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The CCASA wishes you a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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November Luncheon |
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Luncheon Announcement
Noon to 1:30PM
TUESDAY, November 17, 2009
The East Bank Club, 500 N. Kingsbury, Chicago 60610
Please join us for another exciting talk in the CCASA's 2009-2010 Luncheon program!
Our November speakers are Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey.
Steve Ziliak has held academic appointments at a number of universities, including Emory and the Georgia Institute of Technology where, in 2002, he was awarded Faculty Member of the Year. He is currently Professor of Economics at Roosevelt University.
Deirdre McCloskey is an economist and economic historian who around 1980 became interested in the rhetoric of persuasion in her field, and then wider literary matters, such as literary and social theory. Her main project for the next few years will be writing a four-volume tome on The Bourgeois Virtues. Volume 1 was published as a trade book by the University of Chicago Press in 2006, and widely and on the whole favorably reviewed. She is a free- market economist, and so the book is theologically speaking an "apology" for capitalism.
Their discussion is entitled The Cult of Statistical Significance:.
We want to persuade you of one claim: that William Sealy Gosset (1876-1937)-aka "Student" of "Student's" t-test-was right, and that his difficult friend, Ronald A. Fisher (1890-1962), though a genius, was wrong. Fit is not the same thing as importance. Statistical significance is not the same thing as scientific importance or economic sense. But the mistaken equation is made, we find, in 8 or 9 of 10 articles appearing in the leading journals of science, economics to medicine. The history of this "standard error" of science involves varied characters and plot twists, but especially R. A. Fisher's canonical translation of "Student's" t. W.S. Gosset, aka "Student," working as Head Experimental Brewer at Guinness, took an economic approach to the logic of uncertainty. Against Gosset's wishes his friend Fisher erased the consciously economic element, Gosset's "real error." We want to bring it back.
Plans for our future luncheons will be included in our upcoming announcements and in the Parameter. Lunch is $30 for CCASA members, $35 for non-members. Non-members, join the chapter for a year for only $15 and get the discount plus all of the other benefits of membership! As usual, the Lucile Derrick Fund will purchase a limited number of tickets for students who wish to attend. If you are a student and would like to take advantage of this offer, please register online below, and contact Gerald Funk, expressing your interest. Please register for the luncheon by Friday, November 13th, 2009.
Register online at https://www.123 signup.com/servlet/SignUpMember? PG=1531573182300&P=153157300.
Mark Your Calendars! The December luncheon will be held on December 8th, and the speaker will be Al Madansky. The always entertaining Dr. Madansky will present a talk on How to Read a Business Book. Plan to join your CCASA friends in December!
Questions: Contact Borko Jovanovic, CCASA VP Luncheons, Phone: 312-503-2008 or E-mail: borko@northwestern.edu
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Save the Date! This spring's ASA Workshop |
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Workshop on Knowledge
Discovery with Support Vector Machines:
Lutz Hamel, University of Rhode Island
Sponsored by the Chicago Chapter Of the American Statistical Organization.
Course summary
The ASA Chicago Chapter will hold its Spring Workshop on March 26, 2010. The topic is support vector machines. Since their introduction in 1995, support vector machines have become one of the preeminent machine learning paradigms. Support vector machines are now employed routinely in applications ranging from handwriting analysis to bioinformatics and mining of very large databases. Our presenter is Dr. Lutz Hamel of the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Hamel is the author of "Knowledge Discovery with Support Vector Machines," part of the Wiley Series on Methods and Applications in Data Mining.
Stay tuned for more information!
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2009 - 2010 CCASA Officers |
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Chicago Chapter American Statistical Association Executive Board 2009 - 2010
President Lou Fogg
Rush University (312)942-6239
President-Elect Michael R. Wise
Astellas (847) 436-3700
Past-President Gerald Funk
Loyola University Chicago
VP Communications Linda Burtch
Burtch Works
VP Conferences John VanderPloeg
ARC Worldwide
VP Luncheons Borko Jovanovic
Northwestern University
VP Membership Richard Smiley
NCSBN
VP Secretary Dan Hayes
Mintel Comperremnedia
VP Treasurer Jerry Enenstein
JEResearch
Assistant Treasurer Peter Manikowski
Quatrro Risk Management
VP Workshops Tony Babinec
AB Analytics
ASA Council of Chapters Rep. Tony Babinec
Historian Steve Maguire
Ex-Officio Director: Council of Chapters Governing Board, Vice-Chair, Region 2, District 4 (effective 2007)
Kathy Morrissey
Strategy 2 Market Inc
Directors at Large
George Bateman, University of Chicago
Linda Clark, LMC Consulting Co
Edward Hirschland, The Landhart Corporation
Mary Kwasny, Northwestern University
Arnold Zellner, University of Chicago
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Dues & Events Notice for CCASA Members |
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Dues Reminder and Calendar of Events
As our new year gets underway we are taking this opportunity to remind you that your local chapter dues are now due. For those who have paid your dues through National ASA, this is our chance to thank you and to welcome you back to our exciting series of programs for the 2009-10 year. The dues are $15 and checks should be made out to "Chicago ASA." You can bring the dues with you to your next luncheon meeting or mail to:
Chicago ASA Treasurer
P.O. Box 7259
Chicago, IL 60680
Please note that if you attend three chapter programs during the year you will have received discounts equal to the annual dues amount. We look forward to seeing you and networking with you this year!
Here is a brief calendar of events for the rest of the 2009-2010 year:
- November 17 - Steven Ziliak
(Statistical Significance) Author of "The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error costs us Jobs, Justice, and Lives"
(How to read a Business Book) - our always informative, always fun, always something extra, Holiday Meeting.
- January 26 - Lisa Amoroso
(Ethics in an Infoglut World) Massive amounts of data! Lower data collection costs! Sounds great - what's the problem?
- February 23 - Kwang-Youn Kim
(Variations in the Genome) The 2 most common sources of variety in human DNA showcase interesting statistical questions in their detection
- March 23 - Juned Siddique
(Missing Data) Handling this nemesis of Statisticians everywhere. A discussion of "popular but unprincipled methods" and modern approaches - illustrated with data from the WECare study. (longitudinal data on depression)
(Causality models) Is it the cause or an effect? Dr.Kang is using cardiovascular disease to develop a model to infer causality based on subsets in large data sets.
- May 2009 - Statistician of the Year Award Ceremony
(Statistical Significance) Author of "The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error costs us Jobs, Justice, and Lives" (How to read a Business Book) - our always informative, always fun, always something extra, Holiday Meeting. (Ethics in an Infoglut World) Massive amounts of data! Lower data collection costs! Sounds great - what's the problem? (Variations in the Genome) The 2 most common sources of variety in human DNA showcase interesting statistical questions in their detection (Missing Data) Handling this nemesis of Statisticians everywhere. A discussion of "popular but unprincipled methods" and modern approaches - illustrated with data from the WECare study. (longitudinal data on depression) (Causality models) Is it the cause or an effect? Dr.Kang is using cardiovascular disease to develop a model to infer causality based on subsets in large data sets.
(Statistical Significance) Author of "The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error costs us Jobs, Justice, and Lives" (How to read a Business Book) - our always informative, always fun, always something extra, Holiday Meeting. (Ethics in an Infoglut World) Massive amounts of data! Lower data collection costs! Sounds great - what's the problem? (Variations in the Genome) The 2 most common sources of variety in human DNA showcase interesting statistical questions in their detection (Missing Data) Handling this nemesis of Statisticians everywhere. A discussion of "popular but unprincipled methods" and modern approaches - illustrated with data from the WECare study. (longitudinal data on depression) (Causality models) Is it the cause or an effect? Dr.Kang is using cardiovascular disease to develop a model to infer causality based on subsets in large data sets.
And our latest blockbuster in early February - combines two popular events in one day:
- Our morning career fair from 10:00 to Noon with tables of companies planning to hire, and roundtables on specific topics
- Our afternoon conference on Social Media & Networking
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Editor |
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**PLEASE NOTE EDITOR'S NEW CONTACT INFORMATION**
Editor: Linda Burtch (847) 328-6902
PARAMETER, newsletter of the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association, is published 10 times a year as a service to its members. To submit material for publication, contact the Editor, Linda Burtch, email: lburtch@burtchworks.com
PARAMETER provides a job listing service by publishing Positions Available and Positions Wanted, the latter being free to Chapter members. Companies may list positions for $75. Contact the Editor for more information.
For additional information about Chicago Chapter ASA, please visit us on the web at: www.ChicagoASA.org.
Also, visit the National ASA web site www.amstat.org.
Email change of address to: smileyr@georgetown.edu
To view this Edition of the Parameter through your web browser, visit:
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