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THE 22nd INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM ON 
BIOMETRICS, BIOSTAT 2015

Dubrovnik, Croatia, 28th June−1st  July 2015

BIOSTAT symposium 2015 was organized by Croatian Biometric Society (HBMD), 
under the auspices of the University of Zagreb. Researchers and practitioners in the 
field of biometrics presented their work from the development and application of sta-
tistical and mathematical methods to data analysis in life sciences and covered the fol-
lowing topics: Design of Experiments; Clinical Study Design; Sampling Methods, Sta-
tistical Modelling of Biological Systems, Statistical Genomics, Environmental Statisti-
cs, Predictive and Prescriptive Modelling; Temporal-Spatial Analysis, Forecasting and 
Prediction; Multivariate Statistics in Life Sciences, Meta-analysis, Data Visualization, 
Data Mining, Quantitative Decision Support, Risk Assessment, Statistical Learning, 
Taxonomy and Classification, Research Data Lifecycle, Management and Education 
in Biometrics. 

On the first day of the Symposium, professor Lynne Billard from University of 
Georgia (USA) conducted the 20th School of Biometrics. Her lecture on “Multiple Sets 
of Multivariate Time Series” was an inspiring introduction to commence with other 
sections. 

The Symposium brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines and 
institutions from agriculture and forestry through biomedicine, anthropology, psycho-
logy, kinesiology to statistics and mathematics. Over 30 participants from 14 countries 
participated at this congress with 23 presentations and two keynote lectures. The ke-
ynote speakers were prof. Viswanathan Ramakrishnan (Medical University of south 
Carolina, USA), who presented the lecture titled “Is the Adaptive Paradigm Shifting the 
Perception of Clinical Trials?” and prof. Rado Pišot (UP SRC; Institute for Kinesiology 
Research), with the lecture titled »Bed Rest as a Model for Studying Mechanisms of 
Functional Decline«. Three presentations of methods and the latest findings from the 
field of kinesiology were given also by prof. Franjo Prot (KIF, University of Zagreb), 
Uroš Marušič, Ph.D. (UP SRC) and Saša Pišot (UP SRC). 

The Symposium took place in the beautiful ancient city of Dubrovnik, in the Centre 
for Advanced Academy Studies (CAAS) which is located close to the main gate leading 
to the old city centre. A warm social atmosphere and hospitality of the organizers enabled 
us to share many a professional thoughts and ideas for further collaboration and to take 
home a pleasant memory of Croatia and the Dalmatian pearl – the city of Dubrovnik. 

One of the important messages of the Symposium is also that the event will be bi-
annual from now on, therefore, the next opportunity to exchange new viewpoints will 
be in the summer of 2017.

Saša Pišot



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22. MEDNARODNI ZNANSTVENI SIMPOZIJ BIOMETRIJE, 
BIOSTAT 2015

Dubrovnik, Hrvaška, 28. junij–1. julij 2015

Simpozij BIOSTAT 2015 je pod okriljem Univerze v Zagrebu letos že 22. organizi-
ralo Hrvaško biometirično društvo (HBMD). Raziskovalci in strokovnjaki s področja 
biometrije so imeli možnost predstaviti izsledke razvojnega in aplikativnega dela sta-
tističnih in matematičnih metod v okviru naslednjih tematik: Design of Experiments; 
Clinical Study Design; Sampling Methods, Statistical Modeling of Biological Systems, 
Statistical Genomics, Environmental Statistics, Predictive and Prescriptive Modeling; 
Temporal-Spatial Analysis, Forecasting and Prediction; Multivariate Statistics in Life 
Sciences, Meta-analysis, Data Visualization, Data Mining, Quantitative Decision Su-
pport, Risk Assessment, Statistical Learning, Taxonomy and Classification, Research 
Data Lifecycle Management and Education in Biometrics. 

Prvi dan simpozija je bil namenjen že 20. šoli biometrije, ki jo je tokrat izvedla 
priznana profesorica Lynne Billard iz Univerze v Georigiji iz ZDA. Predavanje z na-
slovom »Multiple sets of multivariate time series« je bil dobrodošel uvodni navdih za 
nadaljnje sekcije, ki so se nato zvrstile. 

Mednarodni znanstveni simpozij je tudi tokrat združil raziskovalce iz široke pale-
te znanstvenih disciplin in institucij; od kmetijstva in gozdarstva, biomedicine, antro-
pologije, psihologije, kineziologije do statistike in matematike. Preko 30 udeležencev 
iz 14 držav je sodelovalo s 23 predstavitvami in z dvema vabljenima predavanjema. 
Predavatelja sta bila prof. Viswanathan Ramakrishnan (Medicinska univerza v južni 
Karolini, ZDA), ki je v predstavitvi poskušal odgovoriti na vprašanje: »Is the adaptive 
paradigm shifting the perception of clinical trials?« in prof. Rado Pišot (UP ZRS, Inšti-
tut za kineziološke raziskave), ki je predstavil odmevno delo inštituta z naslovom »Bed 
rest as a model for studying mechanisms of functional decline«. Nadalje so se zvrstile 
poleg drugih tudi tri predstavitve, v katerih so prof. Franjo Prot (Kineziološka fakulteta, 
Univerza v Zagrebu), dr. Uroš Marušič (UP ZRS) in Saša Pišot (UP ZRS) predstavili 
pomembne metode, uporabljene pri raziskovanju na področju kineziologije. 

Simpozij se je odvijal v prijetnih prostorih Centra za napredne akademske študije 
(CAAS) v bližini srednjeveškega starega mestnega jedra Dubrovnika. Prijetna klima in 
gostoljubnost organizatorjev sta omogočali izmenjavo idej in dobrih praks tudi izven 
predavalnic, zato nam bo simpozij ostal v prijetnem spominu. Novost simpozija je tudi, 
da se bo simpozij sedaj organiziral na vsaki dve leti, zato bo naslednja možnost izme-
njave znanstvenih misli poleti leta 2017.

Saša Pišot


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