Digital Government:

Project Update - March 2007

IMA Annual Program Year Workshop Applications in Biology, Dynamics, and Statistics

• March 5: Yi Zhou (Carnegie Mellon University): "Maximum likelihood estimation in latent class"
  
  
• March 6: Aleksandra B. Slavkovic (Pennsylvania State University): "Application of algebraic statistics for statistical disclosure limitation"
  
  
• March 9: Stephen E. Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon University): "Algebraic statistics and the analysis of contingency tables: Old wine in new bottles?"
  
  

Population Association of America conference

• Jerome P. Reiter, invited talk: "Alternative methods of data dissemination"
  

• Stephen E. Fienberg has been appointed to a new National Research Council Standing Committee on Social Science Research and Evidentiary Standards for a 3-year term ending December 2008
  
  
• For the upcoming ICES-III conference, a poster by Jennifer Huckett and Michael D. Larsen was upgraded to a presentation. The title is "Microdata Simulation for Confidentiality of Tax Returns Using Quantile Regression and Hot Deck".