CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry;
the Atlanta chapter of the American Statistical Association; the
Biostatistics Division, Emory University School of Public Health;
and the Department of Statistics, University of Georgia, will
cosponsor a statistical methods symposium entitled "Small Area
Statistics in Public Health: Design, Analysis, Graphic and Spatial
Methods" January 25-26, 1995, in Atlanta. A short course,
"Geographic Information Systems: Concepts and Perspectives for
Small Area Analysis in Public Health," will be offered January 24,
1995, in conjunction with the symposium.
The symposium will include invited plenary presentations and
contributed papers. Abstracts will be accepted in the following
areas: "borrowed strength" methods for small-area estimation; use
of small-area statistics in environmental health issues; small-area
statistics and ethnic subpopulations; estimation and forecasting
from small samples; detection of temporal and spatial trends in
disease patterns; geographic information systems; mapping and
graphic methods for public health research; and confidentiality and
data-accessibility issues. Abstracts should be postmarked no later
than August 1, 1994.
Abstract, registration, and cost information is available from
CDC's Division of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Epidemiology
Program Office, Mailstop C-08, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA
30333; telephone (404) 639-0080. Additional information regarding
scientific content of the symposium is available from the Chair,
1995 CDC and ATSDR Symposium on Statistical Methods, telephone
(404) 488-4300 (Internet: SJS1@CEHEHL1.EM.CDC.GOV).
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