SAM 2024: the Statistical Analyses of Multi-Outcome Data

The Fifth International Workshop on the Statistical Analyses of Multi-Outcome Data (SAM 2024) was successfully held on July 9–10, 2024, in the picturesque city of Salzburg, Austria. This year’s workshop, co-sponsored by the University of Salzburg, attracted 130 registered participants, setting new records for SAM workshops. It featured two plenary talks delivered by Professors Ian McKeague and Markus Pauly; twenty-four invited sessions covering topics such as joint models of multiple outcomes, precision medicine, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the analysis of complex data including metagenomics, neuroimaging, and high-dimensional and heterogeneous data; as well as eight contributed sessions providing a platform for emerging researchers. The website containing all the talk information is available at https://sam-workshop.github.io/SAM_2024/.

Junior researcher awards were given to Zhichen Xu (top place), Jonas Beck (second place), and Daniel Phillips (honorable mention). Generous donations by the International Biometric Society’s Austria/Switzerland Region and InflaRx supported the plenary sessions and the junior researcher awards. Thanks also to the ASA Lifetime Data Science Section, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Chinese Statistical Association, and the Academy of Clinical Research and Study for co-sponsoring the event. Special thanks to Ruiwen Zhou for website design and to the local team with Andrea Baumgartner, Jonas Beck, and several others for their administrative assistance.

SAM 2026 is planned for July 2026 in Bordeaux, France, co-sponsored by the University of Bordeaux. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Lei Liu, on behalf of the SAM 2024 Program Organizing Committee: Arne Bathke, Lei Liu (chair), Peter X. K. Song, and Yichuan Zhao.