Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability (10th). Held in Salt Lake City, UT on July 24-28, 2007; Final rept. Mar-Nov 2007

摘要

The Tenth Conference of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability, sponsored by the IMS, was held on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, from July 24th to 28th, 2007. This yearly conference provides a unique opportunity for new researchers to exchange research ideas and initiate contacts amongst themselves in an informal setting as well as provide them an opportunity to interact with the invited senior participants. As part of the conference, each participant presented a talk or poster on their research. The meeting was structured to provide ample time and opportunities for them to discuss their research interests and life as new researchers over meals and a number of social activities. The majority of participants came from the United States, but also included researchers from Canada, Singapore, and Spain. The talk sessions were diverse in content, ranging from stochastic and space-time processes, semiparametric and nonparametric inference, data mining, classification and clustering techniques, methods for high-dimensional data, Bayesian methodology, statistical computing, and recent advances in survival analysis.