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Myra Samuels Biostatistics Lecture Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:30 PM in West Faculty Lounge, Purdue Memorial Union Professor Charles E. McCulloch University of California, San Francisco will speak on (Re)Modeling Biometrics Abstract To maintain relevance any discipline must change with the times. I will argue that Biometry has not, but must move, in a direction that more integrally emphasizes the interplay of deterministic and stochastic modeling. As traditional calculations such as working out the distribution of a test statistic become more automated and computerized our contributions to scientific advances will necessarily be more model based. I describe four examples from my own experience: landscape analysis of a variable-source hydrology model, dispersal models for tree-swallows, biocontrol of chestnut leaf blight, and study of end-stage renal disease. |