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

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Sunday, 08/01/2010
Nonlinear Regression and Bayesian Robustness via Disparities
Giles Hooker, Cornell University
2:05 PM

Monday, 08/02/2010
Application of Fuzzy Clustering and Discriminant Analysis to Identify Neighborhood Population Characteristics and Health Needs
Ashely Pedigo, University of Tennessee; William Seaver, University of Tennessee; Agricola Odoi, University of Tennessee


Simpson's Paradox: Aggregating and Partitioning Populations in Health Care Disparities of Lung Cancer Patients
Pingfu Fu, Case Western Reserve University; Mark Schluchter, Case Western Reserve University; Rom Leidner, Case Western Reserve University; Balazs Halmos, Columbia University Medical Center
9:05 AM

Wednesday, 08/04/2010
Adjusting for Treatment Disparities in Observational Research
Marshall M. Joffe, University of Pennsylvania
10:35 AM

Collider Stratification Bias as a Threat to Validity in U.S.-Based Health Disparities Research
Whitney R. Robinson, University of Michigan; Jay Kaufman, McGill University
10:55 AM

Measuring Health Disparities in a Geographic Context: Spatial Estimates of Local Health Disparities
Lance Waller, Emory University; Megan Price, Benetech; Eric Tassone, Google; David C. Wheeler, National Cancer Institute
11:15 AM

A Symmetric, Entropy-Based, Relative and Quasi-Absolute Measure of Health Disparities: An Example Using Dental Caries in U.S. Children and Adolescents
Luisa N. Borrell, Lehman College - CUNY; Makram Talih, CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College
11:35 AM

Small-Area Estimation of U.S. Health Disparities
Tanja Srebotniak, Ecologic Institute; Christopher J.L. Murray, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Ali Mokdad, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Rafael Lozano, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
2:25 PM

Thursday, 08/05/2010
Measuring Health Disparities: The Choice of Spatial Unit
Carol Gotway Crawford, CDC; Zhuo (Adam) Chen, CDC
11:35 AM




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