1. Ken Koonce kkoonce@lsu.edu Louisiana State University
2. Jay Geaghan jgeaghan@lsu.edu Louisiana State University
3. Edzard van Santen evsanten@acesag.auburn.edu - Auburn University
4. Jerry Davis jwd@UGA.EDU - University of Georgia
5. Arnold Saxton asaxton@utk.edu - University of Tennessee
6. Ken Koehler kkoehler@iastate.edu - Iowa State University
7. Pat Gerard pgerard@clemson.edu - Clemson University
8. Julia Sharp jsharp@clemson.edu - Clemson University
9. Ben Mullinix bgmullinix@ag.tamu.edu - Texas Tech University
10. Andy Mauromoustakos amauro@uark.edu - University of Arkansas
11. Hoke Hill HHILL@clemson.edu - Clemson University
12. Jerry Oglesby Jerry.Oglesby@sas.com - SAS Institute
13. Tom Bohanan Tom.Bohannon@sas.com - SAS Institute
14. Jim Van Scotter jvanscot@lsu.edu - Louisiana State University
15. Kevin McCarter mccarter@lsu.edu - Louisiana State University
2011 USSES MEETING MINUTES
Dates: Thursday, June 30: 8am-5pm, Friday, July 1: 8am-12pm
Host: Louisiana State University
Location: Cook Conference Center and Hotel, LSU Campus
Meeting and Program Coordinator: Kevin McCarter
Thursday, June 30 Friday, July 1
Bob Lucas from SAS gave presentations on the following topics:
Prediction Using SAS® Enterprise Miner and JMP Pro
" Using Honest Assessment to choose a best model
" Recursive partitioning classification/regression trees,extensions.
o Basics of recursive partitioning
o Boosted trees (SAS/EM or JMP Pro)
o Bagged trees (SAS/EM)
o Stochastic gradient boosting (SAS/EM or JMP Pro)
" Neural networks with applications to discrete time survival models
o Neural network architectures (SAS/EM and JMP Pro)
o Discrete time analysis using logistic regression (SAS/STAT)
o Discrete time analysis using neural networks (SAS/EM procedure code)
" Survival Data Modeling
DISCUSSIONS
ñ Location and Date for 2012 USSES Meeting:
æ Offers
ª Mullinix offered Lubbock
ª Hill offered Clemson
ª Saxton offered Tennessee
ª Oglesby said SAS would be pleased to host the meeting at any time
æ Decision for 2012 USSES Meeting
ª 2012 USSES meeting will be held at SAS in Cary, NC
ª Date for 2012 meeting : June 28-29
æ Chair of the meeting
ª Jason Osborne, NC State University
ª Program chairs Jason Osborne & Jerry Oglesby
æ Possible speakers
ª Bradley Jones
ª Bob Rodriguez
ª James Goodnight
ª Oliver Schabenberger
ª JMP
æ Possible topics
ª What's new in SAS STAT, JMP?
ª Experimental design (Bradley Jones)
æ Kevin McCarter volunteered to create a wiki to facilitate organizing the 2012 USSES meeting
ñ USSES - Current project expires in 2013
æ Get a group together to start working on a new proposal for the USSES group
æ Re-purpose? Future focus?
ª Re-educate societies on modern statistical techniques
ª Analysis of data involving space & time
ª Need for advanced statistical analysis for spatial type data