Friday
Saturday Note: Detailed schedules for contributed sessions will be available soon.
Wednesday, June 9th
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Data Mining
John Elder, Elder Research
Linear and Nonlinear Models for Repeated Measurements
Ed Vonesh, Baxter Healthcare Corporation and Adjunct Professor, Northern Illinois University
Graphical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis-From Bar Charts to Interactive Mosaic Plots
Antony Unwin and Heike Hofmann, University of Augsburg
7:45 - 10:00 p.m.
Light refreshments and cash bar
Thursday, June 10th
7:15 am -
Ken Berk
Department of Mathematics, Illinois State University
(8:15 - 8:25)
Ed Wegman
Chairman of the Board, IFNA & Center for Computational Statistics, George Mason University
(8:25 - 8:40)
Keynote Address
Chair: Mohsen Pourahmadi, Division of Statistics, Northern Illinois University
(8:40 - 9:45)The Mysteries of Prediction
Leo Breiman
University of California, Berkeley
Invited Sessions, Thursday, 10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Modern Computing Methods for Conditional
Inference
Testing and Validation of Statistical
Software
Organizer and Chair: James Gentle, George Mason University
Best of JCGS: Additive Models
Organizer: Andreas Buja, AT&T
Contributed Sessions, Thursday, 10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Time Series Analysis
Data Mining and Neural Networks
Chair: John Hsieh, University of Toronto
Invited Sessions, Thursday, 1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Classification and Regression Trees
Recent Developments in S: Designer and User
Views of a Statistical System
Organizers: John Chambers, AT&T Bell Labs, and
Bill Venables, University of Adelaide
ONR Research in Statistics:
Image Analysis
Organizer: Wendy Martinez (formerly Poston), Office of Naval
Research
Chair: Edward J. Wegman, George Mason University
Contributed Sessions, Thursday, 1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Quality Control and Online Data
Processing
Multivariate Analysis
Chair: Marc Scott, Columbia University
Invited Sessions, Thursday, 3:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Clustering and Classification
Interactive Graphics
Organizer and Chair: Steve Eick, AT&T Bell Labs
Computational Methods for Mixed-Effects
Models
Organizers: Douglas Bates, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Chair),
and Mary Lindstrom, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Contributed Session, Thursday, 3:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Generalized Linear Models
Banquet Room, Thursday, 6:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
6:45 p.m.
7:30
Doors Open
7:45
Dinner
8:45
Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research
Scientific Computing in the 21st Century
Friday, June 11th
Invited Sessions, Friday, 8:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Developments in MCMC: Theory and
Applications
Reusable Components and Statistical
Graphics
Organizer and Chair: Leland Wilkinson, SPSS Inc. & Northwestern
University
Data Mining on the Interface: The Best of
KDD-98
Organizers: Arnold Goodman, University of California, and
John Elder, Elder Research
Contributed Sessions, Friday, 8:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Classification and Clustering
Image Analysis and Optimization
Chair: Carey Priebe, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Sessions, Friday, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 a.m.
The Art of MCMC
Mining Genes and Compounds
Organizer: Chong Gu, Purdue University
Chair: Barbara Bailey, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
IASC Session: Interfaces at the
Interface
Organizer and Chair: Antony Unwin, University of Augsburg
Contributed Sessions, Friday, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Optimization
Linear and Nonlinear Models
Chair: William Wojciechowski, Rice University
Invited Sessions, Friday, 1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Computing Aspects of MCMC and Related
Methods
Nonparametric Analysis of Financial
Data
Organizer and Chair: Jianming Ye, City University of New York
Computing in Statistics Departments: Issues and
Challenges
Organizer: B. Narasimhan, Stanford University
Contributed Sessions, Friday, 1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Statistical Estimation
Visualization of High-Dimensional
Data
Chair: T. Dasu, AT&T Labs
Invited Sessions, Friday, 3:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Data Mining: Scaling to Large
Databases
Spatial Statistics
Organizer and Chair: Richard Davis, Colorado State University
Web-Based Instruction
Organizer: Webster West, University of South Carolina
Contributed Sessions, Friday, 3:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Nonparametric Smoothing
Sampling, Design and Bootstrap
Chair: Craig Rolling, Infoworks, Inc.
Saturday, June 12th
Invited Sessions, Saturday, 8:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Computational Biology
IMS Session: Computational Issues Involved in
Mixture Models
Organizer: Denkmar Böhning, Free University of Berlin
Contributed Session, Saturday, 8:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Data Mining and Simulation
Invited Sessions, Saturday, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 a.m.
Robust And Visualization Methods
Bootstrap
Organizer and Chair: Alan Polansky, Northern Illinois University
Contributed Session, Saturday, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Aspects of Statistical Modeling