Travel Support for the 4th International Joint IMS-ISBA Conference

该基金将为2011年1月5日（星期三）至1月7日（星期五）举行的IMS（数理统计研究所）和ISBA（国际贝叶斯分析学会）第四次国际联席会议提供支持。会议的中心主题将是马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗（MCMC）及其相关方法和应用。资金的大部分将用于支持初级生物统计研究人员的旅费，即攻读统计学、生物统计学或密切相关领域的博士或博士学位的人员，或在会议召开前五年内获得此类学位的人员。这些研究人员所做的研究往往是最新颖、最有趣、对国际传播最重要的研究，但他们缺乏参加此类会议所需的旅费，因为他们还没有建立足以吸引外部旅行和其他工作经费的出版记录。我们得到了ISBA的承诺，将为10名来自经济落后国家的年轻博士提供部分旅行支持，我们还在寻求国家安全局的支持，为另外10-15名年轻研究人员提供支持。会议的具体目标和预期效益包括促进统计理论在金融、技术、环境科学、生物医学等领域的持续发展和应用，以及在特定研究领域的背景下更充分地探索经典统计方法和贝叶斯统计方法的相互作用。统计学家在分析生物医学、环境和公共卫生数据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。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，发展新的统计方法来解释来自临床、观察和实验室研究的数据是统计努力的一个关键领域。因此，能够交流新思想的学术会议对统计科学的发展非常重要。初级统计研究人员参加这些会议的好处和必要性特别大，因为这些会议对他们的专业发展做出了巨大贡献，并有助于与更成熟的高级研究人员“公平竞争”。该基金将为2011年1月5日（星期三）至1月7日（星期五）举行的IMS（数理统计研究所）和ISBA（国际贝叶斯分析学会）第四届国际联席会议提供支持。我们寻求的大部分支持是用于支持初级调查人员的旅费。

This grant provides support for the Fourth International Joint Meeting of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and ISBA (the International Society for Bayesian Analysis), to be held on Wednesday, January 5 to Friday, January 7, 2011. A central theme of the conference will be Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and related methods and applications. The lion's share of the funding will be used to support the travel expenses of junior biostatistical investigators, 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. 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. We have a commitment from ISBA to provide partial travel support for 10 young recent PhDs from economically disadvantaged countries, and are also seeking support from NSA for support for 10-15 additional young investigators. Specific goals and anticipated benefits of the conference include promoting the continued development of statistical theory and applications in finance, technology, environmental science, biomedicine and other areas, and a fuller exploration of the interplay of classical and Bayesian statistical methods in the context of specific areas of research.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. 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. 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 help "level the playing field" with more established senior investigators. This grant provides support for the Fourth International Joint Meeting of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and ISBA (the International Society for Bayesian Analysis), to be held Wednesday, January 5 to Friday, January 7, 2011. The lion's share of the support we seek is to support the travel expenses of junior investigators.