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  • 1.  ASA Wisconsin Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting (April 11, 2025 in Milwaukee)

    Posted 02-28-2025 14:58

    The Wisconsin Chapter of the American Statistical Association and Division of Biostatistics at Medical College of Wisconsin invite you to the chapter's 2025 Annual Meeting, which will be held on Friday April 11 at the Medical College of Wisconsin. This year's annual meeting will be held in a hybrid format and will feature talks by Sanjib Basu and Wes Johnson and a keynote address by Jim Berger. 

    Program: 

    • 1:00pm - 1:05pm: Introductory remarks
    • 1:05pm - 2:05pm: "Hypothesis testing, model selection, and some Bayesian perspectives" by Sanjib Basu
    • 2:05pm - 3:05pm: "Bayesian alternatives to p-values;  not perfect, but not a disaster" by Wes Johnson
    • 3:05pm - 3:30pm: Social Break
    • 3:30pm - 4:30pm: "Counterexamples relevant to understanding p-values" by Jim Berger (keynote)
    • 4:30pm - 5:00: Q&A with panel of speakers

    Location: This event will be held on the MCW campus in the Medical Education Building, Room M1060: The Alumni Center. The address is 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Wauwatosa WI 53226. The closest parking lot is X-70 (Google Maps link here). The talks will also be broadcast over Zoom.

    Registration instructions
    The registration fees are $20 to participate in-person and $10 to participate over Zoom (a link will be shared a few days before the meeting). To register, please fill out the form: https://forms.gle/EJYyK5YHkUj2hM8s5

    Please use Zelle to send payments to asawisconsinchapter@gmail.com (see here for instructions; Zelle is available to customers of most major banks including BMO, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and many more). 

    Questions: If you have any questions about the meeting or about the registration fees, please email the Chapter Secretary (Sameer Deshpande; sameer.deshpande@wisc.edu)



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    Sameer Deshpande
    Assistant Professor
    University of Wisconsin–Madison
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  • 2.  RE: ASA Wisconsin Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting (April 11, 2025 in Milwaukee)

    Posted 03-26-2025 16:47

    A friendly reminder that our annual meeting is taking place on Friday 11 April at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

    If you have not yet registered, please do so here: https://forms.gle/EJYyK5YHkUj2hM8s5

    If you have registered but not paid the registration fees ($20 in-person / $10 virtual), please send payments to asawisconsinchapter@gmail.com using Zelle. If you have any issues with registration or payment, please email me (sameer.deshpande@wisc.edu)



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    Sameer Deshpande
    Assistant Professor
    University of Wisconsin- Madison
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  • 3.  RE: ASA Wisconsin Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting (April 11, 2025 in Milwaukee)

    Posted 03-31-2025 22:39
    Dear Sameer,

    My bank's Zelle will not let me pay at the email address given!  I will bring  $20 in cash when I get to the meeting.  The Medical
    College has a BMO ATM, so you can deposit it there right away.
    Again, thank you for volunteering. 

    Elizabeth Smith, Ph.D.

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