Welcome to the website of the 15th meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society (SBS-BVS) organised by the University of Antwerp. The meeting will take place in Antwerp on October 19 & 20, 2007. Additionally, a special day for young statisticians is organized on Thursday October 18, 2007. The meeting is jointly organised with three other statistical societies: B-ENBIS, RSS3cc, and the Quetelet Society.
Invited speakers
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Rosemary A. Bailey, Queen Mary University of London
Design of dose-escalation trials
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Shirley Coleman, University of Newcastle
Six Sigma: an opportunity for statistics and statisticians.
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Carlotta Sacerdote, Universita de Torino
Mendelian Randomization: the use of genetic factors to study causality in epidemiology.
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Leopold Simar, Université Catholique de Louvain
Stochastic versions of FDH/DEA envelopment estimators
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Stefaan Walgrave, Universiteit Antwerpen
Protest surveying. Testing the feasibility and reliability of an innovative methodological approach to political protest.
The Young Statisticians Day (YSD)
This extra conference day is meant to give our young statisticians the opportunity to meet and to enlarge their professional network in a more relaxed atmosphere.
Workshop on "The analysis of longitudinal data, subject to missingnesses"
given by Geert Molenberghs (UHasselt) and Geert Verbeke (KULeuven)
Sponsors
We are very grateful to the following sponsors, who agreed to support this event:
Springer, Pearson Education, SBS-BVS, Shell, Merck Research Laboratories, Fresenius Medical Care, Genzyme, Janssen Pharmaceutica, SPSS, Roche, SAS, FWO-Vlaanderen
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