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Monday, 08/02/2010
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Measuring the Rectangularization of Survival Functions Using the Gompertz Distribution
Peter Oskar Pflaumer, Technical University of Dortmund
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Doubly Truncated Negative Binomial Regression for Evaluating the Age Distribution of Pertussis Infant Deaths
Andrew Lewis Baughman, CDC; Tracy Pondo, CDC; Margaret Cortese, CDC; Barry Sirotkin, CDC; Charles E. Rose, Jr., CDC; Tejpratap Tiwari, CDC
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Spatial Concentration of Mortality for the Five Leading Causes of Death in the United States, 2004--2006
Jay H. Kim, CDC/NCHS; Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr., National Center for Health Statistics
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Scaling Local Tree Mortality Models to a Regional Scale Using Combined Estimators and a Meta-Regression Approach
Suborna Ahmed, The University of British Columbia; Valerie LeMay, The University of British Columbia
11:05 AM
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The Variance Calculation Following Multiple Imputation: Illustration with Cholera Mortality Data Collected by John Snow
James A. Hanley, McGill University; Juli Atherton, McGill University
2:50 PM
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Tuesday, 08/03/2010
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Cox Regression Model with Time-Dependant Covariates to Investigate the Impacts of Nonfatal Events on Subsequent Mortality
Huyuan Yang, Boston Scientific Corporation; Hong Wang, Boston Scientific Corporation; Heather Bai, Boston Scientific Corporation
8:35 AM
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Plausible 'Nuisance' Contributor to Decreasing Deleterious Association of Overweight and Obese on Mortality Rate Over Calendar Time
Tapan Mehta, The University of Alabama at Birmingham; Nicholas Pajewski, The University of Alabama at Birmingham; Scott Keith, Thomas Jefferson University; Kevin Fontaine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; David B. Allison, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
8:35 AM
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BMI, Alcohol, Prostate Cancer, and Mortality Follow-Up
Negasi T. Beyene, CDC; Peter Meyer, National Center for Health Statistics
9:50 AM
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Reference Priors for Constrained Poisson Models
Michael David Sonksen, The Ohio State University; Mario Peruggia, The Ohio State University
10:35 AM
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Identifying Pregnancy Deaths in the United States: Vital Statistics and Surveillance Systems
Andrea P. MacKay, National Center for Health Statistics
11:15 AM
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Modeling U.S. Cause-Specific Mortality Rates Using an Age-Segmented Lee-Carter model
Jiraphan Suntornchost, National Center for Health Statistics; Rong Wei, National Center for Health Statistics; Eric V. Slud, University of Maryland
11:20 AM
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Ambient Air Pollutants and Mortality: A Meta-Analysis
Elizabeth Anne Stanwyck, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Bimal K. Sinha, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
2:50 PM
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Wednesday, 08/04/2010
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Investigating Trawl Gear Modifications to Reduce Mortality of Bering Sea Crab Fisheries
Loveday L. Conquest, University of Washington; Carwyn Hammond, National Marine Fisheries Service; Craig Rose, National Marine Fisheries Service
8:35 AM
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Estimation of Minimum Mortality Rates and Excess Mortality from Regional Data
Ronald Gangnon, University of Wisconsin
8:50 AM
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Modifications of and Alternatives to the SMR in Evaluating Center-Specific Mortality
Kevin He, University of Michigan ; Douglas E. Schaubel, University of Michigan
9:35 AM
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Empirical Evaluation of Methods for Predicting Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Canada
Michael Otterstatter, Public Health Agency of Canada; Lin Xie, Public Health Agency of Canada
10:35 AM
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Statistical Inference in Factor Analysis for High-Dimension, Low-Sample-Size Data
Miguel Marino, Harvard University/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Yi Li, Harvard University/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
10:50 AM
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CUSUMs for Survival Outcomes with Dependent Censoring: Application to Monitoring Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Programs
Jie (Rena) Sun, University of Michigan; John David Kalbfleisch, University of Michigan; Douglas E. Schaubel, University of Michigan
3:05 PM
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