The department of statistics at Rajshahi University in Bangladesh will host the International Conference on Statistical Data Mining for Bioinformatics, Health, Agriculture, and Environment. The objective of the conference is to build an active relationship between academic statisticians-mathematicians and scientists from other disciplines who use statistics and mathematics extensively.
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CDC Symposium to Focus on Massive, Complex Data in Public Health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 13th Biennial Symposium on Statistical Methods will be held at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Decatur, Georgia (Atlanta metropolitan area), May 24–25. The theme of this year’s conference is “Statistical Applications Using Massive and Emerging Data in Public Health.”
The Statistician’s Role in an Integrated Health Care System
The need to improve the effectiveness of clinical care delivery is greater than ever. Here, Intermountain Healthcare clinicians Karen Valentine, Roberta James, and Cempaka Martial discuss a statistician’s role in an integrated health care system.
NHANES: 50 Years of Health Measures and Their Contributions to Public Policy
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey recently celebrated 50 years of providing data to inform public health policy in the United States. The goal of the survey is to supplement self-reported household interview data with actual and precise clinical measurements to better assess health and nutritional status.
Diverse Topics Covered in Latest Issue
Volume 22, No. 3 of CHANCE magazine includes articles on a diverse set of topics.
2010 Travel Award Competition
The Health Policy Statistics Section announces the 2010 Student Travel Award competition. Current students, or those who completed their degrees within the past year, are eligible to apply.
Medpedia: Do Biostatisticians Have a Role?
Medpedia is a project sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, the University of Michigan, and several health care organizations. Its goal is “to evolve a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine, and the body among medical professionals and the general public.”