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Sunday, 07/29/2018
On Using Gene Genealogies to Find Trait-Influencing Variants
Payman Nickchi, Simon Fraser University; Jinko Graham, Simon Fraser University


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

Leading Toward Evidence-Based Educational Improvement Using the CBMS Survey
Ellen E. Kirkman, Wake Forest University
2:30 PM

Toward a Sampling Theory for Statistical Network Analysis
Harry Crane, Rutgers
3:05 PM

Adaptively-Tuned Particle Swarm Optimization with Application to Spatial Design
Matthew Simpson, University of Missouri; Christopher K. Wikle, University of Missouri; Scott H. Holan, University of Missouri/U.S. Census Bureau
4:05 PM

Dancing with the Software: Selecting Your Imputation Partner
Andrew Dau, USDA/NASS; Darcy Miller, National Agricultural Statistics Service
4:05 PM

Dancing with a New Partner: Imputing New Demographic Questions on the Census of Agriculture Using COTS Software
Darcy Miller, National Agricultural Statistics Service; Virginia Harris, National Agricultural Statistics Service; Jeff Beranek, National Agricultural Statistics Service; Steve Logan, National Agricultural Statistics Service
4:25 PM

Think Before You Cluster: Testing for Clusterability
Naomi Brownstein, Florida State University; Margareta Ackerman, Santa Clara University; Andreas Adolfsson, Santa Clara University; Zachariah Neville, Florida State University
4:55 PM

Statistical Significance: Time to Look Forward
Philip Sedgwick, St. George's, University of London
5:05 PM

Monday, 07/30/2018
Sound and Solid Selection of Covariates - a Simulation Study
Kira Dynnes Svendsen, Technical University of Denmark; Nina Munkholt Jakobsen, Technical University of Denmark


Is Joe Flacco Elite? Hierarchical Models for Player Evaluation in Team Sports
Sam Ventura, Pittsburgh Penguins; Ronald Yurko, Carnegie Mellon University; Maksim Horowitz, Carnegie Mellon University; Andrew C Thomas, Minnesota Wild


Teaching Interactive Statistical Graphics
Joyce Robbins, Columbia University


Using Modified Competitive Swarm Optimizer to Find D-Optimal Designs for Complicated Logistic Models
Zizhao Zhang, UCLA; Weng Kee Wong, UCLA


Intravenous Fluid Treatments for Ebola Patients: The Risk and the Reward
Derrick Yam, Brown University; Tao Liu, Brown University; Adam Levine, Brown University; Adam Aluisio, Brown University; Shiromi Peters, International Medical Corps; Suzanne Averill, International Medical Corps; Stephen Kennedy, Ministry of Health, Liberia; Fodey Sahr, Sierra Leone Ministry of Defence; Jillian Peters, Brown University; Daniel Cho, Brown University


EDA: A Historical Perspective and a Path Forward
Dianne Cook, Monash University
8:35 AM

Counting Casualties in the Syrian Civil War with Bayesian Record Linkage
Andrea Kaplan, Duke University; Rebecca C. Steorts, Duke University
8:35 AM

Intravenous Fluid Treatments for Ebola Patients: The Risk and the Reward
Derrick Yam, Brown University; Tao Liu, Brown University; Adam Levine, Brown University; Adam Aluisio, Brown University; Shiromi Peters, International Medical Corps; Suzanne Averill, International Medical Corps; Stephen Kennedy, Ministry of Health, Liberia; Fodey Sahr, Sierra Leone Ministry of Defence; Jillian Peters, Brown University; Daniel Cho, Brown University
9:05 AM

Using Modified Competitive Swarm Optimizer to Find D-Optimal Designs for Complicated Logistic Models
Zizhao Zhang, UCLA; Weng Kee Wong, UCLA
10:45 AM

Edward: a Library for Probabilistic Machine Learning and Statistics
Dustin Tran, Columbia University; David Blei, Columbia University
11:35 AM

Liftr: An R Package for Persistent Reproducible Research
Nan Xiao, Central South University
11:50 AM

Beyond the Black Box: Flexible Algorithm Programming for Ecological Models in NIMBLE
Christopher Paciorek, University of California, Berkeley; Colin Lewis-Beck, Iowa State University; Perry de Valpine, UC Berkeley; Daniel B. Turek, Williams College; Lauren Ponisio, UC Riverside; Nick Michaud, UC Berkeley
2:05 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

Efficient Forward Algorithms for Inverse Burrows-Wheeler Transformation
Gun Ho Jang, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
2:35 PM

Multilayer Tensor Factorization with Applications to Recommender Systems
Xuan Bi; Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Xiaotong Shen, University of Minnesota
2:50 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

Joint Modeling of Length-Biased and Competing Risks Survival Times with View Toward Individualized Prediction: An Application to Spontaneous Labor
Rajeshwari Sundaram, Eunice Kennedy SHriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Ling Ma, Clemson University
3:20 PM

Tuesday, 07/31/2018
Warranty/Performance Text Exploration for Modern Reliability
Scott Wise, JMP (A Division of SAS, Inc)


Methods to Handle Missing Outcome Data in Studies of Acute Illnesses Followed by Recovery
Dashiell Fellini Young-Saver, University of California, Los Angeles; Jeffrey Gornbein, University of California, Los Angeles; Sidney Starkman, University of California, Los Angeles; Jeffrey Lawrence Saver, University of California, Los Angeles


Julia Versus R
Paul McNicholas, McMaster University


New Approaches Towards Translational Neuroimaging
Martin A Lindquist, Johns Hopkins University
9:50 AM

Big Data Analysis Points Toward New Cancer Therapeutic Discovery Approach
Bin Chen, UCSF
10:35 AM

What Should Be the Role of Collaboration/Consulting for Applied Statistical Faculty Members in Academia: Rewards and Punishments
Virginia Lesser, Oregon State University; Shane Reese, Brigham Young University; George P. McCabe, Purdue University ; Dipak Kumar Dey, University of Connecticut; James Cochran, University of Alabama
10:35 AM

Developing a Student Survey of Motivational Attitudes Toward Statistics
Alana Unfried, California State University, Monterey Bay; Sarah Coffin, California State University, Monterey Bay; April Kerby, Winona State University
10:35 AM

The Impact of a Growth Mindset Lecture on Traditional and Non-Traditional Statistics Students' Attitudes, Perceptions, Performance, and Retention
Dr Nandini Bhowmick, Indiana State University; Dr Wendi Benson, Nevada State College
10:50 AM

Evolution of Statistical Software and Quantitative Methods
Brandon LeBeau, University of Iowa; Ariel Aloe, University of Iowa
11:05 AM

Eye-Tracking in Practice: Results from a Study on Human Postures
Juergen Symanzik, Utah State University; Eric McKinney, Utah State University; Breanna Studenka, Utah State University
11:20 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

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

Wednesday, 08/01/2018
Using Open-Source Software in Government Agencies
Wendy L Martinez, Bureau of Labor Statistics


Switching Regimes Time Series Models with Application to Changes Brain Connectivity in an fMRI-Movie Experiment
Marco Antonio Pinto-Orellana, Statistics, CEMSE Division. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Chee-Ming Ting, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Jeremy Skipper, Institute for Multimodal Communication. University College London;  Steven Small, University of California, Irvine; Hernando Ombao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology


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


Practical Guidelines and User-Friendly Software for Bayesian Adaptive Designs
J. Jack Lee, Univ of Texas-M D Anderson Cancer Center


Impostor Syndrome
Rebecca W Doerge, Carnegie Mellon University ; Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State University; Sastry Pantula, Oregon State University
8:35 AM

Prediction of Warranty Returns Based on Modeling Seasonal Recurrent Event Data
Qianqian Shan; William Meeker, Iowa State University
8:35 AM

Large-Scale Statistical Forecasting at Target Corporation
Phillip Yelland, Target Corporation
9:05 AM

Looking Inward: Quality Audits for Demographic Programs at the U.S. Census Bureau
Cynthia A Rothhaas, U.S. Census Bureau; Richard Levy, U.S. Census Bureau
9:20 AM

Future Events Prediction with a Forward Intensity Function Approach
Lili Zhu, Bristol-Myers Squibb; Temple University; Cheng Yong Tang, Temple University
10:05 AM

Towards Multiple-Imputation-Proper Predictive Mean Matching
Philipp Gaffert, GfK SE; Florian Meinfelder, Universität Bamberg; Volker Bosch, GfK SE
10:55 AM

Integrative Statistical Learning with Real World Healthcare Data: Towards a Data Driven Suicide Prevention Framework
Kun Chen, University of Connecticut
11:55 AM

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

Toward an Updated Publication Standard for Official County-Level Crop Estimates
Nathan Cruze, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service; Andreea Erciulescu, National Institute of Statistical Sciences; Habtamu Benecha, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service; Valbona Bejleri, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service; Balgobin Nandram, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Linda J Young, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
3:35 PM

Thursday, 08/02/2018
SPAIG Award Collaboration: Laboratory for Analytic Sciences
Alyson Wilson, North Carolina State University
8:35 AM

Beware On-Treatment Safety Analysis
Janet Wittes, Statistics Collaborative; Fred Yang, Innomed Consulting
8:35 AM

SPAIG Award Collaboration: The National Science Foundation-Census Research Network (NCRN)
Daniel H Weinberg, Consultant; Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University
9:00 AM

Analyzing Students' Data Analysis Pipeline Decisions to Build an Interactive, Adaptive Software Platform
Rebecca Nugent, Carnegie Mellon University
11:15 AM

How Software Affects Humans' Conceptions of Data: a Case Study in R Syntaxes
Amelia McNamara, Smith College
11:35 AM