BALLOT FOR THE 1998 JSM COMPETITIVE PROGRAM

Please fax to David Scott, 713-285-5476 by 
midnight, Wednesday, November 19, 1997.


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Session   Vote   Nominating
Number   (Rank)   Section           Title of Session (Short Version)
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     1.          ASA-SBSS       Bayesian Generalized Linear Models

     2.          ASA-SBSS       Expected Utility Maximization and Simulation

     3.          ASA-COMP	Smoothing Methods and Data Analysis

     4.          ASA-GOVT	Implications of NAICS for Official Statistics

     5.          ASA-GOVT	Improving Survey Quality:  Can We Develop Better Measures...

     6.          ASA-BIOP	Permutation Tests in Clinical Trials

     7.          ASA-BIOP	Method. Issues in Analysis of Drug Product Stability Data

     8.          ASA-BIOM	Spatio-Temporal Modelling of Small Area Health Data

     9.          ASA-BIOM	The Impact of Patient Compliance

    10.          ASA-HPSS	Statistical Tools for Studying Health Care Costs...

    11.          ASA-ENVR	How Low Can We Measure: Statistics of Detection/Quantitation

    12.          ASA-ENVR	Advances in Geostatistics

    13.          ASA-ENVR	Impediments to Good Statistical Practice in Envr Decisions..

    14.          ASA-SPES	Current Trends In Multiresponse Surface Methodology

    15.          ASA-EDUC	Working Environments for Newly Graduated Statisticians

    16.          ASA-EPI/ENVR	Estimating the Magnitude of Transmissible Spongiform ...

    17.          ASA-HPSS	Statistical Models & Methods for Health Care Policy Research

    18.          ASA-HPSS	Assessment of Drug Interdiction Activities

    19.          ASA-CNSL	Use of Interactive Visual Software in Statistical Consulting

    20.          ASA-SOC	Income Inequality--A Statistical Perspective


  1=first choice ... 20=last choice

BIOM = Biometrics Section
BIOP = Biopharmaceutical Section
CNSL = Section on Statistical Consulting
COMP = Statistical Computing Section
EDUC = Section on Statistical Education
ENVR = Section on Statistics and the Environment
EPI  = Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
GOVT = Section on Government Statistics
HPSS = Section on Health Policy Statistics
SBSS = Bayesian Statistical Science
SOC  = Social Statistics Section
SPES = Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences