Late-Breaking Sessions at the 2005 Joint Statistical Meetings

摘要

The 2005 Joint Statistical Meetings, to be held August 7-11 in Minneapolis, will be the fourth JSM to feature late-breaking sessions. These are special invited sessions that highlight the role of statistics in recent developments in science, technology, and policy, covering important issues that arose too late to be included as part of the regular JSM invited program. Late-breaking sessions substantially increase the interest of the JSM to both the members of the sponsoring societies and to the press and general public, who are offered a glimpse of the central role of our profession in the affairs of the day. Some general background and a call for late-breaking session proposals appeared in an article in the March 2005 Amstat News.