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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Prezados Colegas,</span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">No dia 21/09 teremos a 3a edicao do Webinar organizado pelo <a href="https://community.amstat.org/committeeoninternationalrelationsinstatistics/home" target="_blank">CIRS-ASA</a> e <a href="https://www.statisticswithoutborders.org/" target="_blank">SWB</a>. <br></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Agradeco se puderem divulgar o evento entre seus contatos.</span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">O anuncio formal segue abaixo.</span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Muito obrigada e bom domingo!</span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Abs<br></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Alexandra<br></span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span><p class="gmail-xxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The <i>Committee on International
Relations in Statistics (CIRS) from the American Statistical Association (ASA)</i>
and <i>Statistics Without Borders</i> are organizing a bi-monthly </span><a href="https://community.amstat.org/committeeoninternationalrelationsinstatistics/events2/webinars" target="_blank" title="https://community.amstat.org/committeeoninternationalrelationsinstatistics/events2/webinars" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span class="gmail-markfhjf8j6wo"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Webinar</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Series </span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">that
will cover different topics in Statistics. The goal is to give the opportunity
to people based on different corners of the world to come together and learn
some introductory material about interesting statistical topics. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-xxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-xxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The third edition will be held on September
21st, please, help us advertise it.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-xxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,96)">September 21 2022,
12 PM EDT</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="margin:13.6pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">An
Introduction to Spatial Statistics with Applications to Disease Mapping <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-xxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Alexandra M. Schmidt, Department
of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">This webinar will provide an introduction to the analysis of spatially
structured data. It will introduce Spatial Statistics and focus on the analysis
of data that vary over a discrete set of indices (areal data) as, for example,
the number of registered cases of Covid-19 across the boroughs of Montreal. We
will discuss conditional autoregressive models and how to perform inference
procedure under the Bayesian paradigm.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">At the end of the webinar, participants will have learned how to<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">fit conditional auto-regressive (CAR) models;<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">fit areal level data using CARBayes in R;<span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">create disease maps.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-xxxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The event is <b>free</b>, but registration is required.
Register </span><a href="https://amstat.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_h2xzyTTWRlO1oum3Qk6JMQ" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">here</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-xxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Speaker Short Bio</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Alex Schmidt
is Professor of Biostatistics and holds the endowed University Chair in the </span><a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/epi-biostat-occh/" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Department of
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health (EBOH)</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> at McGill
University. She is an Elected Fellow of the </span><a href="https://www.amstat.org/ASA/about/home.aspx" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">American
Statistical Association</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> (2020) and an Elected Member of the </span><a href="https://www.isi-web.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">International Statistical Institute</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> (2010). She
was awarded the </span><a href="https://community.amstat.org/envr/recognitionandawards/distinguishedachievementawards" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Distinguished
Achievement Medal</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> (2017) from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics
and the Environment and the </span><a href="http://www.environmetrics.org/young.html" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Abdel
El-Shaarawi Young Investigator Award</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> (2008), from The International Environmetrics Society. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-xxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For questions, or to suggest
topics for future <span class="gmail-markfhjf8j6wo">webinar</span>s contact Carolina
Franco at </span></i></b><a href="mailto:franco-carolina@norc.org" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">franco-carolina@norc.org</span></i></b></a><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
or Alexandra Schmidt </span></i></b><a href="mailto:alexandra.schmidt@mcgill.ca" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">alexandra.schmidt@mcgill.ca</span></i></b></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <b><i>or
Sloka Iyengar <u><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:slokaiyengar1@gmail.com">slokaiyengar1@gmail.com</a><span></span></span></u></i></b></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-xxmsonormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We hope to see you there.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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