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

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

Sparse Functional Principal Component Analysis in a New Regression Framework
YUNLONG NIE, Simon Fraser University; Jiguo Cao, Simon Fraser University

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Environmental Health Risk
Renjun Ma, University of New Brunswick; Edward Hughes, Edward Hughes Consulting

A Grouped Weighted Quantile Regression Approach to Modeling Environmental Chemical Mixtures and Childhood Leukemia Risk
David C. Wheeler, Virginia Commonwealth University

Sparse Estimation for Functional Semiparametric Additive Model
Peijun Sang, Simon Fraser University; Richard Lockhart, Simon Fraser University; Jiguo Cao, Simon Fraser University

Gaussian Process Regression with Large Data Sets: Has the Problem Been Solved?
Sonja Surjanovic, University of British Columbia; William Welch, University of British Columbia

Functional Partial Linear Quantile Regression Based on Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space
Peng Liu, University of Alberta; Linglong KONG, University of Alberta; Bei JIANG, University of Alberta; Nan Zhang, Fudan University; Jianhua Z. Huang, Texas A&M University

Probabilistic Partial Least Squares Regression Applied to Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Compositional Data
Peter A Tait, McMaster Univeristy; Paul McNicholas, McMaster University

Efficient Robust Doubly Adaptive Regularized Regression with Application to fMRI Data
Wei Tu, University of Alberta

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

Regression Calibration to Address Error Prone Time-To-Event Outcomes
Eric Oh, University of Pennsylvania; Pamela A Shaw, University of Pennsylvania

Cash Versus Card: Payment Discontinuities and the Burden of Holding Coins
Huynh Kim, Bank of Canada; Heng Chen, Bank of Canada; Oz Shy, Unaffiliated

Advantageous Statistical Tools for Stock Market Investing
Kenneth Davis

Regression Analysis of Recurrent Event Data with Measurement Error
Yixin Ren, University of Maryland, College Park; Xin He, University of Maryland, College Park

Image-On-Image Regression: a Spatial Bayesian Latent Factor Model for Predicting Task-Evoked Brain Activity Using Task-Free MRI
Cui Guo, University of Michigan

Semiparametric Regression Analysis of Length-Biased Interval-Censored Data
Fei Gao, University of Washington; Kwun Chuen Gary Chan, University of Washington

Semiparametric Regression Analysis of Multiple Right- and Interval-Censored Events
Fei Gao, University of Washington; Donglin Zeng, UNC Chapel Hill; Danyu Lin, University of North Carolina
2:05 PM

Senior Swim Competition Times
David P. Doane, Oakland University; Lori E Seward, University of Colorado; Kevin Murphy, Oakland University
2:05 PM

Application of Propensity Score Quintile Matching for Baseline Parameters in a Medical Device Trial Design
Hong Wang, Boston Scientific Corporation; Songtao Jiang, Boston Scientific; Peter Lam, Boston Scientific
2:05 PM

Regression Calibration to Address Error Prone Time-To-Event Outcomes
Eric Oh, University of Pennsylvania; Pamela A Shaw, University of Pennsylvania
2:05 PM

High-dimensional Cost-constrained Regression via Non-convex Optimization
Yufeng Liu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2:05 PM

Advantageous Statistical Tools for Stock Market Investing
Kenneth Davis
2:05 PM

Bayesian Joinpoint Regression Model to Study the Effect of Smoking on Lung Cancer Incidence
Ram C. Kafle, Sam Houston State University; Melinda M. Holt, Sam Houston State University
2:05 PM

Statistical Interactions from a Growth Curve Perspective
Jaya M Satagopan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Sean Devlin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2:20 PM

Regression-Adjusted Estimators in Randomized Experiments with a Diverging Number of Predictors
Lihua Lei, UC Berkeley; Peng Ding, UC Berkeley
2:20 PM

Regularization and Aliasing in the Estimation of Treatment Effect Moderation
Paul Richard Hahn, Arizona State University ; Carlos Carvalho, University of Texas; Jared S Murray, University of Texas at Austin
2:25 PM

Modeling Abundance of Multiple Species Using Latent Regression Tree Algorithms
Haoyu Zhang, Kansas State University; Trevor Hefley, Kansas State University; Brian R Gray, US Geological Survey; Kristin Bouska, USGS
2:25 PM

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

Image-On-Image Regression: a Spatial Bayesian Latent Factor Model for Predicting Task-Evoked Brain Activity Using Task-Free MRI
Cui Guo, University of Michigan
2:40 PM

Log Binomial Regression When the Maximum Likelihood Solution Is on the Boundary of the Parameter Space
Chao Zhu, Menzies Institute of Medical Research, University of Tasmania; David W Hosmer, University of Massachusetts; Jim Stankovich, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania; Karen Wills, Menzies Institute of Medical Research, University of Tasmania; Leigh Blizzard, Menzies Institute of Medical Research, University of Tasmania
2:50 PM

Statistical Modeling of Animal Movement
Louis-Paul Rivest, Université Laval
2:55 PM

Optimal Scaling for a Logistic Regression Model with Ordinal Covariates
Sanne JW Willems, Leiden University; Marta Fiocco, Leiden University; Jacqueline J Meulman, Leiden University & Stanford University
3:05 PM

Modeling Conditional Variance Functions Using Nonparametric Transfer Function Models
Jun Liu
3:05 PM

Cash Versus Card: Payment Discontinuities and the Burden of Holding Coins
Huynh Kim, Bank of Canada; Heng Chen, Bank of Canada; Oz Shy, Unaffiliated
3:10 PM

Semiparametric Regression Analysis of Length-Biased Interval-Censored Data
Fei Gao, University of Washington; Kwun Chuen Gary Chan, University of Washington
3:20 PM

Asymptotic Behavior of the Alpha-Risk Minimizing Portfolio in High-Dimensional Setting
Hiroyuki Taniai, Waseda University
3:20 PM

Semiparametric Regression Methods for Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data with Application to Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Studies
Lily Wang, Iowa State University; Jingru Mu, Iowa State University; Guannan Wang, College of William & Mary
3:25 PM

Network Regression and Inference
Peng Wang, University of Cincinnati; Xiaotong Shen, University of Minnesota
3:25 PM

Semiparametric Regression Methods for Temporal Processes Subject to Multiple Sources of Censoring
Douglas E. Schaubel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Tianyu Zhan, AbbVie Inc.
3:25 PM

Regression Analysis of Recurrent Event Data with Measurement Error
Yixin Ren, University of Maryland, College Park; Xin He, University of Maryland, College Park
3:35 PM

Outlier Robust Inference Using Probabilistically Linked Data
Nicola Salvati, University of Pisa; Suojin Wang, Texas A&M University; Enrico Fabrizi, Catholic University of Sacro Cuore; Raymond Chambers, University of Wollongong
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

Adjusting a Subject-Specific Timing of Event in Longitudinal Studies
Hyunkeun Cho, University of Iowa; Seonjin Kim, Miami University; Myunghee Lee, Weill Cornell Medical College
4:05 PM

Weak Signals in High-Dimension Regression: Detection, Estimation and Prediction
Yi Li
4:05 PM

Integrating Observational Data with Prior Knowledge: Wikipedia-Informed Priors for Predicting Health Outcomes
Martijn Jeroen Schuemie, Janssen R&D
4:30 PM

Dynamic Shrinkage Processes
Daniel R Kowal, Rice University; David Matteson, Cornell University; David Ruppert, Cornell University
4:45 PM

Time Series Analysis Based on Gini: a Test for Reversibility
Amit Shelef, Sapir Academic College; Edna Schechtman, Ben Gurion Univ
4:50 PM

A Comparison of Tests for Inflated Zeros for Poisson Regression Models
Yi Tang
4:50 PM

Integrated Reduced-Rank Models with Multiple Sets of Predictors
Gen Li, Columbia University; Kun Chen, University of Connecticut
4:55 PM

Practical Approaches to Performance Rankings
Alan Roshwalb, Ipsos; John Paul Vidmar, Ipsos Public Affairs; Robert Petrin, Ipsos Public Affairs
5:05 PM

Monday, 07/30/2018

Empirical Evaluation for Platt Scaling and Isotonic Regression
Weihua Shi, SAS Institute, Inc.

Graphing Effect Sizes or Regression Coefficients on a Probability Scale to Enhance Interpretation of Relative Magnitudes
Clark Andersen, UTMB

Covariate-Adjusted Tensor Classification in High-Dimensions
Yuqing Pan, Florida State University; Qing Mai, Florida State University; Xin Zhang, Florida State University

Multivariate Zero-Inflated Poisson Regression
Yang Wang, University of Alabama

Quantile Periodogram Under Long-Memory Process
Yaeji Lim

A "divide and Conquer" Approach to Estimating Optimal Penalty Parameter in Functional Tikhonov-Regularized Regression Model via Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation
Yichuan Wang, UC Davis; Wolfgang Polonik, University of California, Davis; Alexander Aue, University of California, Davis

Sparse Variable Selection in Kernel Discriminant Analysis via Optimal Scoring
Alexander Lapanowski, Texas A&M; Irina Gaynanova, Texas A&M Univeristy

Median Regression for Clustered, Interval Censored Data
Piyali Basak, Florida State University; STUART LIPSITZ, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL; Debajyoti Sinha, Florida State University

Different Methods and Comparisons Dealing with Censored Count Data
Xiao Yu, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houson; Lung-Chang Chien, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Kai Zhang, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houson

Honest Confidence Sets for High-Dimensional Linear Regression by Projection and Shrinkage
Kun Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles; Qing Zhou, UCLA

Bayesian Inference in High-Dimensional Linear Regression Using an Empirical Correlation-Adaptive Prior
Chang Liu, North Carolina State University; Yue Yang, North Carolina State University; Howard D Bondell, University of Melbourne; Ryan Martin, North Carolina State University

Structured Mixture of Linear Mappings in High Dimension
Chun-Chen Tu, University of Michigan; Florence Forbes, INRIA; Benjamin Lemasson, Universit ´e Grenoble; Naisyin Wang, U of Michigan

Bayesian Functional Quantile Regression
Yusha Liu, Rice University; Jeffrey S Morris, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Meng Li, Rice University

Bayesian Sparse Regression in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters
Seonghyun Jeong, North Carolina State University; Subhashis Ghoshal, North Carolina State Univeristy

Applying functional data analysis and clustering methods on weather forecast data in the U.S.
Yifan Wu, Simon Fraser University; Ying (Daisy) Yu, Simon Fraser University; Chuyuan (Cherlane) Lin, Simon Fraser University

A Theoretical Framework for Bayesian Nonparametric Regression: Orthonormal Random Series and Rates of Contraction
Fangzheng Xie, Johns Hopkins University; Wei Jin, Johns Hopkins University; Yanxun Xu, Johns Hopkins University

Comparison of Methods for Predicting High-Cost Patients Captured Within the Oncology Care Model (OCM): a Simulation Study
Jung-Yi Lin, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Wei Zhang, UALR; Mark Liu, Mount Sinai Health System; Mark Sanderson, Mount Sinai Health System; Luis Isola, Mount Sinai Health System; Madhu Mazumdar, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Liangyuan Hu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Developing and Evaluating Methods for Estimating Race/Ethnicity in an Incomplete Dataset Using Address, Surname and Family Race
Gabriella Christine Silva, Brown University; Roee Gutman, Brown University

Evaluating Quantile Estimation Methods for Setting Normal Values for Longitudinal Measures
Jeffrey Slezak, Kaiser Permanente; Steven J Jacobsen, Kaiser Permanente; Stephanie Reading, Kaiser Permanente

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

A Didactic Game to Understand Multicollinearity and Its Consequences in a Linear Regression Model
Luis Quiros Gomez, School of Statistics, University of Costa Rica; María José Solís Quirós, School of Statistics, University of Costa Rica; Noelia Rojas Ramírez, School of Statistics, University of Costa Rica

Semiparametric Regression for Measurement Error Model with Heteroscedastic Error
Mengyan Li; Yanyuan Ma, Penn State University; Runze Li, Penn State University

Estimation of Regression Function Using Shannon's Entropy
Yi Mao, University of California, Riverside; Aman Ullah, University of California, Riverside

Bayesian Cumulative Probability Models for Continuous Response Variables
Nathan Thomas James, Vanderbilt University; Frank Harrell, Vanderbilt University, Dept of Biostatistics; Bryan E Shepherd, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Bayesian Modular and Multiscale Regression
Michele Peruzzi; David B Dunson, Duke University

Effect of Longitudinal Intracranial Pressure on Ordinal Glasgow Outcome Scale Using a Joint Model Approach
Maria Laura Rubin, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Wenyaw Chan, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Jose-Miguel Yamal, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Claudia Sue Robertson, Baylor College of Medicine

Assessing Health Care Interventions via an Interrupted Time Series Model: Study Power and Design Considerations
Maricela Cruz, University of California, Irvine; Miriam Bender, University of California, Irvine; Daniel L. Gillen, University of California, Irvine; Hernando Ombao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Horizontal and Vertical Effects in a Logistic Regression Model
Diana Gonzalez, Arizona State University

Interrupted Time Series Analysis to Evaluate the Effect of a Multicenter Collaborative Effort to Improve Care for Adult Intensive Care Patients
Alai Tan, Ohio State University College of Nursing; Michele C. Balas, Ohio State University College of Nursing

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

Variational Analysis of Empirical Risk Minimization
Andrew B Nobel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Kevin McGoff, UNC Charlotte
8:35 AM

Individualized Treatment for Time-To-Event Outcomes with BART
Brent Logan, Medical College of Wisconsin
8:35 AM

Goodness of Fit Statistics Based on Quantile Periodogram for Time Series with Nonlinear Dynamic Volatility
Ta-Hsin Li, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
8:35 AM

A Direct Quantile Regression
Rachel Morris, Brock University; Mei Ling Huang, Brock University
8:50 AM

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

NCHS Guidelines for Analysis of Trends
Xianfen Li, National Center for Health Statistics/CDC; Deborah Ingram, National Center for Health Statistics/CDC
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

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

Learning from Dynamical Systems
Ingo Steinwart, University of Stuttgart
9:05 AM

Sensory Attributes That Highly Distinguish Products Do Not Necessarily Drive Consumer Liking of the Said Products
Jason Parcon, PepsiCo
9:05 AM

Comparison of Empirical Size and Power of Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Multiple Logistic Regression Model Under Varied Sample Size Conditions
Pengcheng Lu; Jonathan D Mahnken, University of Kansas Medical Center
9:05 AM

Assessing the Uncertainty Due to Chemicals Below the Detection Limit in Chemical Mixture Estimation
Paul Hargarten, VCU; David C. Wheeler, Virginia Commonwealth University
9:05 AM

A Hybrid Method for the Stratified Mark-Specific Proportional Hazards Models with Missing Data, with Applications to Dengue Vaccine Efficacy Trials
Yanqing Sun, University of North Carolina At Charlotte; Li Qi, Biostatistics and Programming, Sanofi; Peter Gilbert, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Fei Heng, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9:15 AM

Improving the Hosmer-Lemeshow Goodness-of-Fit Test
Nikola Surjanovic; Thomas Loughin, Simon Fraser University
9:20 AM

Evaluation of Nonresponse Adjustment Options on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
William Cecere, Westat; Minsun Riddles, Westat; Te-Ching Chen, National Center for Health Statistics
9:20 AM

Rank Score Test for Regional Quantiles Treatment Effect Detection
Yuan Sun, University of Michigan; Xuming He, University of Michigan
9:20 AM

Bayesian Regression Tree Ensembles That Adapt to Smoothness and Sparsity
Antonio Ricardo Linero, Florida State University; Yun Yang, Florida State University
9:25 AM

Conquering Massive Clinical Models with GPU Parallelized Logistic Regression
Yuxi Tian, UCLA; Trevor Shaddox, UCLA; Marc Suchard, UCLA
9:25 AM

Exponentiated Weibull-Geometric Regression Model
Felix Famoye, Central Michigan University
9:35 AM

Survival Analysis Applied to Agricultural Sciences
Jung Ae Lee, University of Arkansas Agriculture Statistics Laboratory
9:35 AM

Semiparametric Regression for Measurement Error Model with Heteroscedastic Error
Mengyan Li; Yanyuan Ma, Penn State University; Runze Li, Penn State University
9:35 AM

Estimation of Regression Function Using Shannon's Entropy
Yi Mao, University of California, Riverside; Aman Ullah, University of California, Riverside
9:40 AM

Estimating Propensity of Survey Response by Mode Type Using Regression Trees
Gavin Corral, USDA NASS; Tyler Wilson, USDA NASS
9:50 AM

Two-Phase Outcome-Dependent Sampling Design with Interval-Censored Failure Time Data
Qingning Zhou, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Jianwen Cai, University of North Carolina; Haibo Zhou, University of North Carolina
9:55 AM

Fully Bayesian Spectral Methods for Imaging Data
Brian Reich, North Carolina State University; Joseph Guinness, NC State University; Simon Vandekar, University of Pennsylvania; Russell T Shinohara, University of Pennsylvania; Ana-Maria Staicu, NC State University
10:35 AM

Fingerprinting Changes in Climate Extremes with Joint Modeling of Observations and Climate Model Simulation
Jun Yan, University of Connecticut; Yujing Jiang, Colorado State University; Zhuo Wang, Shenzhen University, China; Xuebin Zhang, Environment and Climate Change Canada
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

Joint Testing in High-Dimensional Instrumental Variables Regression with an Application to Genomics Data
Jiarui Lu, University of Pennsylvania; Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania
10:35 AM

Horizontal and Vertical Effects in a Logistic Regression Model
Diana Gonzalez, Arizona State University
10:50 AM

Bayesian Design of Experiments with Multiple Priors for Kaggle Competition Design
Kevin Randal Quinlan, The Pennsylvania State University; Christine M Anderson-Cook, Los Alamos National Laboratory
11:05 AM

The Hot Hand Theory in Hockey: a Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis
Likang Ding; Armann Ingolfsson, University of Alberta; Ivor Cribben, University of Alberta; Monica Tran, University of Alberta
11:15 AM

A Bernstein-Type Inequality for U-Statistics Under Mixing Conditions
Fang Han, University of Washington; Yandi Shen, University of Washington; Daniela Witten, University of Washington
11:35 AM

Infer the in Vivo Point of Departure with ToxCast in Vitro Assay Data Using a Robust Learning Approach
Dong Wang, FDA National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR)
11:35 AM

Model-Assisted Regression Tree Estimator in the Occupational Employment Statistics Survey
Daniell Toth, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Kelly McConville, Swarthmore College
11:35 AM

Bayesian Modular and Multiscale Regression
Michele Peruzzi; David B Dunson, Duke University
11:40 AM

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

Degree of Weak and Strong Links in Pickleball Doubles Games
Paramjit Gill, University of British Columbia Okanagan; Tim Swartz, Simon Fraser University
11:55 AM

Ensemble Estimation and Variable Selection with Semiparametric Regression Models
Sunyoung Shin, University of Texas at Dallas; Yufeng Liu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Stephen Cole, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jason P Fine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:55 AM

A Regression Model of Cumulative Incidence for Competing Risks Data with Time-Dependent Exposures
Xingyuan Li, University of Pittsburgh; Joyce Chung-Chou H Chang, University of Pittsburgh
12:05 PM

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

Complexity in Simple Regression Models with Binary Disease Outcome
Mei-Cheng Wang, Johns Hopkins University
2:05 PM

A Factor Augmented Vector Autoregressive Model Under High-Dimensional Scaling
George Michailidis, University of Florida; Jiahe Lin, University of Michigan
2:05 PM

Sparse-Input Neural Networks for High-Dimensional Nonparametric Regression and Classification
Jean Feng; Noah Simon, University of Washington
2:05 PM

A Classical Regression Framework for Mediation Analysis with Applications to Behavioral Science
Christina Saunders
2:05 PM

Extension of Bayesian Logistic Regression Model (BLRM) for Dose Timing Selection in Oncology Phase I Combination Studies
Yiyun Zhang, Novartis; Nigel Yateman, Novartis; Fang Xiang, Novartis; Lan Yi, Novartis; Kapildeb Sen, Novartis; Beat Neuenschwander, Novartis
2:05 PM

Determine Appropriate Sample Size for a Biomarker Signature Discovery Problem Using Penalized Regression
Xiang Li, Statistics and Decision Sciences, Janssen Research & Development, LLC; Hong Tian, Janssen Pharmaceutical; Liang Xiu, Janssen Research & Development, LLC
2:20 PM

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

Sparse Functional Additive Models
Peijun Sang, Simon Fraser University; Liangliang Wang, Simon Fraser University; Jiguo Cao, Simon Fraser University
2:20 PM

Exact Inference in Functional Regression: Estimating Hydrological Controls on Ecosystem Dynamics in an Antarctic Lake
Radu Herbei, The Ohio State University; Corey J. Smith, The Ohio State University
2:25 PM

Valid Inference Corrected for Outlier Removal
Shuxiao Chen, Cornell Univ; Jacob Bien, University of Southern California
2:25 PM

Determinantal Point Process Mixtures via Spectral Density Approach
Fernando Quintana, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile; Alessandra Guglielmi, Politecnico de Milano; Ilaria Bianchini, Politecnico de Milano
2:25 PM

A Default Prior for the Intercept Parameter in Logistic Regression
Philip Boonstra, University of Michigan; Ananda Sen, University of Michigan
2:25 PM

Regression Analysis of Mixed Recurrent Event and Panel Count Data
(Tony) Jianguo Sun, University of Missouri
2:30 PM

A Bayesian Multilevel Dirichlet Regression Model for Adolescent Activity Pattern Data
Kori Khan, Ohio State; Catherine Calder, The Ohio State University; Anna Smith, Columbia University; Christopher Browning, The Ohio State University
2:35 PM

Greedy Active Learning Algorithm for Logistic Regression Models
Ray-Bing Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; Hsiang-Ling Hsu, National University of Kaohsiung; Yuan-Chin Ivan Chang, Academia Sinica
2:35 PM

Prediction on Network-Linked Data by Matrix Variate Models
Xuefei Zhang, University of Michigan; Ji Zhu, University of Michigan
2:35 PM

Bayesian Regression with Undirected Network Predictors with an Application to Brain Connectome Data
Sharmistha Guha, UC Santa Cruz; Abel Rodriguez, UC Santa Cruz
2:45 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

Strategies for Minimizing Unequal Weighting Effects in Two-Phase Sampling for Nonresponse
Dan Liao, RTI International; Paul Biemer, RTI Internatinoal; Darryl Cooney, RTI International
2:50 PM

A Cluster Elastic Net for Multivariate Regression
Ben Sherwood, University of Kansas; Bradley S Price, West Virginia University
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

Goodness-of-Fit Tests in Proportional Hazards Models with Random Effects
Ingrid Van Keilegom, KU Leuven; Wenceslao Gonzalez Manteiga, University of Santiago de Compostela; Maria Dolores Martinez Miranda, University of Granada
2:55 PM

Constructing Independent Evidence from Regression and Instrumental Variables with an Application to the Effect of Violent Conflict on Altruism and Risk Preference
Bikram Karmakar, University of Pennsylvania; Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania
3:05 PM

Manifold Data Analysis with Applications to High-Resolution 3D Imaging
Matthew Reimherr, Pennsylvania State University
3:05 PM

Statistical Approaches for Assessing the Utility of Urinary Glycosaminoglycans as a Surrogate Endpoint in Clinical Trials
Di Xiao, The Food and Drug Adminstration; Yeh-Fong Chen, US FDA; Min Min, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, CDER/OTS/OB
3:05 PM

A Bilinear Regression Approach to Inform Variable Selection by Continuous Functional Annotation Information
Pixu Shi; Sunduz Keles, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ming Yuan, Columbia University
3:05 PM

Linear Regression Models with Ordered Categorical Covariates
Julia (Kelsall) Crook, Mayo Clinic
3:35 PM

Tuesday, 07/31/2018

Analyzing Longitudinal Clustered Count Data with Zero Inflation: Marginal Regression Modeling with Conway-Maxwell-Poisson Distribution
Tong Kang, University of Florida; Somnath Datta, University of Florida; Steven Levy, University of Iowa

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

An Improved Inference Method for Multivariate Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression
Hisashi Noma, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Predicting Invasive Species Richness with Boosted Regression Trees
Namaluba Malawo, Purdue University; Gabriela Nunez, Purdue University; Songlin Fei, Purdue University

Bayesian Function Data Analysis for Weather Forecast
Duchwan Ryu, Northern Illinois University; Hao Shen, Northern Illinois University

The Pythagorean Law of Mutual Information Identity: A New Look at Logistic Regression Parameters
Michelle Liou, Academia Sinica; Jiun-Wei Liou, Academia Sinica; Philip E. Cheng, Academia Sinica

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

VIF-BEEF: A Didactic Game to Practice the Assumptions in Linear Regression
Silvia Solera, School of Statistics, University of Costa Rica; Monica Maria Castrillo, UCR

Using Synthetic Data to Incorporate External Information into Regression Model Estimation
Tian Gu, University of Michigan; Jeremy M.G. Taylor, University of Michigan; Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan; Wenting Cheng, University of Michigan

Detective-P: Educational Computer Game for Teaching the Concept of P-Value
Maria Jimena Ruiz Rivera, School of Statistics, University of Costa Rica

Analysis of Crashes at Intersections Involving Pedestrians and Bicyclists
Peter Hovey, University of Dayton; Deogratias W. Eustace, University Of Dayton; Abdulaziz W. Alshehri, University Of Dayton

Online Local Q-Learning
Lili Wu, NCSU; Eric Laber, North Carlina State University

SuperLearning and Tree-Regression for Developing Treatment Rules That Optimize Health Outcomes
Andre Kurepa Waschka, University of California, Berkeley

Variable Selection May Be Overrated
Tristan Grogan, UCLA; David Elashoff, UCLA

Bayesian Estimation with Shrinking Both Means and Variances in Heteroscedastic Nested Error Regression Models
Hiromasa Tamae

On Mediation Analysis in Public Health Using the Complex Survey Data
Julia Soulakova, University of Central Florida; Monsur Chowdhury, University of Central Florida; Thanh Pham, University of Central Florida

Quantile Regression Analysis of Survey Data Under Informative Sampling
Daniel Zhao, OU Health Sciences Center; Sixia Chen, University of Oklahoma

A Direct Approach to High-Dimensional Error-In-Variables Regression
Yunan Wu, University of Minnesota; Lan Wang, University of Minnesota

Improving a Predictive Model of Student Progress in an Online Course by Adding Learned Features from Unstructured Text Data
Huafeng Zhang, The Refugee Center Online

Classification via Product Conditional Density Estimates: Blending LDA and QDA
Jiae Kim; Steve MacEachern, The Ohio State University

Comparison of Missing Data Methods in the Use of LASSO Regression for Model Selection with Applications to the National Trauma Data Bank
Sarah B Peskoe, Duke University; Tracy Truong, Duke University; Lily R Mundy, Duke University School of Medicine; Ronnie L Shammas, Duke University School of Medicine; Scott T Hollenbeck, Duke University School of Medicine

Using Logistical Regression to Build a Better Diathesis Model of Dupuytren's Contracture Recurrence
Brian Cohen, ACI Clinical

Supervised Dimension Reduction for Large-Scale Genomic Data with Censored Survival Outcomes Under Possible Non-Proportional Hazards
Lauren Spirko, Temple University; Karthik Devarajan, Fox Chase Cancer Center

Rao-Blackwellizing Field Goal Percentage in the NBA
Daniel Daly-Grafstein, Simon Fraser University; Luke Bornn, Sacramento Kings and Simon Fraser University

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 Modified Approach to Component-Wise Gradient Boosting for High-Dimensional Regression Models
Brandon Butcher, University of Iowa; Brian J. Smith, University of Iowa

Logistic Regression with a Right-Skewed Exposure Variable Measured in Pools and Subject to Errors
Dane R Van Domelen, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Emily M Mitchell, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Enrique F Schisterman, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Neil Perkins, DIPHR/NICHD/NIH; Robert Lyles, Emory University

Predicting the Count of Tropical Storms with Bayesian Model Averaging
Joyee Ghosh, University of Iowa
8:50 AM

Using Statistical Approaches to Stratify Hospital-Readmission Risk After Hip Fracture
Qingqing Dai, Oklahoma State University; Zhuqi Miao, Oklahoma State University; Lan Zhu, Oklahoma State University
8:50 AM

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

Finding Hotspots
Sucharita Ghosh, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
8:55 AM

Multilevel Regression and Poststratification (MRP) for Small Area Estimation with Geocoded FoodAPS Data
Xingyou Zhang, Economic Research Service, USDA; Mark Denbaly, Economic Research Service, USDA; John Kirlin, Economic Research Service, USDA; Elina T. Page, Economic Research Service, USDA; Elizabeth Larimore, Economic Research Service, USDA; Shelly Ver Ploeg, Economic Research Service, USDA
8:55 AM

On the Use of Raking to Improve Regression Calibration: A Flexible Method to Address Error-Induced Bias Efficiently
Eric Oh, University of Pennsylvania; Pamela A Shaw, University of Pennsylvania
9:00 AM

Identifying Individual Risk Rare Variants Using Structure-Guided Local Tests
Rachel Marceau, North Carolina State University; Wenbin Lu, North Carolina State University; Daniel Rotroff, North Carolina State University; Michael Wagner, UNC Chapel Hill; John Buse, UNC Chapel Hill; Jung-Ying Tzeng, North Carolina State University; Melaine Kuenemann, North Carolina State University; Denis Fourches, North Carolina State University; Alison Motsinger-Reif, North Carolina State University
9:05 AM

Evaluating Equity Using Linear Quantile Mixed Effects Models
Kameryn Denaro, UC Irvine Teaching and Learning Research Center
9:05 AM

Distributional Trees and Forests
Lisa Schlosser, University of Innsbruck; Torsten Hothorn, University of Zurich; Reto Stauffer, University of Innsbruck; Achim Zeileis, University of Innsbruck
9:15 AM

Functional Analysis of Spatial Aggregation Regions of Jeffrey Pine Beetle-Attack Within the Lake Tahoe Basin
Ekaterina Smirnova, University of Montana; Omid Khormali, University of Montana; Joel M Egan, Forest Health Protection
9:20 AM

Functional Regression Models with Highly Irregular Designs
Justin Petrovich, Pennsylvania State University; Matthew Reimherr, Pennsylvania State University; Carrie Daymont, Penn State Hershey Medical Center
9:20 AM

Using Survival Analysis to Address Attrition and Vacancy Rates at the Food Safety and Inspection Service
Sarah McMillan, Food Safety and Inspection Service / USDA; Anna Frey, Food Safety and Inspection Service / USDA
9:20 AM

New Dimension Reduction Methods for Combining Longitudinally Measured Biomarkers
Ruth Pfeiffer , National Cancer Institute; Wei Wang , George Washington University ; Efstathia Bura , Vienna University of Technology
9:35 AM

Robust Group LASSO Methods
Kristin Lilly, Columbus State University; Nedret Billor, Auburn University
9:35 AM

Bayesian Regression for High-Dimensional Data Using a Prior on the Model Fit
Howard D Bondell, University of Melbourne
9:35 AM

Further Comparisons of Unit- and Area-Level Small Area Estimators
Robert Fay, Westat
9:35 AM

Recent Developments in Modeling Nonlinear Relationships in the Presence of Measurement Error
Ruth Keogh, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Christen Gray, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
9:50 AM

Robust Depth-Based Estimation of the Functional Autoregressive Model
Israel Martinez Hernandez, KAUST; Marc G Genton, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Graciela Gonzalez Farias, CIMAT
9:50 AM

Regression Splines and Multi-Group Propensity Score Weighting for the Study of Surgical Volume-Outcome Relationships
Jennifer Cooper, Nationwide Children's Hospital
9:55 AM

Recursive Non-Parametric Predictive for a Discrete Regression Model
Lorenzo Cappello; Stephen Walker
9:55 AM

Informative Grouping for Regression
Juexin Lin, University of South Carolina; Dewei Wang, University of South Carolina
10:05 AM

Sparse Functional Principal Component Analysis in a New Regression Framework
Yunlong Nie, Simon Fraser University; Jiguo Cao, Simon Fraser University
10:05 AM

The Relationship Between Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity and Metabolic Syndrome: a Bayesian Measurement Error Approach
Daniel Ries, Sandia National Laboratories; Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State University
10:35 AM

Semiparametric Trend Analysis for Recurrent Event Data Under Weak Comparability
Peng Liu, University of Alberta; Yijian Huang, Emory University; Kwun Chuen Gary Chan, University of Washington; Ying Qing CHEN, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
10:35 AM

Rao-Blackwellizing Field Goal Percentage in the NBA
Daniel Daly-Grafstein, Simon Fraser University; Luke Bornn, Sacramento Kings and Simon Fraser University
10:50 AM

On 'Reverse' Regression for Testing Association and Allele Frequency Estimation in Complex Pedigree
Lin Zhang, University of Toronto; Lei Sun, University of Toronto
10:50 AM

Outlier Detection in Dynamic Functional Models
Andrada E Ivanescu, Montclair State University; William Checkley, Johns Hopkins University; Ciprian Crainiceanu, Johns Hopkins University
10:55 AM

Using Logistical Regression to Build a Better Diathesis Model of Dupuytren's Contracture Recurrence
Brian Cohen, ACI Clinical
10:55 AM

Improving a Predictive Model of Student Progress in an Online Course by Adding Learned Features from Unstructured Text Data
Huafeng Zhang, The Refugee Center Online
11:05 AM

Efficiency Comparisons of Selective Editing Methods
Chin-Fang Weng, U.S. Census Bureau; Joanna Fane Lineback, U.S. Census Bureau
11:05 AM

Classification via Product Conditional Density Estimates: Blending LDA and QDA
Jiae Kim; Steve MacEachern, The Ohio State University
11:10 AM

Supervised Principal Component Regression for Functional Data with High-Dimensional Predictors
Xinyi Zhang, University of California, Berkeley; Dehan Kong, University of Toronto; Qiang Sun, University of Toronto
11:15 AM

Functional Graphical Models for Analyzing Interactions Between Animals
Jan Gertheiss, Clausthal University of Technology
11:15 AM

Distance-Based Analysis with Quantile Regression Models
Shaoyu Li, University of North Carolina Charlotte; Yanqing Sun, University of North Carolina At Charlotte
11:20 AM

Quantile Regression Analysis of Survey Data Under Informative Sampling
Daniel Zhao, OU Health Sciences Center; Sixia Chen, University of Oklahoma
11:30 AM

Optimal Estimation in Functional ANOVA Models with Derivatives
Xiaowu Dai, University of Wisconsin Madison; Peter Chien, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:35 AM

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

Inconsistent Regression and Nonresponse Bias
Peter Lundquist, Statistics Sweden; Carl-Erik Särndal, Statistics Sweden
11:35 AM

Conditional Quantile Inference with Zero-Inflated Outcomes
Wodan Ling, Columbia University; Ying Wei, Columbia University; Bin Cheng, Columbia University; Ken Cheung, Columbia University
11:35 AM

A Direct Approach to High-Dimensional Error-In-Variables Regression
Yunan Wu, University of Minnesota; Lan Wang, University of Minnesota
11:40 AM

A Modified Approach to Component-Wise Gradient Boosting for High-Dimensional Regression Models
Brandon Butcher, University of Iowa; Brian J. Smith, University of Iowa
11:45 AM

Restricted Mean Survival Time as a Function of Restriction Time
Yingchao Zhong, University of Michigan; Douglas E. Schaubel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
11:50 AM

Structure and Sensitivity in Differential Privacy: Comparing K-Norm Mechanisms
Jordan Alexander Awan, Pennsylvania State University; Aleksandra Slavkovic, Pennsylvania State University
11:50 AM

Bayesian Inference for the Relationship Between Two Categorical Variables with Covariates for Clustered Data
Dilli Bhatta, University of South Carolina Upstate
11:55 AM

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

The Role of Body Mass Index at Diagnosis on Black-White Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Survival: a Density Regression Mediation Approach
Katrina Devick, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Linda Valeri, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Jarvis Chen, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Alejandro Jara, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Marie-Abele Bind, Harvard University; Brent A. Coull, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
2:05 PM

Optimal Regression Designs Under the Second-Order Least Squares Estimator
Julie Zhou, University of Victoria; Chi-Kuang Yeh, University of Victoria
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

Multivariate Calibration with Robust Signal Regression
Bin Li, Louisiana State University ; Brian D. Marx, Louisiana State University; David C Weindorf, Texas Tech University; Somsubhra Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
2:20 PM

Predicting the PITCHf/X Pitch Classifier
Christian Stratton, Montana State University; Andrew Hoegh, Montana State University; Jennifer L Green, Montana State University
2:20 PM

Large Numbers of Explanatory Variables
Heather Battey, Imperial College London; David Cox, Nuffield College
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

A Statistical Comparison of Call Volume Uniformity Due to Mailing Strategy
Andrew Raim, U.S. Census Bureau; Elizabeth Nichols, U.S. Census Bureau; Thomas Mathew, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
2:35 PM

Interval Estimation for the Slope Difference in a Normal Mixture Regression Model
Shin-Fu Tsai, National Taiwan University
2:35 PM

Constrained Regression via Majorization-Minimization
Jason Xu, UCLA; Kenneth Lange, UCLA
2:35 PM

Implicit Copulas from Bayesian Regularized Regression Smoothers
Nadja Klein, University of Melbourne; Michael Stanley Smith, University of Melbourne
2:45 PM

Simulation-Selection-Extrapolation Estimator for High-Dimensional Errors-In-Variables Models
Linh Nghiem, Southern Methodist University; Cornelis Potgieter, Southern Methodist University
2:50 PM

Fully Bayesian Analysis of Hierarchical Count Regression Models
Jarad Niemi, Iowa State University; William Landau, Eli Lilly and Company; Dan Nettleton, Iowa State University
2:50 PM

Regression Based Circular Error Probable: An Application to Ballistic Systems
Zachary Zimmer; Casey Turner, ATEC
3:05 PM

MASES: a Nonparametric Dimension Reduction Approach
Hui Zou, University of Minnesota; Qing Mai, Florida State University; Xin Zhang, Florida State University
3:20 PM

Linking Whole Body Sweat Measurements with Regional Body Sweat Measurements Using Multivariate Mapping Techniques
Peter John De Chavez, PepsiCo; Kelly Barnes, Gatorade Sports Science Institute, PepsiCo; Lindsay Baker, Gatorade Sports Science Institute, PepsiCo; Jason Parcon, PepsiCo
3:20 PM

Hyperplane Estimation in High Dimensions
Zhiyuan Lu, University of Michigan
3:20 PM

Wednesday, 08/01/2018

Decomposing Pearson's Chi-Squared Test: a Linear Regression and Departure from Linearity
Hung-Chih Ku, DePaul University; Zhengyang Zhou, Southern Methodist University; Chao Xing, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Robust Kernel Association Test (RobKAT)
Kara Martinez, North Carolina State University

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

Longitudinal Regression Trees: An Application to Environmental Exposure and Growth
Brianna Heggeseth, Macalester College; Anna Neufeld, Williams College

Bayesian Spatial Quantile Regression for Areal Count Data, with Application on Substitute Care Placements in Texas
Clay King, Colorado Mesa University; Joon Jin Song, Baylor University

One Direction? On the Modeling of Circular Data Using Projected Normal Distributions
Jolien Cremers, Utrecht University; Irene Klugkist, Utrecht University

Variable Selection and Cluster Identification Using Mixture of Regression Trees
Emanuele Mazzola, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Mahlet Tadesse, Georgetown University; Giovanni Parmigiani , Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

A Weighted Kernel Machine Regression Approach to Environmental Pollutants and Infertility
Zhen Chen, NICHD/NIH; Wei Zhang, BBB/DIPHR/NICHD; Aiyi Liu, BBB/DIPHR/NICHD; Germaine Buck Louis, George Mason University

Dirichlet Process Clustering for the Prediction of Housing Prices
Matt Slifko, Virginia Tech; Scotland Leman, Virginia Tech; David Bieri, Virginia Tech

Estimation of Peak Expiratory Flow Under Stochastic Differential Equations
Shan Yang, Merck & Co 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

Exposure-Response Analysis with Random Forest
Zifang Guo, Merck; Thomas Jemielita, Merck & Co.; John Kang, Merck

Bayesian High-Dimensional Multi-Outcome Regression with Tree-Structured Shrinkage
Emma Grace Thomas, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Francesca Dominici, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Giovanni Parmigiani , Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Lorenzo Trippa, Harvard

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

Statistical Inference for Big Data via Optimal Subsampling
HaiYing Wang, University of Connecticut
8:35 AM

Estimating Time-to-Event Characteristics via Longitudinal Threshold Regression Models - an Application to Cervical Dilation Progression
Caroline Mulatya, Emmes; Alexander C McLain , University of South Carolina; Bo Cai, University of South Carolina; James Hardin, University of South Carolina; Paul S Albert, National Cancer Institute
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

Convergence Complexity Analysis of Albert and Chib's Algorithm
Qian Qin, University of Florida; James P. Hobert, University of Florida
8:35 AM

Model Compatible Multiple Imputation Method for Minimizing the Impact of Covariate Detection Limit in Logistic Regression
Shahadut Hossain, UAE University
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

Imputed Factor Regression for High-Dimensional Block-Wise Missing Data
Yanqing Zhang, Yunnan University; Niansheng Tang, Yunnan University; Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
8:50 AM

Component-wise Discrete Asymmetric AdaBoost for High-dimensional Binary Quantile Regression
Tae-Hwy Lee, Univ of California, Riverside; Jianghao Chu, University of California, Riverside; Aman Ullah, University of California, Riverside
8:50 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

Dirichlet Process Clustering for the Prediction of Housing Prices
Matt Slifko, Virginia Tech; Scotland Leman, Virginia Tech; David Bieri, Virginia Tech
8:50 AM

MCMC for High-Dimensional Bayesian Regression
Dootika Vats
8:55 AM

Bayesian Semiparametric Threshold Regression
Jonathan Race; Michael Pennell, Ohio State University
8:55 AM

ScImpute: Accurate and Robust Imputation for Single Cell RNA-Seq Data
Jingyi Li, University of California, Los Angeles; Wei Li, University of California, Los Angeles
8:55 AM

Concomitant Regression Models for Microbiome Data
Christian Mueller, Flatiron Institute; Aditya Mishra, Flatiron Institute; Patrick Combettes, North Carolina State University
8:55 AM

Longitudinal Regression Trees: An Application to Environmental Exposure and Growth
Brianna Heggeseth, Macalester College; Anna Neufeld, Williams College
9:05 AM

Mixtures of Poisson Regressions with Measurement Errors
Xiaoqiong Fang; Derek S. Young, University of Kentucky
9:05 AM

Factor Selection and Level Grouping with Applications to Golden Path Determination
Nan-Jung Hsu, National Tsing Hua University
9:05 AM

Bayesian Spatial Quantile Regression for Areal Count Data, with Application on Substitute Care Placements in Texas
Clay King, Colorado Mesa University; Joon Jin Song, Baylor University
9:10 AM

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

Distribution-Free Inference Methods for Threshold Regression
Mei-Ling Ting Lee, University of Maryland; George A Whitmore, McGill University
9:15 AM

Quantile Regression for AB Testing
Luke Smith, Amazon
9:20 AM

Complex Interaction Modeling with Liquid Association
Ker-Chau Li, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica
9:25 AM

Longitudinal Dynamic Functional Regression: Modeling and Inference
Md Islam, North Carolina State University; Ana-Maria Staicu, NC State University; Eric van Heugten, North Carolina State University
9:25 AM

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

Compositional Knockoff Filter for FDR Control in Microbiome Regression Analysis
Arun Srinivasan, Pennsylvania State Univ; Lingzhou Xue, Penn State University and National Institute of Statistical Sciences; Xiang Zhan, Pennsylvania State University
9:35 AM

Censored Threshold Regression with Diverging Number of Covariates
Takumi Saegusa, University of Maryland; Mei-Ling Ting Lee, University of Maryland
9:35 AM

Estimation of Peak Expiratory Flow Under Stochastic Differential Equations
Shan Yang, Merck & Co Inc
9:35 AM

Bayesian Regression Models for Big Spatially or Longitudinally Correlated Functional Data
Jeffrey S Morris, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Lin Zhang, University of Minnesota; Hongxiao Zhu, Virginia Tech University; Veera Baladandayuthapani, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center; Hojin Yang, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Wonyul Lee, Food and Drug Administration; Michelle Miranda, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Philip Rausch, Humboldt University
9:50 AM

RCRnorm: An Integrated System of Random-Coefficient Hierarchical Regression Models for Normalizing NanoString NCounter Data from FFPE Samples
Gaoxiang Jia, Southern Methodist University; Guanghua Xiao, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Xinlei (Sherry) Wang, Southern Methodist University
9:50 AM

Genome-Wide Gaussian Process Regression for Survival Time Prediction
Aaron J. Molstad, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Wei Sun, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Li Hsu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
9:50 AM

Statistical Analysis of Housing Prices in Georgia
Mitra Devkota
9:50 AM

One Direction? On the Modeling of Circular Data Using Projected Normal Distributions
Jolien Cremers, Utrecht University; Irene Klugkist, Utrecht University
9:55 AM

Exposure-Response Analysis with Random Forest
Zifang Guo, Merck; Thomas Jemielita, Merck & Co.; John Kang, Merck
10:00 AM

Two-Sample Tests for High-Dimensional Linear Regression with an Application to Detecting Interactions
Tianxi Cai, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Yin Xia, Fudan University; Tianwen Cai, University of Pennsylvania
10:35 AM

Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Data
Kosuke Imai, Princeton University; Erik Wang, Princeton University; In Song Kim, MIT
10:35 AM

Semiparametric Mixture Regression Under a Symmetric Unimodal Error Distribution
Linden Yuan, University of Maryland
10:35 AM

A Bayesian Spatial-Temporal Model with Latent Multivariate Log-Gamma Random Processes with Application to Earthquake Magnitudes
Guanyu Hu, University of Connecticut; Jonathan R Bradley, Florida State University
10:35 AM

Regression Trees and Ensemble Methods for Multivariate Outcomes
Evan Reynolds, University of Michigan; Mousumi Banerjee, University of Michigan
10:35 AM

Calibrating Big Data for Population Inference: Applying Quasi-Randomization Approach to Naturalistic Driving Data Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees
Ali Rafei, University of Michigan; Michael Elliott, University of Michigan; Carol A.C. Flannagan, University of Michigan, Transport Research Institute
10:35 AM

Direction Dependence Modeling: a Diagnostic Framework to Test the Causal Direction of Effects in Linear Models
Wolfgang Wiedermann, University of Missouri; Xintong Li, University of Missouri
10:35 AM

Approximate Pointwise Tolerance Intervals for Semiparametric Regression Models
Kedai Cheng, University of Kentucky; Derek S. Young, University of Kentucky
10:50 AM

Matching Using Sufficient Dimension Reduction for Causal Inference
Yeying Zhu, University of Waterloo; Wei Luo, Baruch College
10:55 AM

Analysis of Asymmetric Dependence in Contingency Tables: Subcopula-Based Regression Approach
Daeyoung Kim, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Zheng Wei, University of Maine
10:55 AM

Functional Variable Selection for a Low-Dimensional Robotic Hand Prosthetic
Jonathan Stallings, North Carolina State University; Ana-Maria Staicu, NC State University; Md Islam, North Carolina State University; Helen Huang, UNC Chapel Hill/North Carolina State University; Lizhi Pan, UNC Chapel Hill/NC State University; Dustin Crouch, University of Tennessee
11:05 AM

High-Dimensional Regression for Microbiome Compositional Data
Xiaohan Yan, Cornell University; Jacob Bien, University of Southern California; Christian Mueller, Flatiron Institute
11:05 AM

Sparse Model Identification and Learning for Ultra-High-Dimensional Additive Partially Linear Models
Xinyi Li; Lily Wang, Iowa State University; Dan Nettleton, Iowa State University
11:05 AM

A Robust and Efficient Approach to Causal Inference Based on Sparse Sufficient Dimension Reduction
Shujie Ma, UC Riverside-Dept of Statistics
11:15 AM

On Multivariate Asymmetric Dependence Using Multivariate Skew-Normal Copula-Based Regression
Zheng Wei, University of Maine
11:15 AM

Comparison of Support Vector Machine and Conformal Inference of in Regression Prediction
Kao-Tai Tsai, Celgene
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

Transformed Dynamic Quantile Regression on Censored Data
Tony Sit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Gongjun Xu, University of Michigan; Chi Wing George Chu, Columbia University
11:20 AM

The GUIDE Approach to Missing Data
Wei-Yin Loh, University of Wisconsin
11:35 AM

Group Sequential Tests of Treatment Effect on Survival and Cumulative Incidence at a Fixed Time Point
Michael Martens, The Emmes Corporation; Brent Logan, Medical College of Wisconsin
11:35 AM

Conditional Quantile Regression Tree/Random Forest
Huichen Zhu; Ying Wei, Columbia University
11:35 AM

Correct Model Selection in Big Data Analyzes
Katherine Thompson, University of Kentucky
11:50 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

Time-Variant Nonparametric Quantile Estimation: One-Step Vs Two-Step Methods
Mohammed Chowdhury, Kennesaw State University
2:05 PM

Forecasting Consumer Interests from Search Query Data Using Large-Scale, Semiparametric Probabilistic Prediction Algorithms
Georg Goerg
2:05 PM

Improved Robust Estimation of the Residual Scale in High-Dimensional Problems with the Adaptive Elastic Net S-Estimator for Efficient Robust Penalized Linear Regression Methods
David Kepplinger, University of British Columbia; Ezequiel Smucler, University of British Columbia; Gabriela V. Cohen Freue, University of British Columbia
2:05 PM

T-Optimal Design for Multivariate Polynomial Regression Using Semidefinite Programming
Yuguang Yue, The University of Texas At Austin; Weng Kee Wong, UCLA; Lieven Vandenberghe, University of California, Los Angeles
2:05 PM

Average Extreme Regression Quantile and Its Two-Step Version
Jana Jureckova, Charles University
2:20 PM

Finite Sample Inference for Multiply Imputed Synthetic Data Under a Multiple Linear Regression Model
Martin Klein, U.S. Census Bureau
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

Achieving Regulatory Approvals Without a Randomized Control Study in Rare Infectious Disease
Masanori Ito, Astellas Pharma; Misun Yu Lee, Astellas Pharma
2:30 PM

Extreme Inference of Nonparametric Quantile Regression with Heavy Tailed Data
Takuma Yoshida
2:35 PM

Bias Reduction in Logistic Regression with Missing Responses When the Missing-Data Mechanism Is Non-Ignorable
Vivek Pradhan
2:35 PM

Variable Selection in Quantile Varying Coefficient Models with Heteroscedastic Error
Mohammed Abdulkerim Ibrahim, Hasselt University; Anneleen Verhasselt, Hasselt University
2:50 PM

Solar Panel Lamination with Extreme Value Regression Model
Chih-Chun Tsai, Tamkang University
2:50 PM

The Predictive Risk of Misspecified Quantile Regression
Alexander Giessing, University of Michigan; Xuming He, University of Michigan
2:50 PM

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

A Functional Dependence Measure for Large Curve Time Series with an Application to Autoregressions
Xinghao Qiao, LSE; Shaojun Guo, Renmin University of China
3:05 PM

New Computational Methods for Non/Semiparametric Quantile Regression Models
Bo Kai, College of Charleston; Mian Huang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; Weixin Yao, University of California, Riverside; Yuexiao Dong, Temple University
3:20 PM

Thursday, 08/02/2018

Bayesian Variable Selection in Multivariate Nonlinear Regression with Graph Structures
Yabo Niu, Texas A&M University; Nilabja Guha, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Debkumar De, Texas A&M University; Anindya Bhadra, Purdue University; Veera Baladandayuthapani, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center; Bani K. Mallick, Texas A&M University
8:35 AM

Gaussian Process Selections in Semiparametric Regression for Multi-Pathway Analysis
Jiali Lin, Virginia Tech; Inyoung Kim, Virginia Tech
8:50 AM

Inverse Regression for Multivariate Functional Data
Ci-Ren Jiang, Academia Sinica; Lu-Hung Chen, National Chung-Hsing University
8:55 AM

A Bayesian Semiparametric Regression Model for Joint Analysis of Microbiome Data
Juhee Lee, UC Santa Cruz; Marilou Sison-Mangus, Unversity of California, Santa Cruz
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

Adjusting for Handling Effects in Microarray Data for Prognostic Biomarker Discovery and Survival Risk Prediction
Ai Ni, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Mengling Liu, New York University; Li-Xuan Qin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
9:05 AM

Emulating Satellite Drag from Large Simulation Experiments
Furong Sun, Virginia Tech; Robert Gramacy, Virginia Tech; Benjamin Haaland, Population Health Sciences, University of Utah; Earl Christopher Lawrence, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Andrew Walker, Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos National Laboratory
9:05 AM

Regional Air Quality Assessment That Adjusts for Meterological Confounding
Shuyi Zhang, Peking University; Song Xi Chen, Peking University; Bin Guo, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics; Wei Lin, Peking University; Hengfang Wang, Iowa State University
9:20 AM

A Flexible Zero-Inflated Regression Model
Eric Roemmele; Derek S. Young, University of Kentucky
9:20 AM

Quantile Regression Application in Cost Analysis of Peripheral Artery Intervention in U.S. Healthcare Setting
Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Shirling Tsai, Dallas VA Medical Center; Bala Ramanan, Dallas VA Medical Center; Abigail Wheeler, R Gare; Houman Khalili, Dallas VA Medical Center; Subhash Banerjee, Dallas VA Medical Center; Ishita Tejani, UT Southwestern Medical Center
9:35 AM

Global Mean-Field Variational Bayes for Density Regression
Tommaso Rigon, Bocconi University; Daniele Durante, Bocconi University
9:55 AM

A Simulation-Based Approach to Refining Estimates of Sampling Variability for the Planning Database's Low Response Score
Luke J Larsen, U.S. Census Bureau
10:05 AM

A New Approach to Censored Quantile Regression Estimation
Naveen Naidu Narisetty, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
10:35 AM

Information-Based Subdata Selection for LASSO Regression
Min Yang, University of Illinois at Chicago; Xin Wang, University of Illinois at Chicago
10:35 AM

Pairwise Accelerated Failure Time Models for Infectious Disease Transmission Within and Between Households
Yushuf Sharker, Yale University; Eben Kenah, The Ohio State University School of Public Health
10:35 AM

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

Spatial Cluster Detection of Regression Coefficients in a Mixed Effect Model
Junho Lee, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Ying Sun, KAUST; Howard Chang, Emory University
10:35 AM

Three Little Models and the Big Bad Data: a Three-Model Approach to Causal Analysis with Observational Clinical Data
Kayla Nowak, RTI International; Tracy Nolen, RTI International
10:50 AM

Bayesian Logistic Regression Model for Sub-Areas
Lu Chen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Balgobin Nandram, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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

Bayesian Network Meta-Regression Models Using Heavy-Tailed Multivariate Random Effects with Covariate-Dependent Variances
Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut; Hao Li, University of Connecticut; Joseph G Ibrahim, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Sung Duk Kim, National Cancer Institute; Arvind K. Shah, MRL, Merck & Co., Inc.; Jianxin Lin, MRL, Merck & Co., Inc.; Andrew M. Tershakovec, MRL, Merck & Co., Inc.
11:15 AM

"Robust-Squared" Imputation Models Using BART
Yaoyuan Tan, University of Michigan; Carol A.C. Flannagan, University of Michigan, Transport Research Institute; Michael Elliott, University of Michigan
11:20 AM

Subsampling for Feature Selection in Large Regression Data
Yiying Fan, Cleveland State University
11:20 AM

Penalized Local Polynomial Regression for Spatial Data
Wu Wang, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Ying Sun, KAUST
11:20 AM

Trajectory Quantile Regression for Longitudinal Data
Huijuan Ma, Emory University; Limin Peng, Emory University; Haoda Fu, Eli Lilly and Company
11:25 AM

Bayesian Reversible-Jump Sequential Variable Selection Methodology for High-Dimensional Arrays of Paired Predictors, with Application in Assessing Added-Value in Proteomics Data.
Bart Mertens, Leiden University Medical Centre; Alexia Kakourou, Leiden University Medical Centre
11:35 AM

Bayesian Network-On-Scalar Regression
Jian Kang, University of Michigan
11:35 AM

Bayesian Single-Index Model for Bounded Mental Health Response with Functional Covariates
Debajyoti Sinha, Florida State University; STUART LIPSITZ, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
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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