The Past, Present, and Future of Gibbs Sampling

描述（由申请人提供）：生物统计学家在生物医学和公共卫生数据分析中发挥着不可或缺的作用，从研究设计阶段一直到最终分析和报告撰写。参加国际学术会议极大地促进了初级生物统计学家的专业发展，因为他们提供了展示自己的研究以及向该领域的高级研究人员学习和互动的最佳机会。该应用程序的主要目标是为 8 名初级生物统计研究人员获得差旅支持，参加 IMS（数学统计研究所）和 ISBA（国际贝叶斯分析学会）将于 2005 年 1 月 12 日星期三至 1 月 14 日星期五在意大利博尔米奥举行的第二届国际联席会议。会议的中心主题是马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗 (MCMC) 及相关方法和应用，特别是与癌症。该计划由三位国际知名的全体演讲嘉宾主持，还为他们寻求部分旅行支持。 此外，六个感兴趣的生物统计领域（分子生物学、空间和时空模型、生物信息学和遗传学、MCMC 算法和软件、统计数据挖掘和现代非参数学）的受邀会议将融合理论和方法，与癌症或环境建模领域最密切相关。 提供了组委会、全体演讲嘉宾的详细资格以及完整的暂定邀请议程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Biostatisticians play an indispensable role in the analysis of biomedical and public health data, from the study design stage all the way through to final analysis and report writing. The professional development of junior biostatisticians is greatly abetted by attendance at international scholarly conferences, since they afford the best opportunity for the presentation of one's own research, as well as learning from and interaction with the senior investigators in the field. This application's primary goal is to obtain travel support for 8 junior biostatistical investigators to attend the Second International Joint Meeting of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and ISBA (the International Society for Bayesian Analysis), to be held in Bormio, Italy on Wednesday, January 12 to Friday, January 14, 2005. A central theme of the conference will be Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and related methods and applications, especially as related to important problems in cancer. The program is anchored by three internationally prominent plenary speakers for whom partial travel support is also sought. In addition, invited sessions in six biostatistical areas of interest (molecular biology, spatial and spatiotemporal models, bioinformatics and genetics, MCMC algorithms and software, statistical data mining, and modern nonparametrics) will feature a mixture of both theory and methods, most closely related to the fields of cancer or environmental modeling. Detailed qualifications of the organizing committee, plenary speakers, and a full tentative invited program are provided.