Annual Meeting History

Last updated on 1/28/2015 4:47:43 PM

The following is a 'draft' history of the past annual meetings of the Alaska Chapter of the American Statistical Association since its founding. The list does not (currently) include some earlier pre-founding organizational meetings. Check out the Annual Meeting Index for links to pages for select meetings in the past.

Annual Meeting Date(s) 
General Location		 Venue Location/
Held in Association (for some years)
Short Course and/or Speaker Topic
Speaker(s)
Affiliations(s) 
August 18-20, 2014 Fairbanks Chena Hot Springs Resort Applied (generalized) Linear Mixed Models Ben Bolker
Professor of Math and Statistics at McMaster University
June 10-14, 2013 Anchorage Hilton Hotel, Anchorage. Held jointly with the 23rd Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society
August 15-17, 2012 Anchorage Rasmuson Hall, University of Alaska Anchorage Probability Sampling for Spatial Domains Don L. Stevens, Jr.
Senior Research Professor (retired), Oregon State University & Principal Statistician, Stevens Environmental Statistics, LLC
August 29-31, 2011 Juneau Centennial Hall
Convention Center		 Spatial Statistics


Recent Direction in SAS/STAT Software
 Margaret Short
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Robert Rodriquez
President-Elect ASA
October 20-22, 2010 Kodiak Kodiak Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Analysis of Time Series Richard Davis
Columbia University
June 24-26, 2009 Anchorage USFWS-USGS Building (1011 E. Tudor Road) Bayesian Modeling, Inference and Prediction David Draper
University of California-Santa Cruz
July 16-18, 2008 Fairbanks Chena Hot Springs Resort Functional Data Analysis Jim Ramsay
McGill University
July 24-26, 2007 Anchorage Egan Convention Center Monte Carlo Statistical Methods George Casella
University of Florida
July 18-20, 2006 Juneau Centennial Hall
Convention Center		 Computational Statistics: Methods for Monte Carlo Integration and Optimization Jennifer Hoeting and Geoff Givens
Colorado State University
June 21-24, 2005 Fairbanks University of Alaska, Fairbanks/Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society Active Set Adaptive Sampling Steve Thompson
Pennsylvania State University and
Simon Fraser University
July 13-15, 2004 Kodiak Kodiak College An Introduction to GIS and Spatial Statistics for Environmental Health Applications Carol Gotway-Crawford
National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
May 28-30, 2003 Matanuska-Susitna Borough Motherlode Lodge, Hatcher Pass Multivariate Data Visualization Di Cook
 assisted by Heike Hoffmann
Iowa State University
July 10-12, 2002 Fairbanks Chena Hot Springs Resort Applied Logistic Regression David Hosmer
University of Massachusetts
June 28-29, 2001 Anchorage Rabbit Creek Rifle Range Conference Room Mixed Effects Models José Pinheiro
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
August 21-22, 2000 Kodiak Fishery Industrial Technology Center Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods Bryan Manly
University of Otago, New Zealand
July 8-9, 1999 Juneau Board Room, Department of Education, (801 W. 10th St) Missing Data and Multiple Imputation Donald B. Rubin
Harvard University
August 19-21, 1998 Anchorage USFWS-USGS Building (1011 E. Tudor Road) Analysis of Messy Data Dallas Johnson
Kansas State University
July 31-August 1, 1997 Fairbanks Chena Hot Springs Resort Variance-Covariance Structures for Longitudinal and Spatial Data

Analysis of Spatial Point Patterns		 Dale Zimmerman
University of Iowa
June 23-26, 1996 Anchorage University of Alaska, Anchorage Methods for Exploring Likelihood Functions and Posterior Distributions Martin Tanner
Northwestern University
June 19-20, 1995 Juneau University of Alaska, at the Juneau campus by Auke Lake Multilevel Models in Statistics Theory and Applications Carl Morris
Harvard University Statistical Department
September 10-11, 1994 Anchorage Egan Convention Center Adaptive Sampling Steve Thompson
Pennsylvania State University
September 7-9, 1993 Fairbanks University of Alaska, Fairbanks Statistics for Spatial Data Noel Cressie
Iowa State University
October 29-30, 1992 Anchorage Egan Convention Center Generalized Additive Models and Related Topics Robert Tibshirani
University of Toronto
September 16-17, 1991 Juneau Chapel by the Lake (Auke Bay), University of Alaska Robust Methods Robert Hogg
University of Iowa and National ASA
October 8-9, 1990 Anchorage Sheraton Hotel/Arctic Science Conference
 Transformation and Weighting in Regression Ray Carroll
Texas A&M University
September 17-19, 1989 Fairbanks University of Alaska, Fairbanks Latent Class Models & Contingency Tables


Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data & Loglinear Models		 Cliff Clogg
 Pennsylvania State University and National ASA

Alan Agresti
University of Florida
September 12-13, 1988 Anchorage Egan Convention Center Applied Multivariate Statistical Techniques Richard Johnson
University of Wisconsin-Madison
September 28-October 1, 1987 Juneau University of Alaska, Juneau Bootstrapping (tape by Efron and Tibshirani) Stephen Buckland
University of Aberdeen and Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
November 4-5, 1986 Anchorage Captain Cook Hotel/Alaska Chapter of the American Fisheries Society and the Alaska Water Resources Group Graphical Methods for Data Analysis Paul Tukey
Bell Laboratories
September 25-28, 1985 Fairbanks  Arctic Science Conference
    
October 5, 1984 Anchorage Sheraton Hotel/Arctic Science Conference
    
November 14-15, 1983 Soldotna International Hotel    
September 17, 1982 Fairbanks Arctic Science Conference