Travel Support for the 3rd International Joint IMS-ISBA Conference

第三届 IMS-ISBA 国际联合会议的差旅支持

• 批准号: 0733734
• 负责人: Bradley Carlin
• 金额: $ 1.1万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0733734&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; Support; 3rd; International; Joint

Statisticians play an indispensable role in the analysis of biomedical, environmental and public health data, from the study design stage all the way through to final analysis and report-writing. Scholarly conferenceswhere new ideas can be exchanged are important for statistical science to move forward. International meetings, while of course rarer due to their size and expense, are particularly beneficial since they permit exposure to ideas and colleagues the attendee might not ordinary see or even read about in the familiarjournals of one's own country. The benefit of and need for attendance at such meetings by junior statistical researchers is particularly great, since they contribute mightily to their professional development and helplevel the playing field with more established senior investigators. This grant will provide support for the Third International Joint Meeting of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and ISBA (the International Society for Bayesian Analysis), to be held in Bormio, Italy on Wednesday, January 9 to Friday, January 11, 2008. A central theme of the conference will be Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) andrelated methods and applications ranging from finance to technology, with specific focus on challenging problems in biostatistics. All grant funds will be used to support the travel expenses of junior biostatisticalinvestigators, i.e., persons pursuing a PhD or DrPH in statistics, biostatistics, or a closely related field, or who have received such a degree within the five years preceding the conference.

从研究设计阶段一直到最终分析和报告撰写，统计学家在生物医学、环境和公共卫生数据分析中发挥着不可或缺的作用。可以交流新思想的学术会议对于统计科学的发展非常重要。 国际会议虽然由于其规模和费用而较少见，但特别有益，因为它们可以让与会者接触到通常在自己国家熟悉的期刊上看不到甚至读不到的想法和同事。 初级统计研究人员参加此类会议的好处和必要性特别大，因为他们对自己的专业发展做出了巨大贡献，并有助于与更成熟的高级研究人员建立公平的竞争环境。 这笔赠款将为 IMS（数学统计研究所）和 ISBA（国际贝叶斯分析学会）第三次国际联席会议提供支持，该会议将于 2008 年 1 月 9 日星期三至 11 日星期五在意大利博尔米奥举行会议的中心主题是马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗（MCMC）以及从金融到技术的相关方法和应用，特别关注生物统计学中的挑战性问题。 所有赠款资金将用于支持初级生物统计研究者的旅费，即在统计学、生物统计学或密切相关领域攻读博士学位或博士学位的人员，或在会议召开前五年内获得此类学位的人员。