SFB Workshop

	Aims and Scope:

Modern computational mathematical and modelling techniques have greatly facilitated the development of complex statistical models for dealing with challenging applications in biology, medicine, finance, economics and social science. As a consequence, validation and choice of models have become more important than ever, and many approaches have been proposed over the years by statisticians, econometricians, biostatisticians and computer scientists.

This workshop aims at bringing together theoretical and applied research, advances in exploratory and inferential tools, new concepts and empirical experience, and Bayesian and frequentist approaches to deal with this key issue.

• Exploratory and graphical model diagnostics
• Bayesian and frequentist model selection
• Variations on Bayes factors and choice of priors
• Model selection in semiparametric regression
• Boosting and bagging in classification and regression
• Model averaging
• Practical issues: computation, empirical experience and comparisons

	Program:

Final program is available here! (lastly modified Sep 19, 2005)
Most of the talks are now downloadable. (Nov 8, 2005)

	Invited Speakers include:

• Julian Besag (University of Washington, Seattle)[Abstract] [Slides]
• Peter Bühlmann (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich)[Abstract]
• Raymond Carroll (Texas A&M University)[Abstract] [Slides]
• Siddhartha Chib (Washington University, St. Louis)[Abstract] [Slides]
• Remy Cottet (University of Sydney)[Abstract] [Slides]
• Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter (Johannes Keppler University Linz)[Abstract] [Slides]
• David Madigan (Rutgers University, Piscataway)[Abstract] [Slides]
• Axel Munk (University of Göttingen)[Abstract] [Slides]
• Benedikt Pötscher (University of Vienna, Austria)[Abstract]
• David Ruppert (Cornell University, Ithaca)[Abstract]
• Michael Smith (University of Sydney)[Abstract] [Slides]
• Daniel Stram (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)[Abstract] [Slides]
• Angelika van der Linde (University of Bremen)[Abstract] [Slides]
• Mike West (Duke University, Durham)[Abstract]

	Program Committee:

Claudia Czado, Ludwig Fahrmeir, Leonhard Held, Stefan Lang, Stefan Mittnik, Gerhard Tutz, Kurt Ulm.

	Local Organization:

Andreas Brezger, Iris Burger, Christiane Dargatz, Susanne Heim, Andrea Hennerfeind, Thomas Kneib, Jan Ulbricht

	Conference Location:

The conference will take place at the "Schweinchenbau", Leopoldstr.13, 80802 München. The talks will be given in room HS 2U01, building 2, basement. Public transport: U3 or U6 Giselastraße.
On the LMU map you can find the building near spot "9" (click on it to get a VR tour). From the Institute of Statistics opposite spot "3" the conference venue can be reached in about 5 minutes by foot.

	Registration:

Please register for the workshop until September 9, 2005 using the following email-address:
Note, that there will be a limit of about 75 participants.
We intend to provide ample opportunity for discussions. Therefore the official program will be limited to invited talks and a few contributions. However, there will be a possibility to present a poster in a special poster session. If you intend to do so please indicate this in your registration and provide a title and an abstract until September 9, 2005.

Fees

Graduate Students:	free
Scientists:	70 EUR
Industry:	100 EUR

The workshop fee is collected on site by Iris Burger. Please do not make any bank transfers to the SFB386 before arrival.

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Munich Tourist Information: Site seeing, attractions,...

Public transport: Underground, bus and railway connections

Hotels: There are a number of small hotels in walking distance to the university (PDF file, prices 2004). When booking, please mention that you are a participant of the workshop, as the university has special rates with most of the hotels listed. Other good hotels may be found, e.g., by a search for "Munich" in the Hotel Reservation Service.

Note further the up-coming workshop on Financial Risk and Time Series Analysis.

	For further information please contact:

Iris Burger, SFB 386
Ludwigstr. 33
D-80539 München

email:
Fax: ++49 89 2180 5039
Phone: ++49 89 2180 3418