| The San Diego Chapter of the American Statistical Association (SDASA) hosted a 2005 ASA Council of Chapters traveling course on Applied Nonlinear Statistical Methods on March 25 at the Sumner Auditorium, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD in La Jolla. Two other chapters were selected to host this event -- Alabama and San Antonio. | |
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This short course was given by
Professor
Timothy E. O¹Brien of
Loyola University of Chicago. Dr. O¹Brien has extensive industrial
and academic working experience and is an expert on this topic.
In this one day short course, Dr. O¹Brien started with linear regression and progressed to in depth lecture on applications of nonlinear regression in pharmaceutical applications and natural resources. His discussions included convergence, diagnostics, and the inadequacy of standard (Wald) confidence intervals, provided by most software packages. He recommended highly the profile likelihood confidence intervals. |  |
| Nancy Lo, SD chapter president, presented distinguished service awards to Kevin Cummins for his contribution to establishing and maintaining our website and to Christopher Ake for his diligence of serving the nominations and election committee. |  |
| Sixty-seven people attended the short course, including statisticians and professionals interested in statistics in academia, government, and the pharmaceutical/biotech industry, private consulting and others. Several of the attendees came from Los Angeles area as far as Thousand Oaks. |  |
| Members of the San Diego Chapter, who contributed their time to organize this event are Dr. Nancy Lo, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Ms. Bei Zhang of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Patricia English of Pfizer La Jolla Laboratory, Dr. Sheela T¹Walker of Talwalker Consulting and Ms. Ying Yang, SDSU. We thank the ASA Council of Chapters, for providing such a short course and Southwest Fisheries Science Center for providing for the setting up meeting place. |  |