Conferences
NEUTRAL MODEL: SIMULATION ALGORITHMS FOR SPATIAL PATTERN RECOGNITION CONFERENCE
BioMedware will hold a meeting Friday and Saturday August 19 & 20, 2005 to brainstorm on the research agenda for the Neutral Model project.
Agenda
Friday August 19, 2005 — Expert Presentations
Welcome and Introductions (pdf of slides), Pierre Goovaerts (PG)
Background of workshop. The Role of neutral models in cluster detection, typology of neutral models, geostatistical generation of neutral models (pdf of slides), PG
Towards a neutral model for studying geographical variation in cerebrosvascular disease (pdf of slides target="_blank"), Peter Rogerson
Neutral models to account for geographic variation in covariates to evaluate clustering in case-control data using residential histories (pdf of slides), Geoffrey Jacquez
Possible Application of Neutral Models in Identifying Vector Habitat and Human Disease Risk: the black legged tick (Ixodes scapularis) in Wisconsin and the floodwater mosquito (Aedes vexans) in Louisiana (pdf of slides), Russell Barbour
Ecology and null models (pdf of slides), Marie-Josee Fortin
Checking for spatial consistency in yearly variations of Canada geese populations in Michigan (pdf of slides), Sasha Kravchenko
Using an agent-based process-models to evaluate statistical models (pdf of slides), Dan Brown & Li An
Detection of temporal changes in the spatial distribution of cancer rates using local Moran’s I and geostatistically simulated spatial neutral models (pdf of slides), Pierre Goovaerts
Wrap-up, PG
Saturday August 20, 2005—STIS Software & Brainstorming
Overview of STIS software (pdf of slides), PG
Testing hypothesis in STIS software, PG
Organization of experts into groups of 2-3, PG
Groups use the STIS software and formulate lists of suggestions for incorporation of neutral models into testing functionalities and development of a tasks menu.
Groups present recommendations
Closing remarks, PG
Neutral Model Conference Participants
Pierre Goovaerts, Ph.D., PI and Chief Scientist, BioMedware, Inc.
Gillian AvRuskin, M.S., BioMedware, Inc.
Russell Barbour, Ph.D., Consultant to the Department of the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Medicine
Dan Brown, Ph.D., University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment
Eve Do, BioMedware, Inc.
Marie-Josee Fortin, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Department of Zoology.
Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D., President of BioMedware, Inc.
Laura Jacquez, BioMedware, Inc.
Nicholas Jacquez, MBA, President of TerraSeer, Inc.
Andy Kaufmann, M.S., BioMedware, Inc.
Sasha Kravchenko, Ph.D., Michigan State University , Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
Peter Rogerson, Ph.D., University of Buffalo-SUNY , Department of Geography
Bob Rommel, BioMedware, Inc.