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Hello Member,
Escape the March doldrums and keep your mind fresh with this month's copy of the Parameter!
Happy St. Patrick's Day, Chicagoans!
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Chicago Chapter ASA Lunch Meeting |
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Join us for our next luncheon presentation on
March 29th, 2011!
March 29, 2011
Veena B. Mendiratta, Ph.D.
Next-Generation Solutions
Services and Systems Reliability Practice Leader
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
What Can We Learn From Software Failure Data?
Noon - 1:30 PM
The East Bank Club
500 N. Kingsbury, Chicago 60610
This joint Chicago Chapter ASA / INFORMS Chicago Chapter luncheon presentation features Veena B. Mendiratta, Ph.D., who leads the Next-Generation Solutions, Services and Systems Reliability work in the Bell Labs CTO organization at Alcatel-Lucent, Naperville, IL.
This presentation describes a new methodology that combines the use of control charts, trend analysis, and software reliability models.
Details:
- INFORMS/CCASA Members: $20
- Non-members: $25
$20 registration available to non-members who join INFORMS Chicago Chapter at the same time.
INFORMS Chicago Chapter will pay the event registration for a limited number of full-time Operations Research or Management Science students. Interested students should contact Dr. James S. Weber at jsweber@uic.edu (copy to JamesSWeber@gmail.com). Include the full-time program in which you are currently enrolled and an email address for your academic adviser or academic department secretary.
As usual, the Lucile Derrick Fund will provide a limited number of tickets to student members of CCASA. If you are a student and would like to take advantage of this offer, please register online, and contact Gerald Funk to express your interest: 773.508.3561.
Register online at http://www.123signup.com/calendar?Org=chicagoasa
Register online at
This joint Chicago Chapter ASA / INFORMS Chicago Chapter luncheon presentation features Veena B. Mendiratta, Ph.D., who leads the Next-Generation Solutions, Services and Systems Reliability work in the Bell Labs CTO organization at Alcatel-Lucent, Naperville, IL. This presentation describes a new methodology that combines the use of control charts, trend analysis, and software reliability models.Register online at
This joint Chicago Chapter ASA / INFORMS Chicago Chapter luncheon presentation features Veena B. Mendiratta, Ph.D., who leads the Next-Generation Solutions, Services and Systems Reliability work in the Bell Labs CTO organization at Alcatel-Lucent, Naperville, IL. This presentation describes a new methodology that combines the use of control charts, trend analysis, and software reliability models.Register online at
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Guidance in a New Professional World |
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"A website for young statistics professionals navigating a data-centric world."
The current job market is difficult to navigate, even for seasoned professionals. Due to economic demands, young professional statisticians are facing challenges beyond what was previously considered typical in entry level positions.
This month the ASA launched a new website called STATtr@k, aimed at helping young professionals transition into the statistics profession. The site includes tips, information on the industry, and how-to guides for starting a new career.
Click here to read more about the website and its uses, or here to go to the site itself.
The current job market is difficult to navigate, even for seasoned professionals. Due to economic demands, young professional statisticians are facing challenges beyond what was previously considered typical in entry level positions.This month the ASA launched a new website called STATtr@k, aimed at helping young professionals transition into the statistics profession. The site includes tips, information on the industry, and how-to guides for starting a new career.Click to read more about the website and its uses, or to go to the site itself.
The current job market is difficult to navigate, even for seasoned professionals. Due to economic demands, young professional statisticians are facing challenges beyond what was previously considered typical in entry level positions.This month the ASA launched a new website called STATtr@k, aimed at helping young professionals transition into the statistics profession. The site includes tips, information on the industry, and how-to guides for starting a new career.Click to read more about the website and its uses, or to go to the site itself.
The current job market is difficult to navigate, even for seasoned professionals. Due to economic demands, young professional statisticians are facing challenges beyond what was previously considered typical in entry level positions.This month the ASA launched a new website called STATtr@k, aimed at helping young professionals transition into the statistics profession. The site includes tips, information on the industry, and how-to guides for starting a new career.Click to read more about the website and its uses, or to go to the site itself.
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Save the Date for the Spring Workshop! |
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"Regression Modeling with Many Correlated Predictors"
Jay Magidson, Statistical Innovations
Tony Babinec, AB Analytics
Friday, April 8, 2011
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Rush University Medical Center
1653 W. Congress Parkway
Chicago, IL 60612
Sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association
Jay Magidson, Statistical InnovationsTony Babinec, AB AnalyticsFriday, April 8, 20118:30 AM - 4:30 PMRush University Medical Center1653 W. Congress ParkwayChicago, IL 60612Sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association
Jay Magidson, Statistical InnovationsTony Babinec, AB AnalyticsFriday, April 8, 20118:30 AM - 4:30 PMRush University Medical Center1653 W. Congress ParkwayChicago, IL 60612Sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association
Jay Magidson, Statistical InnovationsTony Babinec, AB AnalyticsFriday, April 8, 20118:30 AM - 4:30 PMRush University Medical Center1653 W. Congress ParkwayChicago, IL 60612Sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association
Registration Fees:
Member $200
Student $50
The Chicago Chapter accepts payment by Visa or Mastercard. Register at: http://www.chicagoasa.org
Register online at http://www.123signup.com/calendar?Org=chicagoasa
Register online at
Our Speakers...
Jay Magidson is founder and president of Statistical Innovations Inc., a Boston based consulting, training, and software development firm specializing in innovative applications of statistical modeling. His clients have included A.C. Nielsen Co., The Kellogg Company, and Pfizer. He taught statistics at Tufts and Boston University and is widely published on the theory and applications of multivariate statistical methods. Dr. Magidson designed SPSS CHAID, GOLDMineR and CORExpress, and is co-developer with Jeroen Vermunt (Tilburg University) of the Latent GOLD and Latent GOLD Choice programs.
Tony Babinec teaches statistics and data mining classes for IBM clients. He also presents classes for Statistics.com. He has given talks and workshops at the Joint Statistical Meetings, the Sawtooth Software Conference, the AMA's Advanced Research Techniques Forum, and Statistical Modeling Week. Tony is a past President of the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association and currently is their Workshops VP.
Tony Babinec
tbabinec@sbcglobal.net
What you could learn:
- How to develop reliable models, even in the presence of extreme multicolinearity and when # predictors >> number of sample observations
- Why many popular variable selection techniques are suboptimal
- About a new powerful step-down variable reduction technique in CORExpressTM
- About free and commercially available software for handing high dimensional data
In addition...
We will be discussing software in general, and how stepwise regression does not work at all well, either in general, or in the presence of multicolinearity, or when the number of variables exceeds the number of cases.
More specifically, Statistical Innovations is developing software currently named CORExpress. This software implements a version of Naïve Bayes regression, as well as a new approach called correlated components regression, along with various other approaches. We will present the results of simulation studies that include approaches implemented as R contributed packages, including especially GLMNET- which implements the penalized approaches such as LASSO and Elastic Net. These latter are associated with Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman and their protégés.
Workshop attendees will receive a complimentary demo version of CORExpress.
http://www.chicagoasa.org/
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A Swing and ... |
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Hit it out of the park at the Sports Statistics Conference!
This year's Spring CCASA Conference:
Friday, May 6, 2011
Leo Burnett offices
35 W. Wacker Dr.
Chicago, IL 60601
(Corner of Wacker and Dearborn)
Please sign in at the reception desk.
Costs:
- CCASA Members: $145
- Non-members: $195
- Students: $95
To register for the conference, please go to http://www.123signup.com/calendar?Org=chicagoasa
Costs: To register for the conference, please go to
Costs: To register for the conference, please go to
Presenters include:
- Jay Jaffe (Baseball Prospectus and Futility Infielder)
- Ben Alamar (Editor for the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports and Oklahoma City Thunder NBA franchise)
- Allen Sanderson (Department of Economics, University of Chicago)
- Aaron Schatz (Football Outsiders and ESPN columnist)
The Conference VP for this event is John Vanderploeg.
For more details, please see our website.
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Big Money! Big Money! Big Money! |
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The lottery-- the ultimate game of luck. Some people rely on special pennies. Some people stroke fuzzy rabbit's feet. Still others search for four leaf clovers in pursuit of luck. But what if luck has nothing to do with it? What if the lottery is a game of skill?
Using skills acquired from his years as a geostatistical consultant, Mohan Srivastava cracked the code of scratch-off lottery cards. Between the walk from the from home to the store, Srivastava discovered a flaw in the Ontario Lottery's tic-tac-toe ticket that would allow him to plunder the system... if he chose to exploit it.
To read more about this story, click here.
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And in Glenview... |
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The Northeastern Illinois Chapter will be welcoming a very interesting guest for their upcoming workshop in Glenview:
Principles of Statistical Design
George Casella
Distinguished Professor and Member of the Genetics Institute at the University of Florida and author of the texts Statistical Design and Statistical Inference.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
9:00 A.S. - 5:00 P.M.
(sign-in begins at 8:30 A.M.)
At the Wyndham Hotel in Glenview, Illinois
We are pleased to present Dr. George Casella as part of the American Statistical Association's Council of Chapters Traveling Course program. Dr. Casella will give a full-day short course that will cover the principles and practice of statistical design. The course will pay attention to the setup and implementation of an experiment, and the underlying theory that allows valid inferences.
Cost:
- Students: $40
- Non-students: $160
Included are course materials, a continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshments in the morning and afternoon.
The deadline to register is April 20th.
For more information and to register, please visit their website: http://www.amstat.org/chapters/northeasternillinois
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About the Parameter |
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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
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