Hi I believe that following info is of interest to your special interest group since we welcome presentation of ideas (R-functions) dealing with robust methods. Roger Koenker is keynote speaker. Conference on Quantitative Social Science Research Using R June 18-19 (Thursday-Friday), 2009, Fordham University, 113 West 60th Street, New York, NY. (next door to the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts). Conference website: http://www.cis.fordham.edu/QR2009 The conference offers opportunity to enthusiastic users of R (software and Graphics system) to important policy and research problems in social sciences to learn, meet and mingle. 1) Speakers include authors of books and /or packages for R, published researchers and editors of important journals in Statistics and social sciences: Andrew Gelman (Columbia), Kosuke Imai (Princeton), Roger Koenker (Illinois), Keith A. Markus (Columbia), Bruce D. McCullough (Drexel), H. D. Vinod (Fordham), Achim Zeileis (Vienna)? 2) The proceedings book will be published by Springer (publisher of Use R! series) in 2009. 3) Opportunity to present Replication / extension of published papers using R, poster session 4) Opportunity to present new useful R functions (including teaching material) poster session 5) A tutorial cum refresher session teaching R will be given and useful Hrishikesh (Rick) D. Vinod Professor of Economics, Fordham University E-Mail: Vinod at fordham.edu Tel 718-817-4065, Secretary 718-817-4048, Fax 718-817-3518 Web page: http://www.fordham.edu/economics/vinod
[RsR] R-conf. New York City, June 18-19, 2009, contribute your robust model R functions
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