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52 * ! 		Sun, 7/30/2017, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-339
New Challenges in Complex Data Analysis — Invited Papers
Korean International Statistical Society , International Statistical Institute , SSC
Organizer(s): Yichuan Zhao, Georgia State University
Chair(s): Yichuan Zhao, Georgia State University
4:05 PM Leveraging Algorithms for Super-Large Sample Logistic Regression — Ping Ma, University of Georgia
4:30 PM Marginal Screening of 2 X 2 Tables in Large-Scale Case-Control Studies — Ian McKeague, Columbia University
4:55 PM An Overview of Past, Present, and Future Developments in the Analysis of Recurrent Events and Competing Risks Data — Edsel Aldea Pena, University of South Carolina
5:20 PM Wild Residual Bootstrap Inference for Penalized Quantile Regression with Heteroscedastic Errors — Lan Wang, University of Minnesota ; Ingrid Van Keilegom, ORSTAT, KU LEUVEN ; Adam Maidman, University of Minnesota
5:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

57 * ! 		Sun, 7/30/2017, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-337
Some Recent Developments and Applications of the Empirical Likelihood Method — Topic Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association , SSC , Section on Nonparametric Statistics
Organizer(s): Peisong Han, University of Waterloo
Chair(s): Peisong Han, University of Waterloo
4:05 PM Empirical Likelihood in Biased Sampling Problems — Jing Qin, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
4:25 PM A New Scope of Penalized Empirical Likelihood with High-Dimensional Estimating Equations — Chengyong Tang, Temple University ; Jinyuan Chang, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics ; Tong Tong Wu, University of Rochester
4:45 PM Proportional Likelihood Ratio Models for Competing Risks — Chiung-Yu Huang, Johns Hopkins University ; Tony Sit, Chinese University of Hong Kong ; Gongjun Xu, University of Michigan
5:05 PM Multiply Robust Estimation for Causal Treatment Effect and Average Treatment Effect Among Treated When Treatment Heterogeneity Exists — Lu Wang, University of Michigan ; Peisong Han, University of Waterloo ; Daniel Almirall, University of Michigan
5:25 PM Monitoring Test for One-Sided Multiple Quality Indices — Guangyu Zhu, University of British Columbia ; JIahua Chen, University of British Columbia
5:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

144 ! 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-336
Uncover the Essential Truth by Integrating Big and Complex Imaging Data with New Statistical Tools — Invited Papers
SSC , IMS , Section on Statistics in Imaging , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Organizer(s): Linglong Kong, University of Alberta
Chair(s): Adam Kashlak, Univ of Cambridge
10:35 AM A Bayesian Approach to SENSE Image Reconstruction in fMRI — Daniel B. Rowe, Marquette University
11:00 AM A Hierarchy of Brain Networks Revealed by MVPA Performance Metrics — Stephen Strother, Baycrest & University of Toronto ; Cheryl Grady, Baycrest & University of Toronto
11:25 AM Classification Using the Morlet Transform for fMRI Data — Debashis Ghosh, Colorado School of Public Health ; Manish Dalwani, Colorado School of Medicine
11:50 AM A Potts Mixture Spatiotemporal Joint Model for Combined MEG and EEG Data — Yin Song, University of Victoria ; Farouk Nathoo, University of Victoria
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

161 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-325
SPEED: Nonparametrics and Imaging — Contributed Speed
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , Section on Statistics in Imaging , SSC , IMS
Chair(s): Suzanne Thornton, Rutgers University
10:40 AM Automatic Shape-Constrained Nonparametric Regression — Zhikun Gao, George Washington University ; Huixia Judy Wang, The George Washington University ; Yanlin Tang, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tongji University
10:45 AM Nonparametric Modeling of Heavy-Tailed Distributions with Applications to Extreme Events — Todd Wilson, North Carolina State University ; Sujit K Ghosh, North Carolina State University
10:50 AM Instrument Assisted Partial-Linear Single Index Regression for Errors in Variables Models with Binary Response — Qianqian Wang, University of South Carolina ; Yanyuan Ma, Penn State University ; Guangren Yang, Jinan University ; Xia Cui, Zhongshan University
11:00 AM Estimation of Locally Stationary Spatial Processes with Applications to the American Community Survey — Daniel Weinberg, U.S. Census Bureau ; Tucker McElroy, U. S. Census Bureau ; Soumendra N Lahiri, North Carolina State University
11:05 AM A Comparison of Testing Methods in Scalar-On-Function Regression — Merve Tekbudak, North Carolina State University ; Marcela Alfaro Córdoba, North Carolina State University ; Ana-Maria Staicu, North Carolina State University, Department of Statistics ; Arnab Maity, North Carolina State University
11:10 AM Weighted Quantile Regression Splines using Total Variation Regularization — Jae-Hwan Jhong, Korea University ; Ja-Yong Koo, Korea University
11:20 AM Bayesian Methods for Image Texture Analysis with Applications to Cancer Radiomics — Xiao Li, University of Texas, School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics ; Michele Guindani, University of California, Irvine ; Chaan Ng, The University of Texas MD Anderson C ; Brian P. Hobbs, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
11:30 AM Efficient Multivariate Entropy Estimation Via k-Nearest Neighbour Distances — Thomas Berrett, University of Cambridge
11:35 AM Inference in a Hidden Markov Model with Log-Concave Emission Densities — Nathalie Akakpo, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France
11:40 AM Enhancing Power of Case-Control Studies by Using Prevalent Cases — Marlena Maziarz, National Cancer Institute ; Jing Qin, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ; Ruth Pfeiffer , National Cancer Institute, NIH, HHS
11:45 AM Testing the Adequacy of Linear Mixed Effects Models — Stephanie Chen, North Carolina State University ; Luo Xiao, North Carolina State University ; Ana-Maria Staicu, North Carolina State University, Department of Statistics
11:50 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

217 * ! 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-337
Recent Developments in Spatial Statistics — Topic Contributed Papers
SSC , Health Policy Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Mahmoud Torabi, University of Manitoba
Chair(s): Joel A Dubin, University of Waterloo
2:05 PM A Spatio-Temporal Cluster Process for Modeling Storm Cells — Charmaine Dean, University of Waterloo ; Alisha Albert-Green, University of Toronto
2:25 PM Individual Level Infectious Disease Models Incorporating Aggregate Level Spatial Structure — Rob Deardon, University of Calgary ; MD Mahsin, University of Calgary
2:45 PM Spatio-Temporal Models with Excess Zeros — Mahmoud Torabi, University of Manitoba
3:05 PM Assessing NARCCAP Climate Model Effects Using Spatial Confidence Regions — Joshua French, University of Colorado Denver ; Seth McGinnis, National Center for Atmospheric Research ; Armin Schwartzman, University of California, San Diego
3:25 PM Impact of Misspecified Covariance Structure on the Parameter Estimates in a Shared Spatial Frailty Model — Cindy Feng, University of Saskatchewan
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

252 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 3:05 PM - 3:50 PM CC-Halls A&B
SPEED: Nonparametrics and Imaging — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , Section on Statistics in Imaging , SSC , IMS
Chair(s): Jessi Cisewski, Yale University
2: Automatic Shape-Constrained Nonparametric Regression — Zhikun Gao, George Washington University ; Huixia Judy Wang, The George Washington University ; Yanlin Tang, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tongji University
3: Nonparametric Modeling of Heavy-Tailed Distributions with Applications to Extreme Events — Todd Wilson, North Carolina State University ; Sujit K Ghosh, North Carolina State University
4: Instrument Assisted Partial-Linear Single Index Regression for Errors in Variables Models with Binary Response — Qianqian Wang, University of South Carolina ; Yanyuan Ma, Penn State University ; Guangren Yang, Jinan University ; Xia Cui, Zhongshan University
6: Estimation of Locally Stationary Spatial Processes with Application to the American Community Survey — Daniel Weinberg, U.S. Census Bureau ; Tucker McElroy, U. S. Census Bureau ; Soumendra N Lahiri, North Carolina State University
7: A Comparison of Testing Methods in Scalar-On-Function Regression — Merve Tekbudak, North Carolina State University ; Marcela Alfaro Córdoba, North Carolina State University ; Ana-Maria Staicu, North Carolina State University, Department of Statistics ; Arnab Maity, North Carolina State University
8: Weighted Quantile Regression Splines using Total Variation Regularization — Jae-Hwan Jhong, Korea University ; Ja-Yong Koo, Korea University
10: Bayesian Methods for Image Texture Analysis with Applications to Cancer Radiomics — Xiao Li, University of Texas, School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics ; Michele Guindani, University of California, Irvine ; Chaan Ng, The University of Texas MD Anderson C ; Brian P. Hobbs, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
11: Efficient Multivariate Entropy Estimation Via k-Nearest Neighbour Distances — Thomas Berrett, University of Cambridge
12: Inference in a Hidden Markov Model with Log-Concave Emission Densities — Nathalie Akakpo, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France
13: Enhancing Power of Case-Control Studies by Using Prevalent Cases — Marlena Maziarz, National Cancer Institute ; Jing Qin, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ; Ruth Pfeiffer , National Cancer Institute, NIH, HHS
14: Testing the Adequacy of Linear Mixed Effects Models — Stephanie Chen, North Carolina State University ; Luo Xiao, North Carolina State University ; Ana-Maria Staicu, North Carolina State University, Department of Statistics
The Speed portion will take place during Session 214529
 
 

273 * ! 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-315
Challenges and Strategies in Analysis of Complex Data — Invited Papers
SSC , Biometrics Section , General Methodology
Organizer(s): Joan X. Hu, Simon Fraser University
Chair(s): Dongdong Li, Simon Fraser University
8:35 AM Adjusting for Misclassification in Observational Studies: Getting from Cleaner to Messier Scenarios — Tanja Högg, University of British Columbia ; Paul Gustafson, University of British Columbia ; Yinshan Zhao, BC Center for Improved Cardiovasular Health ; John Petkau, University of British Columbia ; Helen Tremlett, University of British Columbia
9:00 AM Estimating the Holdover Distribution for Lightning Caused Wildfires in Ontario — John Braun, University of British Columbia - Okanagan
9:25 AM Can We Use Machine Learning for Confounding Control? Should We? — Robert Platt, McGill University
9:50 AM Analysis of Multi-State Models with Misclassied States — Grace Y Yi, University of Waterloo ; Wenqing He, University of Western Ontario
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

214721 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM H-Paca
SSC Reception — Other ICW
SSC
Organizer(s): Hugh Chipman, SSC President
 
 

482 		Wed, 8/2/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-331/332
Recent Developments in Survey Sampling: Session in Honor of J.N.K. Rao's 80th Birthday — Invited Papers
SSC , Survey Research Methods Section
Organizer(s): David Haziza, University of Montreal
Chair(s): David Haziza, University of Montreal
10:35 AM Empirical Likelihood Inference for Complex Surveys and the Design-Based Oracle Variable Selection Theory — Changbao Wu, University of Waterloo ; Puying Zhao, University of Waterloo ; David Haziza, University of Montreal
11:00 AM The Interplay Between the Practice and Theory of Survey Sampling: Past, Present, and Future — Graham Kalton, Westat
11:25 AM Global-Local Shrinkage Priors for Small Area Estimation — Malay Ghosh, University of Florida
11:50 AM Discussant: Wayne A. Fuller, Iowa State University
12:05 PM Discussant: J.N.K. Rao, Carleton University
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

528 		Wed, 8/2/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-Halls A&B
Contributed Poster Presentations: SSC — Contributed Poster Presentations
SSC
Chair(s): Jessi Cisewski, Yale University
57: A Significant Test for the Number of Orthogonal Components — Zhiyang Zhou, Simon Fraser University ; Richard Lockhart, Simon Fraser University
 
 

633 * ! 		Thu, 8/3/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-331/332
Analysis of Complex Random Networks on the Guard of National Security — Invited Papers
SSC , Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Organizer(s): Yulia R. Gel, University of Texas at Dallas, Vyacheslav Lyubchich, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Chair(s): Vyacheslav Lyubchich, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
10:35 AM Dynamic Text Networks: An Application to Political Blogs — David Banks, Duke University
11:05 AM Inference and Analysis on Social Networks from Newswire Content — William Campbell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory ; Lin Li, MIT Lincoln Laboratory ; Joel Acevedo-Aviles, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
11:35 AM Supervised Community Detection in Dark Networks — Yulia R. Gel, University of Texas at Dallas ; Yahui Tian, University of Texas at Dallas
12:05 PM Floor Discussion
 
 
 
 
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