The Americas Program: International Symposium on Statistics in Agriculture and the Environment; Santa Marta, Colombia, June 1995.

9525771马克思 这笔美洲方案的赠款将资助6名美国科学家参加1995年6月在哥伦比亚圣玛尔塔举行的农业和环境统计国际研讨会的旅费和有关费用。 组织者是大卫博士。马克思，内布拉斯加大学，林肯，和豪尔赫马丁内斯博士，哥伦比亚国立大学，波哥大。 这是三个组织的联席会议：哥伦比亚国立大学、加勒比、中美洲、哥伦比亚和委内瑞拉国际生物统计学会以及美洲统计研究所，总部设在巴拿马的巴拿马城。 会议的目标是将来自加勒比、中美洲、哥伦比亚和委内瑞拉的统计学家和生物学家聚集在一起，促进科学交流，划定共同研究领域，并促进拉丁美洲大学和研究机构之间的关系。 在整个拉丁美洲，统计在人口普查和社会科学中的应用是普遍的。 生物统计和环境应用则不太为人所知。 该区域现有的严重环境问题需要这种应用，并需要进行精心设计的研究。 重要的是统计学家和数学家与生物学家合作，共同开发统计技术来解决这些严重的问题。 这次会议旨在将这些不同的群体聚集在一起。 ***

9525771 Marx This Americas Program award will fund travel and related expenses for six U.S. scientists to participate in an international symposium on statistics in agriculture and the environment, to be held in Santa Marta, Colombia, in June, 1995. Organizers are Dr. David R. Marx, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Dr. Jorge Martinez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota. This is a joint meeting of three organizations: the Colombian National University, the International Biometric Society for the Caribbean, Central America, Colombia and Venezuela, and the Interamerican Statistical Institute, with headquarters in Panama City, Panama. The conference's objectives will be to bring together statisticians and biologists from the Caribbean, Central America, Colombia and Venezuela to promote scientific exchanges, delimit common research areas, and to stimulate relationships between universities and research institutions in Latin America. Applications of statistics to censuses and social sciences are commonly used throughout Latin America. Biometrical and environmental applications are less well known. The existing serious environmental problems in the region call for such applications and require well-designed studies. It is important for statisticians and mathematicians to work jointly with biologists in developing statistical techniques to solve these serious problems. This meeting is designed to bring these various groups together. ***