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46 * ! 		Sun, 7/30/2017, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-310
Advances in Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Statistics and the Environment
Organizer(s): Ephraim M Hanks, The Pennsylvania State University
Chair(s): Ephraim M Hanks, The Pennsylvania State University
4:05 PM Linking a Dose-Response Model to Observed Infection to Describe Spatial-Temporal Patterns in a Q Fever Outbreak — Lance A. Waller, Emory University ; John Brooke, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ; Peter Teunis, RIVM ; Mirjam Kretzschmar, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care
4:30 PM Large Scale Multivariate CAR Modeling — Robert Lund, Clemson University ; Christopher McMahan, Clemson University ; Yan Liu, Clemson University
4:55 PM Likelihood-Based Inference for Partially Observed Spatiotemporal Dynamics: Measles as a Case Study — Edward Ionides, University of Michigan ; Joonha Park, University of Michigan
5:20 PM Estimating Initial Conditions of Disease Outbreak from Temporally Sparse Data — Trevor Hefley, Kansas State University
5:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

74 		Sun, 7/30/2017, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-303
Developments in Epidemiologic Models — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Jiaqi Li, Mathematica Policy Research
4:05 PM A Maximum Likelihood Approach to Power Calculations for Stepped Wedge Designs of Binary Outcomes — Xiaomei Liao, AbbVie ; Lauren Kunz, NIH ; Sharon-Lise Normand, Harvard Medical School ; Donna Spiegelman, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
4:20 PM A Joint Logistic Regression and Covariate-Adjusted Continuous-Time Markov Chain Model with Application in Predicting 6-Month Outcome After Traumatic Brain Injury — Maria Laura Rubin, Department of Biostatistics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Wenyaw Chan, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health ; Jose-Miguel Yamal, University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health ; Claudia Sue Robertson, Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine
4:35 PM A Non-Parametric Bayesian Approach for Indictor Kriging and Its Application in Disease Etiology — Nong Shang, CDC
4:50 PM Missing Data in Canonical Correlation Analysis — Emily Slade ; Brent Coull, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Peter Kraft, Harvard University
5:05 PM Frequency Matched Case-Control Data Analysis: Unconditional or Conditional Logistic Regression? — Chia-Ling Kuo, UCONN Health ; Yinghui Duan, UCONN Health
5:20 PM Constraint Approaches to the Estimation of Relative Risk — Yuanyuan Tang, Saint Luke's Health System ; Philip Jones, Saint Luke's Health System ; Liangrui Sun , University of Nebraska-Lincoln ; Suzanne Arnold, Saint Luke's Health System ; John Spertus, Saint Luke's Health System
5:35 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

214801 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM H-Key Ballroom 1
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology Speed Mentoring Breakfast — Other Cmte/Business
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Yan Ma, The George Washington University
 
 

97 * ! 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-315
Mediation in the Presence of Post-Treatment Common Causes of the Mediator and the Outcome — Invited Papers
ENAR , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , General Methodology
Organizer(s): Judith Lok, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Harvard University
Chair(s): Peng Ding, University of California, Berkeley
8:35 AM Interventional Effects for Mediation Analysis with Multiple Mediators — Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University ; Rhian Daniel, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
8:55 AM Parametric Mediational G-Formula Approach to Mediation Analysis with Time-Varying Exposures, Mediators, and Confounders: An Application for Smoking, Weight, and Blood Pressure — Sheng-Hsuan Lin, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
9:15 AM Partial Identification Bounds and Path-Specific Effects: Two (More) Options When Faced with Exposure-Induced Confounding — Caleb Hilliard Miles, University of California, Berkeley ; Ilya Shpitser, Johns Hopkins University ; Phyllis Kanki, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Seema Meloni, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Harvard University
9:35 AM Organic Direct and Indirect Effects with Post-Treatment Common Causes of the Mediator and the Outcome — Judith Lok, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health
9:55 AM Discussant: Linda Valeri, Harvard University
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

99 * ! 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-316
Causal Inference for Infectious Disease Outcomes: Interference, Contagion, and Networks — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biometrics Section , ENAR
Organizer(s): Forrest W Crawford, Yale School of Public Health
Chair(s): M. Elizabeth Halloran, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
8:35 AM Randomization inference with general interference and censoring — Wen Wei Loh, UNC ; Michael Hudgens, UNC
8:55 AM Estimating Vaccine Effects in Longitudinal Studies of Interconnected Populations — Forrest W Crawford, Yale School of Public Health
9:15 AM Identification and Semiparametric Estimation of Causal Effects for Contagious Processes — Elizabeth L Ogburn, Johns Hopkins University
9:35 AM Estimation of Causal Effects in Randomized Trials of Infectious Disease Prevention with General Interference — Nicole Bohme Carnegie, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
9:55 AM Discussant: Victor De Gruttola, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

127 * ! 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-320
Statistical Applications in Epidemiology — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Russell Lenth, University of Iowa
8:35 AM A Bayesian Two-Part Model with Measurement Error: Assessing Adult Moderate to Vigorous Activity and Compliance to 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines — Daniel Ries, Iowa State University ; Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State University ; Kevin Dodd, National Cancer Institute ; Wayne A. Fuller, Iowa State University
8:50 AM Change Point Problems for the Detection of Activity Bouts in Accelerometer Data — Jung Ae Lee, University of Arkansas ; Andrew Bartlett, University of Arkansas
9:05 AM Model Comparison of Creatinine and Specific Gravity for Normalization Urinary Iodine Concentrations — Po-Yung Cheng, CDC ; Robert Jones, CDC ; Kathleen Caldwell, CDC
9:20 AM Statistical Models for Cervical Cancer Screening Tests — Keshav Pokhrel, University of Michigan-Dearborn ; Vinod Shidham, Wayne State University ; Rabita Mahaseth, Wayne State University
9:35 AM Relationships Between BMI, Alcohol on Liver Cancer — Negasi Beyene, CDC/NCHS
9:50 AM Evaluating Sex-Based Differences in the Relationship Between Hypertension and CVD Risk: a Meta-Analysis of US-Based Studies — Nysia George, US FDA, National Center for Toxicological Research ; Karen Hicks, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA ; Ching-Wei Chang, Genentech, Inc. ; Yu-Chung Wei, Department of Statistics, Feng Chia University
10:05 AM Quantifying Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis — Lifeng Lin, University of Minnesota ; Haitao Chu, University of Minnesota
 
 

142 * ! 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-337
Recent Statistical Advances in Single-Cell RNA-Seq Analysis — Invited Papers
Committee on Award of Outstanding Statistical Application , Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Jung-Ying Tzeng, North Carolina State University
Chair(s): Jung-Ying Tzeng, North Carolina State University
10:35 AM SCnorm: a Quantile-Regression Based Approach for Robust Normalization of Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data — Christina Kendziorski, University of Wisconsin - Madison
11:00 AM On the Widespread and Critical Impact of Systematic Bias and Batch Effects in Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data — Rafael Irizarry, Harvard School of Public Health
11:25 AM Statistical Methods for Assessing Transcriptional Changes and Characterizing Heterogeneity in Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data — Raphael Gottardo, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
11:50 AM Global Spectral Clustering in Dynamic Gene Expression Networks — Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University ; Fuchen Liu, Carnegie Mellon University ; David Choi, Carnegie Mellon University
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

149 * ! 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-319
Advances in Modeling Multilevel Observational Data from Complex Surveys — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Survey Research Methods Section , Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Mulugeta Gebregziabher, MUSC
Chair(s): Christopher Swearingen, Samumed
10:35 AM Model-Based Standardization to Adjust for Unmeasured Cluster-Level Confounders with Complex Survey Data — Babette Brumback, University of Florida ; Zhuangyu Cai, Roche
10:55 AM Modeling Count Data from a Complex Survey using Pseudo Maximum Likelihood — Mulugeta Gebregziabher, MUSC ; Lin Dai, Medical University of South Carolina
11:15 AM Analysis of Multilevel Complex Survey Data: Comparison of Procedures from Several Software — Lin Dai, Medical University of South Carolina ; Mulugeta Gebregziabher, MUSC
11:35 AM Poisson Cokriging as a Generalized Linear Mixed Model, Applications in Public Health — Lynette Smith, University of Nebraska Medical Center
11:55 AM Discussant: Barry I. Graubard, National Cancer Institute
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

Register 197 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM CC-Ballroom II
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology P.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee) — Roundtables PM Roundtable Discussion
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Charles Hall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
ML26: Understanding the NIH Grant Review Process — Heidi B. Friedman, National Institutes of Health
 
 

206 ! 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-314
PCORI: Advancing Methods for Analyzing Electronic Health Records Data — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Susan M Shortreed, Group Health Research Institute
Chair(s): Susan M Shortreed, Group Health Research Institute
2:05 PM PCORI: Advancing Methods for Analyzing Electronic Health Records Data — David H. Hickam, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute
2:30 PM Protecting Patient Privacy: Distributed Analyzes for Multisite Observational — Andrea J Cook, Group Health Research Institute
2:55 PM An Assessment of Bias in Longitudinal Studies with Outcome-Dependent Visits — John Neuhaus, University of California, San Francisco ; Charles McCulloch, University of California, San Francisco
3:20 PM Variable Selection When Some Data Are Missing — Qi Long, University of Pennsylvania ; Brent A. Johnson, University of Rochester
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

216 * 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-328
Statistical Opportunities in Disease Interception: Screening, Intervening, and Evaluating Benefit-Risk Trade-Offs — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Medical Devices and Diagnostics , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Risk Analysis
Organizer(s): Rachael L. DiSantostefano, Janssen R&D
Chair(s): Bennett Levitan, Janssen R&D
2:05 PM A Risk Stratification Approach for Improved Interpretation of Diagnostic Accuracy Statistics — Hormuzd Katki, National Cancer Institute ; Mark Schiffman, National Cancer Institute
2:25 PM Personalizing Early Detection for Ovarian Cancer with Hierarchical Longitudinal Models of a Blood Biomarker: Experience in Multiple Prospective Screening Trials — Steven Skates, MGH/Biostatistics Center
2:45 PM Personalizing Early Detection for Alzheimer's Disease: Biomarker Assessment in the Absence of a Gold Standard — Zheyu Wang, Johns Hopkins University ; Yanxun Xu, Johns Hopkins University ; Marilyn Albert, Johns Hopkins University
3:05 PM Alzheimer's Intervention Case Study: Patient Preferences and Benefit-Risk Tradeoffs in Interception of Alzheimer's Disease — Rachael L. DiSantostefano, Janssen R&D ; Shelby Reed, Duke University ; Reed Johnson, Duke University ; Jui-Chen Yang, Duke University ; Johannes Streffer, Janssen R&D ; Bennett Levitan, Janssen R&D
3:25 PM Evaluating Risk Prediction Tests to Guide Decisions on Prophylactic Treatment — Gene Pennello, Food and Drug Administration ; Robert L Becker, Food and Drug Administration
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

236 ! 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-303
Causal Modeling Methods in Epidemiology — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Alisa Stephens-Shields, University of Pennsylvania
2:05 PM Average Causal Effect Estimation Allowing Covariate Measurement Error - Method Review — Zhou Feng ; Elande Baro, FDA ; Yi Huang, UMBC
2:20 PM Robust Estimation of Weighted Average Treatment Effects for a Target Population — Yebin Tao, Eli Lilly and Company ; Haoda Fu
2:35 PM On Mitigating the Analytical Limitations of Paired Experiments — Colin Fogarty, MIT Sloan School of Management
2:50 PM Sensitivity Analysis and Power in the Presence of Many Weak Instruments with Application to the Effect of Incarceration on Future Earnings — Ashkan Ertefaie, University of Rochester ; Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania
3:05 PM Methods for Testing of the Relative Bias of an Instrumental Variable Estimator and Confounder Selection — Byeong Yeob Choi, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio ; Jason Fine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Maurice Alan Brookhart, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:20 PM Sufficient Cause Interaction for Ordinal Outcomes — Jaffer Zaidi, Harvard University ; Tyler J. VanderWeele, Harvard University
3:35 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

269 * ! 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-343
Bayesian Models for Population Mobility: Current Developments and Future Directions — Invited Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Organizer(s): Adrian Dobra, University of Washington
Chair(s): Adrian Dobra, University of Washington
8:35 AM Statistical Methods for Ecological Networks — Catherine Calder, The Ohio State University ; Christopher Browning, The Ohio State University
9:05 AM SAGA: Socially- and Geography-Aware Mobility Modeling Framework — Abel Rodriguez, University of California, Santa Cruz
9:35 AM Predicting Travel Time Reliability Using Mobile Phone GPS Data — Dawn Woodard, Uber Technologies, Inc.
10:05 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

271 * 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-317
Methodological Challenges for Handling Unmeasured Confounders in Causal Inference with Social Science Data — Invited Papers
Social Statistics Section , Business and Economic Statistics Section , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Hyunseung Kang, Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Chair(s): Hyunseung Kang, Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
8:35 AM Inference in an Instrumental Variables Model with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Many Instruments — Michal Kolesar, Princeton University ; Kirill Evdokimov, Princeton University
9:00 AM When Should We Use Linear Fixed Effects Regression Models for Causal Inference with Longitudinal Data? — Kosuke Imai, Princeton University ; In Song Kim, MIT
9:25 AM Recovering Causal Effects from an Experimental Benchmark Using Multilevel Matching — Luke Keele, Georgetown University ; Samuel Pimentel, Wharton
9:50 AM "Methodological Challenges for Handling Unmeasured Confounders in Causal Inference with Social Science Data — Reagan M Rose, Harvard University ; Luke Miratrix, Harvard University ; Aaron Kaufman, Harvard University ; Jason Anastasopoulos, University of Georgia
 
 

279 * ! 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-348
Nonparametric Tests and Estimations for Clustered Data: It Is Essential for Non-Normal Data — Topic Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association , Section on Nonparametric Statistics , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Mei-Ling Ting Lee, University of Maryland
Chair(s): Yujing Jiang, University of Connecticut
8:35 AM Estimation of Rank Correlation for Clustered Data — Bernard Rosner, Harvard Medical School ; Robert Glynn, Harvard Medical School
8:55 AM Wilcoxon Rank-Based Tests for Clustered Data with R Package Clusrank — Jun Yan, University of Connecticut ; Yujing Jiang, University of Connecticut ; Mei-Ling Ting Lee, University of Maryland ; Xin He, University of Maryland, College Park ; Bernard Rosner, Harvard Medical School
9:15 AM Covariate-Adjusted Aligned Rank-Sum Test for Clustered Data with Informative Intra-Cluster Group Size — Somnath Datta, University of Florida ; Sandipan Dutta, Duke University
9:35 AM Pearson's Chi-Square Test and Rank Correlation Inferences for Clustered Data — Joanna Shih, National Cancer Institute ; Michael Fay, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
9:55 AM Incorporate Clustering Effects for the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test: The Cluswilcox Command — Xin He, University of Maryland, College Park ; Jing Zhang, University of Maryland, College Park ; Mei-Ling Ting Lee, University of Maryland ; Bernard Rosner, Harvard Medical School
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

292 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-323
SPEED: Statistics in Epidemiology — Contributed Speed
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Jisu Kim, Carnegie Mellon University
8:35 AM Development of a Web-Based Tool for Comparative Effectiveness Research Using Observational Data — Yi Zhang, Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute ; Mae Thamer, Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute ; Onkar Kshirsagar, Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute
8:40 AM Immortal Time Bias in Observational Studies of Time-To-Event Outcomes: Assessing Effects of Post-Mastectomy Radiation Therapy Using National Cancer DataBase (NCDB) Study — Parul Agarwal, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ; Erin Moshier, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ; Meng Ru, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ; Madhu Mazumdar, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
8:45 AM A Method for Spatio-Temporal Back-Calculation of Cancer Incidence Rate — Nisheet Nautiyal ; Theodore Holford, Yale University
8:50 AM Random Effects Models for Meta-Analysis of Causal Effects in Randomized Trials with Noncompliance — Jincheng Zhou, University of Minnesota ; Haitao Chu, University of Minnesota
8:55 AM A Principal Stratification Approach to Evaluate the Causal Effect of A Patient Activation Intervention For Bone Health Outcomes — YIYUE LOU, University of Iowa ; Michael P. Jones, University of Iowa ; Stephanie W. Edmonds, University of Iowa ; Fredric D. Wolinsky , University of Iowa ; Peter Cram, University of Iowa
9:00 AM A Spatio-Temporal Joint Model of Opioid Overdose Deaths and Treatment Seeking in Ohio Counties — David Kline, The Ohio State University ; Staci A Hepler, Wake Forest University ; Erin McKnight, Nationwide Children's Hospital ; Andrea Bonny, Nationwide Children's Hospital
9:05 AM Numerical Evaluation of the Efficiency of a Binary Versus Time-To-Event Endpoint — Zhibao Mi, VA CSPCC Perry Point ; Eileen Stock, VA CSPCC Perry Point ; Kousick Biswas, VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center ; Joseph F Collins, VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center
9:10 AM Nonlinear Hierarchical Modeling of Experimental Infection Data: Type I Error Control for Small-Sample Studies — Michael Singleton, University of Kentucky ; Patrick Breheny, University of Iowa
9:15 AM Optimal Tradeoffs in Matched Designs for Observational Studies — Samuel Pimentel, Wharton ; Rachel R. Kelz, University of Pennsylvania
9:20 AM Counterfactual-Based Causal Inference for N-Of-1 Time Series — Eric J. Daza, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center
9:30 AM Risk Ratios and Regression Estimates Under Contagion — Olga Morozova, Yale University ; Theodore Cohen, Yale University ; Forrest W Crawford, Yale School of Public Health
9:35 AM Longitudinal regression model for a continuous skewed outcome with zero inflated observations with application to oropharyngeal cancer cost — Ho-Lan Peng ; Wenyaw Chan, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health ; Chi-Fang Wu, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health ; Hongyu Miao, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health ; David R Lairson, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health
9:40 AM Clustering and Selecting Dysmorphic Features for Association with Developmental Disabilities — Lin Tian, CDC ; Nicole F. Dowling, CDC ; Stuart K. Shapira, CDC
9:45 AM Estimating and Comparing Cancer Progression Risks Under Varying Surveillance Protocols — Jane Lange, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Ruth Etzioni, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
9:50 AM Contextualizing Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Studies: Calculating Bias Factors for Known Covariates — Lucy D'Agostino McGowan ; Robert A Greevy, Jr, Vanderbilt University
9:55 AM A Gaussian Process Approach for Estimating Treatment Assignment Mechanisms — Brian Vegetabile, University of California, Irvine ; Hal Stern, University of California, Irvine
10:00 AM Cumulative vs. Adjacent-Category Logits: Readiness to Quit Smoking Among Cancer Survivors — Zoran Bursac, University of Tennessee Health Science Center ; Trish Goedecke, University of Tennessee Health Science Center ; Melissa Little, University of Tennessee Health Science Center ; Robert Klesges, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
10:05 AM Borrowing Strength from Nearest Neighbors to Improve Small Area Estimates of Diabetes Prevalence — Hui Xie, CDC ; Deborah B. Rolka, CDC ; Ji lin, CDC ; Meera Srinivasan, CDC
10:10 AM Model Averaging for Probabilistic Time Series Forecasts — Evan L. Ray, University of Massachusetts, Amherst ; Nicholas G. Reich, University of Massachusetts Amherst
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

299 ! 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-338
Survival and Recurrent Events in Epidemiology — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Portia Parker, SAS
8:35 AM Mediation Analysis for Censored Survival Data Under an Accelerated Failure Time Model — Isabel Fulcher, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Harvard University ; Paige L. Williams, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
8:50 AM Robust Estimation in Additive Hazards Models — Oliver Dukes, Ghent University ; Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University ; Torben Martinussen, University of Copenhagen ; Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Harvard University
9:05 AM Investigating the Impact of Blood Pressure Lowering Medications on Blood Pressure Distributions — Saryet Kucukemiroglu, Florida State University ; Dan McGee, Florida State University
9:20 AM Outcome-Dependent Sampling with Interval-Censored Failure Time Data — Qingning Zhou, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Jianwen Cai, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Haibo Zhou, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:35 AM Generalization of Three Weibull Extensions with Applications in Renal Failure Data — Nonhle Channon Mdziniso, Central Michigan University ; Kahadawala Cooray, Central Michigan University
9:50 AM Estimating lead-time bias in lung cancer diagnosis of patients with prior cancers — Zhiyun Ge, Southern Methodist University & University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ; Daniel F. Heitjan, Southern Methodist University ; Sandi Pruitt, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ; Lei Xuan , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ; David Gerber, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
10:05 AM Developments and Comparisons Between Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations in the Censored Poisson Model — Xiao Yu, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Lung-chang Chien, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
 
 

341 ! 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-319
Statistical Applications in Infectious Disease Epidemiology — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Gene Peters
10:35 AM Comparison of HIV Incidence Estimators That Use the Number of Diagnoses Reported to a Surveillance — Ruiguang Song, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ; Betsy Gunnels, CDC
10:50 AM Bayesian Epidemic Compartmental Model for an Infectious Disease with Multiple Transition Paths: Analyzing Visceral Leishmaniasis in Brazil — Marie Ozanne, University of Iowa ; Jacob Oleson, University of Iowa ; Grant Brown, University of Iowa
11:05 AM Segmented regression modeling of tuberculosis incidence surveillance data in the U.S. to analyze potentially changing trends — Brock Stewart, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ; Lori Armstrong, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ; Carla Winston, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
11:20 AM Hepatitis B Vaccination Coverage Among Adults Aged ?18 Years Traveling to a Country of High or Intermediate Endemicity, United States -- 2015 — Pengjun Lu, CDC/NCIRD/ISD/AB ; Alissa O'Halloran, CDC ; Walter Williams Williams, CDC ; Noele Nelson, CDC
11:35 AM A Comparison of Propensity Score Design and Test Negative Case-Control Study Outcomes for Rotavirus Vaccine Effectiveness — Elizabeth Zell ; Michelle Groome, RMPRU
11:50 AM Parameter Adjustment of Case-Control Analysis to Adjust for Different Pathogenicity of Multiple Exposures — Diana Lam, University of Maryland, Baltimore ; William Blackwelder, University of Maryland, Baltimore
12:05 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

358 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM CC-Halls A&B
SPEED: Statistics in Epidemiology — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Jessi Cisewski, Yale University
20: Development of a Web-Based Tool for Comparative Effectiveness Research Using Observational Data — Yi Zhang, Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute ; Mae Thamer, Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute ; Onkar Kshirsagar, Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute
21: Immortal Time Bias in Observational Studies of Time-To-Event Outcomes: Assessing Effects of Post-Mastectomy Radiation Therapy Using National Cancer DataBase (NCDB) Study — Parul Agarwal, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ; Erin Moshier, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ; Meng Ru, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ; Madhu Mazumdar, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
22: A Method for Spatio-Temporal Back-Calculation of Cancer Incidence Rate — Nisheet Nautiyal ; Theodore Holford, Yale University
23: Random Effects Models for Meta-Analysis of Causal Effects in Randomized Trials with Noncompliance — Jincheng Zhou, University of Minnesota ; Haitao Chu, University of Minnesota
24: A Principal Stratification Approach to Evaluate the Causal Effect of A Patient Activation Intervention For Bone Health Outcomes — YIYUE LOU, University of Iowa ; Michael P. Jones, University of Iowa ; Stephanie W. Edmonds, University of Iowa ; Fredric D. Wolinsky , University of Iowa ; Peter Cram, University of Iowa
25: A Spatio-Temporal Joint Model of Opioid Overdose Deaths and Treatment Seeking in Ohio Counties — David Kline, The Ohio State University ; Staci A Hepler, Wake Forest University ; Erin McKnight, Nationwide Children's Hospital ; Andrea Bonny, Nationwide Children's Hospital
26: Numerical Evaluation of the Efficiency of a Binary Versus Time-To-Event Endpoint — Zhibao Mi, VA CSPCC Perry Point ; Eileen Stock, VA CSPCC Perry Point ; Kousick Biswas, VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center ; Joseph F Collins, VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center
27: Nonlinear Hierarchical Modeling of Experimental Infection Data: Type I Error Control for Small-Sample Studies — Michael Singleton, University of Kentucky ; Patrick Breheny, University of Iowa
28: Optimal Tradeoffs in Matched Designs for Observational Studies — Samuel Pimentel, Wharton ; Rachel R. Kelz, University of Pennsylvania
29: Counterfactual-Based Causal Inference for N-Of-1 Time Series — Eric J. Daza, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center
30: Risk Ratios and Regression Estimates Under Contagion — Olga Morozova, Yale University ; Theodore Cohen, Yale University ; Forrest W Crawford, Yale School of Public Health
31: Longitudinal regression model for a continuous skewed outcome with zero inflated observations with application to oropharyngeal cancer cost — Ho-Lan Peng ; Wenyaw Chan, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health ; Chi-Fang Wu, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health ; Hongyu Miao, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health ; David R Lairson, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health
32: Clustering and Selecting Dysmorphic Features for Association with Developmental Disabilities — Lin Tian, CDC ; Nicole F. Dowling, CDC ; Stuart K. Shapira, CDC
33: Estimating and Comparing Cancer Progression Risks Under Varying Surveillance Protocols — Jane Lange, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Ruth Etzioni, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
34: Contextualizing Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Studies: Calculating Bias Factors for Known Covariates — Lucy D'Agostino McGowan ; Robert A Greevy, Jr, Vanderbilt University
35: A Gaussian Process Approach for Estimating Treatment Assignment Mechanisms — Brian Vegetabile, University of California, Irvine ; Hal Stern, University of California, Irvine
36: Cumulative vs. Adjacent-Category Logits: Readiness to Quit Smoking Among Cancer Survivors — Zoran Bursac, University of Tennessee Health Science Center ; Trish Goedecke, University of Tennessee Health Science Center ; Melissa Little, University of Tennessee Health Science Center ; Robert Klesges, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
37: Borrowing Strength from Nearest Neighbors to Improve Small Area Estimates of Diabetes Prevalence — Hui Xie, CDC ; Deborah B. Rolka, CDC ; Ji lin, CDC ; Meera Srinivasan, CDC
38: Model Averaging for Probabilistic Time Series Forecasts — Evan L. Ray, University of Massachusetts, Amherst ; Nicholas G. Reich, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Speed portion will take place during Session 214528
 
 

379 * ! 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-340
Understanding HIV/AIDS Epidemics with Newly Available Data Sources — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , American Public Health Association , Biometrics Section , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Le Bao, Penn State University
Chair(s): Katherine McLaughlin, Oregon State University
2:05 PM Estimating Continuous Long-Term Daily Health Behavior Using Missing by Design Methods with Application for Medication Adherence of People Living with HIV — Ofer Harel, University of Connecticut
2:30 PM Statistical Models for Estimating HIV/AIDS Epidemics with Multiple Types of Prevalence Data — Le Bao, Penn State University
2:55 PM Modeling Power to Detect Changes in HIV Incidence Through Routine ANC Attendance Data — Britta J. Jewell, UC Berkeley ; Jennifer Smith, Imperial College London ; Timothy B. Hallett, Imperial College London ; Ann Duerr, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
3:20 PM Inference from Respondent-Driven Sampling Data: Progress and Challenges — Krista Gile, University of Massachusetts ; Miles Ott, Smith College ; Isabelle Beaudry, PUC Santiago, Chile
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

407 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-343
Data Science Applications in Epidemiology — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Jaya Satagopan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2:05 PM A Regularized Bayesian Approach to Direct and Indirect Effects When Both Exposure and Mediator Are High-Dimensional — Yu-Bo Wang, National Institutes of Health ; Zhen Chen, NICHD ; Germaine M. Louis, NICHD
2:20 PM Predictive Modeling of Health Care Associated Infections (HAIs) Using National Linked Individual Health Care Data in Scotland — Kimberley Kavanagh, University of Strathclyde ; Jiafeng Pan, University of Strathclyde ; Chris Robertson, University of Strathclyde ; Marion Bennie, University of Strathclyde ; Charis Marwick, University of Dundee ; Colin McCowan, University of Glasgow
2:35 PM A Comparison of Statistical Methods to Evaluate the Relationship Between Gestational Weight Gain and Gestational Age at Birth — Lucia Petito, University of California, Berkeley ; Nicholas P. Jewell, University of California, Berkeley
2:50 PM Design Based Estimates of Model Based Parameters — Eric Morenz, McGill University ; Russell Steele, McGill University ; Ana Velly, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University
3:05 PM A Novel Framework for Selection Bias in Electronic Health Records-Based Research — Sarah B Peskoe, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health ; Sebastien Haneuse, TE-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3:20 PM Hypothesis Testing for Nonlinear Feature Interaction Using Cross-Validated Kernel Ensemble — Jeremiah Zhe Liu, Harvard University ; Brent Coull, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3:35 PM Dimension Reduction in the Study of Etiologic Heterogeneity — Emily Zabor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ; Colin Begg, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
 
 

417 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-Halls A&B
Contributed Poster Presentations: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Jessi Cisewski, Yale University
1: Estimating the Protective Effect of Longitudinal DrugConcentration in Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention — Claire Ruberman, Johns Hopkins University ; Jon Steingrimsson, Johns Hopkins University ; Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins University ; Craig Hendrix, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
2: Problems Associated with the Current Algorithm for Evaluating Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests (NAAT) for Detecting Chlamydia Trachomatis — Alula Hadgu, Morehouse School of Medicine
3: Estimating Causal Effects of Air Quality on Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma — Keith Zirkle, Virginia Commonwealth University ; David C. Wheeler, Virginia Commonwealth University
4: Correlating a Right Censored Risk Factor with a Neuropathology Finding — Richard Kryscio, Univ of Kentucky ; Qiwen Kang, 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
5: Increasing and Balancing the Power of Multiple Tests in Optimal Treatment Duration Clinical Trials — Yongdong Ouyang, University of Birtish Columbia ; Hubert Wong, University of British Columbia
6: Longer Telomere Length Is Associated with Hypertension in African American Women: THE MH-GRID STUDY — Ruihua Xu, National Institutes of Health ; Sharon Davis, National Human Genome Research Institute ; Amadou Gaye, National Human Genome Research Institute ; Samson Gebreab, National Human Genome Research Institute ; Rumana J. Khan, National Human Genome Research Institute ; Pia Riestra, National Human Genome Research Institute ; Amadi V. Gibbons, National Human Genome Research Institute ; Rakale Quarrels, Morehouse School of Medicine ; Gary H. Gibbons, National Human Genome Research Institute
7: A Novel Framework for Spatially-Varying Age-Period-Cohort Analysis with Application to U.S. Mortality, 1999-2015 — Pavel Chernyavskiy, National Cancer Institute ; Mark P Little, National Cancer Institute ; Philip S Rosenberg, National Cancer Institute
9: Simulation of Realistic Genome-Wide Autosomal Genotype Data — David Umbach, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Min Shi, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Alison Wise, unaffiliated ; Clare Weinberg, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
10: A Strategy for Evaluating Goodness-of-Fit for a Logistic Regression Model Using the Hosmer-Lemeshow Test on Samples from a Large Data Set — Michael Pennell, Ohio State University ; Adam Bartley, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic ; Stanley Lemeshow, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University ; Gary Phillips, Center for Biostatistics, The Ohio State University
11: Assessing the Linear and Nonlinear Dependency for the Spatial Temporal Observations Based on Markov Random Fields — Youngseok Song, Colorado State University ; Wen Zhou, Colorado State University ; Yumou Qiu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ; Jinyuan Chang, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
12: Outcomes Following Concomitant Traumatic Brain Injury and Hemorrhagic Shock: a Secondary Analysis of the PROPPR Trial — Savitri N. Appana, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Erin E Fox, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Center for Translational Injury Research ; Sarah Baraniuk, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Patrick L Bosarge, University of Alabama School of Medicine ; Elieen M. Bulger, University of Washington Department of Surgery ; Rachael A. Callcut, University of California San Francisco Division of General Surgery ; Bryan A. Cotton, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Michael Goodman, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine ; Kenji Inaba, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine ; Terence O'Keeffe, University of Arizona School of Medicine ; Martin A. Schreiber, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine ; Charles E. Wade, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Center for Translational Injury Research ; Thomas M. Scalea, University of Maryland School of Medicine ; John B. Holcomb, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Deborah M. Stein, University of Maryland School of Medicine ; Samuel M. Galvagno Jr., University of Maryland School of Medicine
13: Comparison of Two Effect Ratio Measures for Meeting the Aerobic Physical Activity Guideline Among U.S. Adults with Mobility Disability, BRFSS 2015 — Qing Zhang, CDC
14: Calibration and Discrimination in Predictive Survival Models — Yared Gurmu, Brigham and Women's Hospital ; Jeong-Gun Park, Brigham & Womens Hospital / Harvard Medical School ; Erica Goodrich, Brigham and Women's Hospital
15: Modeling Youth Tobacco and E-Cigarette Transitions — Ilan Rich, Johns Hopkins University ; Raymond Niaura, Schroeder Institute, Truth Initiative ; Amanda Johnson, Schroeder Institute, Truth Initiative ; Andrea Villanti, Schroeder Institute, Truth Initiative ; David Abrams, Schroeder Institute, Truth Initiative
 
 

214688 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM H-Blake
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology (Closed) — Other Cmte/Business
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Susan M Shortreed, Group Health Research Institute
 
 

214689 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM H-Blake
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology — Other Cmte/Business
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Susan M Shortreed, Group Health Research Institute
 
 

214690 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM H-Poe B
Awards Ceremony for the Section on Statistics in Epidemiology — Other Cmte/Business
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Susan M Shortreed, Group Health Research Institute
 
 

439 * ! 		Wed, 8/2/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-329
Scan Statistics in Networks and Graphs — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences
Organizer(s): Joseph Naus, Rutgers University
Chair(s): Joseph Naus, Rutgers University
8:35 AM Network Matched Filters — Vince Lyzinski, Johns Hopkins University ; Sussman L Daniel, Boston University ; Carey E Priebe, Johns Hopkins University
9:00 AM Efficient Pattern Detection in Web-Scale Graphs by Subcore-Tree Decomposition and Subset Scanning — Daniel Bertrand Neill, Carnegie Mellon University ; Chunpai Wang, University at Albany ; Feng Chen, University at Albany ; Daniel Hono, University at Albany
9:25 AM Detecting Cut Constrained Patterns in Networks — James Sharpnack, UC Davis Statistics
9:50 AM Discussant: Nancy Ruonan Zhang, Wharton School , University of Pennsylvania
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

440 * ! 		Wed, 8/2/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-342
Causal Inference as an Essential Part of the Foundation of Statistical Education — Invited Papers
Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences , Section on Statistical Education , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Jessica Gerald Young, Harvard Medical School
Chair(s): Sudipta Bhattacharya, AstraZeneca
8:35 AM Causal inference as an essential part of the foundation of statistical education: an introduction — Jessica Gerald Young, Harvard Medical School
9:05 AM Causal Inference in a Big Data World - The Roadmap — Laura B Balzer, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
9:35 AM Discussant: Miguel Hernan, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
10:05 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

441 * ! 		Wed, 8/2/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-317
The Key to Integrative Analysis for Precision Medicine: Statistics! — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics , ENAR , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Caucus for Women in Statistics
Organizer(s): Josee Dupuis, Boston University School of Public Health, Ching-Ti Liu, Boston University School of Public Health
Chair(s): Ching-Ti Liu, Boston University School of Public Health
8:35 AM Bayesian Variable Selection for Multi-Layer Overlapping Group Structure with Applications to Multi-Level Omics Data Integration — George Tseng, University of Pittsburgh ; Li Zhu, University of Pittsburgh
9:00 AM Clustering Patients Across Multiple Data Views — Lucy Gao, University of Washington ; Jacob Bien, Cornell University ; Daniela Witten, University of Washington
9:25 AM An Integrative Statistical Framework for Multi-Modal Omics Data — George Michailidis, University of Florida
9:50 AM Accounting for Genetics in Biomarker-Disease Association Studies: Lessons Learned from Lung Disease — Katerina Kechris, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus ; Wei Sun, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Sean Jacobson, National Jewish Health ; Wanda O'Neal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Russell Bowler, National Jewish Health
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

457 * ! 		Wed, 8/2/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-316
Zika Is Here, and We Need Statistics — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Sam Ventura, Carnegie Mellon University
Chair(s): Sam Ventura, Carnegie Mellon University
8:35 AM Zika Is Coming, and We Need Statistics — Abigail Smith ; Elaine Liu, Carnegie Mellon
8:55 AM A Statistical Approach to the SIR Model — Andersen Chang, Carnegie Mellon University ; William F Eddy, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Statistics
9:15 AM Statistical and Computational Tools for Creating Synthetic Ecosystems — Lee Richardson, Carnegie Mellon University ; William F Eddy, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Statistics ; Sam Ventura, Carnegie Mellon University ; Shannon Gallagher, Carnegie Mellon
9:35 AM Calibration and Evaluation of Agent-Based Models for Disease Modeling — Shannon Gallagher, Carnegie Mellon ; Sam Ventura, Carnegie Mellon University ; William F Eddy, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Statistics
9:55 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

463 		Wed, 8/2/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-326
SPEED: Statistics in Epidemiology and Genomics and Genetics — Contributed Speed
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics
Chair(s): Ruobin Gong, Harvard University
8:35 AM Zero-Inflated Model: Is it Sufficient for Estimating Excess Zeros? — Charles Rose, CDC
8:45 AM STATISTICAL METHODS for DEVELOPING IMPROVED ESTIMATES of HIV PREVENTION MEASURES USING SURVEILLANCE DATA — Sahar Zangeneh, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Deborah Donnell, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Ying Chen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
8:50 AM Effect of Start Time of Baby Food on Childhood Allergy with Repeatedly Measured Confounder and Intermediator Using Joint and Marginal Model — Ayano Takeuchi, Keio University ; Masami Narita, National Center for Child Health and Development ; Kiwako Yamamoto, National Center for Child Health and Development ; Yukihiro Ohya, National Center for Child Health and Development
8:55 AM Estimating Causal Effects from Using Augmented Inverse Probability Weighted Estimators When Noncompliance Is Measured with Error — David Vock, University of Minnesota ; Jeffrey Boatman ; Joseph Koopmeiners, University of Minnesota
9:00 AM Efficient Statistical Methods for Association Studies with Dense Genotypes and Family History of Disease — Annie Lee, Columbia University ; Yuanjia Wang , Columbia University
9:05 AM Method Selection and Assumption Evaluation: Applications to Gene Expression Data — Demba Fofana
9:10 AM Subgroup Analysis of Censored Survival Data on Cancer Treatment — Qing Zhang, Stony Brook University ; Hongshik Ahn, Stony Brook University
9:15 AM Exploring High-Dimensional Feature Selection Using Reproducibility Methodology — Frank Shen, Penn State University
9:20 AM Chromosome Level Piecewise Helical Mixing Model for Recovering Chromatin Folding Structure from HiC-Data — Rongrong Zhang, Prudue University ; Michael Yu Zhu, Purdue University ; Ming Hu, Cleveland Clinic
9:35 AM A Statistical Method for the Analysis of Multiple ChIP-Seq Data Sets — Pedro Luiz Baldoni, Univ of North Carolina At Chapel Hill ; Naim Rashid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Joseph G Ibrahim, UNC
9:40 AM Functional Cox Model for Longitudinal Biomarkers — Jiehuan Sun, Department of Biostatistics, Yale Univeristy ; Jose D. Herazo-Maya, Yale School of Medicine ; Naftali Kaminski, Yale School of Medicine ; Hongyu Zhao, Yale University
9:45 AM Meta-Analysis of Population Heterogeneity in the IBD Gut Microbiome — Siyuan Ma ; Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
9:50 AM Biodemographic Approaches to Genetic Analyzes of Longevity in Longitudinal Data on Aging — Konstantin Arbeev, Duke University ; Ilya Y. Zhbannikov, Duke University ; Olivia Bagley, Duke University ; Anatoliy I. Yashin, Duke University
10:00 AM Super-Delta: a New Approach That Combines Gene Expression Data Normalization and Differential Expression Test — Yuhang Liu, Florida State University ; Jinfeng Zhang, Florida State University ; Xing Qiu, University of Rochester
10:05 AM Association Study of Children's Methylation and Growth Trajectory Using Functional Mixed Models — Colleen McKendry, North Carolina State University ; Arnab Maity, North Carolina State University ; Jung-Ying Tzeng, North Carolina State University
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

494 * ! 		Wed, 8/2/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-311
Statistical Methodologies for Identifying, Modeling, and Managing Subpopulations at Risk — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Health Policy Statistics Section , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Organizer(s): howard burkom, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Chair(s): Suchi Saria, Johns Hopkins University
10:35 AM Data Analysis Techniques for Large and Changing Populations — Jason Lee, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
10:55 AM Machine Learning Methods in the Statistical Prediction of Health Outcomes — William Padula, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH
11:15 AM A Comparison of Risk Adjustment Models Based on Traditional Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques — Hong Kan ; Hsien-Yen Chang, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Hadi Kharrazi, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
11:35 AM Combining Multiple Sources of Public Health Surveillance Information with Analytic Methods — howard burkom, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
11:55 AM Discussant: Hadi Kharrazi, Center for Population Health IT, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

531 		Wed, 8/2/2017, 11:35 AM - 12:20 PM CC-Halls A&B
SPEED: Statistics in Epidemiology and Genomics and Genetics — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics
Chair(s): Jessi Cisewski, Yale University
1: Zero-Inflated Model: Is it Sufficient for Estimating Excess Zeros? — Charles Rose, CDC
3: STATISTICAL METHODS for DEVELOPING IMPROVED ESTIMATES of HIV PREVENTION MEASURES USING SURVEILLANCE DATA — Sahar Zangeneh, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Deborah Donnell, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Ying Chen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
4: Effect of Start Time of Baby Food on Childhood Allergy with Repeatedly Measured Confounder and Intermediator Using Joint and Marginal Model — Ayano Takeuchi, Keio University ; Masami Narita, National Center for Child Health and Development ; Kiwako Yamamoto, National Center for Child Health and Development ; Yukihiro Ohya, National Center for Child Health and Development
5: Estimating Causal Effects from Using Augmented Inverse Probability Weighted Estimators When Noncompliance Is Measured with Error — David Vock, University of Minnesota ; Jeffrey Boatman ; Joseph Koopmeiners, University of Minnesota
6: Efficient Statistical Methods for Association Studies with Dense Genotypes and Family History of Disease — Annie Lee, Columbia University ; Yuanjia Wang , Columbia University
7: Method Selection and Assumption Evaluation: Applications to Gene Expression Data — Demba Fofana
8: Subgroup Analysis of Censored Survival Data on Cancer Treatment — Qing Zhang, Stony Brook University ; Hongshik Ahn, Stony Brook University
9: Exploring High-Dimensional Feature Selection Using Reproducibility Methodology — Frank Shen, Penn State University
10: Chromosome Level Piecewise Helical Mixing Model for Recovering Chromatin Folding Structure from HiC-Data — Rongrong Zhang, Prudue University ; Michael Yu Zhu, Purdue University ; Ming Hu, Cleveland Clinic
12: A Statistical Method for the Analysis of Multiple ChIP-Seq Data Sets — Pedro Luiz Baldoni, Univ of North Carolina At Chapel Hill ; Naim Rashid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Joseph G Ibrahim, UNC
13: Functional Cox Model for Longitudinal Biomarkers — Jiehuan Sun, Department of Biostatistics, Yale Univeristy ; Jose D. Herazo-Maya, Yale School of Medicine ; Naftali Kaminski, Yale School of Medicine ; Hongyu Zhao, Yale University
14: Meta-Analysis of Population Heterogeneity in the IBD Gut Microbiome — Siyuan Ma ; Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
15: Biodemographic Approaches to Genetic Analyzes of Longevity in Longitudinal Data on Aging — Konstantin Arbeev, Duke University ; Ilya Y. Zhbannikov, Duke University ; Olivia Bagley, Duke University ; Anatoliy I. Yashin, Duke University
17: Super-Delta: a New Approach That Combines Gene Expression Data Normalization and Differential Expression Test — Yuhang Liu, Florida State University ; Jinfeng Zhang, Florida State University ; Xing Qiu, University of Rochester
18: Association Study of Children's Methylation and Growth Trajectory Using Functional Mixed Models — Colleen McKendry, North Carolina State University ; Arnab Maity, North Carolina State University ; Jung-Ying Tzeng, North Carolina State University
The Speed portion will take place during Session 214537
 
 

Register 545 		Wed, 8/2/2017, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM CC-Ballroom II
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology P.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee) — Roundtables PM Roundtable Discussion
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Charles Hall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
WL25: How Can Statisticians Help Assure the Bright Future of Population Health Research in the United States? — Karen Bandeen-Roche, Johns Hopkins University
 
 

555 * ! 		Wed, 8/2/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-304
Statistical Analysis of Epigenetics Data — Invited Papers
American Association for the Advancement of Science , International Chinese Statistical Association , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics
Organizer(s): Lei Liu, Northwestern University
Chair(s): Lihui Zhao, Northwestern University
2:05 PM Regularized Estimation in Sparse Multivariate Regression for High-Dimensional DNA Methylation Data — Lei Liu, Northwestern University ; Haixiang Zhang, Tianjin University ; Grace Yoon, Northwestern University ; Yinan Zheng, Northwestern University ; Lifang Hou, Northwestern University ; Wei Zhang, Northwestern University ; Andrea Baccarelli, Columbia University
2:30 PM The MiAge Calculator: a DNA Methylation-Based Mitotic Clock Calculator of Human Tissue Types — Shuang Wang, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
2:55 PM Global Prediction of Chromatin Accessibility Using RNA-Seq from Small Number of Cells — Hongkai Ji, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
3:20 PM Accounting for Tumor Purity Improves Cancer Subtype Classification from DNA Methylation Data — Hao Wu, Emory University
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

583 		Wed, 8/2/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-322
Statistical Applications in Observational Studies — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Samuel Pimentel, Wharton
2:05 PM Proposed Guidelines for Interim Monitoring of Prospective Observational Studies Planning to Invoke Propensity-Scoring as the Primary Analysis — Michael Swartz, The University of Texas Health Science Center At Houston, School of Public Health ; Thomas Jay Greene, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health ; Erin E Fox, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Center for Translational Injury Research ; Savitri N. Appana, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Misung Yi, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health ; Soeun Kim, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health ; Elysia A. Garcia, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health ; Jada M. Johnson, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health ; Jeanette Podbielski, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Center for Translational Injury Research ; Jeffrey S. Tomasek, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Center for Translational Injury Research ; Charles E. Wade, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Center for Translational Injury Research ; John B. Holcomb, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Stacia M DeSantis, UTHealth SPH
2:20 PM On Sensitivity Value of Pair-Matched Observational Studies — Qingyuan Zhao, University of Pennsylvania
2:50 PM Evaluating Treatment Effectiveness from Nationwide Population-Based Clinical Databases — Chen-Hsin Chen, Academia Sinica (Institute of Statistical Science) ; Y.-C. Tsay, Academia Sinica (Institute of Statistical Science) ; C.-W. Ou-Young, Academia Sinica (Institute of Statistical Science) ; M.-S. Lai, National Taiwan University (Institute of Epidemiology and Prevention Medicine)
3:05 PM Doubly Robust Regression Analysis for Data Fusion — Katherine Evans ; James Robins, Harvard University ; Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Harvard University
3:20 PM The Impact of Multiple Imputation of Missing Data on the Statistical Inference in Health Disparities Research — Yihe Huang, George Washington University ; Yan Ma, The George Washington University
3:35 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

606 * ! 		Thu, 8/3/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-337
Meta-Analysis Has Moved Beyond Its Original Niche as a Method to Provide a Summary of the Average Effect of an Intervention on an Outcome — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Health Policy Statistics Section , Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section
Organizer(s): Christopher Schmid, Brown University
Chair(s): Thomas Trikalinos, Brown University
8:35 AM Robust Network Meta-Analysis: a Confidence Distribution Approach — Dungang Liu, University of Cincinnati ; Guang Yang, Jet.com ; Minge Xie, Rutgers University
8:55 AM A Robust Pseudolikelihood-Based Inference of Personalized Utility Functions Through Multiple Outcomes Network Meta-Analysis — Yong Chen, University of Pennsylvania ; Rui Duan, University of Pennsylvania
9:15 AM Breaking the Myth of Breaking Randomization: a Causal Examination of Arm-Based Meta-Analysis — Russell Steele, McGill University ; Mireille Schnitzer, Université de Montréal ; Ian Shrier, Lady Davis Institute and McGill University
9:35 AM Hierarchical Models for Combining N-Of-1 Trials — Youdan Wang
9:55 AM Discussant: Christopher Schmid, Brown University
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

625 		Thu, 8/3/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-338
Environmental Epidemiology and Spatial Statistics — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Statistics and the Environment
Chair(s): Charles Smith, North Carolina State Univ.
8:35 AM Bayesian Geostatistical Modeling for MRSA Incidence Estimates — Yi Mu, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
8:50 AM Meta-Analysis of Model Specifications Assessing Harmful Algal Blooms as a Risk Factor for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Northern New England — Beth Ziniti, Applied Geosolutions ; Ernst Linder, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Hampshire ; Nathan Torbick, Applied Geosolutions ; Angeline Andrew, Department of Neurology, Dartmouth Medical School ; Elijah W. Stommel, Department of Neurology, Dartmouth Medical School
9:05 AM Bayesian Hierarchical Models to Estimate Associations Between Air Pollution and Cause-Specific Morbidity in Multicity Epidemiologic Studies — Jenna Krall, George Mason University ; Stefanie Ebelt Sarnat, Emory University
9:20 AM Bayesian Approach for Managing Microbial Risks from Wastewater Reuse for Irrigation — Ram Kafle, Sam Houston State University
9:35 AM Maximum Likelihood-Based Regression with a Continuous Exposure Variable Assessed in Pools and Subject to Measurement and Processing Errors — Dane Van Domelen, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University ; Emily Mitchell, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ; Amita Manatunga, Emory University ; Robert H Lyles, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University ; Enrique F Schisterman, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
9:50 AM Dynamic Spatial-Temporal Point Process Models via Conditioning — Athanasios Micheas, Univ of Missouri- Columbia ; Justin Okenye, University of Missouri ; Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
10:05 AM Practical Bayesian inference based on Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Processes (NNGP) model for massive spatial data — Lu Zhang, UCLA ; Abhirup Datta, Johns Hopkins University ; Sudipto Banerjee, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
 
 

642 * ! 		Thu, 8/3/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-349
Data-Driven Modeling in Medical and Health Policy Decision Making — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Health Policy Statistics Section , Biometrics Section , ENAR , Section on Medical Devices and Diagnostics
Organizer(s): Chenyang Gu, Harvard Medical School, Liangyuan Hu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Chair(s): Chenyang Gu, Harvard Medical School
10:35 AM Leveraging Flexible Modeling Techniques in Data-driven Analytics — Liangyuan Hu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ; Madhu Mazumdar, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
11:00 AM Analytic Approaches to Decision Support at the Policy and Patient Level: a Case Study in HIV Treatment Monitoring in Kenya — Tao Liu, Brown University, Dept of Biostatistics ; Joseph Hogan, Brown University, Dept of Biostatistics ; Rami Kantor , Brown Univeresity School of Medicine
11:25 AM Multi-Arm Bayesian Designs for Clinical Trials — Lorenzo Trippa, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard
11:50 AM Optimizing Patient Selection for Chemoprevention Through Predictive Modeling — Xi Kathy K Zhou, Weill Cornell Medical College
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

645 * 		Thu, 8/3/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-329
Causal Mediation Analysis in Advanced Settings: Longitudinal, High-Dimensional, Censored Mediations — Topic Contributed Papers
Mental Health Statistics Section , Biometrics Section , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , ENAR
Organizer(s): Chanmin Kim, Harvard University
Chair(s): Jason A Roy, University of Pennsylvania
10:35 AM Explaining the Total Effect in the Presence of Multiple Mediators and Interactions — Linda Valeri, Harvard University ; Andrea Bellavia, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
10:55 AM Causal Mediation Analysis for a Proportional Hazards Model with Interval-Censored Failure Time Data — Wei Wang, Division of Biostatistics, CDRH, FDA
11:15 AM Continuous Time Causal Mediation Analysis for Longitudinal Data — Jeffrey Albert, Case Western Reserve University
11:35 AM Bayesian Inference for Mediation Quantities with Factual and Intervened Posterior Predictive Distributions — Leah Comment, Harvard University School of Public Health ; Linda Valeri, Harvard University ; Brent Coull, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
11:55 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

666 		Thu, 8/3/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-347
Prediction and Calibration — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Medical Devices and Diagnostics
Chair(s): Shankang Qu, PepsiCo
10:35 AM Piecewise Mixed Effects Model to Detect Event Associated Changes in Health Trajectories: Pre- and Post-Acute-Bronchitis Growth Trajectories in Children Ages 0-5 Years — Md Hossain, Nemours Biomedical Research, A.I. DuPont Children's Hospital ; H Tim Bunnell, Nemours ; Thomas H Shaffer, Nemours
10:50 AM Early-Life Exposures and Longitudinal Growth Patterns: A Comparison of Statistical Methods — Brianna Heggeseth, Williams College
11:05 AM Model Assessment on Longitudinal Binary Data with Time-Dependent Covariates — Tan Li, Florida International University ; Katrina INTERNATIONAL Epnere, Florida International University
11:20 AM Calibration and Seasonal Adjustment for Matched Case-Control Studies of Vitamin D and Cancer — Mitchell Gail , National Cancer Institute, NIH, HHS ; Jincao Wu, Food and Drug Administration ; Molin Wang, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Channing Division of Network Medicine ; Shiaw-Shyuan Yaun, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health ; Nancy R. Cook, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health ; A. Heather Eliassen, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health ; Marjorie L McCullough, American Cancer Society ; Kai Yu, National Cancer Institute ; Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, New York University School of Medicine ; Stephanie A. Smith-Warner, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health ; Regina G. Ziegler, National Cancer Institute ; Raymond Carroll, Texas A&M University
11:35 AM Method Development for the Analysis of Pooled Biomarker Data — Abigail Sloan, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Molin Wang, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Channing Division of Network Medicine
11:50 AM Beta Regression for Modeling the ROC as a Function of Continuous Covariates — Sarah Stanley, Baylor University ; Jack Tubbs, Baylor University
 
 
 
 
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