asa.biometrics.01

Sponsor(s): Sponsoring Section/Society: ASA-BIOMETRICS

Session Time: 2:00- 3:50 Tuesday

Estimated Audience Size: 100-200

A/V Request: one projection equipment for using laptop, others overhead projector

Session Title: Effects of Smoothing on Health Effects Maps

Theme Session: Yes $\quad$ Applied Session: Yes

Organizer: Pennello, Gene  

Session Timing: Opening Remarks by Chair - 5 or 0 minutes First Speaker - 30 minutes (or 25) Second Speaker - 30 minutes Third Speaker - 30 minutes Discussant - 10 minutes (or none) Floor Discussion - 10 minutes (or 5 or 15)

Chair: Pickle, Linda W.  

1. Bayesian Inference For Extreme Rate From Health Effects Maps $\quad$ Cressie, Noel  

$\quad$ Stern, Hal S.  

2. Ranks of Extreme Rates by Summary Rates For Geographic Health Data $\quad$ Pennello, Gene  

3. Effects of Smoothing Mortality Data Using the Weighted Head-Banging Algorithm $\quad$ Mungiole, Michael  

$\quad$ Simonson, Katherine Hansen  

$\quad$ Pickle, Linda W.  

4. Should Spatial Maps Be Smoothed? $\quad$ Simon, Gary  

List of speakers who are nonmembers: None