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647 * ! Thu, 8/13/2015, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-610
Statistical Issues in Environmental Epidemiology — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Statistics and the Environment , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Chair(s): Xiaohong Zhu, HRSA
8:35 AM Recent Advancements in Kernel Estimation of Spatial Relative Risk Tilman Davies, University of Otago ; Martin L. Hazelton, Massey University ; Khair Jones, Massey University
8:50 AM Gene-Environment Independence in Case-Control Studies: Issues of Parameterization and Bayesian Inference Hao Luo ; Igor Burstyn, Drexel University ; Paul Gustafson, The University of British Columbia
9:05 AM Bayesian Multi-Level Quantile Regression for Longitudinal Data Chih-Chieh Chang, University of Southern California ; Kiros Berhane, University of Southern California
9:20 AM Time Series Modeling of Pathogen-Specific Disease Probabilities with Incomplete Data Leigh Fisher ; Jon Wakefield, University of Washington
9:35 AM Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models to Simultaneously Evaluate Multiple Pollutants Associated with Spina Bifida Michael Swartz, The University of Texas Health Science Center ; Yi Cai, The University of Texas at Houston ; Wenyaw Chan, The University of Texas School of Public Health ; Elaine Symanski, The University of Texas Health Science Center ; Laura Mitchell, The University of Texas Health Science Center ; Heather Danysh, Baylor College of Medicine ; Peter Langlois, Texas Department of State Health Services ; Philip Lupo, Baylor College of Medicine
9:50 AM A Two-State Markov Mixture Model for Renal Colic Emergency Room Admission Counts During the Summer Months in Houston, Texas Thomas Greene, The University of Texas Health Science Center ; Kai Zhang, The University of Texas Health Science Center
10:05 AM Statistical Models to Investigate the Declining Seasonal Malaria Patterns 1990--2014 in an Area of Expanding Vector Control Along the Kenyan Coast Stella Karuri, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme ; Abdisalan Noor, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme ; Philip Bejon, University of Oxford ; Robert Snow, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme




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