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Sunday, 07/31/2016
Characterizing Causal Treatment Effect Heterogeneity with Conditional Inference Trees
Julian Wolfson, University of Minnesota; Lauren Erickson, HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research
4:35 PM

Monday, 08/01/2016
Predicting Human Driving Behavior to Help Driverless Vehicles Drive: Random Intercept Bayesian Additive Regression Trees
Yaoyuan Vincent Tan, University of Michigan; Carol A. C. Flannagan, University of Michigan Transport Research Institute; Michael Elliott, University of Michigan


Using Wavelets to Discover Relationships Among Tree-Ring Records
Megan Heyman, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Snigdhansu Chatterjee, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Scott St. George, University of Minnesota


Sequential Policy Making in Management of Emerging Infectious Disease with Monte Carlo Tree Search
Sihan Wu, North Carolina State University


BART for Classification
Robert B. Gramacy, The University of Chicago
8:35 AM

Dispersion Modeling with an Ensemble of Trees
Hugh Chipman, Acadia University; Matthew Pratola, The Ohio State University; Robert McCulloch, The University of Chicago; Edward I. George, The Wharton School
9:00 AM

Using Wavelets to Discover Relationships Among Tree-Ring Records
Megan Heyman, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Snigdhansu Chatterjee, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Scott St. George, University of Minnesota
9:00 AM

Sequential Policy Making in Management of Emerging Infectious Disease with Monte Carlo Tree Search
Sihan Wu, North Carolina State University
9:05 AM

Environmental Stressors, Health Outcomes, and Bayesian Regression Trees
Gregory Watson, University of California at Los Angeles; Donatello Telesca, University of California at Los Angeles
9:05 AM

Residual-Based Trees for Clustered Binary Data
Mousumi Banerjee, University of Michigan; Rong Xia, University of Michigan
9:15 AM

Bayesian Additive Regression Trees: Extensions and Embedding in Complex Models
Jared S. Murray, Carnegie Mellon University
9:50 AM

Tree-Like Structure Classification Based on Distance Matrix LU Decomposition with Application to Galaxy Profile Data
Jianan Hui, University of California at Riverside; Xinping Cui, University of California at Riverside; James Flegal, University of California at Riverside; Miguel Aragon-Calvo, University of California at Riverside
10:05 AM

Nonparametric Survival Analysis Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART)
Rodney Sparapani, Medical College of Wisconsin; Brent Logan, Medical College of Wisconsin; Robert McCulloch, The University of Chicago; Purushottam Laud, Medical College of Wisconsin
10:50 AM

Predicting Human Driving Behavior to Help Driverless Vehicles Drive: Random Intercept Bayesian Additive Regression Trees
Yaoyuan Vincent Tan, University of Michigan; Carol A. C. Flannagan, University of Michigan Transport Research Institute; Michael Elliott, University of Michigan
10:55 AM

Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) and Precision Medicine
Brent Logan, Medical College of Wisconsin; Rodney Sparapani, Medical College of Wisconsin; Robert McCulloch, The University of Chicago; Purushottam Laud, Medical College of Wisconsin
11:05 AM

Sequential BART for Imputation of Missing Covariates
Dandan Xu, University of Florida; Michael Daniels, The University of Texas at Austin; Almut G. Winterstein, University of Florida
11:15 AM

Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis Under Tree Orderings of Disease Classes
Dan Wang, SUNY Buffalo; Lili Tian, SUNY Buffalo; Kristopher Attwood, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
2:05 PM

Survival Trees for Left-Truncated and Right-Censored Data, with Application to Time-Varying Covariate Data
Wei Fu; Jeffrey Simonoff, New York University
2:05 PM

Statistics on Tumor Images Using Trees and Shapes of Parameterized Curves
Karthik Bharath, University of Nottingham; Veera Baladandayuthapani, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Arvind Rao, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Sebastian A. Kurtek, The Ohio State University; Dipak Dey, University of Connecticut
2:25 PM

Brownian Motion Tree Models: Theory and Applications
Caroline Uhler, MIT
2:45 PM

Some Ideas Left Out of CART
Padraic Grantier Neville, SAS Institute
2:55 PM

Tuesday, 08/02/2016
Machine Learning Applications for Survey Design, Collection, and Adjustment: Going Beyond the Trees to See Clusters, Forests, and Neighbors
Trent Buskirk, Marketing Systems Group


Computationally Tractable Approximate and Smoothed Polya Trees
William Cipolli, Colgate University; Timothy Hanson, University of South Carolina


Empirical Evaluation of Bayesian Network Classifiers
Weihua Shi, SAS Institute


C.Logic: An Algorithm to Classify Dichotomous Disease Outcomes Using Interactions Between Dichotomous and Continuous Predictors
Sybil Prince Nelson


Improved Phylogenetic Ordinations for Microbiome Data
Julia Fukuyama, Stanford University


A Random Forest of Modified Interaction Trees for Treatment Decision Rules
Zhen Zeng, Merck; Zheng Wei, Sanofi US; Yuefeng Lu, Sanofi US


Depth Functions and Medians on the Minimal Spanning Tree
Reza Modarres, The George Washington University
9:05 AM

MiCAM: A Powerful Microbial Association Test and Its Comprehensive Mapping Capability
Hyunwook Koh, New York University; Martin J. Blaser, New York University; Huilin Li , New York University Langone Medical Center
9:35 AM

Constructing Generalized Variance Functions with Linear Regression Trees
Greg Erkens, Bureau of Labor Statistics
9:35 AM

Using Regression Trees to Model Characteristics of Nonresponse and Measurement Error in a Longitudinal Survey
Morgan Earp, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Daniell Toth, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Polly Phipps, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Charlotte Oslund, Bureau of Labor Statistics
10:35 AM

A Random Forest of Modified Interaction Trees for Treatment Decision Rules
Zhen Zeng, Merck; Zheng Wei, Sanofi US; Yuefeng Lu, Sanofi US
10:35 AM

Classification and Regression Tree Modeling of Correlated Binary Outcomes
Jaime Speiser, Medical University of South Carolina; Valerie Durkalski-Mauldin, Medical University of South Carolina; Dongjun Chung, Medical University of South Carolina; Bethany Wolf, Medical University of South Carolina
10:50 AM

Modeling Survey Data with Regression Trees
Daniell Toth, Bureau of Labor Statistics
10:55 AM

Improved Phylogenetic Ordinations for Microbiome Data
Julia Fukuyama, Stanford University
11:20 AM

An Approach to the Multivariate Two-Sample Problem Using Classification and Regression Trees and Minimum-Weight Spanning Subgraphs
David Ruth; Samuel Buttrey, Naval Postgraduate School; Lyn Whitaker, Naval Postgraduate School
11:20 AM

Selecting Decision Rules from Tree Ensembles
Damir Spisic, IBM; Jing Xu, IBM
11:50 AM

Multi-Class ROC Tree and Random Forest for Imbalanced Data Classification
Jiaju Yan, SUNY Stony Brook; Wei Zhu, SUNY Stony Brook; Bowen Song, Ocean University of China
2:20 PM

Analysis of Methane Data Collected by Google Street View Vehicles
Zachary Weller; Jennifer Hoeting , Colorado State University; Adam Gaylord, Colorado State University; Joe von Fischer, Colorado State University
2:50 PM

Nonparametric Hypothesis Testing of the Human Microbiome Using Evolutionary Trees
Martina Mincheva, Temple University; Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania; Jun Chen, Mayo Clinic
3:35 PM

Wednesday, 08/03/2016
Finding the 'Best' Measurement of Body Weight Status Was Difficult with Missing Data
Liyun Zhang, Medical College of Wisconsin; Michele Polfuss, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Kathleen J. Sawin, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Pippa Simpson, Medical College of Wisconsin


Doubly Robust Regression Trees Under Competing Risks
Youngjoo Cho, University of Rochester Medical Center; Robert Strawderman, University of Rochester Medical Center
9:35 AM

Efficient Bayesian Posterior Sampling for Massive Data Sets
Reihaneh Entezari; Radu V. Craiu, University of Toronto; Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, University of Toronto
10:50 AM

Statistical Methods for Integrating the Phylogenetic Tree in Microbiome Data Analysis
Jun Chen, Mayo Clinic; Jian Xiao, Mayo Clinic
11:00 AM

Learning About Nonrespondents' Characteristics Using Standard Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) Tools
MoonJung Cho, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Larry Lang, Bureau of Labor Statistics
3:20 PM

Thursday, 08/04/2016
Dynamic Weighted Average Approach for Predicting Street Parking Availability
Yi Hua, University of Illinois at Chicago; Ouri E. Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago; Xudong Lin, South China Agricultural University; Jie Yang, University of Illinois at Chicago
9:20 AM

Creating a Biomarker Signature for a Companion Diagnostic Using Bootstrapping and Aggregating Thresholds from Tree-Based Models
Raj Chandran
9:35 AM

Efficient Methods for Fitting Bayesian Semiparametric Models to Partly Interval-Censored Data
Haiming Zhou, Northern Illinois University; Timothy Hanson, University of South Carolina
9:50 AM

Optimal Decision Rule for Multiple Biomarkers Combined as Tree-Based Classifiers
Yuxin Zhu, The Johns Hopkins University; Mei-Cheng Wang, The Johns Hopkins University
10:05 AM

Scalable Bayesian Variable Selection and Model Averaging Under Block Orthogonal Design
Omiros Papaspiliopoulos; David Rossell, University of Warwick
10:05 AM

A Case Study on the Use of Propensity Score Adjustments with Web Survey Data
Van Parsons, CDC/NCHS
11:35 AM

 
 
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