JSM 2016 Online Program

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

2 * !	Sun, 7/31/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W196c
Novel Statistical Methods in Imaging — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Ping Ma, University of Georgia
Chair(s): Ping Ma, University of Georgia
2:05 PM	From Statistical Visual Modeling and Computing to Communicative Learning — Tianfu Wu, University of California at Los Angeles
2:30 PM	Nonparametric Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Neuroimaging Data — Nathaniel Helwig, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
2:55 PM	Bayesian Feature Screening for Big Neuroimaging Data via Massively Parallel Computing — Jian Kang, University of Michigan
3:20 PM	Joint Analysis of Brain Imaging Data and Genetics Data — Wenxuan Zhong, University of Georgia
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

13 !	Sun, 7/31/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W187b
Advances and Novel Problems in Network Statistics — Invited Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): David Sungjun Choi, Carnegie Mellon University
Chair(s): Minh Tang, The Johns Hopkins University
2:05 PM	Novel Approaches to Snowball Sampling That Circumvent the Critical Threshold — Karl Rohe, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2:30 PM	Information Recovery in Errorfully Labeled Graphs via Graph Matching — Vince Lyzinski, The Johns Hopkins University
2:55 PM	Estimating the Population Mean Network from a Random Sample of Networks — Daniel Sussman, Harvard
3:20 PM	Co-Clustering of Nonsmooth Graphons — David Sungjun Choi, Carnegie Mellon University
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

15 *	Sun, 7/31/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W196a
Recent Advances in Early Phase I/II Cancer Trials Using Drug Combinations — Topic Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Mourad Tighiouart, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Chair(s): Ying Yuan, MD Anderson Cancer Center
2:05 PM	The Utility of Conditional Autoregressive (CAR) Models for Modeling Efficacy of Molecularly Targeted Agents in Early-Phase Trials — Thomas Braun, University of Michigan
2:25 PM	Two-Stage Design for Phase I/II Cancer Clinical Trials Using Drug Combinations of Cytotoxic Agents — Mourad Tighiouart, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ; Quanlin Li
2:45 PM	Early-Phase Design for a Combination of Immunotherapies — Nolan Wages, University of Virginia ; Craig Slingluff, University of Virginia ; Gina Petroni, University of Virginia
3:05 PM	Discussant: Andre Rogatko, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
3:25 PM	Floor Discussion

23	Sun, 7/31/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W186b
Bayesian Prediction — Topic Contributed Papers
International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Bertrand Clarke, University of Nebraska
Chair(s): Bertrand Clarke, University of Nebraska
2:05 PM	On the Use of Cauchy Prior Distributions for Bayesian Logistic Regression — Joyee Ghosh, University of Iowa ; Yingbo Li , Clemson University ; Robin Mitra, University of Southampton
2:25 PM	Model Averaging Versus Model Selection — Tri Le, University of Nebraska ; Bertrand Clarke, University of Nebraska
2:45 PM	Efficient Importance Sampling Methods for Estimating Parameters in SGLMMs and Improving Prediction — Vivekananda Roy, Iowa State University
3:05 PM	Advanced Algorithmic Implementations of Bayesian Inference in Cosmology — Jeffrey Jewell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
3:25 PM	Standard Errors, Solution Paths, and Selection of Tuning Parameters for Bayesian Lassos — Sounak Chakraborty, University of Missouri - Columbia ; Vivekananda Roy, Iowa State University
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

28 * !	Sun, 7/31/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W193a
Recent Advances in Precision Medicine — Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Neal Thomas, Pfizer
2:05 PM	A Subgroup Identification Method Based on Quantitative Criteria — Yan Sun, AbbVie ; Samad Hedayat, University of Illinois at Chicago
2:20 PM	Personalized Time-to-Event Prediction in Intensive Care — Yingying Xu ; Joel Dubin, University of Waterloo ; Joon Lee, University of Waterloo
2:35 PM	Nonparametric Bayesian Accelerated Failure-Time Models for Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Individualized Treatment Decisions — Nicholas Henderson, The Johns Hopkins University ; Ravi Varadhan, The Johns Hopkins University ; Thomas A. Louis, The Johns Hopkins University ; Gary Rosner, The Johns Hopkins University
2:50 PM	Joint Dichotomization of Continuous Variables to Discriminate Disease Status — Bethany Wolf, Medical University of South Carolina ; Sybil Prince-Nelson, Medical University of South Carolina ; Paul J. Nietert, Medical University of South Carolina ; Viswanathan Ramakrishnan, Medical University of South Carolina ; Paula S. Ramos, Medical University of South Carolina ; Diane Kamen, Medical University of South Carolina
3:05 PM	Adaptive Sampling for Subgroup Analyses — Alexander Luedtke, University of California at Berkeley ; Antoine Chambaz, L'Université Paris Ouest Nanterre
3:20 PM	Individualized Subgroup Variable Selection — Xiwei Tang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3:35 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — Yinan Fang, Iowa State University ; Chong Wang, Iowa State University ; Jeffrey Zimmerman, Iowa State University

36	Sun, 7/31/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W176a
Sufficient Dimension Reduction and Projection Methods — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Glen Wright Colopy, University of Oxford
2:05 PM	Selective Combinations of Central Matrices for Dimension Reduction — Son Nguyen
2:20 PM	On Sufficient Dimension Reduction for Functional Data — Jun Song, Penn State University ; Bing Li, Penn State University
2:35 PM	Determining the Number of Components in a Generalized Spiked Population Model — Hyo Young Choi
2:50 PM	On Likelihood Ratio Tests in Dimensionality-Restricted Models — Mingyue Gao ; Michael Trosset, Indiana University ; Carey Priebe, The Johns Hopkins University
3:05 PM	Partial Projective Resampling Method for Dimension Reduction: With Applications to Partially Linear Models — Haileab Hilafu, University of Tennessee ; Wenbo Wu, University of Oregon
3:20 PM	On Estimating Regression-Based Causal Effects Using Sufficient Dimension Reduction — Wei Luo, Baruch College
3:35 PM	Supervised Dimensionality Reduction for Exponential Family Data — Andrew Landgraf, Battelle ; Yoonkyung Lee, The Ohio State University

38 *	Sun, 7/31/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W191
Statistical Methods in Early Development Trials — Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Anjana Grandhi, Merck
2:05 PM	Enabling Robust Concentration-QTc Assessment for Single Ascending Dose (SAD) Clinical Pharmacology Trials — Li Fan, Merck ; Devan V. Mehrotra, Merck ; Fang Liu, Merck ; Kuenhi Tsai, Merck
2:20 PM	Comparison of Methods to Deal with Separation Problem in Clinical Trials with Binary Data — Shuyan Wan, Merck
2:35 PM	Cluster Enrichment Method to Identify Inhibitors of Down-Regulators of Immune Signaling in a Kinetic High-Throughput Screening Assay — Minya Pu, University of California at San Diego ; Karen Messer, University of California at San Diego ; Howard Cottam, University of California at San Diego ; Tomoko Hayashi, University of California at San Diego ; Maripat Corr, University of California at San Diego ; Dennis Carson, University of California at San Diego
2:50 PM	Concentration-Response (QT/QTc) Analysis for Classifying Risk of QT Prolongation — Xiaoli Glasgow, Merck ; Kuenhi Tsai, Merck ; Li Fan, Merck ; Fang Liu, Merck ; Wei Gao, Merck
3:05 PM	A Comparison Between Dried Blood Spots and Traditional PK Sampling Using Concordance Correlation Coefficient for Repeated Measurements — Yang Liu, Merck ; Tian Zhao , Merck ; Patrick Larson, Merck
3:20 PM	Bioassay Case Study Applying the Maximin D-Optimal Design Algorithm to the Four-Parameter Logistic Model — Todd Coffey, Washington State University

45	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W190a
Introductory Overview Lecture: Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis — Invited Special Presentation
ASA , ENAR , WNAR , IMS , SSC , International Chinese Statistical Association , International Indian Statistical Association , Korean International Statistical Society , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Royal Statistical Society , International Statistical Institute
Organizer(s): Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
Chair(s): Mevin Hooten, Colorado State University
4:05 PM	An Introduction to Spatio-Temporal Statistics: There Is No History Without Geography (and Vice Versa!) — Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
5:45 PM	Floor Discussion

47 !	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W183b
Making the Most of R Tools — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Wendy Martinez, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair(s): Jeffrey Gonzalez, Bureau of Labor Statistics
4:05 PM	Thinking with Data Using R and RStudio: Powerful Idioms for Analysts — Nicholas Jon Horton, Amherst College ; Randall Pruim, Calvin College ; Daniel Kaplan, Macalester College
4:35 PM	Transform Your Workflow and Deliverables with Shiny and R Markdown — Garrett Grolemund, RStudio
5:05 PM	Discussant: Hadley Wickham, Rice University
5:25 PM	Floor Discussion

48 * !	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W192a
Statistical Methods for Aging and Dementia — Invited Papers
Biometrics Section , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Yorghos Tripodis, Boston University
Chair(s): Yorghos Tripodis, Boston University
4:05 PM	Relevant Brain Region Selection for Predicting MCI to AD Conversion via Functional Data Analysis Approach — Ah Yeon Park, University of Cambridge ; John Aston, University of Cambridge ; Frederic Ferraty, Toulouse Jean Jaures University
4:30 PM	Dynamic Network Analysis in Resting-State fMRI for Alzheimer's Disease — Eric D. Kolaczyk, Boston University ; Heather Shappell, Boston University ; Yorghos Tripodis, Boston University ; Ron Killiany, Boston University
4:55 PM	Alzheimer's Disease Severity, Objectively Determined and Measured — Alden Gross, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Jeannie M. Leoutsakos, The Johns Hopkins University ; Marilyn Albert, The Johns Hopkins University ; Dan M. Mungas, University of California at Davis ; Richard Norman Jones, Brown University
5:20 PM	Discussant: Richard Kryscio, University of Kentucky
5:40 PM	Floor Discussion

50 * !	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W178a
Statistical Challenges and Power in Integrating Big and Complex Imaging Data — Invited Papers
SSC , Section on Statistics in Imaging , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Linglong Kong, University of Alberta
Chair(s): Linglong Kong, University of Alberta
4:05 PM	Estimation and Inference for Brain Connectivity Analysis — Lexin Li, University of California at Berkeley
4:30 PM	PDEs and Regularized Principal Component Analysis of Functional Connectivity Maps — Eardi Lila, University of Cambridge ; John Aston, University of Cambridge ; Laura Sangalli, Politecnico di Milano
4:55 PM	An Autologistic Regression Model for Binary Classification of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Imagery — Charmaine Dean, University of Western Ontario ; Mark Wolters, Fudan University
5:20 PM	Functional Connectivity for Prediction and Classification: Characterization and Estimation — DuBois Bowman, Columbia University
5:35 PM	Floor Discussion

52 * !	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W196c
Recent Advances in Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Functional Data Analysis — Invited Papers
ENAR , Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Ying Sun, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Chair(s): Ying Sun, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
4:05 PM	Bayesian Modeling and Inference for High-Dimensional Spatiotemporal Data Sets — Sudipto Banerjee, University of California at Los Angeles
4:30 PM	Copula Random Field with Application to Longitudinal Neuroimaging Data Analysis — Peter X. K. Song, University of Michigan ; Jian Kang, University of Michigan
4:55 PM	A Multiresolution Model for Activation and Connectivity in fMRI Data with Functional Estimation of the Haemodynamic Response — Stefano Castruccio, Newcastle University ; Hernando Ombao, University of California at Irvine ; Thomas Theussl, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology ; Marc Genton, KAUST
5:20 PM	Discussant: Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research
5:40 PM	Floor Discussion

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 — 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 — Li Hsu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
5:20 PM	Discussant: Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan
5:40 PM	Floor Discussion

60 * !	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W187a
Power of Blinded Data Reviews — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Consulting , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Ibrahim Turkoz, Janssen R&D
Chair(s): Ibrahim Turkoz, Janssen R&D
4:05 PM	Predicting the Timing of the Final Event in a Clinical Trial Using the Bayesian Bootstrap and Beyond — Marc Sobel, Temple University ; Ibrahim Turkoz, Janssen R&D
4:25 PM	Control Charts for Monitoring Accumulating Adverse Event Count Frequencies from Single and Multiple Blinded Trials — A. Gould, Merck Research Laboratories
4:45 PM	Continuous Event Monitoring via a Bayesian Predictive Approach — Jianing Di, Janssen R&D ; Daniel Wang, Janssen R&D ; Robert Brashear, Janssen R&D ; Vlad Dragalin, Janssen ; Michael Krams, Janssen R&D
5:05 PM	Enrollment and Event Prediction for Blinded Clinical Trials — Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Cytel ; Yannis Jemiai, Cytel
5:25 PM	Discussant: Sue-Jane Wang, FDA
5:45 PM	Floor Discussion

62 !	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W178b
Recent Advances in Bayesian Nonparametric Methods — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , IMS , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Peter Mueller, The University of Texas at Austin
Chair(s): Peter Mueller, The University of Texas at Austin
4:05 PM	Bayesian High-Dimensional Sparse Models with Unknown Symmetric Errors — Lizhen Lin, The University of Texas ; Minwoo Chae, The University of Texas at Austin ; David Dunson, Duke University
4:25 PM	On time-dependent Gibbs-type random probability measures — Igor Pruenster, Bocconi University
4:45 PM	On the transition function of some time-dependent Dirichlet and gamma processes — Antonio Lijoi, University of Pavia
5:05 PM	Posterior Contraction of the Population Structure in Admixture Models — Long Nguyen
5:25 PM	On GEM diffusive mixtures — Ramses Mena, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ; Luis Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile
5:45 PM	Floor Discussion

63 * !	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W193b
New Developments on Network Meta-Analysis in Clinical Trials — Topic Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Cindy Lu, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals
Chair(s): Jerry Weaver, Celgene
4:05 PM	On the Sensitivity Analysis for Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis — Haoda Fu
4:25 PM	Network Meta-Analysis for Ordinal Outcomes: An Application in Comparing Crohn's Disease Treatments — May Mo, Amgen ; Yeongjin Gwon, University of Connecticut ; Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut ; Amy Xia, Amgen ; Juan Li, Amgen ; Joseph G. Ibrahim, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
4:45 PM	Incorporation of Individual Patient Data in Network Meta-Analysis for Multiple Continuous Endpoints, with Application to Diabetes Treatment — Hwanhee Hong, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Haoda Fu ; Karen Price, Eli Lilly and Company ; Bradley Carlin, University of Minnesota
5:05 PM	Network Meta-Analysis for Missing Binary Outcomes from Part of the Network — Cindy Lu, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals ; Robert Wan, AstraZeneca
5:25 PM	Use of Informative Prior Information in Network Meta-Analysis of Rare Adverse Events — David Ohlssen, Novartis
5:45 PM	Floor Discussion

64 * !	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W184a
The World of Statistical Analysis Professionals — Topic Contributed Papers
Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Section on Statistics in Marketing , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association , Caucus for Women in Statistics
Organizer(s): Nancy C. Wang, Celerion
Chair(s): Nancy C. Wang, Celerion
4:05 PM	Personalized Marketing and the Role of the Statistician in Retail — Rebecca Schulthess, Eastbay/Footlocker.com
4:25 PM	When Analytics Meet Marketing: Statistics in Action with Marketing Data — Huimin Liu, Ocwen Financial
4:45 PM	Searching for Statistical Evidence of Better Health: Working as a Statistician on the Campus of a Major Academic Health Center — Harlan Sayles, University of Nebraska Medical Center
5:05 PM	What Can a Statistician Do at an Airline? — Aleksandra Stein
5:25 PM	Expanding the Use of Statistics at a Financial Institution — Kristin Carney, Cabela's

66 *	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W194b
Kathryn Chaloner: Contributions and Reflections from Former Students and Colleagues — Topic Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Jeffrey D. Dawson, University of Iowa
Chair(s): Jeffrey D. Dawson, University of Iowa
4:05 PM	Accounting for Uncertainty in the Design — Sharon Lohr, Westat
4:25 PM	Kathryn Chaloner: Contributions and Reflections from Former Students and Colleagues — Gideon Zamba, University of Iowa
4:45 PM	Prestige in Latent Social Space — Gary Oehlert, University of Minnesota
5:05 PM	A Bayesian Framework for Diagnosis of E2-Antibody Using ELISA Tests Without a Gold Standard — Jingyang Zhang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
5:25 PM	Accelerating Computation for Bayesian Spatial Modeling — Mary Kathryn Cowles, University of Iowa
5:45 PM	Floor Discussion

69 * !	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W193a
Novel Methods in Causal and Mediation Analysis — Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Hrishikesh Chakraborty, University of South Carolina
4:05 PM	Multiple Imputation Framework to Estimate Causal Effect of Testing on Treatment Decision — Irina Bondarenko, University of Michigan ; Yun Li, University of Michigan
4:20 PM	Causal Moderation Assessment with Zero-Inflated Data — Robert Gallop ; Paul Crits-Christoph, University of Pennsylvania
4:35 PM	Characterizing Causal Treatment Effect Heterogeneity with Conditional Inference Trees — Julian Wolfson, University of Minnesota ; Lauren Erickson, HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research
4:50 PM	Sharp Bounds of Causal Effects on Ordinal Outcomes — Jiannan Lu, Microsoft ; Peng Ding, University of California at Berkeley ; Dasgupta Tirthankar, Harvard
5:05 PM	Centering of Interactions in Lower-Level Mediation Models — Haeike Josephy, UGent ; Tom Loeys, Ghent University
5:20 PM	Nonlinear Structural Equation Models in Environmental Epidemiology — Esben Budtz-Jørgensen
5:35 PM	Integrative Genomic Association Testing via Kernel Machine Mediation Analysis — Angela Hsiaohan Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Sihai Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

77	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W177
Statistical Methods for Brain Connectivity and Network Analysis — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Daniel Rowe, Marquette University
4:05 PM	A Novel Group-Fused Lasso with Applications to Dynamic Brain Connectivity — David Degras, DePaul University ; Martin Lindquist, The Johns Hopkins University
4:20 PM	Regime-Switching Dynamic Factor Models with Applications to Estimating Large-Scale Time-Varying Brain Connectivity — Chee-Ming Ting, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia ; Hernando Ombao, University of California at Irvine ; S. Balqis Samdin, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia ; Sh-Hussain Salleh, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
4:35 PM	Exploiting Biology's Structure: Function Relationship to Improve Network Modeling in Neuroimaging — Barbara Wendelberger, University of Wisconsin - Madison ; M. Elizabeth Meyerand, University of Wisconsin - Madison
4:50 PM	Wavelet Analysis of Large-P-Small-N Cross-Correlation Matrices in fMRI Studies of Neuroplasticity — Jiayi Wu ; Sam Efromovich, The University of Texas at Dallas
5:05 PM	A Joint Model for Assessing the Link Between Functional and Structural Brain Connectivity — Phebe Kemmer, Emory University ; Ying Guo, Emory University
5:20 PM	Floor Discussion

83	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W187b
Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods — Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association , Section on Nonparametric Statistics
Chair(s): Hubert J. Chen, University of Georgia
4:05 PM	Comparison of Difference-Based Variance Estimators for Partially Linear Models — Guoyi Zhang, University of New Mexico
4:20 PM	A Class of Minimum Distance Estimators in AR(P) Models with Infinite Error Variance — Xiaoyu Li, Auburn University ; Hira L. Koul, Michigan State University
4:35 PM	Simultaneous Confidence Band for Survey Data — Jiangyan Wang, Soochow University ; Suojin Wang, Texas A&M University ; Lijian Yang, Soochow University
4:50 PM	On Nonparametric Estimation of Distributionally Ordered Survival Functions — Hsun-Chih Kuo, National Chengchi University
5:05 PM	Treatment Allocation Methods Using Ordered Statistics — Yisong Huang, Georgia Southern University ; Hani Samawi, Georgia Southern University
5:20 PM	Center and Log Range Models for Interval-Valued Data with an Application to Forecast Stock Returns — Ying Wang, Peking University ; Yundong Tu, Peking University
5:35 PM	Floor Discussion

86 !	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W179b
Biomedical Applications of Nonparametric Methods — Contributed Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Sunil Mathur, Georgia Regents University
4:05 PM	Predictive Accuracy of Markers or Risk Scores for Interval-Censored Survival Data — Yuan Wu, Duke University ; Xiaofei Wang, Duke University ; Kouros Owzar, Duke University
4:20 PM	Dimension Reduction and Estimation in Secondary Analysis of Case-Control Studies — Liang Liang, Texas A&M University ; Yanyuan Ma, University of South Carolina ; Raymond Carroll, Texas A&M University
4:35 PM	Composite Bootstrap Test with Counterintuitive Resampling Method to Compare Two Groups: An Application to Randomized Clinical Trials — Alok Dwivedi, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso ; Christopher Dodoo, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso ; Sada Nand Dwivedi, All India Institute of Medical Sciences ; Rakesh Shukla, University of Cincinnati
4:50 PM	Shared Frailty in Joint Model of Cancer Incidence, Metastases, and Mortality — Qui Tran, University of Michigan ; Kelley M. Kidwell, University of Michigan ; Alex Tsodikov, University of Michigan
5:05 PM	Two-Sample Inference on Quantile Lost Lifespan — Lauren Balmert, University of Pittsburgh ; Jong-Hyeon Jeong, University of Pittsburgh
5:20 PM	A Structural equation model for a dental health related quality of life framework — Ana Nora Donaldson, SUNY Stony Brook ; Nairn Wilson, King's College London ; James Wallace, Bradford University ; Nelarine Cornelius, Bradford University School of Management ; Angelo Passalacqua, King's College London
5:35 PM	Time Series Smoother — Cheng You, Penn State University ; Dennis K. J. Lin, Penn State University ; Stanley Young, National Institute of Statistical Sciences

213433	Sun, 7/31/2016, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM	H-4C
ICSA Board Meeting (Closed) — Other ICW
International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Zhezhen Jin, Columbia University

96	Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W375b
Introductory Overview Lecture: Causal Inference — Invited Special Presentation
ASA , ENAR , WNAR , IMS , SSC , International Chinese Statistical Association , International Indian Statistical Association , Korean International Statistical Society , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Royal Statistical Society , International Statistical Institute , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Judea Pearl, University of California at Los Angeles
Chair(s): Wei (Peter) Yang, University of Pennsylvania
8:35 AM	Causal Inference in Statistics: A Gentle Introduction — Judea Pearl, University of California at Los Angeles ; Elias Bareinboim, Purdue University
10:05 AM	Floor Discussion

97 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W190a
Modern Slavery: The Importance of Statistical Approaches — Invited Papers
Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Bernard W. Silverman, Home Office, UK
Chair(s): Peter J. Diggle, University of Lancaster
8:35 AM	Modern Slavery Worldwide and the Global Slavery Index — Kevin Bales, University of Hull ; Jacqueline Joudo Larsen, Walk Free Foundation ; Monti Datta, University of Richmond ; Davina Durgana, Walk Free Foundation
9:00 AM	A Multiple Systems Estimate Approach to Quantifying Modern Slavery, in the Context of the UK Government's Strategy and Legislation — Bernard W. Silverman, Home Office, UK ; Olivia Hesketh, Home Office, UK
9:25 AM	Assessing the Predictors of Contemporary Slavery — Monti Datta, University of Richmond
9:50 AM	Discussant: John Picarelli, National Institute of Justice
10:10 AM	Floor Discussion

98 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W190b
Statistical Aspects of Computer Experiments — Invited Papers
Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences , International Chinese Statistical Association , Quality and Productivity Section
Organizer(s): Qiong Zhang, Virginia Commonwealth University
Chair(s): Qiong Zhang, Virginia Commonwealth University
8:35 AM	On the Convergence Rates of Expected Improvement Methods — llya O. Ryzhov, University of Maryland
9:00 AM	Prediction Based on the Kennedy-O'Hagan Calibration Model: Asymptotic Consistency and Other Properties — Rui Tuo, Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology
9:25 AM	Simulation and Optimization Using Minimum Energy Designs — Roshan Joseph Vengazhiyil, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Dasgupta Tirthankar, Harvard ; Rui Tuo, Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology
9:50 AM	Deep Learning for Emulation in Uncertainty Quantification — Jared D. Huling, University of Wisconsin - Madison ; Peter Qian, University of Wisconsin - Madison
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

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 — 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 — 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 — 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

104 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W196a
Advanced Machine Learning Methods for Large-Scale Heterogeneous Data — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chair(s): Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
8:35 AM	Sparse Regression for Block Missing Data Without Imputation — Yufeng Liu, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:00 AM	Automatic Summarization — Junhui Wang, University of Illinois at Chicago ; Xiaotong Shen, University of Minnesota ; Yiwen Sun, University of Minnesota ; Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:25 AM	Query-Specific Learning to Rank via Local Smoothing — Junhui Wang, City University of Hong Kong
9:50 AM	Is Manifold Learning (Finding Low-Dimensional Nonlinear Embeddings for High-Dimensional Data) Impractical for Large Data? — Dominique Perrault-Joncas, Google ; James McQueen, University of Washington ; Marina Meila, University of Washington ; Zhongyue Zhang, University of Washington ; Jake VanderPlas, University of Washington
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

107 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W184bc
Joint Modeling of Survival Time with Another Outcome in Clinical Trials or Observation Studies — Invited Papers
Biometrics Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Tianle Hu, Eli Lilly and Company
Chair(s): Tianle Hu, Eli Lilly and Company
8:35 AM	Bayesian Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data with Treatment Switches — Fan Zhang, University of Connecticut ; Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut ; Qingxia Chen, Vanderbilt University ; Xiuyu Julie Cong, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
9:00 AM	Joint Modeling of Survival Time and Longitudinal Outcomes with Flexible Random Effects — Jianwen Cai, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Jaeun Choi, Albert Einstein College of Medicine ; Donglin Zeng, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Andy Olshan, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:25 AM	Joint Modeling of Survival Time with Another Outcome in Clinical Trials or Observational Studies — Ross L. Prentice, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Shanshan Zhao, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
9:50 AM	Analysis of Proportional Hazards Model with Sparse Longitudinal Covariates — Jason Fine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

111 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W187c
Recent Statistical Developments in Cancer Research — Topic Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Sujay Datta, University of Akron
Chair(s): Sujay Datta, University of Akron
8:35 AM	Normalization for Single-Cell RNA-Seq — Christina Kendziorski, University of Wisconsin ; Rhonda Bacher, University of Wisconsin - Madison ; Li-Fang Chu, Morgridge Institute for Research ; James Thomson, Morgridge Institute for Research ; Ron Stewart, Morgridge Institute for Research
8:55 AM	Statistical Issues in Single-Cell Analysis for Cancer Research — Omar De La Cruz Cabrera, Case Western Reserve University
9:15 AM	Residual-Based Trees for Clustered Binary Data — Mousumi Banerjee, University of Michigan ; Rong Xia, University of Michigan
9:35 AM	Cancer Mortality in USA, 1999--2012: A Review and Inter-State Comparisons — Desale Habtzghi, DePaul University
9:55 AM	Discussant: Sunil Mathur, Georgia Regents University
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

113 *	Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W185bc
Challenges in Design and Analysis of Multi-Regional Clinical Trials — Topic Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Gang Li, Johnson & Johnson
Chair(s): Gang Li, Johnson & Johnson
8:35 AM	MRCT Design Models and Drop-Min Data Analysis — Kuang-Kuo Lan, Janssen R&D
8:55 AM	Design and Analysis of Multiregional Clinical Trials in Evaluation of Medical Devices: Some Points to Consider from a Regional Regulatory Perspective — Yunling Xu, FDA/CDRH ; Nelson LU, FDA/CDRH
9:15 AM	Why Can't We Agree on MRCTs? — Joshua Chen, Sanofi Pasteur
9:35 AM	Example-Based Illustrations of Design, Conduct, Analysis, and Result Interpretation of Multi-Regional Clinical Trials — Hui Quan, Sanofi ; Xuezhou Mao, Sanofi
9:55 AM	Discussant: Hsien-Ming James Hung, FDA
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

119 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W193b
First Steps in Analyzing Vaginal Microbiome Data — Topic Contributed Papers
International Indian Statistical Association , WNAR , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Snehalata Huzurbazar, University of Wyoming
Chair(s): Snehalata Huzurbazar, University of Wyoming
8:35 AM	Visualizing 16S RRNA Vaginal Microbiome Data — Eugenie Jackson, University of Wyoming ; Anju Menon, University of Wyoming ; Ekaterina Smirnova, University of Wyoming ; Snehalata Huzurbazar, University of Wyoming
8:55 AM	Quality Control for Microbiome Experiments — David Edwards, Virginia Commonwealth University
9:15 AM	Microbiome Normalization Methods: Effect on Ordination Analysis — Ekaterina Smirnova, University of Wyoming ; Snehalata Huzurbazar, University of Wyoming ; Glen Alan Satten, CDC ; Liyang Diao, Yale University
9:35 AM	Community State Types and Major Shifts in the Microbiome — James Brooks, Virginia Commonwealth University
9:55 AM	Discussant: Jessica Galloway-Pena, MD Anderson Cancer Center
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

126 *	Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W186b
Statistical Methods for High-Dimensional Data — Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Kuolung Hu, Amgen
8:35 AM	EigenPrism: Inference for High-Dimensional Signal-to-Noise Ratios — Lucas Janson ; Emmanuel Candes, Stanford University ; Rina Foygel Barber, The University of Chicago
8:50 AM	Genomic Determination Index — Cheng Cheng, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ; Robert J. Autry, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ; Wenjian Yang, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ; Steven Paugh, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ; William E. Evans, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
9:05 AM	Group Feature Screening via F-Test — Won Chul Song, Purdue University ; Jun Xie, Purdue University
9:20 AM	Modeling Micronuclei Count Data Using the Generalized Monotone Incremental Forward Stagewise Method: Application in Women with Breast Cancer — Rebecca Lehman, Virginia Commonwealth University ; Colleen Jackson-Cook, Virginia Commonwealth University ; Kellie J. Archer, Virginia Commonwealth University
9:35 AM	Annotation Regression of Genome-Wide Association Studies with Multiple Phenotypes — Sunyoung Shin, University of Wisconsin - Madison ; Sunduz Keles, University of Wisconsin - Madison
9:50 AM	Stochastic Optimization for High-Dimensional Mixed Effect Generalized Linear Models — Jun Guo, University of Michigan ; Yves F. Atchade, University of Michigan
10:05 AM	Truncation-Based Nearest Neighbors Imputation for High-Dimensional Data with Detection Limit Thresholds — Jasmit Shah, University of Louisville ; Guy N. Brock, The Ohio State University ; Shesh N. Rai, University of Louisville ; Aruni Bhatnagar, University of Louisville

127 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W196c
R Tools for Statistical Computing — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Haim Y. Bar, University of Connecticut
8:35 AM	The Biglasso Package: Extending Lasso Model Fitting to Big Data in R — Yaohui Zeng, University of Iowa ; Patrick Breheny, University of Iowa
9:05 AM	Introduction to the TextmineR Package for R — Thomas Jones, Impact Research
9:35 AM	New Computational Approaches to Large/Complex Mixed Effects Models — Norman Matloff, University of California at Davis
9:50 AM	Broom: An R Package for Converting Statistical Modeling Objects Into Tidy Data Frames — David G. Robinson, Stack Overflow
10:05 AM	Exact Parametric and Nonparametric Likelihood-Ratio Tests for Two-Sample Comparisons — Yang Zhao, SUNY Buffalo ; Albert Vexler, SUNY Buffalo ; Alan Hutson, SUNY Buffalo ; Xiwei Chen, SUNY Buffalo

149 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W190a
Recent Advances and Challenges of Big Data Inference with Complex Structures — Invited Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association , Royal Statistical Society , Committee on Applied Statisticians , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Zhao Ren, University of Pittsburgh
Chair(s): Zhao Ren, University of Pittsburgh
10:35 AM	Statistical Inference for High-Dimensional Linear Regression — Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania ; Zijian Guo, University of Pennsylvania
11:00 AM	Distributed Estimation and Inference with Statistical Guarantees — Heather Battey, Imperial College London ; Jianqing Fan, Princeton ; Han Liu, Princeton ; Junwei Lu, Princeton ; Ziwei Zhu, Princeton
11:25 AM	Phase Transitions in Semidefinite Programming and Graph Estimation — Andrea Montanari, Stanford University
11:50 AM	A General Framework for Bayes Structured Linear Models — Harrison Zhou, Yale University ; Chao Gao, Yale University
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

151 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W183c
Benefit-Risk Evaluation in Medicine — Invited Papers
Section on Medical Devices and Diagnostics , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians , Section on Risk Analysis
Organizer(s): Martin Ho, FDA/CDRH
Chair(s): Norberto Pantoja-Galicia, FDA/CDRH
10:35 AM	An Overview of Structured Benefit-Risk Analysis — Qi Jiang, Amgen ; Weili He, Merck
11:00 AM	Bayesian Benefit Risk Assessments for Medical Products — Telba Irony, FDA
11:25 AM	Recent Developments in Benefit-Risk Evaluation for Diagnostic Tests — Gene Pennello, FDA/CDRH/OSB/DBS ; Norberto Pantoja-Galicia, FDA/CDRH ; Scott Evans, Harvard
11:50 AM	Discussant: Scott Evans, Harvard
12:10 PM	Floor Discussion

156 !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W178a
Shedding Lights on the Hidden Structure Using Mixture Models: New Methods with Applications — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , ENAR , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Zheyu Wang, The Johns Hopkins University
Chair(s): Charles Doss, University of Minnesota
10:35 AM	Empirical Bayesball Remixed: Empirical Bayes Methods for Longitudinal Data — Roger Koenker, University of Illinois
10:55 AM	Stochastic EM-like Algorithms for Fitting Finite Mixture of Lifetime Regression Models Under Right Censoring — Laurent Bordes ; Didier Chauveau, University of Orleans
11:15 AM	Nonparametric Identifiability of Finite Mixture Model and It's Application in Alzheimer's Disease — Zheyu Wang, The Johns Hopkins University ; Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou, University of Washington
11:35 AM	Nonparametric Mixture Models with Conditionally Independent Multivariate Component Densities — Didier Chauveau, University of Orleans ; Vy Thuy Lynh Hoang, University of Orleans
11:55 AM	Clustering via Finite Nonparametric ICA Mixture Models — David Hunter, Penn State University ; Xiaotian Zhu, AbbVie
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

157 !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W179a
Bayesian Innovations for Negotiating High-Dimensional Data — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Edward I. George, The Wharton School
Chair(s): Edward I. George, The Wharton School
10:35 AM	Why Popular Bayesian Nonparametric Methods Fail for Sparse Clustering Tasks — Rebecca Steorts, Duke University ; Jeffrey Miller, Duke University ; Brenda Betancourt ; Abbas Zaidi, Duke University ; Hanna Wallach, University of Massachusetts - Amherst/Microsoft Research
10:55 AM	Fast Sampling with Gaussian Scale-Mixture Priors — Anirban Bhattacharya, Texas A&M University
11:15 AM	Empirical Bayes Prediction Under Check Loss — Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California
11:35 AM	How Many Needles in the Haystack? Adaptive Inference and Uncertainty Quantification for the Horseshoe — Stephanie Van Der Pas ; Botond Szabo, Leiden University ; Aad van der Vaart, Leiden University
11:55 AM	Some Properties of the One Group Prior for Sparse High-Dimensional Models — Jean-Bernard Salomond
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

158 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W184d
Advanced Methodology for Genetic Data Analysis — Topic Contributed Papers
ENAR , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Anne Buu, University of Michigan
Chair(s): Anne Buu, University of Michigan
10:35 AM	A Unified Framework for Variance Component Estimation with Summary Statistics in Genetic Association Studies — Xiang Zhou, University of Michigan
10:55 AM	Integrative Genetical Genomics Analysis Incorporating Network Structures — Yuehua Cui, Michigan State University ; Bin Gao, Michigan State University ; Xu Liu, Michigan State University
11:35 AM	Bayesian Variable Selection: An Alternative Route to Hierarchical Gene-Environment Interactions — Cen Wu, Kansas State University ; Yu Jiang, University of Memphis ; Jinfeng Wei, Maryville University ; Shuangge Ma, Yale University
11:55 AM	An Efficient Genome-Wide Association Test for Mixed Binary and Continuous Phenotypes with Applications to Substance Abuse Research — James Yang
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

159 *	Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W194b
Biostatistical Literacy: How Best to Teach Medical and Public Health Professionals What They Need to Know About Statistics — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences , Section on Statistical Education , International Chinese Statistical Association , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Ann M. Brearley, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Chair(s): Jane Monaco, The University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health
10:35 AM	The Results of Blended Instruction in Quantitative Methods in Public Health: A Pilot Study — Adam Sullivan, Brown University ; Marcello Pagano, Harvard
10:55 AM	Online Introductory Biostatistics for Graduate Students: Successes and Failures Teaching a Diverse Student Body — Rebecca Andridge, The Ohio State University
11:15 AM	Teaching Biostatistical Literacy: A Flipped-Classroom Approach — Ann M. Brearley, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
11:35 AM	Co-Teaching a Research Design Course to Clinicians — Amy Laird, Oregon Health & Science University
11:55 AM	Biostatistics Training of Medical Students Through Their Own Research — Constantine Daskalakis, Thomas Jefferson University
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

160	Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W185bc
Design and Analysis of Bioequivalence and Biosimilar Assessment — Topic Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Yi Tsong, FDA/CDER
Chair(s): Mengdie Yuan, FDA
10:35 AM	Determination of Equivalence Margin of Analytical Biosimilar Assessment — Yi Tsong, FDA/CDER ; Cassie Dong, FDA ; Meiyu Shen, FDA/CDER
10:55 AM	Does the Direction of Scores Matter in Clinical Trials? — Wanjie Sun, FDA ; Stella Grosser, FDA/CDER ; Yi Tsong, FDA/CDER
11:15 AM	Statistical Design and Analysis of Treatment Switching Effect — Cassie Dong, FDA
11:35 AM	Discussant: Shein-Chung Chow, Duke University
11:55 AM	Floor Discussion

162 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W175a
Using and Teaching the ASA Revised Ethical Guidelines for the Practice of Statistics — Topic Contributed Papers
Committee on Professional Ethics , International Chinese Statistical Association , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Howard Hogan, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair(s): Howard Hogan, U.S. Census Bureau
10:35 AM	Why and How the ASA Ethical Guidelines Should Be Integrated into Every Quantitative Course — Rochelle Tractenberg, Georgetown University Medical Center
10:55 AM	Ethical Guidelines and Industry — Marcia Levenstein, Pfizer ; Pandurang Kulkarni, Eli Lilly and Company
11:15 AM	Teaching the ASA Guidelines in a Cross-Cultural Setting — Alan Elliott, Southern Methodist University ; Jing Cao, Southern Methodist University ; Lynne Stokes, Southern Methodist University
11:35 AM	The Role of the Guidelines to Government Statisticians — Michael Hawes, U.S. Department of Education
11:55 AM	Floor Discussion

163 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W187c
Biometrics Section Student Paper Award Session 1 — Topic Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Virginia Commonwealth University
Chair(s): Colin O. Wu, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
10:35 AM	Fast Approximation of Small P-Values in Permutation Tests by Partitioning the Permutation Space — Brian Segal ; Hui Jiang, University of Michigan ; Thomas Braun, University of Michigan
10:55 AM	Multivariate Functional Principal Component Analysis for Data Observed on Different (Dimensional) Domains — Clara Happ, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich ; Sonja Greven, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
11:15 AM	Sequential BART for Imputation of Missing Covariates — Dandan Xu, University of Florida ; Michael Daniels, The University of Texas at Austin ; Almut G. Winterstein, University of Florida
11:35 AM	Recurrent Event Data Analysis with Intermittently Observed Time-Varying Covariates — Shanshan Li, Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health ; Yifei Sun, The Johns Hopkins University ; Chiung-Yu Huang, The Johns Hopkins University ; Dean Follmann, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ; Richard Krause, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
11:55 AM	Semiparametric Regression Analysis of Interval-Censored Competing Risks Data — Lu Mao, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Danyu Lin, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Donglin Zeng, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

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 — Jaya M. Satagopan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ; Alexia Iasonos, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
10:55 AM	Identifying Interactions Using Convex Optimization — Jacob Bien, Cornell University ; Robert Tibshirani, Stanford University ; Noah Simon, University of Washington
11:15 AM	Why Significant Variables Aren't Automatically Predictive — 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 — Li-Xuan Qin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

177 *	Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W186a
New Challenges in Complex Data Modeling I — Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Xiujuan Wang, Dow AgroSciences
10:35 AM	A Two-Stage Model for Wearable Device Data — Jiawei Bai, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Yifei Sun, The Johns Hopkins University ; Ciprian Crainiceanu, The Johns Hopkins University ; Mei-Cheng Wang, The Johns Hopkins University
10:50 AM	Sample-Size Calculations for Stratified Micro-Randomized Trials in Mhealth — Walter Dempsey, University of Michigan ; Peng Liao, University of Michigan ; Susan A. Murphy, University of Michigan
11:05 AM	Graphical LASSO with Auxiliary Information: Application to Neural Connectivity — Giuseppe Vinci, Carnegie Mellon University ; Robert Kass, Carnegie Mellon University ; Valerie Ventura, Carnegie Mellon University ; Matthew A. Smith, University of Pittsburgh
11:20 AM	Modeling Nonlinearity Using Splines: Applications and Simulations — Leila Amorim, UFBA ; Maristela Dias Oliveira, Universidade Federal da Bahia ; Daniele B. Trindade, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
11:35 AM	Binary Exposure and Longitudinal Cognition Outcomes in the Presence of Noningorable Dropout and Death — Maria Josefsson, CEDAR
11:50 AM	Biologically Pathway Information Incorporated Structured Model — Xuebei An, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Jianhua Hu, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Kim-Anh Do, MD Anderson Cancer Center
12:05 PM	Floor Discussion

188	Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-Hall F1 West
Contributed Poster Presentations: International Chinese Statistical Association — Contributed Poster Presentations
International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Genevera Allen, Rice University
15:	Properties of Difference-Based Ridge Estimators in Partial Linear Models — June Luo

217	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W375b
Late-Breaking Session I: Invest in What Works: First Steps Toward Establishing Evidence-Based Policymaking Clearinghouse — Invited Special Presentation
ASA , ENAR , WNAR , IMS , SSC , International Chinese Statistical Association , International Indian Statistical Association , Korean International Statistical Society , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Royal Statistical Society , International Statistical Institute
Organizer(s): Sallie Keller, Virginia Tech, Amy O'Hara, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair(s): Stephanie Shipp, Virginia Tech
2:05 PM	The Evidence-Based Policy Commission Act and Its Implications for the Federal Statistical System — Shelly Wilkie Martinez, Office of Management and Budget
2:30 PM	The Role of the Census Bureau Linkage Infrastructure — Amy O'Hara, U.S. Census Bureau
2:55 PM	Pilot Evaluations Using the Census Bureau Linkage Infrastructure — Kathy Stack, Laura and John Arnold Foundation
3:20 PM	Involving the Community to Establish an Evidence-Based Clearinghouse — Jeri Metzger Mulrow, Bureau of Justice Statistics
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

221	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W181a
The ASA Journal of Data Science: A Showcase — Invited Papers
Journal of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): David Banks, Duke University
Chair(s): David Madigan, Columbia University
2:05 PM	Bayesian Visual Analytics: BaVA — Leanna House, Virginia Tech ; Scotland Leman, Virginia Tech ; Chao Han, SAS Institute
2:45 PM	Large-Margin Classification with Multiple Decision Rules — Patrick Kimes, Roche Sequencing ; Yufeng Liu, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; J. S. Marron, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; David Neil Hayes, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:25 PM	Discussant: Niall Adams, Imperial College London
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

222 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W185d
Tricks and Treats in Classification and Regression Trees — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Wei-Yin Loh, University of Wisconsin
Chair(s): Wenwen Zhang, Takeda
2:05 PM	Overcoming Computational Challenges of Subgroup Identification Using SIDES Method — Ilya Lipkovich, Quintiles ; Alex Dmitrienko, Quintiles
2:30 PM	Smooth Sigmoid Surrogate (SSS): An Alternative to Greedy Search in Recursive Partitioning — Xiaogang Su, The University of Texas at El Paso ; Joseph Kang, CDC ; Lei Liu, Northwestern University ; Qiong Yang, Boston University ; Juanjuan Fan, San Diego State University ; Richard Levine, San Diego State University
2:55 PM	Some Ideas Left Out of CART — Padraic Grantier Neville, SAS Institute
3:20 PM	Some Tricks Behind the GUIDE Algorithm — Wei-Yin Loh, University of Wisconsin
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

223 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W187b
Nonparametric Bayesian Methods in Biostatistics — Invited Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , Section on Nonparametric Statistics , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Jeremy M. G. Taylor, University of Michigan, Lili Zhao, University of Michigan
Chair(s): Lili Zhao, University of Michigan
2:05 PM	DPOAE Test-Retest Difference Curves via Hierarchical Gaussian Processes — Timothy Hanson, University of South Carolina ; Junshu Bao, University of South Carolina ; Garnett McMillan, National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research ; Kristin Knight, National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research
2:30 PM	Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling and Inference for Mean Residual Life Functions — Athanasios Kottas, University of California at Santa Cruz ; Valerie Poynor, California State University at Fullerton
2:55 PM	Bayesian Nonparametric Methods for Precision Medicine — Qian Guan, North Carolina State University ; Eric Laber, North Carolina State University ; Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Virginia Commonwealth University ; Brian J. Reich, North Carolina State University
3:20 PM	Discussant: Peter Mueller, The University of Texas at Austin
3:40 PM	Floor Discussion

224 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W190a
Statistical Methods to Integrate Imaging and Genomics Data for Precision Medicine — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Imaging , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Arvind Rao, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Chair(s): Caprichia Jeffers, Emory University
2:05 PM	FVGWAS: Fast Voxelwise Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Large-Scale Imaging Genetic Data — Hongtu Zhu, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2:25 PM	Statistics on Tumor Images Using Trees and Shapes of Parameterized Curves — Karthik Bharath, University of Nottingham ; Veera Baladandayuthapani, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Arvind Rao, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Sebastian A. Kurtek, The Ohio State University ; Dipak Dey, University of Connecticut
3:05 PM	Linking Image-Derived Radiophenotypes with Genomic Expression in Glioblastoma — Arvind Rao, MD Anderson Cancer Center
3:25 PM	Discussant: Veera Baladandayuthapani, MD Anderson Cancer Center
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

228 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W183c
The Extraordinary Power of Statistical Collaboration — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Consulting , International Chinese Statistical Association , Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Eric Vance, Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis
Chair(s): Doug Zahn, Florida State University
2:05 PM	Moving from Statistical Consulting to Collaboration — Kim Love, K. R. Love Quantitative Consulting and Collaboration
2:30 PM	The Extraordinary Power of Statistical Collaboration in Industry — LeAnna Stork, Monsanto
2:55 PM	The Power of Statistical Collaboration in Government — Carol Gotway Crawford, USDA/NASS
3:20 PM	The Extraordinary Potential of Statistical Collaboration Laboratories — Eric Vance, Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

230 !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W192b
Effective Self-Promotion to Advance Your Career in Statistics — Invited Panel
Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences , Caucus for Women in Statistics , Committee on Women in Statistics , IMS , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Career Development , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Johanna G. Neslehova, McGill University
Chair(s): Johanna G. Neslehova, McGill University
2:05 PM	Effective Self-Promotion to Advance Your Career in Statistics
Panelists:	Charmaine Dean, University of Western Ontario Martha Gardner, General Electric Company Nicholas P. Jewell, University of California at Berkeley Nandini Kannan, National Science Foundation Michael R. Kosorok, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

231 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W193a
Application of Novel Methods in Clinical Trials: Case Study Approaches — Topic Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Arkendu S. Chatterjee, Novartis
Chair(s): Soumi Lahiri, GlaxoSmithKline
2:05 PM	Some New Metrics to Test for Biosimilarity — Sujit K. Ghosh, North Carolina State University ; Yifang Li, Novartis
2:25 PM	BOIN: A Simple, Ethical Bayesian Optimal Design for Phase I Oncology Trials — Ying Yuan, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Suyu Liu, MD Anderson Cancer Center
2:45 PM	Early-Phase Designs for Targeted and Immunotherapeutic Agents — Codruta Chiuzan, Columbia University
3:05 PM	Using Surrogate Marker Information to Test for a Treatment Effect — Layla Parast, RAND Corporation ; Tianxi Cai, Harvard ; Lu Tian, Stanford University
3:25 PM	A Note on Posterior Predictive Assessment to Assess Model Fit — Arkendu S. Chatterjee, Novartis ; Dandan Xu, University of Florida ; Michael Daniels, The University of Texas at Austin
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

232	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W196c
Mediation Analysis and Sensitivity Analysis in Advanced Settings — Topic Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Chanmin Kim, Harvard, Corwin Zigler, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Chair(s): Chanmin Kim, Harvard
2:05 PM	Sparse Mediation Analysis for High-Dimensional Mediators with Application of Neuroimaging and Methylation Data — Seonjoo Lee, Columbia University
2:25 PM	Meta-Mediation Analysis for Generating Mechanistic Hypotheses — John Jackson, Harvard ; Tyler J. VanderWeele, Harvard
2:45 PM	Region-Based Hypothesis Test of Mediation Effect with Epigenomic Data Using Kernel Machine Regression — Jincheng Shen, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3:05 PM	The Impact of Exposure Measurement Error in Mediation Analyses for Environmental Epigenetic Studies — Linda Valeri, Harvard ; Brent Coull, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3:25 PM	Sharp Sensitivity Bounds for Mediation Under Unmeasured Mediator-Outcome Confounding — Peng Ding, University of California at Berkeley
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

235	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W187a
Recent Advances in Bayesian Methodology and Computation for Ultra-High-Dimensional Data — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Jyotishka Datta, Duke University/Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
Chair(s): Lou Mariano, RAND Corporation
2:05 PM	Prediction Risk for Global-Local Shrinkage Regression — Anindya Bhadra, Purdue University ; Jyotishka Datta, Duke University/Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute ; Yunfan Li, Purdue University ; Nicholas Polson, The University of Chicago ; Brandon Willard, The University of Chicago
2:25 PM	A Bayesian Generalized CAR Model for Correlated Signal Detection — Andrew Brown, Clemson University ; Gauri S. Datta, University of Georgia ; Nicole A. Lazar, University of Georgia
2:45 PM	Inference on High-Dimensional Sparse Poisson Means — Jyotishka Datta, Duke University/Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute ; David Dunson, Duke University
3:05 PM	Approximations of Markov Chains and Bayesian Inference — James Johndrow, Duke University ; Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University ; Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University ; David Dunson, Duke University
3:25 PM	Bayesian Feature Selection for Ultra-High-Dimensional Imaging Genetics Data — Yize Zhao, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute ; Hongtu Zhu, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Fei Zou, University of Florida
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

250 *	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W194a
Time-to-Event Data: New Horizons — Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Yang Liu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2:05 PM	Survival Trees for Left-Truncated and Right-Censored Data, with Application to Time-Varying Covariate Data — Wei Fu ; Jeffrey Simonoff, New York University
2:20 PM	A Pairwise Likelihood-Augmented Estimator for Left-Truncated Data with Time-Dependent Covariates — Fan Wu, University of Michigan ; Sehee Kim, University of Michigan ; Yi Li, University of Michigan
2:35 PM	Induced Smoothing and Efficient Variance Estimation for the Accelerated Gap Times Model with Recurrent Events Data — Tianmeng Lyu, University of Minnesota ; Gongjun Xu, University of Minnesota ; Chiung-Yu Huang, The Johns Hopkins University ; Xianghua Luo, University of Minnesota
2:50 PM	Semiparametric Estimation of the Accelerated Failure Time Model with Partly Interval-Censored Data — Fei Gao ; Donglin Zeng, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Danyu Lin, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:05 PM	Data-Transformation Approach to Lifetimes Data Analysis — Kobby Asubonteng, AstraZeneca ; Govind Mudholkar, University of Rochester
3:20 PM	Regression Analysis of Clustered Failure Time Data with Informative Cluster Size Under the Additive Transformation Models — Ling Chen, Washington University in St. Louis ; Yanqin Feng, Wuhan University ; Jianguo Sun, University of Missouri
3:35 PM	Analysis of Restricted Mean Survival Time for Length-Biased Data — Chi Hyun Lee, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Yu Shen, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Jing Ning, MD Anderson Cancer Center

252 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W190b
Cancer Genomics and Tumor Sequencing — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Jingyang Zhang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2:05 PM	Modeling Multiple Primary Cancers Over Time Using a Novel Familywise Likelihood Under the Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process — Jialu Li, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Seung Jun Shin, Korea University ; Wenyi Wang, MD Anderson Cancer Center
2:20 PM	Testing for Differentially Expressed Pathways from Within-Subject Matched Pairs of RNA-Seq Data Sets — Grant Schissler, Statistics GIDP ; Walter W. Piegorsch, University of Arizona ; Yves A. Lussier, University of Arizona
2:35 PM	Genomic Analysis with Common Binary Outcomes via Mediation — Sheila Gaynor, Harvard ; Xihong Lin, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2:50 PM	Analysis of High-Throughput Drug Screening Data of Cancer Cell Lines — Hongmei Liu ; J. Sunil Rao, University of Miami
3:05 PM	Assessing Intra-Tumor Heterogeneity and Tracking Longitudinal and Spatial Clonal Evolution by Next-Generation Sequencing — Yuchao Jiang, University of Pennsylvania ; Yu Qiu, University of Pennsylvania ; Andy J. Minn, University of Pennsylvania ; Nancy Zhang, University of Pennsylvania
3:20 PM	A Beta-Binomial Model to Compare Somatic Mutation Rates Between Groups of Cancer Patients — Hong Wang, University of Kentucky ; Yong Chen, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine ; Jinze Liu, University of Kentucky ; Heidi Weiss, University of Kentucky ; Susanne M. Arnold, University of Kentucky ; Aronld Stromberg, University of Kentucky ; Chi Wang, University of Kentucky
3:35 PM	Cell Type-Specific Deconvolution of Heterogeneous Tumor Samples with Immune Infiltration Using Expression Data — Zeya Wang, Rice University ; Jeffrey S. Morris, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Jaeil Ahn, Georgetown University ; Svitlana Tyekucheva, Harvard ; Bo Li, Harvard ; Wei Lu, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Ximing Tang, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Ignacio I. Wistuba, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Chris Holmes, University of Oxford ; Wenyi Wang, MD Anderson Cancer Center

253	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W191
Predictive Modeling and Feature Selection for Neuroimaging Data — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Zhe Fei, University of Michigan
2:05 PM	Topological Methods for fMRI Data — Adam Jaeger, Duke University ; Ezra Miller, Duke University
2:20 PM	Early Prediction of Alzheimer's Disease Using Longitudinal Volumetric MRI Data from ADNI — Yingjie Li, Michigan State University ; Liangliang Zhang, Michigan State University ; Tapabrata Maiti, Michigan State University ; David C. Zhu, Michigan State University ; Jongeun Choi, Michigan State University
2:35 PM	Local Region Image-on-Scalar Regression — Yao Chen ; Xiao Wang, Purdue University
2:50 PM	Multivariate Pattern Analysis and Confounding in Neuroimaging — Kristin Linn, University of Pennsylvania ; Bilwaj Gaonkar, University of California at Los Angeles ; Jimit Doshi, University of Pennsylvania ; Christos Davatzikos, University of Pennsylvania ; Russell Shinohara, University of Pennsylvania
3:05 PM	Symmetric Tensor Regression with Applications in Neuroimaging Data Analysis — Weixin Cai, University of California at Berkeley ; Lexin Li, University of California at Berkeley
3:20 PM	Nonparametric Estimation and Classification for Functional Data with Spatial Correlation — Yuan Wang, Washington State University ; Brian Hobbs, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Kim-Anh Do, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Jianhua Hu, MD Anderson Cancer Center
3:35 PM	An Integrative Classification Model for Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Detection in Multimodal MRI — Fengqing Zhang, Drexel University ; Wenxin Jiang, Northwestern University ; Ji-Ping Wang, Northwestern University

260 !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W186c
Nonparametric Methods for 'Big Data' — Contributed Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): K.B. Kulasekera, University of Louisville
2:05 PM	Optimal Design for Sampling Functional Data — So-Young Park, North Carolina State University ; Luo Xiao, North Carolina State University ; Jayson Wilbur, Metrum Research Group ; Ana-Maria Staicu, North Carolina State University
2:20 PM	The Blessing of Derivatives in Nonparametric Estimation — Xiaowu Dai, University of Wisconsin - Madison ; Grace Wahba, University of Wisconsin - Madison ; Peter Qian, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2:35 PM	Big Data Algorithms for Rank-Based Estimation — John Kapenga, Western Michigan University ; John Kloke, University of Wisconsin ; Joseph McKean, Western Michigan University
2:50 PM	Quantifying Spread in 3-D Rotation Data: Comparison of Nonparametric and Parametric Techniques — Melissa Bingham, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
3:05 PM	Hypothesis Testing for Multilayer Network Data — Jun Li, Boston University ; Eric D. Kolaczyk, Boston University
3:20 PM	On Estimation of the Specification of Random Fields — Zsolt Talata, University of Kansas
3:35 PM	Nonparametric Estimation Using Wavelet Tensor and Hyperbolic Wavelets with Fractional Gaussian Fields — Justin Wishart, Macquarie University

261	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W192a
Diagnostics, Classification, and Prediction — Contributed Papers
Section on Medical Devices and Diagnostics , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Alexander Kaizer, University of Minnesota
2:05 PM	Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis Under Tree Orderings of Disease Classes — Dan Wang, SUNY Buffalo ; Lili Tian, SUNY Buffalo ; Kristopher Attwood, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
2:20 PM	Using ANOVA/Random-Effects Variance Estimates to Compute a Two-Sample U-Statistic of Order (1,1) Estimate of Variance — Lucas Tcheuko, FDA ; Brandon Gallas, FDA ; Frank Samuelson, FDA
2:50 PM	A Metric for the Optimal Length of a Sequence of Tests for Classification Tasks — Christine Schubert Kabban, Air Force Institute of Technology
3:05 PM	Design and Analysis Considerations for Precision Studies in In-Vivo Diagnostic Test Studies — Changhong Song, FDA
3:20 PM	Generalized Linear Mixed Models for Analysis of Cross-Correlated Binary Response in Multireader Studies of Diagnostic Accuracy — Yuvika Paliwal ; Andriy Bandos, University of Pittsburgh
3:35 PM	Localized Semiparametric Prediction: A Precision Medicine Approach in a Trauma Patient Population — Sara E. Moore, University of California at Berkeley ; Alan E. Hubbard, University of California at Berkeley ; Mitchell J. Cohen, University of California at San Francisco

272	Mon, 8/1/2016, 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM	H-International Ballroom
ASA President's Invited Address — Invited Papers
ASA , International Chinese Statistical Association , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Jessica Utts, University of California at Irvine
4:50 PM	Science and News: A Marriage of Convenience — Joe Palca, NPR

280	Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W375b
Introductory Overview Lecture: Data Science — Invited Special Presentation
ASA , ENAR , WNAR , IMS , SSC , International Chinese Statistical Association , International Indian Statistical Association , Korean International Statistical Society , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Royal Statistical Society , International Statistical Institute , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee , Statistics in Business Schools Interest Group
Organizer(s): David A. van Dyk, Imperial College London
Chair(s): David A. van Dyk, Imperial College London
8:35 AM	On Mining Big Data and Social Network Analysis — Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago
9:25 AM	On Computational Thinking and Inferential Thinking — Michael I. Jordan, University of California at Berkeley
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

281 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W178b
CANCELLED: Immigration: Measuring Integration and Impact on American Society — Invited Papers
Social Statistics Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Carol C. House, Committee on National Statistics

282 *	Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W180
Bayesian Methods for Complex Networks — Invited Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Francesco Stingo, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Chair(s): Francesco Stingo, MD Anderson Cancer Center
8:35 AM	Decouple/Recouple: Dynamic Graphical Modeling and Time Series Forecasting — Mike West, Duke University ; Lutz Gruber, QuantCo
9:05 AM	A Bayesian Framework for Modeling Human Mobility — Adrian Dobra, University of Washington
9:35 AM	Bayesian Multiplicity Control for Multiple Graphs — Peter Mueller, The University of Texas at Austin ; Riten Mitra, University of Louisville ; Yuan Ji, NorthShore University HealthSystem
10:05 AM	Floor Discussion

283 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W196b
Showcase of the Power of Statistics on Evaluating Dynamic Treatment Regimes Leading Toward Personalized Health Care — Invited Papers
ENAR , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Lu Wang, University of Michigan
Chair(s): Lu Wang, University of Michigan
8:35 AM	Model Validation and Selection in Estimation of Adaptive Treatment Strategies — Erica E. M. Moodie, McGill University ; Michael P. Wallace, McGill University ; David A. Stephens, McGill University
9:00 AM	Adaptive Treatment Allocations for Emerging Infectious Diseases — Eric Laber, North Carolina State University ; Nicholas Meyer, North Carolina State University ; Brian J. Reich, North Carolina State University ; Krishna Pacifici, North Carolina State University ; Tao Hu, North Carolina State University
9:25 AM	Stabilized Dynamic Treatment Regimes — Yingqi Zhao, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Ruoqing Zhu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Guanhua Chen, Vanderbilt University
9:50 AM	Discussant: Peter F. Thall, MD Anderson Cancer Center
10:10 AM	Floor Discussion

286 *	Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W187b
Women in Statistics: Past, Present, Future — Invited Papers
Committee on Women in Statistics , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association , Caucus for Women in Statistics , Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Satkartar Kinney, RTI International
Chair(s): Telba Irony, FDA
8:35 AM	Gender Realities in Cyberspace — Susmita Datta, University of Florida
9:00 AM	Women in the ASA: Past, Present, Future — Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, RAND Corporation
9:25 AM	Leaning In: What Does a Conference for Women in Statistics Accomplish? — Dalene K. Stangl, Duke University
9:50 AM	Discussant: Sally Morton, University of Pittsburgh
10:10 AM	Floor Discussion

290 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W185bc
What to Do with Messy Data? Four Case Studies — Invited Papers
Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee , Statistics in Business Schools Interest Group
Organizer(s): Taylor B. Arnold
Chair(s): Taylor B. Arnold
8:35 AM	A Changepoint Model for Housing Values — Xiaofei Susan Wang, Yale University ; John Emerson, Yale University
9:00 AM	From Sports to Real Estate: Real-World Data Facts of Life — John Emerson, Yale University
9:25 AM	Two Approaches to Topic Modeling Within an Encyclopedic Corpus — Lauren Tilton, Yale University
9:50 AM	Floor Discussion

293 !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W190b
Power and Meta-Analysis in Neuroimaging: Contributing to Reproducible Science — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Beatrijs Moerkerke, Ghent University
Chair(s): Beatrijs Moerkerke, Ghent University
8:35 AM	Power Analysis for fMRI Studies: Demands and Difficulties — Jeanette A. Mumford, University of Wisconsin - Madison
8:55 AM	New Tools and Methods for Power Analyses in Neuroimaging — Joke Durnez, Stanford University
9:15 AM	Using Meta-Analysis to Enhance Power and Replicability in Neuroimaging Research: Current Practices and Open Opportunities — Tor D. Wager, University of Colorado Boulder
9:35 AM	Computerintensive Validation of Meta-Analysis in Neuroimaging — Ruth Seurinck, Ghent University ; Han Bossier, Ghent University ; Freya Acar, Ghent University ; Simone Kuehn, MPI for Human Development ; Beatrijs Moerkerke, Ghent University
9:55 AM	Discussant: Martin Lindquist, The Johns Hopkins University
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

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 — 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 — Bret Zeldow, University of Pennsylvania ; Jason Roy, University of Pennsylvania
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

300 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W196c
Recent Advancement of Statistical Methods and Tools for Go/No-Go Decision Making — Topic Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Qi Tang, AbbVie
Chair(s): Deli Wang, AbbVie
8:35 AM	Comparison of Various Early-Phase Go/No Go Decision Criteria — Yili Pritchett, MedImmune ; Masanori Ito, Astellas Pharma
8:55 AM	Using Little 'Go' Decisions — Scott Berry, Berry Consultants
9:15 AM	Interim Go/No-Go Decision Making in Clinical Trials with Longitudinal Outcomes — Ming Zhou, Bristol-Myers Squibb ; Qi Tang, AbbVie ; Lixin Lang, Bristol-Myers Squibb ; Jun Xing, Bristol-Myers Squibb ; Kay Tatsuoka, Bristol-Myers Squibb
9:35 AM	Statistical Software for Decision Making in Clinical Development — Charles Liu, Cytel ; Yannis Jemiai, Cytel
9:55 AM	Enhancing the Probability of Success Framework for Go/No-Go Decision Making Using ROC Curves — Alan Hartford, AbbVie ; Qi Tang, AbbVie ; Deli Wang, AbbVie ; Jyotirmoy Dey, AbbVie ; Walt Offen, AbbVie ; Frank Shen, AbbVie
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

303	Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W175a
Leveraging Large-Scale Biomarkers with a Mechanistic Focus: A Paradigm Shift — Topic Contributed Papers
Mental Health Statistics Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Christine Mauro, Columbia University
Chair(s): Christine Mauro, Columbia University
8:35 AM	Efficient Method to Optimally Identify Important Biomarkers for Disease Outcomes with High-Dimensional Data — Xiang Li, Columbia University ; Shanghong Xie, Columbia University ; Donglin Zeng, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Yuanjia Wang, Columbia University
8:55 AM	Generating Treatment Effect Modifiers from Complex Data Modalities — Thaddeus Tarpey, Wright State University ; Eva Petkova, New York University ; Robert Todd Ogden, Columbia University
9:15 AM	Kernel Machine Statistical Approaches to Genetic Association Testing in Longitudinal Studies — Zuoheng Wang, Yale University ; Zhong Wang, Cornell University
9:35 AM	Biosignatures for Treatment Response: Statistical Methods for Developing Depression Treatment Response Index (DTRI) — Eva Petkova, New York University ; Thaddeus Tarpey, Wright State University ; Robert Todd Ogden, Columbia University ; Adam Ciarleglio, Columbia University ; Hyung G. Park, Columbia University
9:55 AM	Floor Discussion

304 *	Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W195
Innovative Bayesian Applications in Drug Development — Topic Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Fanni Natanegara, Eli Lilly and Company
Chair(s): JonDavid Sparks, Eli Lilly and Company
8:35 AM	Bayesian Framework in Small Sample Trials — Freda Cooner, FDA/CDER/OTS/OB/DB2
8:55 AM	Innovative Bayesian Applications in Clinical Trials — Soumi Lahiri, GlaxoSmithKline ; Satrajit Roychoudhury, Novartis
9:15 AM	Bayesian Predictive Approach to Concurrent Tailoring of Phase 3 Clinical Trials Intended for Registration — Ming-Dauh Wang, Eli Lilly and Company ; Aijun Gao, inVentiv Health ; Jinghui Liu, inVentiv Health ; Karen Price, Eli Lilly and Company ; MaryAnn Morgan-Cox, Eli Lilly and Company ; Lei Shen, Eli Lilly and Company
9:35 AM	Bayesian Assurance and Sample-Size Determination in the Process Validation Lifecycle — Paul Faya, Baylor University ; John W. Seaman, Jr., Baylor University ; James D. Stamey, Baylor University
9:55 AM	Discussant: Fanni Natanegara, Eli Lilly and Company
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

312	Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W175b
Who Is a Statistics Educator? Attitudes, Preparation, and Practice — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Education , International Chinese Statistical Association , Statistics in Business Schools Interest Group
Chair(s): Benjamin Frisch, Friends Seminary
8:50 AM	If You Build It, They Will Come: Wisdom Gained and Lessons Learned from a Five-Year NSF Training Grant — Rebecca Nugent, Carnegie Mellon University ; Chad Schafer, Carnegie Mellon University
9:05 AM	Addressing Challenges to Implementing Active Learning for All Sections of Introductory Statistics at a Large University — Ginger Rowell, Middle Tennessee State University ; Lisa Holmes Green, Middle Tennessee State University ; Nancy Holmes McCormick, Middle Tennessee State University ; Scott Holmes McDaniel, Middle Tennessee State University ; Jeremy Holmes Strayer, Middle Tennessee State University
9:20 AM	Mathematics Teachers' Attitudes Toward Statistics and Their Attitudes Toward the Teaching Practices of College-Level Introductory Statistics — Angelica Castillo ; Xiaohui Wang, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley ; Hyung Kim
9:35 AM	Introductory Statistics: Preparing In-Service Middle-Level Mathematics Teachers for Classroom Research — Jennifer Green, Montana State University ; April T. Kerby, Winona State University ; Erin E. Blankenship, University of Nebraska - Lincoln ; Kendra K. Schmid, University of Nebraska Medical Center ; Wendy M. Smith, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
9:50 AM	The Development of Exemplary Advanced Placement Statistics Teachers — Douglas Whitaker, University of Florida
10:05 AM	Investigating the Teaching of High-School Statistics with Technology Through the Use of Annotated Lesson Plans — Elizabeth Arnold, Montana State University

324 !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W176b
Nonparametric Methods for High-Dimensional Data — Contributed Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Su Chen, University of Memphis
8:35 AM	Optimal Estimation and Variable Selection for Multivariate Varying Coefficient Model with Functional Response — Simeng Qu, Purdue University ; Xiao Wang, Purdue University
8:50 AM	Fisher Discrimination Matrix and Dimension Reduction — Debmalya Nandy, Penn State University ; Weixin Yao, University of California at Riverside ; Bruce George Lindsay, Penn State University ; Francesca George Chiaromonte, Penn State University
9:05 AM	Depth Functions and Medians on the Minimal Spanning Tree — Reza Modarres, The George Washington University
9:20 AM	Depth Functions and Classification Using Beta-Skeleton Graphs — Yu Song, The George Washington University
9:35 AM	Conditional Variable Screening with Trace Pursuit — Lei Huo, Missouri University of Science and Technology ; Xuerong Wen, Missouri University of Science and Technology ; Zhou Yu, East China Normal University ; Lu Lin, Shandong University
9:50 AM	Total Variation Depth for Functional Data: Properties and Applications — Huang Huang, KAUST ; Ying Sun, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
10:05 AM	On a General Halfspace Depth Trimmed Scatter Matrix — Jin Wang, Northern Arizona University

325	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W375b
Late-Breaking Session II: Data Journalism and Statistical Expertise: An Urgent Need for Writers, Bloggers, and Journalists to Be Statistically Savvy — Invited Special Presentation
ASA , ENAR , WNAR , SSC , IMS , International Chinese Statistical Association , International Indian Statistical Association , Korean International Statistical Society , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Royal Statistical Society , International Statistical Institute
Organizer(s): Rebecca Goldin, George Mason University
Chair(s): Rebecca Goldin, George Mason University
10:35 AM	Data Journalism and Statistical Expertise: An Urgent Need for Writers, Bloggers, and Journalists to Be Statistically Savvy — Regina Nuzzo, Gallaudet University ; Alberto Cairo, University of Miami ; Mark Hansen, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation/Columbia University ; Carl Bialik, FiveThirtyEight.com ; Katherine Hobson, Freelance Health and Science Writer
12:10 PM	Floor Discussion

327 !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W196c
Statistics in Personalized Medicine — Invited Papers
Biometrics Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Tyler J. VanderWeele, Harvard
Chair(s): Linda Valeri, Harvard
10:35 AM	Selecting Optimal Subgroups for Treatment Using Many Covariates — Tyler J. VanderWeele, Harvard
11:00 AM	Statistics in Personalized Medicine — Mark van der Laan, University of California at Berkeley ; Alexander Luedtke, University of California at Berkeley
11:25 AM	Individualized Treatment of Depression in the Military — Ronald C. Kessler, Harvard Medical School
11:50 AM	Discussant: James Robins, Harvard
12:10 PM	Floor Discussion

328 *	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W187c
Manifold-Valued Data Analysis for High-Dimensional Biomedical Data Sets — Invited Papers
Korean International Statistical Society , Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Sebastian A. Kurtek, The Ohio State University
Chair(s): Karthik Bharath, University of Nottingham
10:35 AM	Principal Nested Shape Space Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Data — Ian Dryden, University of Nottingham ; Kwang-Rae Kim, University of Nottingham ; Huiling Le, University of Nottingham
11:00 AM	Scaling-Rotation Framework of Symmetric Positive-Definite Matrices and Applications to Diffusion Tensor Imaging — Sungkyu Jung, University of Pittsburgh ; Armin Schwartzman, University of California at San Diego ; David Groisser, University of Florida
11:25 AM	Functional CAR Models for Large Spatially Correlated Functional Data Sets — Lin Zhang, University of Minnesota ; Veera Baladandayuthapani, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Hongxiao Zhu, Virginia Tech ; Keith A. Baggerly, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Tadeusz Majewski, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Bogdan A. Czerniak, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Jeffrey S. Morris, MD Anderson Cancer Center
11:50 AM	Statistical Shape Analysis of 3D Objects in the Presence of Hard and Soft Landmark Constraints — Sebastian A. Kurtek, The Ohio State University ; Jiaqi Zaetz, The Ohio State University ; Hamid Laga, University of South Australia ; Eric Klassen, Florida State University ; Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

329 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W175a
Recent Advances in Inference for Measurement Error Regression Models — Invited Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Hira L. Koul, Michigan State University
Chair(s): Hira L. Koul, Michigan State University
10:35 AM	Nonparametric Covariate-Adjusted Regression — Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne ; Wenxin Zhou, Princeton ; Peter Hall, University of Melbourne
11:00 AM	Two Stage Non-penalized Corrected Least Squares for High Dimensional Linear Models with Measurement error or Missing Covariates — Abhishek Kaul, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
11:50 AM	An Adaptive-to-Model Test for Parametric Single-Index Errors-in-Covariables Models — Lixing Zhu, Hong Kong Baptist University ; Hira L. Koul, Michigan State University ; Chuan-Long Xie, Hong Kong Baptist University
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

337 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W196b
Fusion Learning and Combining Inference from Diverse Complex Data Sources — Invited Papers
ENAR , IMS , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Regina Liu, Rutgers University
Chair(s): BRAD EFRON, Stanford University
10:35 AM	Model Calibration Utilizing Summary-Level Information from External Big Data — Nilanjan Chatterjee, The Johns Hopkins University ; Yi-Hau Chen, Academia Sinica ; Paige Maas, National Cancer Institute ; Raymond Carroll, Texas A&M University
11:00 AM	Efficient inference for genetic association studies with multiple outcomes — Hélène Ruffieux, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ; Anthony C. Davison, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ; Irina Irincheeva, Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences SA ; Jörg Hager, Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences SA
11:25 AM	Generalized Fiducial Inference for Massive Heterogeneous Data — Jan Hannig, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:50 AM	Fusion Learning from Complex Data Sets to Efficient Goal-Directed Individualized Inference — Regina Liu, Rutgers University ; Minge Xie, Rutgers University
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

339 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W195
Big Data Challenges and Statistical Advances in Functional Genomics — Topic Contributed Papers
WNAR , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Jingyi (Jessica) Li, University of California at Los Angeles
Chair(s): Hongkai Ji, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
10:35 AM	Assessing Reproducibility of Hi-C Data — Qunhua Li, Penn State University ; Tao Yang, Penn State University
10:55 AM	Determination of Phased Genotypes and Allele-Specific Expression at Isoform Level by Hybrid Sequencing — Kin Fai Au, University of Iowa ; Benjamin Deonovic, University of Iowa ; Jason Weirather, University of Iowa ; Yunhao Wang, University of Iowa
11:15 AM	A Novel 2D Genome Segmentation Method for Modeling Epigenetic Landscapes in Multiple Cell Lines — Yu Zhang, Penn State University
11:35 AM	Integrated DNA Mutation, Copy Number, and Gene Expression Analysis Reveals a Highly Reproducible Prognostics Marker in Lung Adenocarcinomas — Hao Ho, University of California at Los Angeles
11:55 AM	Testing-Based Measures for Finding Correspondence of Genomic Samples — Jingyi (Jessica) Li, University of California at Los Angeles
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

343 *	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W194b
Novel Missing Data Imputation Methods — Topic Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Freda Cooner, FDA/CDER/OTS/OB/DB2
Chair(s): John Scott, FDA
10:35 AM	Two Approaches for Conducting Control-Based Imputation in Handling Missing Data — Guanghan Liu, Merck Research Laboratories
10:55 AM	Making Use of the Predictive Distribution for Missing Data — Gerry Gray, FDA/CDRH
11:15 AM	Novel Missing Data Imputation Methods — Peter Mesenbrink, Novartis Pharma
11:35 AM	Novel Imputation Methods for Binary, Time-to-Event, and Recurrent-Event Outcomes — Michael O'Kelly, Quintiles
11:55 AM	Discussant: Feng Li, FDA/CDER/OTS/OB/DB2
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

344 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W183c
SLDS 2016 Student Paper Awards Session — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Tian Zheng, Columbia University
Chair(s): Tian Zheng, Columbia University
10:35 AM	A Group-Specific Recommender System — Xuan Bi ; Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Junhui Wang, City University of Hong Kong ; Xiaotong Shen, University of Minnesota
10:55 AM	Scalable Bayesian Rule Lists — Hongyu Yang, MIT EECS ; Cynthia Rudin, Duke University ; Margo Seltzer, Harvard
11:15 AM	Model-Based Clustering for Large-Scale Dynamic Networks — Kevin Lee, Penn State University ; Lingzhou Xue, Penn State University ; David Hunter, Penn State University
11:35 AM	Sparse Multidimensional Graphical Models: A Unified Bayesian Framework — Yang Ni ; Francesco Stingo, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Veera Baladandayuthapani, MD Anderson Cancer Center
11:55 AM	Another Look at Distance-Weighted Discrimination — Boxiang Wang, University of Minnesota ; Hui Zou, University of Minnesota
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

348 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W192a
Statistical Methodology to Address Challenges in Medical Diagnostic Devices — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Medical Devices and Diagnostics , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Jeng Mah, Beckman Coulter Inc.
Chair(s): Alvin Van Orden, FDA
10:35 AM	A Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trial Design: Diagnostic Accuracy of an Olfactory Diagnostic Test for Traumatic Brain Injury in Combat Soldiers — Benjamin Saville, Berry Consultants
10:55 AM	The Effects on Diagnostic Accuracy of Repeated Testing and Decision Rule Design — Jeng Mah, Beckman Coulter Inc.
11:15 AM	Group Sequential Method for Correlated ROC Curves — Xuan Ye, FDA ; Larry Tang, George Mason University
11:35 AM	Method Comparison Study for Diagnostic Devices with Dichotomous Output — Bipasa Biswas, FDA/CDRH
11:55 AM	Floor Discussion

350 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W176c
Machine Learning for Dependent Data — Topic Contributed Papers
IMS , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Anand N. Vidyashankar, George Mason University
Chair(s): Ozan Sonmez, University of California at Davis
10:35 AM	Variable Reduction in High-Dimensional Vector Time Series — Tucker McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau
10:55 AM	Machine Learning Methods in High-Dimensional Branching Processes — Anand N. Vidyashankar, George Mason University
11:15 AM	Functional Divergence-Based Classification for Single-Cell Data — Ollivier Hyrien, University of Rochester
11:35 AM	Advances of Bayesian Nonparametrics in Population Genetics of Infectious Diseases — Vladimir Minin, University of Washington
11:55 AM	Supervised Implicit Network Construction and Analysis of Related Network-Wide Metrics — Brandon Park ; Anand N. Vidyashankar, George Mason University ; Tucker McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau ; Jie Xu, George Mason University
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

351	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W178a
SBSS Student Travel Award Session 2 — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Tanzy Love, University of Rochester
Chair(s): David Dahl, Brigham Young University
10:35 AM	Geometrically Tempered Hamiltonian Monte Carlo — Akihiko Nishimura, Duke University ; David Dunson, Duke University
10:55 AM	Probabilistic Integration: A Role for Statisticians in Numerical Analysis? — Francois-Xavier Briol, University of Warwick ; Chris J. Oates, University of Technology Sydney ; Mark Girolami, University of Warwick/The Alan Turing Institute for Data Science ; Michael A. Osborne, University of Oxford ; Dino Sejdinovic, University of Oxford
11:15 AM	Designing Test Information and Test Information in Design — David Jones, Harvard ; Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard
11:35 AM	Establishing Consistency and Improving Uncertainty Estimates of Variational Inference Through M-Estimation — Theodore Westling, University of Washington ; Tyler McCormick, University of Washington
11:55 AM	Truncated Completely Random Measures — Trevor Campbell, MIT ; Jonathan Huggins, MIT ; Tamara Broderick, MIT ; Jonathan How, MIT
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

361	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W186b
Applications of Ensemble and Tree-Based Methods — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Dirk Moore, Rutgers School of Public Health
10:35 AM	Decoding Brain States from fMRI Data with a Machine Learning Method — Elizabeth Chou
10:50 AM	Classification and Regression Tree Modeling of Correlated Binary Outcomes — Jaime Speiser, Medical University of South Carolina ; Valerie Durkalski-Mauldin, Medical University of South Carolina ; Dongjun Chung, Medical University of South Carolina ; Bethany Wolf, Medical University of South Carolina
11:05 AM	Ranking Homologous Proteins Using an Ensemble of Logistic Regression Models Based on Subsets of Feature Variables — Jabed Tomal, University of Toronto ; William J. Welch, The University of British Columbia ; Ruben H. Zamar, The University of British Columbia
11:20 AM	An Approach to the Multivariate Two-Sample Problem Using Classification and Regression Trees and Minimum-Weight Spanning Subgraphs — David Ruth ; Samuel Buttrey, Naval Postgraduate School ; Lyn Whitaker, Naval Postgraduate School
11:35 AM	Methodological Strategies to Define a Generalizable Model for Machine Learning Ensemble Techniques — Joel Correa da Rosa, Rockefeller University ; Lewis Tomalin, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ; Mayte Suárez-Fariñas, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
11:50 AM	Selecting Decision Rules from Tree Ensembles — Damir Spisic, IBM ; Jing Xu, IBM
12:05 PM	Floor Discussion

362 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W192c
Biomarkers and Endpoint Validation — Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Geng Chen, GlaxoSmithKline
10:35 AM	Biomarker Analyses in Phase II Dose-Ranging Study — Xiwen Ma, Sanofi US ; Yuefeng Lu, Sanofi US ; Zheng Wei, Sanofi US
10:50 AM	Evaluation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Parameters as Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease — Leacky Muchene, Hasselt University ; Ziv Shkedy, Hasselt University ; Luc Kamau Bijnens, Janssen ; Nikolay Manyakov, Janssen ; Tom Van De Kasteel, Janssen ; Tom Jacobs, Janssen ; Marleen Kamau Verhoye, Antwerp University ; Jelle Praet, Antwerp University ; Annemie Van der Linden, Antwerp University ; Astrid Bottelbergs, Janssen ; Mark Schmidt, Janssen ; Darrel Pemberton, Janssen
11:05 AM	Link-Free Identification of Simple Index Variables for the Prediction of Differential Treatment Response — Hongjie Zhu, Sanofi
11:20 AM	Searching for Correlates of Protection for Ebola Vaccine — Jin Xu, Merck ; Kenneth Liu, Merck ; Ivan S. F. Chan, Merck
11:50 AM	Bias Correction for Biomarker Threshold Studies — Li Liu, Sanofi ; Glen Laird, Sanofi
12:05 PM	Floor Discussion

368	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W176a
Bayesian Spatial Modeling — Contributed Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Margaret Short, University of Alaska Fairbanks
10:35 AM	Bayesian Cure Rate Survival Model with Spatially Structured Censoring — Georgiana Onicescu ; Andrew B. Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina
10:50 AM	Alternative Approach to Modeling Areal-Level Spatial Data Using Basis Functions — Ghadeer Mahdi, University of Arkansas ; Avishek Chakraborty, University of Arkansas ; Mark Arnold, University of Arkansas
11:05 AM	A Spatial Shrinkage Prior for Sparse Signal Detection — An-Ting Jhuang, North Carolina State University ; Brian J. Reich, North Carolina State University ; Montse Fuentes, North Carolina State University
11:20 AM	Objective Bayesian Analysis for Gaussian Improper CAR Models — Matthew James Keefe, Virginia Tech ; Marco A. R. Ferreira, Virginia Tech ; Christopher T. Franck, Virginia Tech
11:35 AM	Spatial Mixture Multiscale Modeling for Aggregated Health Data — Mehreteab Aregay, Medical University of South Carolina ; Andrew B. Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina
11:50 AM	Bayesian Spatial Models for Predicting the Location of Head Impacts — Michael Lawson, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Daniel Hernandez-Stumpfhauser, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Amy Herring, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Gunter Siegmund, MEA Forensic ; Jason Mihalik, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Steve Marshall, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Kevin Guskiewicz, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
12:05 PM	Bayesian Inversion of a Large Spatial Field Using Predictive Process — Anirban Mondal, Case Western Reserve University

374	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-Hall F1 West
Contributed Poster Presentations: Mental Health Statistics Section — Contributed Poster Presentations
Mental Health Statistics Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Genevera Allen, Rice University
16:	Modeling Correlated Longitudinal Processes, with One Process Partially Observed — Shuyang Li, University of California at Davis ; Laurel A. Beckett, University of California at Davis
17:	Identify a Subset of Items That Predict the Total Score of a Psychological Assessment Measure — Tzu-Cheg Kao, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences ; James A. Naifeh, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences ; Carol Fullerton, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences ; Robert Ursano, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
19:	On Choosing Optimal Diagnostic Short-Form Scales from Unidimensional Criteria Sets: Application to Alcohol Use Disorder Diagnosis — Cheryl Raffo, Columbia University ; Melanie Wall, PhD, Columbia University

377	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-Hall F1 West
Contributed Poster Presentations: Section on Statistics in Imaging — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Genevera Allen, Rice University
64:	A Two-Step Approach to Analyze Longitudinal Structural Neuroimaging Data — Li Xing, Indiana University ; Shanshan Li, Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health ; Jaroslaw Harezlak, Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health
65:	An Efficient and Reliable Statistical Method for Estimating Functional Connectivity in Large-Scale Brain Networks Using Partial Correlation — Yikai Wang, Emory University
67:	Topological Tools for the Classification of Breast Cancer from Histology Images — Patrick Medina, Purdue University ; Rebecca W. Doerge, Purdue University

397 *	Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W196b
Innovative Trial Designs and Data Analysis Models in Rare Diseases — Invited Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Freda Cooner, FDA/CDER/OTS/OB/DB2
Chair(s): Freda Cooner, FDA/CDER/OTS/OB/DB2
2:05 PM	Efficient Use of Deficient (Limited) Information: A Rare Disease Perspective — Sandeep M. Menon, Pfizer
2:20 PM	The Statisticians Role as a Strategic Drug Developer in Rare Disease Indications — Jeff Palmer, Pfizer
2:35 PM	Case Studies for Biologics Trials in Very Rare Diseases — John Scott, FDA
2:50 PM	Issues and Solutions Encountered in the Design of Trials for Rare Diseases — Brenda Gaydos, Eli Lilly and Company ; Karen Price, Eli Lilly and Company ; Bill Prucka, Eli Lilly and Company
3:05 PM	Hierarchical Bayesian Approaches for Clinical Trials in Orphan and Pediatric Diseases — Cynthia Basu, University of Minnesota ; Freda Cooner, FDA/CDER/OTS/OB/DB2 ; Ram Tiwari, FDA/CDER/OT/OB ; Bradley Carlin, University of Minnesota
3:20 PM	Discussant: Amy Xia, Amgen
3:35 PM	Floor Discussion

399 !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W187a
Estimation and Inference for Massive Data Sets — Invited Papers
IMS , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Moulinath Banerjee, University of Michigan
Chair(s): George Michailidis, University of Florida
2:05 PM	Learning High-Dimensional Discrete Multivariate Auto-Regressive Models — Garvesh Raskutti, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2:30 PM	Sample Splitting in Non-Standard Problems — Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia University ; Moulinath Banerjee, University of Michigan ; Cecile Durot, University Paris Ouest Nanterre Defense
2:55 PM	Computationally Efficient Nonparametric Testing — Guang Cheng, Purdue University ; Zuofeng Shang, Binghamton University
3:20 PM	Discussant: Moulinath Banerjee, University of Michigan
3:40 PM	Floor Discussion

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

405 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W196c
Statistical Challenges in the Analysis of Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Rafael A. Irizarry, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Chair(s): Rafael A. Irizarry, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2:05 PM	MAST: A Novel Statistical Framework for Assessing Transcriptional Changes and Characterizing Heterogeneity in Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data — Raphael Gottardo, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2:55 PM	Learning the 'Metadata' of the Cell: Inferring Cellular Phenotypes with Single-Cell Genomics — Rahul Satija, New York Genome Center
3:20 PM	On the Widespread and Critical Impact of Systematic Bias and Batch Effects in Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data — Stephanie C. Hicks, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Mingxiang Teng, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Rafael A. Irizarry, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

408	Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W185bc
Recent Developments in Factor Models and Stochastic Regressions of Multivariate Time Series — Invited Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Hsin-Cheng Huang, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica
Chair(s): Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University
2:05 PM	Common Seasonality in Multivariate Time Series — Daniel Peña, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ; Fabio H. Nieto, Universidad Nacional de Colombia ; Dagoberto Saboyá, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2:30 PM	Dynamic Factor Models and Reduced Rank Regression in High-dimensional Time Series — Tze Leung Lai, Stanford University ; Ka Wai Tsang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong ; Hongsong Yuan, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
2:55 PM	Threshold Dynamic Factor Models — Rong Chen, Rutgers University
3:20 PM	Discussant: Ruey S. Tsay, The University of Chicago
3:40 PM	Floor Discussion

411 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W186c
Large-Scale Variational Bayesian Inference — Topic Contributed Papers
International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Patrick Flaherty, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Chair(s): Patrick Flaherty, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
2:05 PM	Robust Inference with Variational Bayes — Tamara Broderick, MIT
2:25 PM	Moment-Matching Variational Inference — Matthew Hoffman, Adobe
2:45 PM	Automatic Variational Inference in Stan — Alp Kucukelbir ; Dustin Tran ; Rajesh Ranganath, Princeton ; Andrew Gelman, Columbia University ; David Blei, Columbia University
3:05 PM	Streaming Variational Inference for Normalized Random Measure Mixture Models — Nicholas Foti, University of Washington
3:25 PM	Floor Discussion

412 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W185a
New Developments in Lifetime Data Analysis — Topic Contributed Papers
SSC , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Yichuan Zhao, Georgia State University
Chair(s): Huayun Chen, University of Illinois at Chicago
2:05 PM	Partially Linear Single-Index Regression for Accelerated Failure Time Models — Wenqing He, University of Western Ontario ; Grace Yi, University of Waterloo
2:25 PM	Recent Developments in Residual Life Inference — Jong-Hyeon Jeong, University of Pittsburgh
2:45 PM	Challenges in the Analysis of Data from Alzheimer's Disease Studies Subject to Censoring — Zhezhen Jin, Columbia University
3:05 PM	Some Methods for the Analysis of Informatively Censored Failure Time Data — Jianguo Sun, University of Missouri
3:25 PM	Empirical Likelihood Inference for the Odds Ratio of Two Survival Functions Under Right Censoring — Yichuan Zhao, Georgia State University ; Meng Zhao, Home Depot ; Ian McKeague, Columbia University
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

418 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W193a
Biometrics Section Student Paper Award Session 2 — Topic Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Virginia Commonwealth University
Chair(s): Ronald Gangnon, University of Wisconsin
2:05 PM	A Class of Semiparametric Tests of Treatment Effect Robust to Measurement Error of a Confounder — Caleb Miles, University of California at Berkeley ; Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Harvard
2:45 PM	Sure Screening for Transelliptical Graphical Models — Yuxiang Xie, University of Washington ; Chengchun Shi, North Carolina State University ; Rui Song, North Carolina State University ; Daniela Witten, University of Washington
3:05 PM	Nonparametric Bayesian Learning of Heterogeneous Dynamic Transcription Factor Networks — Xiangyu Luo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong ; Yingying Wei, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
3:25 PM	ScDD: A Statistical Approach for Identifying Differential Distributions in Single-Cell RNA-Seq Experiments — Keegan Korthauer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ; Michael Newton, University of Wisconsin - Madison ; Christina Kendziorski, University of Wisconsin
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

421 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W187c
Nonparametric Methods for Longitudinal Data to Promote Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Hans-Georg Mueller, University of California at Davis
Chair(s): Jayson Wilbur, Metrum Research Group
2:05 PM	Characterizing Child Growth Trajectories — Louise Ryan, University of Technology Sydney ; - Team Members , Healthy Birth, Growth and Development knowledge integration (HBGDki) Community
2:25 PM	Curve-Matching for Child Growth and Development: A Delicate Interplay of Smart Data Processing and Statistical Principles — Stef van Buuren, Healthy Birth, Growth and Development knowledge integration (HBGDki) Community
2:45 PM	Estimation of Interpretable Growth Curves — Jianhui Zhou, Healthy Birth, Growth and Development knowledge integration (HBGDki) Community ; Yin Zhang, University of Virginia ; Rashidul Haque, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseas Research ; William A. Petri, University of Virginia ; Jennie Z. Ma, University of Virginia
3:05 PM	Optimal Designs for Longitudinal Studies via Functional Data Analysis — Hao Ji, University of California at Davis ; Hans-Georg Mueller, University of California at Davis
3:25 PM	Functional Data Analysis for Sparse and Irregular Longitudinal MRI Measurements in the Developing Brain — Xiongtao Dai, Healthy Birth, Growth and Development knowledge integration (HBGDki) Community ; Hans-Georg Mueller, University of California at Davis ; Jane-Ling Wang, University of California at Davis
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

422 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W194b
Methodological and Practical Aspects of Adaptive Model-Based Design of Clinical Trials — Topic Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Sergei Leonov, ICON Clinical Research
Chair(s): Sergei Leonov, ICON Clinical Research
2:05 PM	Practical Experiences with Adaptive Dose-Escalation Designs in Early-Phase Oncology Trials — Inna Perevozskaya, Pfizer
2:25 PM	Application of Adaptive Designs to Optimize a Compound Development Program — Yevgen Tymofyeyev, J & J PRD
2:45 PM	Interim Timing in Adaptive Two-Stage Dose-Finding Studies: What Happens to the Expected Benefit? — Tobias Mielke, ICON PLC
3:05 PM	Discussant: William Rosenberger, George Mason University
3:25 PM	Discussant: Cristiana Mayer, Janssen R&D
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

425 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W192b
Data Visualization and Power of Evidence-Driven Approaches to Addressing Social Issues in Countries in Transition — Topic Contributed Panel
Social Statistics Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee , Statistics in Business Schools Interest Group , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Asaph Young Chun, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair(s): Asaph Young Chun, U.S. Census Bureau
2:05 PM	Data Visualization and Power of Evidence-Based Policymaking in Countries in Transition
Panelists:	Giang Nguyen, University of Iowa Ariel Lee, ISR Center for Science Diplomacy Igor Barahona, Mathematics Institute of the UNAM Star Ying, U.S. Department of Commerce Hannah Cho, ISR Center for Interdisciplinary Research
3:45 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

435 *	Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W195
Power, Sample Size, and Practical Considerations in Clinical Trials — Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Daniel He Li, Juno Therapeutics
2:20 PM	Sample Size Estimation Using a Hybrid Classical and Bayesian Procedure — Maria Ciarleglio, Yale University ; Christopher Arendt, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
2:35 PM	Using Power Contours to Assess the Sensitivity of Clinical Trial Design Assumptions — Richard C. Zink, JMP Life Sciences, SAS Institute ; Xiaotong Jiang, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2:50 PM	On Power and Sample Size of the ANOVA-Type Rank Test — Chunpeng Fan, Sanofi US ; Donghui Zhang, Sanofi US
3:05 PM	Identifying Main Effects in Multi-Factor Clinical Trials — Abhishek Bhattacharjee, University of Florida ; Samuel S. Wu, University of Florida
3:20 PM	Two-Stage Procedure for Fixed-Width Confidence Intervals of the Risk Ratio — Hokwon Cho, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
3:35 PM	Practical Considerations in Clinical Trial Design — Kerry Go, Sanofi Pasteur

445	Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-Hall F1 West
Contributed Poster Presentations: Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Genevera Allen, Rice University
29:	Angle-Based Distance-Weighted Support Vector Machine in Multicategory Classification — Hui Sun, Purdue University ; Bruce A. Craig, Purdue University ; Lingsong Zhang, Purdue University
30:	A New Distribution to Describe Big Data — Yuanyuan Zhang, University of Manchester
32:	Identification of Solids in Hyperspectral Images Using Spectral Features from Gaussian Basis Functions — Cory Lanker, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ; Milton O. Smith, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
33:	ZIP Codes and Neural Networks: Machine Learning for Handwritten Number Recognition — Cuixian Chen, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington ; Taylor Harbold, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington ; Courtney Rasmussen, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington ; Michelle Page, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington
34:	Constrained Canonical Covariance Analysis by Using Tucker2 Model — Jun Tsuchida, Doshisha University ; Hiroshi Yadohisa, Doshisha University
35:	Sparse Predictive Modeling for Bank Telemarketing Success Using Smooth-Threshold Estimating Equations — Yoshinori Kawasaki, Institute of Statistical Mathematics ; Masao Ueki, Kurume University
37:	Predicting Binary Outcome with Unequal Misclassification Cost — Shuchismita Sarkar, University of Alabama ; Michael D. Porter, University of Alabama
39:	Empirical Evaluation of Bayesian Network Classifiers — Weihua Shi, SAS Institute
40:	Employing Machine Learning Approaches in Social Scientific Analyses — Arne Bethmann, Institute for Employment Research ; Jonas Beste, Institute for Employment Research
41:	A Multilocus Genetic Score for Physical Activity — Lingyao Yang, Stanford University ; Haley Hedlin, Stanford University
42:	Anomaly Detection in Time Series of Dependent Stochastic Block Model Graphs — Heng Wang, Machine Zone ; Albert Liu, Ward Melville High School ; Youngser Park, The Johns Hopkins University ; Carey Priebe, The Johns Hopkins University
43:	Clustering for Personalized Preference Prediction — Fan Yang, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities ; Xiaotong Shen, University of Minnesota
46:	Divide and Recombine (DandR) with Tessera: High-Performance Computing for the Analysis of Big Data and High-Complexity Analytics — Yuying Song, Purdue University ; Bowei Xi, Purdue University ; Ryan Hafen, Hafen Consulting ; William S. Cleveland, Purdue University
48:	Understanding Grand Strategy: Text and Topic Analysis of Presidential Speeches — Reagan Rose
49:	AMON: An Open Source Architecture for Online Monitoring, Statistical Analysis, and Forensics of Multi-Gigabit Streams — Shrijita Bhattacharya, University of Michigan ; Michael Khallitsis, Merit
50:	Estimating Coefficients of Direction in Single Index Model for Large $P$ Small $N$ Problem — Jin Xie, University of Kentucky ; Xiangrong Yin, University of Kentucky
51:	C.Logic: An Algorithm to Classify Dichotomous Disease Outcomes Using Interactions Between Dichotomous and Continuous Predictors — Sybil Prince Nelson
52:	Hypothesis Testing and Prediction of the Self-Triggering Cox Model for Recurrent Event Data — Jung In Kim ; Jason Fine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Feng-Chang Lin, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
53:	Regret Bounds for a Thompson Sampling Algorithm with Application to Emerging Infectious Disease — Tao Hu, North Carolina State University ; Eric Laber, North Carolina State University
54:	Group Discrimination Using Sparse Network Modeling of Resting-State fMRI — Maria Puhl, University of Tulsa ; William Coberly, University of Tulsa ; Alejandro Hernandez, University of Tulsa ; Kyle Simmons, Laureate Institute for Brain Research

454	Tue, 8/2/2016, 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM	H-International Ballroom
Deming Lecture — Invited Papers
Deming Lectureship Committee , ASA , International Chinese Statistical Association , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee , Statistics Without Borders
Chair(s): Nancy Gordon
4:50 PM	Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective — Vincent P. Barabba, Market Insight Corporation
6:00 PM	Floor Discussion

455	Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM	H-International Ballroom
ASA President's Address and Founders & Fellows Recognition — Invited Papers
ASA , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Jessica Utts, University of California at Irvine
8:05 PM	Appreciating Statistics — Jessica Utts, University of California at Irvine

464	Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W375b
Introductory Overview Lecture: Adaptive Clinical Trial Design — Invited Special Presentation
ASA , ENAR , WNAR , IMS , SSC , International Chinese Statistical Association , International Indian Statistical Association , Korean International Statistical Society , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Royal Statistical Society , International Statistical Institute
Organizer(s): Scott Berry, Berry Consultants
Chair(s): Brian Hobbs, MD Anderson Cancer Center
8:35 AM	Bayesian Adaptive Designs — Scott Berry, Berry Consultants
10:05 AM	Floor Discussion

471 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W191
New Statistical Methods for the Analysis of High-Dimensional Biomarkers — Invited Papers
Mental Health Statistics Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Damla Senturk, University of California at Los Angeles
Chair(s): Donatello Telesca, University of California at Los Angeles
8:35 AM	Biosignatures for treatment decisions in depression — Robert Todd Ogden, Columbia University ; Adam Ciarleglio, Columbia University ; Thaddeus Tarpey, Wright State University ; Eva Petkova, New York University
8:55 AM	A Multidimensional Functional Principal Components Analysis of EEG Data — Damla Senturk, University of California at Los Angeles ; Kyle Hasenstab, University of California at Los Angeles ; Aaron Scheffler, University of California at Los Angeles ; Donatello Telesca, University of California at Los Angeles ; Catherine Sugar, University of California at Los Angeles ; Shafali Jeste, University of California at Los Angeles
9:15 AM	Tensor Canonical Correlation Analysis — Hua Zhou, University of California at Los Angeles
9:35 AM	Covariates Modulated False Discovery Rate in Hidden Markov Random Field Model — Richard Levine, San Diego State University ; Wesley Thompson, University of California at San Diego ; Carrie Bearden, University of California at Los Angeles ; Dorothy Parker, University of California at San Diego ; Rong Zablocki, University of California at San Diego
9:55 AM	Discussant: Catherine Sugar, University of California at Los Angeles
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

473 *	Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W178a
Subgroups Analyses: Planned Versus Ad-Hoc: How Many Are Too Many? — Invited Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Vipin Arora, Eli Lilly and Company
Chair(s): Lisa LaVange, Office of Biostatistics Organization
8:35 AM	Subgroup Analyses in Early-Phase Clinical Trials: Challenges and Opportunities — Björn Bornkamp, Novartis ; Marius Thomas, Novartis
8:55 AM	Visualizing the Limitations of Subgroup Analyses — Kevin Andrew Buhr, University of Wisconsin - Madison
9:15 AM	Subgroup Analysis in Regulatory Decision Making — Lilly Yue, FDA/CDRH/OSB
9:35 AM	Visualization vs traditional presentation of data - what is there in subgroups? — Vipin Arora, Eli Lilly and Company
9:55 AM	Discussant: Judith D. Goldberg, New York University School of Medicine
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

477 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W176c
Extraordinary Power of Remote Collaboration and Team Science — Invited Panel
WNAR , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association , Caucus for Women in Statistics , Committee on Applied Statisticians , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Amanda Golbeck, University of Montana, Motomi Mori, Oregon Health & Science University
Chair(s): Amanda Golbeck, University of Montana
8:35 AM	Extraordinary Power of Remote Collaboration and Team Science
Panelists:	Motomi Mori, Oregon Health & Science University Mimi Kim, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Antje Hoering, Cancer Research and Biostatistics William Sollecito, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Brisa N. Sanchez, University of Michigan
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

480 !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W185d
Robust Bayesian Model Inference and Model Evaluation with Potential Misspecification — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Xinyi Xu, The Ohio State University
Chair(s): Andrew Bean, The Ohio State University
8:35 AM	Modeling Non-Gaussian Time Series with Nonparametric Bayesian Model — Xinyi Xu, The Ohio State University ; Zhiguang Xu, Chase ; Steven N. MacEachern, The Ohio State University
8:55 AM	Robust Bayesian Inference via Coarsening — Jeffrey Miller, Duke University ; David Dunson, Duke University
9:15 AM	Bayesian Restricted Likelihood Methods — Steven N. MacEachern, The Ohio State University ; John Lewis, The Ohio State University ; Yoonkyung Lee, The Ohio State University
9:35 AM	On the Inherently Bayesian Evaluation of Forecast Quantities — Catherine Forbes, Monash University
9:55 AM	Discussant: Feng Liang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

481 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W179a
Small Clinical Trials: Challenging Traditional Thinking — Topic Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Satrajit Roychoudhury, Novartis
Chair(s): Satrajit Roychoudhury, Novartis
8:35 AM	Impact of Adaptive Design on Optimization of Pharmaceutical Portfolios — Zoran Antonijevic
8:55 AM	Maximizing the Efficiency of Proof-of-Concept Studies and of Arrays of Proof-of-Concept Studies for Multiple Drugs or Indications — Robert Beckman, Georgetown University Medical Center
9:15 AM	Challenges and Experience in Designing Small Clinical Trials — Christopher Coffey, University of Iowa
9:35 AM	An Extrapolation Framework to Specify Requirements for Drug Development in Children — Gerald Hlavin, Medical University of Vienna ; Franz Koenig, Medical University of Vienna ; Christoph Male, Medical University of Vienna ; Martin Posch, Medical University of Vienna ; Peter Bauer, Medical University of Vienna
9:55 AM	Discussant: Pandurang Kulkarni, Eli Lilly and Company
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

485 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W194b
Recent Advances in Functional Data Analysis — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Xiaoke Zhang, University of Delaware
Chair(s): Raymond Wong, Iowa State University
8:35 AM	Single-Index Models for Function-on-Function Regression — Guanqun Cao, Auburn University ; Li Wang, Iowa State University
8:55 AM	Weighing Schemes for Functional Data — Xiaoke Zhang, University of Delaware ; Jane-Ling Wang, University of California at Davis
9:15 AM	Historical Functional Cox Regression, with an Application to Prediction of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions — Philip Reiss, New York University ; Elizabeth M. Sweeney, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Jonathan Gellar, Mathematica Policy Research
9:35 AM	Nonparametric Estimation of Stationary Covariance Functions — Li Wang, Iowa State University ; Jiangyan Wang, Soochow University ; Guanqun Cao, Auburn University
9:55 AM	Functional Data Methods for Child Growth Data — Luo Xiao, North Carolina State University ; Andrew Leroux, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; William Checkley, The Johns Hopkins University ; Ciprian Crainiceanu, The Johns Hopkins University
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

487 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W182
Novel Statistical Methodologies for Neuroimaging Data — Topic Contributed Papers
ENAR , Biopharmaceutical Section , Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Ranjan Maitra, Iowa State University
Chair(s): Adam Ciarleglio, Columbia University
8:35 AM	An Assessment of Statistical Models of Complex-Valued fMRI Data — Daniel Adrian, Grand Valley State University ; Ranjan Maitra, Iowa State University ; Daniel Rowe, Marquette University
8:55 AM	Quantifying Functional Connectivity with Data-Adaptive Covariance Matrices for Multivariate Functional Data — Alexander Petersen, University of California at Davis ; Hans-Georg Mueller, University of California at Davis
9:15 AM	A Joint Modeling Approach for Treatment Response and Baseline Imaging Data — Bei Jiang ; Eva Petkova, New York University ; Thaddeus Tarpey, Wright State University ; Robert Todd Ogden, Columbia University
9:35 AM	HPRM: Hierarchical Principal Regression Model of Diffusion Tensor Bundle Statistics — Jingwen Zhang ; Hongtu Zhu, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Joseph G. Ibrahim, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:55 AM	SENSE-Induced Correlation in Simultaneous Multi-Slice fMRI — Daniel Rowe, Marquette University

496 *	Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W177
New Methods for Competing Risks and Multistate Models — Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Chiung-Yu Huang, The Johns Hopkins University
8:35 AM	A Bivariate Lehmann Model for Semi-Competing Risks Data — David Oakes, University of Rochester Medical Center
8:50 AM	Semiparametric Models of Bivariate Times-to-Event Data with a Semi-Competing Risk — Ran Liao, Indiana University ; Sujuan Gao, Indiana University
9:05 AM	Semiparametric Regression Analysis of Recurrent Gap Times in the Presence of Competing Risks — Chia-Hui Huang, National Taipei University ; Yi-Hau Chen, Academia Sinica
9:20 AM	Instrumental Variable with Competing Risk Model — Cheng Zheng, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee ; Ran Dai, The University of Chicago ; Parameswaran Hari, Medical College of Wisconsin ; Mei-Jie Zhang, Medical College of Wisconsin
9:35 AM	Doubly Robust Regression Trees Under Competing Risks — Youngjoo Cho, University of Rochester Medical Center ; Robert Strawderman, University of Rochester Medical Center
9:50 AM	On the Choice of Time Scales in Competing Risks Predictions — Minjung Lee, Kangwon National University ; Natalia A. Gouskova, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Eric J. Feuer, National Cancer Institute ; Jason Fine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:05 AM	A Semiparametric Multi-State Survival Model for Correlated Interval-Censored Life History Data in Caries Research — Daewoo Pak, Michigan State University ; Chenxi Li, Michigan State University ; David Todem, Michigan State University

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

505	Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W196a
Statistical Analysis of Complex Data — Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Hai Liu, Gilead Sciences
8:35 AM	New Progresses in Statistical Analysis of Network Tomography — Ke Deng, Tsinghua University ; Yang Li, Harvard ; Weiping Zhu, University of New South Wales ; Jun S. Liu, Harvard
8:50 AM	Robust Variable Selection Based on the Density Power Divergence Loss — Yang Li ; Wenfu Xu, Renmin University of China ; Yichen Qin, University of Cincinnati ; Shuangge Ma, Yale University
9:05 AM	On Bayes and Frequentist Meta-Analyses — Hal Li, Merck Research Laboratories ; William William Wang, Merck Research Laboratories
9:20 AM	Time Delay Boolean Networks for Big Data — Henry Lu, National Chiao Tung University
9:35 AM	A Gaussian-Probit Model for Bayesian Network with Mixed Variables — Qingyang Zhang, University of Arkansas ; Ji-Ping Wang, Northwestern University
9:50 AM	A Complete Downscaler — Yen-Ning Huang, North Carolina State University ; Brian J. Reich, North Carolina State University ; Montse Fuentes, North Carolina State University ; Sankar Arumugam, North Carolina State University
10:05 AM	An Evaluation of Processing Methods for HumanMethylation450 BeadChip Data — Jie Liu, University of Southern California ; Kimberly Siegmund, University of Southern California

508 !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W186b
Nonparametric Methods for Longitudinal Data — Contributed Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Bilin Zeng, California State University at Bakersfield
8:35 AM	Longitudinal Principal Component Analysis — Christopher Kinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Xiwei Tang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
8:50 AM	Semiparametric Estimation of Longitudinal Data with Nonignorable Attrition Using Refreshment Samples — Jianfei Zheng, Oregon State University ; Lan Xue, Oregon State University
9:05 AM	Semiparametric Stochastic Mixed Models for Bivariate Periodic Longitudinal Data — Kexin Ji, University of Waterloo ; Joel Dubin, University of Waterloo
9:20 AM	A Partial Likelihood Approach to Multivariate Multiscale Functional Data Analysis — Andrew Potter, University of Pittsburgh ; Stewart J. Anderson, University of Pittsburgh
9:35 AM	Analysis of Asynchronous Longitudinal Data with Partially Linear Model — Li Chen, University of Missouri
9:50 AM	Unified Inference for Sparse and Dense Longitudinal Data in Time-Varying Coefficient Models — Yixin Chen, Sanofi ; Weixin Yao, University of California at Riverside
10:05 AM	Multiple Imputation Method Based on Weighted Quantile Regression Models for Longitudinal Censored Biomarker Data with Missing Early Visits — MinJae Lee, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Mohammad H. Rahbar, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; John D. Reveille, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Michael Weisman, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ; Michael M. Ward, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases ; Lianne Gensler, University of California at San Francisco ; Matthew Brown, University of Queensland Diamantina Institute

511 *	Wed, 8/3/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W185a
Statistical Methods for Analyzing Microbiome Data — Invited Papers
Biometrics Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Sanjay Shete, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Chair(s): Sanjay Shete, MD Anderson Cancer Center
10:35 AM	Bayesian Variable Selection Models for Microbiome Data Integration — Marina Vannucci, Rice University ; Michele Guindani ; Duncan Wadsworth, Rice University
11:00 AM	Statistical Methods for Integrating the Phylogenetic Tree in Microbiome Data Analysis — Jun Chen, Mayo Clinic ; Jian Xiao, Mayo Clinic
11:25 AM	Kernel Penalized Regression Models for Microbiome Data — Timothy Randolph, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Ali Shojaie, University of Washington ; Sen Zhao, University of Washington
11:50 AM	Analysis of Composition of Microbiome with Structural Zeros (ANCOMSZ) — Abhishek Kaul, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Siddhartha Mandal, Public Health Foundation of India ; Shyamal Peddada, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

513 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W175a
Recent Advances in Functional Data Analysis — Invited Papers
IMS , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Fang Yao, University of Toronto
Chair(s): Fang Yao, University of Toronto
10:35 AM	The Statistical Analysis of Dead Bodies: Inverting Entomological Growth Curves Using FDA — John Aston, University of Cambridge ; Anjali Mazumder, University of Warwick ; Frederic Ferraty, Toulouse Jean Jaures University ; Davide Pigoli, University of Cambridge ; Martin Hall, Natural History Museum
11:00 AM	An Estimating Equation Approach to Dimension Reduction in Longitudinal Data — Liping Zhu, Renmin University of China ; Li Jin, Fudan University ; Kelin Xu, Fudan University ; Wensheng Guo, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine ; Momiao Xiong, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
11:25 AM	Frechet Regression for Random Objects — Hans-Georg Mueller, University of California at Davis ; Alexander Petersen, University of California at Davis
11:50 AM	Role of Functional Data Analysis in the Big Data Era: Applications to Precision Medicine — Hulin Wu, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

514	Wed, 8/3/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W375b
Noether Award — Invited Papers
Noether Award Committee , ASA , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Edsel Aldea Pena, University of South Carolina
Chair(s): Donglin Zeng, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:35 AM	A Framework for Assumption-Free Predictive Regression Analysis — Jing Lei, Carnegie Mellon University
11:20 AM	Functional Data Analysis and Beyond — Jane-Ling Wang, University of California at Davis
12:05 PM	Floor Discussion

515 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W187b
Recent Advancements in Spatio-Temporal Infectious Disease Modeling — Invited Papers
WNAR , International Chinese Statistical Association , Section on Risk Analysis
Organizer(s): Aaron T. Porter, Colorado School of Mines
Chair(s): Jacob J. Oleson, University of Iowa
10:35 AM	Approximate Bayesian Computation for Compartmental Epidemic Models: Methods and Software — Grant Donald Brown, University of Iowa ; Aaron T. Porter, Colorado School of Mines ; Jacob J. Oleson, University of Iowa
10:55 AM	Parameter Inference and Model Selection in Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamical Models — Jennifer Hoeting , Colorado State University ; Libo Sun, Janssen R&D ; Chihoon Lee, Stevens Institute of Technology
11:15 AM	Gaussian Process Emulator-Based Inference for Spatial Models of Infectious Disease Systems — Rob Deardon, University of Calgary ; Gyanendra Pokharel, University of Calgary
11:35 AM	A Robust SEIR Model for Epidemics on Unobserved Graphs — Aaron T. Porter, Colorado School of Mines ; Grant Donald Brown, University of Iowa
11:55 AM	Integrating Independent Spatio-Temporal Models to Assess Population Trends — John VanBuren, University of Iowa ; Jacob J. Oleson, University of Iowa
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

525 *	Wed, 8/3/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W193a
ENVR Student Paper Award Winners — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics and the Environment , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Elizabeth Mannshardt, EPA
Chair(s): Elizabeth Mannshardt, EPA
10:35 AM	Dynamic Social Networks Based on Movement — Henry Scharf, Colorado State University ; Mevin Hooten, Colorado State University ; Bailey Fosdick, Colorado State University ; Devin Johnson, Alaska Fisheries Science Center (NOAA) ; Josh London, Alaska Fisheries Science Center (NOAA) ; John Durban, Southwest Fisheries Science Center
10:55 AM	A Space-Time Skew-T Model for Threshold Exceedances — Samuel Morris, North Carolina State University ; Brian J. Reich, North Carolina State University ; Emeric Thibaud, Colorado State University ; Dan Cooley, Colorado State University
11:15 AM	Temperatures in Transient Climates: Improved Methods for Simulations with Evolving Temporal Covariances — Andrew Poppick, The University of Chicago ; David McInerney, University of Adelaide ; Elisabeth Moyer, The University of Chicago ; Michael Stein, The University of Chicago
11:35 AM	The Role of Regimes in Short-Term Wind Speed Forecasting at Multiple Wind Farms — Karen Kazor, Colorado School of Mines ; Amanda Hering, Colorado School of Mines
11:55 AM	Floor Discussion

531 *	Wed, 8/3/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W186c
Time-to-Event Models for Studies with Informative Censoring, Truncation, or Drop-Out — Topic Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Michael Pennell, The Ohio State University
Chair(s): Brittney Bailey, The Ohio State University
10:35 AM	Bayesian Threshold Regression for Multivariate Current Status Data with Informative Censoring — Michael Pennell, The Ohio State University ; Tao Xiao, Shenzhen University
10:55 AM	Analyzing Semi-Competing Risks Data with Missing Cause of Informative Terminal Event — Hong Zhu, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ; Renke Zhou, Baylor College of Medicine ; Melissa Bondy, Baylor College of Medicine ; Jing Ning, MD Anderson Cancer Center
11:15 AM	Model Diagnostics of a Class of Joint Dynamic Models of Recurrent Competing Risks and a Terminal Event — Piaomu Liu, Bentley University ; Edsel Aldea Pena, University of South Carolina
11:35 AM	Adjusting for Dependent Truncation with Inverse Probability Weighting — Jing Qian, University of Massachusetts - Amherst ; Rebecca Betensky, Harvard
11:55 AM	Joint Partially Linear Model for Longitudinal Data with Informative Drop-Outs — Sehee Kim, University of Michigan ; Donglin Zeng, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Jeremy M. G. Taylor, University of Michigan
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

535 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W183a
Global Challenges and Collaboration in Biopharmaceutical Statistics — Topic Contributed Panel
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians , Statistics Without Borders , Committee on International Relations in Statistics
Organizer(s): Toshimitsu Hamasaki, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
Chair(s): Geert Molenberghs, Universiteit Hasselt
10:35 AM	Global Challenges and Collaboration in Biopharmaceutical Statistics
Panelists:	Jose Pinheiro, Johnson & Johnson Yuki Ando, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Agency, Japan Frank Bretz, Novartis Pharma Estelle Russek-Cohen, FDA Abdus S. Wahed, University of Pittsburgh

542 *	Wed, 8/3/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W186b
Semiparametric Methods for Longitudinal and Event Time Data — Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Jing Wang, St. Louis University
10:35 AM	A Semiparametric Joint Model for Terminal Trend of Quality of Life and Survival in Palliative Care Research — Zhigang Li ; H. Rob Frost, Dartmouth College ; Lihui Zhao, Northwestern University ; Lei Liu, Northwestern University ; Kathleen Lyons, Dartmouth College ; Huaihou Chen, University of Florida ; Bernard Cole, University of Vermont ; David Currow, Flinders University ; Marie Bakitas, University of Alabama at Birmingham ; Tor Tosteson, Dartmouth College
10:50 AM	Semiparametric Structural Equation Models with Latent Variables for Right-Censored Data — Kin Yau Wong, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Donglin Zeng, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Danyu Lin, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:05 AM	Classification of Longitudinal Data Using P-Splines and Correlated Mixed-Effects Models Applied to Predict Pregnancy Outcomes — Cristian Meza, Universidad de Valparaiso ; Ana Arribas-Gil, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ; Rolando De la Cruz, P. Universidad Católica de Valparaíso ; Claudio Fuentes, Oregon State University
11:20 AM	Semiparametric Spatial Model for Interval-Censored Data with Time-Varying Covariate Effect — YUE ZHANG, University of Cincinnati ; Xia Wang, University of Cincinnati ; Bin Zhang, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
11:35 AM	Pseudo-Value Method for Ultra-High-Dimensional Semiparametric Models with Life-Time Data — Tony Sit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11:50 AM	A Semiparametric Survival Model with a Time-Dependent Cure Process — Sophie Yu-Pu Chen, University of Michigan ; Alex Tsodikov, University of Michigan
12:05 PM	A General Semiparametric Accelerated Failure Time Model Imputation Approach for Censored Covariate — Shengchun Kong, Gilead Sciences ; Ying Ding, University of Pittsburgh ; Shan Kang, Robert Bosch LLC

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

546 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W184d
Noninferiority Studies — Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Pilar Lim, Janssen R&D
10:35 AM	Clinical Trial Design of Authorized Biosimilars in Europe — Johanna Mielke, Novartis Pharma AG ; Bernd Jilma, Medical University of Vienna ; Byron Jones, Novartis Pharma ; Franz Koenig, Medical University of Vienna
10:50 AM	Average Inferiority Measure and Standardized Margins to Address Issues in Biosimilar Trials — Gang Li, Johnson & Johnson ; Weichung J. Shih, Rutgers University
11:05 AM	Various Approaches to Calculate 95% CIs of Treatment Difference from a Stratified Noninferiority Trial — Qiaoyang Lu, Astellas Pharma ; Misun Lee, Astellas Pharma
11:20 AM	Bayesian Design of Phase II Noninferiority (NI) Safety Clinical Trial — Lu-May Chiang, Novartis Pharma ; David Ohlssen, Novartis ; Dong Xi, Novartis
11:35 AM	The Role of Multiple Imputation in Noninferiority Trials — Brian Wiens, Portola Pharmaceuticals ; Ilya Lipkovich, Quintiles
11:50 AM	Is It Valid to Claim Superiority in a Noninferiority Trial? — Jitendra Ganju, Global Blood Therapeutics
12:05 PM	Noninferiority Tests for Anti-Infective Drugs Using Control Quantiles — Michael Fay, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ; Dean Follmann, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

582 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W183c
Powerful Experimental Designs for Non-Gaussian Responses — Invited Papers
Quality and Productivity Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences
Organizer(s): Matthew Plumlee, University of Michigan
Chair(s): Matthew Plumlee, University of Michigan
2:05 PM	Using Orthogonal Arrays to Obtain Efficient Designs for Certain Generalized Linear Models — John Stufken, Arizona State University
2:30 PM	Efficient Follow-Up Strategies Using Foldovers with Column Permutations — William Li, University of Minnesota ; Dennis K. J. Lin, Penn State University
2:55 PM	Efficient Sequential Design of Sensitivity Testing with Small Samples — C F Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Dianpeng Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology
3:20 PM	Discussant: Arman Sabbaghi, Purdue University
3:40 PM	Floor Discussion

583 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W175a
Recent Advances in Empirical Bayes Methods — Invited Papers
International Indian Statistical Association , IMS , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California
Chair(s): Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California
2:05 PM	Complex Empirical Bayes Models for Normal Data — Ya'acov Ritov, Hebrew University/University of Michigan
2:30 PM	Optimal Shrinkage Estimation in Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models: Beyond Gaussian — Samuel Kou, Harvard ; Lawrence D. Brown, University of Pennsylvania ; Xianchao Xie, Two Sigma Investments
2:55 PM	An Empirical Bayes Improvement of Common Shrinkage Estimators — Eitan Greenshtein, Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel ; Ya'acov Ritov, Hebrew University/University of Michigan ; Ariel Mansura, Bank of Israel
3:20 PM	Empirical Bayes Prediction for the Multivariate Newsvendor Loss Function — Lawrence D. Brown, University of Pennsylvania ; Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California ; Paat Rusmevichientong, University of Southern California
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

586 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W196c
Collaboration Among Academia, Industry, and Government, and the Role of ASA — Invited Papers
Committee on ASA Archives and Historical Materials , International Chinese Statistical Association , Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Mahinda Karunaratne, AbbVie
Chair(s): Mahinda Karunaratne, AbbVie
2:05 PM	Case Studies in Academic-Industry-Government Collaborations in Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trials — Bradley Carlin, University of Minnesota
2:30 PM	An Academic on the Factory Floor: My Experience as the David Jordan Visiting Scholar — Rick Chappell, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2:55 PM	The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: ASA Members Working Together — Wendy Martinez, Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Anna Nevius
3:20 PM	Discussant: Frank Harrell, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

589 *	Wed, 8/3/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W194b
Recent Developments in Bayesian Modeling to Analyze Large-Scale Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Sets — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics and the Environment , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): RAJARSHI GUHANIYOGI, University of California at Santa Cruz
Chair(s): Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Virginia Commonwealth University
2:05 PM	Computational Considerations for Applying Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Processes to Large Spatial Data Sets: A Case Study from Forest Biomass Prediction Across Alaska — Sudipto Banerjee, University of California at Los Angeles ; Abhirup Datta, University of Minnesota ; Bruce Cook, NASA ; Andrew Finley, Michigan State University
2:30 PM	Some Scalable Spatial Modeling Framework for Large Spatial Data — RAJARSHI GUHANIYOGI, University of California at Santa Cruz ; Sudipto Banerjee, University of California at Los Angeles
2:55 PM	Parallel Computing for Spatio-Temporal Bayesian Models — Francisco Beltran, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ; Bruno Sanso, University of California at Santa Cruz
3:20 PM	Discussant: Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
3:40 PM	Floor Discussion

591	Wed, 8/3/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W196b
JASA-ACS Invited Session — Invited Papers
JASA, Applications and Case Studies , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Joseph G. Ibrahim, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chair(s): Joseph G. Ibrahim, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2:05 PM	Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation for Dynamic Treatment Regimes with Sequential Transition Times — Peter F. Thall, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Yanxun Xu ; Peter Mueller, The University of Texas at Austin ; Abdus S. Wahed, University of Pittsburgh
2:55 PM	A Regularization Scheme on Word Occurrence Rates That Improves Estimation and Interpretation of Topical Content — Edoardo M. Airoldi, Harvard
2:40 PM	Discussant: Eric Laber, North Carolina State University
3:30 PM	Discussant: Eric D. Kolaczyk, Boston University
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

594 *	Wed, 8/3/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W178a
Advanced Statistical Methods in Analysis of Genomics and Epigenomics Data — Topic Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Zhaohui S. Qin, Emory University, Jun Xie, Purdue University
Chair(s): Jun Xie, Purdue University
2:05 PM	Integrating Cell Line and Patient Genomic Data for Drug Response Prediction — Ker-Chau Li, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica
2:25 PM	A New Statistical Method for Longitudinal High-Dimensional Data Analysis — Yuping Zhang, University of Connecticut
2:45 PM	Epigenome Isoform Analysis with Applications — Hongkai Ji, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Weixiang Fang, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
3:05 PM	A Hierarchical Hidden Markov Model for the Annotation of Chromatin States — Guo-Cheng Yuan, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ; Eugenio Marco, Editas Medicine ; Wouter Meuleman, MIT ; Manolis Kellis, MIT ; Jialiang Huang, DFCI ; Kimblerly Glass, Harvard Medical School ; Jianrong Wang, MIT ; Luca Pinello, DFCI
3:25 PM	Estimating and Accounting for Tumor Purity in Methylation Microarray Analysis — Hao Wu, Emory University
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

598 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W175b
Innovative Bayesian Methods in Biostatistics — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Samiran Sinha, Texas A&M University
Chair(s): Michael Longnecker, Texas A&M University
2:05 PM	Flexible Link Functions in Nonparametric Binary Regression with Gaussian Process Priors — Xia Wang, University of Cincinnati ; Dan Li, University of Cincinnati ; Lizhen Lin, The University of Texas ; Dipak Dey, University of Connecticut
2:25 PM	A Multi-Scale Spatial Model for Stroke Lesion Segmentation — Huiyan Sang, Texas A&M University ; Ciprian Crainiceanu, The Johns Hopkins University ; Elizabeth M. Sweeney, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; John Muschelli, The Johns Hopkins University
3:05 PM	Quantile Graphical Models: An Approximate Bayesian Approach — Nilabja Guha, Texas A&M University ; Bani K. Mallick, Texas A&M University
3:25 PM	Floor Discussion

599 *	Wed, 8/3/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W184a
Bayesian Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods for Causal Inference — Topic Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , Section on Nonparametric Statistics , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Kirsten J. Lum, University of Pennsylvania
Chair(s): Jason Roy, University of Pennsylvania
2:05 PM	Accounting for Uncertainty in Confounder and Effect Modifier Selection When Estimating Average Causal Effects in Generalized Linear Models — Chi Wang, University of Kentucky ; Francesca Dominici, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Giovanni Parmigiani, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Corwin Zigler, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2:25 PM	A Dirichlet Process Functional Approach to Heteroscedastic-Consistent Covariance Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis of Causal Effects — George Karabatsos, University of Illinois at Chicago
2:45 PM	A Bayesian Nonparametric Causal Inference Model for Comparative Effectiveness Research — Chenguang Wang, The Johns Hopkins University
3:05 PM	Bayesian Semiparametric Latent Mediation Model — Chanmin Kim, Harvard ; Michael Daniels, The University of Texas at Austin ; Yisheng Li, MD Anderson Cancer Center
3:25 PM	Floor Discussion

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

607 *	Wed, 8/3/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W186b
New Frontiers in Survival Analysis, Copula, and Clustered Data — Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Usha Govindarajulu, SUNY Downstate
2:05 PM	Latent Promotion Time Cure Rate Model Using Dependent Tail-Free Mixtures — Li Li, University of New Mexico
2:20 PM	Hierarchical Archimedian Copula Models for the Analysis of Familial Binary Data — Yihao Deng, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne
2:35 PM	Improved Computation of Full Data Likelihood Estimates in the Cox Proportional Hazards Model — Xiao Fang, The University of Texas Medical Branch ; Kristofer Jennings, The University of Texas Medical Branch
2:50 PM	Reversed Hazard Parametric Regression Model to Analyze Left-Censored HIV Data — Md Akhtar Hossain, University of South Carolina ; Hrishikesh Chakraborty, University of South Carolina
3:05 PM	Estimation of Rank Correlation for Clustered Data — Bernard Rosner, Harvard Medical School ; Robert Glynn, Harvard Medical School
3:20 PM	Considerations for Analysis of Time-to-Event Outcomes Measured with Error — Eric Oh, University of Pennsylvania ; Pamela A. Shaw, University of Pennsylvania
3:35 PM	Model Validation for Regression with Covariates Subject to Fixed or Random Censoring — Paul Bernhardt, Villanova University

612 *	Wed, 8/3/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W187a
Biopharmaceutical Section Student Papers — Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Richard McNally, Covance
2:05 PM	Multi-Arm Group Sequential Designs with Simultaneous Stopping Rule — Susanne Urach, Medical University of Vienna ; Martin Posch, Medical University of Vienna
2:20 PM	Prediction-Oriented Marker Selection (PROMISE) with Application to High-Dimensional Regression — Soyeon Kim, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; J. Jack Lee, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Veera Baladandayuthapani, MD Anderson Cancer Center
2:35 PM	Adaptive Dose Modification for Phase I Clinical Trials — Yiyi Chu, The University of Texas School of Public Health ; Haitao Pan, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Ying Yuan, MD Anderson Cancer Center
2:50 PM	Optimizing Dynamic Treatment Regimes via Quality-Adjusted Q-Learning and Threshold Utility Analysis for Subgroup Analysis in Clinical Trials — Geoffrey Johnson ; Andrew Topp, University of Pittsburgh ; Abdus S. Wahed, University of Pittsburgh
3:05 PM	Evaluating the Effect of Delayed PEG Insertion in Patients Diagnosed with ALS via Adaptive Treatment Length Regimes — Xin Lu, Sanofi ; Brent Johnson, University of Rochester
3:20 PM	Change-Plane Analysis for Subgroup Detection and Sample Size Calculation — Ailin Fan, North Carolina State University ; Rui Song, North Carolina State University ; Wenbin Lu, North Carolina State University
3:35 PM	Estimating Individualized Treatment Rules for Ordinal Treatments — Jingxiang Chen ; Yufeng Liu, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Michael R. Kosorok, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Haoda Fu, Eli Lilly and Company ; Xuanyao He, Eli Lilly and Company

624	Wed, 8/3/2016, 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM	H-International Ballroom
COPSS Awards and Fisher Lecture — Invited Papers
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies , ASA , IMS , International Chinese Statistical Association , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee , Caucus for Women in Statistics , Statistics Without Borders
Chair(s): Nicholas Jon Horton, Amherst College
4:50 PM	Personalizing Disease Prevention: Statistical Challenges — Alice S. Whittemore, Stanford University School of Medicine

213434	Wed, 8/3/2016, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM	H-Waldorf
ICSA General Member Meeting — Other ICW
International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Zhezhen Jin, Columbia University

630 *	Thu, 8/4/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W183c
Brain Connectivity Network Analysis and High-Dimensional Time Series — Invited Papers
WNAR , Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Ali Shojaie, University of Washington
Chair(s): Ali Shojaie, University of Washington
8:35 AM	A Unified Modeling Framework for State-Related Changes in High-Dimensional Effective Brain Connectivity — Hernando Ombao, University of California at Irvine ; Yuxiao Wang, University of California at Irvine ; Chee-Ming Ting, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
9:00 AM	Testing for Differential Connectivity in High-Dimensional Networks — Sen Zhao, University of Washington ; Ali Shojaie, University of Washington
9:25 AM	HVAR: High-Dimensional Forecasting via Interpretable Vector Autoregression — David Matteson, Cornell University ; William B. Nicholson, Cornell University ; Jacob Bien, Cornell University
9:50 AM	Statistical Methods for Global and Subnetwork Connectomic Analyses — Russell Shinohara, University of Pennsylvania ; Simon Vandekar, University of Pennsylvania
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

633 * !	Thu, 8/4/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W196a
Can Confounders Be Estimated? How and Why? The Case of Age-Period-Cohort — Invited Papers
Social Statistics Section , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Wenjiang Fu, University of Houston
Chair(s): Yu Zhu, Purdue University
8:35 AM	Age-Period-Cohort Models: Solution Lines, Bounds, and Mechanisms — Ethan Fosse, Harvard ; Christopher Winship, Harvard
9:00 AM	Confusions About the APC Confounding. What Have We Missed? How Can We Do Better? — Wenjiang Fu, University of Houston
9:25 AM	Toward a Proper Apportionment of Period and Cohort Slopes in Age-Period-Cohort Analysis — Wen-Chung Lee, National Taiwan University
9:50 AM	Discussant: Jiming Jiang, University of California at Davis
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

636	Thu, 8/4/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W175a
Memorial Session for Peter Hall — Invited Papers
Memorial , IMS , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Hans-Georg Mueller, University of California at Davis
Chair(s): Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania
8:35 AM	Peter Hall in Australia Nonparametric Deconvolution Problems — Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne
9:00 AM	A Personal Remembrance of Peter Hall — Raymond Carroll, Texas A&M University
9:25 AM	Hall's Contribution to Bootstrap and Personal Reminiscences — Song Xi Chen, Peking University/Iowa State University
9:50 AM	Peter Hall at UC Davis and Functional Data Analysis — Hans-Georg Mueller, University of California at Davis
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

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

641 * !	Thu, 8/4/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W180
Advancing Precision Medicine Using Innovative Subgroup Identification Methods — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Qi Tang, AbbVie
Chair(s): Richard A. Rode, AbbVie
8:35 AM	Use of the VG (Virtual Twins Combined with GUIDE) Method in the Development of Precision Medicines — Jia Jia ; Qi Tang, AbbVie ; Wangang Xie, AbbVie ; Richard A. Rode, AbbVie
8:55 AM	Comparison of Some Subgroup Identification Algorithms for Precision Medicine in Drug Development — Xin Huang ; Yan Sun, AbbVie ; Saptarshi Chatterjee, AbbVie ; Viswanath Devanarayan, AbbVie
9:15 AM	Subgroup Identification Based on Multiple Outcomes — Chensheng Kuang, University of Wisconsin - Madison ; Menggang Yu, University of Wisconsin - Madison ; Sijian Wang, University of Wisconsin - Madison
9:35 AM	Development of Predictive Signature to Identify Patient Subgroups with Differential Treatment Effect — Yu-Chuan Chen ; James Chen, FDA/NCTR ; Un Jung Lee, FDA/NCTR
9:55 AM	Subgroup Identification in a Learn-and-Confirm Setting — Lei Shen, Eli Lilly and Company
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

668 * !	Thu, 8/4/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W194b
Emerging Problems in High-Dimensional Inference and Testing — Invited Papers
IMS , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Lan Wang, University of Minnesota
Chair(s): Wen Zhou, Colorado State University
10:35 AM	Projection Test for High-Dimensional Mean Vectors with Optimal Direction — Runze Li, Penn State University ; Yuan Huang, Yale University ; Lan Wang, University of Minnesota ; Chen Xu, University of Ottawa
11:00 AM	Combinatorial Inference — Han Liu, Princeton
11:25 AM	Debiasing Regularized Estimators with High-Dimensional Data — Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University
11:50 AM	Semiparametric High-Dimensional Partial Linear Models: Estimation and Inference — Michael Levine, Purdue University ; Lawrence D. Brown, University of Pennsylvania ; Lie Wang, MIT
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

674	Thu, 8/4/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W183b
New Development of Flexible Methods for Survival Analysis — Invited Papers
ENAR , IMS , International Chinese Statistical Association , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Rui Song, North Carolina State University
Chair(s): Rui Song, North Carolina State University
10:35 AM	Variable Selection for Quantile Regression Under General Censoring Scheme — Lan Wang, University of Minnesota
11:00 AM	Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Semiparametric Models with Interval-Censored Data — Danyu Lin, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:25 AM	Cox Model Asymptotic Distributional Theory of Weighted Estimation for Nested Case-Control Design — Bin Nan, University of Michigan ; Ross Prentics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Tianxi Cai, Harvard
11:50 AM	Doubly Robust Estimation of Optimal Treatment Regime in Additive Hazards Regression — Wenbin Lu, North Carolina State University ; Suhyun Kang, North Carolina State University
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

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

680 * !	Thu, 8/4/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W190b
Statistical Aspects in Cancer Immunotherapy Development — Topic Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Zhaowei Hua, Takeda
Chair(s): Ling Wang, Takeda
10:35 AM	Design Immunotherapy Trials with Delayed Treatment Effect — Zhenzhen Xu, FDA ; Boguang Zhen, FDA ; Yongseok Park, University of Pittsburgh ; BIN ZHU, National Cancer Institute
10:55 AM	Dealing with Multiplicity Issues in Late-Stage Oncology Trials — Keaven Anderson, Merck ; Christine K. Gause, Merck Research Laboratories
11:15 AM	Randomization Ratio in Survival Trials — Jingyuan Wang, Radiushealth
11:35 AM	Discussant: Jianliang Zhang, MedImmune
11:55 AM	Floor Discussion

682 * !	Thu, 8/4/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W186a
Modern Inference for Selected Models — Topic Contributed Papers
ENAR , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Yuval Benjamini, Hebrew University
Chair(s): Nancy Zhang, University of Pennsylvania
10:35 AM	Adaptive Sequential Model Selection — William Fithian, University of California at Berkeley ; Jonathan Taylor, Stanford University ; Robert Tibshirani, Stanford University ; Ryan Tibshirani, Carnegie Mellon University
10:55 AM	Measuring Bumps: Intervals for Effect Size of Selected Regions in Genomic Signal — Yuval Benjamini, Hebrew University ; Rafael A. Irizarry, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ; Jonathan Taylor, Stanford University
11:15 AM	Selection-Adjusted Bayesian Inference in the Linear Model — Asaf Weinstein ; Jonathan Taylor, Stanford University ; Snigdha Panigrahi, Stanford University
11:35 AM	No Assumptions? No Problem! — Ryan Tibshirani, Carnegie Mellon University ; Sangwon Hyun, Carnegie Mellon University
11:55 AM	Floor Discussion

688	Thu, 8/4/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W193a
Personalized Intervention Based on Health Care Big Data Research — Topic Contributed Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Douglas Faries, Eli Lilly and Company
Chair(s): Douglas Faries, Eli Lilly and Company
10:35 AM	Build Individualized Treatment Rule on Scale Using Health Care Data with Genomic Information — Jin Zhou, University of Arizona ; Haoda Fu ; Kevin Doubleday, University of Arizona
10:55 AM	Multicategory Personalized Treatment Rule with Application to Diabetes Data Analysis — Xuanyao He, Eli Lilly and Company ; Haoda Fu
11:15 AM	Optimal Treatment Regime in Inhomogeneous Data — Chengchun Shi, North Carolina State University
11:35 AM	On the Impact of Informative Nonresponse in Logistic Regression — Joanna Wang, University of Technology Sydney
11:55 AM	Floor Discussion

698 * !	Thu, 8/4/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W186c
New Challenges in Complex Data Modeling II — Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Gu Mi, Eli Lilly and Company
10:35 AM	Inference of an Additive Transient Binding Model — Jason Bernstein
10:50 AM	Stable Balancing Weights for Marginal Structural Models — Maria de los Angeles Resa Juarez, Columbia University ; Jose Zubizarreta, Columbia University
11:05 AM	Constrained Inference for Double Cone Alternatives — Xuechan Li, Duke University ; Janice McCarthy, Duke University ; Zhiguo Li, Duke University ; Andrew Allen, Duke University ; Kouros Owzar, Duke University
11:20 AM	An Instrumental Variable Approach to Generalizing Experimental Results — Chaitra Nagaraja, Fordham University ; Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania
11:35 AM	A Factor Analysis Model for Estimating the Structure of Related Covariance Matrices — Teal Guidici ; George Michailidis, University of Florida
11:50 AM	Quantification of Imbalances in Baseline Covariates in Observational Studies — Adin-Cristian Andrei, Northwestern University
12:05 PM	Floor Discussion

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