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Beth Luman
1999 CDC and ATSDR Symposium on Statistical Methods:
Emerging Statistical Issues in Public Health for the 21st Century
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) will sponsor a Symposium
on Statistical Methods on January 28-29, 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia. The
theme for the symposium is "Emerging Statistical Issues in Public Health
for the 21st Century." A short course entitled "Privacy,
Confidentiality, and the Protection of Health Data-A Statistical
Perspective" will be offered on January 27, 1999 in conjunction with the
Symposium. Both the Symposium and short course are open to the public.
The Symposium will include invited talks and contributed papers.
Scientists are encouraged to submit abstracts for papers related to one
or more of the session content areas listed below.
(1) Data collection and storage, including questionnaire and
survey design, the use of data registries, and issues related to
patients' rights and data privacy and confidentiality.
(2) Modeling and analysis of complex and/or dependent data
structures, including techniques and software for spatial, clustered,
longitudinal, survey, and genetic data, hierarchical and causal
modeling, and data mining.
(3) Modeling and analysis of sparse data structures,
including issues related to missing values, limits of detection, low
dosages or exposures, and rare conditions.
(4) Design, modeling, and evaluation of public health
interventions.
(5) Applications of statistical methods in public health
arenas including infectious and chronic disease prevention, injury and
violence prevention, occupational and environmental exposures, and
immunization.
Abstracts will be considered for either oral or poster presentation and
must be postmarked no later that July 1, 1998. Authors of papers
accepted either for oral or poster presentation will be notified by
September 30, 1998. To request registration and abstract information
and forms, or for additional information regarding the scientific
content of the Symposium, please contact Bradford A. Myers, 1999 CDC and
ATSDR Symposium on Statistical Methods, 1600 Clifton Road N.E. (MS-D01),
Atlanta GA 30333 (404-639-3806, fax: 404-639-4463, internet:
bam6@cdc.gov).
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