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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

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14 * !
Sun, 7/31/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-W179b
Causal Inference for Complex Public Health Interventions: Methods for Interference, Spatially Indexed Data, and Complex Networks — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Corwin Zigler, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Chair(s): Sebastien Haneuse, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2:05 PM Causal Inference from Observational Studies with Partial Interference Brian Barkley, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Michael Hudgens, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2:25 PM Addressing Spatial Interference in Causal Analysis Keith William Zirkle, Virginia Commonwealth University ; David C. Wheeler, Virginia Commonwealth University ; Saba W. Masho, Virginia Commonwealth University
2:45 PM Network Dynamics of Network Interventions: A Multilevel Network Analysis Weihua An, Indiana University
3:05 PM Evaluating Air Quality Control Policies: Bipartite Causal Inference with Interference Corwin Zigler, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3:25 PM Causal Mechanisms and Spillover Effects in Clustered Encouragement Designs Fabrizia Mealli, University of Florence ; Laura Forastiere, University of Florence
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

35 *
Sun, 7/31/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-W178b
Epidemiologic Methods for Biomarker Discovery and Disease Prediction — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Karen Messer, University of California at San Diego
2:05 PM Estimation and Distribution of T-Cell Repertoire During Human HSV-2 Infection Alvason Li, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Jia Zhu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Trevor Bedford, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2:20 PM A Statistical Framework for Using External Information in Updating Prediction Models with New Biomarker Measures Wenting Cheng, University of Michigan ; Jeremy M. G. Taylor, University of Michigan ; Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan
2:35 PM Developing Combinations of Prognostic and Diagnostic Biomarkers in Multicenter Studies Allison Meisner, University of Washington ; Kathleen F. Kerr, University of Washington
2:50 PM Sensitivity Analysis of a CD4-Based HIV Incidence Estimation Method Ruiguang Song, CDC
3:05 PM Automated Feature Selection for Prediction with Electronic Medical Records Data Jessica Minnier, Oregon Health & Science University ; Sheng Yu, Tsinghua University ; Katherine Liao, Brigham and Women's Hospital ; Tianxi Cai, Harvard
3:20 PM Comparison of Predictive Modeling Approaches for 30-Day All-Cause Nonelective Readmission Risk Liping Tong, Advocate Health Care ; Cole Erdmann, Cerner Corporation ; Marina Daldalian, Cerner Corporation ; Jing Li, Cerner Corporation ; Tina Esposito, Advocate Health Care
3:35 PM Optimum Sample Size Allocation in Multilevel Disease Detection Problem Yinan Fang, Iowa State University ; Chong Wang, Iowa State University ; Jeffrey Zimmerman, Iowa State University
 
 

53 * !
Sun, 7/31/2016, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-W190b
Statistical Challenges and Advances in the Precision Medicine Initiative — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Peng Wei, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Chair(s): Peng Wei, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
4:05 PM New Integrative Paradigms of Personalized Medicine for Cancer Kim-Anh Do, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Veera Baladandayuthapani, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Francesco Stingo, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Min Jin Ha, MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Thierry Chekouo Tekougang, MD Anderson Cancer Center
4:30 PM Integrative Analysis for Incorporating the Microbiome to Improve Precision Medicine Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania
4:55 PM Set-Based Association Analysis of Gene-Environment Interaction Using Mixed Effects Models Li Hsu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
5:20 PM Discussant: Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan
5:40 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

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Sun, 7/31/2016, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CC-Hall F1 West
The Extraordinary Power of Data — Invited Poster Presentations
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , Section on Statistical Graphics , Section on Statistics in Imaging , Business and Economic Statistics Section , Biometrics Section , ENAR , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee , Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Statistics in Marketing , Social Statistics Section , Statistics in Business Schools Interest Group
Chair(s): Tyler McCormick, University of Washington
1: Communicate Better with R, R Markdown, and Shiny Garrett Grolemund, RStudio
2: Spectral Filtering for Spatial-Temporal Dynamics Tian Zheng, Columbia University ; Lu Meng, Columbia University
3: A Mixed-Effects Modeling Approach to Study the Impact of Pesticides on Farmworkers' Brain Networks Using RS-fMRI Data Mohsen Bahrami, Virginia Tech ; Paul Laurienti, Wake Forest School of Medicine ; Thomas Arcury, Wake Forest School of Medicine ; Sean Simpson, Wake Forest School of Medicine
4: Cascaded High-Dimensional Histograms: A Generative Approach to Density Estimation Siong Thye Goh, MIT ; Cynthia Rudin, Duke University
5: TV Advertising's Impact on Online Searches Yonathan Schwarzkopf, Google ; Ying Liu, Google ; Makoto Uchida, Google ; Elissa Lee, Google ; Jim Koehler, Google
6: Modeling Connectivity in High-Dimensional Time Series Data via Factor Analysis Hernando Ombao, University of California at Irvine ; Yuxiao Wang, University of California at Irvine ; Chee-Ming Ting, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
7: Analysis of Longitudinal Multi-Sequence MRI in Multiple Sclerosis Elizabeth M. Sweeney, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Russell Shinohara, University of Pennsylvania ; John Muschelli, The Johns Hopkins University ; Daniel Reich , National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke ; Ciprian Crainiceanu, The Johns Hopkins University ; Jonathan Gellar, Mathematica Policy Research ; Philip Reiss, New York University/University of Haifa ; Ani Eloyan, Brown University
8: Law, Order, and Algorithms Sharad Goel, Stanford University
9: Defining and Estimating Reliability in Hierarchical Logistic Regression Models for Health Care Provider Profiling — Jessica Hwang, RAND Corporation ; John Adams, Kaiser Permanente ; Susan M. Paddock, RAND Corporation
10: Probabilistic Cause-of-Death Assignment Using Verbal Autopsies Tyler McCormick, University of Washington ; Sam Clark, University of Washington ; Zehang Li, University of Washington
11: We Are What We Ask: Mapping the Ecosystem of Software Development Using Stack Overflow Data David G. Robinson, Stack Overflow
12: Data Science at Stitch Fix Hilary Parker, Stitch Fix
13: Text Mining on Domain Names Kenneth E. Shirley, Amazon
14: Fighting Fraud with Statistics! Alyssa Frazee, Stripe
15: Forecasting Seasonal Epidemics with Ensemble Methods and Collective Human Judgment Logan Conrad Brooks, Carnegie Mellon University ; Sangwon Hyun, Carnegie Mellon University ; Ryan Tibshirani, Carnegie Mellon University
16: Geometric Methods for Network Comparison and Multilevel Modeling Anna Smith, The Ohio State University ; Catherine Calder, The Ohio State University
17: Mixed-Effects Models for Resampled Network Statistics Improve Statistical Power to Find Differences in Functional Brain Connectivity Manjari Narayan, Rice University ; Genevera Allen, Rice University
18: Estimating the Causal Impact of Recommendation Systems from Observational Data Amit Sharma, Microsoft Research ; Jake Hofman, Microsoft Research ; Duncan Watts, Microsoft Research
19: The Future of the Journal Biostatistics — Dimitris Rizopoulos, Erasmus University Medical Center ; Jeffrey Leek, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
20: Sample Size Calculations for Micro-Randomized Trials in MHealth Peng Liao, University of Michigan ; Ji Sun, University of Michigan ; Susan A. Murphy, University of Michigan
 
 

100 * !
Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-W184a
Recent Developments in Joint Models of Longitudinal and Survival Data — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Haitao Chu, University of Minnesota
Chair(s): Yong Chen, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
8:35 AM Assessing Model Fit in Joint Models of Longitudinal and Survival Data with Applications to Cancer Clinical Trials Joseph G. Ibrahim, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut ; Mark Boye, Eli Lilly and Company ; Wei Shen, Eli Lilly and Company ; Danjie Zhang, Gilead Pharmaceuticals
9:00 AM Joint Scale-Change Models for Recurrent Events and Failure Time — Gongjun Xu, University of Minnesota ; Sy Han Chiou, Harvard ; Chiung-Yu Huang, The Johns Hopkins University ; Mei-Cheng Wang, The Johns Hopkins University ; Jun Yan, University of Connecticut
9:25 AM A Flexible Joint Longitudinal-Survival Model for Quantifying the Association Between Serum Biomarkers and Mortality Daniel Gillen, University of California at Irvine ; Sepehr Arkhavan, University of California at Irvine ; Babak Shahbaba, University of California at Irvine
9:50 AM Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data with Missing and Left-Censored Time-Varying Covariates Qingxia Chen, Vanderbilt University ; Ryan May, The EMMES Corporation ; Joseph G. Ibrahim, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Haitao Chu, University of Minnesota ; Stephen R. Cole, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

130
Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-W184d
Statistical Methods for Spatial Epidemiology — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Risk Analysis
Chair(s): Nicholas Beyler, Mathematica Policy Research
8:35 AM Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Multi-Pathogen Infectious Diseases Using Data from Multiple Sources Hunter Merrill, University of Florida ; Xueying Tang, University of Florida ; Yang Yang, University of Florida ; Nikolay Bliznyuk, University of Florida
8:50 AM Continuous Surface Modeling for Space-Time Infectious Disease Count Data Katherine Wilson, University of Washington ; Jonathan Wakefield, University of Washington
9:05 AM Spatial Model for Risk Prediction and Subnational Prioritization to Aid Poliovirus Eradication in Pakistan Laina Mercer, Institute for Disease Modeling ; Steve Kroiss, Institute for Disease Modeling ; Hil Lyons, Institute for Disease Modeling ; Guillaume Chabot-Couture, Institute for Disease Modeling
9:20 AM Spatial Variability in the Persistence of PCV-Targeted Pneumococcal Serotypes Among Adults Joshua Warren, Yale University ; S. Cassandra Pingali, Yale University ; Daniel Weinberger, Yale University
9:35 AM Generalized Linear Mixed Model to Predict a Spatially Correlated Poisson Variable in the Presence of an Auxiliary Variable, with an Application to the West Nile Virus Lynette Smith, University of Nebraska Medical Center ; David B. Marx, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
9:50 AM Novel Application of a Weighted Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Model in Modeling Count Data from a Complex Survey Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Medical University of South Carolina ; Lin Dai, Medical University of South Carolina
10:05 AM High-Dimensional Analysis of Spatial Count Data: A Penalized Estimating Equation Approach Rejaul Karim, Michigan State University ; Tapabrata Maiti, Michigan State University
 
 

165 * !
Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-W185d
Recent Advances on Interaction Modeling for Prediction in Personalized Medicine — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biopharmaceutical Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Li-Xuan Qin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Pei Wang, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Chair(s): Pei Wang, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
10:35 AM Quantifying Treatment Benefit in Molecular Subgroups to Assess a Predictive Biomarker Jaya M. Satagopan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ; Alexia Iasonos, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
10:55 AM Identifying Interactions Using Convex Optimization Jacob Bien, Cornell University ; Robert Tibshirani, Stanford University ; Noah Simon, University of Washington
11:15 AM Why Significant Variables Aren't Automatically Predictive Adeline Lo ; Herman Chernoff, Harvard University ; Tian Zheng, Columbia University ; Shaw-Hwa Lo, Columbia University
11:35 AM Phenotype Predictions by Genome and In-Between-Omes Quan Long, University of Calgary
11:55 AM Impact of Handling Effects on Gene-Gene Interaction Discovery: An Empirical Assessment Li-Xuan Qin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

175
Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-W185a
Statistical Methods for Environmental Epidemiology — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Risk Analysis , Statistics Without Borders
Chair(s): Min Chen, ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences
10:35 AM Application of Principal Components Analysis to Blood Metal Exposures in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Data Po-Yung Cheng, CDC ; Mary Mortensen, CDC/NCEH ; Robert Jones, CDC/NCEH ; Kathleen Caldwell, CDC/NCEH
10:50 AM Predictive Geocoding Jie Fan, University of Miami ; J. Sunil Rao, University of Miami
11:05 AM Optimal Sampling Designs of Two-Compartment Nonlinear Regression Models Noa Molshatzki, University of Southern California ; Sandrah P. Eckel, University of Southern California
11:20 AM A Latent Variable Model with Scaled Nonlinear Effects for Multiple Outcomes Zhenzhen Zhang, University of Michigan ; Brisa N. Sanchez, University of Michigan
11:35 AM Survival Analysis with Measurement Error in a Cumulative Exposure Variable: Radon Progeny in Relation to Lung Cancer Mortality Polyna Khudyakov, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Jonathan Samet, University of Southern California ; Charles Wiggins, University of New Mexico ; Xiaomei Liao, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Angela Meisner, New Mexico Tumor Registry ; Donna Spiegelman, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
11:50 AM A Two-Stage Approach to Analysis of Health Effects of Environmental Chemical Mixtures: Informed Sparse Principal Component Analysis Followed by Segmented Regression Roman Jandarov, University of Cincinnati ; Susan Pinney, University of Cincinnati ; Liang Niu, University of Cincinnati
12:05 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

225 * !
Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-W178b
The Power of Efficient Sampling Designs for Studies of Correlated Endpoints — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Paul Rathouz, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Chair(s): Paul Rathouz, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2:05 PM Sparse Opportunistic Sampling in Population Pharmacokinetic Studies — William H. Fissell, Vanderbilt University ; Pratish Patel, Vanderbilt University ; Matthew S. Shotwell, Vanderbilt University
2:30 PM On the Analysis of Case-Control and Stratified Case-Control Studies in Cluster-Correlated Data Settings Sebastien Haneuse, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Claudia Rivera, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2:55 PM Auxiliary Variable Sampling Designs for Longitudinal Binary Data with Application to Spirometry-Based COPD Diagnosis Jonathan Scott Schildcrout, Vanderbilt University
3:20 PM Efficient Subsampling of Expensive-to-Evaluate Longitudinal Outcomes John Neuhaus, University of California at San Francisco ; Charles McCulloch, University of California at San Francisco
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

245 *
Mon, 8/1/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-W178a
Statistical Methods for Inferring Genetic Associations — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biopharmaceutical Section
Chair(s): Tzu-Cheg Kao, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
2:05 PM USAT: A Unified Score-Based Association Test for Multiple Phenotype-Genotype Analysis Debashree Ray, University of Michigan ; James S. Pankow, University of Minnesota ; Saonli Basu, University of Minnesota
2:20 PM Characterizing Uncertainty in Genetic Association Landscapes by Functional Bayesian Bands Olga A. Vsevolozhskaya, University of Kentucky ; Ilai Keren , Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife ; Dmitri Zaykin, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
2:35 PM A Functional Data Analysis Framework for Investigating the Interaction Between Genetic Variant Profiles and Environmental Factors Li Luo, University of New Mexico ; Marianne Berwick, University of New Mexico ; Ji-Hyun Lee, University of New Mexico
2:50 PM Simultaneous Detection and Estimation of Trait Associations with Genomic Phenotypes Jean Morrison, University of Washington ; Noah Simon, University of Washington ; Daniela Witten, University of Washington
3:05 PM A Powerful Statistical Procedure for Pathway-Based Meta-Analysis Using Summary Statistics Han Zhang, National Cancer Institute ; William Wheeler, Information Management Services ; Paula L. Hyland, National Cancer Institute ; Yifan Yang, University of Kentucky ; Jianxin Shi, National Cancer Institute ; Nilanjan Chatterjee, The Johns Hopkins University ; Kai Yu, National Cancer Institute
3:20 PM A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Pathway Analysis with Simultaneous Inference on Pathway-Gene-SNP Structure Lei Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas ; Swati Biswas, The University of Texas at Dallas ; Pankaj Choudhary, The University of Texas at Dallas
3:35 PM Massive Significance Testing in Genetic Epidemiology Amid Replicability Crisis Dmitri Zaykin, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Olga A. Vsevolozhskaya, University of Kentucky
 
 

296
Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-W192a
Fresh Perspectives in Causal Inference — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Susan Gruber, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Chair(s): David Vock, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
8:35 AM Lasso Adjustments of Treatment Effect Estimates in Randomized Experiments Adam Bloniarz, University of California at Berkeley ; Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University ; Hanzhong Liu, University of California at Berkeley ; Jasjeet Sekhon, University of California at Berkeley ; Bin Yu, University of California at Berkeley
8:55 AM Causal Inference in Network-Dependent Observational Data Oleg Sofrygin, University of California at Berkeley ; Mark van der Laan, University of California at Berkeley
9:15 AM Causal Effect Among the Exposed: Multiple Data Sources and Censored Outcomes Parichoy Pal Choudhury, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Daniel Scharfstein, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Ivan Diaz, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Chris McMahan, Clemson University ; Xun Luo, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine ; Allan Massie, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine ; Dorry Segev, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
9:55 AM Bayesian Structural Mean Models Bret Zeldow, University of Pennsylvania ; Jason Roy, University of Pennsylvania
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

307
Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-W181b
SPEED: Epidemiological Research — Contributed Speed
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Arni Rao, Augusta University
8:35 AM Confidence Intervals Construction of Difference of Proportions Based on Correlated Bilateral Data Zhengyu Yang, SUNY Buffalo ; Xiaobin Liu, SUNY Buffalo ; Chang-Xing Ma, SUNY Buffalo
8:40 AM Validation of Sudden Cardiac Death Algorithm Zoe Bider-Canfield, Kaiser Permanente Southern California ; Shuhua Liang, Kaiser Permanente Southern California ; T. Craig Cheetham, Kaiser Permanente Southern California
8:45 AM Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors by Obesity Level in Adults in the U.S. Reena Gitanjali Singh, York University
8:50 AM Effect of Birth Weight on Childhood Allergy with Repeatedly Measured Confounder Using Joint and Marginal Modeling Ayano Takeuchi, Keio University ; Mari Oba, Toho University ; Ikuko Funatogawa, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
8:55 AM Adaptive Distributed Lag Models Alastair Rushworth, University of Strathclyde
9:00 AM Two-Level Joint Model for Imputing Subject-Level Variables of Mixed Type David Kline, The Ohio State University ; Rebecca Andridge, The Ohio State University ; Eloise Kaizar, The Ohio State University
9:05 AM Mediation Analysis for Longitudinal Data Using Regression Calibration When the Mediator Is Measured with Error John M. Ssenkusu, University of Minnesota ; David Vock, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
9:10 AM Optimal Point Estimates and Credible Intervals for Ranking County Health Indices Ronald Gangnon, University of Wisconsin ; Patricia Jewett, University of Wisconsin - Madison
9:20 AM Childhood Obesity Modeling with a Semi-Markov Process Richard Seymour, U.S. Air Force
9:35 AM Association Tests Using Common and Rare Variants and family data Renfang Jiang, Michigan Technological University ; Jianping Dong, Michigan Technological University ; Yilin Dai, Michigan Technological University
9:40 AM An Approach to Combining Stratification and Covariate Adjustment Methods Zhibao Mi, VA CSPCC ; Joseph Collins, VA CSPCC
9:45 AM Multi-Locus Test and Correction for Confounding Effects in Genome-Wide Association Studies Donglai Chen, Purdue University ; Jun Xie, Purdue University ; Chuanhai Liu, Purdue University
9:50 AM Comparing Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Telemedicine in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Amy O'Shea, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine ; Mary Vaughan Sarrazin, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine ; Heather Schacht Reisinger, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
9:55 AM Estimating Associations by the Reconstructed Population Method Diana Lam, University of Maryland Baltimore County ; William Blackwelder, University of Maryland Baltimore County
10:00 AM Postoperative Neonatal Mortality Prediction Using Superlearning Jennifer N. Cooper, Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute ; Katherine J. Deans, Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute ; Peter C. Minneci, Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute
10:05 AM Adjusting for Noncompliance in Randomized Clinical Trials When Noncompliance Must Be Estimated from a Biomarker Jeffrey Boatman ; David Vock, University of Minnesota School of Public Health ; Joseph S. Koopmeiners, University of Minnesota
10:10 AM Estimating the Risk of West Nile Virus Transmission Through Tissue Transplantation Ryan Hicks, Colorado State University
10:15 AM The Effect of World Trade Center Exposure on the Timing of Aerodigestive Diagnoses in New York City Firefighters: 2001--2011 Charles Hall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine ; Xiaoxue Liu, Montefiore Medical Center ; Rachel Zeig-Owens, Montefiore Medical Center ; Jessica Weakley, Montefiore Medical Center ; Mayris P. Webber, Montefiore Medical Center ; Theresa Schwartz, Montefiore Medical Center ; David J. Prezant, Fire Department of the City of New York
 
 

313
Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-W192b
Missing Data Methods for Epidemiologic Studies — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Deborah Dawson, University of Iowa
8:35 AM Imputing Data That Are Missing at High Rates Using a Boosting Algorithm Katherine Cauthen, Sandia National Laboratories ; Gregory Lambert, Sandia National Laboratories ; Jaideep Ray, Sandia National Laboratories ; Sophia Lefantzi, Sandia National Laboratories
8:50 AM Regression Analysis of Incomplete Data from Event History Studies with the Proportional Rates Model Guanglei Yu, University of Missouri - Columbia ; Liang Zhu, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ; Jianguo Sun, University of Missouri ; Leslie L. Robison, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
9:05 AM Multilevel Multiple Imputation: Tipping Point Sensitivity Analysis Using the JOMO Package in R with Longitudinal Olympic Regeneration in East London (ORiEL) Data Melanie Smuk, Queen Mary University of London ; Matteo Quartagno, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ; Charlotte Clark, Queen Mary University of London ; Stephen Stansfeld, Queen Mary University of London ; Steven Cummins, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
9:20 AM Statistical Modeling of Subject and Proxy Observations Using Weighted GEE Mina Hosseini ; Nagaraj K. Neerchal, University of Maryland Baltimore County ; Ann L. Gruber-Baldini, UMB
9:35 AM Comparing Methods of Multiple Imputation for a Score-Variable Measured Repeatedly Over Time Elizabeth L. McCabe, Boston University ; Joseph M. Massaro, Boston University ; Kathryn L. Lunetta, Boston University ; Susan Cheng, Framingham Heart Study ; Joanne M. Murabito, Framingham Heart Study ; Martin G. Larson, Boston University
9:50 AM On Double Robustness in Estimating a Causal Effect When a Confounder Is Missing at Random Katherine Evans, Harvard ; Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Harvard
10:05 AM Network Meta-Analysis of Multiple Factors Lifeng Lin, University of Minnesota ; Haitao Chu, University of Minnesota
 
 

375
Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-Hall F1 West
Contributed Poster Presentations: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Genevera Allen, Rice University
20: Estimation and Modeling of Partnership Transition Probabilities and Concurrency Patterns: Recasting Duration Data in a Markov Chain and Logistic Regression Framework Yared Gurmu ; Nuala McGrath, University of Southampton ; Victor De Gruttola, Harvard
21: Physical Inactivity Displays a Mediator Role in the Association of Diabetes and Poverty in the Presence of Spatial Heterogeneity Xiao Li, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Lung-Chang Chien, The University of Texas School of Public Health at San Antonio ; Amanda Staudt, The University of Texas School of Public Health at San Antonio ; Xuehan Ren, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
23: Implication of Missing Data in the Study of Association Between Immigrant Status and MRSA/MSSA Recurrence Paola Martins, UFF ; Nancy Piper Jenks, Clinical Directors Network ; Caroline Jiang, Rockefeller University ; Brianna D'Orazio, Clinical Directors Network ; Jonathan N. Tobin, Clinical Directors Network ; Joel Correa da Rosa, Rockefeller University
24: Combining Statistics from Two National Complex Surveys to Estimate Injury Rates Per Hour Exposed and Variance by Activity in the U.S. Tinchi Lin, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety ; Helen Wellman, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety ; Joanna Willetts, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety ; Santosh Verma, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety
25: Correlating a Right-Censored Risk Factor with a Neuropathology Finding Subject to Missing Values Richard Kryscio, University of Kentucky ; Erin L. Abner, University of Kentucky ; Peter T. Nelson, University of Kentucky ; David Fardo, University of Kentucky ; Frederick A. Schmitt, University of Kentucky
26: Teen Birth Rates in the U.S., 2007--2012 Diba Khan, CDC/NCHS ; Lauren Rossen, CDC/NCHS ; Brady Hamilton, CDC/NCHS ; Yulei He, CDC ; Rong Wei, CDC/NCHS
27: Seasonal Statistical Analysis of Valley Fever in Kern County, California Bilin Zeng, California State University at Bakersfield ; Jessica Struck, California State University at Bakersfield ; Samantha Alaniz, California State University at Bakersfield ; Alondra Valenzuela, California State University at Bakersfield ; Carlos Romero, California State University at Bakersfield
28: Actigraphy-Based Sleep Parameters: The Methodology for Data Scoring and Derivation Desta Fekedulegn, CDC/NIOSH ; Cecil Burchfiel, CDC/NIOSH ; Claudia Ma, CDC/NIOSH ; Tara Hartley, CDC/NIOSH ; Luenda Charles, CDC/NIOSH ; Michael Andrew, CDC/NIOSH ; John Violanti, SUNY Buffalo
29: Estimating the Causal Effect of Lowering Particulate Matter Levels Below the National Ambient Air Quality Standards on Health Outcomes Maggie Makar, MIT ; Joseph Antonelli, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Qian Di, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Joel Schwartz, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; David Cutler, Harvard ; Francesca Dominici, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
30: Maximum Likelihood or Generalized Estimating Equations: A Comparison in the Context of Proportional Odds Model for Ordinal Response Xinkai Zhou, Statistics Core@UCLA
31: Generalized Latent Trait Models for Multiple Correlated Health Endpoints Chris Liu, University of Michigan
32: Modified Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test for Conditional Survival and its Application Yueh Wang ; Hung Hung, National Taiwan University
33: Annual Raking and Weighting of the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Database Jessica McKinney Ketchum, Craig Hospital ; Jeffrey Cuthbert, Sky Ridge Medical Center ; Gale Whiteneck, Craig Hospital ; C.B. Eagye, Craig Hospital ; Cindy Harrison-Felix, Craig Hospital
34: Compartmental Model Diagrams as Causal Representations in Relation to DAGs Sarah Ackley
35: Nonparametric Prediction of Infectious Disease Incidence with Kernel Conditional Density Estimation Evan Ray, University of Massachusetts ; Krzysztof Sakrejda, University of Massachusetts - Amherst ; Stephen A. Lauer, University of Massachusetts - Amherst ; Nicholas G. Reich, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
36: A Stochastic Search Algorithm to Find Multi-SNP Effects Using Nuclear Families David M. Umbach, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Min Shi, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Alison Wise, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Clare Weinberg, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Leping Li, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
37: Phylodynamic Individual-Level Models: Strategies for Simulation and Inference Justin Angevaare, University of Guelph ; Zeny Feng, University of Guelph ; Rob Deardon, University of Calgary
38: Conditions of Non-Unique Identifiers in Record Linkage Using Japanese Cohort Data Set Michikazu Nakai, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center ; Kunihiro Nishimura, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center ; Fumiaki Nakamura, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center ; Yoshihiro Miyamoto, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
40: Quantifying Power and Bias in Cluster-Randomized Trials Using Mixed Models Versus Cluster-Level Analysis in the Presence of Missing Data: A Simulation Study Brenda Vincent, University of Arizona ; Melanie L. Bell, University of Arizona
41: GLiDeR: Doubly Robust Estimation of Causal Treatment Effects with the Group Lasso Brandon Koch, University of Minnesota School of Public Health ; David Vock, University of Minnesota School of Public Health ; Julian Wolfson, University of Minnesota
43: Semiparametric Mixture Models for Left-Censored and Irregularly Interval-Censored Data: Application to a Cohort Assembled from Electronic Health Records Noorie Hyun, National Cancer Institute ; Li Cheung, The George Washington University ; Qing Pan, The George Washington University ; Mark Schiffman, National Cancer Institute ; Hormuzd Katki, National Cancer Institute
 
 

381
Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM CC-Hall F1 West
SPEED: Epidemiological Research, Part 2A — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Genevera Allen, Rice University
11: Confidence Intervals Construction of Difference of Proportions Based on Correlated Bilateral Data Zhengyu Yang, SUNY Buffalo ; Xiaobin Liu, SUNY Buffalo ; Chang-Xing Ma, SUNY Buffalo
12: Validation of Sudden Cardiac Death Algorithm Zoe Bider-Canfield, Kaiser Permanente Southern California ; Shuhua Liang, Kaiser Permanente Southern California ; T. Craig Cheetham, Kaiser Permanente Southern California
13: Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors by Obesity Level in Adults in the U.S. Reena Gitanjali Singh, York University
14: Effect of Birth Weight on Childhood Allergy with Repeatedly Measured Confounder Using Joint and Marginal Modeling Ayano Takeuchi, Keio University ; Mari Oba, Toho University ; Ikuko Funatogawa, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
15: Adaptive Distributed Lag Models Alastair Rushworth, University of Strathclyde
16: Two-Level Joint Model for Imputing Subject-Level Variables of Mixed Type David Kline, The Ohio State University ; Rebecca Andridge, The Ohio State University ; Eloise Kaizar, The Ohio State University
17: Mediation Analysis for Longitudinal Data Using Regression Calibration When the Mediator Is Measured with Error John M. Ssenkusu, University of Minnesota ; David Vock, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
18: Optimal Point Estimates and Credible Intervals for Ranking County Health Indices Ronald Gangnon, University of Wisconsin ; Patricia Jewett, University of Wisconsin - Madison
20: Childhood Obesity Modeling with a Semi-Markov Process Richard Seymour, U.S. Air Force
The oral portion will take place during Session 213154
 
 

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Tue, 8/2/2016, 11:35 AM - 12:20 PM CC-Hall F1 West
SPEED: Epidemiological Research, Part 2B — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Genevera Allen, Rice University
12: Association Tests Using Common and Rare Variants and family data Renfang Jiang, Michigan Technological University ; Jianping Dong, Michigan Technological University ; Yilin Dai, Michigan Technological University
13: An Approach to Combining Stratification and Covariate Adjustment Methods Zhibao Mi, VA CSPCC ; Joseph Collins, VA CSPCC
14: Multi-Locus Test and Correction for Confounding Effects in Genome-Wide Association Studies Donglai Chen, Purdue University ; Jun Xie, Purdue University ; Chuanhai Liu, Purdue University
15: Comparing Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Telemedicine in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Amy O'Shea, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine ; Mary Vaughan Sarrazin, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine ; Heather Schacht Reisinger, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
16: Estimating Associations by the Reconstructed Population Method Diana Lam, University of Maryland Baltimore County ; William Blackwelder, University of Maryland Baltimore County
17: Postoperative Neonatal Mortality Prediction Using Superlearning Jennifer N. Cooper, Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute ; Katherine J. Deans, Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute ; Peter C. Minneci, Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute
18: Adjusting for Noncompliance in Randomized Clinical Trials When Noncompliance Must Be Estimated from a Biomarker Jeffrey Boatman ; David Vock, University of Minnesota School of Public Health ; Joseph S. Koopmeiners, University of Minnesota
19: Estimating the Risk of West Nile Virus Transmission Through Tissue Transplantation Ryan Hicks, Colorado State University
20: The Effect of World Trade Center Exposure on the Timing of Aerodigestive Diagnoses in New York City Firefighters: 2001--2011 Charles Hall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine ; Xiaoxue Liu, Montefiore Medical Center ; Rachel Zeig-Owens, Montefiore Medical Center ; Jessica Weakley, Montefiore Medical Center ; Mayris P. Webber, Montefiore Medical Center ; Theresa Schwartz, Montefiore Medical Center ; David J. Prezant, Fire Department of the City of New York
The oral portion will take place during Session 213154
 
 

Register 391
Tue, 8/2/2016, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM CC-W375a
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology P.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee) — Roundtables PM Roundtable Discussion
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Scarlett Bellamy, University of Pennsylvania
TL22: Adaptive Randomized Trial Designs: New Methods and Software Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
 
 

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Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-W190b
Assessing Instrumental Variables Assumptions in Causal Inference — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Royal Statistical Society , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Hyunseung Kang, Stanford University
Chair(s): Hyunseung Kang, Stanford University
2:05 PM Graphical Tools to Detect and Adjust for Invalid Instruments in Mendelian Randomization Jack Bowden, University of Bristol
2:30 PM Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Models for Categorical Data Thomas Richardson, University of Washington ; James Robins, Harvard
2:55 PM Instrumental Variable Estimation in Observational Studies Miguel Hernan, Harvard
3:20 PM Discussant: Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania
3:40 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

431
Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-W192a
Survival Analysis Methods for Observational Studies — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Junho Lee, University of Wisconsin
2:05 PM Estimating Equation Approaches for Semiparametric Transformation Cure Models with Prevalent Survival Data Yu-Jen Cheng, National Tsing Hua University
2:20 PM Competing Risks Model of Cancer Screening and Symptomatic Diagnosis Sheng Qiu ; Alex Tsodikov, University of Michigan
2:35 PM Erroneous Hormetic Effect Identification in Cox Models Due to Polynomial Splines Dustin Long, West Virginia University ; Matthew Wheeler, CDC/NIOSH ; Robert Park, CDC/NIOSH/EID ; John Bailer, Miami University ; Randall Smith, CDC/NIOSH/EID
2:50 PM Confidence Intervals for Adjusted Kaplan-Meier Survival Curves with Time-Dependent Confounding Jing Guo, University of Kentucky ; Richard Charnigo, University of Kentucky
3:05 PM Adjusting for Time-Varying Confounding in Survival Analysis Using Structural Nested Cumulative Survivals Models Oliver Dukes, Ghent University ; Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University ; Shaun Seaman, University of Cambridge ; Torben Martinussen, University of Copenhagen
3:20 PM Two-Stage Estimation of Structural Instrumental Variable Models with Coarsened Data Byeong Yeob Choi, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Jason Fine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Maurice Alan Brookhart, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:35 PM Statistical Applications for Ethnic Disparities in Breast Cancer Survival Data Hafiz Khan, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso ; Rachel N. Smith, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso
 
 

213681
Tue, 8/2/2016, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM H-Boulevard B
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology Business Meeting (Closed) — Other Cmte/Business
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Miguel Hernan, Harvard
 
 

213680
Tue, 8/2/2016, 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM H-Boulevard B
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology Business Meeting — Other Cmte/Business
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Miguel Hernan, Harvard
 
 

213447
Tue, 8/2/2016, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM H-Boulevard B
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology Awards Ceremony — Other Cmte/Business
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Miguel Hernan, Harvard
 
 

497
Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-W175b
Novel Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias in Observational Studies — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Robert Hirsch, Stat-Aid Consulting
8:35 AM Using Propensity Scores to Infer Causal Effects on Heart Health from Chemotherapy Treatment of Breast Cancer Patients John Craycroft, University of Louisville ; Maiying Kong, University of Louisville ; Carrie Lenneman, University of Louisville
8:50 AM Propensity Scoring Methods for Ordinal Treatments Thomas Greene, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Stacia DeSantis, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Michael D. Swartz, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
9:05 AM False Discovery Rate Control for Effect Modification in Observational Studies Bikram Karmakar, University of Pennsylvania ; Ruth Heller, Tel-Aviv University ; Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania
9:20 AM Mediation Analysis with Multilevel Additive Models Qingzhao Yu, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center ; Bin Li, Louisiana State University ; Richard Scribner, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
9:35 AM Weighted Estimation in Confounded Binary Data Subject to Outcome Misclassification Christopher A. Gravel, McGill University ; Robert W. Platt, McGill University
9:50 AM Assessing Sensitivity to Unmeasured Confounding in Multilevel Models Using a Simulated Potential Confounder Nicole Carnegie, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee ; Jennifer L. Hill, New York University ; Vincent Dorie, New York University
10:05 AM From Presence of Pathogens to Etiology of Disease: An Innovative Latent Class Model with Two Latent Variables Nong Shang, CDC
 
 

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Wed, 8/3/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-W183b
The NSF/NIH/SAMSI Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Biomedical Data Science Challenges — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biopharmaceutical Section
Organizer(s): Richard L. Smith, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
Chair(s): Arni Rao, Augusta University
10:35 AM The Innovations Lab: A New Model for Research Collaborations Richard Smith, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:55 AM Interactive Ensemble Clustering for Mixed Data with Application to Mood Disorders Ellen Eischen, University of Oregon ; David Gotz, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Rachael Hageman Blair, University of Buffalo ; Arianna Di Florio, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Mathews Jacob, University of Iowa ; Brian Chapman, University of Utah
11:15 AM Statistical and Dynamical Systems Modeling of Real-Time Adaptive M-Intervention for Pain Chaeryon Kang, University of Pittsburgh ; Daniel M. Abrams, Northwestern University ; Jingyi (Jessica) Li, University of California at Los Angeles ; Qi Long, Emory University ; Nirmish R. Shah, Duke University
11:35 AM Using Machine Learning Algorithms for Handling Missingness: Application to Predicting Drug-Disease and Drug-Drug Interactions Ruoshui Zhai, Brown University ; Roee Gutman, Brown University
11:55 AM Spatial-Nonspatial Multidimensional Adaptive Radiotherapy Treatment David Vock, University of Minnesota School of Public Health ; Guadalupe M. Canahuate, University of Iowa ; G.Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago ; C. David Fuller, MD Anderson Cancer Center
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

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Wed, 8/3/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-W183c
Matching and Propensity Score Methods for Causal Inference — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
10:35 AM Proximity Score Matching: Using the Random Forest Proximity Matrix for Matching in Causal Inference Hui Fen Tan, Cornell University ; David Isaac Miller, Northwestern University ; James Savage, Lendable
10:50 AM Discovering Effect Modification in Matched Observational Studies with Multiple Controls Kwonsang Lee, University of Pennsylvania ; Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania ; Paul R. Rosenbaum, University of Pennsylvania
11:05 AM Leveraging Multiple Outcomes in Matched Observational Studies Colin B. Fogarty, MIT ; Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania
11:20 AM Propensity Score Approach for Multiple Treatment Options and Its Application in Cancer Outcome Research Yuan Liu ; Jeanne Kowalski, Emory University ; Theresa Wicklin Gillespie, Emory University
11:35 AM Using Observed Outcomes to Design High-Dimensional Propensity Scores Lo-Hua Yuan, Harvard ; Luke Miratrix, Harvard University ; Donald B. Rubin, Harvard
11:50 AM Bagged One-to-One Matching for Efficient and Robust Treatment Effect Estimation Lauren Samuels, Vanderbilt University ; Robert Greevy, Vanderbilt University
12:05 PM Prognostic Score Weighting and Nonparametric Weighting via Bagged One-to-One Matching Robert Greevy, Vanderbilt University ; Lauren Samuels, Vanderbilt University
 
 

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Wed, 8/3/2016, 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM CC-W375a
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology P.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee) — Roundtables PM Roundtable Discussion
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Scarlett Bellamy, University of Pennsylvania
WL20: Strategies for Becoming an Effective Statistical Leader of Interdisciplinary Research Teams Renee Moore, Emory University ; Jesse Chittams, University of Pennsylvania
 
 

606
Wed, 8/3/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-W184bc
Flexible Modeling of High-Dimensional and Network Data — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Kepher H. Makambi, Georgetown University
2:05 PM External Information in Community Detection Weston Viles, Dartmouth College ; James O'Malley, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
2:20 PM Modeling Concurrency and Selective Mixing in Heterosexual Partnership Networks with Applications to Sexually Transmitted Diseases Ryan Admiraal, Murdoch University ; Mark Stephen Handcock, University of California at Los Angeles
2:35 PM Law of Large Numbers for Generalized Network-Based SIR Models Mark Burch, The Ohio State University
2:50 PM Detecting 'Active Subnetworks' in Weighted, Undirected Graphs, with Application to Metabolomics Studies Yubing Yao ; Michael Nodzensk, Feinberg School of Medicine ; Denise Scholtens, Feinberg School of Medicine ; Raji Balasubramanian, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
3:05 PM Functional Variations of Cancer Mortality Rates Keshav Pokhrel, University of Michigan
3:20 PM Collaborative Targeted Learning for Large-Scale and High-Dimensional Data Cheng Ju, University of California at Berkeley ; Mark van der Laan, University of California at Berkeley ; Susan Gruber, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Jessica Franklin, Brigham and Women's Hospital ; Richard Wyss, Brigham and Women's Hospital ; Wesley Eddings, Brigham and Women's Hospital ; Sebastian Schneeweiss, Brigham and Women's Hospital
3:35 PM Bayesian Model Averaging Applied to Tuberculosis and HIV Research Studies Brock Stewart, CDC ; Charles E. Rose, CDC ; Yi Pan, CDC
 
 

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Thu, 8/4/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-W192c
New Frontiers in Analyzing Complex Data in Epidemiology — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Chad He, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Chair(s): Chad He, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
8:35 AM Regression for Partially Observed Household Epidemics Forrest Crawford, Yale University
8:55 AM A Bayesian Approach for Envelope Models Zhihua Su ; Kshitij Khare, University of Florida ; Subhadip Pal, Emory University
9:15 AM Dimension Reduction for Identification of Candidate Immune Correlates of Vaccine Efficacy Paul T. Edlefsen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
9:35 AM The Latent Low-Rank Model to Co-Localize Genetic Risk Variants in Multiple GWAS Jin Liu, Duke University NUS Medical School ; Can Yang, Hong Kong Baptist University
9:55 AM Estimation for Bivariate Quantile Varying Coefficient Model Linglong Kong, University of Alberta ; Haoxu Shu, University of Alberta ; Chad He, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Giseon Heo, University of Alberta ; Martin Styner, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; John Gilmore, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Hongtu Zhu, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

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Thu, 8/4/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-W185bc
Emerging Public Health Issues — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Rajeshwari Sundaram, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Chair(s): Zhen Chen, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
8:35 AM Sieve Analysis Using the Number of Infecting Pathogens Dean Follmann, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ; Chiung-Yu Huang, The Johns Hopkins University
8:55 AM A Framework for Quantifying Risk Stratification from Diagnostic Tests Hormuzd Katki, National Cancer Institute
9:15 AM Semiparametric Estimation of ROC Curve with Multiple Imperfect Gold Standards: Application to the Diagnosis of Endometriosis Danping Liu, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ; Beom Seuk Hwang, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ; Zhen Chen, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
9:35 AM Unobserved Heterogeneity in Prevalent Cohort and Current Duration Designs Niels Keiding, University of Copenhagen
9:55 AM Persistent Organochlorine Compounds, Menstrual Cycle Length, and Fecundity: A Joint Modeling Approach Rajeshwari Sundaram, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

653
Thu, 8/4/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-W185a
Longitudinal and Survival Analysis in Observational Studies — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biopharmaceutical Section
Chair(s): Sujuan Gao, Indiana University
8:35 AM Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Cognitive Responses and Survival Time in an Alzheimer's Disease Cohort Study Eveleen Darby, Baylor College of Medicine ; Wenyaw Chan, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Elaine Symanski, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Rachelle S. Doody, Baylor College of Medicine
8:50 AM Clustering Alzheimer's Patients into 'Syndrome Groups' Using Longitudinal Biomarker and Cognitive Trajectories Teresa Filshtein, University of California at Davis ; Laurel A. Beckett, University of California at Davis
9:05 AM A Hidden Markov Model Approach to Analyzing Longitudinal Alzheimer's Disease Stages Subject to Possible Misclassification Julia Benoit, University of Houston ; Wenyaw Chan, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Linda Piller, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Rachelle S. Doody, Baylor College of Medicine
9:20 AM Predicting Alzheimer's Disease with Mixture of Regression Modeling Frank Appiah ; David Fardo, University of Kentucky ; Erin L. Abner, University of Kentucky ; Glen Mays, University of Kentucky ; Richard Charnigo, University of Kentucky
9:50 AM Clustering Longitudinal Unbalanced Data: An Application to the Early Childhood Growth Pattern Md Hossain, Nemours Biomedical Research, A.I. DuPont Children's Hospital
10:05 AM Prediction of Invasive Group A Streptococcus Infections in Non-ABCs Areas in the United States Yongping Hao, CDC
 
 

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Thu, 8/4/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-W183a
Statistical Methods in HIV Study — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Le Bao, Penn State University
Chair(s): Evan Ray, University of Massachusetts
10:35 AM Probabilistic Models of HIV/AIDS-Related Deaths Using Verbal Autopsy Tyler McCormick, University of Washington ; Sam Clark, University of Washington ; Zehang Li, University of Washington
11:00 AM Leaving No One Behind: Estimating HIV Epidemics at Sub-National and Sub-Population Level Le Bao, Penn State University ; Ben Sheng, Penn State University ; Xiaoyue Niu, Penn State University ; Yuan Tang, Penn State University
11:25 AM Design and Analysis Issues Associated with Community-Based HIV Test and Treat: The SEARCH Study Nicholas P. Jewell, University of California at Berkeley
11:50 AM The Extraordinary Power of Statistics That Underlies a Scientific Breakthrough in HIV/AIDS Research Ying Qing Chen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

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Thu, 8/4/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-W181a
Modern Biosurveillance at the Edge of Online Social Media, Social Networks, and Nontraditional Big Data — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics and the Environment , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Georgiy Bobashev, RTI International, Yulia R. Gel, The University of Texas at Dallas
Chair(s): Julia Kozlitina, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
10:35 AM Improving Influenza Forecast by Counteracting Structural Errors Sen Pei, Columbia University ; Jeffrey Shaman
10:55 AM Harnessing the Power of Twitter with Offline Contact Networks for Probabilistic Flu Forecasting Kusha Nezafati, The University of Texas at Dallas ; Leticia Ramirez-Ramirez, Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology ; Yulia R. Gel, The University of Texas at Dallas
11:15 AM Can Wikipedia Improve Flu Forecasts in the United States? Dave Osthus, Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Reid Priedhorsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Jim Gattiker, Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Sara Del Valle, Los Alamos National Laboratory
11:35 AM Forecasting of Cases for Climate Sensitive Mosquito-Borne Diseases Using Online/Social Media Information Lilia Leticia Ramirez Ramirez, Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas ; Yulia R. Gel, The University of Texas at Dallas ; Vyacheslav Lyubchich, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
11:55 AM Inbound Call Survey (ICS) Technology and Rapid Surveillance Georgiy Bobashev, RTI International ; Burton Levine, RTI International ; Karol Krotki, RTI International ; Scott Richards, Reconnect Research
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

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Thu, 8/4/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-W184a
Novel Applications of Statistical Methods to Epidemiologic Data — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biopharmaceutical Section
Chair(s): Allen Heller, University of Southern California
10:35 AM Longitudinal Study of NHDS Data Using NFCA for Aging Population Junheng Ma, Case Western Reserve University ; Jiayang Sun, Case Western Reserve University ; Neal Dawson, Case Western Reserve University/MetroHealth Medical Center
10:50 AM Better Use of Family History Data to Predict Breast Cancer Risk Shanshan Zhao, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Clare Weinberg, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Yue Jiang, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:05 AM Projected Outcomes of Six-Month Delay in Exception Points vs. an Equivalent MELD Score for HCC Liver Transplant Candidates Guy N. Brock, The Ohio State University ; Douglas J. Lorenz, University of Louisville ; Sarah K. Alver, University of Louisville ; Michael R. Marvin, Geisinger Medical Center
11:20 AM Comparing Results from Two National Surveys: How Survey Methodologies May Influence the Observed Association Between Physical Activity and Diabetes by Mobility Disability Status Qing Zhang, CDC/NCBDDD ; Dianna D. Carroll, CDC
11:35 AM Projection of Acute Gastroenteritis Illness Rates on Cruise Ships in the United States Through 2050 Shailendra Banerjee, CDC ; Amy L. Freeland, CDC
11:50 AM Distinguishing Hospital Performance Using Health Care--Associated Infection Survival Functions Jonathan R. Edwards, CDC
12:05 PM Alcohol Consumption, BMI, and Colorectal Cancer Negasi Beyene, CDC/NCHS
 
 
 
 
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