The CCASA wishes you a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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November Luncheon |
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Luncheon Announcement
Noon to 1:30PM
TUESDAY, November 17, 2009
The East Bank Club,
500 N. Kingsbury, Chicago 60610
Please join us for another exciting talk in the CCASA's
2009-2010 Luncheon program!
Our November speakers are Stephen T. Ziliak
and Deirdre N. McCloskey.
Steve Ziliak has held academic appointments
at a number of universities, including Emory and the
Georgia Institute of Technology where, in 2002, he
was awarded Faculty Member of the Year. He is
currently Professor of Economics at Roosevelt
University.
Deirdre McCloskey is an economist and
economic historian who around 1980 became
interested in the rhetoric of persuasion in her field,
and then wider literary matters, such as literary and
social theory. Her main project for the next few years
will be writing a four-volume tome on The Bourgeois
Virtues. Volume 1 was published as a trade book by
the University of Chicago Press in 2006, and widely
and on the whole favorably reviewed. She is a free-
market economist, and so the book is theologically
speaking an "apology" for capitalism.
Their discussion is entitled The
Cult of Statistical Significance:.
We want to persuade you of one claim: that
William Sealy Gosset (1876-1937)-aka "Student"
of "Student's" t-test-was right, and that his difficult
friend, Ronald A. Fisher (1890-1962), though a
genius, was wrong. Fit is not the same thing as
importance. Statistical significance is not the same
thing as scientific importance or economic sense. But
the mistaken equation is made, we find, in 8 or 9 of 10
articles appearing in the leading journals of science,
economics to medicine. The history of this "standard
error" of science involves varied characters and plot
twists, but especially R. A. Fisher's canonical
translation of "Student's" t. W.S. Gosset,
aka "Student," working as Head Experimental Brewer
at Guinness, took an economic approach to the logic
of uncertainty. Against Gosset's wishes his friend
Fisher erased the consciously economic element,
Gosset's "real error." We want to bring it back.
Plans for our future luncheons will be
included in our
upcoming announcements and in the Parameter.
Lunch is $30 for CCASA members, $35 for
non-members. Non-members, join the chapter for a
year for only $15 and get the discount plus
all of the other
benefits of membership! As usual, the Lucile
Derrick
Fund will purchase a limited number of
tickets for
students who wish to attend. If you are a
student and
would like to take advantage of this offer,
please
register online below, and contact Gerald Funk,
expressing your interest. Please register for
the
luncheon by Friday, November 13th,
2009.
Register online at https://www.123
signup.com/servlet/SignUpMember?
PG=1531573182300&P=153157300.
Mark Your Calendars! The December
luncheon will be held on
December 8th, and the speaker will be
Al Madansky. The always entertaining Dr.
Madansky will present a talk on How to Read a
Business Book. Plan to join your CCASA friends in
December!
Questions: Contact Borko Jovanovic,
CCASA
VP Luncheons, Phone: 312-503-2008 or E-mail:
borko@northwestern.edu
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Save the Date! This spring's ASA Workshop |
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Workshop on
Knowledge
Discovery with Support Vector Machines:
Lutz Hamel, University of Rhode Island
Sponsored by the Chicago
Chapter Of the American Statistical
Organization.
Course summary
The ASA Chicago Chapter will hold its Spring
Workshop on March 26, 2010. The topic is support
vector machines. Since their introduction in 1995,
support vector machines have become one of the
preeminent machine learning paradigms. Support
vector machines are now employed routinely in
applications ranging from handwriting analysis to
bioinformatics and mining of very large databases.
Our presenter is Dr. Lutz Hamel of the
University of Rhode Island. Dr. Hamel is the author
of "Knowledge Discovery with Support Vector
Machines," part of the Wiley Series on Methods and
Applications in Data Mining.
Stay tuned for more information!
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2009 - 2010 CCASA Officers |
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Chicago Chapter American Statistical Association
Executive Board 2009 - 2010
President Lou Fogg
Rush University (312)942-6239
President-Elect Michael R. Wise
Astellas (847) 436-3700
Past-President Gerald Funk
Loyola University Chicago
VP Communications Linda Burtch
Burtch Works
VP Conferences John VanderPloeg
ARC Worldwide
VP Luncheons Borko Jovanovic
Northwestern University
VP Membership Richard Smiley
NCSBN
VP Secretary Dan Hayes
Mintel Comperremnedia
VP Treasurer Jerry Enenstein
JEResearch
Assistant Treasurer Peter Manikowski
Quatrro Risk Management
VP Workshops Tony Babinec
AB Analytics
ASA Council of Chapters Rep. Tony Babinec
Historian Steve Maguire
Ex-Officio Director: Council of Chapters Governing
Board, Vice-Chair, Region 2, District 4 (effective 2007)
Kathy Morrissey
Strategy 2
Market
Inc
Directors at Large
George Bateman, University of Chicago
Linda Clark, LMC Consulting Co
Edward Hirschland, The Landhart
Corporation
Mary Kwasny, Northwestern University
Arnold Zellner, University of Chicago
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Dues & Events Notice for CCASA Members |
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Dues Reminder and Calendar of Events
As our new year gets underway we are taking this
opportunity to remind you that your local chapter dues
are now due.
For those who have paid your dues through National
ASA, this is our chance to thank you and to welcome
you back to our exciting series of programs for the
2009-10 year. The dues are $15 and checks should
be made out to "Chicago ASA." You can bring the
dues with you to your next luncheon meeting or mail
to:
Chicago ASA Treasurer
P.O. Box
7259
Chicago, IL 60680
Please note
that if
you attend three chapter
programs during the year you will have received
discounts equal to the annual dues amount. We look
forward to seeing you and networking with you this
year!
Here is a brief calendar of events for the rest of the
2009-2010 year:
- November 17 - Steven
Ziliak
(Statistical Significance) Author of "The Cult of
Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error costs
us Jobs, Justice, and Lives"
(How to read a Business Book) - our always
informative, always fun,
always something extra, Holiday Meeting.
- January 26 - Lisa
Amoroso
(Ethics in an Infoglut World) Massive amounts of
data! Lower data collection costs!
Sounds great - what's the problem?
- February 23 - Kwang-Youn
Kim
(Variations in the Genome) The 2 most common
sources of variety in human DNA
showcase interesting statistical questions in their
detection
- March 23 - Juned
Siddique
(Missing Data) Handling this nemesis of
Statisticians everywhere. A discussion of "popular but
unprincipled methods" and modern approaches -
illustrated with data from the WECare study.
(longitudinal data on depression)
(Causality models) Is it the cause or an effect?
Dr.Kang is using cardiovascular
disease to develop a model to infer causality based
on subsets in large data sets.
- May 2009 - Statistician of the Year
Award Ceremony
And our latest blockbuster in early February -
combines two popular events in one day:
- Our morning career fair from 10:00 to Noon
with
tables of companies planning to hire, and roundtables
on specific topics
- Our afternoon conference on Social Media &
Networking
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Editor |
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**PLEASE NOTE EDITOR'S NEW CONTACT
INFORMATION**
Editor: Linda Burtch (847) 328-6902
PARAMETER, newsletter of the Chicago Chapter of
the American Statistical Association, is
published 10
times a year as a service to its members. To
submit
material for publication, contact the Editor,
Linda Burtch, email:
lburtch@burtchworks.com
PARAMETER provides a job listing service by
publishing Positions Available and Positions
Wanted,
the latter being free to Chapter members.
Companies may list positions for $75.
Contact
the Editor for more information.
For additional information about Chicago Chapter
ASA, please visit us on the web at:
www.ChicagoASA.org.
Also, visit the National ASA
web site www.amstat.org.
Email change of address to:
smileyr@georgetown.edu
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