P.Mean: Statistics events in the Kansas City area (created 2011-08-14, last updated 2012-01-10)

This webpage provides information about Statistics events in the Kansas City area. I'll try to keep this updated regularly. If you are aware of Statistics events in the Kansas City area that aren't listed here, send me an email at .

Seminar in Advanced Outcomes Research. "Qualitative Research - Introduction to Qaulitative Research (Part 1 of 3)" by Carole Decker. Wednesday, February 22 at 3pm, Old MAHI Fifth Floor Conference Room. Note that this seminar meets weekly and it is difficult for me to update this page regularly, so please accept my apologies if this entry is a week or two out of date.

KUMC Biostatistics Journal Club is meeting on Monday, March 5 at 12:15pm in 5030 Robinson. Fancisco Diaz will be continuing a discussion of a Stephen Senn article on individualized therapy. Yours truly is slated to talk in April on an article by Russ Lenth on sample size calculations.

Kansas City R Users Group is meeting on Saturday, February 25, 2pm at the Plaza Library large meeting room. Meeting topic: Show and Tell (everybody should bring something interesting they've done in R recently).

Kansas City Area SAS Users Group is having three speakers and six presentations on Thursday, March 8 from 9am to 4pm at room 165, Reinier Hall, KU Edwards Campus. Consult their website (kcasug.org) for details.

Kansas City Area SAS Users Group is offering a short course, SAS Functions by Example --- authored and delivered by Ron Cody at the SAS Overland Park Training Center on April 3 and 4. There is a 10% discount off the normal price of $1,500.

Kansas City R Users Group is meeting on Saturday, April 7, 2pm at the Plaza Library large meeting room. Meeting topic and speaker TBA.

Kansas State University is sponsoring the 24th Annual Applied Statistics in Agriculture conference from April 29 to May 1, 2012. The program is not available yet, but the short course and keynote speaker is Rob Tempelman from Michigan State University and he will be talking about the Bayesian approach to Generalized Linear Mixed Models. Many details are not available yet, but as they become available, they will be posted at http://www.dce.k-state.edu/conf/applied-stats.

Fifth Annual Symposium on Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods - Kansas City, MO - April 26-27, 2012 Cerner Corporation, the Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter of the ASA, and the department of biostatistics at the University of Kansas Medical Center are pleased to announce their fifth annual symposium. This event will take place at the Cerner Vision Center on Cerner Corporation's World Headquarters campus. The keynote will be delivered by Richard Simon, chief of the biometric research branch of the National Cancer Institute. A pre-symposium short course, "Bayesian Adaptive Methods for Clinical Trials," also will be offered onsite the morning of April 26 by Bradley Carlin, professor and head of biostatistics for the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. For more information and to register, please visit the Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter's website at: http://community.amstat.org/KWMChapter/AnnualSymposium/

Kansas / Western Missouri Chapter of the American Statistical Association is holding its Spring meeting in Manhattan, KS on May 3. Professor Noel Cressie at The Ohio State University will be speaking. Time and meeting room to be determined.

Note that there are several regularly scheduled Statistics events in the Kansas City area. I will post specific details above, as these events become available, but here is some general information. All of these groups have an email distribution list and I can help get you on any of these if you like.

Kansas City Area SAS Users Group meets quarterly, usually on the first Thursday from 1:00 - 4:00 pm at Regents Center, KU Edwards Campus – Room 108, 12600 Quivira, Overland Park, Kansas. Their website is http://www.kcasug.org.

Kansas City R Users Group usually meets on the third Saturday of every other month from 2:00 - 3:30pm. If you want to get on the mailing list, go to http://groupspaces.com/KCRUsersGroup/.

Kansas / Western Missouri Chapter of the American Statistical Association usually has a Fall meeting in the Kansas City area and a Spring meeting in Manhattan. They will also sometimes sponsor a short course, and they are a co-sponsor of the Frontiers in Biostatistics conference in May. Their website is http://community.amstat.org/KWMChapter/Home/.

KUMC Biostatistics Journal Club usually meets on the first Monday of the month (but sometines the second Monday of the month) at Robinson 5030, during the lunch hour (starting times have varied from 11:30am to noon to 12:15pm). Most of the recent talks have started at 12:15pm. These talks can usually be viewed remotely.

Seminar in Advanced Outcomes Research is sponsored by St. Luke's Mid-America Heart Institute and usually covers Statistics topics. For the spring semester of 2012, seminars will be on Wednesdays starting at 3:00pm and will be held in the MAHI 5th floor large conference room. These talks can usually be viewed remotely.

UMKC Mathematics and Statistics seminars are usually on irregular Friday afternoons from 3:00 - 3:50pm during Fall and Spring semester. For the fall semester of 2011, they are being held in Haag 307 unless otherwise specified. Some of the talks are about Statistics, others are about other branches of Mathematics. I will only post the Statistics talks here.

Here are two interesting seminar series that I will not be reporting on because of distance and travel time issues, but which you might still find interesting.

Kansas State University Statistics seminars are excellent, but it is too far for me to drive to Manhattan, so I will usually not mention their seminars on this page. Sorry! This group also sponsors the Applied Statistics in Agriculture conference, usually at the end of April or beginning of May with a short course on Sunday and the conference on Monday and Tuesday. For more information about the seminars, see http://www.k-state.edu/stats/news/seminars.html. For more information about the Applied Statistics in Agriculture conference, see http://www.dce.k-state.edu/conf/applied-stats/.

University of Missouri Statistics seminars are also excellent, but it is too far for me to drive to Columbia, so I will usually not mention their seminars on this page. Sorry! For more information about these seminars, see http://www.stat.missouri.edu/NewsEvents/colloquia.html.

Finally, it is worth noting here that the American Statistical Association has an excellent list of Statistics conferences (both in the United States and international conferencs). For details, see http://www.amstat.org/dateline/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.

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