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Sunday, 07/30/2017
Predicting Phenotypes from Microarrays Using Amplified, Initially Marginal, Eigenvector Regression
Lei Ding, Indiana University; Daniel J. McDonald, Indiana University


A Phylogenetic Transform Enhances Analysis of Compositional Microbiota Data
Justin David Silverman, Duke University; Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University; Lawrence A David, Duke University


Subgroup Inference for Multiple Treatments and Multiple Endpoints
Brad Carlin, University of Minnesota; Patrick Schnell, University of Minnesota; Peter Mueller, UT Austin; Qi Tang, AbbVie, Inc.
2:05 PM

ROS Regression: Integrating Regularization with Optimal Scaling for Predictive Modeling of High-Dimensional Data
Jacqueline J Meulman, Leiden University
2:05 PM

Data Editing: How Much Is Too Much?
Rebecca Ahrnsbrak, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Chrishelle Lawrence, U.S. Energy Information Administration; Darcy Miller, National Agricultural Statistics Service; Kirk Mueller, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; Justin Nguyen, U.S. Census Bureau
2:05 PM

Statistical Innovations on Safety Analyzes
Shuai Yuan, Merck; William W Wang, Merck & Co Inc
2:05 PM

Towards Accounting for Model Error in CO2 Retrievals from the OCO-2 Satellite
Jenny Brynjarsdottir, Case Western Reserve University; Jonathan Hobbs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Amy Braverman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2:05 PM

Locally-Adaptive Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Multivariate Processes in Phylodynamics
James Faulkner, University of Washington; Vladimir Minin, University of Washington
2:05 PM

On the Asymptotic Performance of Bridge Estimators
Arian Maleki, Columbia Univ; Haolei Weng, Columbia University; Shuaiwen Wang, Columbia University
2:05 PM

Testing Hypotheses About a Ratio of Medians Using Conover's Rank Transformation
Donald Schuirmann, U.S. FDA
2:05 PM

Inference for Errors-In-Variables Models in the Presence of Spatial and Temporal Dependence with an Application to a Carbon Dioxide Remote Sensing Campaign
Bohai Zhang, University of Wollongong; Noel Cressie, University of Wollongong; Debra Wunch, University of Toronto
2:25 PM

Expanding the Survey of Doctorate Recipients
Wan-Ying Chang, NSF/NCSES; Daniel Foley, NSF/NCSES; Karen Grigorian, NORC; Michael Yang, NORC; Lance Selfa, NORC
2:25 PM

The Use of Rejection Odds and Rejection Ratios in Testing Hypotheses
James Berger, Duke University; Daniel Benjamin, University of Southern California; Thomas Sellke, Purdue University
2:30 PM

Spatial Modeling of Object Data: Analysing Dialect Sound Variations Across the UK
Shahin Tavakoli, University of Cambridge; Davide Pigoli, University of Cambridge; John AD Aston, University of Cambridge
2:30 PM

Functional Regression for Combining Remote Sensing and In-Situ Data
Meredith Franklin
2:45 PM

TEMPORAL CHANGES in the POWER PRODUCTION of REAL-WORLD PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS UNDER DIVERSE CLIMATIC CONDITIONS
Rojiar Haddadian, Case Western Reserve University; Yang Hu, Case Western Reserve University; Alan J. Curran, Case Western Reserve University; Ahmad M Karimi, Case Western Reserve university; Timothy J. Peshek, Case Western Reserve University; Roger H. French, Case Western Reserve university
2:50 PM

Constructing a Confidence Interval for the Fraction Who Benefit from Treatment Using Randomized Trial Data
Emily Huang, Johns Hopkins University Department of Biostatistics; Ethan Fang, Pennsylvania State University; Daniel Hanley, Johns Hopkins Division of Brain Injury Outcomes; Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins University
2:50 PM

Re-Conceptualizing the P-Value: a Probabilistic Comparison of Models Using Discrepancy Measures
Benjamin Nathaniel Riedle, University of Iowa; Joseph Cavanaugh, University of Iowa; Andrew Neath, SIU Edwardsville
2:50 PM

New Perspectives of P-Value and C-Factor for Hypothesis Testing
Regina Y Liu, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY; Sifan Y Liu, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY; MINGE Y XIE, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
2:55 PM

A Smoothed Monotonic Regression via L2 Regularization
Oleg Sysoev, Linkoping University; Oleg Burdakov, Linkoping University
3:05 PM

Fusing Data from Multiple Remote Sensing Instruments
Jessica Loock Matthews, CICS-NC; Elizabeth Mannshardt, US Environmental Protection Agency; Brian Reich, NCSU; Joseph Guinness, NC State University
3:05 PM

Registration of Functional Data Using the Fisher-Rao Metric
Sebastian Kurtek, The Ohio State University; Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University; Wei Wu, Florida State University; Eric Klassen, Florida State University; J. S. (Steve) Marron, University of North Carolina
3:20 PM

Model-Assisted Estimation of Proportions in Repeated Survey with Complex Rotation Pattern: Application to the Current Population Survey
Daniel Bonnéry, University of Maryland
3:20 PM

On a Time Reversal Approach for Testing a Poisson Intensity Against Smooth and Rough Alternatives
Moinak Bhaduri, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
3:20 PM

Beyond P-Values: Hypothesis Testing Based on the BIC Model Selection Criterion
Stanley Sclove, Univ of Illinois At Chicago; Robert F Bordley, Booz Allen Hamilton
3:20 PM

Testing High-Dimensional Mean Under Weak Serial Dependence
Runmin Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Xiaofeng Shao, University of Illinois, At Urbana-Champaign
3:20 PM

Evaluation of Climate Models Using the Wild Scale-Enhanced Bootstrap
Megan Heyman, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ansu Chatterjee, University of Minnesota; Amy Braverman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
3:25 PM

Combining Unit Root Tests with Machine Learning Techniques
Edward Herranz; James Gentle, George Mason University
3:35 PM

Estimation of the Variance of Nonparametric Trend Estimates from Time Series Replicates Using the Empirical Moment Generating Function
Sucharita Ghosh, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
3:35 PM

Data integration using identification and analysis of a statistical causal network to hypothesize stable pathways through different biological levels
Azam Yazdani, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston; Akram Yazdani, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
3:35 PM

Hypothesis Testing of Matrix Graph Model
Yin Xia, Fudan University
4:05 PM

Leveraging Algorithms for Super-Large Sample Logistic Regression
Ping Ma, University of Georgia
4:05 PM

Automated Learning Techniques for Electronic Health Record (EHR) Unstructured Notes
Michael Sanky, Optum; Balaji Ramesh, Optum
4:05 PM

Local Nearest Neighbour Classification with Applications to Semi-Supervised Learning
Timothy I. Cannings, Universtiy of Southern California; Thomas Berrett, University of Cambridge; Richard J. Samworth, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge
4:05 PM

Central Limit Theorems and Hypothesis Tests for Random Forests
Lucas K Mentch, University of Pittsburgh; Giles J Hooker, Cornell University
4:30 PM

Inference Following Aggregate Level Hypothesis Testing in Large Scale Genomic Data
Ruth Heller, Tel-Aviv University; Nilanjan Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University; Abba Krieger, University of Pennsylvania; Jianxin Shi, National Cancer Institute
4:30 PM

Recursive Partition Split Selection Using a Permutation Test for Complex Sample Data
Daniell Toth, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
4:45 PM

A Cautionary Note on the Validation Method for Molecular Classification Studies
Li-Xuan Qin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
4:55 PM

Selective Inference in Genomics
Chiara Sabatti, Stanford University
4:55 PM

Likelihood-Based Inference for Partially Observed Spatiotemporal Dynamics: Measles as a Case Study
Edward Ionides, University of Michigan; Joonha Park, University of Michigan
4:55 PM

New Approaches to Multiple Testing of Grouped Hypotheses
Sanat K. Sarkar, Temple University
4:55 PM

Comparing Algorithmic Alerts Using Provisional Case Counts to Alerts Using Finalized Data--National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
Hong Zhou, CDC; Howard Burkom, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory; Ruth Jajosky, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Tara Strine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
5:05 PM

Functional Regression for Monitoring and Predicting Changes in Forest Conditions Across Space and Time
MD KAMRUL HASAN KHAN, University of Arkansas; Avishek Chakraborty, University of Arkansas; Giovanni Petris, University of Arkansas; Barry Wilson, US Forest Service
5:05 PM

Wild Residual Bootstrap Inference for Penalized Quantile Regression with Heteroscedastic Errors
Lan Wang, University of Minnesota; Ingrid Van Keilegom, ORSTAT, KU LEUVEN; Adam Maidman, University of Minnesota
5:20 PM

Optimal Design of Accelerated Degradation Tests for Wiener Degradation Processes with Budget Constraint and Time-Censoring
Jen Tang, Purdue University; Ming-Yung Lee, Providence University
5:20 PM

Exploratory Approaches for Determination of Important Physical Attributes of Cigarettes in the Yields of Tar, Nicotine and CO: a Case Study
Christopher Ellison, Food and Drug Administration; Qian Li, Food and Drug Administration
5:20 PM

Multivariate Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Data
Abera Wouhib, NIMH/NIH
5:20 PM

Constraint Approaches to the Estimation of Relative Risk
Yuanyuan Tang, Saint Luke's Health System; Philip Jones, Saint Luke's Health System; Liangrui Sun , University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Suzanne Arnold, Saint Luke's Health System; John Spertus, Saint Luke's Health System
5:20 PM

Monitoring Test for One-Sided Multiple Quality Indices
Guangyu Zhu, University of British Columbia; JIahua Chen, University of British Columbia
5:25 PM

Baxter's Inequality and Sieve Bootstrap for Random Fields
Jens-Peter Kreiss, TU Braunschweig; Marco Meyer, TU Braunschweig; Carsten Jentsch, University of Mannheim
5:25 PM

Neighborhood Selection for Gaussian Graphical Model with Vecotr-Valued Nodes
Yanzhen Deng
5:35 PM

Monday, 07/31/2017
An Analysis of Shot Quality in Major League Lacrosse (MLL)
Tyler Schanzenbach, William Penn High School Sports Analytics Club; Jesse McNulty, William Penn High School


Accounting for Data Collection Mode in Hot Deck Imputation
Jiantong Wang, RTI International; Peter Frechtel, RTI International; Amang Sukasih, RTI International; David Kinyon, U.S. Energy Information Administration


Coupling Geometry on Binary Bipartite Networks: Hypotheses Testing on Pattern Geometry and Nestedness
Jiahui Guan, University of California,Davis; Fushing Hsieh, University of California,Davis


Using an Onset-Anchored Bayesian Hierarchical Model to Improve Predictions for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Disease Progression
Alex Karanevich


Analysis Timing in Oncology Immunotherapy Trials with a Late Separation of Overall Survival Curve
Shu-Chih Su, Merck


Analysis of Adverse Event Relationships in Clinical Trials Using JMP
Anastasia Dmitrienko; Kelci Miclaus, JMP Life Sciences, SAS Institute Inc.; Richard C. Zink, JMP Life Sciences, SAS Institute, Inc.


SYSTEMATIC REVIEW of MISSING DATA HANDLING in NON-INFERIORITY TRIALS
Brooke Rabe, University of Arizona; Mallorie Fiero, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Melanie Bell, University of Arizona


Sample Size Re-Estimation and Other Midcourse Adjustments with Sequential Parallel Comparison Design
Rachel Silverman, University of North Carolina; Anastasia Ivanova, UNC at Chapel Hill


Linear Mixed Effects Model Approach to Analyze Change in Tumor Growth of Colorectal Cancer Mouse Model.
Ramu G Sudhagoni, The University of South Dakota; Khosrow Rezvani, The University of South Dakota; Jessica Freeling, The University of South Dakota


Batch Policy Evaluation for Average Reward
Peng Liao; Susan A Murphy, University of Michigan


Using Residual Plots to Identify Model Misspecifications
Emily Nystrom, Clemson University; Julia L Sharp, Colorado State University; William C Bridges, Clemson University; Patrick Gerard, Clemson University; Colin Gallagher, Clemson University


Uncertainty Propagation for a Large Scale Hydrological Routing Model
Michael Turmon, Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech; Jonathan Hobbs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; J T Reager, Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech; Cedric David, Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech; James Famiglietti, Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech


Semiparametric Bayes' Proportional Odds Models for Arbitrarily Censored Failure Time Data
Lu Wang, University of South Carolina; Lianming Wang, University of South Carolina


Causal Inference Using Bayesian Spatial Downscaling
Alexandra Larsen, North Carolina State University ; Brian Reich, NCSU; Ana Rappold, US EPA


A Comparative Study of Student Understanding of Center and Variability in Graphical Displays
Amy Froelich, Iowa State University; Jennifer Kaplan, University of Georgia; Alexander Lyford, UGA; Kathleen Rey, Iowa State University


Comparing Two Correlated ROC Curves: a Generalized Pivotal Quantity Approach
Yonggang Zhao, Skyview Research; Qianqiu Li, Johnson and Johnson


Dynamic Latent Factor Modeling of UN Voting Networks
Bomin Kim, Pennsylvania State University; Xiaoyue Niu, Penn State University; David Hunter, The Pennsylvania State University; Xun Cao, The Pennsylvania State University


Demonstrating the Usefulness of the National Hospital Care Survey to Track Patients Who Used Outpatient Department and Other Hospital Services Over Time
Geoffrey Jackson, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC; Margaret Hall, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC; Alexander Schwartzman, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC


Smoothing Splines Approach for Longitudinal Analysis of Functional Outcomes
Kush Kapur, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Rajesh Selukar, SAS Institute Inc; Basil Darras, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Seward Rutkove, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School


Quantifying the Causal Effects of Conservative Fourth Down Decision Making in the National Football League
Derrick Yam, Skidmore College; Michael J. Lopez, Skidmore College


A Terminal Trend Model for Longitudinal Medical Cost Data and Survival
Qian Yang, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Tor D. Tosteson, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Anna N. A. Tosteson, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Jeffrey C. Munson, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Zhigang Li, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire


Operations Research on NCAA Football Re-Injury Prevention
Nelson Chung, U. S. Census Bureau


Rank-Based Estimation for Generalized Additive Models with an Application to Fisheries Data
Hannah Correia, Auburn University; Asheber Abebe, Auburn University


Constrained Functional Clustering of Arctic Sea Ice Extent Data
Tan Tran, Montana State University; Christopher Barbour, Montana State University; Mark Greenwood, Montana State University


Identification of Potentially Problematic Prescribing to a Vulnerable Population
Ryan Jarrett; Richard Epstein, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago; Michael Cull, Vanderbilt University; David Schlueter, Vanderbilt University; Kathy Gracey, Vanderbilt University; Molly Butler, Vanderbilt University; Rameela Chandrasekhar, Vanderbilt University


Weighted Quantile Regression Splines using Total Variation Regularization
Jae-Hwan Jhong, Korea University; Ja-Yong Koo, Korea University


Detection of Treatment Effect After Variable Selection Under Model Misspecification
Jingshen Wang, University of Michigan; Xuming He, University of Michigan


No Punt Intended
Nicholas Eisemann, California State Univ Chico; Camille Pensabene, St. John Fisher College; Dylan Gouthro, Chico State; Demond Handley, Kansas State University ; MyDoris Soto, California State University-Fullerton


A Comparison of Testing Methods in Scalar-On-Function Regression
Merve Tekbudak, North Carolina State University; Marcela Alfaro Córdoba, North Carolina State University; Ana-Maria Staicu, North Carolina State University, Department of Statistics; Arnab Maity, North Carolina State University


Predicting NFL Player Success From Analysts' Diction
Hubert Song, North Carolina State University; Karl Pazdernik, North Carolina State University


Implementing Monte Carlo Tests with Multiple Thresholds
Georg Hahn, Imperial College London; Axel Gandy, Imperial College London; Dong Ding, Imperial College London


Dynamic and Interactive Graphics in Lisp-Stat
Luke Tierney, University of Iowa
8:35 AM

Estimating Average Treatment Effects with a Response-Informed Calibrated Propensity Score
David Cheng, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Abhishek Chakrabortty, University of Pennsylvania; Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan, Massachusetts General Hospital; Tianxi Cai, Harvard University
8:35 AM

A Regression Framework for the Proportion of True Null Hypotheses
Simina Boca, Georgetown University Medical Center; Jeffrey Leek, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
8:35 AM

Dynamic Latent Factor Modeling of UN Voting Networks
Bomin Kim, Pennsylvania State University; Xiaoyue Niu, Penn State University; David Hunter, The Pennsylvania State University; Xun Cao, The Pennsylvania State University
8:45 AM

Overall Unscaled Indices for Assessing Agreement Among Multiple Raters
Jeong Hoon Jang, Emory University; Amita Manatunga, Emory University; Qi Long, University of Pennsylvania
8:50 AM

Implementation of a Youth Health Survey via the Internet
Richard Lee Harding, ICF; Bryan Higgins, ICF; Brenda Clark, ICF; Stephanie Richelsen, ICF; Bert Rothenbach, Rothenbach Research; Tera Anderson, Florida Department of Health
8:50 AM

Abstract for Dynamic Multi-Resolution Smoothing Using Multi-Source Exchangeability Models
Alexander Kaizer; Joseph Koopmeiners, University of Minnesota; Brian P. Hobbs, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
8:55 AM

Covariate-Powered Weighted Multiple Testing with False Discovery Rate Control
Huber Wolfgang, EMBL; Nikos Ignatiadis, Stanford University
8:55 AM

Hot Deck Imputation of Multinomial Distributions When There Are Fewer Donors Than Recipients
Katherine Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau; Rebecca Andridge, Ohio State University; Laura Bechtel, U.S. Census Bureau; Natasha McCarthy, U.S. Census Bureau
8:55 AM

Data's Role in Motor Vehicle Traffic Safety
Terry Shelton, U.S. Department of Transportation
9:00 AM

Surrogacy for Regulatory Approval: The Follicular Lymphoma Analysis of Surrogate Hypothesis (FLASH) Project
Qian Shi, Mayo Clinic
9:00 AM

An Empirical Saddlepoint Approximation Based Method for Smoothing Survival Functions Under Right Censoring
Adao Trindade, Texas Tech University; Pratheepa Jeganathan , Stanford University; Noroharivelo Randrianampy, HECMMA; Robert Paige, Missouri University of Science and Technology
9:15 AM

Semiparametric Estimation of Longitudinal Data with Nonignorable Attrition Using Refreshment Samples
Lan Xue, Oregon State University; Jianfei Zheng, Oregon State University
9:15 AM

Dual-Purpose Bayesian Design for Parameter Estimation and Model Discrimination of Models with Intractable Likelihoods
Mahasen Bandara Dehideniya, Queensland University of Technology; James McGree, Queensland University of Technology; Christopher Drovandi , Queensland University of Technology
9:20 AM

The Surrogate Threshold Effect for Event-Free Survival as a Potential Surrogate for Overall Survival in Patients Treated for Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Marc Buyse, IDDI Inc.; Richard Schlenk, University Hospital of Ulm, Germany; Hartmund Dohner, University Hospital of Ulm, Germany; Tomasz Burzykowski, IDDI S.A.
9:25 AM

The TimeGeo Modeling Framework for Urban Motility Without Travel Surveys
Marta C. Gonzalez, MIT
9:25 AM

Rank-Based Estimation for Generalized Additive Models with an Application to Fisheries Data
Hannah Correia, Auburn University; Asheber Abebe, Auburn University
9:25 AM

Flexible Hypothesis Testing Method for Clinical Trials Using Composite Endpoint
Jin Xu, Merck; David Li, Pfizer
9:35 AM

Additive Rate Model for Recurrent Event Data with Intermittently Observed Time-Dependent Covariates
Tianmeng Lyu, Univ. Minnesota Biostatistics Dept.; Xianghua Luo, University of Minnesota; Chiung-Yu Huang, Johns Hopkins University
9:35 AM

Some reflections on developments of dynamic and interactive graphics in the 1980s-1990s
Dan Carr, George Mason University
9:35 AM

Identification of Potentially Problematic Prescribing to a Vulnerable Population
Ryan Jarrett; Richard Epstein, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago; Michael Cull, Vanderbilt University; David Schlueter, Vanderbilt University; Kathy Gracey, Vanderbilt University; Molly Butler, Vanderbilt University; Rameela Chandrasekhar, Vanderbilt University
9:45 AM

Study of Spatiotemporal patterns and trends of extreme precipitation indices in south east USA using quantile regression
Bhikhari Tharu
9:50 AM

Adaptive Estimation for Varying Coefficient Models
Yixin Chen, Sanofi; Qin Wang, Virginia Commonwealth University; Weixin Yao, Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside
9:50 AM

Constrained Functional Clustering of Arctic Sea Ice Extent Data
Tan Tran, Montana State University; Christopher Barbour, Montana State University; Mark Greenwood, Montana State University
9:50 AM

Selected Model Averaging in High-Dimensional Linear Regression
Craig Rolling, Saint Louis University; Yongli Zhang, University of Oregon
10:05 AM

Detection of Treatment Effect After Variable Selection Under Model Misspecification
Jingshen Wang, University of Michigan; Xuming He, University of Michigan
10:05 AM

Big Network Modeling and Anomaly Detection for Cyber-Security Applications
Patrick Rubin-Delanchy, University of Oxford
10:35 AM

Unique Regression Model(S) for Both Symmetric and Asymmetric Regressed Variable(S)
Mian Adnan, Ball State University; Silvey Shamsi, Ball State University; Rahmatullah Imon, Ball State University
10:35 AM

Photometric Classification of Supernova with Biased Training Set
David Van Dyk, Imperial College London; Roberto Trotta, Imperial College London; Esben Revsbech, Imperial College London
10:35 AM

Splice Plots for Assessing the Fit of Proportional Hazards Models
David Nelson, Dept Veterans Affairs, Univ Minnesota; Siamak Noorbaloochi, VA Health Care System
10:35 AM

A Comparison of Some Bootstrap Methods for Mixed Model Analysis of Non-Normal Longitudinal Data
Mark Reiser, Arizona State University
10:35 AM

Demonstrating the Usefulness of the National Hospital Care Survey to Track Patients Who Used Outpatient Department and Other Hospital Services Over Time
Geoffrey Jackson, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC; Margaret Hall, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC; Alexander Schwartzman, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC
10:45 AM

Predicting NFL Player Success From Analysts' Diction
Hubert Song, North Carolina State University; Karl Pazdernik, North Carolina State University
10:45 AM

Smoothing Splines Approach for Longitudinal Analysis of Functional Outcomes
Kush Kapur, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Rajesh Selukar, SAS Institute Inc; Basil Darras, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Seward Rutkove, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
10:50 AM

Nonparametric Covariance Estimation for Longitudinal Data via Tensor Product Smoothing
Tayler Blake, Information Control Company; Yoonkyung Lee, The Ohio State University
10:50 AM

No Punt Intended
Nicholas Eisemann, California State Univ Chico; Camille Pensabene, St. John Fisher College; Dylan Gouthro, Chico State; Demond Handley, Kansas State University ; MyDoris Soto, California State University-Fullerton
10:50 AM

Local M-Estimation with Discontinuous Criterion for Dependent and Limited Observations
Myung Hwan Seo, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY; Taisuke Otsu, London School of Economics
10:55 AM

Quantifying the Causal Effects of Conservative Fourth Down Decision Making in the National Football League
Derrick Yam, Skidmore College; Michael J. Lopez, Skidmore College
10:55 AM

Sending Analysis to the Data: Optimizing Information Exchange in the Learning Health Care System
Darren Toh, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
11:00 AM

Large-P Small-N Nonparametric Regression and Additive-Interactive Response Functions
Surya T Tokdar, Duke University
11:00 AM

Bootstrapping Spectral Statistics in High Dimensions
Miles Lopes, UC Davis; Alexander Aue, University of California, Davis; Andrew Blandino, UC Davis
11:05 AM

LARGE-SCALE HYPOTHESIS TESTING with a THREE-COMPONENT BETA CONTAMINATION MODEL
Ya Qi; Richard Charnigo, University of Kentucky
11:05 AM

A Comparison of Testing Methods in Scalar-On-Function Regression
Merve Tekbudak, North Carolina State University; Marcela Alfaro Córdoba, North Carolina State University; Ana-Maria Staicu, North Carolina State University, Department of Statistics; Arnab Maity, North Carolina State University
11:05 AM

Weighted Quantile Regression Splines using Total Variation Regularization
Jae-Hwan Jhong, Korea University; Ja-Yong Koo, Korea University
11:10 AM

Testing Causative Hypotheses in Nonparametric Models with a Mismeasured or Coarsened Confounder
Wang Miao, Peking University; Lan Liu, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities
11:15 AM

Segmentation of Longitudinal Images Using Total Variation Regulation
Yuan Wang, Washington State University
11:15 AM

Functional Regression Estimation with Application to Sparsely Observed Data
Ao Yuan, Georgetown University; Hongbin Fang, Georgetown University; Ming T Tan, Georgetown University
11:15 AM

Randomized Dual Rotations for High-Dimensional Outlier Detection
Jeongyoun Ahn, University of Georgia; Hee Cheol Chung, University of Georgia; Myung Hee Lee, Weill Cornell Medical College
11:20 AM

Boosted Multivariate Trees for Longitudinal Data
Amol Pande; Liang Li, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Jeevanantham Rajeswaran , Cleveland Clinic Foundation; John Ehrlinger, Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Udaya Kogalur, Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Eugene Blackstone , Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Hemant Ishwaran, University of Miami
11:20 AM

A Temporal Appraisal of Profitability in the Fortune 500: 1955 - 2016
Leo Upchurch, Tuskegee University (CBIS); Fan University Wu, Tuskegee University (CBIS)
11:20 AM

A Terminal Trend Model for Longitudinal Medical Cost Data and Survival
Qian Yang, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Tor D. Tosteson, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Anna N. A. Tosteson, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Jeffrey C. Munson, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Zhigang Li, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire
11:30 AM

Operations Research on NCAA Football Re-Injury Prevention
Nelson Chung, U. S. Census Bureau
11:30 AM

Marginal Screening in Case-Control Studies
Min Qian, Columbia University; Ian McKeague, Columbia University
11:35 AM

Gene-Based Association Testing of Dichotomous Traits with Generalized Functional Linear Mixed Models Using Extended Pedigrees
Ruzong Fan; Yingda Jiang, University of Pittsburgh; Chi-yang Chiu, NIH; Momiao Xiong, University of Texas; Christopher I Amos, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth; Daniel Weeks, University of Pittsburgh; Richard John Cook, University of Waterloo; M'Hamed Lajimi Lakhal-Chaieb, Université Laval; Qi Yan, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and Immunology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh ; Wei Chen, University of Pittsburgh; Michael B. Gorin, UCLA; Yvette P. Conley, University of Pittsburgh; Alexander F. Wilson, NIH; Joan Bailey-Wilson, NIH; McMahon Francis, NIH
11:35 AM

Assessment of Utility of Total Kidney Volume for Trial Enrichment
John Lawrence
11:35 AM

A Potts Mixture Spatiotemporal Joint Model for Combined MEG and EEG Data
Yin Song, University of Victoria; Farouk Nathoo, University of Victoria
11:50 AM

Visualizing the Effects of Predictor Variables in Black Box Supervised Learning Models
Daniel Apley, Northwestern University
11:50 AM

Looking for Features in Astronomical Spectra by Testing One Hypothesis Multiple Times
Sara Algeri, Imperial College London
11:55 AM

Estimation and Hypothesis Test for Mean Curve with Functional Data by Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Methods
Hongbin Fang, Georgetown University; Ming Xiong, Central China Normal University; Ao Yuan, Georgetown University; Ming T Tan, Georgetown University; Colin O. Wu, Office of Biostatistics Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH
11:55 AM

Embracing the Blessing of Dimensionality in Factor Models
Quefeng Li, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Guang Cheng, Purdue; Jianqing Fan, Princeton University; Yuyan Wang, Princeton University
12:05 PM

What Role Should Statistics and Statisticians Play in Environmental Policy and Regulation?
Lara P. Phelps, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of the Science Advisor; James V. Zidek, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia; Paul Black, Neptune & Company, Inc.; Steven P. Millard, Probability, Statistics, & Information; Kirk Cameron, MacStat Consulting, Ltd.; Veronica J Berrocal, University of Michigan
2:05 PM

Statistical Inference for Model Parameters in Stochastic Gradient Descent
Yichen Zhang, New York University; Xi Chen, NYU; Jason D. Lee, University of Southern California; Tong Thomson Xin, National University of Singapore
2:25 PM

SPARSE LOW-RANK TENSOR RESPONSE REGRESSION
Will Wei Sun, University of Miami; Lexin Li, University of California at Berkeley
2:30 PM

Protecting Patient Privacy: Distributed Analyzes for Multisite Observational
Andrea J Cook, Group Health Research Institute
2:30 PM

Exponential Random Graph Models with Big Networks: Maximum Pseudolikelihood Estimation and the Parametric Bootstrap
Christian Schmid, The Pennsylvania State University; Bruce Desmarais, The Pennsylvania State University
2:35 PM

Total Variation Depth for Functional Data
Ying Sun, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Huang Huang, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
2:45 PM

A Powerful Learn-And-Confirm Pharmacogenomics Methodology for Randomized Clinical Trials
Devan Mehrotra, Merck & Co. Inc. ; Qian Guan, North Carolina State University; Zifang Guo, Merck & Co., Inc.
2:45 PM

A C-Index for Recurrent Event Data: Application to Hospitalizations among Dialysis Patients
Sehee Kim, Universty of Michigan; Douglas Earl Schaubel, University of Michigan ; Keith P McCullough, Arbor Research Collaborative for Health
2:45 PM

Using a 'Flipped Classroom' Approach to Teach Applied Statistics to Nutrition and Biotechnology Students Using Blackboard Learn (TM) and R
John Dawson, Texas Tech University
2:50 PM

Methods for Testing of the Relative Bias of an Instrumental Variable Estimator and Confounder Selection
Byeong Yeob Choi, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Jason Fine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Maurice Alan Brookhart, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:05 PM

Pacing Through History: Vignettes to Inform, Refresh and Motivate
Deborah Dawson, University of Iowa
3:05 PM

Did We Commit a Type III Error?: Understanding the Hypothesis Test in Relation to the Experimental Objective
Rebecca Dickinson, IDA; Tom Johnson, IDA
3:05 PM

Teaching Statistics in the Age of Data Science
Jon A. Wellner, University of Washington
8:05 PM

Tuesday, 08/01/2017
Estimating the Protective Effect of Longitudinal DrugConcentration in Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention
Claire Ruberman, Johns Hopkins University; Jon Steingrimsson, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins University; Craig Hendrix, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine


Why Do Students Hate Statistics?
Michael DeDonno, Florida Atlantic University


Exponentiated Generalized Pareto Distribution: Properties and Applications Towards Extreme Value Theory
Se Yoon Lee, Texas A&M University; Joseph H. T. Kim, Yonsei University


Advances and Challenges in Disease Surveillance
Ronald Fricker, Virginia Tech


Functional Principal Component Logistic Regression Model for Online Arabic Handwriting Recognition
Amani Albaqshi, University of Northern Colorado; Khalil Shafie, University of Northern Colorado


Promoting Promotion for Statistical Educators
Felicity Enders, Mayo Clinic


Impactful Graphics Using SAS ODS Graphics
Huei-Ling Chen, Merck & Co Inc; Shuping Zhang, Merck & Co Inc; Aiming Yang, Merck & Co Inc; Michael Senderak, Merck & Co Inc


Tree-Based Hot Deck Imputation Cycling - Does Cycling Help?
Peilan Martin


Evaluating Paired Categorical Data When the Pairing Is Lost
Robert Neal Montgomery, The University of Kansas Medical Center; Amber Watts, The University of Kansas; Nicole Burns, The University of Kansas; Eric Vidoni, The University of Kansas Medical Center; Jonathan Mahnken, The University of Kansas Medical Center


Increasing and Balancing the Power of Multiple Tests in Optimal Treatment Duration Clinical Trials
Yongdong Ouyang, University of Birtish Columbia; Hubert Wong, University of British Columbia


Wild Bootstrap Ljung-Box Test for Cross Correlations of Multivariate Time Series
Tae Wook Lee, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies


Semiparametric Regression with a Mixture Model with Both Known and Unknown Components
Weibin Zhong, Georgetown University Medical Center; Ao Yuan, Georgetown University; Kepher H Makambi, Georgetown University


Elicitation of Expert Knowledge of Phylogenies in the Form of Rooted Trees
Xiting Yang, Food and Drug Administration; Jay Kadane, Carnegie Mellon University


Simulation of Realistic Genome-Wide Autosomal Genotype Data
David Umbach, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Min Shi, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Alison Wise, unaffiliated; Clare Weinberg, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences


Analysis of Continuous Secondary Phenotypes
Fan Zhou


Bootstrapping and Cross-Validating Generalized PLS Regressions Using GPU
Frederic Bertrand, University of Strasbourg; Myriam Maumy, Universite de Strasbourg


Design Specifications of Performance for an Analytical Laboratory Method
Beimar Iriarte, Abbott Laboratories


Modeling and Estimating the Behavior of Photo-Switching Fluorophores in Super-Resolution
Lekha Patel, Imperial College London; Edward Cohen, Imperial College London


Assessing the Linear and Nonlinear Dependency for the Spatial Temporal Observations Based on Markov Random Fields
Youngseok Song, Colorado State University; Wen Zhou, Colorado State University; Yumou Qiu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jinyuan Chang, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics


Slingshot: Cell Lineage and Pseudotime Inference for Single-Cell Transcriptomics
Kelly Street, Univ of California - Berkeley; David Risso, Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medicine; Russell B. Fletcher, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley; Diya Das, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley; John Ngai, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology & Helen Wills Nenuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley; Nir Yosef, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley; Elizabeth Purdom, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley; Center for Computational Biology, UC Berkeley; Sandrine Dudoit, Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley; Department of Statistics


Immortal Time Bias in Observational Studies of Time-To-Event Outcomes: Assessing Effects of Post-Mastectomy Radiation Therapy Using National Cancer DataBase (NCDB) Study
Parul Agarwal, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Erin Moshier, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Meng Ru, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Madhu Mazumdar, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai


A prediction model for understanding statistical replication
Andrew Neath, SIU Edwardsville


Generalized Bi-Plots for Visualized Multidimensional Projections
James Fry, Virginia Tech; Matt Slifko, Virginia Tech; Scotland Leman, Virginia Tech


A Mixture-Of-Regressions Model with Measurement Errors in the Response
Xiaoqiong Fang, University of Kentucky; Derek Young, University of Kentucky


A Bayesian Sequential Design with Adaptive Randomization for Two-Sided Hypothesis Tests
Qingzhao Yu, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center; Lin Zhu, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center; Han Zhu, Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc.


Triathlon Road Closure Control
Zonghuan (Jason) Li, Student; Mason Chen, Mason Chen Consulting


Design and Statistical Analysis of Method Transfer Studies for Biotechnology Products
Meiyu Shen, C DER, FDA; Lixin Xu, FDA


Coefficient Estimation and Hypothesis Testing on Interval-Valued Data Regression by Measurement Error
Yaotong Cai, University of Georgia; lynne Billard, University of Georgia


Modeling Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation-Driven Stimulus-Response Curves
Caitlin I. Steiner, Department of Statistics, University of Virginia; Sahana N. Kukke, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Catholic University of America; Nivethida Thirugnanasambandam, Human Motor Control Section, Medical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological ; Mark Hallett, Human Motor Control Section, Medical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological ; Daniel M. Keenan, Department of Statistics, University of Virginia


Estimating and Comparing Cancer Progression Risks Under Varying Surveillance Protocols
Jane Lange, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Ruth Etzioni, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center


Tuning Variable Selection via Noise When Prediction Is Not the Primary Objective
Eric Reyes, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Xiaomo Wang, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology


First (?) Occurrence of the 25 Most Influential (?) Statistical Terms Introduced in the Last 20 Years
John McKenzie, Babson College


P-Value as Strength of Evidence Measured by Confidence Distribution
Sifan Liu, Rutgers Univ Statistics Dept


Using imputed genotype data in the joint score tests for genetic association and gene-environment interactions in case-control studies
Minsun Song, Department of Statistiscs, Sookmyung Women's University


Bayesian Mixture Model for Ovarian Cancer Study Using Glycoproteomics and Mass Spectrometry Data
Yulan Liang, University of Maryland; Arpad Kelemen, University of Maryland


On Estimating Regression-Based Causal Effects Using Sufficient Dimension Reduction
Wei Luo, Baruch College; Yeying Zhu, University of Waterloo; Debashis Ghosh, Colorado School of Public Health
8:35 AM

Optimal hypothesis testing for stochastic block models with growing degrees
Debapratim Banerjee, University of Pennsylvania; Zongming Ma, University of Pennsylvania
8:35 AM

Small Area Model Diagnostics and Validation with Applications to the Voting Rights Act Section 203
Robert Ashmead, U.S. Census Bureau; Eric Slud, U.S. Census Bureau/University of Maryland College Park
8:35 AM

Immortal Time Bias in Observational Studies of Time-To-Event Outcomes: Assessing Effects of Post-Mastectomy Radiation Therapy Using National Cancer DataBase (NCDB) Study
Parul Agarwal, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Erin Moshier, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Meng Ru, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Madhu Mazumdar, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
8:40 AM

Generalized Bi-Plots for Visualized Multidimensional Projections
James Fry, Virginia Tech; Matt Slifko, Virginia Tech; Scotland Leman, Virginia Tech
8:50 AM

Uncertainty Quantification for Remote Sensing Data
Amy Braverman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Jonathan Hobbs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
8:55 AM

Normal Plots of Effects: It's Time to Move On
Russell Lenth, University of Iowa
9:00 AM

Stability, Uncertainty, and Bayesian Learning
Chris Holmes, University of Oxford
9:00 AM

SERIAL TESTING for DETECTION of MULTILOCUS GENETIC INTERACTIONS
Zaid Al-Khaledi, University of Kentucky; Richard Charnigo, University of Kentucky
9:05 AM

A Mixture-Of-Regressions Model with Measurement Errors in the Response
Xiaoqiong Fang, University of Kentucky; Derek Young, University of Kentucky
9:10 AM

The Scale Enhanced Wild Bootstrap Method for Evaluating Climate Models Using Wavelets
Ansu Chatterjee, University of Minnesota; Amy Braverman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Megan Heyman, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Noel Cressie, University of Wollongong
9:15 AM

Exact Tests of Monotonic and Umbrella-Ordered Dose-Response for Binary Outcomes
William Brady, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
9:15 AM

Hybrid BRR and Parametric-Bootstrap Variance Estimates for Small Domains in Large Surveys
Eric Slud, U.S. Census Bureau/University of Maryland College Park; Robert Ashmead, U.S. Census Bureau
9:15 AM

Nonparametric Bootstrapping for Binary Hierarchical Data
Bei Wang
9:15 AM

Max-Information, Differential Privacy, and Post-Selection Hypothesis Testing
Ryan Rogers, University of Pennsylvania; Aaron Roth, University of Pennsylvania; Adam Smith, Pennsylvania State University; Om Thakkar, Penn State
9:25 AM

Checking Validity of Constrained Survey Estimators
Cristian Oliva, Colorado State University; Mary Meyer, Colorado State University; Jean Opsomer, Colorado State University
9:35 AM

Distance Metrics for Measuring Joint Dependence with Application to Causal Discovery
Shubhadeep Chakraborty, Texas A & M University; Xianyang Zhang, Texas A&M University
9:35 AM

Multilevel Regression and Poststratification (MRP) for Small Area Estimation: An Application to Estimate Health Insurance Coverage Using Geocoded American Community Survey
Xingyou Zhang, U.S. Census Bureau; Samuel Szelepka, U.S. Census Bureau; Blandine Bawawana, US Census Bureau; Alfred Gottschalck, U.S. Census Bureau
9:35 AM

Estimating and Comparing Cancer Progression Risks Under Varying Surveillance Protocols
Jane Lange, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Ruth Etzioni, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
9:45 AM

The Central Role of Stability in Causal Inference
Peng Ding, University of California, Berkeley
9:50 AM

Uncertainty Quantification for High-Resolution Hydrology Applications in the Western United States
Jonathan Hobbs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Michael Turmon, Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech; J T Reager, Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech; Cedric David, Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech; James Famiglietti, Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech
9:55 AM

Quick and Easy Analysis of Quantitative Traits for Genome-Wide Association and Interaction Studies
Shin-Fu Tsai, National Taiwan University
10:05 AM

A Simple, Fast Sampler for Simulating Spatial Data and Other Markovian Data Structures
Andrea Kaplan, Iowa State University; Mark Kaiser, Iowa State University; Soumendra N Lahiri, North Carolina State University; Daniel Nordman, Iowa State University
10:05 AM

Design and Statistical Analysis of Method Transfer Studies for Biotechnology Products
Meiyu Shen, C DER, FDA; Lixin Xu, FDA
10:05 AM

Testing the Conditional Mean Independence for Functional Data
Chung Eun Lee, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Xianyang Zhang, Texas A&M University; Xiaofeng Shao, University of Illinois, At Urbana-Champaign
10:05 AM

Multinomial Goodness-of-Fit Statistics When the Number of Variables Is Large
Maduranga Dassanayake, Arizona State University; Mark Reiser, Arizona State University
10:05 AM

Inferring Causal Effects with Invalid Instruments in Mendelian Randomization
Hyunseung Kang, Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
10:35 AM

4. Bayesian Integrative Model for Deciphering High-Dimensional Genotype-Phenotype Map
Chuanhua Julia Xing, XPrecision; Andrew Raim, U.S. Census Bureau
10:35 AM

Empirical Assessment of Programs to Promote Collaboration: a Network Model Approach
Katherine McLaughlin, Oregon State University; Joshua D. Embree, RAND Corporation
10:35 AM

New Insights into Activity Patterns in Children, Found Using Functional Data Analyzes
Jeff Goldsmith, Columbia University; Xinyue Liu, Analysis Group; Judith Jacobson, Columbia University; Andrew Rundle, Columbia University
10:35 AM

Foot Traffic Network Analysis on Location-Based Social Media
Yufan Liu, Dun & Bradstreet; Wenhao Pan, University of Georgia
10:35 AM

A prediction model for understanding statistical replication
Andrew Neath, SIU Edwardsville
10:40 AM

Triathlon Road Closure Control
Zonghuan (Jason) Li, Student; Mason Chen, Mason Chen Consulting
10:45 AM

Inferential Procedures for Dependent Images
Maximillian Chen, Sandia National Laboratories
10:50 AM

Nonparametric Estimation for Extreme-Value Copula Functions via Constrained Spline Regressions
Yang Li, Renmin University of China; Yichen Qin, University of Cincinnati; Siqi Xiang, Renmin University of China; Jun Yan, University of Connecticut
10:50 AM

Robust Tests Using a Divergence Measure
Abhijit Mandal, Wayne State University; Ayanendranath Basu, Indian Statistical Institute; Leandro Pardo, Complutense University of Madrid; Nirian Martin, Complutense University of Madrid
10:50 AM

Dissecting Genetic Architecture of Complex Diseases Through Integrated Genomic Analysis
Hongyu Zhao, Yale University
10:55 AM

Coefficient Estimation and Hypothesis Testing on Interval-Valued Data Regression by Measurement Error
Yaotong Cai, University of Georgia; lynne Billard, University of Georgia
10:55 AM

Ultra-High-Dimensional Genome-Wide Heritability Analysis with Neuroimaging Phenotypes
Yize Zhao, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
11:00 AM

Flexible Bayesian Additive Joint Models
Meike Köhler, Helmholtz Zentrum München; Nikolaus Umlauf, Universität Innsbruck; Sonja Greven, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
11:00 AM

Detecting Copy Number Variations via a Bayesian Approach Adapting to Both Whole Genome and Targeted Exome Sequencing
Yu-Chung Wei, Department of Statistics, Feng Chia University; Guan-Hua Huang, Institute of Statistics, National Chiao Tung University
11:05 AM

Modeling Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation-Driven Stimulus-Response Curves
Caitlin I. Steiner, Department of Statistics, University of Virginia; Sahana N. Kukke, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Catholic University of America; Nivethida Thirugnanasambandam, Human Motor Control Section, Medical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological ; Mark Hallett, Human Motor Control Section, Medical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological ; Daniel M. Keenan, Department of Statistics, University of Virginia
11:05 AM

Segmented regression modeling of tuberculosis incidence surveillance data in the U.S. to analyze potentially changing trends
Brock Stewart, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Lori Armstrong, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Carla Winston, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
11:05 AM

A Bayesian Sequential Design with Adaptive Randomization for Two-Sided Hypothesis Tests
Qingzhao Yu, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center; Lin Zhu, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center; Han Zhu, Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc.
11:10 AM

Tuning Variable Selection via Noise When Prediction Is Not the Primary Objective
Eric Reyes, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Xiaomo Wang, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
11:10 AM

Model Misspecification in ABC: Consequences and Diagnostics
David Frazier
11:15 AM

First (?) Occurrence of the 25 Most Influential (?) Statistical Terms Introduced in the Last 20 Years
John McKenzie, Babson College
11:15 AM

A Comparison Study of Some Competing Accelerated Life Testing Models, with Applications to Class-H Insulation Data
Debaraj Sen, Concordia University
11:20 AM

Polygenic Risk Modeling Techniques to Incorporate LD, Functional Annotations of SNPs And/Or Multiple Phenotypic Information Using Genome-Wide Association Study Summary-Level Data
Ting-Huei Chen, Université Laval; Nilanjan Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University; Jianxin Shi, National Cancer Institute
11:35 AM

A Comparison of Propensity Score Design and Test Negative Case-Control Study Outcomes for Rotavirus Vaccine Effectiveness
Elizabeth Zell; Michelle Groome, RMPRU
11:35 AM

Calibration for Domain Totals for Business Surveys
Geoffrey Logan, Statistics Canada; Leon Jang, Statistics Canada; Michael A. Hidiroglou, Statistics Canada
11:35 AM

P-Value as Strength of Evidence Measured by Confidence Distribution
Sifan Liu, Rutgers Univ Statistics Dept
11:45 AM

A Simple and Adaptive Two-Sample Test in High Dimensions
Jin-Ting Zhang, National University of Singapore; Jin Guo, National University of Singapore; Bu Zhou, National University of Singapore; Ming-Yen Cheng, National Taiwan University
11:50 AM

Hypothesis testings on high-dimensional individualized treatment rules
Young-Geun Choi, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Yang Ning, Cornell University; Yingqi Zhao, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
11:50 AM

Testing for Causality Between Two Time Series Using a Parametric Bootstrap
Thomas Fisher, Miami University; Zequn Sun, Medical University of South Carolina
11:50 AM

FAST Adaptive Smoothing and Thresholding for Improved Activation Detection in Low-Signal fMRI
Ranjan Maitra, Iowa State University; Israel Almodovar-Rivera, University of Puerto Rico
11:50 AM

Testing Hypotheses About the Microbiome Using a New Ordination-Based Linear Model
Glen Satten, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Yijuan Hu, Emory University
11:55 AM

Combining Identifying Assumptions to Handle Nonignorable Missing Data
Mauricio Sadinle, Duke University; Jerry Reiter, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
2:05 PM

Spatial Small Area Smoothing Models for Handling Survey Data with Nonresponse
Kevin Watjou, Hasselt University; Christel Faes, University Hasselt; Russell S. Kirby, College of Public Health, University of South Florida; Andrew Lawson, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina; Rachel Carroll, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Mehreteab Aregay, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina; Yannick Vandendijck, University Hasselt
2:05 PM

A Neighborhood Hypothesis Test for Functional Data with an Application to Ecological Data
Leif Ellingson, Texas Tech University; Dhanamalee Bandara, Texas Tech University; Souparno Ghosh, Texas Tech University
2:05 PM

A Regularized Bayesian Approach to Direct and Indirect Effects When Both Exposure and Mediator Are High-Dimensional
Yu-Bo Wang, National Institutes of Health; Zhen Chen, NICHD; Germaine M. Louis, NICHD
2:05 PM

Missing Data and Technical Variability in Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Experiments
Stephanie Hicks, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Mingxiang Teng, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; F. William Townes, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Rafael Irizarry, Harvard School of Public Health
2:20 PM

Predictive Modeling of Health Care Associated Infections (HAIs) Using National Linked Individual Health Care Data in Scotland
Kimberley Kavanagh, University of Strathclyde; Jiafeng Pan, University of Strathclyde; Chris Robertson, University of Strathclyde; Marion Bennie, University of Strathclyde; Charis Marwick, University of Dundee; Colin McCowan, University of Glasgow
2:20 PM

Nonparametric Inference via Bootstrapping the Debiased Estimator
Yen-Chi Chen, University of Washington
2:35 PM

Asymptotic Approaches for Spatial Genetic Data
Sahar Zarmehri, The Pennsylvania State University; Ephraim M Hanks, The Pennsylvania State University
2:35 PM

Sensitivity Analysis for Longitudinal Clinical Trials with Nonmonotone Missingness
Antonio R Linero, Florida State University
2:45 PM

Evolutionary State-Space Model and Its Application to Time-Frequency Analysis of Local Field Potentials
Xu Gao; Babak Shahbaba, University of California, Irvine; Norbert Fortin, University of California, Irvine; Hernando Ombao, KAUST and UC Irvine
2:45 PM

DETECTING POLITICALLY MOTIVATED TAMPERING WITH SURVEY DATA ON LABOR INCOME
John Angle, The Inequality Process Institute
2:50 PM

Unit-Level Logistic Mixed Effects Models for Small Area Estimation of Poverty Estimates
Blandine Bawawana, US Census Bureau; Xingyou Zhang, U.S. Census Bureau; Samuel Szelepka, U.S. Census Bureau; John Posey, US Census Bureau
2:50 PM

A New Solution to Gate-Keeping Problems in Multiple Hypothesis Testing
Huajiang Li, Avanir Pharmaceuticals; Hong Zhou, Arkansas State University
2:50 PM

Causal Estimands in Randomized Trials
Miguel Hernan, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
3:05 PM

Hot Deck Imputation: Proper or Improper?
Rebecca Andridge, Ohio State University
3:05 PM

Asymptotic Distribution Free Change-Point Detection for Modern Data
Lynna Chu, University of California, Davis; Hao Chen, University of California, Davis
3:05 PM

A Doubly Adaptive Inferential Method for Monotone Graph Invariants
Junwei Lu, Princeton University; Matey Neykov, Princeton University; Han Liu, Princeton University
3:05 PM

Asymptotic Efficiency of REML Error Components as a Function of Unbalancedness
Jyothsna Sainath, University of Utah
3:05 PM

Minimax Estimation for Varying Coefficient Model with Longitudinal Data
Xiaowu Dai, University of Wisconsin Madison
3:05 PM

Hypothesis Testing for Nonlinear Feature Interaction Using Cross-Validated Kernel Ensemble
Jeremiah Zhe Liu, Harvard University; Brent Coull, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3:20 PM

A New Look at Evidence Testing and Measures of Error
Robert Riffenburgh, Naval Medical Center
3:20 PM

Stepwise Procedures Based on Rank Statistics in Detecting Differentially Expressed Gene
Hossein Mansouri, Texas Tech University; Bo Li, Montana Tech of the University of Montana
3:20 PM

Hypothesis Testing for Simultaneous Variable Clustering and Correlation Network Estimation, with Application to Gene Co-Expression Networks
Kevin Lin, Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics Department; Junwei Lu, Princeton University; Han Liu, Princeton University; Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University
3:20 PM

Using Phylogenetic Models for Quantitative Trait Mapping with Multiple Loci
Katherine Thompson, University of Kentucky; Catherine Linnen, University of Kentucky
3:35 PM

Wednesday, 08/02/2017
R/S-Bootstrapping Test for Fractional Integration
Yixun Xing, Southern Methodist University; Wayne A. Woodward, Southern Methodist University


Statistical Challenges and Opportunities with Remote Sensing Data
Jonathan Hobbs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory


Identification of Sepsis Phenotypes Using Clustering Methods
Zhongying Xu; Hernando Gomez, University of Pittsburgh; Joyce Chang, University of Pittsburgh


Statistical Analysis of the Exchange Rate of Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies
Stephen Chan


A Bayesian Structural Model for Designing Financial Incentive Offers to Automotive Dealerships
Wenyi Wu, University of Michigan; Peter Lenk, University of Michigan


Efficient Statistical Methods for Association Studies with Dense Genotypes and Family History of Disease
Annie Lee, Columbia University; Yuanjia Wang , Columbia University


Magic Cross-Validation with Applications in Kernel Smooth Margin Classifiers
Boxiang Wang; Hui Zou, University of Minnesota


Highly Robust Multiple Imputation Models Using BART
Michael R. Elliott, University of Michigan; Vincent Tan, Univerisity of Michigan; Carol Flannagan, Univerisity of Michigan


High Dimensional Bayesian Optimization with both Continuous and Categorical Explanatory Variables
Nima Dolatnia; Alan Fern, Oregon State University; Sarah Emerson, Oregon State University


Imputation of Missing Data in Surveys and Studies in Dental Research
Michael Larsen, George Washington University; Charles D Larsen, Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine


Imputation for Longitudinal Study of Effectiveness of an Anti-Smoking Campaign
Qiao Ma, NORC at the University of Chicago; Josiane Bechara, NORC at the University of Chicago; Edward Mulrow, NORC; Zachary Haskell Seeskin, NORC at the University of Chicago; Morgane Bennett, Truth Initiative; Jennifer Cantrell, Truth Initiative; Elizabeth Hair, Truth Initiative; Donna Vallone, Truth Initiative


Multiple Imputation of Non-Ignorable Binary Missing Data Using a Censored Bivariate Probit Model
Angelina Hammon


Statistical Significance of Clustering
Purvasha Chakravarti, Carnegie Mellon University; Larry Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon; Sivaraman Balakrishnan, Department of Statistics, CMU


A Statistical Analysis of the NFL Draft: Valuing Draft Picks and Predicting Future Player Success
Robert Nicholas Citrone, Carnegie Mellon University; Sam Ventura, Carnegie Mellon University
8:35 AM

Bootstrapping General ARIMA Models
Maher Qumsiyeh; Dalton Gannon, University of Dayton
8:35 AM

BOP2: Bayesian Optimal Designs for Phase II Clinical Trials with Simple and Complex Endpoints
Heng Zhou, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Ying Yuan, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
8:35 AM

Data-Adaptive Statistics for Multiple Hypothesis Testing in High-Dimensional Settings
Weixin Cai, University of California, Berkeley; Alan Hubbard, University of California, Berkeley
8:35 AM

An Overview of Trend Testing Methods and Applications in NSDUH and Other Studies
Matthew Williams, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Dan Liao, RTI International; Sarra Hedden, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Christopher Sroka, RTI (former)
8:35 AM

Magic Cross-Validation with Applications in Kernel Smooth Margin Classifiers
Boxiang Wang; Hui Zou, University of Minnesota
8:40 AM

Approximating Probability Distributions in an Extreme Renewal Process
Percy Brill, University of Windsor; Mei Ling Huang, Brock University
8:50 AM

Conditional Likelihood Ratio Test for Multivariate One-Sided Hypotheses with Missing Data
Madhurima Majumder, University of Rochester; Michael McDermott, University of Rochester
8:50 AM

Orthogonal Series Density Estimation for Complex Surveys
Shangyuan Ye, Oklahoma State University; Ye Liang, Oklahoma State University; Ahmad A. Ibrahim, Oklahoma State University
8:50 AM

Joint Modeling and Analysis of Microbiome with Other Omics Data
Michael C. Wu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
9:00 AM

Recent Advances in Multiple Change-Point Detection
Piotr Fryzlewicz, London School of Economics; Yining Chen, London School of Economics; Rafal Baranowski, London School of Economics
9:00 AM

Efficient Statistical Methods for Association Studies with Dense Genotypes and Family History of Disease
Annie Lee, Columbia University; Yuanjia Wang , Columbia University
9:00 AM

Highly Robust Multiple Imputation Models Using BART
Michael R. Elliott, University of Michigan; Vincent Tan, Univerisity of Michigan; Carol Flannagan, Univerisity of Michigan
9:00 AM

SUFFICIENT WEIGHTED BOOTSTRAPPING
Khairul Islam, Eastern Michigan University; Sarjinder Singh, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
9:05 AM

Multiple Imputation of Non-Ignorable Binary Missing Data Using a Censored Bivariate Probit Model
Angelina Hammon
9:10 AM

Consistency in Professional Sports: The NFL's Parity Paradox
Michael J. Lopez, Skidmore College; Gregory Matthews, Loyola University Chicago; Benjamin Baumer, Smith College
9:15 AM

Generating Partially Synthetic Geocoded Public-Use Data with Decreased Disclosure Risk Using Differential Smoothing
Harrison Quick, Drexel University; Scott H. Holan, University of Missouri; Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
9:15 AM

High Dimensional Bayesian Optimization with both Continuous and Categorical Explanatory Variables
Nima Dolatnia; Alan Fern, Oregon State University; Sarah Emerson, Oregon State University
9:15 AM

Statistical Challenges in Analysis of Complex Phenotypes Derived from Sequential Images
Dan Nettleton, Iowa State University; Patrick Schnable, Iowa State University; Yehua Li, Iowa State University; Li Wang, Iowa State University; Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Iowa State University
9:15 AM

Total Variation Classes Beyond 1d: Minimax Rates, and the Limitations of Linear Smoothers
Veeranjaneyulu Sadhanala, Carnegie Mellon University; Yu-Xiang Wang, Carnegie Mellon University; Ryan Tibshirani, Carnegie Mellon University
9:25 AM

Imputation of Missing Data in Surveys and Studies in Dental Research
Michael Larsen, George Washington University; Charles D Larsen, Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine
9:30 AM

Football and Health: a Review of the Evidence
Christine Baugh, Harvard University
9:35 AM

Nonparametric Confidence Regions for Density Level Sets
Wanli Qiao, George Mason University; Wolfgang Polonik, University of California, Davis
9:35 AM

Evaluating Imputation Techniques for Longitudinal Study of Effectiveness of an Anti-Smoking Campaign
Qiao Ma, NORC at the University of Chicago; Josiane Bechara, NORC at the University of Chicago; Edward Mulrow, NORC; Zachary Haskell Seeskin, NORC at the University of Chicago; Morgane Bennett, Truth Initiative; Jennifer Cantrell, Truth Initiative; Elizabeth Hair, Truth Initiative; Donna Vallone, Truth Initiative
9:35 AM

ANOVA-Based Clustering to Improve Potency Estimation in Quantitative High-Throughput Screening Data
Shyamal Peddada, NIH/NIEHS; Keith Shockley, NIEHS; Abhishek Kaul, NIEHS; Shuva Gupta, UC Davis; Shawn Harris, SSS; Soumendra N Lahiri, North Carolina State University
9:35 AM

Robust Subjective Bayesian Hypothesis Testing by Calibrating Prior Probabilities
Dan Spitzner, University of Virginia
9:35 AM

Developing Variance Estimates for Products in the Economic Census
Jeremy Knutson, U.S. Census Bureau; Matthew Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau; Katherine Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau
9:50 AM

Statistical Significance of Clustering
Purvasha Chakravarti, Carnegie Mellon University; Larry Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon; Sivaraman Balakrishnan, Department of Statistics, CMU
9:50 AM

Association Analysis Using Sequence Reads Without Calling Genotypes
Yijuan Hu, Emory University; Peizhou Liao, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory; Henry Johnston, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory; Andrew Allen, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke; Glen Satten, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
9:55 AM

Rank Based Estimation for Double Generalized Linear Model
Brice Merlin Nguelifack, United States Naval Academy; Guy-vanie M. Miakonkana, African School of Economics; Eddy Kwessi, Trinity University
10:05 AM

Approximate Confidence Regions for Consensus Mean Vector in Heteroscedastic Multivariate One-Way Random Model
Jian Zhao, The EMMES Corporation
10:05 AM

How Many Validation Samples Are Needed for Phenotyping Error Correction in EHR-Based Association Studies?
Jing Huang, University of Pennsylvania; Rui Duan, University of Pennsylvania; Rebecca Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania; Hua Xu, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Yong Chen, University of Pennsylvania
10:05 AM

Empirical Null Estimation Using Zero Inflated Discrete Mixture Distributions and Its Application to Protein Domain Data
Iris Ivy Gauran; Junyong Park, University of Maryland at Baltimore County; DoHwan Park, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Maricel Kann, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Thomas Peterson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; John Zylstra, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; John Spouge, NCBI,NLM,NIH; Johan Lim, Seoul National University
10:05 AM

Empirical Likelihood Inference for Complex Surveys and the Design-Based Oracle Variable Selection Theory
Changbao Wu, University of Waterloo; Puying Zhao, University of Waterloo; David Haziza, University of Montreal
10:35 AM

Why Not Consensus Reading with Multiple Readers for Evaluating a New (Test) Device?
Bipasa Biswas, CDRH, FDA
10:35 AM

Estimation of AUC via Heterogeneous Box-Cox Transformations
Xiaoyu Cai, The George Washington University; Aiyi Liu, National Institutes of Health/NICHD; Zhaohai Li, George Washington University
10:35 AM

Bootstrap Approach to the Application of First-Digits Analysis
Matthew Corrigan, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; Kevin Roche, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
10:35 AM

EyeTrVis: An R Package for the Extraction and Visualization of Eye Tracking Data from People Looking at Posters
Chunyang Li; Jurgen Symanzik, Utah State University
10:35 AM

Analysis of Dichotomous Binary Data with Missing Data Imputed Under Jump to Reference and Copy Reference Models
Zachary Zimmer, Merck; Lei Xu, Merck; Frank Liu, Merck & Co. Inc.
10:50 AM

On the Development of a Parametric Approach for the Estimation of Totals and Means for Complex Survey Sample Data in the Presence of Full Response
Ismael Flores Cervantes, Westat
10:50 AM

Combination of Multiplicative Noise and Conditional Group Swapping to Protect Sensitive Survey Data from Disclosure
Anna Oganian, National Center for Health Statistics
10:50 AM

Confidence Interval Estimate of Success Rate on Correlated Data in a Single Arm Study
Kate Wang, Allergan; Richard Weng, Allergan; Yijun Sun, Allergan
10:55 AM

Modeling and Simulation of UEFA Champions League
Saman Muthukumarana, University of Manitoba; Ninad Khargonkar, Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur
11:05 AM

Evaluating Safety Performance Measures for Motor Carriers Using Hierarchical Models
Xingwei Wu, University of Washington; Huizhong Guo; Linda Ng Boyle, University of Washington
11:05 AM

WHY IS ROAD SAFETY BETTER UNDER DRIVING IMPAIRMENT DUE to BOTH MARIJUANA and ALCOHOL THAN EACH SEPARATELY? DATA ANALYTICS ANSWERS,Ramalingam Shanmugam1, Ram C. Tripathi2 and Karan
Ramalingam Shanmugam, Texas State University; Ram Tripathi, UTSA, Texas; Karan Singh, UT-Tyler
11:20 AM

Missing Data - How Much Is Too Much ?
Lilianne (Lee-Lian) Kim, Janssen Pharmaceuticals R&D; Kim Hung Lo, Janssen R&D, LLC
11:20 AM

Cointegration of Health Expenditure and GDP with Smooth Breaks
Dong-Yop Oh, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Hyejin Lee, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
11:20 AM

Am I My Connectome? Fingerprinting with Repeated Resting State Functional MRI Data
Brian Scott Caffo, Johns Hopkins; Zeyi Wang, Johns Hopkins; Ciprian M Crainiceanu, Johns Hopkins University; Martin Lindquist, Johns Hopkins University; Jim Pekar, Johns Hopkins; Joshua Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins; Haris Sair, Johns Hopkins
11:25 AM

Testing Models for Weight Smoothing in the Current Employment Statistics Survey
Christopher Grieves, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; Julie Gershunskaya, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
11:35 AM

Model-based Design for the Early Development of Cancer Immunotherapy Combinations
Nolan Wages, University of Virgina
11:35 AM

Bayesian Longitudinal Low-Rank Regression Models for Imaging Genetic Data from Longitudinal Studies
Zhaohua Lu, St Jude Children's Research Hospital; Zakaria Khondke, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Joseph G Ibrahim, UNC; Hongtu Zhu, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
11:35 AM

Outline Analysis of the Major League Baseball Strike Zone
Dale Zimmerman, University of Iowa; Jun Tang, University of Iowa
11:50 AM

An Optimal Covariate-Adaptive Design to Balance Tiers of Covariates
Fan Wang; Feifang Hu, George Washington University
11:50 AM

Bootstrap Confidence Interval Bands for Estimates in Measurement Error Model with Linked NHIS and EPA Data
Rong Wei, NCHS / CDC; Pavlina Rumcheva, NCHS/CDC; Van Parsons, National Center for Health Statistics; Jennifer Parker, National Center for Health Statistics; Ambarish Vaidyanathan, NCEH/CDC
11:50 AM

Statistical Rare Variants Analysis by Integrating Biological Annotations with Applications to Autism Spectrum Disorder Disease
Shengtong Han, University of Chicago; Nicholas Knoblauch, University of Chicago; Yubin Xie, University of Chicago; Yuwen Liu, University of Chicago; Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University; Xin He, University of Chicago
11:50 AM

Optimal variable selection and noisy adaptive compressed sensing
Mohamed Ndaoud, CREST-ENSAE, École Polytechnique; A.B. Tsybakov, CREST-ENSAE
11:50 AM

Multidimensional Indices of Health Disparities Among Adults Aged 45-64 in the 20 Most Populous States in the United States: Results from the National Health Interview Survey
Makram Talih, National Center for Health Statistics; Maria A Villarroel, National Center for Health Statistics
11:55 AM

Regularized Estimation in Sparse Multivariate Regression for High-Dimensional DNA Methylation Data
Lei Liu, Northwestern University; Haixiang Zhang, Tianjin University; Grace Yoon, Northwestern University; Yinan Zheng, Northwestern University; Lifang Hou, Northwestern University; Wei Zhang, Northwestern University; Andrea Baccarelli, Columbia University
2:05 PM

Penalized Spline of Propensity Methods for Treatment Comparisons
Roderick J Little, University of Michigan; Tingting Zhou, University of Michigan; Michael R. Elliott, University of Michigan
2:05 PM

Set-Based Tests Using the Generalized Berk-Jones Statistic in Genetic Association Studies
Ryan Sun, Harvard University; Peter Kraft, Harvard University; Xihong Lin, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
2:05 PM

Statistical Methods to Asses Cancer Immune Microenvironment to Identify Biomarkers for Cancer Immunotherapy
Wei Sun, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2:05 PM

Does the Nuclear Balance Matter?
Jane Pinelis, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab; James Scouras, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
2:05 PM

Multivariate Fay-Herriot Bayesian Estimation of Small Area Means Under Functional Measurement Error
Carolina Franco, U.S. Census Bureau; William Bell, U.S. Census Bureau; Serena Arima, Sapienza University, Rome; Brunero Liseo, Sapienza University, Rome; Gauri Datta, University of Georgia and US Census Bureau
2:05 PM

Regression Analysis of Multivariate Interval-Censored Failure Time Data Under Frailty Probit Models
Yifan Zhang, University of South Carolina; Lianming Wang, University of South Carolina
2:05 PM

A girl geek's guide to new research on interactive data visualization for statistics with lots of data
Dianne Cook, Monash University
2:05 PM

A Bayesian Methodology for High-Dimensional Discrete Graphical Models with an Application to Protein Structure Prediction
Anwesha Bhattacharyya; Yves Atchade, University of Michigan
2:20 PM

A Useful Scatterplot Matrix for Principal Component Analysis
Santiago Velilla, Universidad Carlos III
2:20 PM

Detection of Signal Regions in Whole Genome Association Studies
Zilin Li; Xihong Lin, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
2:35 PM

Variable Selection in K-Means Clustering
Nicholas Scott Berry, Iowa State University; Ranjan Maitra, Iowa State University
2:35 PM

Nested Hierarchical Functional Data Modeling and Inference for the Analysis of Functional Plant Phenotypes
Yuhang Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Yehua Li, Iowa State University; Dan Nettleton, Iowa State University
2:50 PM

Variance When Using Weights for Full Probability Sample to Analyze Arbitrarily Combined Sub-Samples: NHANES 2011 - 2014
Rey deCastro, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
2:50 PM

Topological Probabilistic Classification (TopProC)
Fairul Mohd-Zaid, Air Force Research Lab; Christine Schubert Kabban, Air Force Institute of Technology
3:05 PM

Improved Acceptance Limits for ASTM Standard E2810
Richard Lewis, GlaxoSmithKline; Ailin Fan, North Carolina State University
3:05 PM

Modeling Precipitation Extremes Using Log-Histospline
Whitney Huang, Purdue University; Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Hao Zhang, Purdue University
3:05 PM

Monotone Distribution Function Estimation in Randomized Trials with Noncompliance
Anqi Cheng, University of Washington
3:05 PM

Robust Hierarchical Bayes Small Area Estimation
Gauri Datta, University of Georgia and US Census Bureau; Adrijo Chakraborty, NORC at the University of Chicago; Abhyuday Mandal, University of Georgia
3:05 PM

Ggmapr - Tools for Working with and Visualizing Maps
Heike Hofmann, Iowa State University
3:05 PM

Nonparametric Inference on a Monotone Covariate-Adjusted Dose-Response Curve
Ted Westling, University of Washington; Marco Carone, University of Washington Department of Biostatistics; Mark J van der Laan, University of California at Berkeley Division of Biostatistics
3:05 PM

Nonparametric Copula Estimation for Censored Data via Empirical Likelihood
Bin Dong
3:20 PM

Semiparametric Varying-Coefficient Nonlinear Regression for Interactions in Multifactor ANOVA Models with Unbalanced or Single Replications
Yumin Huang, Tunghai University
3:20 PM

A Return Level Analysis of the January 2016 Blizzard in New York City
Jaechoul Lee, Boise State University; Mintaek Lee, Boise State University
3:20 PM

Using the Ggmosaic Package: Visualizing Opinions on Flying Etiquette
Haley Jeppson, Iowa State University
3:20 PM

Population Based Genetic Association Study for Two Correlated Complex Diseases with Binary Disease Status and an Underlying Pleiotropic Gene
Vishal Midya, Penn State College of Medicine
3:35 PM

Thursday, 08/03/2017
Bridging the Gap Between Statistics and Other Data Sciences: Where's the Bridge? Where's the Gap?
Edward Boone, Virginia Commonwealth University; Randy Bartlett, Blue Sigma Analytics; Mark Lancaster, Northern Kentucky University; Andrew Ekstrom, University of Michigan - Dearborn; Fred Hulting, General Mills
8:35 AM

Hurdle Models for Residential Solar Photovoltaic Systems Installations
Janice Lent, U.S. Energy Information Administration
8:35 AM

Potential for Bias in a Composite Time-To-First-Event Analysis of Multiple Outcomes
Ionut Bebu, The George Washington University; John M. Lachin, The George Washington University
8:35 AM

Latent Class Analysis for Modeling and Promoting Online Learning
Jeff Douglas; Shiyu Wang, University of Georgia; Steven Culpepper, University of Illinois
8:35 AM

Meta-Analysis of Model Specifications Assessing Harmful Algal Blooms as a Risk Factor for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Northern New England
Beth Ziniti, Applied Geosolutions; Ernst Linder, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Hampshire; Nathan Torbick, Applied Geosolutions; Angeline Andrew, Department of Neurology, Dartmouth Medical School; Elijah W. Stommel, Department of Neurology, Dartmouth Medical School
8:50 AM

Variable Selection for Case-Cohort Studies with Failure Time Outcome
Jianwen Cai, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ai Ni, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Donglin Zeng, University of North Carolina
8:55 AM

Statistical Inference in Large Ising Graphical Models via Quadratic Programming
Zhao Ren, University of Pittsburg; Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University; Harrison H. Zhou, Yale University; Sai Li, Rutgers University
8:55 AM

Bayesian Computing and Modeling for Nearest-Neighbor Gaussian Process Models
Sudipto Banerjee, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
9:00 AM

A Comparison of Three New Randomized Response Models for Simultaneous Estimation of Three Sensitive Dependent Characteristics and Their Overlaps
Oluwaseun Olanipekun; Stephen A. Sedory, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Sarjinder Singh, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Rongdong Wang, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
9:15 AM

A Bayesian GWAS Method Which Utilizes Haplotype Clusters to Make Predictions When Maternal and Paternal Breed Composition Is Known
Danielle Wilson-Wells, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Stephen D. Kachman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
9:35 AM

COMPLEX SURVEY DESIGNS for SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION of TOTALS of TWO SENSITIVE VARIABLES
Segun Ahmed, Texas A & M University-Kingsville; Sarjinder Singh, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Stephen A. Sedory, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
9:35 AM

Time Series Smoother for Effect Detection
Cheng You, Pennsylvania State University; Dennis K.J. Lin, Penn State University; Sidney Stanley Young, CGStat
9:35 AM

Valid Tests of Stock Return Predictability
Yang Guangyi, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University; Wang Mingjin, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
9:50 AM

Optimizing Acute Myelogenous Leukemia Treatment Regimes via Sequential Conditional Structural Mean Models
Geoffrey Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline; Abdus Wahed, University of Pittsburgh
9:50 AM

A Bayesian Multi-Dimensional Genotype Calling Algorithm for Multi-Allelic SNPs
Janice Brodsky; Jeremy Gollub, Thermo Fisher Scientific; Dorothy Oliver, Thermo Fisher Scientific; Teresa Webster, Thermo Fisher Scientific
9:50 AM

Bayesian Dynamic Linear Models for Spot Prices of Hydrocarbon Gas Liquids
Peter Gross, U.S. Energy Information Administration
9:55 AM

Statistical Methods for Interrogating Promoter-Enhancer Interactions Originating from Repetitive Regions Using Hi-C Data
Sunduz Keles, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ye Zheng, University of Wisconsin
9:55 AM

Advancing Statistics in Universities: Deans' Viewpoints
H. Joeseph Newton, Texas A&M Universtiy; Montserrat Fuentes, Virginia Commonwealth University; Rebecca Doerge, Carnegie-Mellon University ; Sally Morton, Virginia Tech; Sastry Pantula, Oregon State University College of Science
10:35 AM

Bayesian Nonparametric Monotone Regression of Dynamic Latent Traits in Item Response Models
Yang Liu, University of Connecticut; Xiaojing Wang, University of Connecticut
10:35 AM

Modeling and Simulation to Detect Unusual Patterns in Genotoxicity Data (Microbial Assays)
Elena Rantou, FDA/CDER
10:35 AM

Explaining the Total Effect in the Presence of Multiple Mediators and Interactions
Linda Valeri, Harvard University; Andrea Bellavia, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
10:35 AM

Doubly Smoothed MLE in Semiparametric Mixtures
Byungtae Seo, Sungkyunkwan University
10:35 AM

Motivation and Design of the DIA Adaptive Design Scientific Working Group (DIA ADSWG) Survey for the Perception and Use of Adaptive Designs in Pharmaceutical Clinical Development
Alan Hartford, AbbVie
10:35 AM

Piecewise Mixed Effects Model to Detect Event Associated Changes in Health Trajectories: Pre- and Post-Acute-Bronchitis Growth Trajectories in Children Ages 0-5 Years
Md Hossain, Nemours Biomedical Research, A.I. DuPont Children's Hospital; H Tim Bunnell, Nemours; Thomas H Shaffer, Nemours
10:35 AM

The Leadership Journey for Statisticians
Nancy Geller, National Institutes of Health; Stacy Lindborg, Biogen; F. Dubois Bowman, Columbia University; Robert N. Rodriguez, SAS Institute
10:35 AM

A Powerful Approach to Estimating Annotation-Stratified Genetic Correlation Using GWAS Summary Statistics
Qiongshi Lu, Yale University; Boyang Li, Yale University; Derek Ou, Yale School of Medicine; Yiming Hu, Yale University; Ryan Powles, Yale University; Tony Jiang, Yale College; Margret Erlendsdottir, Yale School of Medicine; David Chang, Yale University; Chentian Jin, Yale College; Wei Dai, Yale University; Qidu He, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Zefeng Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shubhabrata Mukherjee, University of Washington; Paul K. Crane, University of Washington; Hongyu Zhao, Yale University
10:35 AM

Integrating Randomization Methods in the Introductory Statistics Course
Paul Velleman, Cornell University
10:35 AM

James-Stein Type Optimal Weight Choice for Frequentist Model Average Estimator
LIN YAO, SUNY Binghamton; Ganggang Xu, Binghamton University; Xingye Qiao, Binghamton University
10:50 AM

A Hypothesis Testing Framework for Validating an Assay for Precision
Michael Fay, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Michael C Sachs, Karolinska Institutet; Kazutoyo Miura, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
10:50 AM

Super-Efficiency with the Divide and Conquer Method
Moulinath Banerjee, University of Michigan; Cecile Durot, University of Paris Ouest; Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia University
10:55 AM

Causal Mediation Analysis for a Proportional Hazards Model with Interval-Censored Failure Time Data
Wei Wang, Division of Biostatistics, CDRH, FDA
10:55 AM

Pilot of a Simulation-Based Inference (SBI) Approach in an Online Undergraduate-Level Introductory Statistics Course
Whitney Alicia Zimmerman, The Pennsylvania State University; Mengzhao Gao, The Pennsylvania State University; Glenn Johnson, The Pennsylvania State University; Daniel Adam Spencer, University of California, Santa Cruz; Daisy Philtron, The Pennsylvania State University
10:55 AM

Why Classical Measures of Dependence Do Not Satisfy Their Natural Axioms?
Gabor J Szekely, National Science Foundation
11:00 AM

Outlier Robust Estimation of the Total Private Cost of Payment Methods for Large Businesses
Valery Dongmo Jiongo, Bank of Canada
11:05 AM

Classification of Protein Binding Ligands Using Their Structural Information
Galkande A. Iresha Premarathna, Texas Tech University; Leif Ellingson, Texas Tech University
11:05 AM

Using the Random Forest Model to Mitigate Nonresponse Bias
Thagendra Timsina
11:05 AM

Least Squares Estimation in the Monotone Single Index Model
Fadoua Balabdaoui, Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH
11:15 AM

Powerful, Fast, and Robust Family-Wise Error Control for Neuroimaging
Simon Vandekar, University of Pennsylvania; Theodore Satterthwaite, Univ of Pennsylvania; Adon Rosen, University of Pennsylvania; Rastko Ciric, University of Pennsylvania; David Roalf, University of Pennsylvania; Kosha Ruparel, University of Pennsylvania; Ruben C Gur, University of Pennsylvania; Raquel E Gur, University of Pennsylvania; Russell Shinohara, University of Pennsylvania
11:15 AM

Ernest Seglie's Statistical Contributions to DOD TandE
Arthur Fries, IDA
11:15 AM

Continuous Time Causal Mediation Analysis for Longitudinal Data
Jeffrey Albert, Case Western Reserve University
11:15 AM

Genotype and Haplotype Imputation by Matrix Completion Methods
Rory Wasiolek, University of California; Janet Sinshiemer, University of California; Kenneth Lange, UCLA
11:15 AM

Challenges and Opportunities for Structural Equation Modeling in Water Quality
Karen Ryberg, U.S. Geological Survey
11:20 AM

Built-In BLUP Genotype Imputation of Adaptive-Weight Genetic Association Burden Test for Data with Complex Correlations
Ting Guan; Xiaowei Wu, Virginia Tech
11:20 AM

Hypothesis Testing of Matrix Graph Model and Application in Brain Connectivity Analysis
Lexin Li, University of California at Berkeley; Yin Xia, Fudan University
11:35 AM

Uncovering What Is Inside the Data Using Effective Visualization
Vipin Arora, Eli Lilly and Company; Xiang Zhang, Eli Lilly and Company
11:35 AM

Efficient Asymptotic Variance Reduction When Estimating Volatility in High Frequency Data
Yoann Potiron, Keio University Faculty of Business and Commerce; Simon Clinet, The University of Tokyo
11:35 AM

Accounting for Spatial Variation in Phenotype Distribution in Sequencing Studies with Natural Thin Plate Spline
Ye Ting Du, Harvard University; Han Chen, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Xihong Lin, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
11:35 AM

Statistical Analysis of the Minnesota Metropolitan Council Lake Monitoring Data
Shiju Zhang, St Cloud State University; Cindy Zhang, Sartell High School
11:35 AM

Joint Modeling of Genetically Correlated Diseases and Functional Annotations Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Prediction
Yiming Hu, Yale University; Qiongshi Lu, Yale University; Wei Liu, Peking University; Yuhua Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Mo Li, Yale University; Hongyu Zhao, Yale University
11:50 AM

Global error of smooth estimators for a monotone baseline hazard in the Cox model
Rik Lopuhaa, Delft University of Technology; Eni Musta, Delft University of Technology
11:55 AM

A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Enrichment Analysis Identifies New Trait-Associated Genes, Pathways and Tissues Across 31 Human Phenotypes
Xiang Zhu, University of Chicago; Matthew Stephens, University of Chicago
12:05 PM

A New Edit Method
Selvaratnam Sridharma, US Census Bureau
12:05 PM

Semiparametric Adaptive Estimation with Nonignorable Nonresponse Data
Kosuke Morikawa, Osaka University; Jae-kwang Kim, Iowa State University
12:05 PM

Joint Asymptotics for Estimating the Fractal Indices of Bivariate Gaussian Processes
Yuzhen Zhou, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Yimin Xiao, Michigan State University
12:05 PM

 
 
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