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VOLUME 15 NUMBER/NUMÉRO 4 15 . 4 OCTOBER/OCTOBRE 2001 Statistical Society of Canada • MESSAGES Société statistique du Canada 1485 Laperriere Avenue 1485, avenue Laperrière Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 7S8 Message from Message du Tel. • Tél. : (613) 725-2253 Fax • Téléc. : (613) 729-6206 the President président [email protected] Web Site • Site Web : www.ssc.ca ello everyone. Well summer has ended onjour tout le monde. L’été est fini et c’est Office Coordinator • Coordinateur du bureau and it is back to classes. (Down here we la rentrée des classes. (Ici, les classes ont Harold Mantel H B Office Manager • Gérant du bureau have been teaching since 27 August.) repris depuis le 27 août). J’espère que Benoît Comeau Here’s hoping that you all had a fine vous avez tous passé de bonnes holiday. vacances. CONTENTS • LORIE BRILLINGER SOMMAIRE My theme in this Message is: “What is Dans les lignes ci-après, je vais es- happening with the important parts of sayer de répondre à la question sui- Messages............................... 1 the SSC?” Obviously most important vante : «Qu’arrive-t-il aux aspects Information for Authors Avis aux auteurs .................... is the membership, i.e. you. After that David Brillinger importants de la SSC?» De toute évi- 3 come: the Journal, the meetings, the dence, le plus important ce sont les SSC E-Directory ..................... sections, the structure, the Business Office – membres, autrement dit, vous. Après cela, il y 4 in no thought out order. I would like to com- a la Revue, les congrès, les sections, la struc- Mini-répertoire électronique de la SSC ............................. 5 ment on each of these, particularly recent ture, le bureau administratif – sans aucun Reports developments. ordre particulier. J’aimerais formuler quelques Rapports............................... 5 commentaires sur chacun de ces aspects, et Contents of surtout sur les faits nouveaux. SSC Web Site........................ 6 Contenu du site Web Meetings Congrès de la SSC ............................. 7 Future Annual Meetings Our next Annual Meeting is in Hamilton in Notre prochain congrès annuel aura lieu à of the Society......................... 8 May. The scientific program is well under Hamilton en mai. Le programme scientifique Congrès annuels de la Société development under the careful guidance of est en train d’être élaboré, sous la direction pour les années à venir ........... 9 Bruce Smith. There are some special aspects. compétente de Bruce Smith. Ce programme The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has comportera certains aspects spéciaux. SSC 2002 ........................... 10 been invited to organize two sessions and L’Institut des statistiques mathématiques a été Announcements agreed. There is a possibility that the invité à organiser deux sessions et a accepté. Il Avis ................................... 12 Bernoulli Society, now chaired by Don est possible que la Société Bernoulli, main- Obituary Dawson, will also organize a session and per- tenant présidée par Don Dawson, organise Avis de décès....................... 21 haps the Brazilian Statistical Society will be aussi une session et que la Brazilian Statistical News trading a session. The President’s Invited Society échange une session. Le conférencier Nouvelles............................ 22 Speaker is Steve Stigler. He will be talking invité du président est Steve Stigler. Il parlera Students’ Corner about something historical, possibly including d’un sujet historique et nous racontera proba- Le coin des étudiants .............. 25 his family’s longtime enjoyment of a cottage blement quelques anecdotes sur la maison de Article ................................. in Muskoka. Perhaps the Society’s Sections campagne que possède sa famille à Muskoka 25 have some surprises in store for us as well. depuis bien des années. Les sections de la Consultants’ Forum Le forum des consultants ........ Peter MacDonald is in charge of local arrange- Société nous réservent peut-être aussi 28 ments and he does everything so thoughtfully quelques surprises. Peter MacDonald est Advertisements Annonces............................. 33 we have a treat coming up. chargé des arrangements locaux et il s’adonne Notice to Advertisers à cette tâche avec tellement de bonne volonté Avis à nos annonceurs............ 39 que ça promet d’être toute une réussite. SSC Membership inquiries and change of address should be Another annual event is the SSC’s participa- Un autre événement annuel est la participa- sent to the SSC Office. Pour une demande d’adhésion ou un changement d’adresse, tion in the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). tion de la SSC aux congrès conjoints des veuillez vous adresser au secrétariat de la SSC. VOL 15, NO. 4 OCTOBER/OCTOBRE 2001 SSC LIAISON 1 MESSAGES Next year they are in New York City. This sociétés statistiques (CCSS). L’an prochain, ils year’s were in Atlanta. Christian Léger is to be auront lieu à New York. Ceux de cette année thanked for all the organizational work that he ont eu lieu à Atlanta. Nous devons une fière VOLUME 15, NO. 4 did. So too is David Binder for his yeoman chandelle à Christian Léger pour tout le tra- OCTOBER/OCTOBRE 2001 service on the important committees. vail d’organisation qu’il a fait. Merci aussi à EDITOR • RÉDACTEUR David Binder pour son excellent travail au Román Viveros-Aguilera sein de certains comités importants. [email protected] SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS • The Institute of Mathematical Statistics holds L’Institut des statistiques mathématiques tient RÉDACTEURS ADJOINTS its Annual Meeting at the JSM in alternate son congrès annuel aux CCSS à tous les deux Llwellyn Armstrong years. In 2002 they are meeting elsewhere, ans. En 2002, il le tiendra ailleurs, plus pré- [email protected] specifically in Banff. They have invited the cisément à Banff. L’Institut a invité la SSC à Christian Genest [email protected] SSC to organize two sessions and Paul organiser deux sessions et Paul Cabilio, prési- J. Heward Gough Cabilio, Chair of our Program Committee, is dent de notre comité du congrès, s’affaire à les [email protected] developing those sessions. The SSC Members préparer. Les membres de la SSC qui veulent Peter Macdonald attending will be paying IMS rates so I hope y participer paieront les tarifs de l’ISM, donc [email protected] that many will take advantage of the circum- j’espère que beaucoup d’entre vous profi- T. Rolf Turner stance. teront de cette occasion. [email protected] To end this section it is to be noted that the Pour terminer cette section, j’aimerais men- ASSOCIATE EDITORS • COLLABORATEURS American Statistical Association has served tionner que l’Association des statisticiens Rita Aggarwala notice that they wish to alter the terms of the américains a annoncé qu’elle voulait modifier [email protected] JSM Agreement. It is hard to predict just les conditions de l’entente avec les CCSS. Il François Bellavance where this will lead, but with the SSC’s est difficile de prédire où cela mènera, mais [email protected] Annual Meeting in firm place things will go avec le congrès annuel de la SSC fermement Gail Butler [email protected] on no matter what the ASA proceeds with. en place, les choses se dérouleront comme Hugh Chipman prévu, peu importe ce que décide de faire [email protected] l’ASA. Debbie J. Dupuis [email protected] The Structure La structure Jack Gambino [email protected] By this I mean the very framework under Par «structure», j’entends le cadre de travail Julie Zhou which the Society operates. Change is defi- même dans lequel la Société fonctionne. Il y [email protected] nitely in the air. We now have the Committee aura définitivement des changements. Nous LIAISON for the Implementation of Accreditation, with avons maintenant un comité chargé de la mise Statistical Society of Canada Co-Chairs Ernie Enns and Ken McRae. Ken en oeuvre du processus d’accréditation, Société statistique du Canada 1485 Laperriere Avenue so very ably chaired the ad hoc Committee on coprésidé par Ernie Enns et Ken McRae. Ken 1485, avenue Laperrière Accreditation whose suggestions were sup- a admirablement dirigé le comité spécial sur Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 7S8 ported in last Spring’s poll of the membership l’accréditation, dont les recommandations ont Tel. • Tél. : (613) 725-2253 Fax • Téléc. : (613) 729-6206 and led to the creation of the Implementation été appuyées par les membres lors du sondage E-mail • Courriel : [email protected] Committee. There will be a lot of work for this effectué au printemps dernier et ont mené à la Web Site • Site Web : www.ssc.ca Committee and a lot of plaudits for them création du comité de mise en oeuvre. Ce Liaison is published by the Statistical Society of Canada and is sent free of charge to all members four times a year when the implementation is achieved. comité aura beaucoup de travail à faire et (October, February, May and July). Non-members can nous leur devrons une fière chandelle quand subscribe to Liaison at the cost of $30.00 per volume (four issues). Liaison is also available on the SSC Web la mise en oeuvre sera complétée. Site at www.ssc.ca. The aim of Liaison is to foster increased and better That the Montreal Section is now thriving is Je suis heureux d’entendre que la section de communication among Canadian statisticians. gratifying. Perhaps some other regions of the Montréal est en pleine période de croissance. No responsibility for the views expressed by the authors is assumed by Liaison, its editors or the SSC. country might consider creating their own Peut-être que d’autres régions du pays envisa- Reproduction is authorized with mention of the source. sections. geront de créer leur propre section. Liaison est publié par la Société statistique du Canada et distribué gratuitement aux membres quatre fois All the other committees are to be thanked for Nous remercions tous les autres comités pour par année en octobre, février, mai et juillet.
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