Some historical highlights (including Bostonian contributions) in the

development of categorical data analysis

                                                  Alan Agresti

      Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics,

University of Florida

              Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics,

Harvard University

                                                       Abstract

This talk presents a non-technical survey of the development of the
basic methods of categorical data analysis, starting with Karl Pearson's
introduction of the chi-squared test in 1900.  It focuses on the
contributions of statisticians who introduced methods such as the odds
ratio, logistic regression and probit models, loglinear models, and
Bayesian approaches.  Several developments that occurred in Boston will
be highlighted.

'South (Florida) meets North (Boston)' Dinner@6:00, The talk @7:00pm is free.

To register by check, include the check made payable to BCASA, your name, affiliation, and mail by Sept 19 to:

Huichao Chen, PhD 
Department of Biostatistics/CBAR 
Harvard University 
651 Huntington Ave, FXB502 
Boston, MA 02115 

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