Please circulate or post the following announcement. "Second Call for Abstracts" ************************************ Statistics and Health June 11-13, 2000, Edmonton, Canada ************************************ The Biostatistics Research Group of University of Alberta call for abstracts for the conference and workshop to be held in Edmonton in June 11-13, 2000. It will create a forum where statisticians, health services researchers, epidemiologists, policy analysts and other scientists can interact to identify and discuss issues and solutions for health research. The workshop on hierarchical modeling in health services research will be given by Dr. CONSTANTINE GATSONIS on Sunday, June 11, 2000. There will be two parts: Part I--Theory, concepts and Part II--Data analysis using MLn and BUGS software. Enrollment is limited to 60 and early registration is strongly encouraged. The abstracts are due February 1, 1999. Please see http://www.stat.ualberta.ca/~brg/conf.html for details, or email [log in to unmask], fax at 780-492-6826 or phone KC Carriere at 780-492-4230. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%