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Host: University of Munich
Homepage: http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~blauth/workshop.html
Organizers: Iris Pigeot, Angelika Blauth, Angelika Caputo, Vanessa Didelez, Eva-Maria Fronk, Christa Jürgensonn
Deadline for abstracts: December 17, 1999
Description:
The main focus of the workshop lies on the crucial interplay of theoretical development and practical use of graphical models.
Thus, it aims to present current research and new solutions to the demanding tasks eminent to multivariate data analysis using
this special tool. For this purpose, the workshop tries to bring together researchers coming from the various fields devoted to
structural learning of high-dimensional data sets. The main emphasis lies on applied graphical modelling with priority on the
following topics:
Analysis of particularly complex or complicated data situations especially those involving time structure and dynamic modelling as they occur e.g. in event history. Such data structures may not only be due to a possibly large number of involved variables but also to an inherent dynamic aspect reflected by keywords as timevarying covariates and reverse causation. Applications in the fields of psychology/sociology and biomedicine where typically panel and observational studies with a huge number of collected variables and complicated time structure arise. Selection strategies, related computational aspects, and special algorithms which rely on the graphical structure including techniques like the EM-algorithm or Bayesian strategies employing e.g. MCMC methods. These applications should be motivated by real data problems. Methodological extensions of the graphical models approach e.g. aimed at handling challenging data situations or at coping with latent structures.
Speakers: David Edwards (Novo Nordisk, Copenhagen, Denmark), Ursula Gather (University of Dortmund, Germany), Paolo Giudici (University of Pavia, Italy), Niels Keiding (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Steffen Lauritzen (Aalborg University, Denmark), Thomas Richardson (University of Seattle, USA), Nanny Wermuth (ZUMA, Germany)
Date received: October 07, 1999
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