Dear All,<br />We are pleased to announce the details about the upcoming
OSDA 2010 conference to be held on the campus of Zagazig University, in
Egypt during July 11-13, 2010. We invite you to participate in this
international conference by giving talks and or organizing sessions and
share your research. We ask you to encourage your colleagues, students,
interested in the area to participate as well. Please circulate this and
our future communications regarding the conference among your fellow
researchers. If you want to organize invited sessions or give talks,
please let us know.<br /><br />Look forward to your support and
participation.<br /><br />Best regards.<br /><br />Sincerely yours,<br
/><br />Ismihan Bayramoglu (Bairamov)<br />Member of International
Programme Committee<br />Izmir University of Economics<br />Department of
Mathematics<br />ismihan.bayramoglu@ieu.edu.tr<br /><br />PS: Some details
are given below. The evolving details are posted at the conference
website:<br />http://www.stat.osu.edu/~hnn/osda2010.html<br /><br
/>============================<br /><br /><br />Ninth International
Conference on<br /> ORDERED STATISTICAL DATA AND ITS APPLICATIONS<br />
OSDA 2010 Zagazig, Egypt<br /><br
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/>Continuing the series of Conferences in India (2000), Poland (2002-04),
Turkey (2005), Iran (2006), and Jordan (2007) and Germany (2008), the
Zagazig University will host the 9th International Conference on Ordered
Statistical Data and Their Applications (OSDA 2010-Egypt). The meeting
will be held at the Zagazig University, Zagazig-Egypt, from 11th (Sunday)
till 13th (Tuesday) of July 2010. In the spirit of the previous
conferences, OSDA 2010-Egypt will provide an international forum for
presentation and discussion of new results on ordered statistical data as
well as for reviews of existing literature. It will be dedicated to all
aspects of ordered statistical data, including (but not limited to)<br
/><br />Approximations<br />Bounds<br />Characterizations<br
/>Inequalities and their applications<br />Stochastic ordering<br
/>Statistical inference and prediction problems<br />Censored data and
survival analysis<br />Applications of ordered data<br />Reliability
theory<br />Entropies, information theory, and optimization techniques<br
/>Nonparametric and ranked set sampling techniques<br />Numerical
computations and simulations<br />Bayesian analysis techniques<br
/>Asymptotic theory<br />Participants from universities, business,
administration, and industry are welcome.<br />Conference language will be
English. For the evolving details about the conference and the associated
workshops please revisit this conference web site
http://www.stat.osu.edu/~hnn/osda2010.html<br
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/>Professor H. M. Barakat<br />hbarakat2@hotmail.com<br />Chairman,
Department of Mathematics<br />Faculty of Science<br />Zagazig
University<br />Zagazig, Egypt<br
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/>Tel. 002 - 012-(7476652); Fax.00-91-821-421263<br /><br
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/>H.N. Nagaraja<br />Department of Statistics<br />The Ohio State
University<br />404 Cockins Hall, 1958 Neil Avenue<br />Columbus, OH
43210-1247 USA<br
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/>Tel.1-614-292-6072; Fax. 1-614-292-2096<br
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/>hnn@stat.osu.edu<br /><br
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/>INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br />H. Barakat (Zagazig University,
Egypt; Co-Chair), H. N. Nagaraja (Ohio State University, USA; Co-Chair),
Mohammad Ahsanullah (Rider University, USA), E. K. AL-Hussaini (Alexandria
University, Egypt), Barry C. Arnold (University of California at
Riverside, USA), N. Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada), Ismihan
Bayramoglu (Izmir University of Economics, Turkey), Félix Belzunce
(Universidad de Murcia, Spain), Ch. A. Charalambides (University of
Athens, Greece), Erhard Cramer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Udo
Kamps (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), E. M. Nigm (Zagazig University,
Egypt), H. K. Tony Ng (Southern Methodist University, USA), Sangun Park
(Yonsei University, Korea), M. Z. Raqab (University of Jordan, Jordan), T.
Rychlik (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw).<br
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