Juneau, Alaska, July 8-9
The following was 'captured' from a 4/30/1999 email from the meeting organizer to the Chapter membership:
Just another reminder and a some details concerning the upcoming ASA chapter meeting in Juneau this July
When: Thursday and Friday, July 8-9
Where: Board Room, Department of Education, (801 W. 10th St)
Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Fee: $125 for sponsored (you are not paying out of your pocket), $25 for unsponsored, free for students. The fee goes mostly to defraying the cost of bringing our guest speaker to Juneau.
Program:
Thursday:
8:30 - noon: Guest speaker, Don Rubin
1:30 - 4:30: member presentations
5:30 - 8:30: potluck social at Auk Rec. beach
Friday:
8:30 -noon: Don Rubin
1:30-3:00 : member presentations
3:00-4:30 : business meeting
Saturday: hiking, whale-watching, . . . ??
Guest Speaker:
Our guest speaker will be Don Rubin, professor of Statistics at Harvard University. Dr. Rubin has published extensively on multiple imputation and the treatment of missing data, and is the inventor of multiple imputation. His areas of specialization also include causal inference in experiments and observational studies, inference in sample surveys with non-response, application of Bayesian and empirical Bayesian techniques, and developing and applying statistical models to data in a variety of scientific disciplines. At our meeting he will be speaking on the treatment of missing data, multiple imputation and detection limits.
Member Presentations:
Presentations are very informal and serve as a chance to inform members of the kinds of problems which we are working on. Talks may report on problems, methods, or results. If you have a particular problem that you need help on, a chapter presentation is an ideal way to have others give their ideas. This is intended to be a low-stress situation.
Please let me know if you are planning on attending the meeting and if you will be giving a presentation.
Hope to see you in July!
Jim Blick