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ISI99 Daily Bulletin 4 ISI99 Daily Bulletin 4 Thursday 12 August, 1999 Contents First day • ISI Service Awards 2 • Jan Tinbergen Awards 1999 2 • Changes in the programme 3 • Correction 3 • Statistical Education 3 • Making Statistics Come Alive 4 • Behind the scenes and in the frontline, part 3 5 IASS - International Association • Many questions were answered at the Information Desk. of Survey Statisticians 6 • Everyday elegance anyone can afford 6 • Golden era of Finnish art 8 • Ateneum, the ”House for the Arts” 9 • Kiasma, the museum of contemporary art 9 • The spirit of the bottle 10 • Harvest in the Market Square 11 • Kuka hän on? 12 • For people on the move 12 Webmasters Markku (left) and Samppa mastering the Web. ISI99 / Daily Bulletin / Thursday, August 12 / 4 1 ISI Service Awards From time to time, the President awards ISI Service Medals to Adolphe Quetelet (Belgium) persons whose outstanding activities were of particular Henri Willem Methorst (The Netherlands) significance for the Institute’s activities. The Service Medals are Franz von Neumann–Spallart (Austria–Hungary) named after three great statisticians who were instrumental in The ISI Executive Committee considers the following persons furthering international statistical co-operation: as deserving candidates for an ISI Service Medal, to be awarded during the August 13 ISI General Assembly meeting in Helsinki: Adolphe Quetelet Medal David Cox (United Kingdom) Ilkka Mellin (Finland) Mario Palma Rojo (Mexico) Timo Relander (Finland) Vijayan N. Nair (Malaysia) Zoltan Kenessey (in memorial -USA) Willem de Vries (Netherlands) Henri Willem Methorst Medal Constance van Eeden (The Netherlands) Agnes Herzberg (Canada) Raija Lofgren (Finland) Joop Mijnheer (The Netherlands) Jozef L.M. Teugels (Belgium) Photis Nanopoulos (Eurostat) Graham Pyatt (United Kingdom) Bernard Silverman (United Kingdom) Dennis Trewin (Australia) Fred Vogel (USA) Michael Ward (United Kingdom) René A. Padieu (France) Jon N.K. Rao (Canada) Von Neumann–Spallart Medal John C. Bailar (USA) Paul Cheung (Singapore) Pilar Garcia (Mexico) Terry Holland (USA) Gerrit Stemerdink (Netherlands) Jaromir Antoch (Czech Repubilc) Jan Tinbergen Awards 1999 The ISI is pleased to announce Efficient Regression Estimator”; renamed in honour of the late all-expenses-paid trip to the ISI the winners of the 1999 Jan – V. Swaminathan (India) for his ISI member and world- Session in Helsinki. These prizes Tinbergen Awards: paper “Semiparametric renowned econometrician Jan will be conferred during the – J.P. Ekwaru (Uganda) for his Estimation for Stationary Tinbergen. The Executive August 13 General Assembly. paper “An Approximation for Markov Chains with Committee is grateful to the The papers will be presented by the Rank Adjacency Statistic for Continuous State-Space” Stichting Internationaal their authors in a special Spatial Clustering with Sparse These awards, previously Statistisch Studie Fonds for meeting on August 14 at 9:00. Data”; known as the “ISI Awards for providing each of the winners Come and show your support – D. Gervini (Argentina) for his Young Statisticians from with a five thousand Dutch for these young statisticians by paper “A Robust and fully Developing Countries”, were Guilder prize in addition to the attending their presentations. 2 4 / Thursday, 12 August / Daily Bulletin / ISI99 Changes in the programme Today Denise Lievesley (FRANCE) Some names of the speakers of introductory speaker will be In CPM1 at 13.00, the instead of Mary H.Regier. IPM 42 “Statistical training of Heli Jeskanen-Sundström, presentation of T. J. Rao has people working in and with FINLAND. been cancelled. In CPM73.1, a presentation has official statistics” have been been moved from 141: omitted by mistake in the A new meeting, IPM84, In IPM53 at 15.30, the “Internal evaluation: an Information Bulletin No 3. The President’s Invited Paper presentation of Ivor Francis has approach to use data for action meeting is to be held at 13.00 - Meeting on “Recent advances been cancelled. Michel Jambu in higher education quality 15.15. These should be added: in probability and statistics”, will NOT be a discussant at this improvement” by Abbas will be held at 13.00 - 15.15 in meeting. Bazargan (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC As organisers: meeting room EL/136. The OF IRAN) is scheduled at 10.30. Blumberg, Carol Joyce, UNITED organiser is Willem van Zwet, Friday, 13 August STATES the speakers will be In CPM46.1, at 9.00 , a new Monday, 16 August presentation is scheduled at In IPM18, “Multiway data in Smulders, René H. M., THE Jef Teugels 10.45, ”estimation of Mean psychometrics and NETHERLANDS Wind and Stochastics Square Error in Multi-stage chemonetrics”, to be held at Elja Arjas Sampling by Kim, Kyuseong. 9.00, the talks of Pieter As chairpersons: Latent structures supported Kroonenberg and Claus Blumberg, Carol Joyce, UNITED by point measurements In CPM136, a presentation has Andersson will be given in the STATES David Siegmund been moved from 16.1. The reverse order. Mr Andersson Smulders, René H. M., THE Mapping quantitative trait presentation of Sylvia Früwirth- will speak at 9.04, and Mr NETHERLANDS loci Schnatter (AUSTRIA), on “Bayes Kroonenberg at 9.39. Richard Tweedie factors and model selection for Papers: 13.25 Impact of Publication analysis in meta- random effect models” is In IPM36, Nick Fisher Internet on official statistics: analysis scheduled at 10.30. (AUSTRALIA) will be chair and User opportunities presenter of the introduction. * Bregar, Lea; Ograjensek, Irena In IPM20, at 13.00 - 15.15, the In CPM104.1, a new The presentation of Corinna (SLOVENIA) discussant Bertrand S. Clarke presentation, “Demographic Cortes (UNITED STATES), from UK, has cancelled his situation in Russia and scheduled at 16.30, has been A new presentation for CPM58, presentation. problems of information on cancelled. starting at 15.30, will be heard population” by Andrei G. at 17.15: Comparison of In CPM132, at 13.00 - 15.15, Volkov (RUSSIA), has been New item for CPM81: at 17.00, Predictive Accuracy of Neural the paper “Reseaux de added to start at 11.00. “Intervalle de confiance de Network Methods and Cox neurones et regression l’indice de végétation, de Regression for Censored logistique en finances” by Ana The meeting of the Agricultural l’indice de brillance et de la Survival Data, by Azen, Stanley Silvia Haedo (ARGENTINA) and Statistics Committee (Gregor matière séche totalle” by (UNITED STATES); Xiang, Annie; Leonardo Focsaner has been Mendel Committee), originally Abdellani, F. and Chamayou, J. Lapuerta, Pablo; Ryutov, Alex cancelled. scheduled for Monday 16 F. (FRANCE). and Buckley, Jonathan. August at 11.15, has been In CPM86, scheduled at 15.30, advanced to Friday, 13 August, Tuesday, 17 August An addition to CPM130, the chairperson will be Paul 11.15. The place will be In CPM134, the paper starting at 15.30: Operational Sommerville. announced later. “Generalised kernel density estimation of the Russian GDP estimator” by Novak, Serguei dynamics, by Kosarev, Andrey. In CPM38, scheduled at 15.30, Saturday, 14 August (NETHERLANDS), scheduled at The presentation is scheduled the presentation of Filzmoser, In the CPM73.1, the paper of 9.30, has been cancelled. at 17.15. Peter (AUSTRIA) has been Patrick D. Bourke, scheduled at cancelled. 9.00, has been cancelled. IPM12 on “Whither statistical Wednesday, 18 August publishing?”, scheduled on In IPM62, at 9.00, Joan Garfield In IPM74, at 9.00, the Tuesday 17 August at 13.00, has cancelled her appearance. introduction will be given by has been cancelled. The chairperson and Correction Statistical Education The ISI General Information leaflet contains an error concerning the All participants who are interested in statistical education are officers of the IASS. Please note that Clyde Charre de Trabuchi was invited to look at the web site http://www.swin.edu.au/maths/ the Vice President for the period 1997-1999 and John Kovar was icots5/. This site gives some information on events organized by the the Scientific Secretary for the same period. IASE. In particular it gives some details of sessions of special interest to statistical educators which are being held at ISI-52. Also everyone is invited to attend the IASE General Assembly on Monday August 16 at 11.15-13.00 in 1F/HH at which many activities of the IASE will be discussed. ISI99 / Daily Bulletin / Thursday, August 12 / 4 3 Making Statistics Come Alive “When we spread knowledge about statistics, we should put more emphasis on how they can be used, instead of just explaining how they are produced,” says Doctor Marcel van den Broecke, Director of the ISI Permanent Office in Voorburg, the Netherlands. • “When we spread calculate these risks. A chance disciplines together, as happens knowledge about statistics, we of say 50% that something will now here in Helsinki, so that should put more emphasis on happen is only meaningful they can learn what is going on how statistics are used and when we are not talking about in neighboring fields as well as affect everyday life, instead of a single event, but about a exchange ideas with explaining the principles of series of event. For the colleagues in their own field. So how they are made”, says Dr. individual, to have a chance of one of the “products” of the ISI Marcel van den Broecke, 50% that, say, it is going to and its sections is professional director of the ISI Permanent rain, is intuitively rather meetings. Office in Voorburg, the meaningless. For the individual, Bringing statisticians Netherlands. it is either 100% or 0%. together is an essential task. “The image of statistics is Similarly, when you bet, you Another is publications. ISI is not very positive, is my either win or lose. the only organization which, experience. Statisticians are dry Statisticians try to make among its publications, number crunchers, and have no meaningful statements about produces a journal covering all public appeal whatever to the chances and risks with the help areas of statistics, namely the Aulikki Järvinen general, uneducated public.
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