The MSSISS 2012 keynote speaker was Dr. Andrew Gelman of Columbia University.

Of beauty, sex, and power:
Statistical challenges in estimating small effects

A silly example of the frequencies of boy and girl babies leads us to discuss some important research ideas involving the meaning of statistical significance.

MSSISS 2012 – Schedule

MSSISS 2012 – Call for abstracts

MSSISS 2012 – Program

Student organizing committee

Name	Department	Email address
Nabihah Tayob	Biostatistics	tayob[at]umich[dot]edu
Kevin Xu	EECS	xukevin[at]umich[dot]edu
Xi Lu	Statistics	luxi[at]umich[dot]edu
Hanzhi Zhou	Survey Methodology	zhouhanz[at]umich[dot]edu

Faculty advisory committee

Name	Department	Email address
Timothy Johnson	Biostatistics	tdjtdj[at]umich[dot]edu
Raj Nadakuditi	EECS	rajnrao[at]umich[dot]edu
Susan Murphy	Statistics	samurphy[at]umich[dot]edu
Michael Elliott	Survey Methodology	mrelliot[at]isr[dot]umich[dot]edu