In this issue:
Peter Bryant
College of Business
University of Colorado at Denver
Denver, CO 80217-3364
peter.bryant@cudenver.edu
303-556-5833
CSNA elections are coming up this fall, and I hope all members will vote. Historically, we've had very little electoral participation, but hope springs eternal. The more you participate, the more likely the officers and directors will represent your interests faithfully.
CSNA still faces a number of challenges as we move into the electronic era. The Board of Directors has been conducting business via email for years now, as of this fall, elections can be held via email, and thanks to the efforts over the last few years of our Business Managers, Fionn Murtagh, Stephen Hirtle and Buck McMorris, our bibliographic service,web site, and newsletter are now online.
That leaves us with the thornier issue of what the relationship between the Journal of Classification and these electronic means of distribution ought to be. That's going to take some thinking. As more and more professionals and societies of them get information via internet or related channels, the issue of the quality of that information becomes harder and harder to dodge. We have always taken a "high quality" approach, and the Journal's reputation reflects the editor's continuing commitment to that principle. Yet the time is quickly ending, it seems to me, in which we can simply say (if we ever did) that "paper" = "quality." Life is going to be more complicated than that, particularly for small societies like ours. It is probably time to start deciding what we want our position to be, and I expect the Board and officers will find this issue imposing on them. Be sure you let them know your views.
Finally, I want to welcome Bill Shannon, of the medical school at Washington University in St. Louis as our new Newsletter Editor, beginning January 1, 1998. Buck McMorris will be turning over the reins to him in the next months. The Board joins me in thanking Buck for his efforts and in welcoming Bill.
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Stanley L. Sclove
Information and Decision Sciences Dept. M/C 294
College of Business Administration
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S. Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7124
slsclove@uic.edu
www.uic.edu/%slsclove
Membership Renewal
Please note that it is time to pay for your dues for 1998, so that your receipt of the Journal will continue uninterrupted. A membership renewal form appears in this Newsletter and has also been mailed with ballots to those eligible to vote.
Annual Elections
The ballot for the annual elections also appears in this Newsletter, along with bios of the candidates. The ballots and bios have been mailed also.
The voting is by a modified Hare method, ranking the individual candidates (not all combinations of them). Two Directors and a President-Elect are to be elected. The new President-Elect will serve as President after the term of Stephen Hirtle. On the ballot there is also a motion to permit electronic elections (starting in 1998). This year's ballots are due to be received by the Secretary/Treasurer by 15-December, by mail or e-mail. If you mail the ballot, please put it in an envelope with your name on it in the return address; do not put your name on the ballot itself.
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Biographical Statements of Candidates
Candidates for President-Elect
David Banks
David Banks, Mathematical Statistician, National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly Associate Professor of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University). Co-chair of CSNA-97, and session organizer for CSNA-95 and CSNA-93. Recent editorialist for the CSNA Newsletter. Essentially an applied statistician, with odd forays into mathematics, social science, computing, and editing the update of the _Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences_. Member of the American Statistical Association, SIAM, and the Biometric Society. Research interests: complex data analysis, debunking TQM, tree-valued random variables, human rights data, software reliability, and computer- intensive methodologies.
The strengths of the CSNA lie in its diversity, its congenially interactive size, and its long tradition. Unfortunately, the diversity means that cohesion is hard, the small size means that recruitment is a perennial issue, and the long tradition means that our demography is skewed. These contrasts imply that the Society must maintain a balancing act to ensure its survival in a form we can all enjoy. For the short term, the CSNA should concentrate on staging meetings that are excitingly diverse and sufficiently topical to draw in new members who share our broad interests. In the medium term, we should seek to increase our visibility across the scientific domains of our membership. Regarding the long term, I haven't got anything like a plan, but I hope we will stand by our fundamental values of good science and warm collegiality.
Pierre Legendre
M.Sc.(zoology), McGill University, 1969; Ph.D. (biology), University of Colorado, 1971. Postdoctoral fellow at the Genetiska Institutionen, Lunds Universitet, Sweden, in 1971-72. Research Associate, then Research Director at Universite du Quebec Montreal, and finally Professor in the Departement de physique. Moved to Departement of sciences biologiques, Universite de Montreal, in 1980. Recipient of the Michel-Jurdant prize for Environment Sciences, Association canadienne-francaise pour l'Avancement des Sciences (ACFAS), for 1986. Killam Research Fellow, Canada Council, in 1989-1991. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science) since May 1992. Recipient of the Distinguished Statistical Ecologist Award of the International Congress of Ecology (INTECOL) in 1994, and of the Romanowski Medal (environmental science) of the Royal Society of Canada in 1995.
I have been a member of the Board of Directors of the Classification Society of North America (CSNA) from 1986 to 1989 and from 1994 to present. I gave the Short Course on classification methods presented at CSNA meetings since 1990, teaming up with Dick Dubes (replaced by Stephen Hirtle in 1993) and Glenn Milligan. I have also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Societe francophone de Classification (SFC) from 1984 to 1989.
I served as Secretary-treasurer of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) from 1988 to 1992. After that period, during which I also served as member and chair of various grant assessment committees in Canada (NSERC, Killam program), I spent four years writing a book on numerical methods for ecologists, as well as a pile of scientific papers. My main research interest is the application of methods of data analysis to ecological and phylogenetic problems, especially those involving the patterns of distribution of organisms in nature. CSNA is the scientific society to which I identify myself most naturally. Now that the book is almost ready to go to the printer, it is time for me to get back into active service for CSNA.
F. R. McMorris
McMorris is currently Professor of Mathematics, University Scholar, and Assistant Vice President for Research at the University of Louisville and has been a member of CSNA for nearly 20 years. He is currently CSNA Newsletter Editor and is retiring from this position after 4 years of service. McMorris is a member of 13 professional societies (his favorite is CSNA) which reflect his research activities in classification theory, discrete applied mathematics, computational and mathematical biology, location theory, graph theory and combinatorics. He has held appointments as Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomathematics at North Carolina State University, Professor of Mathematics at Bowling Green State University, and Scientific Officer at the Office of Naval Research. Visiting appointments have been held at the University of South Carolina, Clemson University, Rutgers University (DIMACS), University of Central Florida, and Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Like his good friend Pierre Legendre, he too has a pile of scientific papers.
Candidates for Director
J. Douglas Carroll
J. Douglas Carroll is Board of Governors Professor of Management and Psychology at the Graduate School of Management of Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1963, in Psychology (Psychometrics and Mathematical Psychology). Formerly a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Dr. Carroll's research is on multidimensional scaling and related techniques of data analysis, especially as applied to Marketing and Psychology. He holds a joint appointment in the Rutgers Graduate Faculty of Psychology and the Graduate School of Management, in the Marketing Department. He has taught at Yale, N.Y.U., C.U.N.Y., the University of California at San Diego, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Doug Carroll is an Associate Editor of Psychometrika, on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Classification and the Journal of Marketing Research, and has been a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and an editorial consultant for numerous other scientific and professional journals. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Psychological Society (APS), the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a member of a number of other professional Societies and Associations. He is past President of CSNA, the Psychometric Society, the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP), and Division 5, the Division of Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics, of APA, as well as past Chair of the Statistics in Marketing Section of ASA. He was a member of the Founding Council of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS), and is currently President of IFCS.
Carroll has published widely in such journals as Journal of Classification, Psychometrika, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, and a number of other journals, has contributed articles to a number of books and other publications, and is co-author of Three-Way Scaling and Clustering with Arabie and DeSarbo (Sage, 1987), and Mathematical Tools for Applied Multivariate Analysis with Green and Chaturvedi (Academic Press, 1997). He was co-recipient of the Alpha Kappa Psi Award for the most distinguished paper in the Journal of Marketing for 1981, and of the 1989 JAMS Best Article Award for the best paper in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. He has received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from APA, and the William James Fellow Award from APS.
James E. Corter
James E. Corter is Associate Professor of Statistics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he is affiliated with the Program in Measurement, Evaluation, and Applied Statistics and coordinator of the newly formed Program in Cognitive Studies in Education. Following graduate work in Quantitative Psychology at the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory at the University of North Carolina, he obtained his Ph.D. in 1983 from Stanford University in Cognitive Psychology. His research interests include: algorithms for fitting trees to proximity data, applications of clustering and scaling methods in education, psychology, and marketing, individual decision making, and mathematical and simulation models of learning.
Francois-Joseph Lapointe
B.Sc. in biological sciences, Universite de Montreal, 1988. Ph.D. in biological sciences, Universite de Montreal, 1992. Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin Zoological Museum, USA, from November 1992 to May 1994. In June 1994, he became Assistant professor in the Departement de sciences biologiques, Universite de Montreal. His research is presently funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and by the Fonds FCAR pour la formation des chercheurs et l`aide a la recherche du Quebec.
In 1990, he received the Academic Gold Medal of the Governor General of Canada, awarded to the best doctoral student in each Canadian university. For two consecutive years (1995 and 1996), the undergraduate students of the Departement de sciences biologiques de l`Universite de Montreal have awarded him their prize for Best Teacher. In 1996, the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) awarded him the Prize for Outstanding Research during its Fifth biannual Conference held in Kobe (Japan).
His research interests are quite diversified. As a biologist, he is working on the phylogenetic relationships among mammals (especially bats and marsupials). As a methodologist, he is interested in validation and consensus techniques for trees (phylogenies or classifications in general). As an Epicurean he enjoys drinking and classifying whiskies.
Ralph Stinebrickner
Since 1974, I have been a faculty member at Berea College, a four year undergraduate institution in Kentucky. Currently, I am Professor of Mathematics and Chairperson of the Mathematics Department. For approximately twenty years, I have been a member of CSNA and have attended many of the annual meetings. My background is in algebra (ring theory) while my interests lie in cluster analysis, discrete mathematics, and undergraduate education.
A course with Dick Dubes at Michigan State in spring 1974 stimulated my interest in research and instruction in cluster analysis. I soon discovered that cluster analysis was accessible to undergraduates at a variety of levels, and I list here just a few places where it has been introduced to students at Berea College. Courses focusing on cluster analysis have been offered to students with only an algebra prerequisite and to students who were majoring in mathematics. During several summers, students at Berea College participated in a program designed to allow undergraduates to study and pursue research in cluster analysis. This program was sponsored in part by NSF under its Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) program. More recently some students participated in a January seminar on classification. As a part of the seminar, the students and instructor prepared a book review which appeared in the Journal of Classification.
My own research efforts stem from two sabbatical leaves, one spent with Jim Rohlf at Stony Brook (1981-82) and one with Mel Janowitz at the University of Massachusetts (1990-91). During the first leave, development of the s-consensus index method began while during the second, efforts to place certain results from the ordinal model for cluster analysis into a graph-theoretic setting were initiated.
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CSNA ELECTIONS, 1997 BALLOT
If you mail your vote, please put the ballot in an envelope with your name on it in the return address; do not put your name on the ballot itself. Due by mail or e-mail (slsclove@uic.edu) at the Office of the Secretary/Treasurer by 15-December.
Prof. Stanley L. Sclove
Secy/Treas, CSNA
Information & Decision Sciences Dept. M/C 294
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S. Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7124
Questions?
Ofc 312/996-2681 Dept 312/996-2676 Fax 312/413-0385
E-mail: slsclove@uic.edu
Notes on voting:
Regular members and student members are eligible to vote in this election. Affiliate members are not eligible to vote.
Note to Canadian members:-- Due to the mail strike in Canada, you will not be receiving ballots and membership renewal forms in the mail. Please use the ballot in the Newsletter to vote by e-mail. Please use the membership renewal form in the Newsletter or from the Web page at http://www.pitt.edu/~csna/ .
A modified Hare System of voting is used in CSNA: Rank the individual candidates. (Remember please to rank ALL candidates.) The order of candidates on the ballot is random.
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For President-Elect (one to be elected).
Rank the individual candidates from 1 to 3,
(1 = most preferred, 3 = least preferred):
F.R. McMorris ____
David Banks ____
Pierre Legendre ____
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For Directors (two to be elected).
Rank the individual candidates from 1 to 4
(1 = most preferred, 4 = least preferred):
Francois-Joseph Lapointe ____
Ralph Stinebrickner ____
Doug Carroll ____
James Corter ____
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RESOLUTION TO BE VOTED UPON
The following item is submitted to the membership by the Board of Directors. It changes the CSNA bylaws to permit the Board of Directors to adopt procedures for carrying out annual elections electronically, while retaining the option for members to continue to receive mail ballots.
Resolved, that the following changes to the CSNA bylaws become effective January 1, 1998.
Change to Article IV, section 9 (Meetings of Members) Current reading: Section 9. Voting by Mail. Where the Board of Directors or Officers are to be elected by members such election may be conducted by mail in such manner as the Board of Directors shall determine, in accordance with Section V(3).
Proposed new version: Section 9. Voting. Where the Board of Directors or Officers are to be elected by members such election may be conducted in such manner as the Board of Directors shall determine, in accordance with Section V(3).
Change to article V, section 3, first sentence (Elections.) Current reading: Section 3. Elections. Annual elections shall be conducted by mail ballot of the membership to fill expiring terms among the officers and Elected Directors. The ballot shall be deemed to be delivered when deposited in the United States mail addressed to the member at his/her address as it appears on the records of the corporation, with postage thereon prepaid.
Proposed new version: Section 3. Elections. Annual elections shall be conducted by ballot of the membership to fill expiring terms among the officers and Elected Directors. The ballot shall be deemed to be delivered when (a) deposited in the United States mail addressed to the member at his/her address as it appears on the records of the corporation, with postage thereon prepaid; or (b) delivered by such other method as may be approved by the Board of Directors, provided that members may at their request choose to receive ballots as described by mail as described in Section 3(a).
Please indicate your vote on the above resolutions:
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The CSNA Newsletter is e-mailed to members and also posted on the CSNA homepage.
We look forward to your continued membership and participation in CSNA.
F.R. McMorris
Department of Mathematics
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
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It has been an honor to serve CSNA as Newsletter Editor for the past few years and I would like to thank all those members who helped me by producing Forum articles, responding to requests for information, etc. I'm sure that Bill Shannon will be a great Newsletter Editor and that he will surely modernize the look of both the email version and the www version of the Newsletter.
The 1998 annual meetings of the Classification Society of North America (CSNA) and the Psychometric Society (PS) will be held jointly at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois from Wednesday June 17th until Sunday June 21st, 1998, at the Levis Faculty Center on the University of Illinois campus. The meeting is supported by the Department of Statistics and the Department of Psychology, University of Illinois.
Two short courses are planned for Wednesday June 17th, with regular sessions beginning on the morning of Thursday June 18th. There will be a reception, business meetings of both societies, and a banquet during the meeting. CSNA and PS meetings are traditionally informal and very interdisciplinary .Abstracts of papers are distributed, but no formal proceedings are produced. Speakers are encouraged to discuss work in progress, of either applied or methodological nature.
Invited addresses will be given by Adrian Raftery, Erich Lehmann, and James Bezdek. Presidential addresses will be given by Ivo Molenaar and Stephen Hirtle.
The two day-long short courses on Wednesday June 17th are "An Introduction to Classification and Clustering", taught by Stephen Hirtle, Pierre Legendre, and Glenn Milligan, and an "Introduction to Tests and Measurement", taught by Terry Ackerman. The latter is sponsored by the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research.
Special sessions are planned on the following topics: Applications in Classification Distance Analysis of Multivariate Data Modeling of Ranking Data New PhD Roundtable Discussion Recent Advances in Probabilistic Choice Modeling State/Trait Models
The following contributed paper sessions are currently planned: Applications Applied Statistical Methods Bayesian Statistical Methods Categorical Data Analysis Classical Test Theory Classification Cluster Analysis Correspondence Analysis/Homogeneity Analysis/Dual Scaling Covariance Structure and Factor Analysis Exploratory Data Analysis Graphical Models Item Response Theory Linear Models Longitudinal Data Analysis Multidimensional Scaling Multivariate Statistical Methods Networks and Graph Theory
There will also be a special session for graduate student presentations.
The program committee is Ulf Bockenholt, David Budescu, David Dubin, Stephen Hirtle, Jacqueline Meulman, with co-chairs Ivo Molenaar, Carolyn Anderson, and Stanley Wasserman. Current information about the meeting can be found at the WWW sites http://www.pitt.edu/~csna/ and http://www.conted.ceps.uiuc.edu/fmpro/psychometric_society.form.ht ml
Abstracts of contributed papers should be sent to Stanley Wasserman, University of Illinois, 603 East Daniel Street, IL 61820 USA; telephone 1-217-333-3325;fax 1-217-244-5876; email pscsna98@s.psych.uiuc.edu. Please indicate which contributed paper session you are contributing to, and please keep abstracts under 200 words in length. Please send electronic versions of the abstracts, including the names, affiliations, and email addresses of the authors.
Abstracts are due March 31, 1998.
* JULY 6-10, 1998: 14th Australian Statistical Congress, Jupiter's Casino, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Programme Chair: K. Basford, Local Organization: W. Robb. Address: ASC14, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia. email: asc14@qut.edu.au, fax: +61 7 38642310. web: http://www.math.fsc.qut.edu.au/asc14.html
* JULY 21-24, 1998: 6th Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies, Rome, Italy. See CSNA web site for information.
* SEPTEMBER 28-30. 1998: International Conference on Ordinal and Symbolic Data Analysis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. This conference continues a sequence of conferences which started with two conferences on Ordinal Data Analysis in March 1992 at the TH Darmstadt and in October 1993 at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and continued with the International Conference on Ordinal and Symbolic Data Analysis in June 1995 at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (Paris), as well as the Ordinal and Symbolic Data Analysis Conference in March, 1997 at TH Darmstadt. The theme of the conferences is motivated by the fact that ordinal and symbolic data occur quite frequently, but theoretical tools for handling ordinal and symbolic data are not sufficiently developed. The physical layout of the facilities, as well as the design of the program, will encourage active discussions and frequent exchanges of information during the conference. E. Diday (Paris), M. F. Janowitz (Amherst), and R. Wille (Darmstadt) are the conference organizers. The conference will be supported in part by the University of Massachusetts. Despite this, attendance at the Conference will involve a nominal registration fee. Courses on Conceptual Data Analysis and on Conceptual Knowledge Processing will be offered immediately before the conference (the morning of September 28) at the University of Massachusetts.
The DEADLINE for applications and abstracts is July 1, 1998. If possible the abstract should be submitted in LaTex, and should not consist of more than a single page. A template for the abstracts is available on request.
Inquiries, applications and abstracts should be sent to: Prof. Melvin F. Janowitz Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Massachusetts Lederle Graduate Research Tower Box 34515 Amherst, MA 01003-4515, USA
or preferably by Email to:
OSDA98@math.umass.edu
Further information about the conference may be obtained from the Conference Web site: http://math.umass.edu/~osda98
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Scholar with strong methodological and research skills sought to join the Measurement, Evaluation, and Applied Statistics program in the Department of Human Development. The department also houses programs in Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Studies in Education, and Sociology and Education.
Responsibilities: Teach graduate research method classes, including educational and psychological measurement, plus advanced courses in such topics as generalizability theory, structural equation modeling, or computer-aided assessment. Conduct independent program of research, advise students, and supervise doctoral research.
Qualifications: Earned doctorate in psychology, education, statistics, or related field. Strong psychometric and statistical background. Demonstrated potential for excellent teaching and original research in psychometrics, cognitive science, and/or applied statistics.
To apply, send CV, sample publications or preprints, and three letters of reference to: Professor James E. Corter, Measurement Search Committee Chair, Box 118.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the search is completed.
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