JSM 2016 Online Program

Sessions Were Renumbered as of May 19.

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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

Activity Details

45	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W190a
Introductory Overview Lecture: Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis — 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
Organizer(s): Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
Chair(s): Mevin Hooten, Colorado State University
4:05 PM	An Introduction to Spatio-Temporal Statistics: There Is No History Without Geography (and Vice Versa!) — Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
5:45 PM	Floor Discussion

50 * !	Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-W178a
Statistical Challenges and Power in Integrating Big and Complex Imaging Data — Invited Papers
SSC , Section on Statistics in Imaging , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Linglong Kong, University of Alberta
Chair(s): Linglong Kong, University of Alberta
4:05 PM	Estimation and Inference for Brain Connectivity Analysis — Lexin Li, University of California at Berkeley
4:30 PM	PDEs and Regularized Principal Component Analysis of Functional Connectivity Maps — Eardi Lila, University of Cambridge ; John Aston, University of Cambridge ; Laura Sangalli, Politecnico di Milano
4:55 PM	An Autologistic Regression Model for Binary Classification of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Imagery — Charmaine Dean, University of Western Ontario ; Mark Wolters, Fudan University
5:20 PM	Functional Connectivity for Prediction and Classification: Characterization and Estimation — DuBois Bowman, Columbia University
5:35 PM	Floor Discussion

96	Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W375b
Introductory Overview Lecture: Causal Inference — 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 , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Judea Pearl, University of California at Los Angeles
Chair(s): Wei (Peter) Yang, University of Pennsylvania
8:35 AM	Causal Inference in Statistics: A Gentle Introduction — Judea Pearl, University of California at Los Angeles ; Elias Bareinboim, Purdue University
10:05 AM	Floor Discussion

141 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W180
Some New Perspectives in Statistical Analysis with Incomplete Data — Invited Papers
SSC , Committee on Applied Statisticians , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Peisong Han, University of Waterloo
Chair(s): Peisong Han, University of Waterloo
10:35 AM	A Note on Multiple Imputation Under Informative Sampling — Jae-kwang Kim, Iowa State University ; Shu Yang, Harvard
11:00 AM	Weighted Estimating Equations for Semiparametric Transformation Models with Missing Covariates — Grace Yi, University of Waterloo ; Yang Ning ; Nancy Reid, University of Toronto
11:25 AM	On the Problem of Bias and Variance Amplification of the Instrumental Calibration Estimator in the Presence of Unit Nonresponse — David Haziza, Université de Montréal ; Éric Lesage, INSEE ; Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, CREST/ENSAE
11:50 AM	Discussant: Jae-kwang Kim, Iowa State University
12:10 PM	Floor Discussion

217	Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W375b
Late-Breaking Session I: Invest in What Works: First Steps Toward Establishing Evidence-Based Policymaking Clearinghouse — 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
Organizer(s): Sallie Keller, Virginia Tech, Amy O'Hara, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair(s): Stephanie Shipp, Virginia Tech
2:05 PM	The Evidence-Based Policy Commission Act and Its Implications for the Federal Statistical System — Shelly Wilkie Martinez, Office of Management and Budget
2:30 PM	The Role of the Census Bureau Linkage Infrastructure — Amy O'Hara, U.S. Census Bureau
2:55 PM	Pilot Evaluations Using the Census Bureau Linkage Infrastructure — Kathy Stack, Laura and John Arnold Foundation
3:20 PM	Involving the Community to Establish an Evidence-Based Clearinghouse — Jeri Metzger Mulrow, Bureau of Justice Statistics
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

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

284 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W190a
Statistical Modeling for Climate Risk Assessment at the Interface of Climate Change and Insurance — Invited Papers
SSC , Section on Risk Analysis
Organizer(s): Yulia R. Gel, The University of Texas at Dallas, Vyacheslav Lyubchich, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Chair(s): Yulia R. Gel, The University of Texas at Dallas
8:35 AM	Developing an Index-Based Methodology to Forecast the Integrated Risk of Extreme Weather to Agricultural Production Systems — Nathaniel Kenneth Newlands, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
9:05 AM	U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters: Data Sources, Methods, Biases, and Uncertainty — Adam B. Smith, NOAA/NCEI
9:35 AM	The Effect of Climate Change on House Insurance: Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Flood-Related Damages and Claims — Yulia R. Gel, The University of Texas at Dallas ; Vyacheslav Lyubchich, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
10:05 AM	Floor Discussion

325	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W375b
Late-Breaking Session II: Data Journalism and Statistical Expertise: An Urgent Need for Writers, Bloggers, and Journalists to Be Statistically Savvy — Invited Special Presentation
ASA , ENAR , WNAR , SSC , 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
Organizer(s): Rebecca Goldin, George Mason University
Chair(s): Rebecca Goldin, George Mason University
10:35 AM	Data Journalism and Statistical Expertise: An Urgent Need for Writers, Bloggers, and Journalists to Be Statistically Savvy — Regina Nuzzo, Gallaudet University ; Alberto Cairo, University of Miami ; Mark Hansen, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation/Columbia University ; Carl Bialik, FiveThirtyEight.com ; Katherine Hobson, Freelance Health and Science Writer
12:10 PM	Floor Discussion

378	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-Hall F1 West
Contributed Poster Presentations: SSC — Contributed Poster Presentations
SSC
Chair(s): Genevera Allen, Rice University
68:	Analysis of Clustered and Biased Survival Data with Incomplete Covariates — Hua Shen, University of Calgary

412 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W185a
New Developments in Lifetime Data Analysis — Topic Contributed Papers
SSC , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Yichuan Zhao, Georgia State University
Chair(s): Huayun Chen, University of Illinois at Chicago
2:05 PM	Partially Linear Single-Index Regression for Accelerated Failure Time Models — Wenqing He, University of Western Ontario ; Grace Yi, University of Waterloo
2:25 PM	Recent Developments in Residual Life Inference — Jong-Hyeon Jeong, University of Pittsburgh
2:45 PM	Challenges in the Analysis of Data from Alzheimer's Disease Studies Subject to Censoring — Zhezhen Jin, Columbia University
3:05 PM	Some Methods for the Analysis of Informatively Censored Failure Time Data — Jianguo Sun, University of Missouri
3:25 PM	Empirical Likelihood Inference for the Odds Ratio of Two Survival Functions Under Right Censoring — Yichuan Zhao, Georgia State University ; Meng Zhao, Home Depot ; Ian McKeague, Columbia University
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

213449	Tue, 8/2/2016, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	H-Stevens Salon C 6
SSC Reception — Other ICW
SSC
Organizer(s): Jack Gambino, SSC

464	Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W375b
Introductory Overview Lecture: Adaptive Clinical Trial Design — 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
Organizer(s): Scott Berry, Berry Consultants
Chair(s): Brian Hobbs, MD Anderson Cancer Center
8:35 AM	Bayesian Adaptive Designs — Scott Berry, Berry Consultants
10:05 AM	Floor Discussion

512 !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W175b
Solving Complex Statistical Problems in Network Meta-Analysis — Invited Papers
SSC
Organizer(s): Russell Steele, McGill University
Chair(s): Russell Steele, McGill University
10:35 AM	Heterogeneity in Network Meta-Analysis from a Causal Inference Perspective — Mireille Elisa Schnitzer, Université de Montréal ; Russell Steele, McGill University ; Ian Shrier, McGill University
10:55 AM	Combining Evidences for Multiple Treatments: A Confidence Distribution Framework and Its Application to Network Meta-Analysis — Guang Yang, Dun & Bradstreet ; Dungang Liu, University of Cincinnati ; Minge Xie, Rutgers University
11:15 AM	Solving Complex Statistical Problems in Network Meta-Analysis — Jing Zhang, University of Maryland ; Lei Nie, FDA ; Ram Tiwari, FDA/CDER/OT/OB ; Angelo De Claro, FDA ; Chia-Wen Ko, FDA
11:35 AM	Discussant: David Hoaglin, University of Massachusetts Medical School
11:55 AM	Floor Discussion

662	Thu, 8/4/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W177
Advances in Statistical Inference — Contributed Papers
SSC
Chair(s): Alomgir Hossain, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
8:35 AM	Quantifying the Asymptotic Coverage Probabilities of Bootstrap Percentile Confidence Intervals — Chunlin Wang, University of Waterloo ; Pengfei Li, University of Waterloo ; Paul Marriott, University of Waterloo
8:50 AM	Asymptotic Analysis of Covariance Parameter Estimation for Gaussian Processes in the Misspecified Case — Francois Bachoc, University Paul Sabatier
9:05 AM	Gaussian Likelihood Inference on Non-Gaussian Random Fields — Yuan Yan, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology ; Marc Genton, KAUST
9:20 AM	An Adaptible Generalization of Hotelling's T2 Test in High Dimension — Haoran Li ; Debashis Paul, University of California at Davis ; Alex Aue, University of California at Davis ; Jie Peng, University of California at Davis ; Pei Wang, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
9:35 AM	Singularity Structures and Parameter Estimation in Mixtures of Skew Normal Distributions — Nhat Ho ; XuanLong Nguyen, University of Michigan
9:50 AM	A Semiparametric Method to Compare the Means of Several Populations — Suohong Wang, Meredith College ; Biao Zhang, University of Toledo ; Wencan He, University of Toledo
10:05 AM	Calibration of Weights for Different Classes of Linear Estimators Under Varying Probability Sampling Design Using Chi-Square and Entropy Distance Functions — GOPI CHAND TIKKIWAL, Manipal University Jaipur/JNVU Jodhpur (Retired)

JSM 2016 Online Program

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