This note is being forwarded from Bill Shannon, organizer of CSNA2005StL.
                                                                Stan 
Sclove, Secretary, CSNA



>Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 09:39:19 -0500 (CDT)
>
>Subject: RE: JOC Invited Papers (fwd)
>
>
>At Interface/CSNA 2005 two fantastic presentations were given that are to
>appear as Special Invited Papers in this year's Journal of Classification:
>
>         Jon Kettenring: The Practice of Cluster Analysis
>         JoC, Issue 1 of 2006
>
>         Jerry Friedman: Recent Advances in Predictive (Machine) Learning
>         JoC, Issue 2 of 2006
>
>I expect these to be well worth having and would encourage anyone
>interested to contact Stan Sclove ([log in to unmask]) about subscriptions

(CSNA membership form attached)


>Thanks
>Bill
>---
>
>                         Biostatistics Consulting Center
>                 http://ilya.wustl.edu/~shannon/bcc_announcement.pdf
>
>"Statistics is not a discipline like physics, chemistry or biology where
>we study a subject to solve problems in the same subject. We study
>statistics with the main aim of solving problems in other
>disciplines."   CR Rao
>
>
>William D. Shannon, Ph.D.
>
>Associate Professor of Biostatistics in Medicine
>Division of General Medical Sciences and Biostatistics
>
>Washington University School of Medicine
>Campus Box 8005, 660 S. Euclid
>St. Louis, MO   63110
>
>Phone: 314-454-8356
>Fax: 314-454-5113
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>web page: http://ilya.wustl.edu/~shannon

Stan Sclove
Sec'y/Treas., CSNA
  =========================================================
                                   Stanley L. Sclove, Ph.D.
                                            Statistician
                          Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Information & Decision Sciences Dept  M/C 294 ........  ofc (312) 996-2681
College of Business Administration ..................            dept (312) 
996-2676
University of Illinois at Chicago 
.....................                   fax (312) 413-0385
601 S. Morgan Street 
..................................                  [log in to unmask]
Chicago, IL 60607-7124, U.S.A. 
......................          www.uic.edu/~slsclove
=========================================================

                             PLAN TO ATTEND THE MEETING

   IFCS, the INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF CLASSIFICATION SOCIETIES

                IFCS 2006        Ljubljana, Slovenia      July 25 to 
29,  2006
==========================================================







----------------------------------------------
CLASS-L list.
Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l