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Call for Abstracts
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International Biometric Conference
July 21-26, 2002
Freiburg, Germany
(http://www.ibc2002.uni-freiburg.de)

Submission Deadline:  January 15, 2002

Abstracts to all areas of Biometry are welcome.

Invited paper sessions will cover the following topics:
- Assessing Risks from Genetically Modified Crops
- Biometry and Precision Agriculture
- Subgroup and Covariate Analysis in Clinical Trials
- Surrogate Marker Validation
- Causal Inference from Observational Epidemiological Studies
- Disease Surveillance and Modelling Disease with Long Incubation
- Identification and Analysis of Candidate Genes for Complex Diseases
- Bioinformatics
- Meaningful Parameterisations
- Sensitivity Analysis for Incomplete Data
- Statistical Modelling for Infectious Disease Surveillance Data
- The Effects of Heterogeneity in the Spread of Infectious Disease
- Modern Stereology and Transitive Methods for Brain Tissue Digital
Microscopy
- Model Uncertainty
- Model Diagnostics
- Impact Assessment for Multidisciplinary Systems
- Oscar Kempthorne and His Influence on Population and Quantitative
Genetics
- A Mixed View of Current Longitudinal Data Methods
- Population Ecology
- Statistical Issues in Acute Toxicity Testing Methods
- Validation of Regression Models
- New Developments in Survival Analysis - beyond the Cox Model
- Forest Inventories
- Risk Assessment
- Meta-analysis
- Clinical Trials
- Other Topics


Dates to remember

January 15, 2002  Deadline for Abstract Submission
April 01, 2002    Notification of Accepted Abstracts
April 15, 2002    Extended Deadline for Early Registration (with Reduced
Fee)
July 21 -26, 2002 Conference


For further information about the conference see

http://www.ibc2002.uni-freiburg.de


Local Organizing Committee IBC 2002
c/o Institute of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics
University of Freiburg
Stefan-Meier-Strasse 26        D-79104 Freiburg / Germany
email: ibc2002@imbi.uni-freiburg.de
Phone: +49 761 203-6664    Fax:  -6688

International Biometric Conference 2002
July 21-26, 2002  --- Freiburg, Germany
http://www.ibc2002.uni-freiburg.de
Conference Secretariat:  kkkri@ukl.uni-freiburg.de