The following conference is sponsored by the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association. If anyone has questions about this conference please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks- Frank Harrell ------------------------------------------------------------ The "2001 International Conference on Health Policy Research (ICHPR): Methodological Issues in Health Services and Outcomes Research," will be held at the Boston Logan Airport Hilton, December 7 - 9, 2001. The ICHPR provides a forum for discussing research needs and solutions to the methodological challenges in health services research. Its specific aim is to create the interface for methodologists and sophisticated health service researchers to exchange and build upon ideas. The conference will focus on methodology for health services research with applications drawn from a wide range of subject areas. The conference is sponsored by the Health Policy Statistics Section (HPSS) of the American Statistical Association. The deadline for contributed abstracts is September 17, 2001. Detailed information, including a pdf format conference brochure, is at http://depts.washington.edu/psasa/hpss/ichpr2001.html/. The Invited Program will cover several technical areas including hierarchical models, longitudinal data, causal inference, techniques for assessing quality of care and for profiling providers, techniques for inferring disparities, decision making, data mining, and survey design. The techniques will be illustrated across a variety of substantive areas, including but not limited to: mental illness, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. The contributed program will include similar topics as well as other areas, such as item response theory. ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================