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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL-BE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0033CC'>Dear , <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0033CC'>Could you please forward this to the bbc list?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0033CC'>Thanks in advance, Ziv Shkedy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>It is our pleasure to invite you to a workshop in Uhasselt in 13/12/2012-14/12/2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>This year we will focus on topics related to </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>variable selection, model selection, model averaging, Inference and prediction. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>A full program of the workshop can be found in the link<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.uhasselt.be/Documents/CENSTAT/programma.pdf">http://www.uhasselt.be/Documents/CENSTAT/programma.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#000099'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>As usual, the idea is to bring together statisticians, biostatisticians and </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>bioinformaticians </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>from both academia and industry and to discuss the theory and different areas of application.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The workshop is for free but you will need to register. You can find the registration from in the following link:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.uhasselt.be/RegistrationForm-Variableselection">http://www.uhasselt.be/RegistrationForm-Variableselection</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Please note that the number of places in the workshop is limited so please registered as soon as possible<span style='color:#1F497D'>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Best regards. Pushpike Thilakatathne, Dani Yekutieli and Ziv Shkedy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>