Thursday, June 22
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Registration and Social Mixer at the GSB with Vendor Exhibits and Contributed Posters
Friday, June 23
7:00 - 8:30AM
Registration at the GSB
7:30 - 8:30 AM
Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 AM
MSMESB Background
George C. Tiao, W. Allen Wallis Professor Emeritus, Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Keynote Plenary Session: Statistical Advocacy
Panel discussion by past winners of the Chicago ASA Harry V. Roberts Statistical Advocate of the Year Award, Gerry Hahn, GE retired, and Fritz Scheuren, NORC and Past President of ASA [Chair: George Bateman]
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Coffee Break and Sponsor Exhibits
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Parallel Invited Sessions
Modern Bayesian Statistics Applied to Causal Inference
Rob McCulloch, Sigmund E. Edelstone Professor of Statistics and Econometrics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business [Chair: Keith Ord]
A Survey of Today's first course in Statistics Using Personal Response Systems
Richard T. Rogers, Professor of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and John D. McKenzie, Jr., Associate Professor of Statistics, Babson College [Chair: Stanley A. Taylor]
12:00 - 2:00 PM
Award Luncheon
Tribute to Harry V. Roberts
By Albert Madansky, H.G.B. Alexander Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Chicago ASA Chapter Harry V. Roberts Statistical Advocate of the Year Award Presentation and Talk
[Chair: John Watts, ASA Chicago President] Professor Steven Levitt, Director of the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago, has been named as the Harry V. Roberts Statistical Advocate of the Year, 2006, by the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association. The award recognizes the accomplishments and contributions of those who have successfully advocated appropriate and effective uses of statistics in business and the public sector. The award is named for the late Harry V. Roberts, the exemplar of statistical advocacy and cofounder of MSMESB.
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Parallel Invited Sessions
Assessing Objectives of the First Course in Statistics
Mark Berenson, Montclair State
Personal Quality
Bernie Sergesketter, Chairman, Sergesketter & Associates, and former officer and VP, AT&T
Consulting and Expert Testimony
George Easton, Emory University
Ethics in Statistical Application
Louis Fogg, Rush Presbyterian University Medical Center
3:00 - 3:30 PM
Coffee Break and Sponsor Exhibits
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Capstone Plenary Session: Panel on How to Make Statistics More Effective in Schools and Business
Panel discussion by George Benson, Dean, University of Georgia Terry College of Business, and John Watts, Sr. Vice-President and Global Managing Director, Opinion Research Corporation and President, ASA Chicago Chapter [Chair: Al Madansky [Chair: Al Madansky]
For an excellent 15-page summary of a similar session at the first conference which was also held at Chicago GSB, go to MSMESB 1986 Deans Panel
6:00 - 10:00 PM
Dinner (Optional)
Quadrangle Club at the University of Chicago or
Hyde Park Restaurant to be selected or
Dutch Treat Dining at the Ball Park World Series Champion Chicago White Sox vs. National League Champion Houston Astros. If interested, you must sign up early for tickets! For more information on the game and the Sox go to the Chicago White Sox Official Site
Contributed papers and poster sessions
During the conference, contributed papers will be displayed, with plenty of
discussion time available during breaks and discussion time. We encourage
submissions in the areas of assessment, application and advocacy (roughly defined as using statistical and quantitative methods to achieve change within organizations and in policy).
Electronic submissions for contributed poster sessions are encouraged and should
be sent to:
Professor Stanley A. Taylor
College of Business
California State University Sacramento
Sacramento, CA 95819-6088
sataylor@csus.edu
Exhibitors
Throughout the conference exhibitors from the worlds of statistical software,
technical and text books, and teaching / training materials will showcase their
wares, and provide a means through which participants can make their needs
known.