The file contains correspondence, proposals, assembly reports and brief reports on short scientific visit grants.

Topics discussed include: Statistical Interference using Stochastic Epidemic Models; HSSS Research Kitchen on: Complex Ordinal Models (17-20/12/1999, Athens), Model Criticism (15-18/03/2000, Oslo), Learning Conditional Independence Models (16-20/10/2000, Trest); Probabilistic Expert Systems for Genetic Analyses; ‘’Asymmetric Conditional Independence’’ by A. P. Dawid, V. Didelez; ‘’Spatial Modelling of Road Traffic Emissions’’ by Nicky G. Best, Katja Ickstadt; ‘’Robust Bayes Inference and Generalised Maximum Entropy’’ by A. P. Dawid, P. D. Grünwald; ‘’Perfect Simulation for Statistical Inference on Forestry Images and General Point Processes’’ by Jens Lund, Elke Thönnes; ‘’A Bayesian Approach for Estimating HLA Haplotype Frequencies in Small Areas’’ by L. Bernardinelli and others; ‘’Asymptotically Effcient and Adaptive Methods for Regression Model Selection’’ by Alexander Goldenshluger, Alexander Tsybakov.

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