Information Bulletin - World Statistics Congress
Information Bulletin - World Statistics Congress
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<strong>World</strong> <strong>Statistics</strong> <strong>Congress</strong><br />
Hong Kong 2013<br />
Scientific Programme<br />
The Scientific Programme of the 59 th WSC is developed with the aim of reaching out to researchers and practitioners<br />
in the statistical community and to share and exchange the latest insights in their work. Key components of the<br />
Programme include Invited Paper Sessions, Special Topic Sessions and Contributed Paper / Poster Sessions.<br />
Invited Paper Session (IPS)<br />
The IPSs are developed by the SPC of the ISI and its Associations. IPSs usually consist of 3-4 papers and a discussant<br />
invited by the organiser of the Session, but different formats are possible in consultation with the Chair of the SPC.<br />
As of September 2012, the following IPSs have been confirmed:<br />
IPS Title Organiser<br />
IPS001 Probabilistic and statistical<br />
contributions in climate research<br />
IPS002 Improving health statistics in the<br />
context of measuring quality of life<br />
IPS003 Statistical challenges for the<br />
analysis of social networks<br />
IPS004 New developments in multilevel<br />
model inference from complex<br />
sample survey data<br />
IPS005 Issues related to major redesigns in<br />
national statistical offices<br />
IPS006 Statistical methods in the study of<br />
palaeoclimate<br />
IPS007 Improving agricultural statistics<br />
through methodological validation<br />
and research<br />
IPS008 History I: Jacob Bernoulli’s “Ars<br />
Conjectandi” as the emergence of<br />
probability<br />
Philippe Naveau<br />
Marleen De Smedt<br />
Gilbert Saporta<br />
J.N.K. Rao<br />
Xiuhua Tian<br />
John Haslett<br />
Calogero Carletto<br />
Adam Jakubowski<br />
IPS Title Organiser<br />
IPS009 IAOS forum – a panel discussion<br />
on new challenges facing official<br />
statistics<br />
IPS010 <strong>Statistics</strong> of extremes and<br />
re-sampling methodologies<br />
Stephen John Penneck<br />
Ivette Gomes<br />
IPS011 Chronological text mining Anne Marie Morin<br />
IPS012 Statistical methods for<br />
identification of biosignatures of<br />
treatment response<br />
IPS013 Applications on modeling time<br />
correlated count processes<br />
IPS014 Measurement issues in<br />
international statistics for<br />
developing countries<br />
IPS015 <strong>Statistics</strong> for protein structure<br />
prediction and protein interaction<br />
IPS016 Statistical and stochastic analysis<br />
of jumps in insurance<br />
Ying Wei<br />
Nalini Ravishanker<br />
Diana Maria Stukel<br />
Michael G. Schimek<br />
Yasutaka Shimizu<br />
59 th WSC <strong>Information</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong> 18
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