local contact information

Scientific Chairs

Bill Kendall & Michael Schaub

Registration - local arrangments - accomodations

Fernando Spina

Web pages

Evan Cooch

oral session chairs

Individuals interested in presenting oral or poster presentations must make prior contact with the session chair(s). Papers intended to be published in the conference proceedings must be delivered in review form immediately prior to the conference.

Disease ecology

Jim Nichols & Stephen Baillie

Study Design

Paul Doherty & Bill Link

State-space modelling

Byron Morgan & Marc Kery

Uncertain states and covariates

Olivier Gimenez & Darryl MacKenzie

Spatial CMR modelling

Andy Royle & Charles Francis

Modelling individual variation

Jay Rotella & Emanuelle Cam

Model diagnostics

David Fletcher & Roger Pradel

Decision analysis

Clint Moore & Richard Barker

'Open forum'

David Thomson & Jean-Dominique Lebreton

poster session

Poster session chairs

Morten Frederiksen & Res Altwegg

short courses & computer workshop

short courses

Evan Cooch

computer workshop

Jim Hines & Remi Choquet

Wise Words

"The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus..."

- Pierre-Simon Laplace

"The philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is useful to birds...."

- Steve Weinberg

"Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice what can be equally attributed to abject stupidity."

"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more plaible..."

- Anon

"Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do nat say..."

- William Watt

"When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of the meager and unsatisfactory kind..."

- Lord Kelvin

"Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners..."

- G.O. Ashley

"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle..."

- Hannah Arendt

"A statistician is a person who draws a mathematically precise line from an unwarranted assumption to a foregone conclusion...