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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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