The Biopharmaceutical Section and the NY/NJ Metropolitan Section of the American Society for Quality are cosponsoring the 67th Annual Deming Conference on Applied Statistics, to be held December 5–9 at the Tropicana Casino Hotel and Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The meeting is a three-day conference followed by two parallel two-day short courses. Registration opens August 1.

Experts from academia, government, and industry will give 12 half-day tutorials on topics such as the following:

• Data Monitoring Committees: Areas of Consensus and Controversy
• Interpreting Changes, Responder Analyses, and Statistical Considerations for Patient-Reported Outcomes
• Management of Regulatory Data Standards
• Group Sequential Design of Clinical Trials
• Comparing Groups: Randomization and Bootstrap Methods Using R
• Clinical Prediction Models
• An Introduction to Adaptive Designs with Applications to Clinical Trials

The two-day short courses are Modeling Survival Data: Extending the Cox Model, led by Terry M. Therneau, and Novel Approaches to Multiple Test Problems, with Applications to Adaptive Designs, led by Frank Bretz, Willi Maurer, and Jeff Maca.

All related books will be offered at the conference with significant discounts.