In this issue:
Michael P. Windham
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-3900
windham@math.usu.edu
I am pleased to announce two new members in the International Federation of Classification Societies: the Section on Classification and Data Analysis of the Polish Statistical Society (SKAD) and the Portuguese Association for Classification and Data Analysis (CLAD). We welcome these new sister societies.
I am also pleased to announce that the Japanese Classification Society will go ahead with plans for the IFCS meeting in Kobe in March of 1996. The people of Kobe are recovering rapidly from the diaster of the earthquake and we wish them well.
DON'T PAY!!! the surcharge for hard copies of the Newsletter and Service with this year's dues. These charges will take effect only beginning with 1996. Please return the CSNA Services Information form attached to this Newsletter, if you did not do so last time. You should return the form whether you intend to use WWW or not. However, if you do plan to use the WWW access, and I hope you do, you need not return the form, if you will send your e-mail address to the Secretary, Dawn Iacobucci, at d- iacobucci@nwu.edu.
CSNA has a new address for its WWW homepage. Please access it with
http://www.pitt.edu/~csna/
Finally, Bernard Picton reminded me of an alternative WWW browser to
mosaic: the Netscape Navigator, or just netscape. It is available for
Mac, DOS, and Unix platforms. Bernard says,
"You might like to look at using Netscape instead of Mosaic as your browser. I've been following the computer press quite closely on this, and using Netscape since it became available in January. It's much faster and more reliable than Mosaic, in my opinion it really is way ahead.
Netscape have a web page at:
http://home.mcom.com/home/welcome.html
Version 1.0 is free for academic and non-profit users. 1.1 is only in beta at present, but has some good new features, including support for the next version of the html language, which will allow use of tables, etc. As far as I can find out, it's the only one supporting in-line JPEG images itself as yet as well. (Others need an external viewer for JPEG images, and can't display them in-line with text)."
One other point is that netscape is a smaller program and is therefore more likely to run successfully on machines with small RAM. Thanks Bernard.
Dawn Iacobucci
Department of Marketing
Kellogg Graduate School of Management
Northwestern University
2001 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
Here are three of the main committee assignments for the CSNA.
Nominating Committee:
Mel Janowitz (Ch)
John Daws
Herman Friedman
Finance Committee
Stan Wasserman (ch)
Stan Sclove
Dawn Iacobucci (ex officio)
Membership Committee
Larry Hubert (Ch)
David Banks
Don Dearholt
F.R. McMorris
Department of Mathematics
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
frmcmo01@homer.louisville.edu
(502)852-6826
The special feature in this Newsletter consists of some important information from our 'Webmaster', Stephen Hirtle. By the time you get this mailing, the current issue of the Newsletter should also be available on the Web. UPDATE: Sorry folks. I was a little late getting this out.
Stephen C. Hirtle
University of Pittsburgh
CSNA Webmaster
hirtle+@pitt.edu
As the CSNA information officer, I would like to mention a few changes to
the World Wide Web (WWW) pages of the CSNA. First and foremost, CSNA now
has it own WWW address. The new address is
http://www.pitt.edu/~csna/csna.html
From this home page, you can access a number of classification-related services including several on-line bibliographies and the CSNA newsletters. The most recent additions are (1) the 1994 volume of the Classification Literature Automated Search Service, known as CLASS, and (2) the February 1995 issue of the CSNA newsletter.
If you have do not have access to web browser, such as Mosaic, Lynx, or Netscape, you can retrieve some of the information through an email server. To retrieve the CSNA WWW page via email, send a message to the address
"listserv@mail.w3.org" , with the single line of
send http://www.pitt.edu/~csna/csna.html
The hypertext document will be mailed back with you with hypertext links
in brackets. You may request further documents by replying to the message
with the numbers of the requested documents in the body of the message,
e.g.,
2 3 14
You can also send the message 'help' to the listserv address above to
learn more about this service.
I am also in the process of setting up a CSNA ftp server, where you can deposit technical reports, papers, or software code. Please let me know of any information, or pointers, that you would like to see on either the CSNA ftp server or CSNA WWW pages.
I will announce most changes to the CLASS-L, the classification listserv.
If you do not subscribe to this listserv, you should consider doing so.
It is a fairly low volume group, so it should not clog your mailbox with
messages. To subscribe, send the two-line email message:
SUB CLASS-L Jane Doe (where "Jane Doe" is your name)
SET CLASS-L DIGEST
to the address: LISTSERV@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU. The last
line is optional, but recommended. This will set the digest option on,
which means that you will get at most one message a day from the CLASS-L
listserv, with all of the messages from that day bundled together as a
single message. It will be identified with a subject heading "CLASS-L
Digest", followed by the date. This helps in identifying incoming mail
and reduces the number of email entries in your mailbox. It also
virtually eliminates the chance of mistakenly replying to the entire list,
when you mean to reply to the sender alone. (This last error has not been
much a problem for CLASS-L, but seems to be a common occurrence on several
other lists that I subscribe to).
Finally, I would like to include pointers to WWW pages of classification labs or classification researchers. If you have a home page, or your own classification depository on the WWW, and would like to make it available for others, please send me the address and I will include it in the upcoming list of classification labs.
CSNA 95
See the previous newsletter for information about the program. Here is something about Denver, our host city.
CLIMATE: Denver in June is normally sunny, warm (85 degrees F) and dry during the day. Afternoon thundershowers are common, followed by clearing and cool weather in the evening (55 deg. F - 60 deg. F by morning). At 5300 feet above sea level, the humidity is low (30-35% in the day), and the sun is bright, so sunscreen is appropriate for outdoor activities.
TOURIST ATTRACTIONS: The conference hotel is in downtown Denver, within a 15 minute walk of the statehouse, the Denver Mint, the 16th St. shopping mall, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the Denver Art Museum, Coors Field (new home of the Colorado Rockies baseball club, unfortunately not scheduled to play on this weekend), and other historical places. Denver's Zoo, Museum of Natural History, and Botanical Gardens are a short bus or taxi ride away. Attractions within a drive of one to two hours include Pikes Peak, the Air Force Academy, Central City (slot machine gambling), Boulder, Estes Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, mountain resort areas at Keystone, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain Vail, and others. A variety of bus tours (including tours to Black Hawk and Central City) leave directly from the hotel. The hotel concierge can provide further information.
SPECIAL FEATURE: On Saturday, June 23 from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM (approximately), a guided walking tour of historic lower downtown Denver ("LoDo") will leave from the hotel. Our guide will be Tom Noel, Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Denver, former chair of the Denver Landmark Preservation Commission, columnist for the Denver Post, and author of numerous books and articles about Denver and its history. The tour will include historic hotels and saloons, the former red light district, Colorado's "original" gaming district, Union Station, Coors Field, and some of the history associated with them.
LODGING: Participants will find in convenient to stay at the Executive Tower Inn, which is the location of the conference. A block of rooms has been reserved there until June 5 at the rate of $68 (single) or $78 (double). To make reservations, either call the Executive Tower Inn at 1- 800-525-6651 (1-303-571-0300 from abroad) , or notify them via FAX (303- 825-4301), and mention that you are attending the CSNA meetings to get the rates mentioned above. The address for written correspondence is 1405 Curtis Street, Denver, Colorado 80202 USA. All meeting rooms are handicapped - accessible. If you require a wheel-chair accessible sleeping room, be sure to request it specifically when making your reservation. Other hotels are available within a few blocks of the conference hotel, though they are generally more expensive. For information, please get in touch with the conference chair. Participants interested in sharing a room with another participant may inform the conference chair, who will provide names of others who are so interested.
TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS
By automobile: Denver is located near the intersection of I-25 and I-70. Proceed south from this intersection on I-25 to the Speer Boulevard South Exit.(Exit 212A). Proceed towards downtown on Speer Boulevard, turn left for two short blocks on Lawrence St, right for two blocks on 14th St, and left on Curtis Street. The hotel is at the corner of 14th and Curtis Streets. Parking is available for $7/day in the hotel garage, with in-and- out privileges.
By train: AMTRAK leaves passengers at Denver's Union Station, 17th and Wynkoop Streets, about 10 blocks from the Executive Tower Inn at 14th and Curtis Streets. Taxis are normally available at Union Station.
By bus: Greyhound and Trailways leave passengers at the Denver Bus Center, 19th and Arapahoe Streets, about 6 blocks from the Executive Tower Inn. Taxis are normally available at the Denver Bus Center.
By Air: Denver International Airport (DIA) is located about 22 miles northeast of the downtown area. Planes arrive at one of three concourses, A, B, and C. Take the escalator down to the shuttle train to the terminal and baggage claim. The trains run every two minutes. At the terminal proceed up the escalator to level 5, and the ground transportation booths. The baggage claim is also on this level. Note that international arrivals (relatively few) discharge passengers directly at the terminal on level 5, without using the train. Ground transportation options include:
The city bus: Look for the "SkyRide" booth on level 5. Route AF takes you to Market Street Station, and 16th and Market Streets, about 5 blocks from the Executive Tower Inn. Fare is $6.00 each way, and exact change (or a ticket purchased at the booth) is required. Busses leave the West DIA Terminal outside door 506 at 45 minutes after the hour, from 6:45 AM to 12:45 AM (to 11:45 PM on Saturdays). The trip takes about one hour. There has been recent discussion about increasing the schedule.
Denver Airport Shuttle (DASH): DASH runs 10-passenger vans to downtown hotels, including the Executive Tower Inn, leaving DIA every 15 minutes until 10:30 PM. (Less frequently on weekends). Buy tickets ($15 one way, $27 round trip) at the DASH booth on level 5. Reservations are not specifically needed at DIA, but you should call for reservations two hours in advance of your return trip from the Executive Tower Inn back to DIA. To be sure of Handicapped-Accessible Vans, you should probably make a reservation at DIA, too. Phone: 1-800-525-3177 or (303) 342-5454. The trip takes 50-60 minutes.
Rental Car: All major rental car agencies are represented at DIA. Their booths are on level 5. Follow their instructions to I-70 west, then refer to the "by automobile" instructions above. Remember to leave extra time on returning your car to DIA, as the return lots are some distance from the terminal. Most agencies recommend returning your car 90 minutes in advance of your flight departure.
Taxi: Taxis are available at DIA, but the fare to downtown is expensive ($38 - $45 one way).
All inquiries should be directed to:
Peter Bryant, CSNA-95
College of Business
University of Colorado at Denver
Campus Box 165
Denver, Colorado 80217-3364 USA
Telephone (303)-556-5833
Fax (303)-556-5899
e-mail csna95@castle.cudenver.edu
* MAY 17-19, 1995: International Conference on Visualization of Categorical Data, Cologne, Germany. Papers are welcome which bridge the theory of visualization techniques and their interpretation in social science applications, focusing on methodological aspects as well as empirical studies. Methods to be included at the conference are: correspondence analysis, homogeneity analysis, loglinear and association models, latent class analysis, multidimensional scaling, biplot, cluster analysis, ideal point discriminant analysis, CHAID, formal concept analysis, and graphical models. Information: Jorg Blasius, Universitat zu Koln, Bachemer Str. 40, D-50931 Koln. e-mail: blasius@ibm.za.uni-koeln.de
* MAY 25-26, 1995: Seventeenth Symposium on Mathematical Programming with Data Perturbations. George Washington University, Washington, D.C. This symposium is designed to bring together practitioners who use mathematical programming optimization models and deal with questions of sensitivity analysis with researchers who are developing techniques applicable to these problems. Information: A.V. Fiacco, Department of Operations Research and the Institute for Management Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052. phone: 202-994-7511.
* JUNE 7-10, 1995: Fifth International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics ad Informetrics. Rosary College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, River Forest, Illinois. The scope of the conference can be broadly defined as those topics which treat in quantitative fashion the creation, flow, dissemination, and use of scholarly or substantive information. Information: M. Koenig, Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Rosary College, River Forest, IL 60305. phone: 708-524-6849, Fax: 708-524-6657, e-mail: roskoenigm@crf.cuis.edu.
* JUNE 20-23, 1995: International Conference on Ordinal and Symbolic Data Analysis Organized by: INRIA Rocquencourt and TELECOM Paris. This conference is in the tradition of conferences previously held in Antibes (1990), and in Paris (1992) on Numeric and symbolic data analysis, and in Darmstadt (1992) and in Amherst (1993) on Ordinal data analysis. The ordinal and symbolic approaches to data analysis have been successfully developed during these years via stimulating workshops and conferences for experts in the field. Both approaches have particularly emphasized the intentional background of data which is necessary for validation, interpretation and communication.
Since many observed or experimental data sets are of symbolic or ordinal nature, it has become increasingly clear that ordinal and symbolic data analysis has applications in a large number of areas including medicine, biology, social sciences, economics, agronomy, data retrieval, information sciences. etc. Information: INRIA Rocquencourt - Conference Secretariat: Claudie Thenault, Relations Exterieures, Domain de Voluceau, BP 105 - 78135 Le Chesnay Cedex, France. Tel: 33 (1) 39 63 56 75, Fax: 33 (1) 39 63 56 38, e-mail: symposia@inria.fr
* JUNE 22-25, 1995: CSNA-95, Denver. See announcements in previous Newsletters.
* JULY 4-7, 1995: 9th European Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. Topics include (but are not limited to) Categorical Data Analysis, Classical Test Theory, Classification, Clustering, Correspondence Analysis, Exploratory Data Analysis, Factor Analysis, Graphical Models, Item response Theory, (Generalized) Linear Models, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, Multivariate Analysis, Optimal Scaling, Statistical Methods, Structural Equations Models, Variance Components Analysis.
The meeting will be held at Leiden University. Leiden is located in the West of the Netherlands, a short distance from Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam. It is easily reached by air from Amsterdam's Schiphol International Airport, as well as by train. Information on submission of papers or proposals for symposia: Willem J. Heiser, Chair of the Scientific Program Committee, Department of Data Theory, Faculty of Social Sciences, Wassenaarseweg 52, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands. General information: Jacqueline J. Meulman, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee, Department of Data Theory, Faculty of Social Sciences, Wassenaarseweg 52, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands, or, Susanna Verdel, Conference Secretary. phone: +31 71 273829, FAX: +31 71 273865, e-mail: psleiden@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl
* SEPTEMBER 22, 1995: Statistical Symposium on Bootstrap, Discrimination and Regression, Paris, France. This symposium will feature Professor B. Efron, Stanford University, who will give talks on the Bootstrap as well as being a discussant for the complementary lectures. Information: C.I.S.I.A. Secretariat Symposium, 1 avenue Herbillon, 94160 Saint-Mande, France. Phone: (33-1) 43 74 20 20, Fax: (33-1) 43 74 17 29.
* JULY 12-14, 1995: 13th British National Conference on Databases, Manchester, UK. Information: F. Butt, Dept. of CS, Univ. of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. Phone: +44 61 275 6248, Fax: +44 61 275 6286. email: bncod@cs.man.ac.uk
* SEPTEMBER 22, 1995: Statistical Symposium on Bootstrap, Discrimination and Regression, Paris, France. This symposium will feature Professor B. Efron, Stanford University, who will give talks on the Bootstrap as well as being a discussant for the complementary lectures. Information: C.I.S.I.A. Secretariat Symposium, 1 avenue Herbillon, 94160 Saint-Mande, France. Phone: (33-1) 43 74 20 20, Fax: (33-1) 43 74 17 29.
* SEPTEMBER 25-27, 1995: Australasian Biometrics Conference, Coolangatta (Gold Coast, Queensland), Australia. This conference will have a day on agricultural statistics (particularly field variety trials), a day on medical and health statistics, and half-days on the practical application of Markov Chain Monte Carlo and environmental statistics. Information: Kaye Basford, Department of Agriculture, The University of Queensland, Brisbane Qld 4072, Australia. Phone 61-7-3652810, Fax 61-7- 3651177, e-mail k.e.basford@mailbox.uq.oz.au
* OCTOBER 8-12, 1995: 6th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop: An interdisciplinary meeting, Chicago, IL. The CR Workshop is designed to be an exchange of ideas among active researchers with interests in the creation, development, management, representation, display, comparison, compatibility, theory, and application of classification schemes. Information: email rps4@columbia.edu
Rian van Blokland-Vogelesang
SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research
P.O.Box 170
2260 AD Leidschendam
The Netherlands
Blokland@SWOV.nl
The following recent and forthcoming publications might be of interest to CSNA members.
N. Belavendram, Quality by Design, Hemel Hempstead (U.K.): Prentice Hall, 1995, pp. 400, $42.00. ISBN 0-13-186362-2.
B.S. Bennett, Simulation Fundamentals, Hemel Hempstead (U.K.): Prentice Hall, 1995, pp. 272. ISBN 0-13-813262-3.
D.H. Besterfield, Total Quality Management, Hemel Hempstead (U.K.): Prentice Hall, 1995, pp. 448, $39.95. ISBN 0-13-030651-7.
C.C. Clogg, Statistical Models for Ordinal Variables, London: Sage, Advanced Quantitative Techniques in the Social Sciences series, Vol. 4. 1994, pp. 208, #26.50, ISBN 0-8039-3676-1.
B. van Cutsem, Classification and Dissimilarity Analysis, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1994, pp. 238, DM 72.00. ISBN 0-387-94400-1.
E. Diday, Y. Lechevallier, and M. Schader, P. Bertrand, and B. Burtschy, New Approaches in Classification and Data Analysis, Berlin: Springer- Verlag, 1994, pp. 693, DM 178.-. ISBN 3-540-58425-0.
L. Fahrmeir and G. Tutz, Multivariate Statistical Modelling Based on Generalized Linear Models, Springer-Verlag, Springer Series in Statistics, 1994, pp.425, DM 89.00, #38.50, ISBN 3-540-94233-5.
H. Feger, Structure Analysis of Co-occurrence Data, Aachen (Germ.):Verlag Shaker, 1994, ISBN 3-86111-912-9.
J.A. Hagenaars, Categorical Longitudinal Data: Loglinear Panel, Trend, and Cohort Analysis, London: Sage, pp. 400, #39.50, ISBN 0-8039-2957-9 (hbk) or #24.50, 1990, ISBN 0-8039-5898-6 (pbk).
G.T. Henry, Graphing Data, London: Sage, Applied Social Research Method series, Vol. 36, 1994, pp. 168, #12.95, ISBN 0-8039-4809-3 (pbk), #27.95, ISBN 0-8039-4808-5 (hbk).
T.R. Jensen and B. Toft, Graph Coloring Problems, Chichester (U.K.): Wiley, 1995, pp. 256, $45.95, ISBN 0471-02865-7.
A. Jessop, Informed Assessment: An Introduction to Information, Entropy, and Statistics, Hemel Hempstead (U.K.): Ellis Horwood, 1995, pp. 256, $34.00. ISBN 0-13-109299-5.
I. Joliffe, B. Jones, and P. Garthwaite, Statistical Inference, Hemel Hempstead (U.K.): Ellis Horwood, 1995, pp. 226, $46.95. ISBN 0-13-847260- 2.
N. Lange, L. Billard, L. Conquest, and J. Greenhouse (Eds.), Case Studies in Biometry, Chichester (U.K.): Wiley, 1994, pp. 518, $34.95, ISBN 0471- 58925-X (pbk), or $80.50, ISBN 0471-588857-7 (hbk), includes diskette containing all data sets.
R.R. Laxton, Seriation, The theory and Practice of Chronological Ordering in Archaeology, Chichester (U.K.): Wiley, 1995, pp. 300, $106.00, ISBN 0471-93857-2.
R. Lehtonen and E. Pahkinen, Practical Methods for Design and Analysis of Complex Surveys, Chichester (U.K.): Wiley, 1995, pp. 336, $47.95, ISBN 0471-93934-X.
G. Lindfield and J. Penny, Numerical Methods Using MATLAB, Hemel Hempstead (U.K.): Ellis Horwood, 1995, pp. 250, $36.00. ISBN 0-13-030966-4.
E. Marubini and M.G. Valsecchi, Analysing Survival Data from Clinical Trials and Observational Studies, Chichester (U.K.): Wiley, 1995, pp. 424, $63.95, ISBN 0471-93987-0.
R. Meyer, Matrix-Approximation in der Multivariaten Statistik, Aachen: Verlag der Augustinus Buchhandlung, 1993, pp. 135, DM 36.00. ISBN 3-86073- 185-8.
M. Mesterton-Gibbons, A Concrete Approach to Mathematical Modelling (2nd ed.), Chichester (U.K.): Wiley, 1995, pp. 624, $68.95, ISBN 0471-10960-6.
W.N. Venables and B.D. Ripley, Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus, Springer-Verlag, Series Statistics and Computing, 1994, pp. 464, DM 68.00, ISBN 3-540-94350-1 (hbk). Includes diskettes.
N. Walford, Geographical Data Analysis, Chichester (U.K.): Wiley, 1995, pp. 440, $39.95, ISBN 0471-94162-X.
S. Wasserman and J. Galaskiewicz, Advances in Social Network Analysis: Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, London: Sage, Sage Focus Editions, Vol. 171, 1994, pp. 320, #37.50, ISBN 0-8039-4302-4 (hbk) or #16.95, ISBN 0-8039-4303-2 (pbk).