Travel Support for the 3rd International Joint IMS-ISBA Conference

统计学家在生物医学、环境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终分析和报告撰写。学术会议，新的想法可以交流是重要的统计科学向前迈进。 国际会议，虽然由于其规模和费用，当然是罕见的，特别是有益的，因为它们允许接触的想法和同事，与会者可能不会看到或甚至读到自己国家的familiarjournal。 初级统计研究人员参加这种会议的好处和必要性特别大，因为他们对自己的专业发展作出了巨大贡献，并与资历较深的高级调查人员建立了平等的竞争环境。 这笔赠款将为IMS（数理统计研究所）和ISBA（国际贝叶斯分析学会）第三次国际联席会议提供支持，该会议将于2008年1月9日（星期三）至1月11日（星期五）在意大利的博尔米奥举行。 会议的一个中心主题是马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗（MCMC）和相关的方法和应用，从金融到技术，特别关注生物统计学中具有挑战性的问题。 所有赠款资金将用于支持初级生物医学研究人员的差旅费，即，在统计学、生物统计学或密切相关领域攻读博士学位或博士学位的人员，或在会议召开前五年内获得此类学位的人员。

Statisticians play an indispensable role in the analysis of biomedical, environmental and public health data, from the study design stage all the way through to final analysis and report-writing. Scholarly conferenceswhere new ideas can be exchanged are important for statistical science to move forward. International meetings, 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 familiarjournals 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 mightily to their professional development and helplevel the playing field with more established senior investigators. This grant will provide support for the Third 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 9 to Friday, January 11, 2008. A central theme of the conference will be Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) andrelated methods and applications ranging from finance to technology, with specific focus on challenging problems in biostatistics. All grant funds will be used to support the travel expenses of junior biostatisticalinvestigators, i.e., persons pursuing a PhD or DrPH in statistics, biostatistics, or a closely related field, or who have received such a degree within the five years preceding the conference.