National Institute of Statistical Sciences
NISS at the
1997 Joint Statistical Meetings
NISS had an active presence at the 1997 JSM in Anaheim. Some highlights follow.
Throughout the meetings, a NISS information display was located in the registration area.
The display outlined the structure and activities of NISS, presented photographs of the NISS building, and provided pointers to additional information.
On Sunday, August 10, as part of the new JSM invited poster session, Alan F. Karr, Associate Director, and Jerome Sacks, Director, presented a poster highlighting on current NISS research, including Drug Design, Drinking Water Quality, Software Maintenance and Freeway Breakdown.
On Tuesday, August 12, an invited session, organized and chaired by Jerome Sacks, Director of NISS, featured three presentations highlighting recent NISS research. Douglas W. Nychka (NISS and North Carolina State University, currently on leave to NCAR), spoke on "Ozone: Modeling and Monitoring an Atmospheric Pollutant," Paul Speckman (NISS and University of Missouri) discussed "NISS Research on Travel Demand Forecasting," and Alan F. Karr (NISS) presented a talk on "NISS Research on Software Engineering."
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Jerome Sacks
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Paul Speckman
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Douglas Nychka
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On Tuesday, August 12, Minge Xie (ex-NISS postdoc, now at Rutgers University), in the session Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches to the Analysis of Ordinal Data, presented a talk on "Regression Modeling of Ordinal Data with Nonzero Baselines," dealing with toxicological research conducted under an EPA-NISS cooperative agreement.
On Wednesday, August 13, Richard L. Smith (NISS and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), in the session Environmental Epidemiology, spoke on "Assessing the Health Risk of Environmental Particulates." (A NISS comment on the topic is available.)
The Statistical Software Engineering session on Thursday, August 14, featured strong participation by several members of the NISS software project, including Adam Porter (University of Maryland) speaking on "Experiments in Software Inspection," Todd Graves (NISS postdoc) speaking on "Statistical Models of Code Decay", and J. Stephen Marron (NISS and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), who served as discussant.
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Adam Porter
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Todd Graves
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J Stephen Marron
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