A special feature of Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC 2015 is that the conference, including the workshop, is open to all statistics graduate students
from UMBC and local universites free of charge; however, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED! The deadline to register is Friday,
April 3, 2015. // REGISTER NOW
For more information, contact any member of the organizing committee:
Bimal Sinha
Conference Chair
443.538.3012
Kofi Adragni
410.455.2406
Yvonne Huang
410.455.2422
Yaakov Malinovsky
410.455.2968
Thomas Mathew
410.455.2418
Nagaraj Neerchal
410.455.2437
DoHwan Park
410.455.2408
Junyong Park
410.455.2407
Anindya Roy
410.455.2435
Elizabeth Stanwyck
410.455.5731
Participant Information
Tom Louis
Paper: Convergence of the Biostatistical and Survey Worlds
In order to meet the challenges of efficiently obtaining valid demographic, economic, and activity-based information, making it available to the public, and protecting confidentiality, research at the U.S. Census Bureau other federal statistical agencies, indeed survey research more generally, burgeons. Many research goals and methods are similar to those addressed by and used in Biostatistics or Informatics. To illustrate this point, I provide several examples where the technology or the goals are quite similar with to goal of energizing technology transfer.
