Support for the Fourth International Joint IMS-ISBA Conference

支持第四届 IMS-ISBA 国际联合会议

• 批准号: 8062868
• 负责人: Montse Fuentes
• 金额: $ 0.4万
• 依托单位: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8062868
• 关键词: Area; Bayesian Analysis; Biometry; Cities; Clinical Data; Communities; Consult; Country; Data; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Doctor of Public Health; Economically Deprived Population; Environment; Environmental Health; Exposure to; Funding; Goals; Institutes; Institution; International; Joints; Journals; Laboratory Study; Markov Chains; Methodology; Methods; Mission; Montserrat; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Panthera leo; Paper; Participant; Persons; Play; Public Health; Publications; Reading; Reporting; Request for Applications; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Role; Science; Societies; Staging; Statistical Methods; Students; Time; Training; Travel; Utah; Work; Writing; career; interdisciplinary collaboration; interest; meetings; novel; peer; public health relevance; statistics; success; symposium; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): PROJECT SUMMARY 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. Statisticians also serve on a myriad of scientific review and advisory panels, as well as provide statistical training and consulting to substantive area researchers. Finally, the development of new statistical methodology for interpretation of data from clinical, observational, and laboratory studies is a key area of statistical endeavor. As a result, scholarly conferences where 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 familiar journals 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 help "level the playing field" with more established senior investigators. In this application, we request support for the Fourth International Joint Meeting of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and ISBA (the International Society for Bayesian Analysis), to be held in Park City, Utah on Wednesday, January 5 to Friday, January 7, 2011. A central theme of the conference will be Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and related methods applied to environmental health problems. The lion's share of the support we seek is to support the travel expenses of junior investigators, 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. Such investigators are often doing research that is among the most novel, interesting, and important for international dissemination, yet lack the travel funds necessary to attend such a conference, since they have not yet established a publication track record sufficient to attract external travel and other funding for their work. We have a commitment from ISBA to provide partial travel support for 10 young recent PhDs from economically disadvantaged countries. The specific goals and the anticipated benefits from the conference are: 7 to promote the continued development of statistical theory and applications in environmental health sciences, biomedicine and other areas; 7 to explore the interplay of classical and Bayesian statistical methods in the context of specific areas of research; 7 to provide an opportunity for researchers to discuss an area in some depth, by allowing ample time for presentations on a specific subject; 7 to motivate young researchers to conduct research in the conference's focus areas that provide ample opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration; 7 to encourage young researchers and students to present their work, interact with senior colleagues, and make contact with their peers in a friendly, small meeting environment; 7 to include a large portion of researchers and students from underrepresented groups among participants, and provide the opportunity for one-on-one discussions with colleagues from other institutions; 7 to encourage refereed versions of the conference's best papers (both invited and contributed) in Bayesian Analysis, the official journal of ISBA, available online at ba.stat.cmu.edu. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Fourth International Joint Meeting of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and ISBA (the International Society for Bayesian Analysis) has targeted environmental health statistics as one of the main topics, with the potential for positive impact on participants that is likely to have broader implications for environmental health statistical research, having a direct relationship to advancing the mission of NIEHS. The ultimate payoff will be not only those junior researchers will enhance their potential for career success, but that the greater research community will enjoy the reflected benefits of better-prepared statistical collaborators poised to solve new methodological challenges, in particular in environmental health problems, more successfully.

描述（由申请人提供）：项目摘要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。统计学家还担任众多科学审查和咨询小组的成员，并向实质性领域研究人员提供统计培训和咨询。最后，开发新的统计方法来解释临床、观察和实验室研究的数据是统计工作的一个关键领域。因此，能够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可能不会看到甚至读到的想法和同事。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“创造公平的竞争环境”。 在此申请中，我们请求支持将于 1 月 5 日星期三至 1 月星期五在犹他州帕克城举行的 IMS（数学统计研究所）和 ISBA（国际贝叶斯分析学会）第四次国际联席会议2011 年 2 月 7 日。会议的中心主题是马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗 (MCMC) 和应用于环境健康问题的相关方法。 我们寻求的大部分支持是支持初级研究人员的旅费，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，或在研究之前的五年内获得此类学位的人员。会议。这些研究人员经常进行对国际传播来说最新颖、最有趣和最重要的研究，但缺乏参加此类会议所需的旅行资金，因为他们尚未建立足以吸引外部旅行和其他会议的出版记录。为他们的工作提供资金。 ISBA 承诺为来自经济落后国家的 10 名年轻的新博士提供部分旅行支持。 会议的具体目标和预期效益是： 7 促进统计理论和应用在环境健康科学、生物医学等领域的持续发展； 7 探索经典统计方法和贝叶斯统计方法在特定研究领域的相互作用； 7 通过留出充足的时间就特定主题进行演示，为研究人员提供深入讨论某个领域的机会； 7 激励年轻研究人员在会议重点领域开展研究，为跨学科合作提供充足的机会； 7 鼓励年轻研究人员和学生在友好的小型会议环境中展示他们的工作，与资深同事互动，并与同行接触； 7 参与者中包括大部分来自代表性不足群体的研究人员和学生，并提供与其他机构的同事进行一对一讨论的机会； 7 鼓励在贝叶斯分析（ISBA 的官方期刊）上发表会议最佳论文（包括受邀论文和投稿论文）的审稿版本，可在 ba.stat.cmu.edu 在线获取。 公共卫生相关性：IMS（数学统计研究所）和 ISBA（国际贝叶斯分析学会）第四届国际联席会议将环境健康统计作为主要议题之一，有可能对与会者产生积极影响，可能对环境健康统计研究产生更广泛的影响，与推进 NIEHS 的使命有直接关系。最终的回报不仅是那些初级研究人员将增强他们职业成功的潜力，而且更大的研究界将享受到准备更充分的统计合作者所带来的好处，这些合作者准备解决新的方法论挑战，特别是在环境健康问题等方面。成功地。