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

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Sunday, 08/01/2010
Design of Nonrandomized Medical Device Trials Based on Subclassification Using Propensity Score Quintiles
Greg Maislin, Biomedical Statistical Consulting; Donald B. Rubin, Harvard University
5:25 PM

Monday, 08/02/2010
Methodology Used for Measuring Use of Electronic Medical Records in Physician Practices in 2008 and 2009 NAMCS
Iris Shimizu, National Center for Health Statistics


The Promise and Challenge of Benefit: Risk Analysis for Medical Products
Richard Forshee, FDA


An Extension of the Wilcoxon Rank-Sum Test for Complex Sample Survey Data
Sundareshwaran Natarajan, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Stuart R. Lipsitz, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Debajyoti Sinha, Florida State University; Garrett Fitzmaurice, Harvard Medical School
11:35 AM

Implementation of a Cost Quotation Tool for Statistical Consulting in an Academic Medical Setting: Preliminary Results
Rhonda J. Rosychuk, University of Alberta
2:05 PM

Adaptive Design for Sample Size Re-estimation in a Medical Device Trial of Spinal Cord Stimulation
Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov, Boston Scientific Corporation
2:05 PM

Evaluating Medical Imaging Reader Performance in Clinical Trials
David L. Raunig, Pfizer Inc.; Patricia English, Pfizer Inc.
2:30 PM

Statistical Analyses of Correlated Medical Cost Data
Lei Liu, University of Virginia
2:45 PM

Tuesday, 08/03/2010
Statistical Programmers in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Chengying (Nancy) Wu, sanofi-aventis


Statistical Issues in Designing Active Control Studies with an Emphasis on Veterinary Medical Issues
Anna B. Nevius, FDA/CVM


Balancing Informativeness and Ethics in Clinical Trial Design
Valerii Fedorov, GlaxoSmithKline
8:35 AM

Methodological Comparison of Estimates of Ambulatory Health Care Use from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and Other Data Sources
Jeff Rhoades, AHRQ; Joel Cohen, AHRQ; Steven Machlin, AHRQ
8:35 AM

Generalizations of Length-Biased Sampling: Novel Applications
Marvin Zelen, Harvard School of Public Health
8:35 AM

Forecasting Emergency Medical Service Call Arrival Rates
David S. Matteson, Cornell University; Mathew W. McLean , Cornell University; Dawn B. Woodard, Cornell University; Shane Henderson, Cornell University
8:35 AM

A Case Study of Issues with Subgroup Analysis for Medical Devices
Yao Huang, FDA/CDRH; Yunling Xu, FDA/CDRH
9:15 AM

Reference and Prediction Regions in Medical and Pharmaceutical Research
Robb Muirhead, Statistical Scientist
9:25 AM

Classification and Regression Tree Analysis as an Alternative for Multivariate Regression Modeling: An Application to Medical Device Trials
Jian Huang, Boston Scientific Corporation
9:35 AM

Application of Small-Area Estimation Methods to Emergency Department Data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
Vladislav M. Beresovsky, National Center for Health Statistics; Cathy Burt, National Center for Health Statistics; Van Parsons, National Center for Health Statistics; Nathaniel Schenker, National Center for Health Statistics
9:35 AM

Assessing the Accuracy of Prescription Drug Data for Medicare Beneficiaries in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Marc Zodet, AHRQ; Samuel Zuvekas, AHRQ; Steven Hill, AHRQ; Edward Miller, AHRQ
9:55 AM

Assessing the Impact of Missing Data on Variance Estimates for the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey: Insurance Component (MEPS-IC)
Matthew Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau; Anne Kearney, U.S. Census Bureau
10:05 AM

Applying Covariate-Adjusted, Response-Adaptive Randomization to Medical Device Studies
Thomas E. Gwise, FDA; Gene Anthony Pennello, FDA
10:55 AM

Full Bayesian Procedure for File Linking to Analyze End-of-Life Medical Costs
Roee Gutman, Harvard University; Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard Medical School
2:45 PM

Approximate Confidence Limits for a Proportion of the Hypergeometric Probability Distribution: Applications in Audits, Acceptance Sampling and Medical Investigations
Yevgeniy Voinov, KIMEP
2:50 PM

Wednesday, 08/04/2010
Investigator Evaluation and the Collaborative/Consulting Experience
Rhonda VanDyke, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center


Electronic Medical Data, Public Health Decisions, and Statisticians: An FDA Perspective
Robert T. O'Neill, FDA
8:35 AM

Bayesian and Frequentist Methods for Provider Profiling Using Risk-Adjusted Assessments of Medical Outcomes
Michael Joseph Racz, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences; Joseph Sedransk, Case Western Reserve University
8:35 AM

Misuse of Statistical Terms: What Should We Do About It?
Charlie Goldsmith, McMaster University
10:50 AM

Combining Information Across Studies for Clinical Trials: What We Have Learned at FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Laura Thompson, FDA/CDRH
2:30 PM

Medical Device Software Safety, Validation, Verification, and Effectiveness
Carolyn Carroll, STAT TECH, Inc.
3:05 PM

Discovering Personalized Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis by Reinforcement Learning
Yiyun Tang, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Michael Kosorok, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:05 PM

Bayesian Dynamic Models for Improved Efficacy in Avoidance of Preventable Hospital Deaths
David Draper, University of California, Santa Cruz
3:20 PM

Comparing Web Panel Samples vs. Non-Panel Samples of Medical Doctors
Lin Chiat Chang, LinChiat Chang Consulting, LLC; Jeremy Brody, Kantar Health
3:20 PM

Thursday, 08/05/2010
Nonparametric Comparison for Panel Count Data with Unequal Observation Processes
Xingqiu Zhao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Jianguo Sun, University of Missouri
8:50 AM

Analysis of Single-Arm Studies: Statistical Considerations of Study Site Variability from a Regulatory Perspective
Terri Kang Johnson, FDA/CDRH; Yunling Xu, FDA/CDRH
8:55 AM

Establishing Best Predictors for Completion of the HPV4 Vaccine Sequence by Female Patients at Clinics of Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Christopher E. Barat, Stevenson University; Courtney Wright, Stevenson University; Betty Chou, The Johns Hopkins University
11:05 AM




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