Notice to Readers
1999 CDC and ATSDR Symposium on Statistical Methods
CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR) will cosponsor a statistical methods symposium, "Emerging
Statistical Issues in Public Health for the 21st Century," January
28-29, 1999, in Atlanta. A short course, "Privacy, Confidentiality,
and the Protection of Health Data -- A Statistical Perspective,"
will
be offered January 27, 1999, in conjunction with the symposium. The
symposium and course are open to the public.
Abstracts will be considered in the following areas: 1) data
collection and storage, including questionnaire and survey design,
the use of data registries, and issues related to patients' rights
and data privacy and confidentiality; 2) modeling and analysis of
complex and/or dependent data structures, including techniques and
software for spatial, clustered, longitudinal, survey, and genetic
data, hierarchical and causal modeling, and data mining; 3)
modeling and analysis of sparse data structures, including issues
related to missing values, limits of detection, low dosages or
exposures, and rare conditions; 4) design, modeling, and evaluation
of public health interventions; and 5) applications of statistical
methods in public health arenas including infectious and chronic
disease prevention, injury and violence prevention, occupational
and environmental exposures, and immunization.
Abstracts should be postmarked no later that July 1, 1998.
Authors of papers accepted for presentations or posters will be
notified by September 30, 1998. Registration and abstract
information and additional information regarding scientific content
of the symposium is available from CDC's Epidemiology Program
Office, 1999 CDC and ATSDR Symposium on Statistical Methods, 1600
Clifton Road, NE, Mailstop D-01, Atlanta GA 30333; telephone (404)
639-3806; fax (404) 639-4463; or e-mail bam6@cdc.gov.
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