Name: 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings
Start: 2018-07-28T07:00:00+00:00
End: 2018-08-02
Location: Vancouver Convention Centre

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Sunday, 07/29/2018

Generalized Statistical Inference for Astrophysical Discoveries
Sara Algeri, Imperial College London; David A van Dyk, Imperial College London; Jan Conrad, Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics

Statistical Approaches to Decreasing the Discrepancy of Non-Detects in QPCR Data
Love Tanzy, University of Rochester Medical Center; Valeriia Sherina, University of Rochester Medical Center; Matthew N. McCall, University of Rochester Medical Center

Quasi-Oracle Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Xinkun Nie, Stanford University; Stefan Wager, Stanford University

Conditions for the Uniqueness, Finiteness, and Possible Location of the Maximum Likelihood Estimate with a Log Binomial Model
Gurbakhshash Singh, University of Calgary; Gordon Hilton Fick, University of Calgary

Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Children and Adolescents' Emergency Department Use for Mental Health Reasons in Alberta, Canada
Michelle Thiessen, Simon Fraser University; Joan Hu, Simon Fraser University; Rhonda J. Rosychuk, University of Alberta

Inference of Introgressive Hybridization in Anopheles Mosquito Genomes
Jingxue(Grace) Feng, Simon Fraser University; Liangliang Wang, Simon Fraser University; Cedric Chauve, Simon Fraser University

An Efficient Resampling Method for Order-Restricted Gene-Trait Association Analysis
Yeonil Kim, University of Florida; Yueh-Yun Chi, University of Florida; Fei Zou, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Statistical Learning on Next-Generation Sequencing of T Cell Repertoire Data
Li Zhang, UCSF School of Medicine, UCSF; Tao He, San Francisco State University; Alan Paciorek, University of California, San Franciscornia ; Jason Cham, University of California, San Francisco; David Oh, University of California, San Francisco; Lawrence Fong, University of California, San Francisco

An Innovative Approach to Identify Biomarker Signatures for Cancer Genetic Data with Survival Endpoints
Ming Wang, Pennsylvania State University; Zheng Li, Penn State Unviersity

A Nearly Optimal Sequential Testing Approach to Permutation-Based Association Testing
Julian Hecker, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Ingo Ruczinski, Bloomberg School of Public Health; Brent A. Coull, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Christoph Lange, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Novel Methods for Gene Set Enrichment Analysis with Empirical Memberships for Overlapping Genes
Yun Zhang, University of Rochester; Xing Qiu, University of Rochester

A Novel Framework for Differential Gene Expression Analysis Using Robust Profile Likelihood Ratios
Lehang Zhong, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Lisa Joanna Strug, Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children

On Using Gene Genealogies to Find Trait-Influencing Variants
Payman Nickchi, Simon Fraser University; Jinko Graham, Simon Fraser University

Fast Generalised Linear Models in a Database
Thomas Lumley, University of Auckland

A Hierarchical Bayesian Deconvolution Model for Inferring Immune Cell Components in Tumor
An-Shun Tai, National Tsing Hua University

Statistical Approach for Investigating Change in Mutational Processes During Cancer Growth and Development
Zhi Yang, University of Southern California; Priyatama Pandey, University of Southern California; Darryl Shibata, University of Southern California; Paul Southern Marjoram, University of Southern California; Kimberly Siegmund, University of Southern California

Gene Expression-Based Classification of Cancer Tumours via Penalized Probabilistic Principal Components Analysis
Wei Deng, University of Toronto; Radu V Craiu, University of Toronto

Sample Size Calculations for Non-Inferiority Trials Using the Concept of Proportional Time
Milind A Phadnis, University of Kansas Medical Center

Simultaneous Genetic Analysis of Sequence Data from a Pair of Organisms That Jointly Influence a Phenotype
Mary Sara McPeek, University of Chicago; Miaoyan Wang, UC Berkeley
2:05 PM

A Four-Part Introduction to Deep Learning
Christopher Manning, Stanford University; Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Carnegie Mellon University
2:05 PM

On Using Gene Genealogies to Find Trait-Influencing Variants
Payman Nickchi, Simon Fraser University; Jinko Graham, Simon Fraser University
2:10 PM

A Hierarchical Bayesian Deconvolution Model for Inferring Immune Cell Components in Tumor
An-Shun Tai, National Tsing Hua University
2:15 PM

Literature-Guided Integration of Multiple GWAS Results Using Graph-GPA and DDNet
Dongjun Chung, Medical University of South Carolina; Hang J. Kim, University of Cincinnati; Zhenning Yu, Medical University of South Carolina; Andrew B Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina ; Hongyu Zhao, Yale
2:20 PM

Genetic Analysis of High-Dimensional Phenotypes
Michael Philip Epstein, Emory University
2:25 PM

High-Dimensional MCMC Diagnostics with Application to Spatial Text Clustering of Beer Flavours
David Alexander Campbell, Simon Fraser University; Subhash Lele, University of Alberta; Peter Solymos, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring
2:25 PM

Generalized Bias and Variance for Convex Regularized Estimators
Pierre Bellec, Rutgers University
2:25 PM

Efficiently Controlling for Unbalanced Case-Control Ratios and Sample Relatedness for Binary Traits in PheWAS by Large Cohorts
Seunggeun Lee, University of Michigan
2:30 PM

Bayesian Inference for Phylogenetic Trees and Networks
Liangliang Wang, Simon Fraser University; Shijia Wang, Simon Fraser University; Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, University of British Columbia
2:45 PM

An Innovative Approach to Identify Biomarker Signatures for Cancer Genetic Data with Survival Endpoints
Ming Wang, Pennsylvania State University; Zheng Li, Penn State Unviersity
2:50 PM

Fast Generalised Linear Models in a Database
Thomas Lumley, University of Auckland
2:50 PM

Scalable Methods for Association Analysis in Biobank Scale Data Sets
Dajiang Liu, Penn State College of Medicine
2:55 PM

Current Population Survey State GVFs and Design Effects
Tamara Zimmerman, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Edwin Robison, Bureau of Labor Statistics
3:05 PM

Novel Methods for Gene Set Enrichment Analysis with Empirical Memberships for Overlapping Genes
Yun Zhang, University of Rochester; Xing Qiu, University of Rochester
3:05 PM

A Genetic Association Test Robust to Arbitrary Population Structure
Minsun Song, Sookmyung Women's University
3:05 PM

Simulation Study on the Impact of Accuracy of Estimated Genetic Relationship Matrices on Predicting Genotype Performance
MINGZHU SUN, The University of Queensland; Vivi Arief, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND; Ian DeLacy, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND; Kaye Basford, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND; Wen-Hsi Yang, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
3:20 PM

Sample Size Calculations for Non-Inferiority Trials Using the Concept of Proportional Time
Milind A Phadnis, University of Kansas Medical Center
3:25 PM

Gene Expression-Based Classification of Cancer Tumours via Penalized Probabilistic Principal Components Analysis
Wei Deng, University of Toronto; Radu V Craiu, University of Toronto
3:35 PM

An Absolute Certainty: The General Scientific Community's Critical Role in Ensuring Justice
Peter Neufeld, Innocence Project
4:05 PM

Estimating Heterogeneous Biomarker Networks and Their Effects on Disease Outcome
Shanghong Xie, Columbia University; Xiang Li, Statistics and Decision Sciences, Janssen Research & Development, LLC; Donglin Zeng, UNC Chapel Hill; Yuanjia Wang, Columbia University
4:05 PM

Within Laboratory Variance Outlier Detection: An Alternative to Cochran's Test
Michael Morton, Altria Client Services
4:05 PM

Bayesian Overlapping Group Lasso: An Application in Jointly Modeling Multiple Genetic Pathways with Several Common Genes Between
Sounak Chakraborty, University of Missouri, Columbia
4:05 PM

Power Analysis for RNA-Seq in Single Cells
Zhijin Wu, Brown University; Hao Wu, Emory University
4:05 PM

Spatio-Temporal Models for Big Multinomial Data Using the Conditional Multivariate Logit-Beta Distribution
Scott H. Holan, University of Missouri/U.S. Census Bureau; Jonathan R Bradley, Florida State University; Christopher K. Wikle, University of Missouri
4:05 PM

Data Adaptive Evaluation of Preprocessing Methods Using Ensemble Machine Learning
Rachael Phillips, Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
4:05 PM

A Gate-Keeping Test for Selecting Adaptive Interventions for Depression Management Under General SMART Designs
Xiaobo Zhong, Columbia University; Bin Cheng, Columbia University; Min Qian, Columbia University; Ying Kuen Ken Cheung, Columbia University
4:20 PM

De Novo Detection and Accurate Inference of Differentially Methylated Regions
Keegan Korthauer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Sutirtha Chakraborty, Novartis; Yuval Benjamini, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Rafael Irizarry, Harvard University
4:20 PM

Asymptotics of Generalized Depth-Based Scale Processes and Applications
Jin Wang, Northern Arizona University
4:20 PM

Missing Data Issues in the Studies of Neurodegenerative Disorders: The Methodology
Sheng Luo, Duke University Medical Center; Kan Li, University of Texas Health Science Center
4:25 PM

Marginal Analysis of Ordinal Clustered Longitudinal Data with Informative Cluster Size
Aya A Mitani, Boston University ; Elizabeth K Kaye, Boston University; Kerrie P Nelson, Boston University
4:35 PM

A Procedure to Detect General Association Based on Concentration of Ranks
Fred Wright, North Carolina State University; Pratyaydipta Rudra, University of Colorado at Denver; Yi-Hui Zhou, North Carolina State University
4:45 PM

Statistical Modeling of Disease in Ecological Communities Using Partial Differential Equations
Trevor Hefley, Kansas State University; Haoyu Zhang, Kansas State University; Robin Russell, United States Geological Survey; Anne Ballmann, United States Geological Survey
4:45 PM

Detection of Cell-Type-Specific Risk-CpG Sites in Epigenome-Wide Association Studies
Xiangyu Luo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Can Yang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Yingying Wei, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
4:50 PM

A Bayesian General Linear Modeling Approach to Cortical Surface fMRI Data Analysis
Yu Yue, Baruch College, CUNY; Amanda Mejia, Indiana University; David Bolin, Gothenburg University; Finn Lindgren, The University of Edinburgh; Martin A Lindquist, Johns Hopkins University
5:05 PM

Cluster Validation by Measurement of Clustering Characteristics Relevant to the User
Christian Hennig, University College London
5:20 PM

Exploring the Dynamics of Interprovincial Mobility in China, Evidence from Panel Data
Xin Shi, Manchester Metropolitan University; James Cheng, Manchester Metropolitan University
5:35 PM

Generalized Linear Models with Multiple Longitudinal Covariate Processes
Erning Li, University of Iowa
5:35 PM

Monday, 07/30/2018

A Doubly Distributed and Integrated Method of Moments for High-Dimensional Correlated Data Analysis
Emily Charlotte Hector, University of Michigan; Peter X.-K. Song, University of Michigan

Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference via Particle Gibbs Sampler with Ancestor Sampling
Shijia Wang, Simon Fraser University; Liangliang Wang, Simon Fraser University

Per-Gene Normalization Method (UQ-PgQ2) Improves the Specificity for the Analysis of Differential Gene Expression in RNA-Seq Data
Xiaohong Li, University of Louisville; Nigel G.F. Cooper, University of Louisville; Dongfeng Wu, University of Louisville; Eric C. Rouchka, University of Louisville; Shesh N. Rai, University of Louisville

Machine-Learning Approach to Defining Covariates to Increase Study Power in ALS Clinical Trials and Other Multifactorial Heterogeneous Disease Areas
Danielle Beaulieu, Origent Data Sciences; Albert Taylor, Origent Data Sciences; Samad Jahandideh, Origent Data Sciences; David Ennist, Origent Data Sciences; Andrew Conklin, Origent Data Sciences; Mike Keymer, Origent Data Sciences

First Order Asymptotic Variance of a Leader Election Algorithm
Simon Langowski, Purdue University; Mark Daniel Ward, Purdue University

Asymptotic Properties of Adaptive Group Lasso in High-Dimensional Generalized Additive Model with a Diverging Number of Parameters and Consistent Tuning Parameter Selection
Kaixu Yang; Jun Liu, Michigan State University

A Generalized Fellegi-Sunter Framework for Unsupervised Collective Record Linkage in Clustered Relational Data with Applications to Electronic Health Records
Nicole Solomon, Duke University Medical Center; Sean M O'Brien, Duke University Medical Center; Joseph Lucas, Duke University

A-Optimal Subsampling for Big Data Generalized Estimating Equations
Thomas Cheung, Purdue University - Indianapolis

A Joint Modeling Approach for Directed Acyclic Network Data
Yan Zhou, Merck &Co., Inc

Predicting Hospital Readmission for Diabetes Patients by Classical and Machine Learning Approaches
Gabrielle LaRosa, University of Pittsburgh; Chathurangi Pathiravsan, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Rajapaksha Wasala M Anusha Madushani, University of Florida

Bayesian Bivariate Extreme Value Analysis with Application in Environmental Statistics
Yuan Tian, North Carolina State University; Brian Reich, North Carolina State University

Random Dual Rotation: Generalized Permutation Test for High Dimension, Low Sample Size Data
Hee Cheol Chung, University of Georgia; Jeongyoun Ahn, University of Georgia

A Generalization of Convolutional Neural Networks to Graph-Structured Data
Yotam Hechtlinger, Carnegie Mellon Univ; Purvasha Chakravarti, Carnegie Mellon University; Jining Qin, Carnegie Mellon University

Approximate Inference for Large Non-Gaussian Spatial Data
Daniel Zilber, Texas A&M University; Matthias Katzfuss, Texas A&M University

Power and Sample Size Requirements for GEE Analyzes of Cluster Randomized Crossover Trials
Fan Li, Duke Univeristy; Andrew Forbes, Monash University; Elizabeth L. Turner, Duke Global Health Institutes; John S. Preisser, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Impact of Academically Homogeneous Classrooms in Undergraduate Statistics Education
James Pleuss, United States Military Academy

Identifying Epigenetic Regions Exhibiting Critical Windows of Susceptibility to Air Pollution
Michele Zemplenyi, Harvard University; Mark J Meyer, Georgetown University; Brent A. Coull, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Assessing Therapeutic Equivalence of Brand and Generic Drugs Using Observational Data
Lamar Hunt, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH & OptumLabs Visiting Fellows; Daniel Scharfstein, Johns Hopkins University; Irene Murimi, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH & OptumLabs Visiting Fellows; Jodi Segal, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH & OptumLabs Visiting Fellows; Ravi Varadhan, Johns Hopkins University; Ramin Mojtabai, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH

Community Detection with Dependent Connectivity
Yubai Yuan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

3?-UTR Shortening Represses Tumor Suppressor Genes in Trans by Disrupting CeRNA Crosstalk
Wei Li, Baylor College of Medicine
8:35 AM

Integration of Multiple 'Omic Data Types for Screening Disease-Related Gene Sets with Applications in Lung Cancer
Su Hee Chu, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Yen-Tsung Huang, Academia Sinica
8:35 AM

Pleiotropic Effects of Genetic Variants on Aging Traits and Lifespan: Applications of Stochastic Process Models
Konstantin Arbeev, Duke University; Olivia Bagley, Duke University; Fang Fang , Duke University; Hongzhe Duan, Duke University; Ilya Zhbannikov, Duke University; Igor Akushevich, Duke University; Alexander Kulminski, Duke University; Svetlana Ukraintseva, Duke University; Anatoliy Yashin, Duke University
8:35 AM

Sampling Partial Genealogies Using Sequential Importance Sampling
Dongmeng Liu; Jinko Graham, Simon Fraser University
8:50 AM

Nonparametric Test for Homogeneity of Covariance in Multivariate Regression
Yan Xu, University of Kentucky
8:50 AM

A Bayesian Logistic Model with Covariate to Identify Optimal Dose for Heterogeneous Population in Phase I Oncology Trial
Xin Wei, Celgene Corporation; Michael Branson, celgene corporation
8:50 AM

Flexible Group Difference Tests for Age-Varying Distributions
Philip Reiss, University of Haifa
8:55 AM

The Challenge of Creating Web-Push Surveys of the General Public;
Don Dillman, Washington State University
8:55 AM

Statistical Methods and Tools in Mental Health Studies: a Review of Scientific Rigor, Power Analyzes and Reproducibility
Abera Wouhib, National Institutes of Health
8:55 AM

Nonparametric Regression Models of Multilevel, Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: The National Study of Learning Mindsets
Carlos Carvalho, University of Texas; Jared S Murray, University of Texas at Austin; Paul Richard Hahn, Arizona State University ; David Yeager, The University of Texas at Austin; Elizabeth Tipton, Columbia University
9:00 AM

Optimal Tradeoffs Between Generalized Design Goals in Multivariate Matching
Samuel David Pimentel, University of California, Berkeley; Rachel R. Kelz, University of Pennsylvania
9:00 AM

Building a Genomic Signature via Transfer Learning on Both Labelled and Unlabelled High-Dimensional Data: a Case Study in Predicting Prostate Cancer Metastasis
Yang Liu, GenomeDx Biosciences; Hossein Sharifi-Noghabi, Simon Fraser University; Nicholas Erho, GenomeDX Biosciences; Raunak Shrestha, Vancouver Prostate Centre; Mohammed Alshalalfa, GenomeDX Biosciences; Elai Davicioni, GenomeDX Biosciences; Colin Collins, Vancouver Prostate Centre; Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University
9:05 AM

Approximate Inference for Large Non-Gaussian Spatial Data
Daniel Zilber, Texas A&M University; Matthias Katzfuss, Texas A&M University
9:10 AM

The Impact of Academically Homogeneous Classrooms in Undergraduate Statistics Education
James Pleuss, United States Military Academy
9:15 AM

Biclustering Algorithm for Biomedical Literature Mining Guided by Prior Information
Jin Hyun Nam; Zhenning Yu, Medical University of South Carolina; Daniel Couch, Medical University of South Carolina; Andrew B Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina ; Dongjun Chung, Medical University of South Carolina
9:20 AM

Comparison of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Methods for Survey Data
John Pleis, National Center for Health Statistics; Donald Malec, National Center for Health Statistics; Rong Wei, National Center for Health Statistics; Vladislav Beresovsky, National Center for Health Statistics; Bill Cai, CDC/NCHS; Te-Ching Chen, CDC/NCHS; Yulei He, CDC/NCHS; Peter Meyer, National Center for Health Statistics; Lyna Schieber, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Hee-Choon Shin, CDC/NCHS; Ajay Yesupriya, State University of New York at Albany; Guangyu Zhang, National Center for Health Statistics
9:20 AM

Variance of Treatment Effect, an Important Yet Difficult Parameter
Jonathan Levy, UC Berkeley
9:20 AM

Ordinal Outcomes: Considerations for the Generalized Linear Model with the Log Link
Gurbakhshash Singh, University of Calgary; Gordon Hilton Fick, University of Calgary
9:35 AM

Outer Node FDR Control for Gene Ontology and Other Directed Acyclic Graphs
Eugene Katsevich, Stanford University; Chiara Sabatti, Stanford University; Marina Bogomolov, Technion
9:35 AM

A Multi-Dimensional Integrative Scoring Framework for Predicting Functional Regions in the Human Genome
Xihao Li, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Godwin Yung, Takeda Pharmaceutical; Hufeng Zhou, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Iuliana Ionita-Laza, Columbia University; Xihong Lin, Harvard University
9:35 AM

Robust Inference Based on Linear Mixed Models with Application to Gene Detections
Youngseok Song, Colorado State University; Wen Zhou, Colorado State University; Kim Hoke, Colorado State University; Wenxin Zhou, University of California, San Diego
9:50 AM

Methods for Estimating Points Based Risk Score for Binary Clinical Outcome
Alok Dwivedi, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso; Muditha Perera, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso; Durgesh Kumar Dwivedi, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Anit Parihar, King George's Medical University; Sada Nand Dwivedi, All India Institute of Medical Sciences; Rakesh Shukla, University of Cincinnati
10:05 AM

Empirical Bayes Estimation of Gene Expression Fold Change
Abbas Rahal, University of Ottawa; Marta Padila, University of Ottawa; David R. Bickel, University of Ottawa
10:05 AM

Using Neural Generative Models to Release Synthetic Twitter Corpora with Reduced Stylometric Identifiability of Users
Joshua Snoke; Alexander Ororbia, Pennsylvania State University; Fridolin Linder, Pennsylvania State University
10:05 AM

Community Detection with Dependent Connectivity
Yubai Yuan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:15 AM

Hierarchical Processing for LC/MS Metabolomics Data Generated in Multiple Batches
Douglas Walker, Emory University; Karan Uppal, Emory University; Dean Jones, Emory University; Tianwei Yu, Emory University
10:35 AM

Asymmetric Behavior of Current Account Sustainability
Luis Melo, Banco De La Republica; Daniel Ordoñez, Universidad Nacional; Oscar Valencia, Banco de la Republica (Central Banck of Colombia)
10:35 AM

Theory Informs Practice: Smoothing Parameters Selection for Smoothing Spline ANOVA Models in Large Samples
Xiaoxiao Sun, University of Georgia; Wenxuan Zhong, University of Georgia; Ping Ma, University of Georgia
10:35 AM

Data Enriched Generalized Linear Methods
Sayan Dasgupta, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Cheng Zheng, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee ; Ying Qing Chen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Asad Haris, University of Washington
10:35 AM

Statistical Inference for Neuroimaging Genetics
Long Feng, Yale University; Xuan Bi, Yale University; Heping Zhang, Yale University School of Public Health
10:35 AM

A Bayesian Approach to Analyzing Differential Gene Expression in Heterogeneous Tissue Samples
Megan Stefanski, University of Missouri - Kansas City; David Spade, University of Missouri - Kansas City
10:35 AM

MM Algorithms for Variance Components Models
Liuyi Hu, North Carolina State University; Hua Zhou, UCLA; Jin Zhou, University of Arizona; Kenneth Lange, UCLA
10:50 AM

Single-Cell RNA Sequencing: Dropout Imputation and Normalization with Spike-In Genes
Nicholas Lytal, University of Arizona; Di Ran, University of Arizona; Lingling An, University of Arizona
10:50 AM

Covariate Selection for Generalizing Experimental Results
Erin Hartman, UCLA; Naoki Egami, Princeton University
10:55 AM

Likelihood Estimation of Large Species Trees from Multiple Samples Per Species, Using the Coalescent Process
Arindam RoyChoudhury, Cornell University
10:55 AM

A Joint Analysis of Brain Signal, Genetics, and Behavior
Zhaoxia Yu, UCI; Hernando Ombao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Dustin Pluta, University of California, Irvine; Tong Shen, University of California, Irvine
11:00 AM

Comparison of Methods to Generate Reference Limits
Bipasa Biswas, CDRH, FDA; Nairita Ghosal, University of Illinois at Chicago
11:05 AM

A starless bias in the maximum likelihood phylogenetic methods
Xuhua Xia, University of Ottawa
11:15 AM

Generalized Additive Models for Spatial Data Distributed on Complicated Domains
Shan Yu, Iowa State University; Lily Wang, Iowa State University
11:20 AM

Detection of Genetic Trends Related to Ecoclines
Blair Sterba-Boatwright, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Christopher Bird, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
11:20 AM

Single-Cell Gene Set Analysis with Applications in Tumor Heterogeneity
Lingling An, University of Arizona; Di Ran, University of Arizona; Nicholas Lytal, University of Arizona
11:20 AM

Bayesian Network Models for Integrating Genetics and Metabolomics Data
Denise Marie Scholtens, Northwestern University; Alan Kuang, Northwestern University
11:25 AM

General Techniques for Successful Data Science Competitions
Ian Michael Mouzon, Iowa State University
11:35 AM

Beyond Random-Walk MCMC for Bayesian Phylogenetics
Frederick Matsen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
11:35 AM

Generalized Causal Mediation and Path Analysis Using the R Gmediation Package
Jeffrey Albert, Case Western Reserve University
11:35 AM

Identifying Biomarkers in Heterogeneous Samples Without Known Reference Cell Type Profiles
Kelly Mosesso, Harvard University ; Martin Aryee, Harvard University
11:35 AM

On Nonparametric Quantile Regression
Mei Ling Huang, Brock University; Jenny Tieu, Brock University
11:50 AM

Combining Phenotypes, Genotypes, and Genealogies to Fine-Map Trait-Influencing Variants on the Genome
Jinko Graham, Simon Fraser University
11:55 AM

Phylogenomic Inference in the Presence of Gene Flow Using Coalescent Site Pattern Probabilities
Laura Kubatko, Ohio State University; Colby Long, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
11:55 AM

Mean-Parametrized Conway-Maxwell-Poisson Regression Models for Dispersed Counts
Ho Ting Fung, Macquarie University; Alan Huang, University of Queensland; Aya Alwan, Macquarie University; Justin Wishart, Macquarie University
12:05 PM

Statistical Issues in the Design and Analysis of Sequencing Studies
Danyu Lin, University of North Carolina
2:05 PM

Studentized Sensitivity Analysis in Paired Observational Studies
Colin Fogarty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:05 PM

Distinguishing Close Linkage from Pleiotropy in Multiparental Populations
Frederick Boehm, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Mark Keller, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Alan Attie, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Brian Yandell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Karl Broman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2:05 PM

Nonparametric Generalized Fiducial Inference for Survival Functions Under Censoring
Yifan Cui, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jan Hannig, University of North Carolina
2:05 PM

Adaptive Tests for Object Detection
Grigory Sokolov; Alexander G. Tartakovsky, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
2:05 PM

Deep Neural Network Model for Predicting Gene Activity Using Three-Dimensional Structures of Chemical Compounds
Pingzhao Hu, University of Manitoba; Md. Mohaiminul Islam, University of Manitoba; Kevin Jeffers, University of Manitoba; Andrew M Hogan , University of Manitoba; Rebecca Davis, University of Manitoba; Silvia Cardona, University of Manitoba
2:05 PM

A Correlated Random Effects Hurdle Model for Detecting Differentially Expressed Genes in Discrete Single Cell RNA Sequencing Data
Michael Sekula, University of Louisville; Jeremy Gaskins, University of Louisville; Susmita Datta, University of Florida
2:05 PM

Structure Learning for Phylogenetic Tree with Quantitative Characters
Chaoyu Yu; Mathias Drton, University of Washington
2:20 PM

Bayesian Network Regularized Regression for Modeling Urban Crime Occurrences
Elizabeth Mary Upton, Boston University; Luis Carvalho, Boston University
2:20 PM

A Generalized Design for a Confirmatory Basket Trial
Robert Beckman, Georgetown University; Xiaoyun (Nicole) Li, Merck
2:25 PM

Sequential Multiple Testing with Generalized Error Control: An Asymptotic Optimality Theory
Yanglei Song, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Georgios Fellouris, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:35 PM

Capture-Recapture Methods for Data on the Activation of Applications on Mobile Phones
Mamadou YAUCK, Universite Laval; Louis-Paul Rivest, Université Laval; Greg Rothman, NinthDecimal
2:50 PM

Zero-Inflated Generalized Dirichlet Multinomial (ZIGDM) Regression Model for Microbiome Compositional Data
Zheng-Zheng Tang, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Guanhua Chen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2:50 PM

Multiethnic Joint Analysis of Marginal SNP Effects
David Conti, University of Southern California; Kan Wang, University of Southern California; Chris Haiman, University of Southern California; Paul Newcombe, MRC Biostatistics Unit
3:05 PM

Homogeneity Test Under Finite Mixture with Multi-Dimensional Parameter Kernel
Ho Yin Ho, University of British Columbia; Jiahua Chen, University of British Columbia
3:05 PM

Multiple Imputation Strategies for Handling Missing Data When Generalizing Randomized Clinical Trial Findings Through Propensity Score-Based Methodologies
Albee Ling, Stanford University; Maya Mathur, Stanford University; Kris Kapphahn, Stanford University; Maria Montez-Rath, Stanford University; Manisha Desai, Stanford University
3:05 PM

Limit Theorems and Theoretical Properties of General Multiscale Scan Statistics
Katharina Proksch, University of Goettingen; Frank Werner, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry; Axel Munk, University of Goettingen
3:20 PM

On Generalized Variance Functions for Sample Means and Medians
Justin McIllece, Bureau of Labor Statistics
3:35 PM

Statistical Methodologies to Detect Ineffective Regional Treatment Effect in a Multiregional Trial
Hsiao-Hui Tsou, National Health Research Institutes; Yu-Chieh Cheng, National Health Research Institutes; Chin-Fu Hsiao, National Health Research Institutes
3:35 PM

Tuesday, 07/31/2018

Generating Survival Times Using Cox Proportional Hazards Models with Cyclic Time-Varying Covariates
Yunda Huang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Lily Zhang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Zong Zhang, Interlake High School; Peter Gilbert, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Causal Inference in the Era of Personalization: Handling Complexity with Simplicity
Kosuke Imai, Princeton University; Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University; Booil Jo, Stanford University

Renewable Estimation and Incremental Inference in Generalized Linear Models with Streaming Data Sets
Lan Luo; Peter X.-K. Song, University of Michigan

Differences Between Telomerase Activation and ALT Based on the Theory of G-Networks
Kyung Hyun Lee, Rice University; Marek Kimmel, Rice University

Preventing False Discovery of Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Subgroups in Randomized Trials
Joseph Rigdon, Stanford University; Michael Baiocchi, Stanford University; Sanjay Basu, Stanford University School of Medicine

Patient- and Site-Level Factors Associated with Abstinence Outcome in a Multisite Clinical Trial of a Technology-Delivered Psychosocial Intervention for Substance Use Disorders
Martina Pavlicova, Columbia University; Leila M. Vaezazizi, New York State Psychiatric Institue; Aimee N. C. Campbell, New York State Psychiatric Institute; Mei-Chen Hu, Columbia University; Edward V. Nunes, New York State Psychiatric Institute

Iterated Multi-Source Exchangeability Models
Roland Brown, University of Minnesota; Julian Wolfson, University of Minnesota

Agreement and Individual Bioequivalence: A New Look
Tie-Hua Ng, FDA/CBER

Development and Comparison of Predictive Models for Woody Breast in Commercial Broilers
Andy Mauromoustakos, Univ. of Arkansas; JUAN P CALDAS-CUEVA, University of Arkansas; CASEY OWENS-HANNING, University of Arkansas

A Subregion-Based Burden Test for Simultaneous Identification of Susceptibility Loci and Sub-Regions Within
Bin Zhu, NIH/NCI; Lisa Mirabello, National Institutes of Health; Nilanjan Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University

A 10-DNA Repair Gene Signature Predicts Benefits from Adjuvant Chemotherapy (ACT) in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
Xiaokui Mo, Ohio State University-College of Medicine; Jianying Zhang, Ohio State University; Meng Xu Welliver, Ohio State University; Soledad Fernandez, The Ohio State University

Adaptively Incorporating Supplemental Information in Clinical Trials in the Presence of Population Heterogeneity
Joseph Koopmeiners, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota; Ales Kotalik, University of Minnesota; David Michael Vock, University of Minnesota

SAVER: Gene Expression Recovery for UMI-Based Single Cell RNA Sequencing
Mo Huang, University of Pennsylvania; Jingshu Wang, University of Pennsylvania; Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania; Nancy Zhang, University of Pennsylvania

Incorporating Genetic Network into Case-Control Association Studies with High-Dimensional DNA Methylation Data
Hokeun Sun, Pusan National University

Meta-Analysis of Survey-Based, Non-Experimental Individual Person Data with Heterogeneous Weighting Schemes
Anna-Carolina Haensch, GESIS Institute ; Bernd Weiss, GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences

A Bayesian Gene-Based GWAS Analysis of Osteosarcoma Trio Data Using a Hierarchically Structured Prior
Yi Yang, University of Minnesota; SAONLI BASU, University of Minnesota; Lisa Mirabello, National Institutes of Health; Logan Spector, University of Minnesota; Lin Zhang, University of Minnesota

Generalized Estimating Equations for Social Network Data
Miles Ott, Smith College; Bjorn Westgard, HealthPartners; Brian Martinson, HealthPartners; Michael Maciosek, HealthPartners

Performance Comparison of Post-Hoc Subgroup Search Algorithms for Clinical Trials
Victor Talisa, University of Pittsburgh; (Joyce) Chung-Chou H. Chang, University of Pittsburgh

Willingness to Collect Smartphone Sensor Measurements in a Dutch Probability-Based General Population Panel
Bella Struminskaya; Vera Toepoel, Utrecht University; Peter Lugtig, Utrecht University; Barry Schouten, CBS

Integrative Statistical Analysis Pipeline for RNA-Seq and NanoString with Application to Gene Expression Data of Cancer Patients
Jeea Choi, Novartis Pharmaceuticals; Catarina D. Campbell, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research; Xiaoshan Wang, Novartis Pharmaceuticals; He Wei, Novartis Pharmaceuticals; Robinson Douglas, Novartis Pharmaceuticals; Stephane Wong, Novartis Pharmaceuticals; Bin Fu, Novartis Pharmaceuticals; Rebecca Leary, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research; Kavitha Venkatesan, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research; Ying A Wang, Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Efficient Semiparametric Generalized Linear Models Based on Exponentially Tilted Splines
William H Aeberhard, Dalhousie University; Mark Hannay, Intrum Justitia CH

ProxECAT: Proxy External Controls Association Test. a New Case-Control Gene Region Association Test Using Allele Frequencies from Public Controls
Audrey Hendricks, University of Colorado - Denver; Stephen Billups, University of Colorado - Denver; Hamish Pike, University of Colorado-Aschutz Medical Campus; Eleftheria Zeggini, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; Stephanie Santorico, University of Colorado - Denver; Inês Barroso, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; Josee Dupuis, Boston University School of Public Health

Subset Testing and Analysis of Multiple Phenotypes
Andriy Derkach, National Cancer Institute; Ruth Pfeiffer , National Cancer Institute

Three-Component Dissection of Tumor Cellular Heterogeneity by a Bayesian Hierarchical Model
Tao Wang, UT Southwestern Medical Center

A Machine Learning (ML) Approach to Prognostic and Predictive Covariate Identification for Subgroup Analysis and Hypotheses Generation
David A James, Novartis

Shared and Study-Specific Dietary Patterns: a Novel Approach to Replicability and Validity
Roberta De Vito; Carlo La Vecchia, Università degli Studi di Milano; Giovanni Parmigiani , Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Valeria Edefonti, Università degli Studi di Milano

Using Area Under PSD to Detect the Tumor Heterogeneity Difference with Single Cell Data
Yian Chen, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute; Jiannong Li, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute; Inna Smalley, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute; Michael J Schell, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute; Keiran S Smalley, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

Identifying Direct Targets with Knockdown Experiment: An Adaptive Approach Detecting Strong Signals
Leying Guan, Stanford University

Differences in Gene Silencing Effect of MiRNA and Methylation in Two Histologic Subtypes
Prabhakar Chalise, University of Kansas Medical Center

Application of a Method for Identifying Disease Subtypes That Are Etiologically Heterogeneous
Emily Zabor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Colin B Begg, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

A flexible class of parametric distributions for Bayesian linear mixed models
Darren Wraith, Queensland University of Technology; Mohsen Maleki, Shiraz University; Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle, Universidad Católica de Chile

Calculating a Generated Effect Modifier (GEM) for Treatment Selection Based on Imaging Data
Todd Ogden, Columbia University; Hyung Park, Columbia University; Eva Petkova, NYU School of Medicine; Thaddeus Tarpey, Wright State University
8:35 AM

Genetic Association Testing with Imperfect Phenotypes Derived from Electronic Health Records
Jennifer Sinnott, Ohio State University
8:35 AM

Subset Testing and Analysis of Multiple Phenotypes
Andriy Derkach, National Cancer Institute; Ruth Pfeiffer , National Cancer Institute
8:35 AM

Testing for Generalized Scalar-On-Function Linear Models
Stephanie Chen, North Carolina State University; Luo Xiao, North Carolina State University; Ana-Maria Staicu, NC State University
8:35 AM

Scrutiny of Inference on Generalized Linear Models with High-Dimensional Covariates
Lu Xia, University of Michigan; Bin Nan, University of California, Irvine; Yi Li, University of Michigan
8:35 AM

Estimating Prediction Error for Complex Samples
Andrew James Holbrook, UC Irvine; Daniel L. Gillen, University of California, Irvine; Thomas Lumley, University of Auckland
8:35 AM

Testing Nonlinear Gene-Environment Interaction Through Varying Coefficient and Linear Mixed Models
Zhengyang Zhou, Southern Methodist University; Chao Xing, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Hung-Chih Ku, DePaul University
8:50 AM

Assisted Gene Expression-Based Clustering with AWNCut
Yang Li, Renmin University of China; Ruofan Bie, Renmin University of China; Sebastian J Teran Hidalgo, Yale University; Yichen Qin, University of Cincinnati; Mengyunn Wu, Yale University; Shuangge Ma, Yale University
8:50 AM

Genetic Association Analysis of Copy Number Variation via a Bayesian Procedure in Whole Genome Sequencing
Yu-Chung Wei, Feng Chia University, TAIWAN
8:50 AM

Three-Component Dissection of Tumor Cellular Heterogeneity by a Bayesian Hierarchical Model
Tao Wang, UT Southwestern Medical Center
8:50 AM

Functional Censored Quantile Regression
Fei Jiang, The University of Hong Kong
8:55 AM

A Hidden Markov Modeling Approach for Identifying tumor Subclones in Next-Generation Sequencing Studies
Hyoyoung Choo-Wosoba, NCI/DCEG/BB; Paul S Albert, National Cancer Institute; Bin Zhu, NIH/NCI
9:05 AM

Differences in Gene Silencing Effect of MiRNA and Methylation in Two Histologic Subtypes
Prabhakar Chalise, University of Kansas Medical Center
9:05 AM

WITHDRAWN: Combining Biomarkers to Improve Classification Accuracy Under Heterogeneous Transformations
Aiyi Liu, BBB/DIPHR/NICHD; Wei Zhang, BBB/DIPHR/NICHD
9:15 AM

Improved Selection of High-Dimensional Neuroimaging Biomarkers Associated with Neurodegenerative Disease Progression
Tanya Garcia, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey S Morris, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
9:15 AM

The Most Informative Spacing Statistic Identifies Biologically Relevant Patterns in Transcript Level Distributions
Stanley Pounds, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
9:20 AM

Incorporating Genetic Network into Case-Control Association Studies with High-Dimensional DNA Methylation Data
Hokeun Sun, Pusan National University
9:35 AM

A General Analytical Framework for Deriving Probability of Success
Ron Yu, Gilead Sciences, Inc.; Liang Fang, MyoKardia; Xiaomin Lu, Gilead Sciences, Inc.
9:35 AM

Using Gene Genealogies to Localize Rare Variants Associated with Complex Traits in Diploid Populations
Charith Bhagya Karunarathna, Simon Fraser University; Jinko Graham, Simon Fraser University
9:35 AM

A Multi-Step Classifier Addressing Cohort Heterogeneity Improves Performance of Prognostic Biomarkers in Three Cancer Types
Ellis Patrick, University of Sydney; Samuel Mueller, The University of Sydney; Jean Yee Hwa Yang, University of Sydney, Australia
9:35 AM

Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks from a Population of Yeast Segregants
Dabao Zhang, Purdue University
9:35 AM

Performance Comparison of Post-Hoc Subgroup Search Algorithms for Clinical Trials
Victor Talisa, University of Pittsburgh; (Joyce) Chung-Chou H. Chang, University of Pittsburgh
9:40 AM

Integrating External Controls Improves Power for Genetic Association Testing
Yatong Li, University of Michigan; Seunggeun Lee, University of Michigan
9:50 AM

Weighted Averages for Reconstructed Pathways: a Novel Method for Pathway Level Analysis of Gene Expression Profiles
Monnie McGee, Southern Methodist University; Elizabeth McClellan, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Richard H Scheuermann, J Craig Venter Institute
10:05 AM

Identifying Direct Targets with Knockdown Experiment: An Adaptive Approach Detecting Strong Signals
Leying Guan, Stanford University
10:15 AM

Generalized CP and the Bootstrap for Variable Selection in Moderate or High-Dimensional Data
Lawrence D Brown, University of Pennsylvania; Junhui Cai, University of Pennsylvania; Linda Zhao, University of Pennsylvania
10:35 AM

Nonparametric Change Point Detection of Periodic Data
Lingzhe Guo, The George Washington University; Reza Modarres, The George Washington University
10:35 AM

Statistical Approaches for Meta-Analysis of Genetic Mutation Prevalence
Margaux Hujoel, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Danielle Braun, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Giovanni Parmigiani , Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
10:35 AM

High-Dimensional Sparse Generalized Eigenvalue Problem and Its Applications to Multivariate Statistics
Kean Ming Tan, University of Minnesota; Zhaoran Wang, Northwestern University; Han Liu, Northwestern University; Tong Zhang, Tencent Technology
10:50 AM

Generalized Estimating Equations for Social Network Data
Miles Ott, Smith College; Bjorn Westgard, HealthPartners; Brian Martinson, HealthPartners; Michael Maciosek, HealthPartners
10:55 AM

The Impact of Different Sources of Heterogeneity on Loss of Accuracy from Genomic Prediction Models
Levi Waldron, CUNY School of Public Health
10:55 AM

Integrated Analysis of the Life-Cycle Interactions Between Health and Socioeconomic Status
Ivan Jeliazkov, University of California - Irvine; Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College
10:55 AM

General and Flexible Methods for Signal Extraction from Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data
Davide Risso, Weill Cornell Medicine
11:00 AM

SMMAT: a Powerful and Efficient Variant Set Mixed Model Association Test for Binary and Quantitative Traits in Whole Genome Sequencing Studies with Correlated Samples
Han Chen, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
11:05 AM

Quantification of Reproducibility: Leave-Study-Out Estimation
Lo-Bin Chang
11:15 AM

Statistical Modeling for Pooling and Analyzing Multi-Site Data Sets Using Maximum Mean Discrepancy
Hao Zhou, University of Wisconsin Madison
11:20 AM

Assessment of Treatment Effects in Single Cases and Small Groups: Assumptions, Logic, Algorithm, Computations
Lev Sverdlov
11:20 AM

Efficient Semiparametric Generalized Linear Models Based on Exponentially Tilted Splines
William H Aeberhard, Dalhousie University; Mark Hannay, Intrum Justitia CH
11:30 AM

Flexible Bayesian Quantile Regression in Ordinal Models
Mohammad Arshad Rahman, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Shubham Karnawat, Credit Suisse
11:35 AM

The Statistical Performance of Matching-Adjusted Indirect Comparisons
David Cheng, Harvard University; Rajeev Ayyagari, Analysis Group; Timothy Juday, Allergan; Angelina Villasis Keever, Janssen Research and Development; James Signorovitch, Analysis Group
11:35 AM

Individualized Treatment Effects with Censored Data via Fully Nonparametric Bayesian Accelerated Failure Time Models
Nicholas Henderson, Johns Hopkins University
11:35 AM

A Machine Learning (ML) Approach to Prognostic and Predictive Covariate Identification for Subgroup Analysis and Hypotheses Generation
David A James, Novartis
11:35 AM

Time-Stratified LOESS Smoothers for Estimating and Testing Temporal Heterogeneity in Spatial Risk Patterns
Yannan Tang, UCI
11:35 AM

Monitoring Vaccine Safety by Studying Temporal Trend of Adverse Events Using VAERS
Jing Huang, University of Pennsylvania; Yi Cai, Pieces Technology; Jingcheng Du, University of Texas Health Science Center; Ruosha Li, University of Texas School of Public Health; Susan S Ellenberg, University of Pennsylvania; Sean Hennessy, University of Pennsylvania; Cui Tao, University of Texas Health Science Center; Yong Chen, University of Pennsylvania
11:35 AM

Modeling Allele-Specific Gene Expression by Single-Cell RNA Sequencing
Yuchao Jiang, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Nancy Zhang, University of Pennsylvania; Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania
11:50 AM

A Family-Informed Phenotype Imputation Approach for Genetic Analyzes
Yuning Chen, Boston University; Gina Marie Peloso, Boston University; Ching-Ti Liu, Boston University; Anita L. DeStefano, Boston University; James B. Meigs, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Josee Dupuis, Boston University School of Public Health
11:50 AM

Genome-Wide Likelihood Ratio Tests Under Heterogeneity with an R Package GLRTH
Xiaoxia Han, Henry Ford Health System; Yongzhao Shao, New York University
12:05 PM

A Conditional Test for Homogeneity of Several Order-Restricted Normal Mean Vectors
Madhurima Majumder, Bayer Pharmaceuticals; Michael McDermott, University of Rochester Medical Center
12:05 PM

Constructing Tumor-Specific Gene Regulatory Networks Based on Sample with Tumor Purity Heterogeneity
Pei Wang, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ; Francesca Petralia, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Li Wang, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Jie Peng, UC Davis
2:05 PM

Bayesian Analysis of Multivariate Crash Counts Using Copulas
Eun Sug Park, Texas A&M Transportation Institute; Man-Suk Oh, Ewha Womans University; Rosy Oh, Ewha Womans University; Jae Youn Ahn, Ewha Womans University
2:05 PM

Improved Return Level Estimation via a Weighted Likelihood Latent Spatial Extremes Model
Joshua Hewitt, Colorado State University; Miranda Fix, Colorado State University; Jennifer A Hoeting, Colorado State University
2:05 PM

Semiparametric-Sparse Network Kernel Method for Genetic Pathway Analysis
Byung-Jun Kim, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State Univ.; Inyoung Kim, Virginia Tech
2:05 PM

Inference of Transcription Factor Binding Sites in New Cell Types from Open Chromatin and Gene Expression Data
Michael M. Hoffman, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre/University of Toronto; Mehran Karimzadeh, University of Toronto
2:05 PM

The Generalized Ridge Estimator of the Inverse Covariance Matrix
Wessel Van Wieringen, VU Medical Center
2:20 PM

Analysis of Competing Risk Data in Generalized Case-Cohort Design
Yayun Xu, Medical College of Wisconsin; Soyoung Kim, Medical College of Wisconsin
2:20 PM

Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Multivariate Processes in Phylodynamics Using Stochastic Differential Equations
James Faulkner, University of Washington; Vladimir N. Minin, University of California, Irvine
2:20 PM

Multi-Scale Modeling of Animal Movement and General Behavior Data Using Hidden Markov Models with Hierarchical Structures
Vianey Leos Barajas, Iowa State University; Eric Gangloff, Station d'Ecologie Théorique et Expérimentale du CNRS; Timo Adam, Bielefeld University; Roland Langrock, Bielefeld University; Juan Morales, INIBIOMA-CRUB CONICET
2:30 PM

Tumor Heterogeneity in Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma
Ruibin Xi, Peking University
2:30 PM

A Stochastic Generator of Global Monthly Wind Energy with Tukey G-and-H Autoregressive Processes
Marc G Genton, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Jaehong Jeong, KAUST; Yuan Yan, KAUST; Stefano Castruccio, University of Notre Dame
2:30 PM

General Regression Model for the Subdistribution of a Competing Risk Under Left-Truncation and Right-Censoring
Anna Bellach, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center; Michael Kosorok, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Peter Gilbert, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Jason P Fine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2:35 PM

Detecting Multiple Generalised Change-Points by Isolating Single Ones
Andreas Anastasiou, London School of Econ. and Pol. Science; Piotr Fryzlewicz, London School of Economics
2:35 PM

Heterogeneous Tail Generalized COMFORT Modeling via Cholesky Decomposition
Pawel Polak, Columbia University
2:35 PM

Variation and Genetic Control of Protein Abundance in Human Tissues
Hua Tang, Stanford Dept. of Genetics
2:45 PM

A Stochastic Second-Order Generalized Estimating Equations Approach for Estimating Association Parameters Under Informative Missingness
Tom Chen; Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Harvard University; Rui Wang, Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare Institute
2:45 PM

Inferring the Impact of Genetic Variation on Regulatory Networks
Sara Mostafavi
2:45 PM

Bayesian Generalized Smoothing Spline ANOVA with Dimension Reduction
Chin-I Cheng, Central Michigan University; Paul Speckman, University of Missouri-Columbia
2:50 PM

Quantifying Genetic Influences on Physical Activity Among Twins Based on Minute-Level Accelerometry Data Among Twins
Haochang Shou, University of Pennsylvania; Joanne Carpenter, University of Sydney; Kathleen Merikangas, National Institute of Mental Health; Ian Hickie, University of Sydney
2:50 PM

Unsupervised Learning for Deciphering Mutational Signatures in Human Cancer
Ludmil B Alexandrov, University of California, San Diego; Velimir V Vesselinov, Los Alamos National Lab; Boian S Alexandrov, Los Alamos National Lab
2:55 PM

A General Framework for Integrating GWAS Data with Molecular Endophenotypes
Wei Pan, University of Minnesota
3:05 PM

Understanding Gene Regulation Through Graph-Based Posterior Regularization in Structured Probabilistic Models
Maxwell Libbrecht, Simon Fraser University
3:05 PM

A General Class of Weighted Semiparametric Models for Recurrent Event Data
Russell Stocker, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Akim Adekpedjou, Missouri University of Science and Technology
3:20 PM

A Smoothed EM-Algorithm for Modeling DNA Methylation Profiles from Bisulfite Sequencing Data
Karim Oualkacha, Universite Du Quebec a Montreal; Celia M.T. Greenwood, Lady Davis Research Institute, McGill University; Kaiqiong Zhao, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, and Human Genetics, McGill University; Lajmi Lakhal-Chaieb, Université Laval
3:25 PM

A Generalization of the Horvitz-Thompson Estimator
Alain Theberge
3:35 PM

Inference for Youden's Index with Varying Prevalence
Christine Schubert Kabban, Air Force Institute of Technology; Katherine A Batterton, Air Force Institute of Technology; Richard Warr, Brigham Young University
3:35 PM

Wednesday, 08/01/2018

Accounting for Unobserved Covariates with Varying Degrees of Estimability in High-Dimensional Data
Chris McKennan, University of Chicago; Dan Nicolae, University of Chicago

Statistical Methods to Associate Intra-Tumor Heterogeneity with Clinical Outcomes
Paul Little, UNC Chapel Hill; Danyu Lin, University of North Carolina; Wei Sun, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Quantifying Geographic Regions of Excess Stillbirth Risk in the Presence of Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity
David Zahrieh, Mayo Clinic Rochester; Jacob J Oleson, The University of Iowa; Paul A Romitti, The University of Iowa

Exploring Treatment Heterogeneity Using Propensity Scores
Maozhu Dai, University of California, Irvine; Hal Stern, University of California, Irvine

BinQuasi: a Peak Detection Method for ChIP-Sequencing Data with Biological Replicates
Emily Goren, Iowa Sate University; Peng Liu, Iowa State University; Chao Wang, Iowa State University; Chong Wang, Iowa State University

TWO-SIGMA: a Two-Component Generalized Linear Mixed Model for ScRNA-Seq Association Analysis
Eric Van Buren, UNC Chapel Hill; Yun Li, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ming Hu, Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Di Wu, UNC Chapel HIll

Visualizing Uncertainty for the General Public
Edward Mulrow, NORC at the University of Chicago

Testing Differential Gene Expression from Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data Using Bayes Deconvolusion
Jingyi Zhai, University of Michigan; Hui Jiang, University of Michigan

Reliability-Adjusted Composite Measures for the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs)
Mathew Sapiano, CDC; Jonathan R Edwards, Center for Disease Control & Prevention

Analysis of Interactions: Lessons Learned and Moving Forward
Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan

Assessing Reproducibility in Genome Wide Association Studies
Dan McGuire, Penn State College of Medicine

Single Cell Data Mining of Live Cell Epigenetic Modifications
Chris Bryan

A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
Abhay Hukku; Xiaoquan William Wen, University of Michigan; Corbin Quick, University of Michigan

Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling of Clustered or Longitudinal RNA Sequencing Experiments
Brian Vestal, National Jewish Health; Camille Moore, National Jewish Health; Katerina Kechris, Colorado School of Public Health; Laura Saba, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Tasha Fingerlin, National Jewish Health

Probabilistic Inference of Clonal Gene Expression Through Integration of RNA and DNA-Seq at Single-Cell Resolution
Kieran Campbell, University of British Columbia; Sohrab P Shah, BC Cancer Agency; Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, University of British Columbia

Using Twin Study Data to Identify Causal Effects Under Latent Confounding
Yige Li, Harvard School of Public Health; Zhichao Jiang, Princeton University; Zhi Geng, Peking University

Genetic Analysis of Imaging Data Using Random-Effect Tensor Regression
Tong Shen, University of California, Irvine

Expansion of a stochastic model for assessing CT reinfection risk
Kristin Olson, University of Alabama at Birmingham; William Geisler, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Hemant Tiwari, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Cross Platform Normalization Method Using Matched Sample
Serin Zhang, Florida State University; Jinfeng Zhang, Florida State University; Jiang Shao, Florida State University; Xing Qiu, University of Rochester

Integration of Simultaneous Group Effects in MiRNA and Targeted Gene Sets in Ovarian Cancer
Wenjun He, Dept. Biostatistics, Univ. at Buffalo; Ravikumar Muthuswamy, Center for Immunotherapy, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center; Daniel Gaile, Dept. of Biostatistics, University at Buffalo; Kevin Eng, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Identifying and Clustering Stable and Dynamic CpG Sites via Bayesian Analysis
Luhang Han, University of Memphis; Hongmei Zhang, University of Memphis; Ebenezer Olusegun George, University of Memphis; Wilfried Karmaus, University of Memphis; Hasan Arshad , University of Southampton; John Holloway, University of Southampton

A Novel Blind Start Study Design to Investigate Vestronidase Alfa for Mucopolysaccharidosis VII, an Ultra-Rare Genetic Disease
Wenjie Song, Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc; Chao-Yin Chen, Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc; Christine Haller, Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc; Emil Kakkis, Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc

Creating a Composite Score for Physical Activity Using Shape Constrained Additive Model
Eli Kravitz, Texas A&M Statistics; Raymond J. Carroll, Texas A & M University; Sarah Keadle, California Polytechnic State University

On the Impact of Empty Clusters in Transgenerational Studies
Glen McGee, Harvard University; Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, Columbia University; Marc Weisskopf, Harvard University; Sebastien Haneuse, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Brent A. Coull, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Challenges from Modeling Open Online Assessment Data
Yan Liu, The University of British Columbia; Henrike Besche, Harvard Medical School; Audrey Béliveau, University of Waterloo; Xingyu Zhang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Edward Kroc, The University of British Columbia; Melanie Stefan, Edinburgh Medical School; Johanna Gutlerner, Harvard Medical School; Chanmin Kim, Boston University School of Public Health

Measure gene - gene dependence using Kullback-Leibler Divergence
Guanjie Chen, Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, NHGRI, NIH

Boosting Functional Response Models for Location, Scale, and Shape with an Application to Bacterial Competition
Almond Stöcker, LMU Munich; Sarah Brockhaus, LMU Munich; Sophia Schaffer, LMU Munich; Benedikt von Bronk, LMU Munich; Madeleine Opitz, LMU Munich; Sonja Greven, LMU Munich
8:35 AM

Modeling Covariance Structure for Longitudinal Data
Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
8:35 AM

Improved Variance Component Score Tests of Gene-Environment Interactions
NANXUN MA, University of Washington; Michael C. Wu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Jing Ma, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center
8:35 AM

Subgroup Selection in Adaptive Signature Designs of Confirmatory Clinical Trials
Zhiwei Zhang, University of California at Riverside
8:35 AM

Cox Regression Model Under Dependent Truncation with Applications to Studies of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Lior Rennert, Clemson University; Sharon X Xie, University of Pennsylvania
8:35 AM

Variability-Preserving Imputation for Accurate Gene Expression Recovery in Single Cell RNA Sequencing Studies
Mengjie Chen, University of Chicago; Xiang Zhou, U of Michigan
8:35 AM

Accounting for Gene Expression Quantification Uncertainty Leads to Improved Performance in Differential Splicing Analysis
Scott Van Buren, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Naim Rashid, UNC Chapel Hill
8:50 AM

Generalized Bayesian Factor Analysis for Integrative Clustering with Application to Multi-Modal Omics Data
Eun Jeong Min, University of Pennsylvania; Changgee Chang, University of Pennsylvania; Qi Long, University of Pennsylvania
8:50 AM

General Covering Principle: a New Approach to Address Multiplicity in Hypothesis Testing
Huajiang Li, Avanir Pharmaceuticals; Hong Zhou, Arkansas State University
8:50 AM

Automatically Generating News Release Statements from Structured Data
Brandon Kopp, Bureau of Labor Statistics
8:55 AM

Statistical Leverage and Its Usage in Variable Screening
Wenxuan Zhong, University of Georgia; Yiwen Liu, University of Georgia; Peng Zeng, Auburn University
9:00 AM

A General Framework for Vecchia Approximations of Gaussian Processes
Matthias Katzfuss, Texas A&M University; Joseph Guinness, North Carolina State University
9:05 AM

A Unified Framework to Perform Inference for Pleiotropy, Mediation, and Replication in Genetic Association Studies
Ryan Sun, Harvard University; Xihong Lin, Harvard University
9:05 AM

Finite Alphabet Blind Separation
Merle Behr, University of Goettingen; Axel Munk, University of Goettingen; Chris Holmes, University of Oxford
9:15 AM

A Functional Neural Network for Genetic Data Analysis Involving High-Dimensional Multivariate Outcomes
Shan Zhang, Michigan State University; Xiaoxi Shen; Xiaoran Tong, Michigan State University; Qing Lu, Michigan State University
9:20 AM

Data Science with Your Hair on Fire: Applied Research in Soccer
Ted Knutson, StatsBomb Services
9:25 AM

A Comparison of Multiple Imputation by Fully Conditional Specification and Joint Modeling for Generalized Linear Models with Covariates Subject to Detection Limits
Paul Bernhardt, Villanova University
9:35 AM

A New Kernel-Based Method for Multiple-Loci Meta-Analysis
Xiaoran Tong, Michigan State University; Qing Lu, Michigan State University; Xiaoxi Shen
9:35 AM

EXTENDED SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS for HETEROGENEOUS UNMEASURED CONFOUNDING with an APPLICATION to SIBLING STUDIES of RETURNS to EDUCATION
Raiden Hasegawa, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Colin Fogarty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:35 AM

Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation through Deep Learning
Ran Chen, Wharton; Hanzhong Liu, Center for Statistical Science, Tsinghua University
9:35 AM

A Biomarker-Directed Phase 2 Oncology Umbrella Trial to Target Combination Therapy in NSCLC
Hua Ma, Merck; Robin Mogg, Merck Research Laboratories
9:35 AM

Proper Conditional Analysis in the Presence of Missing Data Identified Novel Independently Associated Low Frequency Variants in Nicotine Dependence Genes
Yu Jiang; Dajiang Liu, Penn State College of Medicine
9:50 AM

Sequencing Data, Repeated Measures and Genetic Heritability
Katerina Kechris, Colorado School of Public Health; Brian Vestal, National Jewish Health; Wen Jenny Shi, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Pratyaydipta Rudra, University of Colorado at Denver; Pamela Russell, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Laura Saba, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
9:55 AM

Neural Network with Spline Smoothing and Its Applications to Genetics
Pei Geng, Illinois State University; Shan Zhang, Michigan State University; Qing Lu, Michigan State University
10:05 AM

A Functional Proportional Hazards Model for Investigating the Gene-Environment Interaction Effects on Survival
Li Luo, University of New Mexico
10:05 AM

Optimal Estimation of Simultaneous Signals Using Absolute Inner Product with Applications to Integrative Genomics
Rong Ma, University of Pennsylvania; Tianwen Cai, University of Pennsylvania; Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania; Mark G Low, University of Pennsylvania
10:35 AM

Comparative Methods on Phylogenetic Networks
Claudia Solis-Lemus, Emory University; Cecile Ane, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Paul Bastide, Rega Institute, KU Leuven; Ricardo Kriebel, University of Wisconsin-Madison; William Sparks, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:35 AM

Sharp Instruments for Classifying Compliers and Generalizing Causal Effects
Edward Kennedy, Carnegie Mellon University
10:35 AM

Fast and Approximate Exhaustive Variable Selection for GLMs with APES
Kevin Wang, The University of Sydney; Samuel Mueller, The University of Sydney; Garth Tarr, The University of Sydney; Jean Yee Hwa Yang, University of Sydney, Australia
10:50 AM

Inferring Non-Bifurcating Phylogenies with the Adaptive Lasso
Vu Dinh, University Of Delaware
10:55 AM

Adaptive Mantel Test for Penalized Inference, with Applications to Imaging Genetics
Dustin Pluta, University of California, Irvine; Tong Shen, University of California, Irvine; Hernando Ombao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Zhaoxia Yu, University of California, Irvine
10:55 AM

Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Heavy-Tailed Data via Non-Gaussian Latent Processes
Gabriel Huerta, University of New Mexico; Kellin Rumsey, University of New Mexico
11:05 AM

Measuring the Individual Benefits of a Medical or Behavioral Treatment Using Generalized Linear Mixed-Effects Models
Francisco Diaz, The University of Kansas Medical Center
11:05 AM

Markov-Modulated Continuous-Time Markov Chains to Identify Site- and Branch-Specific Evolutionary Variation
Guy Baele, KU Leuven
11:15 AM

Integrating Data from GWAS and EQTL by Estimating Genetic Relatedness
Jianqiao Wang, University of Pennsylvania; Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania
11:20 AM

Locally Linear Forests: Leveraging Smoothness with Random Forests
Rina Friedberg, Stanford University; Julie Tibshirani, Palantir Technologies; Susan Athey, Stanford University; Stefan Wager, Stanford University
11:20 AM

Generalizability of Causal Inference in Observational Studies Under Retrospective Convenience Sampling
Zonghui Hu, National Institute of Health; Jing Qin, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
11:35 AM

GLMM-Seq: Detection of Population-Based Gene Level Allele-Specific Expression by RNA-Seq
Jiaxin Fan, University of Pennsylvania; Jian Hu, University of Pennsylvania; Muredach Reilly, Columbia University; Rui Xiao, University of Pennsylvania; Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania
11:35 AM

Supervised Dimensionality Reduction for Exponential Family Data
Yoonkyung Lee, Ohio State University; Andrew Landgraf, Battelle Memorial Institute
11:35 AM

Prediction of Melanoma Prognosis Class Using a Multiclass Discriminant Analysis Classifier with Variable Selection
Sarah Romanes, The University of Sydney; John T Ormerod, University of Sydney; Jean Yee Hwa Yang, University of Sydney, Australia
11:35 AM

Flexible Locally Weighted Penalized Regression with Applications on Prediction of ADNI Clinical Scores
Peiyao Wang; Yufeng Liu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Dinggang Shen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:55 AM

Bayesian Nonparametrics for Evolutionary Model Selection
Mandev Gill
11:55 AM

A Generalized Z Score for Both Symmetric and Asymmetric Distribution
Mian Adnan, Indiana University Bloomington
12:05 PM

Genetic Correlations Between Imaging Traits and Common Diseases
Hongyu Zhao, Yale
2:05 PM

Robust Outlier Detection for Low and High-Dimensional Neuroimaging Data with Principal Components Analysis and Split-Half Resampling
Derek Beaton, Baycrest Health Sciences; Kelly M Sunderland, Baycrest Health Sciences; Abiramy Uthirakumaran, Baycrest Health Sciences; Stephen R Arnott, Baycrest Health Sciences; Robert Bartha, Robarts Research; Sandra E Black, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Leanne Casaubon, Krembil Research Institute; Morris Freedman, Baycrest Health Sciences; Richard H Swartz, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Sean Symons, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; ONDRI Investigators, ONDRI; Malcolm A Binns, Baycrest Health Sciences; Stephen C Strother, Baycrest Health Sciences
2:05 PM

Inference on Multiple AUCs Based on the Combination of Multiple Biomarkers
Shu-Hui Lin, National Taichung University of Science and Technology
2:20 PM

Cell Type-Aware Differential Expression Analysis for RNA-Seq Data
Chong Jin, UNC-Chapel Hill; Wei Sun, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Mengjie Chen, University of Chicago; Danyu Lin, University of North Carolina
2:20 PM

Generalized Semiparametric Approach to One-Way Analysis of Variance
Chathurangi Pathiravsan, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Bhaskar Bhattacharya, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
2:20 PM

Dependencies in Binary Regression Data Generated by Informed Sequential Dose Allocation
Nancy Flournoy, University of Missouri; Assaf Oron, Instutue for Disease Modeling
2:25 PM

Opportunities of Using Real World Data to Inform Regulatory Considerations for Medical Devices
Martin Ho, FDA
2:25 PM

Cooperative Learning of Deep Energy-Based Model and Latent Variable Model via MCMC Teaching
Ying Nian Wu, UCLA
2:30 PM

Combining (Epi)Genetic and Imaging Data with Multivariate Data-Driven Models
Vince Calhoun, The Mind Research Network & The University of New Mexico
2:30 PM

On Mean Corrected Generalized Estimating Equations
Ye Shen, University of Georiga; Chao Li, University of Georgia
2:35 PM

Bootstrap Tests Reflecting the Shape of Gradient Function for Assumption of Random Effect Distribution in Generalized Linear Mixed Models
Hiroki Sakaguchi, Shionogi & Co., Ltd.; Takahiro Hasegawa, Shionogi & Co., Ltd.; Hideaki Watanabe, Shionogi & Co., Ltd.
2:35 PM

Nonlinear Factor Decomposition for Financial Data by Deep Generative Model
Yongdai Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
2:45 PM

Testing for Differentially Expressed Genetic Pathways with Single-Subject N-Of-1 Data in the Presence of Inter-Gene Correlation
Alfred Schissler, University of Nevada, Reno; Walter W Piegorsch, University of Arizona; Yves A Lussier, University of Arizona
2:50 PM

Dimensional Analysis for Response Surface Methodology
Ching-Chi Yang, Penn State; Dennis Lin, Pennsylvania State University
2:50 PM

Variance Component Score Test for Differential Expression in RNAseq Studies
Denis Agniel, RAND Corporation; Boris Hejblum, Universite de Bordeaux
3:05 PM

Weight Normalized Deep Neural Networks
Xiao Wang , Purdue University; Yixi Xu, Purdue University
3:20 PM

A New Approach to Generate Dorling Cartograms
Xiaoyue Cheng, University of Nebraska of Omaha
3:20 PM

Model-Based Crop Yield Forecasting: Adjustment for Within-State Heterogeneity, Covariate Selection and Variance Estimation
Habtamu Benecha, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service; Nathan Cruze, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service; Nell Sedransk, National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS)
3:20 PM

A Data Adjustment-Tolerant Strategy for RNA-Seq Differential Gene Expression Analysis
Guoshuai Cai, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina; Jennifer M. Franks, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth; Michael L. Whitfield, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
3:20 PM

Thursday, 08/02/2018

A Non-Parametric Statistical Test of Null Treatment Effect in Sub-Populations
Lin Taft, GSK; Changyu Shen, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
8:35 AM

Retrospective Matched-Pairs Analysis for Clinical Trial Patient Level Data: a Simulation Study and General Considerations
Bingxia Wang, Takeda Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Chenchen Ma; Yanyan Zhu, Takeda Pharmaceuticals; Guohui Liu, Takeda Pharmaceuticals Inc
8:35 AM

Generalized Score Matching for Non-Negative Data
Shiqing Yu, University of Washington; Mathias Drton, University of Washington; Ali Shojaie, University of Washington
8:50 AM

Those Who Escaped Must Be Captured: Deconstructing Phylogenies and Transmission Trees in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Eben Kenah, The Ohio State University School of Public Health
8:55 AM

Areal Extremes: An Analysis of the Areal Impact of Heat Waves in Conterminous US
Stilian Stoev, University of Michigan; Shrijita Bhattacharya, University of Michigan
8:55 AM

A Spatial Group Sparse Multi-Task Regression Model for Imaging Genetics
Farouk Nathoo; Yin Song, University of Victoria; Shufei Ge, Simon Fraser University; Liangliang Wang, Simon Fraser University; Jiguo Cao, Simon Fraser University
8:55 AM

Medication Adherence and Cost Exposure: a Story in Heterogeneity
Rahul Ladhania, Carnegie Mellon University; Amelia M Haviland, Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College; Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California; Ateev Mehtotra, Harvard Medical School
9:05 AM

Estimation and Comparison of Transmission Trees Using Sequence Data
Michelle Kendall, Oxford University; Caroline Colijn, Simon Fraser University
9:15 AM

A Test of Homogeneity for Two-Sample, Two-Component Mixture Models
Ollivier Hyrien, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
9:15 AM

Heterogeneous Reciprocal Graphical Models
Yang Ni, UT Austin; Peter Müller, University of Texas Austin; Yitan Zhu, NorthShore University HealthSystem; Yuan Ji, NorthShore Univ. HealthSystem / The University of Chicago
9:25 AM

Bayesian Bi-Clustering Methods with Applications to Integrative Genomics and Genetics
Jun Liu, Harvard University; Yang Li, Vatic Labs; Jiexing Wu, Google
9:25 AM

Treatment Heterogeneity and Treatment Eligibility Estimations Using Random Forest Methods
Min Lu, University of Miami; Eugene H. Blackstone, Cleveland Clinic; Hemant Ishwaran, University of Miami
9:35 AM

Predicting the Long-Term Exposure in Acute Treatment of Migraine Using a Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process with Random Effects
Kaifeng Lu
9:35 AM

A Generalized Weighted Quantile Sums Approach That Accounts for Interactions Between Highly Correlated Exposures and Other Factors
MinJae Lee, University of Texas McGovern Medical School; Maureen Samms-Vaughan, The University of the West Indies; Jan Bressler, University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston; MacKinsey Christian, University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston; Manouchehr Hessabi, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Megan Grove, University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston; Sydonnie Shakespeare-Pellington, The University of the West Indies; Charlene Coore Desai, The University of the West Indies; Jody-Ann Reece, The University of the West Indies; Katherine Loveland, University of Texas McGovern Medical School; Eric Boerwinkle, University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston; Mohammad H. Rahbar, University of Texas McGovern Medical School
9:50 AM

Lasso Estimation of Hierarchical Interactions for Analyzing Heterogeneous Treatment Effect
Yu Du, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Ravi Varadhan, Johns Hopkins University
9:50 AM

Heritability Informed Power Optimization (HIPO) Leads to Enhanced Detection of Genetic Associations Across Multiple Traits
Guanghao Qi, Johns Hopkins University; Nilanjan Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University
10:35 AM

Covariate Information for Sure Independence Feature Screening in Ultrahigh- Dimensional Supervised Problems
Debmalya Nandy, The Pennsylvania State University; Francesca Chiaromonte, The Pennsylvania State University; Runze Li, The Pennsylvania State University
10:35 AM

Variables and Interactions Generation for Logistic Regression Model via TreeNet and Association Rules
Pannapa Changpetch
10:35 AM

Branching Processes in Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Environments with Applications to Virus Outbreaks
Irene Hueter, Columbia University
10:35 AM

MDR with P Risk Scores Per Person with Application to Alzheimer's Disease Data
Ye Li, University of Kentucky; Richard Charnigo, University of Kentucky
10:50 AM

Quantile Regression--Based Clustering for Panel Data
Huixia Judy Wang, The George Washington University; Yingying Zhang, Fudan University; Zhongyi Zhu, Fudan University
11:00 AM

Cmenet: a New Method for Bi-Level Variable Selection of Conditional Main Effects
Simon Mak, Georgia Institute of Technology; C. F. Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology
11:05 AM

A Kernel-Based Neural Network for High-Dimensional Genetic Risk Prediction Analysis
Xiaoxi Shen; Xiaoran Tong, Michigan State University; Qing Lu, Michigan State University
11:05 AM

Individualized Dosing Sequences in Dynamic Precision Medicine for Cancer
Robert Beckman, Georgetown University
11:15 AM

A Likelihood Ratio Test for Gene (G)-Environment (E) Interaction Based on the Trend Effect of a Genotype Under an Additive Risk Model Using the G-E Independence Assumption
Summer Han, Stanford University; Nilanjan Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University
11:15 AM

Developing Polygenic Risk Prediction Models for Cancer Subtypes Incorporating Multivariate Disease Characteristics
Haoyu Zhang, Johns Hopkins University; Thomas U. Ahearn, National Cancer Institute; Ni Zhao, Johns Hopkins University; Montserrat García-Closas, National Cancer Institute; Nilanjan Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University
11:20 AM

Marginal Meta-Analysis for Combining Multiple Randomized Clinical Trials with Rare Events
Yi Huang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Elande Baro, US FDA; Yun-Ju Cheng, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Guoxing Song, US FDA
11:35 AM

Survival Analysis of Recurrent Events on Prostate Cancer: Facts from Cancer Genome
Munni Begum, Ball State University
11:35 AM

Discovering Effect Modification in Observational Studies
Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania; Jesse Yenchih Hsu, University of Pennsylvania; Paul Rosenbaum, University of Pennsylvania; Kwonsang Lee, Harvard University; Jose Zubizarreta, Harvard University; Jeffrey Silber, University of Pennsylvania
11:50 AM

Fast Maximum Likelihood Inference for Spatial Generalized Linear Mixed Models
Yawen Guan, The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute; Murali Haran, Penn State University
11:50 AM

A General Framework for Variable Selection in Linear Mixed Models with Applications to Genetic Studies with Structured Populations
Sahir Rai Bhatnagar, McGill University; Karim Oualkacha, Universite Du Quebec a Montreal; Yi Yang, McGill University; Celia M.T. Greenwood, Lady Davis Research Institute, McGill University
12:05 PM

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