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Colorado Convention Center = “CC”, Hyatt = “HY”

179 Mon, 8/4/08, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-111
Section on Health Policy Statistics Student Paper Award Winners - Topic Contributed - Papers
Section on Health Policy Statistics, Section on Nonparametric Statistics
Organizer(s): Mary Beth Landrum, Harvard Medical School
Chair(s): Mary Beth Landrum, Harvard Medical School
    2:05 PM   An Algorithm for Optimal Tapered Matching, with Application to Disparities in SurvivalShoshana R. Daniel, University of Pennsylvania; Katrina Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania; Jeffrey H. Silber, University of Pennsylvania; Paul R. Rosenbaum, University of Pennsylvania
    2:25 PM   Estimating the Capacity for Improvement in Risk Prediction with a MarkerWen Gu, University of Washington
    2:45 PM   A Class of Semiparametric Mixture Cure Survival Models with Dependent CensoringMegan Othus, Harvard University/Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Yi Li, Harvard University/Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Ram C. Tiwari, National Cancer Institute
    3:05 PM   A New Synthesis Method for Multiple Linear RegressionNan Hu, University of Washington
    3:25 PM   Semiparametric Efficient Estimator for Incomplete Longitudinal Binary Data with Application to Smoking TrendsJamie Perin, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; John Preisser, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Paul Rathouz, The University of Chicago
     3:45 PM   Floor Discussion
 

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