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

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Monday, 08/02/2010
Efficient Classification for Longitudinal Data
Xianlong Wang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Peiyong (Annie) Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Interaction Detection for Business Forecasting
Dan Steinberg, Salford Systems
11:50 AM

Prediction of Advertiser Churn for Google AdWords
Sangho Yoon, Google; Jim Koehler, Google; Adam Ghobarah, Google
2:20 PM

Statisticians: 3, Computer Scientists: 35
David Purdy, University of California, Berkeley
3:20 PM

Tuesday, 08/03/2010
Outlier Detection Methods for Improving Boosting
Waldyn Martinez Cid, The University of Alabama; J. Brian Gray, The University of Alabama
11:20 AM

Thinning Random Forests
Jie Xu, The University of Alabama; J. Brian Gray, The University of Alabama
11:35 AM

Sparse Distance-Weighted Discrimination and the Oracle Theory
Lingsong Zhang, Purdue University; Xihong Lin, Harvard School of Public Health
2:30 PM

Wednesday, 08/04/2010
Determining the Genic Contribution to Disease by Evaluating Component SNPs
Benjamin Alan Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley; Alan Hubbard, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa Barcellos, University of California, Berkeley
11:20 AM

Validity of Statistical and Computational Methods to Ascertain Causes of Death: Can They Outperform Physicians?
Christopher J.L. Murray, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Jeanette Kurian Birnbaum, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Abraham D. Flaxman, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Sean Green, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
2:45 PM

Thursday, 08/05/2010
A Simulation Study to Evaluate Sample Size and Power for a Trial to Develop a Prediction Rule Using Machine Learning Methods
Radha Railkar, Merck & Co., Inc.; Matthew Wiener, Merck & Co., Inc.; Leonidas Carayannopoulos, Merck & Co., Inc.
11:20 AM




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