This is the program for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Sunday, 08/01/2010
Cloud Computing for Bayesian Hidden Markov Models
Steven Lee Scott, Google
2:05 PM

Embracing GPU Technology in Bayesian Computation: Massively Parallel Computing on Your Desktop
Marc Suchard, University of California, Los Angeles
2:35 PM

Monday, 08/02/2010
Parallel Statistical Computing: Are We Embracing the Scalable Concurrency Revolution?
George Ostrouchov, Oak Ridge National Laboratory


Generic Framework for Parallel Statistical Computing
Hana Sevcikova, University of Washington


Parallel Implementation of Response Surface Regression on R
Hao Yu, The University of Western Ontario


Massively Parallel Linear Modeling of Gene Expression Data
Walter Liggett, National Institute of Standards and Technology
8:50 AM

Approximating Probabilities of Correlated Events
Qizhai Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Gang Zheng, National Institutes of Health; Aiyi Liu, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Zhaohai Li, The George Washington University; Kai Yu, National Cancer Institute
9:35 AM

A Stochastic Partitioning Method to Associate High-Dimensional Data Sets
Mahlet G. Tadesse, Georgetown University; Stefano Monni, Weill Cornell Medical College
11:35 AM

Autologistic Models for Binary Data on a Lattice
John Hughes, Penn State; Murali Haran, Penn State; Petrutza Caragea, Iowa State University
2:05 PM

Analysis Considerations Related to Parallelism of Bioassay Data
Kristi L. Griffiths, Eli Lilly and Company; Bhavin S. Parekh, Eli Lilly and Company
2:45 PM

Tuesday, 08/03/2010
Knot Selection for Least Squares and Penalized Splines
Steven Spiriti, Arizona State University; Randall Eubank, Arizona State University; Philip Smith, Texas Tech University; Dennis Young, Arizona State University
8:50 AM

Accelerating Common R Commands Using the Gputools Package
Mark Seligman, Rapid Biologics LLC; Josh Buckner, University of Michigan Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute
11:50 AM

The Measurement of Race and Ethnicity in the Censuses of Australia, Canada, and the United States: Parallels, Paradoxes, and Progressions
Gillian Stevens, University of Alberta; Hiromi Ishizawa, The George Washington University; Douglas Grbic, Association of American Medical Colleges
2:35 PM

On Optimal Grouping Strategies Using Parallel Gatekeeping Procedures
Haiyuan Zhu, Forest Research Institute
3:20 PM

Wednesday, 08/04/2010
Improved Portmanteau Diagnostic Test for Multivariate Time Series Using Monte-Carlo Techniques
Esam Mahdi, The University of Western Ontario; A. Ian McLeod, The University of Western Ontario


Application of Model Selection for the Weight of BC Pink Salmon Using Bayes Factors Estimated by Thermodynamic Integration
Jinhee Lim, Simon Fraser University; David A. Campbell, Simon Fraser University


Comparison of Statistical Models Adjusting for Baseline in the Analysis of Thorough QT/QTc Studies
Guowen (Gordon) Sun, sanofi-aventis; Hui Quan, sanofi-aventis
8:35 AM

Combining Principal Component Analysis with Parameter Line Searches to Construct Well-Designed Proposal Distributions for Metropolis-Hastings MCMC
David Andrew Kennedy, The University of Chicago; Vanja Dukic, The University of Chicago; Greg Dwyer, The University of Chicago
9:35 AM

Simulating Data to Study Performance of Finite Mixture Modeling and Clustering Algorithms
Volodymyr Melnykov, North Dakota State University; Ranjan Maitra, Iowa State University
11:55 AM

Thursday, 08/05/2010
Comparison of Different Choices of Baseline Values in Parallel Thorough QTc Studies
Qianyu Dang, FDA; Joanne Zhang, FDA
11:15 AM




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