All Times ET

Thursday, February 18

Thu, Feb 18
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual

GS1 - Keynote Address
General Session

Practical and Adaptive Modeling to Inform Policy for the SARS-Cov-2 / COVID-19 Pandemic Response
R. David Parker, University of Alaska

Thu, Feb 18
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Virtual

CS01 - Building Effective Structure to Create High-Quality Output
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Stephen Elston, Quantia Analytics, LLC

R Package Building in a Sustainable and Community-Driven Design to Promote Organization Infrastructure and Reduce Production Risk
Ben Barnard, Wells Fargo

Tips for the Data Scientist: Top 5 Reasons Why Your Data Science Project Didn’t Make It and How to Get It Right the First Time
Irina Kukuyeva, Ph.D., Kukuyeva Consulting

Thu, Feb 18
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Virtual

CS02 - Quick, But Can We Get It Right?
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Charles H. Recchia, MACOM

Solving Real-World Problems, or Making Them Worse? The Collection and Analysis of Race Data
Lauren Ruth Samuels, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

A Proposed Methodology for Executing a Survey Under an Aggressive Timeline (When You Know Nothing)
Darius Singpurwalla, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

Thu, Feb 18
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Virtual

CS03 - Time Series Methods
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Jill Schnall, University of Pennsylvania

State Space Model Using Kalman Filter to Forecast Mortality Time Series Data in Health Science
Jae J Lee, State University of New York, New Paltz

Identifying and Describing Change Points in Time Series Using Cluster Analysis
David J. Corliss, Peace-Work

Thu, Feb 18
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Virtual

CS04 - Minding Our 'P's
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Christine P. Chai, Microsoft

Moving to a World Beyond P<0.05
Ronald L Wasserstein, American Statistical Assocation

Thoughts on Communicating Statistics in a Post p<0.05 World: Know Your Audience(s)
Nicole Lazar, Pennsylvania State University

Thu, Feb 18
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Virtual

PS1 - ePoster Session 1
Poster Session

Challenges Associated with Using Aircraft Flight Density as an Estimator for the Probability of an Aircraft Impact into a Hazardous Facility
William C. Walker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Counting Cases, or Protecting the Workforce? Establishing Freedom-from-Disease in Occupational Settings
Annette M Bachand, Ramboll

Visualizing Dichotomous Data Correlations Using Two-Sample Corrgrams
Rohan Reddy Tummala, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Modeling and Comparing the COVID-19 Infection Rate for Taiwan and the United States of America Using Phase-Specific Nonparametric Density Regression Technique
Mason Chen, Stanford OHS

Clustering Analyses Based on Gait Qualities of Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Anisha Suri, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

Post-Stratification in Contexts Where Strata Population Counts Are Unavailable
Anja Zgodic, University of South Carolina

Statistical and Trial Design Considerations for an 1115 Medicaid Waiver in Kentucky
Elizabeth F Bair, University of Pennsylvania

Modeling and Forecasting of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Various Indian States
Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Dept. of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thu, Feb 18
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual

CS05 - Career Paths: Student to Professional to Leader
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): David J. Corliss, Peace-Work

From Integrals and Lemmas to Influence and Leadership
Bud Sanders, Strategic Oversight Services, Inc.

Learning in Transition to the Workplace: Perspectives from the Statistical Community
Layla Guyot, University of Texas at Austin

Thu, Feb 18
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual

CS06 - AI to the Rescue, or Rescuing AI?
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Terrie Vasilopoulos, University of Florida

Assessing the Quality of an Audit Sample and Estimate
Zachary Rhyne, LLC

A Responsible AI Blueprint and an Executable Roadmap for the Intelligence Community
Theresa Walker, Accenture Federal Services

Thu, Feb 18
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual

CS07 - Health Care Applications
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Emily Robinson, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

At What Age Should Cancer Screening Be Started?
Dongfeng Wu, University of Louisville

Thu, Feb 18
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual

CS08 - Showcasing Your Stats
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Ralph (Mac) Turner, TBD

Building Your Audience: Crafting a Voice to Communicate Statistics to the General Public
Coleman Reed Harris, Vanderbilt University

Getting Started with Animations in R
Jonathan Kane Storey, Mississippi State University Institute for Systems Engineering Research

Thu, Feb 18
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Virtual

PS2 - ePoster Session 2
Poster Session

Detecting Fake Images via Multiscale Methods in High-Dimensional Data
Minsu Park, Samsung Medical Center

Data Visualization Using the Human Body as a Canvas for Data
Jennifer McGinniss, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Reproducible Performance Report Generation to Provide an Approach for Communicating Quality Metrics Longitudinally to Wisconsin Health Care Providers
Nicholas Marka, University of Wisconsin - Department of Surgery

Assessing the Contagiousness of Mass Shootings with Nonparametric Hawkes Processes
Peter Carson Boyd, Oregon State University

An Application of Structural Equation Modeling to the Analysis of Ordered Categorical Factors Indicating Mother-Father-Child Interactions Impacting Cognitive Development of US Children at Age Five
Aleksandra Kazakova, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Calibration of Alzheimer’s Disease Microsimulation with Approximate Bayesian Computation
Peter Tadashi Shewmaker, Brown School of Public Health

Modeling and Optimizing Job Retention: A Case Study
Ryan Christianson, Virginia Tech

Effect of Simultaneous Error Rates on Reproducibility
Scott Richter, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Thu, Feb 18
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Virtual

CS10 - Cats and Boots in Production
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Erya Huang, TBD

Sampling the Unknown: A Multinomial Approach
John Stephen Taylor, STATISTICODE, LLC

Parametric Bootstrap for Design of Experiment for Early-Life Reliability Screening of Electronics
Charles H. Recchia, MACOM

Thu, Feb 18
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Virtual

CS11 - Anomaly Detection
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Emiliana Patlan, USAA

Scaling New Peaks: A Viewership-Centric Approach to Content Curation
Subhabrata Majumdar, AT&T Labs Research

WITHDRAWN: Detection and Mitigation of Anomalous Traffic Spikes in Communication Networks
Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee, Nokia

Thu, Feb 18
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Virtual

CS12 - Tips for Collaborative Grant Writing (Panel)
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Layla Guyot, University of Texas at Austin

Tips for Collaborative Grant Writing
Jody D. Ciolino, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine; Masha Kocherginsky, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine; Mary J Kwasny, Northwestern University; Leah J Welty, Northwestern University

Thu, Feb 18
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Virtual

CS09 - Challenges in Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Xueliang Pan, The Ohio State University

Tales from the Trenches in Academic/Industry Predictive Modeling Partnerships
Jennifer H Van Mullekom, Virginia Tech

How to Work with Every Client--Or Not
Elaine Eisenbeisz, Omega Statistics; Karen Grace-Martin, The Analysis Factor; Harry Dean Johnson, Washington State University; Clark Kogan, Washington State University; Kim Love, K. R. Love QCC; Nayak Polissar, The Mountain-Whisper-Light Statistics; Stephen Simon, P.Mean Consulting

Thu, Feb 18
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Virtual

Trivia Night
Other

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