Sessions Were Renumbered as of May 19.
Legend:
CC-W = McCormick Place Convention Center, West Building,
CC-N = McCormick Place Convention Center, North Building
H = Hilton Chicago,
UC = Conference Chicago at University Center
* = applied session ! = JSM meeting theme
Activity Details
14 * !
Sun, 7/31/2016,
2:00 PM -
3:50 PM
CC-W179b
Causal Inference for Complex Public Health Interventions: Methods for Interference, Spatially Indexed Data, and Complex Networks — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Corwin Zigler, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Chair(s): Sebastien Haneuse, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2:05 PM
Causal Inference from Observational Studies with Partial Interference
—
Brian Barkley, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Michael Hudgens, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2:25 PM
Addressing Spatial Interference in Causal Analysis
—
Keith William Zirkle, Virginia Commonwealth University ; David C. Wheeler, Virginia Commonwealth University ; Saba W. Masho, Virginia Commonwealth University
2:45 PM
Network Dynamics of Network Interventions: A Multilevel Network Analysis
—
Weihua An, Indiana University
3:05 PM
Evaluating Air Quality Control Policies: Bipartite Causal Inference with Interference
—
Corwin Zigler, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3:25 PM
Causal Mechanisms and Spillover Effects in Clustered Encouragement Designs
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Fabrizia Mealli, University of Florence ; Laura Forastiere, University of Florence
3:45 PM
Floor Discussion
35 *
Sun, 7/31/2016,
2:00 PM -
3:50 PM
CC-W178b
Epidemiologic Methods for Biomarker Discovery and Disease Prediction — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Karen Messer, University of California at San Diego
2:05 PM
Estimation and Distribution of T-Cell Repertoire During Human HSV-2 Infection
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Alvason Li, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Jia Zhu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Trevor Bedford, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2:20 PM
A Statistical Framework for Using External Information in Updating Prediction Models with New Biomarker Measures
—
Wenting Cheng, University of Michigan ; Jeremy M. G. Taylor, University of Michigan ; Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan
2:35 PM
Developing Combinations of Prognostic and Diagnostic Biomarkers in Multicenter Studies
—
Allison Meisner, University of Washington ; Kathleen F. Kerr, University of Washington
2:50 PM
Sensitivity Analysis of a CD4-Based HIV Incidence Estimation Method
—
Ruiguang Song, CDC
3:05 PM
Automated Feature Selection for Prediction with Electronic Medical Records Data
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Jessica Minnier, Oregon Health & Science University ; Sheng Yu, Tsinghua University ; Katherine Liao, Brigham and Women's Hospital ; Tianxi Cai, Harvard
3:20 PM
Comparison of Predictive Modeling Approaches for 30-Day All-Cause Nonelective Readmission Risk
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Liping Tong, Advocate Health Care ; Cole Erdmann, Cerner Corporation ; Marina Daldalian, Cerner Corporation ; Jing Li, Cerner Corporation ; Tina Esposito, Advocate Health Care
3:35 PM
Optimum Sample Size Allocation in Multilevel Disease Detection Problem
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Yinan Fang, Iowa State University ; Chong Wang, Iowa State University ; Jeffrey Zimmerman, Iowa State University
53 * !
Sun, 7/31/2016,
4:00 PM -
5:50 PM
CC-W190b
Statistical Challenges and Advances in the Precision Medicine Initiative — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Peng Wei, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Chair(s): Peng Wei, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
4:05 PM
New Integrative Paradigms of Personalized Medicine for Cancer
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Kim-Anh Do, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Veera Baladandayuthapani, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Francesco Stingo, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Min Jin Ha, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Thierry Chekouo Tekougang, MD Anderson Cancer Center
4:30 PM
Integrative Analysis for Incorporating the Microbiome to Improve Precision Medicine
—
Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania
4:55 PM
Set-Based Association Analysis of Gene-Environment Interaction Using Mixed Effects Models
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Li Hsu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
5:20 PM
Discussant: Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan
5:40 PM
Floor Discussion
88
Sun, 7/31/2016,
6:00 PM -
8:00 PM
CC-Hall F1 West
The Extraordinary Power of Data — Invited Poster Presentations
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , Section on Statistical Graphics , Section on Statistics in Imaging , Business and Economic Statistics Section , Biometrics Section , ENAR , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee , Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Statistics in Marketing , Social Statistics Section , Statistics in Business Schools Interest Group
Chair(s): Tyler McCormick, University of Washington
1:
Communicate Better with R, R Markdown, and Shiny
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Garrett Grolemund, RStudio
2:
Spectral Filtering for Spatial-Temporal Dynamics
—
Tian Zheng, Columbia University ; Lu Meng, Columbia University
3:
A Mixed-Effects Modeling Approach to Study the Impact of Pesticides on Farmworkers' Brain Networks Using RS-fMRI Data
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Mohsen Bahrami, Virginia Tech ; Paul Laurienti, Wake Forest School of Medicine ; Thomas Arcury, Wake Forest School of Medicine ; Sean Simpson, Wake Forest School of Medicine
4:
Cascaded High-Dimensional Histograms: A Generative Approach to Density Estimation
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Siong Thye Goh, MIT ; Cynthia Rudin, Duke University
5:
TV Advertising's Impact on Online Searches
—
Yonathan Schwarzkopf, Google ; Ying Liu, Google ; Makoto Uchida, Google ; Elissa Lee, Google ; Jim Koehler, Google
6:
Modeling Connectivity in High-Dimensional Time Series Data via Factor Analysis
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Hernando Ombao, University of California at Irvine ; Yuxiao Wang, University of California at Irvine ; Chee-Ming Ting, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
7:
Analysis of Longitudinal Multi-Sequence MRI in Multiple Sclerosis
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Elizabeth M. Sweeney, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Russell Shinohara, University of Pennsylvania ; John Muschelli, The Johns Hopkins University ; Daniel Reich , National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke ; Ciprian Crainiceanu, The Johns Hopkins University ; Jonathan Gellar, Mathematica Policy Research ; Philip Reiss, New York University/University of Haifa ; Ani Eloyan, Brown University
8:
Law, Order, and Algorithms
—
Sharad Goel, Stanford University
9:
Defining and Estimating Reliability in Hierarchical Logistic Regression Models for Health Care Provider Profiling
—
Jessica Hwang, RAND Corporation ; John Adams, Kaiser Permanente ; Susan M. Paddock, RAND Corporation
10:
Probabilistic Cause-of-Death Assignment Using Verbal Autopsies
—
Tyler McCormick, University of Washington ; Sam Clark, University of Washington ; Zehang Li, University of Washington
11:
We Are What We Ask: Mapping the Ecosystem of Software Development Using Stack Overflow Data
—
David G. Robinson, Stack Overflow
12:
Data Science at Stitch Fix
—
Hilary Parker, Stitch Fix
13:
Text Mining on Domain Names
—
Kenneth E. Shirley, Amazon
14:
Fighting Fraud with Statistics!
—
Alyssa Frazee, Stripe
15:
Forecasting Seasonal Epidemics with Ensemble Methods and Collective Human Judgment
—
Logan Conrad Brooks, Carnegie Mellon University ; Sangwon Hyun, Carnegie Mellon University ; Ryan Tibshirani, Carnegie Mellon University
16:
Geometric Methods for Network Comparison and Multilevel Modeling
—
Anna Smith, The Ohio State University ; Catherine Calder, The Ohio State University
17:
Mixed-Effects Models for Resampled Network Statistics Improve Statistical Power to Find Differences in Functional Brain Connectivity
—
Manjari Narayan, Rice University ; Genevera Allen, Rice University
18:
Estimating the Causal Impact of Recommendation Systems from Observational Data
—
Amit Sharma, Microsoft Research ; Jake Hofman, Microsoft Research ; Duncan Watts, Microsoft Research
19:
The Future of the Journal Biostatistics
—
Dimitris Rizopoulos, Erasmus University Medical Center ; Jeffrey Leek, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
20:
Sample Size Calculations for Micro-Randomized Trials in MHealth
—
Peng Liao, University of Michigan ; Ji Sun, University of Michigan ; Susan A. Murphy, University of Michigan
100 * !
Mon, 8/1/2016,
8:30 AM -
10:20 AM
CC-W184a
Recent Developments in Joint Models of Longitudinal and Survival Data — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Haitao Chu, University of Minnesota
Chair(s): Yong Chen, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
8:35 AM
Assessing Model Fit in Joint Models of Longitudinal and Survival Data with Applications to Cancer Clinical Trials
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Joseph G. Ibrahim, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut ; Mark Boye, Eli Lilly and Company ; Wei Shen, Eli Lilly and Company ; Danjie Zhang, Gilead Pharmaceuticals
9:00 AM
Joint Scale-Change Models for Recurrent Events and Failure Time
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Gongjun Xu, University of Minnesota ; Sy Han Chiou, Harvard ; Chiung-Yu Huang, The Johns Hopkins University ; Mei-Cheng Wang, The Johns Hopkins University ; Jun Yan, University of Connecticut
9:25 AM
A Flexible Joint Longitudinal-Survival Model for Quantifying the Association Between Serum Biomarkers and Mortality
—
Daniel Gillen, University of California at Irvine ; Sepehr Arkhavan, University of California at Irvine ; Babak Shahbaba, University of California at Irvine
9:50 AM
Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data with Missing and Left-Censored Time-Varying Covariates
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Qingxia Chen, Vanderbilt University ; Ryan May, The EMMES Corporation ; Joseph G. Ibrahim, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Haitao Chu, University of Minnesota ; Stephen R. Cole, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:15 AM
Floor Discussion
130
Mon, 8/1/2016,
8:30 AM -
10:20 AM
CC-W184d
Statistical Methods for Spatial Epidemiology — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Risk Analysis
Chair(s): Nicholas Beyler, Mathematica Policy Research
8:35 AM
Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Multi-Pathogen Infectious Diseases Using Data from Multiple Sources
—
Hunter Merrill, University of Florida ; Xueying Tang, University of Florida ; Yang Yang, University of Florida ; Nikolay Bliznyuk, University of Florida
8:50 AM
Continuous Surface Modeling for Space-Time Infectious Disease Count Data
—
Katherine Wilson, University of Washington ; Jonathan Wakefield, University of Washington
9:05 AM
Spatial Model for Risk Prediction and Subnational Prioritization to Aid Poliovirus Eradication in Pakistan
—
Laina Mercer, Institute for Disease Modeling ; Steve Kroiss, Institute for Disease Modeling ; Hil Lyons, Institute for Disease Modeling ; Guillaume Chabot-Couture, Institute for Disease Modeling
9:20 AM
Spatial Variability in the Persistence of PCV-Targeted Pneumococcal Serotypes Among Adults
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Joshua Warren, Yale University ; S. Cassandra Pingali, Yale University ; Daniel Weinberger, Yale University
9:35 AM
Generalized Linear Mixed Model to Predict a Spatially Correlated Poisson Variable in the Presence of an Auxiliary Variable, with an Application to the West Nile Virus
—
Lynette Smith, University of Nebraska Medical Center ; David B. Marx, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
9:50 AM
Novel Application of a Weighted Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Model in Modeling Count Data from a Complex Survey
—
Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Medical University of South Carolina ; Lin Dai, Medical University of South Carolina
10:05 AM
High-Dimensional Analysis of Spatial Count Data: A Penalized Estimating Equation Approach
—
Rejaul Karim, Michigan State University ; Tapabrata Maiti, Michigan State University
165 * !
Mon, 8/1/2016,
10:30 AM -
12:20 PM
CC-W185d
Recent Advances on Interaction Modeling for Prediction in Personalized Medicine — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Li-Xuan Qin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Pei Wang, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Chair(s): Pei Wang, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
10:35 AM
Quantifying Treatment Benefit in Molecular Subgroups to Assess a Predictive Biomarker
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Jaya M. Satagopan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ; Alexia Iasonos, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
10:55 AM
Identifying Interactions Using Convex Optimization
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Jacob Bien, Cornell University ; Robert Tibshirani, Stanford University ; Noah Simon, University of Washington
11:15 AM
Why Significant Variables Aren't Automatically Predictive
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Adeline Lo ; Herman Chernoff, Harvard University ; Tian Zheng, Columbia University ; Shaw-Hwa Lo, Columbia University
11:35 AM
Phenotype Predictions by Genome and In-Between-Omes
—
Quan Long, University of Calgary
11:55 AM
Impact of Handling Effects on Gene-Gene Interaction Discovery: An Empirical Assessment
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Li-Xuan Qin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
12:15 PM
Floor Discussion
175
Mon, 8/1/2016,
10:30 AM -
12:20 PM
CC-W185a
Statistical Methods for Environmental Epidemiology — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Risk Analysis , Statistics Without Borders
Chair(s): Min Chen, ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences
10:35 AM
Application of Principal Components Analysis to Blood Metal Exposures in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Data
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Po-Yung Cheng, CDC ; Mary Mortensen, CDC/NCEH ; Robert Jones, CDC/NCEH ; Kathleen Caldwell, CDC/NCEH
10:50 AM
Predictive Geocoding
—
Jie Fan, University of Miami ; J. Sunil Rao, University of Miami
11:05 AM
Optimal Sampling Designs of Two-Compartment Nonlinear Regression Models
—
Noa Molshatzki, University of Southern California ; Sandrah P. Eckel, University of Southern California
11:20 AM
A Latent Variable Model with Scaled Nonlinear Effects for Multiple Outcomes
—
Zhenzhen Zhang, University of Michigan ; Brisa N. Sanchez, University of Michigan
11:35 AM
Survival Analysis with Measurement Error in a Cumulative Exposure Variable: Radon Progeny in Relation to Lung Cancer Mortality
—
Polyna Khudyakov, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Jonathan Samet, University of Southern California ; Charles Wiggins, University of New Mexico ; Xiaomei Liao, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Angela Meisner, New Mexico Tumor Registry ; Donna Spiegelman, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
11:50 AM
A Two-Stage Approach to Analysis of Health Effects of Environmental Chemical Mixtures: Informed Sparse Principal Component Analysis Followed by Segmented Regression
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Roman Jandarov, University of Cincinnati ; Susan Pinney, University of Cincinnati ; Liang Niu, University of Cincinnati
12:05 PM
Floor Discussion
225 * !
Mon, 8/1/2016,
2:00 PM -
3:50 PM
CC-W178b
The Power of Efficient Sampling Designs for Studies of Correlated Endpoints — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Paul Rathouz, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Chair(s): Paul Rathouz, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2:05 PM
Sparse Opportunistic Sampling in Population Pharmacokinetic Studies
—
William H. Fissell, Vanderbilt University ; Pratish Patel, Vanderbilt University ; Matthew S. Shotwell, Vanderbilt University
2:30 PM
On the Analysis of Case-Control and Stratified Case-Control Studies in Cluster-Correlated Data Settings
—
Sebastien Haneuse, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Claudia Rivera, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2:55 PM
Auxiliary Variable Sampling Designs for Longitudinal Binary Data with Application to Spirometry-Based COPD Diagnosis
—
Jonathan Scott Schildcrout, Vanderbilt University
3:20 PM
Efficient Subsampling of Expensive-to-Evaluate Longitudinal Outcomes
—
John Neuhaus, University of California at San Francisco ; Charles McCulloch, University of California at San Francisco
3:45 PM
Floor Discussion
245 *
Mon, 8/1/2016,
2:00 PM -
3:50 PM
CC-W178a
Statistical Methods for Inferring Genetic Associations — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biopharmaceutical Section
Chair(s): Tzu-Cheg Kao, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
2:05 PM
USAT: A Unified Score-Based Association Test for Multiple Phenotype-Genotype Analysis
—
Debashree Ray, University of Michigan ; James S. Pankow, University of Minnesota ; Saonli Basu, University of Minnesota
2:20 PM
Characterizing Uncertainty in Genetic Association Landscapes by Functional Bayesian Bands
—
Olga A. Vsevolozhskaya, University of Kentucky ; Ilai Keren , Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife ; Dmitri Zaykin, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
2:35 PM
A Functional Data Analysis Framework for Investigating the Interaction Between Genetic Variant Profiles and Environmental Factors
—
Li Luo, University of New Mexico ; Marianne Berwick, University of New Mexico ; Ji-Hyun Lee, University of New Mexico
2:50 PM
Simultaneous Detection and Estimation of Trait Associations with Genomic Phenotypes
—
Jean Morrison, University of Washington ; Noah Simon, University of Washington ; Daniela Witten, University of Washington
3:05 PM
A Powerful Statistical Procedure for Pathway-Based Meta-Analysis Using Summary Statistics
—
Han Zhang, National Cancer Institute ; William Wheeler, Information Management Services ; Paula L. Hyland, National Cancer Institute ; Yifan Yang, University of Kentucky ; Jianxin Shi, National Cancer Institute ; Nilanjan Chatterjee, The Johns Hopkins University ; Kai Yu, National Cancer Institute
3:20 PM
A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Pathway Analysis with Simultaneous Inference on Pathway-Gene-SNP Structure
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Lei Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas ; Swati Biswas, The University of Texas at Dallas ; Pankaj Choudhary, The University of Texas at Dallas
3:35 PM
Massive Significance Testing in Genetic Epidemiology Amid Replicability Crisis
—
Dmitri Zaykin, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Olga A. Vsevolozhskaya, University of Kentucky
296
Tue, 8/2/2016,
8:30 AM -
10:20 AM
CC-W192a
Fresh Perspectives in Causal Inference — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Susan Gruber, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Chair(s): David Vock, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
8:35 AM
Lasso Adjustments of Treatment Effect Estimates in Randomized Experiments
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Adam Bloniarz, University of California at Berkeley ; Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University ; Hanzhong Liu, University of California at Berkeley ; Jasjeet Sekhon, University of California at Berkeley ; Bin Yu, University of California at Berkeley
8:55 AM
Causal Inference in Network-Dependent Observational Data
—
Oleg Sofrygin, University of California at Berkeley ; Mark van der Laan, University of California at Berkeley
9:15 AM
Causal Effect Among the Exposed: Multiple Data Sources and Censored Outcomes
—
Parichoy Pal Choudhury, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Daniel Scharfstein, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Ivan Diaz, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Chris McMahan, Clemson University ; Xun Luo, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine ; Allan Massie, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine ; Dorry Segev, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
9:55 AM
Bayesian Structural Mean Models
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Bret Zeldow, University of Pennsylvania ; Jason Roy, University of Pennsylvania
10:15 AM
Floor Discussion
307
Tue, 8/2/2016,
8:30 AM -
10:20 AM
CC-W181b
SPEED: Epidemiological Research — Contributed Speed
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Arni Rao, Augusta University
8:35 AM
Confidence Intervals Construction of Difference of Proportions Based on Correlated Bilateral Data
—
Zhengyu Yang, SUNY Buffalo ; Xiaobin Liu, SUNY Buffalo ; Chang-Xing Ma, SUNY Buffalo
8:40 AM
Validation of Sudden Cardiac Death Algorithm
—
Zoe Bider-Canfield, Kaiser Permanente Southern California ; Shuhua Liang, Kaiser Permanente Southern California ; T. Craig Cheetham, Kaiser Permanente Southern California
8:45 AM
Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors by Obesity Level in Adults in the U.S.
—
Reena Gitanjali Singh, York University
8:50 AM
Effect of Birth Weight on Childhood Allergy with Repeatedly Measured Confounder Using Joint and Marginal Modeling
—
Ayano Takeuchi, Keio University ; Mari Oba, Toho University ; Ikuko Funatogawa, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
8:55 AM
Adaptive Distributed Lag Models
—
Alastair Rushworth, University of Strathclyde
9:00 AM
Two-Level Joint Model for Imputing Subject-Level Variables of Mixed Type
—
David Kline, The Ohio State University ; Rebecca Andridge, The Ohio State University ; Eloise Kaizar, The Ohio State University
9:05 AM
Mediation Analysis for Longitudinal Data Using Regression Calibration When the Mediator Is Measured with Error
—
John M. Ssenkusu, University of Minnesota ; David Vock, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
9:10 AM
Optimal Point Estimates and Credible Intervals for Ranking County Health Indices
—
Ronald Gangnon, University of Wisconsin ; Patricia Jewett, University of Wisconsin - Madison
9:20 AM
Childhood Obesity Modeling with a Semi-Markov Process
—
Richard Seymour, U.S. Air Force
9:35 AM
Association Tests Using Common and Rare Variants and family data
—
Renfang Jiang, Michigan Technological University ; Jianping Dong, Michigan Technological University ; Yilin Dai, Michigan Technological University
9:40 AM
An Approach to Combining Stratification and Covariate Adjustment Methods
—
Zhibao Mi, VA CSPCC ; Joseph Collins, VA CSPCC
9:45 AM
Multi-Locus Test and Correction for Confounding Effects in Genome-Wide Association Studies
—
Donglai Chen, Purdue University ; Jun Xie, Purdue University ; Chuanhai Liu, Purdue University
9:50 AM
Comparing Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Telemedicine in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
—
Amy O'Shea, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine ; Mary Vaughan Sarrazin, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine ; Heather Schacht Reisinger, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
9:55 AM
Estimating Associations by the Reconstructed Population Method
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Diana Lam, University of Maryland Baltimore County ; William Blackwelder, University of Maryland Baltimore County
10:00 AM
Postoperative Neonatal Mortality Prediction Using Superlearning
—
Jennifer N. Cooper, Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute ; Katherine J. Deans, Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute ; Peter C. Minneci, Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute
10:05 AM
Adjusting for Noncompliance in Randomized Clinical Trials When Noncompliance Must Be Estimated from a Biomarker
—
Jeffrey Boatman ; David Vock, University of Minnesota School of Public Health ; Joseph S. Koopmeiners, University of Minnesota
10:10 AM
Estimating the Risk of West Nile Virus Transmission Through Tissue Transplantation
—
Ryan Hicks, Colorado State University
10:15 AM
The Effect of World Trade Center Exposure on the Timing of Aerodigestive Diagnoses in New York City Firefighters: 2001--2011
—
Charles Hall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine ; Xiaoxue Liu, Montefiore Medical Center ; Rachel Zeig-Owens, Montefiore Medical Center ; Jessica Weakley, Montefiore Medical Center ; Mayris P. Webber, Montefiore Medical Center ; Theresa Schwartz, Montefiore Medical Center ; David J. Prezant, Fire Department of the City of New York
313
Tue, 8/2/2016,
8:30 AM -
10:20 AM
CC-W192b
Missing Data Methods for Epidemiologic Studies — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Deborah Dawson, University of Iowa
8:35 AM
Imputing Data That Are Missing at High Rates Using a Boosting Algorithm
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Katherine Cauthen, Sandia National Laboratories ; Gregory Lambert, Sandia National Laboratories ; Jaideep Ray, Sandia National Laboratories ; Sophia Lefantzi, Sandia National Laboratories
8:50 AM
Regression Analysis of Incomplete Data from Event History Studies with the Proportional Rates Model
—
Guanglei Yu, University of Missouri - Columbia ; Liang Zhu, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ; Jianguo Sun, University of Missouri ; Leslie L. Robison, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
9:05 AM
Multilevel Multiple Imputation: Tipping Point Sensitivity Analysis Using the JOMO Package in R with Longitudinal Olympic Regeneration in East London (ORiEL) Data
—
Melanie Smuk, Queen Mary University of London ; Matteo Quartagno, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ; Charlotte Clark, Queen Mary University of London ; Stephen Stansfeld, Queen Mary University of London ; Steven Cummins, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
9:20 AM
Statistical Modeling of Subject and Proxy Observations Using Weighted GEE
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Mina Hosseini ; Nagaraj K. Neerchal, University of Maryland Baltimore County ; Ann L. Gruber-Baldini, UMB
9:35 AM
Comparing Methods of Multiple Imputation for a Score-Variable Measured Repeatedly Over Time
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Elizabeth L. McCabe, Boston University ; Joseph M. Massaro, Boston University ; Kathryn L. Lunetta, Boston University ; Susan Cheng, Framingham Heart Study ; Joanne M. Murabito, Framingham Heart Study ; Martin G. Larson, Boston University
9:50 AM
On Double Robustness in Estimating a Causal Effect When a Confounder Is Missing at Random
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Katherine Evans, Harvard ; Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Harvard
10:05 AM
Network Meta-Analysis of Multiple Factors
—
Lifeng Lin, University of Minnesota ; Haitao Chu, University of Minnesota
375
Tue, 8/2/2016,
10:30 AM -
12:20 PM
CC-Hall F1 West
Contributed Poster Presentations: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Genevera Allen, Rice University
20:
Estimation and Modeling of Partnership Transition Probabilities and Concurrency Patterns: Recasting Duration Data in a Markov Chain and Logistic Regression Framework
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Yared Gurmu ; Nuala McGrath, University of Southampton ; Victor De Gruttola, Harvard
21:
Physical Inactivity Displays a Mediator Role in the Association of Diabetes and Poverty in the Presence of Spatial Heterogeneity
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Xiao Li, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Lung-Chang Chien, The University of Texas School of Public Health at San Antonio ; Amanda Staudt, The University of Texas School of Public Health at San Antonio ; Xuehan Ren, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
23:
Implication of Missing Data in the Study of Association Between Immigrant Status and MRSA/MSSA Recurrence
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Paola Martins, UFF ; Nancy Piper Jenks, Clinical Directors Network ; Caroline Jiang, Rockefeller University ; Brianna D'Orazio, Clinical Directors Network ; Jonathan N. Tobin, Clinical Directors Network ; Joel Correa da Rosa, Rockefeller University
24:
Combining Statistics from Two National Complex Surveys to Estimate Injury Rates Per Hour Exposed and Variance by Activity in the U.S.
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Tinchi Lin, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety ; Helen Wellman, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety ; Joanna Willetts, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety ; Santosh Verma, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety
25:
Correlating a Right-Censored Risk Factor with a Neuropathology Finding Subject to Missing Values
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Richard Kryscio, University of Kentucky ; Erin L. Abner, University of Kentucky ; Peter T. Nelson, University of Kentucky ; David Fardo, University of Kentucky ; Frederick A. Schmitt, University of Kentucky
26:
Teen Birth Rates in the U.S., 2007--2012
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Diba Khan, CDC/NCHS ; Lauren Rossen, CDC/NCHS ; Brady Hamilton, CDC/NCHS ; Yulei He, CDC ; Rong Wei, CDC/NCHS
27:
Seasonal Statistical Analysis of Valley Fever in Kern County, California
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Bilin Zeng, California State University at Bakersfield ; Jessica Struck, California State University at Bakersfield ; Samantha Alaniz, California State University at Bakersfield ; Alondra Valenzuela, California State University at Bakersfield ; Carlos Romero, California State University at Bakersfield
28:
Actigraphy-Based Sleep Parameters: The Methodology for Data Scoring and Derivation
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Desta Fekedulegn, CDC/NIOSH ; Cecil Burchfiel, CDC/NIOSH ; Claudia Ma, CDC/NIOSH ; Tara Hartley, CDC/NIOSH ; Luenda Charles, CDC/NIOSH ; Michael Andrew, CDC/NIOSH ; John Violanti, SUNY Buffalo
29:
Estimating the Causal Effect of Lowering Particulate Matter Levels Below the National Ambient Air Quality Standards on Health Outcomes
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Maggie Makar, MIT ; Joseph Antonelli, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Qian Di, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Joel Schwartz, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; David Cutler, Harvard ; Francesca Dominici, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
30:
Maximum Likelihood or Generalized Estimating Equations: A Comparison in the Context of Proportional Odds Model for Ordinal Response
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Xinkai Zhou, Statistics Core@UCLA
31:
Generalized Latent Trait Models for Multiple Correlated Health Endpoints
—
Chris Liu, University of Michigan
32:
Modified Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test for Conditional Survival and its Application
—
Yueh Wang ; Hung Hung, National Taiwan University
33:
Annual Raking and Weighting of the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Database
—
Jessica McKinney Ketchum, Craig Hospital ; Jeffrey Cuthbert, Sky Ridge Medical Center ; Gale Whiteneck, Craig Hospital ; C.B. Eagye, Craig Hospital ; Cindy Harrison-Felix, Craig Hospital
34:
Compartmental Model Diagrams as Causal Representations in Relation to DAGs
—
Sarah Ackley
35:
Nonparametric Prediction of Infectious Disease Incidence with Kernel Conditional Density Estimation
—
Evan Ray, University of Massachusetts ; Krzysztof Sakrejda, University of Massachusetts - Amherst ; Stephen A. Lauer, University of Massachusetts - Amherst ; Nicholas G. Reich, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
36:
A Stochastic Search Algorithm to Find Multi-SNP Effects Using Nuclear Families
—
David M. Umbach, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Min Shi, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Alison Wise, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Clare Weinberg, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Leping Li, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
37:
Phylodynamic Individual-Level Models: Strategies for Simulation and Inference
—
Justin Angevaare, University of Guelph ; Zeny Feng, University of Guelph ; Rob Deardon, University of Calgary
38:
Conditions of Non-Unique Identifiers in Record Linkage Using Japanese Cohort Data Set
—
Michikazu Nakai, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center ; Kunihiro Nishimura, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center ; Fumiaki Nakamura, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center ; Yoshihiro Miyamoto, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
40:
Quantifying Power and Bias in Cluster-Randomized Trials Using Mixed Models Versus Cluster-Level Analysis in the Presence of Missing Data: A Simulation Study
—
Brenda Vincent, University of Arizona ; Melanie L. Bell, University of Arizona
41:
GLiDeR: Doubly Robust Estimation of Causal Treatment Effects with the Group Lasso
—
Brandon Koch, University of Minnesota School of Public Health ; David Vock, University of Minnesota School of Public Health ; Julian Wolfson, University of Minnesota
43:
Semiparametric Mixture Models for Left-Censored and Irregularly Interval-Censored Data: Application to a Cohort Assembled from Electronic Health Records
—
Noorie Hyun, National Cancer Institute ; Li Cheung, The George Washington University ; Qing Pan, The George Washington University ; Mark Schiffman, National Cancer Institute ; Hormuzd Katki, National Cancer Institute
381
Tue, 8/2/2016,
10:30 AM -
11:15 AM
CC-Hall F1 West
SPEED: Epidemiological Research, Part 2A — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Genevera Allen, Rice University
11:
Confidence Intervals Construction of Difference of Proportions Based on Correlated Bilateral Data
—
Zhengyu Yang, SUNY Buffalo ; Xiaobin Liu, SUNY Buffalo ; Chang-Xing Ma, SUNY Buffalo
12:
Validation of Sudden Cardiac Death Algorithm
—
Zoe Bider-Canfield, Kaiser Permanente Southern California ; Shuhua Liang, Kaiser Permanente Southern California ; T. Craig Cheetham, Kaiser Permanente Southern California
13:
Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors by Obesity Level in Adults in the U.S.
—
Reena Gitanjali Singh, York University
14:
Effect of Birth Weight on Childhood Allergy with Repeatedly Measured Confounder Using Joint and Marginal Modeling
—
Ayano Takeuchi, Keio University ; Mari Oba, Toho University ; Ikuko Funatogawa, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
15:
Adaptive Distributed Lag Models
—
Alastair Rushworth, University of Strathclyde
16:
Two-Level Joint Model for Imputing Subject-Level Variables of Mixed Type
—
David Kline, The Ohio State University ; Rebecca Andridge, The Ohio State University ; Eloise Kaizar, The Ohio State University
17:
Mediation Analysis for Longitudinal Data Using Regression Calibration When the Mediator Is Measured with Error
—
John M. Ssenkusu, University of Minnesota ; David Vock, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
18:
Optimal Point Estimates and Credible Intervals for Ranking County Health Indices
—
Ronald Gangnon, University of Wisconsin ; Patricia Jewett, University of Wisconsin - Madison
20:
Childhood Obesity Modeling with a Semi-Markov Process
—
Richard Seymour, U.S. Air Force
The oral portion will take place during Session 213154
384
Tue, 8/2/2016,
11:35 AM -
12:20 PM
CC-Hall F1 West
SPEED: Epidemiological Research, Part 2B — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Genevera Allen, Rice University
12:
Association Tests Using Common and Rare Variants and family data
—
Renfang Jiang, Michigan Technological University ; Jianping Dong, Michigan Technological University ; Yilin Dai, Michigan Technological University
13:
An Approach to Combining Stratification and Covariate Adjustment Methods
—
Zhibao Mi, VA CSPCC ; Joseph Collins, VA CSPCC
14:
Multi-Locus Test and Correction for Confounding Effects in Genome-Wide Association Studies
—
Donglai Chen, Purdue University ; Jun Xie, Purdue University ; Chuanhai Liu, Purdue University
15:
Comparing Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Telemedicine in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
—
Amy O'Shea, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine ; Mary Vaughan Sarrazin, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine ; Heather Schacht Reisinger, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
16:
Estimating Associations by the Reconstructed Population Method
—
Diana Lam, University of Maryland Baltimore County ; William Blackwelder, University of Maryland Baltimore County
17:
Postoperative Neonatal Mortality Prediction Using Superlearning
—
Jennifer N. Cooper, Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute ; Katherine J. Deans, Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute ; Peter C. Minneci, Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute
18:
Adjusting for Noncompliance in Randomized Clinical Trials When Noncompliance Must Be Estimated from a Biomarker
—
Jeffrey Boatman ; David Vock, University of Minnesota School of Public Health ; Joseph S. Koopmeiners, University of Minnesota
19:
Estimating the Risk of West Nile Virus Transmission Through Tissue Transplantation
—
Ryan Hicks, Colorado State University
20:
The Effect of World Trade Center Exposure on the Timing of Aerodigestive Diagnoses in New York City Firefighters: 2001--2011
—
Charles Hall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine ; Xiaoxue Liu, Montefiore Medical Center ; Rachel Zeig-Owens, Montefiore Medical Center ; Jessica Weakley, Montefiore Medical Center ; Mayris P. Webber, Montefiore Medical Center ; Theresa Schwartz, Montefiore Medical Center ; David J. Prezant, Fire Department of the City of New York
The oral portion will take place during Session 213154
400 *
Tue, 8/2/2016,
2:00 PM -
3:50 PM
CC-W190b
Assessing Instrumental Variables Assumptions in Causal Inference — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Hyunseung Kang, Stanford University
Chair(s): Hyunseung Kang, Stanford University
2:05 PM
Graphical Tools to Detect and Adjust for Invalid Instruments in Mendelian Randomization
—
Jack Bowden, University of Bristol
2:30 PM
Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Models for Categorical Data
—
Thomas Richardson, University of Washington ; James Robins, Harvard
2:55 PM
Instrumental Variable Estimation in Observational Studies
—
Miguel Hernan, Harvard
3:20 PM
Discussant: Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania
3:40 PM
Floor Discussion
431
Tue, 8/2/2016,
2:00 PM -
3:50 PM
CC-W192a
Survival Analysis Methods for Observational Studies — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Junho Lee, University of Wisconsin
2:05 PM
Estimating Equation Approaches for Semiparametric Transformation Cure Models with Prevalent Survival Data
—
Yu-Jen Cheng, National Tsing Hua University
2:20 PM
Competing Risks Model of Cancer Screening and Symptomatic Diagnosis
—
Sheng Qiu ; Alex Tsodikov, University of Michigan
2:35 PM
Erroneous Hormetic Effect Identification in Cox Models Due to Polynomial Splines
—
Dustin Long, West Virginia University ; Matthew Wheeler, CDC/NIOSH ; Robert Park, CDC/NIOSH/EID ; John Bailer, Miami University ; Randall Smith, CDC/NIOSH/EID
2:50 PM
Confidence Intervals for Adjusted Kaplan-Meier Survival Curves with Time-Dependent Confounding
—
Jing Guo, University of Kentucky ; Richard Charnigo, University of Kentucky
3:05 PM
Adjusting for Time-Varying Confounding in Survival Analysis Using Structural Nested Cumulative Survivals Models
—
Oliver Dukes, Ghent University ; Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University ; Shaun Seaman, University of Cambridge ; Torben Martinussen, University of Copenhagen
3:20 PM
Two-Stage Estimation of Structural Instrumental Variable Models with Coarsened Data
—
Byeong Yeob Choi, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Jason Fine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Maurice Alan Brookhart, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:35 PM
Statistical Applications for Ethnic Disparities in Breast Cancer Survival Data
—
Hafiz Khan, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso ; Rachel N. Smith, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso
497
Wed, 8/3/2016,
8:30 AM -
10:20 AM
CC-W175b
Novel Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias in Observational Studies — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Robert Hirsch, Stat-Aid Consulting
8:35 AM
Using Propensity Scores to Infer Causal Effects on Heart Health from Chemotherapy Treatment of Breast Cancer Patients
—
John Craycroft, University of Louisville ; Maiying Kong, University of Louisville ; Carrie Lenneman, University of Louisville
8:50 AM
Propensity Scoring Methods for Ordinal Treatments
—
Thomas Greene, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Stacia DeSantis, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Michael D. Swartz, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
9:05 AM
False Discovery Rate Control for Effect Modification in Observational Studies
—
Bikram Karmakar, University of Pennsylvania ; Ruth Heller, Tel-Aviv University ; Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania
9:20 AM
Mediation Analysis with Multilevel Additive Models
—
Qingzhao Yu, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center ; Bin Li, Louisiana State University ; Richard Scribner, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
9:35 AM
Weighted Estimation in Confounded Binary Data Subject to Outcome Misclassification
—
Christopher A. Gravel, McGill University ; Robert W. Platt, McGill University
9:50 AM
Assessing Sensitivity to Unmeasured Confounding in Multilevel Models Using a Simulated Potential Confounder
—
Nicole Carnegie, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee ; Jennifer L. Hill, New York University ; Vincent Dorie, New York University
10:05 AM
From Presence of Pathogens to Etiology of Disease: An Innovative Latent Class Model with Two Latent Variables
—
Nong Shang, CDC
528 * !
Wed, 8/3/2016,
10:30 AM -
12:20 PM
CC-W183b
The NSF/NIH/SAMSI Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Biomedical Data Science Challenges — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biopharmaceutical Section
Organizer(s): Richard L. Smith, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
Chair(s): Arni Rao, Augusta University
10:35 AM
The Innovations Lab: A New Model for Research Collaborations
—
Richard Smith, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:55 AM
Interactive Ensemble Clustering for Mixed Data with Application to Mood Disorders
—
Ellen Eischen, University of Oregon ; David Gotz, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Rachael Hageman Blair, University of Buffalo ; Arianna Di Florio, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Mathews Jacob, University of Iowa ; Brian Chapman, University of Utah
11:15 AM
Statistical and Dynamical Systems Modeling of Real-Time Adaptive M-Intervention for Pain
—
Chaeryon Kang, University of Pittsburgh ; Daniel M. Abrams, Northwestern University ; Jingyi (Jessica) Li, University of California at Los Angeles ; Qi Long, Emory University ; Nirmish R. Shah, Duke University
11:35 AM
Using Machine Learning Algorithms for Handling Missingness: Application to Predicting Drug-Disease and Drug-Drug Interactions
—
Ruoshui Zhai, Brown University ; Roee Gutman, Brown University
11:55 AM
Spatial-Nonspatial Multidimensional Adaptive Radiotherapy Treatment
—
David Vock, University of Minnesota School of Public Health ; Guadalupe M. Canahuate, University of Iowa ; G.Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago ; C. David Fuller, MD Anderson Cancer Center
12:15 PM
Floor Discussion
543
Wed, 8/3/2016,
10:30 AM -
12:20 PM
CC-W183c
Matching and Propensity Score Methods for Causal Inference — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
10:35 AM
Proximity Score Matching: Using the Random Forest Proximity Matrix for Matching in Causal Inference
—
Hui Fen Tan, Cornell University ; David Isaac Miller, Northwestern University ; James Savage, Lendable
10:50 AM
Discovering Effect Modification in Matched Observational Studies with Multiple Controls
—
Kwonsang Lee, University of Pennsylvania ; Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania ; Paul R. Rosenbaum, University of Pennsylvania
11:05 AM
Leveraging Multiple Outcomes in Matched Observational Studies
—
Colin B. Fogarty, MIT ; Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania
11:20 AM
Propensity Score Approach for Multiple Treatment Options and Its Application in Cancer Outcome Research
—
Yuan Liu ; Jeanne Kowalski, Emory University ; Theresa Wicklin Gillespie, Emory University
11:35 AM
Using Observed Outcomes to Design High-Dimensional Propensity Scores
—
Lo-Hua Yuan, Harvard ; Luke Miratrix, Harvard University ; Donald B. Rubin, Harvard
11:50 AM
Bagged One-to-One Matching for Efficient and Robust Treatment Effect Estimation
—
Lauren Samuels, Vanderbilt University ; Robert Greevy, Vanderbilt University
12:05 PM
Prognostic Score Weighting and Nonparametric Weighting via Bagged One-to-One Matching
—
Robert Greevy, Vanderbilt University ; Lauren Samuels, Vanderbilt University
606
Wed, 8/3/2016,
2:00 PM -
3:50 PM
CC-W184bc
Flexible Modeling of High-Dimensional and Network Data — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Kepher H. Makambi, Georgetown University
2:05 PM
External Information in Community Detection
—
Weston Viles, Dartmouth College ; James O'Malley, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
2:20 PM
Modeling Concurrency and Selective Mixing in Heterosexual Partnership Networks with Applications to Sexually Transmitted Diseases
—
Ryan Admiraal, Murdoch University ; Mark Stephen Handcock, University of California at Los Angeles
2:35 PM
Law of Large Numbers for Generalized Network-Based SIR Models
—
Mark Burch, The Ohio State University
2:50 PM
Detecting 'Active Subnetworks' in Weighted, Undirected Graphs, with Application to Metabolomics Studies
—
Yubing Yao ; Michael Nodzensk, Feinberg School of Medicine ; Denise Scholtens, Feinberg School of Medicine ; Raji Balasubramanian, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
3:05 PM
Functional Variations of Cancer Mortality Rates
—
Keshav Pokhrel, University of Michigan
3:20 PM
Collaborative Targeted Learning for Large-Scale and High-Dimensional Data
—
Cheng Ju, University of California at Berkeley ; Mark van der Laan, University of California at Berkeley ; Susan Gruber, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Jessica Franklin, Brigham and Women's Hospital ; Richard Wyss, Brigham and Women's Hospital ; Wesley Eddings, Brigham and Women's Hospital ; Sebastian Schneeweiss, Brigham and Women's Hospital
3:35 PM
Bayesian Model Averaging Applied to Tuberculosis and HIV Research Studies
—
Brock Stewart, CDC ; Charles E. Rose, CDC ; Yi Pan, CDC
638 !
Thu, 8/4/2016,
8:30 AM -
10:20 AM
CC-W192c
New Frontiers in Analyzing Complex Data in Epidemiology — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Chad He, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Chair(s): Chad He, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
8:35 AM
Regression for Partially Observed Household Epidemics
—
Forrest Crawford, Yale University
8:55 AM
A Bayesian Approach for Envelope Models
—
Zhihua Su ; Kshitij Khare, University of Florida ; Subhadip Pal, Emory University
9:15 AM
Dimension Reduction for Identification of Candidate Immune Correlates of Vaccine Efficacy
—
Paul T. Edlefsen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
9:35 AM
The Latent Low-Rank Model to Co-Localize Genetic Risk Variants in Multiple GWAS
—
Jin Liu, Duke University NUS Medical School ; Can Yang, Hong Kong Baptist University
9:55 AM
Estimation for Bivariate Quantile Varying Coefficient Model
—
Linglong Kong, University of Alberta ; Haoxu Shu, University of Alberta ; Chad He, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Giseon Heo, University of Alberta ; Martin Styner, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; John Gilmore, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Hongtu Zhu, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:15 AM
Floor Discussion
643 * !
Thu, 8/4/2016,
8:30 AM -
10:20 AM
CC-W185bc
Emerging Public Health Issues — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Rajeshwari Sundaram, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Chair(s): Zhen Chen, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
8:35 AM
Sieve Analysis Using the Number of Infecting Pathogens
—
Dean Follmann, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ; Chiung-Yu Huang, The Johns Hopkins University
8:55 AM
A Framework for Quantifying Risk Stratification from Diagnostic Tests
—
Hormuzd Katki, National Cancer Institute
9:15 AM
Semiparametric Estimation of ROC Curve with Multiple Imperfect Gold Standards: Application to the Diagnosis of Endometriosis
—
Danping Liu, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ; Beom Seuk Hwang, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ; Zhen Chen, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
9:35 AM
Unobserved Heterogeneity in Prevalent Cohort and Current Duration Designs
—
Niels Keiding, University of Copenhagen
9:55 AM
Persistent Organochlorine Compounds, Menstrual Cycle Length, and Fecundity: A Joint Modeling Approach
—
Rajeshwari Sundaram, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
10:15 AM
Floor Discussion
653
Thu, 8/4/2016,
8:30 AM -
10:20 AM
CC-W185a
Longitudinal and Survival Analysis in Observational Studies — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biopharmaceutical Section
Chair(s): Sujuan Gao, Indiana University
8:35 AM
Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Cognitive Responses and Survival Time in an Alzheimer's Disease Cohort Study
—
Eveleen Darby, Baylor College of Medicine ; Wenyaw Chan, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Elaine Symanski, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Rachelle S. Doody, Baylor College of Medicine
8:50 AM
Clustering Alzheimer's Patients into 'Syndrome Groups' Using Longitudinal Biomarker and Cognitive Trajectories
—
Teresa Filshtein, University of California at Davis ; Laurel A. Beckett, University of California at Davis
9:05 AM
A Hidden Markov Model Approach to Analyzing Longitudinal Alzheimer's Disease Stages Subject to Possible Misclassification
—
Julia Benoit, University of Houston ; Wenyaw Chan, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Linda Piller, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Rachelle S. Doody, Baylor College of Medicine
9:20 AM
Predicting Alzheimer's Disease with Mixture of Regression Modeling
—
Frank Appiah ; David Fardo, University of Kentucky ; Erin L. Abner, University of Kentucky ; Glen Mays, University of Kentucky ; Richard Charnigo, University of Kentucky
9:50 AM
Clustering Longitudinal Unbalanced Data: An Application to the Early Childhood Growth Pattern
—
Md Hossain, Nemours Biomedical Research, A.I. DuPont Children's Hospital
10:05 AM
Prediction of Invasive Group A Streptococcus Infections in Non-ABCs Areas in the United States
—
Yongping Hao, CDC
675 * !
Thu, 8/4/2016,
10:30 AM -
12:20 PM
CC-W183a
Statistical Methods in HIV Study — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Le Bao, Penn State University
Chair(s): Evan Ray, University of Massachusetts
10:35 AM
Probabilistic Models of HIV/AIDS-Related Deaths Using Verbal Autopsy
—
Tyler McCormick, University of Washington ; Sam Clark, University of Washington ; Zehang Li, University of Washington
11:00 AM
Leaving No One Behind: Estimating HIV Epidemics at Sub-National and Sub-Population Level
—
Le Bao, Penn State University ; Ben Sheng, Penn State University ; Xiaoyue Niu, Penn State University ; Yuan Tang, Penn State University
11:25 AM
Design and Analysis Issues Associated with Community-Based HIV Test and Treat: The SEARCH Study
—
Nicholas P. Jewell, University of California at Berkeley
11:50 AM
The Extraordinary Power of Statistics That Underlies a Scientific Breakthrough in HIV/AIDS Research
—
Ying Qing Chen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
12:15 PM
Floor Discussion
691
Thu, 8/4/2016,
10:30 AM -
12:20 PM
CC-W181a
Modern Biosurveillance at the Edge of Online Social Media, Social Networks, and Nontraditional Big Data — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics and the Environment , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Georgiy Bobashev, RTI International, Yulia R. Gel, The University of Texas at Dallas
Chair(s): Julia Kozlitina, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
10:35 AM
Improving Influenza Forecast by Counteracting Structural Errors
—
Sen Pei, Columbia University ; Jeffrey Shaman
10:55 AM
Harnessing the Power of Twitter with Offline Contact Networks for Probabilistic Flu Forecasting
—
Kusha Nezafati, The University of Texas at Dallas ; Leticia Ramirez-Ramirez, Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology ; Yulia R. Gel, The University of Texas at Dallas
11:15 AM
Can Wikipedia Improve Flu Forecasts in the United States?
—
Dave Osthus, Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Reid Priedhorsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Jim Gattiker, Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Sara Del Valle, Los Alamos National Laboratory
11:35 AM
Forecasting of Cases for Climate Sensitive Mosquito-Borne Diseases Using Online/Social Media Information
—
Lilia Leticia Ramirez Ramirez, Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas ; Yulia R. Gel, The University of Texas at Dallas ; Vyacheslav Lyubchich, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
11:55 AM
Inbound Call Survey (ICS) Technology and Rapid Surveillance
—
Georgiy Bobashev, RTI International ; Burton Levine, RTI International ; Karol Krotki, RTI International ; Scott Richards, Reconnect Research
12:15 PM
Floor Discussion
696 *
Thu, 8/4/2016,
10:30 AM -
12:20 PM
CC-W184a
Novel Applications of Statistical Methods to Epidemiologic Data — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biopharmaceutical Section
Chair(s): Allen Heller, University of Southern California
10:35 AM
Longitudinal Study of NHDS Data Using NFCA for Aging Population
—
Junheng Ma, Case Western Reserve University ; Jiayang Sun, Case Western Reserve University ; Neal Dawson, Case Western Reserve University/MetroHealth Medical Center
10:50 AM
Better Use of Family History Data to Predict Breast Cancer Risk
—
Shanshan Zhao, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Clare Weinberg, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Yue Jiang, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:05 AM
Projected Outcomes of Six-Month Delay in Exception Points vs. an Equivalent MELD Score for HCC Liver Transplant Candidates
—
Guy N. Brock, The Ohio State University ; Douglas J. Lorenz, University of Louisville ; Sarah K. Alver, University of Louisville ; Michael R. Marvin, Geisinger Medical Center
11:20 AM
Comparing Results from Two National Surveys: How Survey Methodologies May Influence the Observed Association Between Physical Activity and Diabetes by Mobility Disability Status
—
Qing Zhang, CDC/NCBDDD ; Dianna D. Carroll, CDC
11:35 AM
Projection of Acute Gastroenteritis Illness Rates on Cruise Ships in the United States Through 2050
—
Shailendra Banerjee, CDC ; Amy L. Freeland, CDC
11:50 AM
Distinguishing Hospital Performance Using Health Care--Associated Infection Survival Functions
—
Jonathan R. Edwards, CDC
12:05 PM
Alcohol Consumption, BMI, and Colorectal Cancer
—
Negasi Beyene, CDC/NCHS