22nd Annual KSU Conference on

Applied Statistics in Agriculture

The Department of Statistics at Kansas State University will host the twenty-second annual KSU Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture, April 25-27, 2010 at the Manhattan Clarion Hotel, Manhattan, Kansas.  The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum to discuss statistical issues, problems and solutions that have been motivated by agricultural concerns.

       The keynote speaker is Dr. Susanne May. Dr. May is a faculty member in the Department of Biostatistics at The University of Washington. She earned her doctorate at The University of Massachusetts. Her areas of expertise and interest include survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis, and clinical trials methodology. Her workshop topic will be "Applied Survival Analysis."

This announcement is a call for papers from the statistical and agricultural communities.  The conference is open to talks or poster sessions by scientists, not necessarily statisticians, with an emphasis on applied statistical issues related to agriculture.  Presentations made jointly by a statistician and a researcher in the agriculture sciences would be of special interest.  Abstracts should be submitted to: Ag Conference, Department of Statistics, 101 Dickens Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS  66506-0802 or electronically through
http://www.k-state.edu/stats/agstat.conference/ under the call for papers tab no later than January 15, 2010.
 

Each contributed paper presentation will be allowed approximately 25 minutes.  A refereed proceedings containing acceptable publications will be published after the conference.
 

A conference announcement and registration form will be distributed in February 2010.  To be added to our mailing list, please send an e-mail to the Conference Coordinator agconf@ksu.edu

Support for graduate students who wish to attend the conference is available.  Preference is given to graduate students who plan to stay for the entire conference and who present a paper or poster.

Updated:  November 16, 2009 (jad)