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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

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6 * 		Sun, 7/31/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-W184bc
Open Source Statistical Software for Data Science — Invited Papers
Journal of Statistical Software , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Committee on Applied Statisticians , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): John Emerson, Yale University
Chair(s): Christopher Fonnesbeck, Vanderbilt University
2:05 PM Software Engineering for Data Science — Skipper Seabold, Civis Analytics
2:25 PM The Python Data Science Stack — Jake VanderPlas, University of Washington
2:45 PM Flexibility and Speed: Can We Have Both? — Douglas Bates, University of Wisconsin
3:05 PM If You Can't Beat 'Em . — Dirk Eddelbuettel, Ketchum Trading/Debian & R Projects
3:25 PM Grammars and Structures for Computing with Data — Michael Kane, Yale University
3:45 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
 
 

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
 
 

213611 		Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM H-PDR5
Statistical Programmers and Analysts Section Executive Meeting (Closed) — Other Cmte/Business
Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Chair(s): Pandurang Kulkarni, Eli Lilly and Company
 
 

88 		Sun, 7/31/2016, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CC-Hall F1 West
The Extraordinary Power of Data — Invited Poster Presentations
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , Section on Statistical Graphics , Section on Statistics in Imaging , Business and Economic Statistics Section , Biometrics Section , ENAR , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee , Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Statistics in Marketing , Social Statistics Section , Statistics in Business Schools Interest Group
Chair(s): Tyler McCormick, University of Washington
1: Communicate Better with R, R Markdown, and Shiny — Garrett Grolemund, RStudio
2: Spectral Filtering for Spatial-Temporal Dynamics — Tian Zheng, Columbia University ; Lu Meng, Columbia University
3: A Mixed-Effects Modeling Approach to Study the Impact of Pesticides on Farmworkers' Brain Networks Using RS-fMRI Data — Mohsen Bahrami, Virginia Tech ; Paul Laurienti, Wake Forest School of Medicine ; Thomas Arcury, Wake Forest School of Medicine ; Sean Simpson, Wake Forest School of Medicine
4: Cascaded High-Dimensional Histograms: A Generative Approach to Density Estimation — Siong Thye Goh, MIT ; Cynthia Rudin, Duke University
5: TV Advertising's Impact on Online Searches — Yonathan Schwarzkopf, Google ; Ying Liu, Google ; Makoto Uchida, Google ; Elissa Lee, Google ; Jim Koehler, Google
6: Modeling Connectivity in High-Dimensional Time Series Data via Factor Analysis — Hernando Ombao, University of California at Irvine ; Yuxiao Wang, University of California at Irvine ; Chee-Ming Ting, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
7: Analysis of Longitudinal Multi-Sequence MRI in Multiple Sclerosis — Elizabeth M. Sweeney, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Russell Shinohara, University of Pennsylvania ; John Muschelli, The Johns Hopkins University ; Daniel Reich , National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke ; Ciprian Crainiceanu, The Johns Hopkins University ; Jonathan Gellar, Mathematica Policy Research ; Philip Reiss, New York University/University of Haifa ; Ani Eloyan, Brown University
8: Law, Order, and Algorithms — Sharad Goel, Stanford University
9: Defining and Estimating Reliability in Hierarchical Logistic Regression Models for Health Care Provider Profiling — Jessica Hwang, RAND Corporation ; John Adams, Kaiser Permanente ; Susan M. Paddock, RAND Corporation
10: Probabilistic Cause-of-Death Assignment Using Verbal Autopsies — Tyler McCormick, University of Washington ; Sam Clark, University of Washington ; Zehang Li, University of Washington
11: We Are What We Ask: Mapping the Ecosystem of Software Development Using Stack Overflow Data — David G. Robinson, Stack Overflow
12: Data Science at Stitch Fix — Hilary Parker, Stitch Fix
13: Text Mining on Domain Names — Kenneth E. Shirley, Amazon
14: Fighting Fraud with Statistics! — Alyssa Frazee, Stripe
15: Forecasting Seasonal Epidemics with Ensemble Methods and Collective Human Judgment — Logan Conrad Brooks, Carnegie Mellon University ; Sangwon Hyun, Carnegie Mellon University ; Ryan Tibshirani, Carnegie Mellon University
16: Geometric Methods for Network Comparison and Multilevel Modeling — Anna Smith, The Ohio State University ; Catherine Calder, The Ohio State University
17: Mixed-Effects Models for Resampled Network Statistics Improve Statistical Power to Find Differences in Functional Brain Connectivity — Manjari Narayan, Rice University ; Genevera Allen, Rice University
18: Estimating the Causal Impact of Recommendation Systems from Observational Data — Amit Sharma, Microsoft Research ; Jake Hofman, Microsoft Research ; Duncan Watts, Microsoft Research
19: The Future of the Journal Biostatistics — Dimitris Rizopoulos, Erasmus University Medical Center ; Jeffrey Leek, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
20: Sample Size Calculations for Micro-Randomized Trials in MHealth — Peng Liao, University of Michigan ; Ji Sun, University of Michigan ; Susan A. Murphy, University of Michigan
 
 

Register 95 		Mon, 8/1/2016, 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM CC-W375a
Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts A.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee) — Roundtables AM Roundtable Discussion
Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Organizer(s): Michael Messner, EPA
ML08: Quality Assurance for Statistical Programming and Analysis — Michael Messner, EPA
 
 

106 * ! 		Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-W196b
Applied Data Visualization in Industry and Journalism — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Graphics , Royal Statistical Society , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Committee on Applied Statisticians , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Hilary Parker, Stitch Fix
Chair(s): Hilary Parker, Stitch Fix
8:35 AM Linked Brushing in R — Hadley Wickham, Rice University
8:55 AM Creating Data Visualization Tools at Facebook — Andreas Gros, Facebook
9:15 AM Cocktail Party Horror Stories About Data Vis for Clients — Lynn Cherny, Ghostweather R&D
9:35 AM Visualizing the News at FiveThirtyEight — Andrei Scheinkman, FiveThirtyEight.com
9:55 AM Teaching Data Visualization to 100k Data Scientists: Lessons from Evidence-Based Data Analysis — Jeffrey Leek, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

213704 		Mon, 8/1/2016, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Information Table Food for SSPA — Other Cmte/Business
Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Chair(s): Michael Carniello, Astellas Pharma
 
 

247 * 		Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-W184bc
Toward Better Communication of Information with Statistical Graphics — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Graphics , Biopharmaceutical Section , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Statistics Without Borders
Chair(s): Amelia McNamara, Smith College
2:05 PM Clusters Beat Trend!? Testing Feature Hierarchy in Statistical Graphics — Susan VanderPlas, Nebraska Public Power District ; Heike Hofmann, Iowa State University
2:20 PM Identifying the Effects of Clear Visualization: Reduced Time to a Deeper Understanding of Data — Kathleen Campbell, Saint Joseph's University ; Nicolle Clements, Saint Joseph's University ; Virginia Miori, Saint Joseph's University ; Corey Jones, Saint Joseph's University
2:35 PM The Linked Microposter Plot as a New Means for the Visualization of Eye-Tracking Data — Chunyang Li, Utah State University ; Juergen Symanzik, Utah State University
2:50 PM Optimizing Diffusion Cartograms for Areal Data Using a New Evaluation Method — Xiaoyue Cheng, University of Nebraska - Omaha
3:05 PM Capitalizing on the Power of Dynamic Data Visualization — Neil Polhemus, Statpoint Technologies
3:20 PM What Can We Learn from Exact Calculation of Histograms? — James Weber
3:35 PM Interactive Graphics for Functional Data Analyses — Julia Wrobel, Columbia University ; Jeff Goldsmith, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
 
 

213613 		Mon, 8/1/2016, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM H-Williford A
SSPA Mixer — Other Cmte/Business
Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Chair(s): Pandurang Kulkarni, Eli Lilly and Company
 
 

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
 
 

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
 
 

358 * ! 		Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-W186a
Applications of Statistical Computing — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Chair(s): Milan Bimali, University of Kansas School of Medicine
10:35 AM Statistical Analysis of Land Cover of South Dakota — Mitra Devkota, Shawnee State University ; Gary Hatfield, South Dakota State University ; Saroj Thapa, South Dakota State University
10:50 AM Computationally Efficient Question Selection in Adaptive Questionnaires — John Riddles, George Mason University ; James E. Gentle, George Mason University
11:05 AM A More Practical Approach for the Benjamini-Hochberg FDR Controlling Procedure for Huge-Scale Testing Problems — Vered Madar, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
11:20 AM Semi-Supervised Bootstrap Methods — Bradley Ferguson, Quintiles ; Eric Laber, North Carolina State University ; Leonard Stefanski, North Carolina State University
11:35 AM Adapting Heterogeneous Tissue Expression Analysis Method to RNA-Seq Data — Megan Stefanski, University of Missouri - Kansas City ; David Spade, University of Missouri - Kansas City
11:50 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

466 		Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-W185bc
Model Selection — Invited Papers
IMS , Royal Statistical Society , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Organizer(s): Gerda Claeskens, KU Leuven
Chair(s): Gerda Claeskens, KU Leuven
8:35 AM An Optimality of the L_0 Penalty and Dual Achievability of Model Selection — Yuhong Yang, University of Minnesota
9:00 AM Sparse Variable Selection Aiming at Minimum Prediction Error — Maarten Jansen, Université Libre de Bruxelles
9:25 AM Goodness-of-Fit Tests for High-Dimensional Linear Regression — Rajen Dinesh Shah, University of Cambridge ; Peter Bühlmann, ETH Zurich
9:50 AM Comparison of State Structures in Models of Disease Progression — Howard Thom, University of Bristol ; Chris Jackson, Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit ; Linda Sharples, Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research ; Daniel Commenges, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ; Nicky Welton, University of Bristol
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

507 		Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-W187a
Statistical Inference — Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Chair(s): Ramzan Tahir
8:35 AM Shrimp Effort Estimation for the Gulf of Mexico Using Second-Order Linear Models (2007--2014) — Morteza Marzjarani, Saginaw
8:50 AM Sample Size Planning for Survival Endpoints in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials — Ququan Liu, FDA/CDER ; John Lawrence, FDA/CDER ; Hsien-Ming James Hung, FDA
9:05 AM On the Estimation of Poisson Parameter: An Alternative Approach — Tanweer Shapla, Eastern Michigan University ; Khairul Islam, Texas A&M University - Kingsville
9:20 AM A Step-Wise Test for Identical Normal Distributions — Khairul Islam, Texas A&M University - Kingsville ; Mian Adnan, Ball State University
9:35 AM A Joint Model for Multivariate Hierarchical Semicontinuous Data with Replications — Wondwosen Yimer, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
9:50 AM Noninferiority Tests in Evaluation of Irritation — Mengdie Yuan, FDA ; Jingyu Luan, FDA
10:05 AM Tolerance Limits Under Zero-Inflated Models: Applications to the Evaluation of Health Care Expenditure and Body Armor Data — Zachary Zimmer
 
 

555 		Wed, 8/3/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-Hall F1 West
Contributed Poster Presentations: Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Chair(s): Genevera Allen, Rice University
18: MEGSA: A Powerful and Flexible Framework for Analyzing Mutual Exclusivity of Tumor Mutations — Xing Hua, National Cancer Institute ; Jianxin Shi, National Cancer Institute
19: Cell Suppression and Risk Measurement Across Multiple Tables — Joshua Borton, NORC at the University of Chicago
20: Distribution of Random Correlation Matrices: Hyperspherical Parameterization of the Cholesky Factor — Xiao Wang ; Mohsen Pourahmadi, Texas A&M University
21: SPM: Statistical Process Monitoring, an R Package — Curry Hilton, University of Alabama ; Subhabrata Chakraborti, University of Alabama
22: Inference on Interval-Valued Data Regression by Measurement Error Models — Yaotong Cai, University of Georgia ; Lynne Billard, University of Georgia
23: Effects of Measurement Errors and Heteroscedasticity in Estimation of Constrained Parameters — Melinda Holt, Sam Houston State University ; Cecil Hallum, Sam Houston State University
24: Modeling Body Mass Index Distribution Using Flexible Skewed Density Functions: An Application to UWEC Health Data — Thao Tran, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire ; Mohammad Aziz, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire ; Cara Wiskow, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire ; Kaolee Yang, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
25: A Web Application for Optimal Selection of Adaptive Designs in Phase I Oncology Clinical Trials — Sheau-Chiann Chen ; Yu Shyr, Vanderbilt University
26: The Effect of Multicollinearity in Various Regression Scenarios — Daniel Mundfrom, Eastern Kentucky University ; Lisa Kay, Eastern Kentucky University ; Michelle Smith, Eastern Kentucky University
27: Distance-Based Anomaly Detection by Random Sampling — Kalbi Zongo, Oregon State University ; Charlotte Wickham, Oklahoma State University ; Sarah Emerson, Oregon State University
 
 

637 * ! 		Thu, 8/4/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-W176c
My Life as a Statistical Consultant — Invited Panel
Section on Statistical Consulting , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Xiaoyue Niu, Penn State University
Chair(s): Xiaoyue Niu, Penn State University
8:35 AM My Life as a Statistical Consultant
Panelists: James Rosenberger, Penn State University
Mary Batcher, Ernst and Young
Nathaniel Schenker, CDC/NCHS
10:10 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

695 		Thu, 8/4/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-W176a
Methods and Applications of Statistical Graphics — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Graphics , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Chair(s): Yan Wang, University of California at Los Angeles
10:35 AM Interactive Visualization of Latino Political Participation in Nebraska and USA — Farhana Luna ; Xiaoyue Cheng, University of Nebraska - Omaha ; Lissette Linares, University of Nebraska - Omaha
10:50 AM Use of Phase Plots to Explore Financial Data — Mahbubul Majumder, University of Nebraska - Omaha ; John Konvalina, University of Nebraska - Omaha
11:05 AM Improved Simulation for Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Network Analysis — Junchi Guo ; Michael Larsen, The George Washington University
11:20 AM Confident Class Micromaps for Visual Analytic Inference — Daniel Carr, George Mason University ; Anand N. Vidyashankar, George Mason University
11:35 AM Causal Inference in Observational Studies using data integration in large scales and creating strong instrumental variables — Azam Yazdani ; Akram Yazdani, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Ahmad Samiei, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik ; Eric Boerwinkle, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
11:50 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

699 ! 		Thu, 8/4/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-W187a
General Methodology and Applications in Biostatistics — Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Chair(s): Mallikarjuna Rettiganti, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
10:35 AM False Discovery Rate Control for Identifying Simultaneous Signals — Sihai Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:50 AM Pearson's Chi-Square Test and Rank Correlation Inferences for Clustered Data — Joanna Shih, National Cancer Institute ; Michael Fay, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
11:05 AM Increasing the Power of the Mann-Whitney Test in Randomized Experiments Through Flexible Covariate Adjustment — Karel Vermeulen, Ghent University ; Olivier Thas, Ghent University ; Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University
11:20 AM Power Calculations for Statistics Based on Orthogonal Components of Pearson's Chi-Square — Maduranga Dassanayake, Arizona State University ; Mark Reiser, Arizona State University
11:35 AM Covariate-Adjusted ROC Analysis Using Covariate Balancing Propensity Score — Seungbong Han, Gachon University
11:50 AM HIV kit lot related shifts in RNA using external control samples: the Virology Quality Assurance Program — Daniel Zaccaro, RTI International ; Amy Couzens, RTI International ; Donald Brambilla, RTI International ; Cheryl Jennings, Rush University Medical Center ; James Bremer, Rush University Medical Center
12:05 PM Floor Discussion
 
 
 
 
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