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    It may not be possible to attend the above conference owing to severe
financial constraints. It will be very kind of you, if the proceedings of
the conference are made available to us


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Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 8:42 PM
Subject: Conference on Mixtures


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                        MIXTURES 2001

  RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MIXTURE MODELLING

                      23 - 28 JULY 2001

          UNIVERSITAET DER BUNDESWEHR
                 HAMBURG, GERMANY

A conference sponsored by the German Research Foundation


SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Dankmar Boehning (Berlin, Germany)
Herwig Friedl (Graz, Austria)
Bruce G. Lindsay (Penn State, USA)
Geoff McLachlan (Brisbane, Australia)
Adrian E. Raftery (Seattle, USA)
Wilfried Seidel (Hamburg, Germany)


ORGANIZERS

Dankmar Boehning, Wilfried Seidel


TOPICS:

Asymptotics, Algorithmic Issues, Bayesian Models, Clustering
and Classification, Data Mining, Econometrics, Epidemiology
and Medicine, Finance, Heterogeneity and Overdispersion,
High-Dimensional Models and Image Analysis, Identifiability,
Likelihood Ratio and Number of Components, Marketing,
Meta-Analysis and Disease Mapping, Robustness, Spurious
Solutions, Survival Analysis.


INVITED SPEAKERS include

M. Aitkin (Newcastle, UK)
G. Celeux (INRIA-Rhone Alpes, France)
D. Dacunha-Castelle (Paris, France)
R. DerSimonian (Bethesda, USA)
J. Diebolt (Grenoble, France)
L. Fahrmeir (Munich, Germany)
M. Lesperance (Victoria, Canada)
U. Fayyad (Seattle, USA)
P. Green (Bristol, UK)
G. Kauermann (Munich, Germany)
L. Knorr-Held (London, UK)
E. Lesaffre (Leuven, Belgium)
K. Mosler (Cologne, Germany)
J. Sarol (Manila, Philippines)
S. van de Geer (Leiden, Netherlands)


Two tutorials will be given: One on theoretical aspects of mixtures
by Bruce Lindsay, and one on practical aspects by Dankmar
Boehning.


CALL FOR PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a paper in one of the areas listed
above.
Selected papers will be published in a special volume of
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. These will undergo
the normal review process of CSDA.


For more information visit

       http://bruce.unibw-hamburg.de/mix01

or contact the local organizer:

Wilfried Seidel
FB Wirtschafts- und Organisationswissenschaften
Universitaet der Bundeswehr Hamburg
D-22039 Hamburg, Germany

E-mail: [log in to unmask]


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Wilfried Seidel
Universitaet der Bundeswehr Hamburg
Fachbereich Wirtschafts- und Organisationswissenschaften
D-22039 Hamburg
Germany

Phone: +(49)40-6541 2778      Fax: +(49)40-6541 2091
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://bruce.unibw-hamburg.de
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