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This is the home page of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Its purpose is to act as a clearinghouse of information of interest to statisticians in the Bay Area. In it you will find announcements of local meetings and seminars, Bay Area job listings, and information on local jobseekers and consultants.
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February 16 Meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the
American Statistical Association
Speaker: Abraham Silvers, Stanford
University
Abe is the
co-author of a recent book “Dirty Rotten Strategies: How We Trick Ourselves and
Others into Solving the Wrong Problems Precisely” Ian
Mitroff, Abraham Silvers (2009; Stanford Business
Books) ), former professor at UCSF
Title: How
various interest groups, medical, governments, academia, the media,
corporations, and individuals attempt to impose the wrong questions for
solution.
Time: Tuesday, 16 Feb., 5 - 7 PM light refreshments 5 - 5:30, presentation 5:30 - 6:30
Location: Palo
Alto VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center 701B N Shoreline Blvd.,
2nd floor Mountain View, CA 94043
SF ASA Student
Travel Awards for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada Details
Short Course: Monday May 3, 2010, “Extracting Reliable Information from Microarray Data: Strategies and Case Studies”, Dhammika Amaratunga Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development Abstract and Registration Information
Notes:
Recommender Problems for Web Application--the talk given by Deepak Agarwal on December 16, 2009.
Bayesian statistical reasoning: an inferential, predictive and decision-making paradigm for the 21st century-- the talk given by Professor David Draper on Nov. 19, 2009.
Announcements of Some Meetings of Other Statistical Organizations
1st
Annual PaSiPHIC (Pacific Coast Statisticians and Pharmacometricians Innovation Conference)
Narrowing the distribution
between stochastic scientists by bringing Statisticians and Pharmacometricians
together Event
Dates: Monday June 14 - Wednesday
June 16
The 2nd Advances in Bioinformatics and Genomics Symposium, February 18 – 20, 2010
New job listings posted as of 12/8/09. See Bay
Area Employment Opportunities
Chapter Officers, please refer to Bay Area ASA Chapter Information
Site last updated February 8, 2010
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