The theme of the SASE 2008 meeting is suggested by Karl Polanyis The Great Transformation. Polanyi interprets the history of industrial society in the 19th and 20th centuries in terms of a pendulum-like "double movement." One side of that movement is toward free and flexible markets that...

Main topics: Bioinfomatics; Computational Statistics; Econometrics; Graphical Models; High Dimensional and Multivariate Methods; Industrial and Business Statistics; Nonparametric methods; Observer agreement; Reliability, Event History and Survival Analysis; Spatial and spatio-temporal modelling;...