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JSM 2015 Preliminary Program

Legend: Washington State Convention Center = CC, Sheraton Seattle = S, Grand Hyatt = GH and The Conference Center = TCC
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Activity Number	Title	Sponsor(s)	Type	Location
212255	Friday Board Meeting Break-Out Room 1	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Fri, 8/7 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM Room: S-Juniper

212256	Friday Board Meeting Break-Out Room 2	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Fri, 8/7 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM Room: S-Madrona

211924	ASA Membership/Help Desk/Press Desk	ASA	Other JSM Hours	Sat, 8/8 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM Room: CC-Atrium Lobby

212257	Saturday Board Meeting Break-Out 1	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Sat, 8/8 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM Room: S-Juniper

212258	Saturday Board Meeting Break-Out 2	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Sat, 8/8 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM Room: S-Madrona

CE_40P	(Part I of Two-Part Course) Nontechnical Skills to Become a More Effective Collaborator (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Personal Skills Development	Sat, 8/8 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM Room: S-Aspen

CE_01C	(2-Day Course) Statistical Analysis with Missing Data (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Sat, 8/8 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom C

CE_02C	Applied Longitudinal Analysis (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Sat, 8/8 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom D

CE_03C	The Art and Science of Data Visualization Using R (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Sat, 8/8 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom A

CE_04C	Statistical Issues in Online Experimentation (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Sat, 8/8 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom B

CE_05C	Statistical Analysis of Financial Data with R (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Sat, 8/8 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Willow A

CE_41P	Effective Presentations for Statisticians: Success = (PD)2 (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Personal Skills Development	Sat, 8/8 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Willow B

CE_42P	(Part I of Two-Part Course) Preparing Statisticians for Leadership: How to See the Big Picture and Have More Influence (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Personal Skills Development	Sat, 8/8 1:00 PM to 6:30 PM Room: S-Aspen

211944	ASA Membership/Help Desk/Press Desk	ASA	Other JSM Hours	Sun, 8/9 7:30 AM to 8:30 PM Room: CC-Atrium Lobby

CE_06C	Integrative Analytics of Different Types of Genetic and Genomic Data Using Causal Mediation Modeling (ADDED FEE)	ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Sun, 8/9 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM Room: S-Willow B

CE_40P	(Part II of Two-Part Course) Nontechnical Skills to Become a More Effective Collaborator (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Personal Skills Development	Sun, 8/9 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM Room: S-Aspen

CE_42P	(Part II of Two-Part Course) Preparing Statisticians for Leadership: How to See the Big Picture and Have More Influence (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Personal Skills Development	Sun, 8/9 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM Room: S-Redwood

CE_01C	(2nd Day of Two-Day Course) Statistical Analysis with Missing Data	ASA	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Sun, 8/9 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom C

CE_07C	Advanced R (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Sun, 8/9 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom D

CE_08C	Adaptive Methods for Modern Clinical Trials (ADDED FEE)	ASA Biopharmaceutical Section	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Sun, 8/9 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom A

CE_09C	Analysis of Categorical Data (ADDED FEE)	ASA Biometrics Section	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Sun, 8/9 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom B

CE_10C	Practical Bayesian Computation (ADDED FEE)	ASA Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Sun, 8/9 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Willow A

212170	JSM Docent Orientation (Closed)	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Sun, 8/9 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Room: CC-Ballroom 6ABC

212044	First-Time Attendee Orientation and Reception	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Sun, 8/9 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Room: CC-Ballroom 6ABC

211932	American Statistical Association Booth #504	ASA	Other JSM Hours	Sun, 8/9 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM Room: CC-4B

211986	ASA Store	ASA	Other JSM Hours	Sun, 8/9 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM Room: CC-4B

CE_11C	Functional Data Analysis: Methods and Computing (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Sun, 8/9 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Willow B

CE_43P	Career Development: Discovering Secrets of a Successful Statistical Career (FREE EVENT)	ASA Committee on Career Development	Professional Development Personal Skills Development	Sun, 8/9 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Room: S-Redwood

212272	Membership Council Meeting (Closed)	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Sun, 8/9 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Ravenna C

46	Introductory Overview Lecture: Personalized Medicine	ASA ENAR WNAR IMS SSC International Indian Statistical Association International Chinese Statistical Association Korean International Statistical Society International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Royal Statistical Society International Statistical Institute	Invited Special Presentation	Sun, 8/9 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM Room: CC-4C2

212186	Sunday Awards Celebration Rehearsal	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Sun, 8/9 6:30 PM to 7:00 PM Room: CC-4C2

212185	ASA Awards Celebration and Editor Appreciation	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Sun, 8/9 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM Room: CC-4C2

211945	ASA Membership/Help Desk/Press Desk	ASA	Other JSM Hours	Mon, 8/10 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM Room: CC-Atrium Lobby

212249	ASA DataFest Steering Committee (Closed)	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Mon, 8/10 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Medina

CE_12C	Concepts and Implementation of Bayesian Adaptive Phase I Oncology Trials (ADDED FEE)	ASA Biopharmaceutical Section	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Mon, 8/10 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom A

102	Introductory Overview Lecture: New Perspectives in Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis	ASA ENAR WNAR IMS SSC International Indian Statistical Association International Chinese Statistical Association Korean International Statistical Society International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Royal Statistical Society International Statistical Institute International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Section on Statistics and the Environment Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee	Invited Special Presentation	Mon, 8/10 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM Room: CC- Ballroom 6E

CE_13C	Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data (ADDED FEE)	ASA Section on Statistics in Epidemiology	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Mon, 8/10 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom C

CE_14C	Analysis of Clinical Trials: Theory and Applications (ADDED FEE)	ASA Biopharmaceutical Section	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Mon, 8/10 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom D

CE_15C	Classification and Regression Trees and Forests (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Mon, 8/10 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom B

CE_16C	Guidelines for Using State-of-the-Art Methods to Estimate Propensity Score and Inverse Probability of Treatment Weights When Drawing Causal Inferences (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Mon, 8/10 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Willow A

CE_17C	Applied Text Analytics (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Mon, 8/10 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Willow B

211933	American Statistical Association Booth #504	ASA	Other JSM Hours	Mon, 8/10 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM Room: CC-4B

211987	ASA Store	ASA	Other JSM Hours	Mon, 8/10 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM Room: CC-4B

147	Late-Breaking Session I: The VA Secretary Bans a Statistics Book	ASA ENAR IMS SSC WNAR International Chinese Statistical Association International Indian Statistical Association International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Korean International Statistical Society Royal Statistical Society International Statistical Institute Statistics Without Borders	Invited Special Presentation	Mon, 8/10 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM Room: CC- Ballroom 6E

212328	P-Value Session with Lunch (Closed)	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Mon, 8/10 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Room: S-Seneca

CE_18C	Bayesian Structural Time Series (ADDED FEE)	ASA Section on Statistical Computing	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Mon, 8/10 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom A

272	ASA President's Invited Address	ASA ENAR IMS International Chinese Statistical Association International Indian Statistical Association International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Korean International Statistical Society SSC WNAR Royal Statistical Society Statistics Without Borders	Invited Papers	Mon, 8/10 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM Room: CC-Ballroom 6ABC

212178	President's Invited Speaker Reception (By Invitation Only)	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Mon, 8/10 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Room: CC- Ballroom 6E

212295	ASA Longtime Member Reception (By Invitation Only)	ASA RTI International Westat	Other Sponsored Events	Mon, 8/10 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM Room: S-Metropolitan B

211946	ASA Membership/Help Desk/Press Desk	ASA	Other JSM Hours	Tue, 8/11 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM Room: CC-Atrium Lobby

212141	Meeting Within a Meeting (MWM) Statistics Workshop for Math and Science Teachers: Grades 9-12 Strand	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Tue, 8/11 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Room: S-Redwood

212142	Meeting Within a Meeting (MWM) Statistics Workshop for Math and Science Teachers: Grades 5-8 Strand (Closed)	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Tue, 8/11 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Room: S-Aspen

CE_19C	Quantile Regression in Practice (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Tue, 8/11 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM Room: S-Willow B

CE_20C	Dynamic Treatment Regimes, Sequentially Randomized Trials, and Causal Inference (ADDED FEE)	ASA Biometrics Section	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Tue, 8/11 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom D

282	Introductory Overview Lecture: Statistical Issues in Computational Neuroscience	ASA ENAR WNAR IMS SSC International Indian Statistical Association International Chinese Statistical Association Korean International Statistical Society International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Royal Statistical Society International Statistical Institute	Invited Special Presentation	Tue, 8/11 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM Room: CC- Ballroom 6E

CE_21C	Introduction to Statistical Learning for Unsupervised Problems (ADDED FEE)	ASA Section on Statistical Learning and Data Mining	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Tue, 8/11 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom C

CE_22C	Managing Statistical Consulting Projects: Lessons from the Front (ADDED FEE)	ASA Section on Statistical Consulting	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Tue, 8/11 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom A

CE_23C	Software Engineering for Statisticians (ADDED FEE)	ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical Science	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Tue, 8/11 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom B

CE_24C	Statistical Methods for Ranking Data (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Tue, 8/11 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Willow A

211934	American Statistical Association Booth #504	ASA	Other JSM Hours	Tue, 8/11 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM Room: CC-4B

211988	ASA Store	ASA	Other JSM Hours	Tue, 8/11 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM Room: CC-4B

CE_25C	Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling and Its Applications (ADDED FEE)	ASA	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Tue, 8/11 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Willow B

CE_26C	Meta-Analysis: Combining the Results of Multiple Studies (ADDED FEE)	ASA Health Policy Statistics Section	Professional Development Continuing Education Course	Tue, 8/11 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom D

451	Deming Lecture	ASA Deming Lectureship Committee ENAR IMS International Chinese Statistical Association International Indian Statistical Association International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Korean International Statistical Society SSC WNAR Royal Statistical Society Statistics Without Borders Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee	Invited Papers	Tue, 8/11 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM Room: CC-Ballroom 6ABC

453	! ASA President's Address and Founders and Fellows Recognition	ASA ENAR IMS International Chinese Statistical Association International Indian Statistical Association International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Korean International Statistical Society SSC WNAR Royal Statistical Society Statistics Without Borders Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee	Invited Papers	Tue, 8/11 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM Room: CC-Ballroom 6ABC

212227	Working Group on Statistical Ambassadors Roundtable (Closed)	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Wed, 8/12 7:00 AM to 8:30 AM Room: S-University

212241	Working Group on Prioritizing the Statistics Education Research Agenda (Closed)	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Wed, 8/12 7:00 AM to 8:30 AM Room: S-Columbia

212243	Working Group on Media Training for Statisticians	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Wed, 8/12 7:00 AM to 8:30 AM Room: S-University

212029	ASA Membership/Help Desk/Press Desk	ASA	Other JSM Hours	Wed, 8/12 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM Room: CC-Atrium Lobby

212143	Meeting Within a Meeting (MWM) Statistics Workshop for Math and Science Teachers: Day 2 (Closed)	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Wed, 8/12 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Room: S-Redwood A

212144	Beyond AP Statistics (BAPS) Workshop	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Wed, 8/12 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Room: S-Redwood B

CE_27T	Introducing the SAS BCHOICE Procedure for Bayesian Choice Models (ADDED FEE)	ASA SAS	Professional Development Computer Technology Workshop	Wed, 8/12 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM Room: S-Grand Ballroom A

CE_28T	Introduction to Data Mining with CART Classification and Regression Trees (ADDED FEE)	ASA Salford Systems	Professional Development Computer Technology Workshop	Wed, 8/12 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM Room: S-Grand Ballroom B

CE_29T	Predicting the Future Course of a Trial (ADDED FEE)	ASA Cytel Inc.	Professional Development Computer Technology Workshop	Wed, 8/12 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM Room: S-Willow A

CE_30T	Enter a Data Science Competition. You Don't Need to Be an Expert! (ADDED FEE)	ASA Salford Systems	Professional Development Computer Technology Workshop	Wed, 8/12 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM Room: S-Willow B

461	Introductory Overview Lecture: Recent Advances in Machine Learning and Data Mining	ASA ENAR WNAR 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 SSC Section on Statistical Consulting	Invited Special Presentation	Wed, 8/12 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM Room: CC-4C2

462	Late-Breaking Session II: Meeting the Challenges of a Pandemic: The Statistical Aspects of Dealing with Ebola	ASA ENAR IMS International Chinese Statistical Association International Indian Statistical Association International Statistical Institute International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Korean International Statistical Society Royal Statistical Society SSC WNAR Statistics Without Borders Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee	Invited Special Presentation	Wed, 8/12 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM Room: CC- Ballroom 6E

211936	American Statistical Association Booth #504	ASA	Other JSM Hours	Wed, 8/12 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM Room: CC-4B

211989	ASA Store	ASA	Other JSM Hours	Wed, 8/12 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM Room: CC-4B

212242	Working Group on Getting Information About Careers in Statistics into High School Statistics Classes (Closed)	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Wed, 8/12 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM Room: S-Virginia

CE_31T	Analyzing Item Responses with the IRT Procedure: An Introduction with Applications (ADDED FEE)	ASA SAS	Professional Development Computer Technology Workshop	Wed, 8/12 10:00 AM to 11:45 AM Room: S-Grand Ballroom A

CE_32T	Applied Data Mining Analysis: A Step-by-Step Introduction Using Real-World Data Sets (ADDED FEE)	ASA Salford Systems	Professional Development Computer Technology Workshop	Wed, 8/12 10:00 AM to 11:45 AM Room: S-Grand Ballroom B

CE_33T	Modern Dose Escalation Trial Designs for Oncology in East (ADDED FEE)	ASA Cytel Inc.	Professional Development Computer Technology Workshop	Wed, 8/12 10:00 AM to 11:45 AM Room: S-Willow A

519	Noether Award	Noether Award Committee ASA International Indian Statistical Association	Invited Papers	Wed, 8/12 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM Room: CC-3B

212171	JSM Docent Reception (Closed)	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Wed, 8/12 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Room: S-Willow B

CE_34T	Practical Finite Mixture Modeling with SAS (ADDED FEE)	ASA SAS	Professional Development Computer Technology Workshop	Wed, 8/12 1:00 PM to 2:45 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom A

CE_35T	Evolution of Classification: From Logistic Regression and Decision Trees to Bagging/Boosting and Netlift Modeling (ADDED FEE)	ASA Salford Systems	Professional Development Computer Technology Workshop	Wed, 8/12 1:00 PM to 2:45 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom B

CE_36T	Power and Sample-Size Analysis in Stata (ADDED FEE)	ASA Stata	Professional Development Computer Technology Workshop	Wed, 8/12 1:00 PM to 2:45 PM Room: S-Willow A

CE_37T	Interactive Model Building in JMP Pro (ADDED FEE)	ASA SAS	Professional Development Computer Technology Workshop	Wed, 8/12 3:00 PM to 4:45 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom A

CE_38T	Improve Your Regression with Modern Regression Analysis Techniques: Linear, Logistic, Nonlinear, Regularized, GPS, LARS, LASSO, Elastic Net, MARS, TreeNet Gradient Boosting, Random Forests (ADDED FEE)	ASA Salford Systems	Professional Development Computer Technology Workshop	Wed, 8/12 3:00 PM to 4:45 PM Room: S-Grand Ballroom B

CE_39T	Multilevel and Mixed Models in Stata (ADDED FEE)	ASA Stata	Professional Development Computer Technology Workshop	Wed, 8/12 3:00 PM to 4:45 PM Room: S-Willow A

618	COPSS Awards and Fisher Lecture	ASA ENAR IMS International Chinese Statistical Association International Indian Statistical Association International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Korean International Statistical Society SSC WNAR Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Royal Statistical Society	Invited Papers	Wed, 8/12 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM Room: CC-Ballroom 6ABC

212266	PStat/GStat Reception	ASA	Other Cmte/Business	Wed, 8/12 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Room: S-Willow A

212333	International Community of Russian Speaking Statisticians	ASA	Other ICW	Wed, 8/12 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM Room: CC-613

212030	ASA Membership/Help Desk/Press Desk	ASA	Other JSM Hours	Thu, 8/13 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM Room: CC-Atrium Lobby

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