ISBA provides an international community for those interested in Bayesian analysis and its applications.

The Program Committee of ISBA 2012 invites submissions of proposals for special topic sessions. Each session consists of 4 talks of 25 min with a common theme.

Topic: "Semiparametric and Nonparametric Econometrics" In this course we shall study a unified framework for nonparametric and semiparametric kernelbased analysis. We focus on kernel-based methods capable of handling the mix of categorical (nominal and ordinal) and continuous datatypes one...

The conference will provide an opportunity for researchers in areas of quantitative and qualitative techniques to present papers with innovative applications of statistical methods in the economic and the administrative sector of business.

Topics: Design of experiments; Data mining/warehousing; Reliability and Safety; Risk Management; Process Modelling and Control; Quality improvement; Statistical consultancy; Measurement uncertainty; Pharma (non-clinical); Teaching Statistics; Six-Sigma; Computer Experiments; Statistical methods...