The Annual Meeting of the Alaska Chapter, American Statistical Association
was held in Anchorage this year, 19-21 August. All sessions were in the Gordon
Watson Conference Room, USFWS/USGS Building, 1011 E. Tudor Road. Our featured
speaker was Dr. Dallas E. Johnson, Head of the Department of Statistics at
Kansas State University, who presented a 3-day course centered around topics
that appear in his well known books with G. Milliken on analysis of messy data.
There were also talks on completed and ongoing work by our members, and a
fishing trip. For additional information please contact Mark Udevitz (mark_udevitz@usgs.gov, 907-786-3365).
Wednesday, 19 August
9:00-12:00 Topics from analysis of messy data (Part 1),
Dallas E. Johnson
One-way treatment structures in completely randomized designs: means
model versus effects model, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals,
computer analyses with SAS-GLM, ESTIMATE and CONTRAST options.
One-way treatment structures with heterogeneous errors: means model,
tests for homogeneity of variances, Satterthwaite approximations to
degrees of freedom, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals,
analyses using SAS-GLM and SAS- MIXED.
12:00- 1:30 Lunch
1:30- 4:30 Member talks
Spatial hierarchical models, Jay Ver Hoef
Fitting multinomial mixture models with BUGS, Jim Blick
Empirical Bayes for brown bear stream surveys, Mark Udevitz and Vic
Barnes
Thursday, 20 August
9:00-12:00 Topics from analysis of messy data (Part 2),
Dallas E. Johnson
Random effects models, methods of estimating variance components,
REML estimators, computer analyses using SAS-GLM and SAS-MIXED.
Split-plot experiments, analyses of split-plot experiments using SAS-GLM.
Analyses of messy split-plot experiments using SAS-GLM and SAS-MIXED.
12:00- 1:30 Lunch
1:30- 2:30 Business meeting
Election of new officers (Vice President/President Elect,
Representative to Council of Chapters, Executive Committee Member),
Treasurer's report, Status of plans for 1999 annual meeting, Council of
Chapters report, Selection of potential invited speakers for future
meetings, Selection of topics for video courses, Other business.
5:00 Banquet
Pot-luck salmon bake at Earl Becker's home.
Friday, 21 August
9:00-12:00 Topics from analysis of messy data (Part 3),
Dallas E. Johnson
Repeated Measures and their relationship to split-plot experiments:
Huynh-Feldt conditions on the repeated measures. An introduction to the
theory of mixed models. Analyses of repeated measures experiments using
SAS-GLM with its REPEATED option and analyses using the SAS-MIXED
procedure.
Saturday, 22 August Fishing trip