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Colorado Convention Center = “CC”, Hyatt = “HY”

315 Applied Session Tue, 8/5/08, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-602
Infectious Disease Epidemiology - Contributed - Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, Biometrics Section
Chair(s): Kiros Berhane, University of Southern California
    2:05 PM   Estimating the Effective Reproduction Numbers of Influenza by Using Surveillance Data — Shenghai Zhang, Public Health Agency of Canada; Ping Yan, Public Health Agency of Canada
    2:20 PM   Confidence Intervals for Estimates of Excess Mortality — Al Ozonoff, Boston University School of Public Health; Xiaopeng Miao, Boston University School of Public Health; Po-Yung Cheng, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; William W. Thompson, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    2:35 PM   Comparison of Methods for Estimating Influenza-Associated Deaths from the 1972/1973 Through 2003/2004 Seasons — Hong Zhou, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ; William W. Thompson, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Po-Yung Cheng, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Eric Weintraub, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ; Cecile Viboud, National Institutes of Health; Corinne Ringholz, National Institutes of Health; Joe Bresee, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; David Shay, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    2:50 PM   Comparison of Seasonal Regression Models for Estimating Influenza-Associated Mortality in the United States: A Simulation Study — Po-Yung Cheng, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; William W. Thompson, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Cecile Viboud, National Institutes of Health; Corinne Ringholz, National Institutes of Health; Tuyen Do, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; David K. Dhay, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    3:05 PM   A Bayesian Method for Inferring Transmission Chains in a Partially Observed Epidemic — Jaideep Ray, Sandia National Laboratories; Youssef M. Marzouk, Sandia National Laboratories
    3:20 PM   A Discrete-Time Sequential Test for Constant Fatality Rate of an Emerging Epidemic with Applications to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong and Beijing — Ying Xu, The University of Hong Kong; S. F. Yip, The University of Hong Kong; K. F. Lam, The University of Hong Kong
     3:35 PM   Floor Discussion
 

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