A conference celebrating the 100th birthday W.S. “Student” Gosset’s “The Probable Error of a Mean” and three other classic papers:

The Harvard University Department of Statistics presents:

“Quintessential Contributions: Celebrating Major Birthdays of Statistical Ideas and Their Inventors”
When: Saturday, September 27, 2008
Where: Radcliffe Gym, 18 Mason Street, Cambridge, MA

*Celebrating the 65th birthday of Donald B. Rubin and the 30th birthday of his “Multiple Imputations in Sample Surveys: A Phenomenological Bayesian Approach to Nonresponse”
**Invited Speaker: Fritz Scheuren

*Celebrating the 70th birthday of Carl N. Morris and the 25th birthday of his “Parametric Empirical Bayes Inference: Theory and Applications”
**Invited Speaker: Andrew Gelman

*** Catered Chinese Lunch ***

*Celebrating the 85th birthday of Herman Chernoff and the 35th birthday of his “The Use of Faces to Represent Points in K-Dimensional Space Graphically”
**Invited Speaker: Steve Wang

*Celebrating the 100th birthday of W.S. “Student” Gosset’s “The Probable Error of a Mean”
**Invited Speaker: Stephen Stigler

*Student Presentation: “From Student to students”

*** “Student t Party” at Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub***

Registration fee is waived for ALL current and former Harvard affiliates (students, staff and faculty), speakers and specially invited guests. Non-Harvard Affiliates’ $50.00 registration fee includes beverages, food, and full symposium. See below for payment information.

To register, provide the following information by September 15, 2008, to :

Name: ______________________________________

Harvard affiliation, if any: _______________

E-mail address: ____________________________

Lunch desired: Yes _______ or No _______

Please make checks payable to: Harvard University Statistics Department and mail to me at the address below. Payment will also be accepted at the door, but we must have a YES or NO reply no later than September 15, 2008, regardless of registration status, to obtain an accurate headcount for catering purposes (attendees will receive marked name tags indicating lunch was reserved).