JSM 2016 Online Program

Sessions Were Renumbered as of May 19.

Legend:
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

213670	Sun, 7/31/2016, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM	H-4D
IISA Executive Board Meeting (by Invitation Only) — Other ICW
International Indian Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Sowmya Rao, IISA

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

119 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W193b
First Steps in Analyzing Vaginal Microbiome Data — Topic Contributed Papers
International Indian Statistical Association , WNAR , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Snehalata Huzurbazar, University of Wyoming
Chair(s): Snehalata Huzurbazar, University of Wyoming
8:35 AM	Visualizing 16S RRNA Vaginal Microbiome Data — Eugenie Jackson, University of Wyoming ; Anju Menon, University of Wyoming ; Ekaterina Smirnova, University of Wyoming ; Snehalata Huzurbazar, University of Wyoming
8:55 AM	Quality Control for Microbiome Experiments — David Edwards, Virginia Commonwealth University
9:15 AM	Microbiome Normalization Methods: Effect on Ordination Analysis — Ekaterina Smirnova, University of Wyoming ; Snehalata Huzurbazar, University of Wyoming ; Glen Alan Satten, CDC ; Liyang Diao, Yale University
9:35 AM	Community State Types and Major Shifts in the Microbiome — James Brooks, Virginia Commonwealth University
9:55 AM	Discussant: Jessica Galloway-Pena, MD Anderson Cancer Center
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

189	Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-Hall F1 West
Contributed Poster Presentations: International Indian Statistical Association — Contributed Poster Presentations
International Indian Statistical Association
Chair(s): Genevera Allen, Rice University
16:	On the Maximum Likelihood and Least Squares Estimation for the Inverse Weibull Parameters with Progressively First-Failure Censoring — Amal Helu, Carnegie Mellon University

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

213630	Mon, 8/1/2016, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM	H-Boulevard C
IISA General Body Meeting and Mixer — Other ICW
International Indian Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Sowmya Rao, IISA

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

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

404 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W185d
Recent Developments in the Study of Social Networks — Invited Papers
International Indian Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Sanjay Chaudhuri, National University of Singapore
Chair(s): Sanjay Chaudhuri, National University of Singapore
2:05 PM	Some Applications of Graph Mixtures for Social Network Analysis — Carter Tribley Butts, University of California at Irvine
2:35 PM	Alternatives to Exponential-Family Models for Social Networks — Mark Stephen Handcock, University of California at Los Angeles
3:05 PM	Nonparametric Network Summaries — Sofia Olhede, University College London
3:35 PM	Floor Discussion

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

583 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W175a
Recent Advances in Empirical Bayes Methods — Invited Papers
International Indian Statistical Association , IMS , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California
Chair(s): Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California
2:05 PM	Complex Empirical Bayes Models for Normal Data — Ya'acov Ritov, Hebrew University/University of Michigan
2:30 PM	Optimal Shrinkage Estimation in Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models: Beyond Gaussian — Samuel Kou, Harvard ; Lawrence D. Brown, University of Pennsylvania ; Xianchao Xie, Two Sigma Investments
2:55 PM	An Empirical Bayes Improvement of Common Shrinkage Estimators — Eitan Greenshtein, Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel ; Ya'acov Ritov, Hebrew University/University of Michigan ; Ariel Mansura, Bank of Israel
3:20 PM	Empirical Bayes Prediction for the Multivariate Newsvendor Loss Function — Lawrence D. Brown, University of Pennsylvania ; Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California ; Paat Rusmevichientong, University of Southern California
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

JSM 2016 Online Program

Activity Details

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