The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)* Statistical Advisory Group (SAG) in partnership with the ASA is sponsoring the Twelfth Biennial Symposium on Statistical Methods, April 7–8, 2009.

The surrounding theme is fusion or combining of data and/or information from multiple sources to support conclusions, predictions, decisions and actions.

Two half-day short courses will be offered on April 6, 2009 in conjunction with the Symposium.

• 8:30 a.m.– 12:00 p.m. Methodological Issues in Biosurveillance—Dr. Ronald Fricker, Jr., Ph.D.
  This short course will discuss the strengths and limitations of statistical detection algorithms, with focus on the issues related to developing, evaluating, and implementing such algorithms in biosurveillance applications.
   
• 1:00 p.m.– 4:30 p.m. Information Visualization—Dr. Wendy Martinez, Ph.D. 
  This short course will focus on ways to visualize multivariate and multi-source data when the objective of the analyst is to gain insights and information about the underlying data processes. A secondary goal of the course is to discuss techniques to visualize the results in ways that help convey the concepts to non-statisticians.

The symposium will offer invited and oral presentations and poster sessions.

Session topics include:

• The application of analytic techniques to multiple data sources
• Best practices in information fusion and biosurveillance
• Statistical issues in bioterrorism and environmental tracking
• Public health threat surveillance, monitoring, and assessment
• Public health preparedness, emergency or disaster response
• Spatial-temporal analysis of multiple information sources
• Applications of health risk analysis, risk modeling, and decision science
• Model assessment in large linked or networked data bases
• Cutting edge analytics applied to public health data

Who should participate:

This venue provides statisticians, social and behavioral scientists, epidemiologists, economists, policy analysts, and other health researchers a unique opportunity to gain knowledge and stimulate further methods development in the fusion and utilization of multi-source data to protect and promote public health.

*Includes the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)

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