The organizing committee of the Sixth Workshop includes Alicia Carriquiry, Constantine Gatsonis, Andrew Gelman, David Higdon, Rob Kass, Donna Pauler and Isa Verdinelli. Abstracts should be submitted to via the workshop web site. Questions can be sent to: bayes@stat.cmu.edu. Additional information may be obtained by contacting Rob Kass at kass@stat.cmu.edu; phone: 412-268-2718; FAX: 412-268-7828; or by contacting any of the organizers.

Advice on Submitting Abstracts (Invited papers)

Key questions are, How substantial is the project? How much of the work is already completed? How much interaction has there been between the statistician and non-statisticians? What kind of impact might this work have on the subject area? How likely are we to get a reasonable draft manuscript for discussants by June 1? (The final manuscripts are typically around 50 pages, though this is only a very rough suggestion.) Would all investigators be involved in the presentation?

You probably should try to make the answers to some of these apparent from the way you are writing the abstract, but others can be addressed head-on at the end.

Online Submission of Abstracts

Listed below is the format for abstracts for main invited papers. You may edit the text inside the window below and then press SUBMIT to send it. You should replace the sample information with the correct information. Confirmation of receipt of the abstract will be sent to the email address you provide.

Advice on Submitting Abstracts for Contributed Papers

Contributed papers must emphasize the scientific or technological context. In particular, the title should reflect this, and the abstract should begin with a brief description of the applied setting before saying anything about the statistical methodology. The abstract should make it apparent that the methods were applied to solve a real problem. For contributed papers we require the use of Bayesian methods, but there does not have to be any particular novelty in the methods themselves. Of greatest interest are those applications that illuminate useful methods, or point out where there are shortcomings and where further methodological development would be helpful.

For examples of abstract titles, please see the website for the 1999 Worskhop, and click on Contributed Papers (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/bayesworkshop/abs-sub99.html).

Online Submission of Abstracts (contributed papers)

Listed below is the format for abstracts for contributed papers. You may edit the text inside the window below and then press SUBMIT to send it. You should replace the sample information with the correct information. Confirmation of receipt of the abstract will be sent to the email address you provide.