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Friday, February 15

Fri, Feb 15
7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
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Registration

Fri, Feb 15
7:30 AM - 6:30 PM
St. James Ballroom

Exhibits Open
Exhibits

Fri, Feb 15
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
St. James Ballroom

Continental Breakfast
Other

Fri, Feb 15
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
St. Charles

GS1 - Keynote Address Fill out evaluation
General Session

Chair(s): Eric A. Vance, LISA-University of Colorado Boulder

What Is Data Science?
Hadley Wickham, RStudio

Fri, Feb 15
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
St. Charles

CS01 - Storytelling Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Emily M. Slade, University of Kentucky

9:20 AM

Becoming a Master Storyteller and Influencer
View Presentation Bud Sanders, Strategic Oversight Services, Inc.

10:05 AM

Telling the Story of Your Stats
Jennifer Van Mullekom, Virginia Tech

Fri, Feb 15
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Canal

CS02 - Survey Considerations and Adjustments Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Jay Mandrekar, Mayo Clinic

9:20 AM

Surveys and Big Data for Estimating Brand Lift
Tim C. Hesterberg, Google

10:05 AM

Adjusted Seasonal Moving Average Model for the Current Population Survey
View Presentation James Lawrence, US Census Bureau

Fri, Feb 15
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Jackson

CS03 - Foundations in Data Science Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Jana Anderson, Colorado State University

9:20 AM

Introduction to Data Science Using Python
View Presentation JeAnna Lanza Abbott, University of Houston

10:05 AM

Actuarial-Data Science Collaboration: Key Methods and Applications
View Presentation Louise Francis, FCAS, MAAA, CSPA, Francis Analytics and Actuarial Data Mining, Inc.

Fri, Feb 15
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Magazine

CS04 - Extending Existing Tools with Applications and Languages Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Eric Tesdahl, SpecialtyCare

9:20 AM

Estimation and Simulation for a Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process
View Presentation Lawrence Mark Leemis, The College of William & Mary

10:05 AM

APPL: A Probability Programming Language
View Presentation Lawrence Mark Leemis, The College of William & Mary

Fri, Feb 15
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
St. Charles

CS05 - Let's Talk Statistics Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Julia L. Sharp, Colorado State University

11:05 AM

Explaining Three Complex Statistical Concepts to Nonstatisticians
View Presentation Karen Grace-Martin, The Analysis Factor, LLC

11:50 AM

Explaining Competing Risk Analyses to Nonstatisticians
View Presentation Cynthia S. Crowson, Mayo Clinic

Fri, Feb 15
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Canal

CS06 - Contemporary Methods in Health and Medicine Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Sana N. Charania, CDC

11:05 AM

A Modified PageRank Algorithm for Pathway Prioritization Based on Projection Correlation and Generalized R-Squared
Qingyang Zhang, University of Arkansas

11:50 AM

Easy Estimation of Dynamic Treatment Regimes: A Primer on Personalized Medicine
View Presentation Michael Patrick Wallace, University of Waterloo

Fri, Feb 15
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Jackson

CS07 - Getting Ready for Your Research Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Billy Bridges, Clemson

11:05 AM

Better Research Planning Through Simulation
View Presentation Neal Fultz, Factual

11:50 AM

Reproducible Research: Best Practices and Tools for Support
View Presentation JeAnna Lanza Abbott, University of Houston

Fri, Feb 15
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Magazine

CS08 - Special Applications of Statistical Software Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Roxy Cramer, Rogue Wave Software, Inc.

11:05 AM

Computational Advances in the Production of Compact Letter Displays
View Presentation John M. Ennis, The Institute for Perception

11:50 AM

Helper Functions for Economic Indexes and Productivity Statistics
View Presentation Michael Jadoo, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Fri, Feb 15
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch (On Own)
Other

Fri, Feb 15
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
St. Charles

CS09 - From Problem to Project Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Christine Luketic, Virginia Tech

2:05 PM

Back to the Basics: Framing and Organizing Your Problem
Ed Marx, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

2:50 PM

Developing a Network of International Statistical Laboratories
View Presentation Eric A. Vance, LISA-University of Colorado Boulder; Kim Love, K. R. Love Quantitative Consulting and Collaboration

Fri, Feb 15
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Canal

CS10 - Addressing Problematic Data Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Xinling (Claire) Xu, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

2:05 PM

Dealing with Missing Data in a Multi-Item ICU-Mortality Scale: A Comparison of Multiple Imputation Methods
View Presentation Chia-Ling Kuo, University of Connecticut Health

2:50 PM

Detection of Latent Heteroscedasticity and Group-Based Effects in Linear Models via Bayesian Model Selection
View Presentation Thomas Anthony Metzger, Virginia Tech

Fri, Feb 15
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Jackson

CS11 - Panel on Ethics in Data Science and Statistics Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Wendy Martinez, Bureau of Labor Statistics

2:05 PM

Panel on Ethics in Data Science and Statistics
David J. Corliss, Peace-Work; Juan Lavista Ferres, Microsoft; Mary Gray, American University

Fri, Feb 15
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Magazine

CS12 - Working Efficiently in R Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Duke Butterfield, Mayo Clinic

2:05 PM

Useful Tricks in R
View Presentation Paul Teetor, William Blair & Co.

2:50 PM

Automated Building and Storing Frozen Data in R Packages Using Travis and Drat
View Presentation Ben Joseph Barnard, Wells Fargo

Fri, Feb 15
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
St. Charles

CS13 - Communicating with Stakeholders Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Layla Guyot, Texas State University

3:50 PM

Captain Obvious: Obvious Data Issues That Matter to Our Clients
View Presentation Georgette Asherman, Direct Effects, LLC

4:35 PM

'Don’t Tell the Client We’re Idiots' and Other Working Mottoes of a Biostatistical Contract Research Organization: Tips for the Consulting Statistician
View Presentation Kent Koprowicz, Axio Research

Fri, Feb 15
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Canal

CS14 - Detection and Diagnostic Methods Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Cynthia S. Crowson, Mayo Clinic

3:50 PM

Signal Detection in Medical Devices Post-Market Surveillance: From Raw Data to Signals Using R
View Presentation Gary Chung, Johnson & Johnson

4:35 PM

Practical Guidelines for Instrumental Variables Methods
View Presentation Luke J. Keele, University of Pennsylvania

Fri, Feb 15
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Jackson

CS15 - Inference with Big Data Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Qingyang Zhang, University of Arkansas

3:50 PM

Using Recursive Variable Selection in Conditional Random Forests to Construct an Overall Seasonality Test
View Presentation Daniel Ollech, Deutsche Bundesbank

4:35 PM

A Practical Assessment of the Sensitivities of Bayesian Model Selection
View Presentation Christopher T. Franck, Virginia Tech

Fri, Feb 15
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Magazine

CS16 - Population Health Analytics Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Natasha Hurwitz, National Institutes of Health

3:50 PM

The National Center for Health Statistics Guidelines for the Analysis of Trends
Renee Gindi, National Center for Health Statistics

4:35 PM

Global Health, Conflicted Data, and GPS: Analyzing a Gender-Based Violence Intervention in Nairobi, Kenya
View Presentation Rina Friedberg, Stanford University

Fri, Feb 15
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
St. James Ballroom

PS2 - Poster Session 2 and Refreshments
Poster Session

Chair(s): Fabio D'Ottaviano, The Dow Chemical Company

Effective Communication for Statistical Consulting
View Presentation Danielle Guffey, Baylor College of Medicine

Strategies for Guiding Student Collaborators in Providing Productive Feedback on Scientific Work
View Presentation Julia L. Sharp, Colorado State University

Is Value at Risk a Suitable Tool for Financial Professionals and Their Clients?
View Presentation Michael William Kotarinos, University of South Florida, Solarbeam Capital LLC

Dimension Reduction in Bankruptcy Prediction: A Case Study of North-American Companies
View Presentation Edward Alexander Golas, Bryant University

Applying Machine Learning and Statistical Methods in the Predicting Client’s Phone Call Activity
View Presentation Xinghe Lu, The Vanguard Group

Modeling Malaria Prevalence: Comparison of Multiple Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Models
View Presentation Ben Toh, University of Florida

Development of Improved Statistical Methodology for Eyewitness Identification
View Presentation Alice J. Liu, University of Virginia

Finding Simultaneous Tolerable Dosage Combinations for Multiple Endnotes
View Presentation Faten Saeed Alamri, Virginia Commonwealth University & Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University

Determining Changepoints in Longitudinal Cardiovascular Health Scores Using Segmented Mixed Models
View Presentation Amy Elizabeth Krefman, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

The Effect of Sampling Methods on Machine Learning Models for Predicting Long-Term Length of Stay: A Case Study for Rhode Island Hospitals
View Presentation Son Nguyen, Bryant University

Statistical Analysis of Large-Scale Public Transport Data
View Presentation Daniel Joseph Graham, Imperial College London

Using Penalized Regression to Identify Subgroups of Clients Who Benefit from a Diabetes Intervention
View Presentation Brandy R. Sinco, University of Michigan

Transcytosis as a Mechanism of HIV Entry into Endocervical Tissue: Evaluating Data in Stages
View Presentation Angela Fought, Northwestern University

Coherent Multi-Task Feature Selection and Prediction from Pharmacogenomics Databases
Alahendra A. Chamila Dilhani Perera, Texas Tech University

Fitting Skewed Data into Asymmetric Distribution
Nofiu Idowu Badmus, Yaba College of Technology

New GARCH Methods for Financial Analysts: Using Industry Knowledge to Develop Better Forecasts for Common Financial Products
View Presentation Vishruti Ganesh, Dougherty Valley High School

Reducing Misclassification Rate Through Hybrid Algorithm, with Application on Consumer Feedback Data
View Presentation Shankang Qu, PepsiCo

A Comparison of Random Forest Variable Selection Methods for Classification Modeling
View Presentation Jaime Lynn Speiser, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Data-Driven Programming Techniques in SAS and R
View Presentation Davia Moyse, ICF

Visual Exploration of Big Biological Data
View Presentation Lauren Holt Lenz, Utah State University

Creating 88 Dynamic Tables with Stata's Putexcel Function
View Presentation Jason Andrew Benedict, OSU Center for Biostatistics

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