Tourangeau, Joint Program in Survey Methodology

Richard Valliant, Joint Program in Survey Methodology

 

Statistics Day Coordinator:  Rupa Jethwa, Joint Program in Survey Methodology

Webmaster: Adam Kelley, Joint Program in Survey Methodology

NCHS Representative: Doug Williams

 

Co-sponsored by:

Office of Research and Methodology, National Center for Health Statistics

Joint Program in Survey Methodology

 

TUTORIAL ON BOOTSTRAP METHODS WITH APPLICATIONS IN COMPLEX SURVEYS

*REGISTRATION CLOSED

By Randy Sitter, Professor of Statistics, Simon Fraser University, Canada

 

10:00 AM-12:00 PM: Lecture 1
12:00 PM-1:00 PM: Lunch Break

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Lecture 2
Location: 2505 Van Munching Hall

 

Pre-registration is required for the tutorial.  Details on the registration will be posted on this web site soon.  Please call Rupa Jethwa at (301) 314-7911 or email rjethwa@survey.umd.edu if you have any questions.

Please complete registration form - (.PDF - .DOC) and email to rjethwa@survey.umd.edu or fax to 301-314-7912 Attn: Rupa Jethwa

 

THE FOLLOWING EVENTS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – NO REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED 

3:30 PM-4:30 PM: Room: 1524 Van Munching Hall

THE BOOTSTRAP, AND BAYES TOO

Speaker:  Bradley Efron, Max H. Stein Professor of Statistics, Stanford University and ASA President

Discussant: Carl Morris, Professor of Statistics, Harvard University

  

Break

4:40 PM-5:50 PM: Room: 1524 Van Munching Hall

 

HAS STATISTICS A FUTURE? IF SO, IN WHAT FORM?

Speaker: C.R.Rao, Penn State University, Emeritus Eberly Professor of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University

Discussants: Bradley Efron

                   Fritz Scheuren, VP Statistics, NORC, University of Chicago and ASA President-Elect

Reception: 5:50 PM-7:00 PM, Van Munching, 3rd Floor

 

Directions to Van Munching Hall, University of Maryland