Risk Analysis Section Hosts Mixer, Sponsors Sessions at JSM

To become more involved with the Section on Risk Analysis and learn about the activities of our section, attend the section business meeting Tuesday, July 30, at 5:00 p.m. in Agate B at the Hilton. After the business meeting (at 6:00 p.m.), we will have a joint mixer with the Physical and Engineering Sciences and Quality and Productivity sections in Centennial Ballroom H, also at the Hilton (food and a cash bar will be provided). In addition to the meeting and mixer, the Risk Analysis Section is the main sponsor for the following sessions:

Invited

• Multivariate Extremes: Theory and Applications
• Climate Networks and Extremes

Topic-Contributed

• Statistical Interactions: Making an Impact in Health Science
• Bayesian Statistical Methods for High-Throughput Toxicity Testing and Risk Assessment

Contributed

• Risk Applications for Disease, Toxicology, and Biomarker Modeling
• Predicting and Evaluating Risk Models Within Distributions and Across Time

Contributed Posters

• Space-Time Modeling of Tropical Cyclone Genesis Using a Semiparametric Generalized Linear Model
• High-Dimensional GARCH Model with L1 Regularization
• Two-Stage Predictive Models for Assessing Misrepresentation Risk on Self-Reported Tobacco Status in Health Insurance Ratemaking

P.M. Roundtable

• The Statistical Footprints in the Path from Real-World Data to Evidence