Dear colleagues,

the deadline for abstract submission for the DAGStat 2013 conference
has been extended to *Saturday, Dec 15, 2012*.  The programme
committee of the DAGStat 2013 invites you to submit abstracts for oral
or poster presentations for the 3rd Joint Statistical Meeting DAGStat
2013 which will take place in Freiburg (Germany) from March 18 to
22, 2013. The meeting includes the 59th 'Biometrisches Kolloquium' and
the 'Pfingsttagung der Deutschen Statistischen Gesellschaft'. The
'Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik' (DAGStat) is a network of
scientific and professional organizations that develop and promote
statistical theory and methodology. According to the motto 'Statistics
under one umbrella', contributions of all statistical disciplines will
be discussed. The main talks will address current topics which will be
interesting for statisticians of all areas of application.

Abstracts can be submitted on

  http://dagstat2013.uni-freiburg.de

until the *15th December 2012.*


Confirmed Invited Speakers 
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Odd Aalen, U Oslo
Gerard van den Berg, U Mannheim
Ludwig Fahrmeir, LMU München
Mitch Gail, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda
Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University
Tom Stanley, Hendrix College
Ed Vytlacil, Yale University
Daniel Bauer, U Georgia, Atlanta
Miguel Hernan, U Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
Patrick Bossuyt, U Amsterdam
Kurt Hornik, U Wien
Peter Filzmoser, TU Wien
Valerii Fedorov, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Science, UK
Simon Wood, U Bath, UK
Marc Paolella, U Zürich
Peter Bühlmann, ETH Zürich
John Copas, Warwick, UK
Stephen Walter, U Hamilton, Canada
Ruth Pfeiffer, National Cancer Institute, Bethseda, USA
Simon Thompson, U Cambridge
Matthias Parey, U Essex


Topics 
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Talks from a great variety of topics from different fields of
applications like medicine, economics and engineering will allow and
support an exchange of statistical methods and thus encourage
interesting and productive scientific discussions. Sessions will
include the following topics:

- Penalized and Regularized Regression Analysis
- Time Series Analysis
- Robust and Distribution Free Statistics
- Non- and Semi-Parametric Statistics
- Observational Studies
- Survival and Event History Analysis
- Computational and Simulation Based Statistics
- Clustering
- Classification
- Statistics for High Dimensional Data
- Applied Econometrics
- Risk Analysis and Risk Prediction
- Statistics in Finance, Insurance and Banking
- Statistical Surveillance
- Official Statistics and Demography
- Spatial Statistics
- Research Synthesis and Meta Analysis
- Benefit Assessment in Public Health
- Statistics in Clinical and Preclinical Research
- Statistics in Agriculture and Ecology
- Industrial Statistics
- Visualizations and Exploratory Data Analysis
- Image Analysis and Computer Vision
- Statistical Teaching and Consulting
- Design of Experiments
- Educational Research – Competence Modeling in Economics
- Statistik in der Öffentlichkeit und in der Politik (German) 
- Open Topics


Tutorials: 
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  - The Craft of Smoothing (Full day, 18 March, 9:00am – 5:00pm) 
    with Paul H. C. Eilers and Brian D. Marx

  - Competing Risks (Full day, 18 March, 9:00am – 5:00pm)
    with Jan Beyersmann and Arthur Allignol

  - Introduction to Parallel Programming and Batch Computing with R
    (Half day, 22 March, 2:00pm – 6:00pm) 
    with Bernd Bischl and Michel Lang


Local organization: 
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Martin Schumacher, Jan Beyersmann, Erika Graf, Guido Schwarzer, 
Martin Wolkewitz

Institute for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics
University Hospital Freiburg
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