General Information

The 2007 Japanese Joint Statistical Meeting will take place from 6th to 9th September, 2007 at Kobe University, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, JAPAN

Key Dates

• Submission of abstracts: April 24th - May 31st, 2007
  Please note: You can apply only by using the Japanese application format.
  
• Deadline for submission of presentation summaries (1 page): July 4th, 2007
  

Scientific Program

• Invited Sessions
• Tutorial Sessions
• Public Lecture

Invited Sessions

• Session Title: Comparing Statistical Education Curriculums and Teaching Materials, and Assessment Systems in the World -- Towards International Standards
  Organizers: T. Ninomiya (Tamagawa University), A. Takeuchi (Jissen Women's University)
  
• Session Title: The Official Statistics in Japan: The present and the future
  Organizers: H. Saigo (Waseda University), M. Katsuura (Meijo University)
  
• Session Title: Statistical analysis and modeling of fisheries resources
  Organizers: T. Kitakado (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology), M. Minami (Institute of Statistical Mathematics)
  
• Session Title: Statistical Science Approach to Marketing
  Organizers: N. Terui (Tohoku University), M. Abe (University of Tokyo)
  
• Session Title: New statistical aspects in array data analysis: summarizing the past sessions towards the future
  Organizers: S. Imoto (University of Tokyo), T. Higuchi (Institute of Statistical Mathematics)
  
• Session Title:Statistical Analysis of High Frequency Financial Data
  Organizers: H. Tanizaki (Kobe University), Y. Nishiyama (Kyoto University)
  
• Session Title:Frontiers in Factor Rotation Techniques
  Organizer: Kohei Adachi (Osaka University)
  
• Session Title:Psychometric Studies on Multivariate Data Analysis: Future Directions
  Organizer: Kohei Adachi (Osaka University)
  
• Session Title: Data Visualization and Web Technologies for Computational Statistics
  Organizers: Y. Mori (Okayama University of science), M. Iizuka (Okayama University)
  
• Session Title: Remote Sensing and Statistics
  Organizer: M. Taguri (National Center for University Entrance Examinations; Japanese Society of Applied Statistics)
  
• Session Title: Lectures by the Winners of the Young Biostatisticians Award of the Japanese Biometric Society
  Organizer: Hiroyuki Uesaka, (Eli Lilly Japan; Japanese Biometrics Society)
  
• Session Title: Presidential Address, Japan Statistical Society−Role of statistical science in knowledge society
  Organizer: K. Tanaka (Hitotsubashi University; Japan Statistical Society)
  
• Session Title: Lectures by the Winners of JSAS prizes
  Organizers: R. Nishii (Kyushu University; Japanese Society of Applied Statistics), H. Kishino (University of Tokyo; Japanese Society of Applied Statistics)
  

Tutorial Sessions

• Date: September 6th, 13:00-18:10
• Topic 1 : Bayesian Approach to Network Models (13:00-18:10)
  • Organizer: K. Shigemasu (University of Tokyo)
  • Part 1 Basic Ideas in Bayesian Approach Related to Network Models
    • Speaker: K. Shigemasu (University of Tokyo)
  • Part 2 Learning Bayesian Network Models
    • Speaker: M. Ueno (University of Electro-Communications)
  • Part 3 Bayesian Network Solutions
    • Speaker: Y. Motomura (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
• Topic 2 : Knowledge discovery based on a statistical approach from a large-scale dataset (13:00-15:30)
  • Organizer & Speaker: T. Higuchi (Research Organization of Information and Systems, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, http://www.ism.ac.jp/~higuchi/ Data Assimilation HP: http://daweb.ism.ac.jp/)
  • Reference (in Japanese): http://www.ism.ac.jp/editsec/toukei/pdf/52-1-189.pdf
• Topic 3 : An introduction to competing risk model in analysis of survival data (14:00-18:30)
  • Organizer: H. Uesaka, Ph. D. (Lilly Research Laboratories Japan)
  • Speaker: Masako Nishikawa (National Institute of Public Health)

Public Lecture

• Date: September 6th, 17:00-19:00
• Room: #102 (Main Building of Economics and Business Administration Departments)
• Title: "On EU and Japanese Economies Observed from Statistical Data"
• Speakers:
  • Nobuo Iiduka (Director and senior economist, Japan Center for Economic Research)
  • Hiromasa Kubo (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University)

Sponsoring Organizations

The 2007 Japanese Joint Statistical Meeting is sponsored by Japanese Federation of Statistical Science Associations and the following organizations:

• Japanese Society of Applied Statistics
• Japanese Society of Computational Statistics
• The Biometric Society of Japan
• The Behaviormetric Society of Japan
• Japan Statistical Society

with cooperation from:

• Japanese Classification Society

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