Digital Commons @ Kettering University

June 24, 2014 – June 28, 2014

Conference Overview

This international conference was organized by Kettering University to celebrate the International Year of Statistics 2013 and the 175th anniversary of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Our intention was to bring together statisticians with expertise in statistical modeling, education, and applications. The conference focused on multi-disciplinary use of historical data for urban communities. Data about the City of Flint, MI, consisting of up to 100 years of demographic, health, labor, census, and crime records were summarized in advance of the conference and made available to the participants.

Flint history spans the early years of the automotive industry, the force behind Flint’s growth, as well as its decline, both of which have had an impact on the Flint community. Each session of the conference started with an extended presentation of the statistical achievements and perspectives in the discussed area, followed by several talks on current research and results.

Conference Topics

The conference's main focus will be on (but not limited to) the research methods, modeling, and analysis of historical data in the following areas:

• Big data
• Computational statistics
• Crime statistics
• Data mining
• Financial services and statistics
• General methods
• Health Service statistics and pharmaceutical development
• Historical data and statistics. Time series.
• Reliability and longevity statistical issues
• Statistics in education
• Urban statistics
• Wealth data analysis

Local Organizing Committee and Contact Information

• Leszek Gawarecki — [email protected]
• Boyan Dimitrov — [email protected]
• Srinivas Chakravarthy — [email protected]
• Daniela Szatmari-Voicu — [email protected]
• Thomas Creach — [email protected]
• Cheryl Cochran — [email protected]
• Gergana Kodjebasheva — [email protected]

Proceedings

Selected original papers not previously submitted to journals are be published in two special issues of the journal Economic Quality Control published by De Gruyter, vol. 29, issue 2, and vol. 30, issue 1, and in two special issues of Serdica Journal of Computing, vol. 8, no. 2, and vol. 9, no. 1. All submitted papers were reviewed by the scientific program committee according to their originality, significance, fundamental insights, potential long-term contribution, correctness, presentation and relevance.

Scientific Program Committee Member	Email
Boyan Dimitrov (USA)	[email protected]
Daniela Szatmari-Voivcu (USA)	[email protected]
Elart von Collani (Germany)	[email protected]
Ernest Fokoue (USA)	[email protected]
Francesca Greselin (Italy)	[email protected]
Gergana Kodjebasheva (USA)	[email protected]
Kishor S. Trivedi (USA)	[email protected]
Kristina Sendova (Canada)	[email protected]
Krzysztof Podgorski (Sweden)	[email protected]
Leda Minkova (Bulgaria)	[email protected]
Maxim Finkelstein (South Africa)	[email protected]
Nikolai Kolev (Brazil)	[email protected]
Nozer Singpurwalla (USA)	[email protected]
Ricardas Zitikis (Canada)	[email protected]
Sahib Esa (Iraq)	[email protected]
Srinivas Chakravarthy (USA)	[email protected]
V.S. Mandrekar (USA)	[email protected]
Vladimir Kaishev (UK)	[email protected]
Vladimir Rykov (Russia)	[email protected]
Yogen Chaubey (Canada)	[email protected]