[Statlist] FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference on INDICATORS AND SURVEY METHODOLOGY, Vienna, Feb. 24-26 2010

[Monique.Graf at bfs.admin.ch]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below a conference announcement on behalf of the University of Technology, Vienna.

With kind regards,

Monique Graf

Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA
Federal Statistical Office FSO
Statistical Methods

Espace de l'Europe 10, CH-2010 Neuchâtel
Phone +41 32 71 36615
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Monique.Graf at bfs.admin.ch
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Dear Madam or Sir,
 
 This is the
 
 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 for the International Conference on
 
 INDICATORS AND SURVEY METHODOLOGY
 
 held at the
 Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria from February 24-26, 
 2010
 
 
 Conference Website:
 http://www.statistik.tuwien.ac.at/ameli/
 
 
 Aim:
 The conference takes place in the Year of Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion initiated by the European Union.
 The objective of this conference is to offer a forum for new developments and applications of estimating poverty and social exclusion, income indicators and the analysis of the quality of those indicators.
 
 
 All aspects of survey analysis are welcome, including (but not limited to) developments in the areas listed below:
 
 Indicators as political instruments
 - The Policy's needs for indicators
 
 Quality of indicators
 - Estimation and variance estimation for indicators
 - Robust estimation of indicators
 - Small area estimation for indicators
 
 Data analysis and visualisation in the data production process
 - Exploratory data analysis
 - Visualisation of categorical data
 - Diagnostics for models, outliers, missing values and imputed values.
 - Multivariate graphics
 
 Visualisation for a better understanding by the end user
 - Visualisation of aggregated data
 - Visualisation of indicators
 - Mapping, GIS
 
 Resampling methods and software
 - Data-driven statistical inference
 - Software development and (interactive) tools for data
 - Analysis, visualisation and estimation for indicators and survey analysis
 
 Sponsors:
 The European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme 
 Statistics Austria
 
 Organizers:
 Matthias Templ, Vienna University of Technology Andreas Alfons, Vienna University of Technology
 
 Scientific Comittee:
 Peter Filzmoser, Vienna University of Technology 
 Monique Graf, Swiss Federal Statistical Office 
 Beat Hulliger, University of Applied Science, N-W. Switzerland 
 Pascal Jaques, Eurostat 
 Risto Lehtonen, University of Helsinki 
 Ralf Münnich, University of Trier 
 Matthias Templ, Vienna University of Technology
 
 Registration:
 Registration will be open from September 20. The conference fee will be approximately 180 Euro. 
 Details, including the exact amount of the fee, will be posted at September 15. 
 The number of participants is limited to 80.
 
 Deadlines:
 Until *OCTOBER 15*, 2009: Abstract submission (oral presentations and posters)
 Until November 01, 2010: Notification of abstract acceptance 
 Until November 10, 2010: Early registration November 10
 
 The list of important dates is available online at
 http://www.statistik.tuwien.ac.at/ameli/?page_id=143
 
 
 See you in Vienna.
 
 All the best from the
 
 Organizing Team
 Matthias Templ, Andreas Alfons
 
 
 
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 From: Univ.-Ass. DI Dr.techn. Matthias Templ

   Dept. of Methodology   | Dept. of Statistics &
                          | Probability Theory
   Statistics Austria     | Vienna Univ. of Technology
    (Thursday, Friday)    |    (Monday - Wednesday)

 Internet: www.statistik.tuwien.ac.at/public/templ/
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From: Univ.-Ass. DI Dr.techn. Matthias Templ

  Dept. of Methodology   | Dept. of Statistics &
                         | Probability Theory
  Statistics Austria     | Vienna Univ. of Technology
   (Thursday, Friday)    |    (Monday - Wednesday)

Internet: www.statistik.tuwien.ac.at/public/templ/
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