Travel Support for the 11th ISBA World Meeting on Bayesian Statistics

第 11 届 ISBA 贝叶斯统计世界会议的差旅支持

• 批准号: 1203076
• 负责人: Vanja Dukic
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1203076&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; Support; 11th; ISBA; World

In this application, the PI requests support for the World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), to be held in Kyoto, Japan, June 25-29, 2012. A central theme of the conference will be Bayesian modeling, Bayesian theory, and applications. The applications will range from biology to finance to technology, with specific focus on challenging large-scale problems. The funds sought are to support the travel expenses of junior investigators, i.e., persons pursuing a PhD or DrPH in statistics, biostatistics, applied mathematics, or a closely related field, or who have received such a degree within the five years preceding the conference. Such investigators are often doing research that is among the most novel, interesting, and important for international dissemination, yet lack the travel funds necessary to attend such a conference, since they have not yet established a publication track record sufficient to attract external travel and other funding for their work. Refereed versions of the conference's best papers (both invited and contributed) will be published in Bayesian Analysis, the official journal of ISBA (available online at ba.stat.cmu.edu). Further disseminatation of conference-related materials will be done as widely as possible, by posting some of the presentations on the ISBA web site at www.bayesian.org.Statisticians play an indispensable role in the analysis of biomedical, environmental, financial, and public health data, from the study design stage all the way through to final analysis and report-writing. Statisticians also serve on a myriad of scientific review and advisory panels, as well as provide statistical training and consulting to substantive area researchers. Finally, the development of new statistical methodology for interpretation of data from clinical, observational, and laboratory studies is a key area of statistical endeavor. As a result, scholarly conferences where new ideas can be exchanged are important for statistical science to move forward. International meetings -- like the World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) -- while of course rarer due to their size and expense, are particularly beneficial since they permit exposure to ideas and colleagues the attendee might not ordinary see or even read about in the familiar journals of one's own country. The benefit of and need for attendance at such meetings by junior statistical researchers is particularly great, since they contribute greatly to their professional development and help ``level the playing field'' with more established senior investigators. The anticipated benefits from the conference include promoting the continued development of statistical theory and applications in engineering, finance, technology, environmental science, biomedicine and other areas, and exploring the interplay of classical and Bayesian statistical methods in the context of specific areas of research, with particular emphasis on large-scale computation. Disseminatation of conference-related materials will be done as widely as possible, by publishing in "Bayesian Analysis", the official journal of ISBA available online at ba.stat.cmu.edu, and posting some of the presentations on the ISBA web site at www.bayesian.org.

在本申请中，PI请求支持将于2012年6月25日至29日在日本京都举行的国际贝叶斯分析学会（ISBA）世界会议。 会议的中心主题是贝叶斯建模，贝叶斯理论和应用。应用范围从生物学到金融再到技术，特别关注具有挑战性的大规模问题。请拨的资金用于支付初级调查员的旅费，在统计学、生物统计学、应用数学或密切相关领域攻读博士学位或博士学位的人员，或在会议前五年内获得此类学位的人员。这些研究人员所做的研究往往是最新颖、最有趣和最重要的国际传播研究之一，但他们缺乏出席此类会议所需的差旅费，因为他们尚未建立足以吸引外部差旅费和其他工作经费的出版记录。会议最佳论文的参考版本（包括邀请和贡献）将发表在ISBA的官方期刊Bayesian Analysis上（可在ba.stat.cmu.edu在线查阅）。将尽可能广泛地进一步传播与会议有关的材料，办法是在国际生物医学协会的网站www.baidu.org上张贴一些演讲稿。统计员在生物医学、环境、财务和公共卫生数据的分析中发挥着不可或缺的作用，从研究设计阶段一直到最后分析和报告撰写。统计学家还在无数的科学审查和咨询小组中任职，并为实质性领域的研究人员提供统计培训和咨询。最后，开发新的统计方法来解释临床、观察和实验室研究的数据是统计奋进的一个关键领域。 因此，可以交流新思想的学术会议对统计科学的发展至关重要。 国际会议-如国际贝叶斯分析学会（ISBA）世界会议-虽然由于其规模和费用而比较罕见，但特别有益，因为它们使与会者能够接触到他们在自己国家熟悉的期刊上可能不会看到或甚至读到的想法和同事。初级统计研究人员参加这种会议的好处和必要性特别大，因为他们大大有助于他们的专业发展，并有助于与资历较深的高级调查人员“公平竞争”。会议的预期效益包括促进统计理论和应用在工程，金融，技术，环境科学，生物医学和其他领域的持续发展，并探讨经典和贝叶斯统计方法在特定研究领域的相互作用，特别强调大规模计算。将尽可能广泛地散发与会议有关的材料，办法是在国际海底管理局的正式刊物“贝叶斯分析”上发表，网址是ba.stat.cmu.edu，并将一些发言张贴在国际海底管理局的网址上，网址是www.baidu.org。