This and previous issues of the newsletter can be read online through
the CSNA web page (http://www.pitt.edu/~csna).
Any suggestions/comments/general input are welcome! (email: jennifer@stat.Duke.EDU)
President's Corner
Stanley Wasserman
Departments of Psychology and Statistics and
The Beckman Institute
University of Illinois
603 East Daniel Street
Champaign, IL 61801
email: stanwass@uiuc.edu
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I took over the reins of CSNA on January 1 ... I am grateful to my immediate predecessor David Banks, and to my predecessor's predecessor Stephen Hirtle, as much for their leadership as for keeping CSNA stable and financially in the black. I hope to "pick their brains" over the next two years, or at least until I get "up to speed" with current CSNA issues. I am very glad to see the re-emergence of the CSNA Newsletter, and I commend Jennifer Pittman for all the good work she has put into the two issues that she has produced. I do hope to see the Newsletter appear on a regular basis.
As you know, there is a new CSNA Board of Directors. I thank all the candidates for running for election, and I congratulate our new President-elect, Phipps Arabie, and the two new members of the Board: David Dubin and Herbie Lee. I look forward to working with them over the next two years, as well as with those continuing on the Board. I will miss Bernie Harris and Buck McMorris, whose Board terms expired on January 1. Thanks Bernie and Buck for all the work you have put into CSNA, which I do hope will continue in other capacities.
I am very pleased to see Phipps Arabie continuing on the Board, albeit wearing a different hat. He continues to have much to offer, and will be a great President-elect. His service to CSNA through his editorship of Journal of Classification has been exemplary; I am glad that he will stay around.
Speaking of the Journal, it is time to welcome our new editor, Willem Heiser, University of Leiden. Willem has much editorial experience, including Psychometrika, which he edited in the mid-1990s. I have no doubt that under his leadership, the importance of the Journal will continue. There will be a new Editorial Board, and new financial arrangements (which the Board is just now studying). Willem took over March 1 ... please keep the Journal high on your reading, perusing, and submission lists.
Later in this newsletter you will read about CSNA02, which is happening in Madison in June, and IFCS02, in Cracow in July. I will be at the former meeting, but not the latter. I do hope that CSNA has some representatives in attendance; and let's hope that IFCS04 will be hosted by CSNA! (we are working on this right now).
I look forward to seeing you all in Madison, and to hearing about your research.
Do let me know if you have any thoughts, concerns or ideas, about CSNA. My email address is given above. I would be glad to hear from you.
Stanley Wasserman
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The Ex-Files: Letter from the Past President
David Banks
Food and Drug Administration
FDA/CBER HFM-215
1401 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20852
email: banksd@cber.fda.gov
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It has been a great privilege to serve the Classification Society of
North America over the last two years. I thank the membership, with humility
and pride, for entrusting me with this office.
The greatest thing about the job has been the chance to interact with so
many of you. The people are the soul of this society, and members like Gene
and Lois Boggess, Greg Constantine, David Wishart, Kevin Lynch, Dawn Iacobucci,
Jonathan Robbin, Francois-Joseph Lapointe, David Holmes, Art Kendall, and my
new good friend Mark Rorvig show the many axes of activity we share and can
enjoy. Someday someone should do a principal components analysis on us, in
hopes of finding out how many dimensions are spanned in the society!
The founding members of the CSNA (many of whom are not so old, and few of
whom act their age) have built a wonderful organization. The Journal of
Classification is our anchor, collegiality is our wind, and the hull is
honest science. I thank them for the chance to enjoy the success of their
labor: Joe Kruskal, John Hartigan, Herman Friedman, Jim Rohlf, Doug Carroll,
Mel Janowitz, Larry Hubert, Phipps Arabie, Buck McMorris, Bill Day, and many
others. Their work has set the mark of achievement to which we should all
aspire.
For the newer members, the society offers great opportunities.
I have been delighted that so many are stepping forward to take up the work,
and deeply appreciate the energy and commitment shown by David Dubin, Herbie
Lee, Jennifer Pittman, Chris Fraley, Kert Viele, Mike Larsen, Bob Olszewski,
and Mike Brusco. These people are smart, professional, and will carry the
organization far beyond the original hopes of the founding members.
It is always risky to polytomize a continuous variable. But I shall fully
grasp the nettle and thank those in the middle years of their participation.
Stephen Hirtle, Fionn Murtagh, Stan Wasserman, Glenn Milligan, Peter Bryant,
Pierre Hansen, Bill Shannon, Pascale Rousseau, Boris Mirkin, Pierre Legendre,
and Anil Chaturvedi have all contributed magnificently, each in their own
ways and in their own domains of expertise, to the continuing success and
breadth of our society.
But there are still four people who deserve special gratitude, not just from
me but from us all. First and foremost is Stan Sclove---he keeps CSNA running,
in ways that are often invisible outside the boardroom. His kind reminders and
thoughtful prompting have rescued me repeatedly from oversights and gaffes,
and I cannot thank him enough. Similarly, we should all thank Bernie Harris,
who stepped up to the plate to organize the 2002 CSNA meeting at nearly the
last moment, and is pulling it off brilliantly! And if one reads the fine print
in the Journal of Classification, then it is also clear that special
thanks are due to Lynne Bilger and Eva Whitmore, the past and present technical
editors---without them, Phipps would be far more frazzled, far more often.
The last two years have been busy, but I hope productive. We have a new
editor for our journal---Willem Heiser will surely take it in new
directions, but I am confident we could have found no better successor to our
tradition. Also, we now have slightly higher dues (please accept my sincere
apologies; the Board had to pick between fiscal responsibility and crass
popularity, and I hope time will show we chose wisely).
There are two problems that remain on CSNA's horizon.
- Our membership continues to slowly dwindle---we need to attract more
people, and the right kind of people. I ask all of us to make a point of
inviting friendly colleagues to attend our meetings.
- We have recently had strained relations with some of the other member
societies of the International Federation of Classification Societies, and I
hope those feathers can be unruffled. CSNA members will gain much from active
international scholarship in both the short and the long runs.
So I am very glad that Stan Wasserman has taken over.
These are his problems now, but I am sure we shall all share in doing
whatever we can to cultivate the success of our society!
Thanks, and best wishes in all things,
David Banks
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From the Secretary/Treasurer
Stan Sclove
Department of Information and Decision Sciences
College of Business Administration
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S. Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7124
http://www.uiuc.edu/~slsclove
February 4, 2002
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RESULTS OF THE ELECTION
The new President-Elect will be Phipps Arabie.
The two new members of the Board of Directors will be Dave Dubin and Herbie
Lee.
Many thanks to the Nominating Committee, which consisted of Mike Brusco, Chris Fraley, Larry Hubert, David Banks (ex officio) and myself (Chair).
Special thanks to the candidates, Phipps Arabie and Bill Shannon for
President-Elect, and Dave Dubin, Herbie Lee, Mark Rorvig, and Kert Viele for
members of the Board of Directors.
MUSICAL CHAIRS
Many thanks to Stephen Hirtle, whose term as Past President ends. Stephen
continues as Webmaster. Stephen is perhaps the only person who has hosted TWO
of our annual meetings!!
Special thanks to David Banks for serving as President; he now moves to Past
President.
Welcome to Stanley Wasserman, who moves from President-Elect to President.
To those whose terms as Directors will end, Bernie Harris and Buck McMorris,
many thanks for your time and effort.
EXHORTATION
We hope and expect that "retiring" officers will remain especially active,
particularly given their experience in helping to run the show. Bernie
Harris, of course, will be hosting CSNA2002/Madison. We take this opportunity
to thank Bill Shannon again for all his efforts in hosting CSNA2001/St.Louis.
HOUSEKEEPING
Below is a list of the Board, effective 1-January-2002.
CSNA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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| OFFICE | OFFICER | TERM | E-MAIL |
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| OFFICER DIRECTORS |
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| Past Pres. | David Banks | 2002-2003 | banksd@cber.fda.gov |
| Pres. | Stanley Wasserman | 2002-2003 | stanwass@uiuc.edu |
| Pres.-Elect | Phipps Arabie | 2002-2003 | arabie@andromeda.rutgers.edu |
| Secy/Treas. | Stanley Sclove | 2000-2002 | slsclove@uic.edu |
| ELECTED DIRECTORS |
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| Director | Jacqueline Meulman | 2000-2002 | meulman@rulfsw.fsw.leidenuniv.nl |
| Director | F. James Rohlf | 2000-2002 | |
| Director | Michael Brusco | 2001-2003 | mbrusco@garnet.acns.fsu.edu |
| Director | Chris Fraley | 2001-2003 | fraley@stat.washington.edu |
| Director | Herbert Lee | 2002-2004 | herbie@stat.duke.edu |
| Director | David Dubin | 2002-2004 | dubin@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu |
| EDITOR DIRECTORS |
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| JoC | Willem Heiser, Editor | heiser@rulfsw.fsw.leidenuniv.nl |
| CSNA Service | Fionn Murtagh | f.murtagh@qub.ac.uk |
| Newsletter | Jennifer Pittman | jennifer@stat.duke.edu |
| Webmaster | Stephen Hirtle | hirtle@pitt.edu |
NEW MEMBERS
If this is the first newsletter you've seen since joining paying your CSNA
membership, thank you and welcome to our ranks. It is your financial support
that will enable us to bring you the journal, our bibliographic research
service, and our meetings. We depend upon your participation to enable us to
continue to provide you with classification-related publications, information
and activities.
Thanks too to all the members who have renewed their memberships!
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CSNA 2002
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Conference Announcement
2002 Annual Meeting of the Classification Society of North America
June 13-16
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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The 2002 annual meeting of the Classification Society of North America (CSNA 2002) will be held at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin from June 13 to June 16, 2002 (Thursday to Sunday). All sessions are scheduled for the Pyle Center, a University of Wisconsin conference center attractively situated on the shore of Lake Mendota.
Two half-day short courses will be offered on June 13. Technical sessions are scheduled for June 14, 15 and 16. Several outstanding speakers have been invited and we are waiting for final decisions from some speakers. In addition, a session in memory of John van Ryzin is planned.
A welcome reception is scheduled for the evening of June 13 and the meeting banquet is scheduled for the evening of June 14.
CSNA meetings are traditionally informal and interdisciplinary, with only a few parallel sessions. Abstracts of papers that are presented will be distributed, but no formal proceedings will be produced. Presentations will include both applications papers and theoretical papers.
ACCOMMODATIONS
A block of dormitory rooms has been reserved in Barnard Hall, which is three blocks from the Pyle Center. In addition, a block of hotel rooms has been reserved at the University Inn, one block from the Pyle Center.
ATTRACTIONS
Madison has many excellent ethnic restaurants within a ten minute walk from the Pyle Center. A large number of restaurants in various price ranges may be found in the vicinity of the Pyle Center.
Madison has a number of excellent museums, and a number of attractive resorts and tourist areas are close to Madison.
TRANSPORTATION
Madison is served by 12 air carriers, many of which are feeder airlines providing service to the hubs of major carriers. There is frequent bus service to the Milwaukee and Chicago airports. Often, there is a substantial fare difference between flying to Chicago or flying to Madison.
ABSTRACTS
If you are intending to present a contributed paper, please submit an abstract by March 31, 2002, either by e-mail to harris@stat.wisc.edu or by regular mail to Professor Bernard Harris, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, 1210 West Dayton Street, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706-1693.
It is anticipated that some support will be available for students to attend CSNA 2002,
Further information about IFCS-2002 is posted at http://www.classification-society.org/csna02/. A second mailing, which will contain registration information and program details, will follow in a few weeks.
To download announcement(in MS Word):
CSNA 2002 Announcement
[submitted by B. Harris 02/18/02]
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CLASS
Fionn Murtagh
School of Computer Science
Queen's University
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland
February 4, 2002
email: f.murtagh@qub.ac.uk
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Evolution of Clustering and Classification Research
How often cited are references in the broad area of clustering and classification, including machine learning, neural networks, pattern recognition, spatial statistics, and information retrieval? How is this evolving over time?
The "Classification Literature Automatic Search Service", now in its 30th year, is provided on CD with the first issue each year of the Journal of Classification. From a "profile" of 90 journal articles or books, in 2001 there were 3268 citations to one or more of them.
List (abbreviated) of "profile" literature references follows. The first three columns give number of citations in the Science and Social Science Citation Indexes (SCI, SSCI), provided by ISI.
| 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | AUTHOR | JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE | VOL | P. | YR. |
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| [ 4] | [ 2] | [ 5] | ADAMS EN | SYST ZOOL | 21 | 390 | 72 |
| [ 78] | [ 72] | [ 58] | ANDERBERG MR | CLUSTER ANAL APPLICA | | | 73 |
| [ 9] | [ 5] | [ 3] | ARABIE P | 3 WAYSCALING CLUSTE | | | 87 |
| [ 7] | [ 4] | [ 7] | AVISE JC | SYST ZOOL | 23 | 465 | 74 |
| [ 43] | [ 51] | [ 30] | BENZECRI JP | ANAL DONNEES | | | 73 |
| [126] | [ 97] | [112] | BEZDEK JC | PATTERN RECOGNITION | | | 81 |
| [ NA] | [ NA] | [ 10] | BISHOP CM | NEURAL NETWORKS PATT | | | 95 |
| [ 8] | [ 4] | [ 5] | BLASHFIELD RK | PSYCHOL B | 83 | 377 | 76 |
| [226] | [223] | [223] | BREIMAN L | CLASSIFICATION REGRE | | | 84 |
| [ 8] | [ 1] | [ 8] | CARROLL JD | ANN R PSYCH | 31 | 607 | 80 |
| [ 33] | [ 26] | [ 32] | CARROLL JD | PSYCHOMETRI | 35 | 283 | 70 |
| [ 7] | [ 5] | [ 4] | CORMACK RM | J ROYAL STA A | 134 | 321 | 71 |
| [ 30] | [ 28] | [ 31] | COVER TM | IEEE INFO T | 13 | 21 | 67 |
| [ 37] | [ 32] | [ 43] | DEVIJVER PA | PATTERN RECOGNITION | | | 82 |
| [ 49] | [ 56] | [ 51] | DIGGLE PJ | STATISTICAL ANAL SPA | | | 83 |
| [309] | [289] | [324] | DUDA RO | PATTERN CLASSIFICATI | | | 73 |
| [ 29] | [ 32] | [ 26] | EFRON B | J AM STAT A | 78 | 316 | 83 |
| [ 19] | [ 15] | [ 16] | ELDREDGE N | PHYLOGENETIC PATTERN | | | 80 |
| [ 3] | [ 5] | [ 4] | EVERITT BS | BIOMETRICS | 35 | 169 | 79 |
| [ 36] | [ 32] | [ 37] | EVERITT BS | CLUSTER ANAL | | | 80 |
| [ 21] | [ 12] | [ 20] | FARRIS JS | AM NATURAL | 106 | 646 | 72 |
| [ 13] | [ 6] | [ 16] | FELSENSTEIN J | Q REV BIOL | 57 | 379 | 82 |
| [ 68] | [ 59] | [ 67] | FISHER RA | ANN EUGENICS 2 | 7 | 179 | 36 |
| [ 79] | [110] | [ 75] | FITCH WM | SCIENCE | 155 | 279 | 67 |
| [ 17] | [ 18] | [ 12] | FRIEDMAN JH | ACM T MATH | 3 | 209 | 77 |
| [ 5] | [ 2] | [ 2] | FU KS | SYNTACTIC METHODS PA | | | 74 |
| [ 27] | [ 20] | [ 21] | FU KS | SYNTACTIC PATTERN RE | | | 82 |
| [ 34] | [ 29] | [ 31] | FUKUNAGA K | INTRO STATISTICAL PA | | | 72 |
| [104] | [ 77] | [ 91] | GAUCH HG | MULTIVARIATE ANAL CO | | | 82 |
| [ 17] | [ 19] | [ 12] | GNANADESIKAN | METHODS STATISTICAL | | | 77 |
| [ 12] | [ 20] | [ 15] | GORDON AD | CLASSIFICATION | | | 81 |
| [ 32] | [ 34] | [ 33] | GOWER JC | BIOMETRIKA | 53 | 325 | 66 |
| [ 71] | [ 51] | [ 52] | GREENACRE MJ | THEORY APPLICATION C | | | 84 |
| [ 13] | [ 14] | [ 15] | GUTTMAN L | PSYCHOMETRI | 33 | 469 | 68 |
| [ 32] | [ 19] | [ 15] | HAND DJ | DISCRIMINATION CLASS | | | 81 |
| [ 72] | [ 78] | [ 87] | HARTIGAN JA | CLUSTERING ALGORITHM | | | 75 |
| [ 76] | [ 81] | [ 72] | HENNIG W | PHYLOGENETIC SYSTEMA | | | 66 |
| [ 10] | [ 11] | [ 11] | HILL MO | APPL STAT | 23 | 340 | 74 |
| [ 37] | [ 18] | [ 27] | HUBER PJ | ANN STATIST | 13 | 435 | 85 |
| [ 6] | [ 4] | [ 12] | HUBERT L | BR J MATH S | 29 | 190 | 76 |
| [ 12] | [ 3] | [ 10] | HUBERT LJ | J CLASSIF | 2 | 193 | 85 |
| [ 78] | [ 68] | [ 79] | JAIN AK | ALGORITHMS CLUSTERIN | | | 88 |
| [ 4] | [ 5] | [ 8] | JARDINE N | MATH TAXONOMY | | | 71 |
| [ 13] | [ 7] | [ 7] | JOHNSON SC | PSYCHOMETRI | 32 | 241 | 67 |
| [ 61] | [ 78] | [ 93] | KLUGE AG | SYST ZOOL | 18 | 1 | 69 |
| [ 49] | [ 86] | [ 80] | KOHONEN T | SELF ORG MAPS | | | 95 |
| [ 58] | [ 71] | [ 73] | KRUSKAL JB | MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCA | | | 78 |
| [ 45] | [ 45] | [ 48] | KRUSKAL JB | PSYCHOMETRI | 29 | 1 | 64 |
| [ 22] | [ 8] | [ 18] | LANCE GN | COMPUTER J | 9 | 373 | 67 |
| [ 25] | [ 33] | [ 24] | LEGENDRE L | NUMERICAL ECOLOGY | | | 83 |
| [ 8] | [ 5] | [ 7] | LORR M | CLUSTER ANAL SOCIAL | | | 83 |
| [ 50] | [ 46] | [ 34] | MADDISON WP | SYST ZOOL | 33 | 83 | 84 |
| [138] | [145] | [185] | MANTEL N | CANCER RES | 27 | 209 | 67 |
| [ 25] | [ 26] | [ 21] | MAYR E | PRINCIPLES SYSTEMATI | | | 69 |
| [ NA] | [ NA] | [ 1] | MCLACHLAN GJ | DISCRIMINANT ANAL ST | | | 92 |
| [ NA] | [ NA] | [ 1] | MCLACHLAN GJ | EM ALGORITHM EXTENSI | | | 97 |
| [ 28] | [ 34] | [ 48] | MCLACHLAN GJ | MIXTURE MODELS INFER | | | 88 |
| [ 38] | [ 31] | [ 21] | MICHALSKI RS | MACHINE LEARNING | | | 83 |
| [ 1] | [ 3] | [ 2] | MILLIGAN GW | MULTIV B R | 16 | 379 | 81 |
| [ 14] | [ 11] | [ 10] | MILLIGAN GW | PSYCHOMETRI | 45 | 325 | 80 |
| [ 23] | [ 17] | [ 27] | MILLIGAN GW | PSYCHOMETRI | 50 | 159 | 85 |
| [169] | [185] | [172] | NEI M | AM NATURAL | 106 | 283 | 72 |
| [ 32] | [ 34] | [ 38] | NELSON G | SYSTEMATICS BIOGEOGR | | | 81 |
| [ 9] | [ 12] | [ 9] | NOSOFSKY RM | J EXP PSY L | 10 | 104 | 84 |
| [ 10] | [ 13] | [ 10] | ORLOCI L | MULTIVARIATE ANAL VE | | | 78 |
| [ 21] | [ 7] | [ 8] | PAVLIDIS T | STRUCTURAL PATTERN R | | | 77 |
| [ 12] | [ 9] | [ 8] | PUNJ G | J MARKET RES | 20 | 134 | 83 |
| [ 11] | [ 12] | [ 14] | RAMMAL R | REV M PHYS | 58 | 765 | 86 |
| [ 3] | [ 2] | [ 11] | RAND WM | J AM STAT A | 66 | 846 | 71 |
| [ 11] | [ 8] | [ 4] | REYMENT RA | MULTIVARIATE MORPHOM | | | 84 |
| [ 63] | [ 60] | [ 63] | RIPLEY BD | SPATIAL STATISTICS | | | 81 |
| [ 3] | [ 5] | [ 4] | ROHLF FJ | MATH BIOSCI | 59 | 131 | 82 |
| [ 47] | [ 45] | [ 47] | SAMMON JW | IEEE COMPUT | 18 | 401 | 69 |
| [ 28] | [ 35] | [ 27] | SANKOFF D | TIME WARPS STRING ED | | | 83 |
| [ 8] | [ 12] | [ 16] | SATTATH S | PSYCHOMETRI | 42 | 319 | 77 |
| [ 21] | [ 20] | [ 28] | SCHIFFMAN SS | INTRO MULTIDIMENSION | | | 81 |
| [192] | [172] | [158] | SILVERMAN BW | DENSITY ESTIMATION S | | | 86 |
| [387] | [367] | [360] | SNEATH PHA | NUMERICAL TAXONOMY P | | | 73 |
| [ 34] | [ 43] | [ 43] | SOKAL RR | PRINCIPLES NUMERICAL | | | 63 |
| [ 6] | [ 10] | [ 12] | SPATH H | CLUSTER ANAL ALGORIT | | | 80 |
| [ 2] | [ 2] | [ 4] | SPITZER RL | BRIT J PSYCHI | 125 | 341 | 74 |
| [127] | [125] | [115] | SWOFFORD DL | J HEREDITY | 72 | 281 | 81 |
| [ 81] | [ 74] | [ 70] | TVERSKY A | PSYCHOL REV | 84 | 327 | 77 |
| [ 42] | [ 48] | [ 44] | VANLAARHOVEN | SIMULATED ANNEALING | | | 87 |
| [ NA] | [ 44] | [ 54] | VANRIJSBERGEN | INFORMATION RETRIEVA | | | 79 |
| [ 94] | [109] | [115] | WARD JH | J AM STAT A | 58 | 236 | 63 |
| [ 54] | [ 58] | [ 52] | WILEY EO | PHYLOGENETICS | | | 81 |
| [ 4] | [ 9] | [ 7] | WISHART D | CLUSTAN USER MANUAL | | | 87 |
| [ 11] | [ 8] | [ 8] | WOLFE JH | MULTIV B R | 5 | 329 | 70 |
| [ 5] | [ 10] | [ 8] | ZAHN CT | IEEE COMPUT | 20 | 68 | 71 |
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Other News and Events
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CSNA Dues
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After much discussion and consternation, the board has decided to lean toward fiscal responsibility and increase (slightly!) the membership dues for CSNA. The new yearly due schedule is posted below. Remember, membership includes
- A subscription to the Journal of Classification
- Discount registration fees at the annual CSNA meeting
- The Classification Literature Automated Search Service (CLASS) on CD
- Newsletters of the CSNA and IFCS by e-mail
Please visit the CSNA website at http://www.pitt.edu/~csna/csna.member.html to join. We encourage the participation of both new and returning members in CSNA.
| DUES | 2002 |
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| Regular member (receive all publications) | $80 |
| Retired regular member (receive all publications) | $60 |
| Student member (receive all publications) | $35 |
| For members of the IFCS member societies: |
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| Affiliate member (receive JoC only) | $60 |
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IFCS-2002
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Conference Announcement
2002 Meeting of the International Federation of Classification Societies
July 16-19
Cracow, Poland
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The next conference of the International Federation of Classification
Societies (IFCS-2002) will be held on July
16-19, 2002 in Cracow (Poland). This conference is organized by the
Section on Classification and Data
Analysis of Polish Statistical Association (SKAD).
Further information about IFCS-2002 is posted at the conference website
(http://ifcs2002.ae.krakow.pl).
[submitted by D. Banks 07/15/01]
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Mixtures 2002
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Preliminary Announcement
Workshop on Developments and Challenges in Mixture Models, Bump Hunting and Measurement Error Models
June 2 - 4, 2002
Cleveland, Ohio
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This special international research workshop brings together researchers
from different fields such as astronomy, biology, bioinformatics, data mining
and statistics, but who are all interested in the scientific challenges to
their fields arising from the statistical problems associated with mixture
models, bump hunting, measurement error models and other related topics. The
workshop is designed to provide a unique opportunity for young researchers
and experts alike to closely interact on these topics. Contact workshop
organizers for possible travel support to junior researchers and
under-represented groups.
Invited Sessions: Astronomy, Bayesian computational methods,
Bioinformatics, Bump hunting, Clustering, Genetics, Image analysis,
Measurement errors, Mixture models, Neyman lectures.
For more details, see web site http://sun.cwru.edu/mix.
[submitted by S. Sclove 07/22/01]
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A Report from CSNA 2001
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Bill Shannon, the organizer of CSNA 2001, reported at the board
meeting that this year there were 63 attendees; 14 attended the short
course on latent class models given by Jay Magidson and 8 attended
the short course on consensus problems and group choice presented by
Bill Day. A vote of thanks was given to Alison Ebers who,
as Secretary in the General Medical Sciences Department (Shannon's
department), was instrumental in assisting Bill in organizing and hosting
this year's meeting.
From an attendee's perspective, the meeting provided information as well
as entertainment.
Several of the talks presented different perspectives on the
hot topic of microarray data, including
presentations by Giovanni Parmigiani, Kay Tatsuoka, and
Maciej Faifer from the perspectives of a medical researcher, a
pharmaceutical researcher, and a database/datasystems manager, respectively.
After a recommendation by Bill Shannon and a follow-up pep talk by
David Banks, I agreed to take on the title of CSNA newsletter editor
- a perfect excuse to be socially active at the Bowling
Hall of Fame Banquet. As well as enjoying good food and conversation
we could examine bowling artifacts that could easily have been found in
Fred Flintstone's closet, examine the inner workings of an automatic (or
manual!) pin setter and enjoy an interesting talk by Willem Heiser.
The depiction of the Goddess of Measurement with a clock on her head, a
sextant in her hand, a bridle on her tongue, and a snake about her hips
was simply not to be missed (shall we expect such stimulating graphics in
upcoming issues of the JoC?).
Many thanks for Bill for all of his hard work ... and building momentum
for CSNA 2002.
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The WWW and ascii version of the CSNA Newsletter is made available as
a service of the Classification Society of North America (web site: http://www.pitt.edu/~csna/).
For further information on becoming a member of CSNA, please contact
the CSNA Business Manager (web site: http://www.pitt.edu/~csna/csna.member.html).
CSNA Webmaster: Stephen Hirtle, email: hirtle@pitt.edu
