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2 * !
Sun, 7/30/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-315
Phase Variation (Curve Registration) in Functional Data Analyzing — Invited Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , Section on Statistical Computing
Organizer(s): J. S. (Steve) Marron, University of North Carolina
Chair(s): Jan Gertheiss, Clausthal University of Technology
2:05 PM Clustering Misaligned Dependent Curves Piercesare Secchi, Politecnico di Milano ; Konrad Abramowicz, Umea University ; Per Arnqvist, Umea University ; Sara Sj¨ostedt de Luna, Umea University ; Simone Vantini, Politecnico di Milano ; Valeria Vitelli, University of Oslo
2:30 PM Spatial Modeling of Object Data: Analysing Dialect Sound Variations Across the UK Shahin Tavakoli, University of Cambridge ; Davide Pigoli, University of Cambridge ; John AD Aston, University of Cambridge
2:55 PM Data driven estimates of PDE parameters: an application to image registration Michelle Carey, University College Dublin ; James O. Ramsay, McGill University
3:20 PM Registration of Functional Data Using the Fisher-Rao Metric Sebastian Kurtek, The Ohio State University ; Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University ; Wei Wu, Florida State University ; Eric Klassen, Florida State University ; J. S. (Steve) Marron, University of North Carolina
3:45 PM Discussant: J. S. (Steve) Marron, University of North Carolina
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

6 * !
Sun, 7/30/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-316
New Methods and Software for Adaptive Designs — Invited Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , Biometrics Section , Section on Statistical Computing
Organizer(s): Jon Steingrimsson, Johns Hopkins University
Chair(s): Jon Steingrimsson, Johns Hopkins University
2:05 PM Subgroup Inference for Multiple Treatments and Multiple Endpoints Brad Carlin, University of Minnesota ; Patrick Schnell, University of Minnesota ; Peter Mueller, UT Austin ; Qi Tang, AbbVie, Inc.
2:25 PM An Optimized Adaptive Enrichment Design for Multi-Arm Trials Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins University ; Aaron Fisher, Johns Hopkins University ; Jon Steingrimsson, Johns Hopkins University ; Joshua A Betz, Johns Hopkins University
2:45 PM Bayesian Interval Based Dose Finding Designs and a Web-Based Statistical Tool Yuan Ji, NorthShore University HealthSystem/University of Chicago ; Sue-Jane Wang, FDA ; Shengjie Yang, NorthShore University HealthSystem
3:05 PM Open Source R, Shiny Interface and R Markdown: Applications for Group Sequential Design Keaven Anderson, Merck Research Laboratories
3:25 PM Discussant: Scott Emerson, University of Washington
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

9 *
Sun, 7/30/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-336
When Location Is Random: Advances in Statistical Modeling and Inference for Spatial Point Processes — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics and the Environment , Section on Statistical Computing , Association of American Geographers , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Veronica J Berrocal, University of Michigan
Chair(s): Veronica J Berrocal, University of Michigan
2:05 PM Nonparametric Inference for Point Processes Tailen Hsing, University of Michigan ; Jinqi Shen, University of Michigan
2:30 PM Spatial Point Processes on the Sphere Ege Rubak, Aalborg University
2:55 PM A New Clustered Temporal Point Process Model with Application to Social Media Data — Jingfei Zhang, University of Miami ; Yongtao Guan, University of Miami ; Hansheng Wang, Peking University ; Xuening Zhu, Peking University
3:20 PM Multivariate Spatial Point Patterns via Correlated Bernoulli Indicators Matthew Heaton, Brigham Young University ; Matthew Bekker, Brigham Young University
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

24
Sun, 7/30/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-341
Statistical Computing and Graphics Student Awards — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistical Graphics , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Patrick Breheny, University of Iowa
Chair(s): Patrick Breheny, University of Iowa
2:05 PM Acc: An R Package to Process, Visualize, and Analyze Accelerometer Data Jae Joon Song, University of Texas Health Science Center ; Michael Swartz, The University of Texas Health Science Center At Houston, School of Public Health ; Matthew G. Cox, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Karen Basen-Engquist, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
2:25 PM The Biglasso Package: a Memory- and Computation-Efficient Solver for Lasso Model Fitting with Big Data in R Yaohui Zeng, University of Iowa ; Patrick Breheny, University of Iowa
2:45 PM Scalable Bayesian Learning for Sparse Logistic Models Xichen Huang ; Feng Liang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
3:05 PM The Self-Multiset Sampler and Its Generalization Weihong Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Juan Shen, Fudan University ; Yuguo Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3:25 PM Chambers Award Recipient: Carson Sievert Carson Sievert, Carson Sievert
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

50 !
Sun, 7/30/2017, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-327
Machine Learning and Statistical Inference: Building Breiman's Bridge — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , Section on Nonparametric Statistics , Section on Statistical Computing
Organizer(s): Lucas K Mentch, University of Pittsburgh
Chair(s): Giles J Hooker, Cornell University
4:05 PM Walk on Random Forests Erwan Scornet, Ecole Polytechnique ; Gérard Biau, University Paris 6 ; Jean-Philippe Vert, Mines Institut Curie
4:30 PM Central Limit Theorems and Hypothesis Tests for Random Forests Lucas K Mentch, University of Pittsburgh ; Giles J Hooker, Cornell University
4:55 PM Detecting Local Sparsity and High-Order Interactions with Iterative Random Forests Sumanta Basu, Cornell University ; James Bentley Brown, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ; Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley
5:20 PM Urban Analytics Using Tree Models Shane Jensen, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
5:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

56 * !
Sun, 7/30/2017, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-318
The Path from Big Data to Precision Medicine Is Paved with Statistics — Invited Panel
Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics , American Medical Informatics Association , Stats. Partnerships Among Academe, Indust. & Govt. Committee
Organizer(s): Emma Huang, Janssen R&D
Chair(s): Pippa Simpson, Medical College of Wisconsin
4:05 PM The Path from Big Data to Precision Medicine Is Paved with Statistics
Panelists: Emma Huang, Janssen R&D
Hae Kyung Im, University of Chicago
Patrick Ryan, Janssen R&D
Haochang Shou, University of Pennsylvania
Vadim Zipunnikov, Johns Hopkins University
Michelle Dunn, National Institutes of Health
5:40 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

60 * !
Sun, 7/30/2017, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-316
Adaptive Design and Statistical Consideration in Clinical Trials — Topic Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section , Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Medical Devices and Diagnostics
Organizer(s): Grace Liu, Johnson & Johnson
Chair(s): Grace Liu, Johnson & Johnson
4:05 PM Investigation on Combining Phase II Proof-Of-Concept Trial with Dose Finding Trial Yutao Liu, Columbia University ; Qiqi Deng, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ; Ken Cheung, Deptment of Biostatistics, Columbia University
4:25 PM Adaptive Design and Statistical Consideration in Clinical Trials Steven Sun ; Grace Liu, Johnson & Johnson ; Tianmeng Lyu, Univ. Minnesota Biostatistics Dept.
4:45 PM Basket Trial Considerations in Phase Ib/IIa Oncology Studies of Targeted Therapy Yihua Zhao, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
5:05 PM Evaluation of Adaptive Sample Size Re-estimation (SSR) Designs:start small then ask for more? Chaofeng Liu
5:25 PM Design of Dose Finding Studies Under MCP-Mod Jose Pinheiro, Johnson & Johnson
Discussant: Sudhakar Rao
5:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

91 !
Mon, 7/31/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-340
Statistical Methods for Analysis of Time-Varying Network Data — Invited Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , IMS , Section on Statistical Computing
Organizer(s): Marianna Pensky, University of Central Florida
Chair(s): Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne
8:35 AM Summaries of Networks in Time Sofia Olhede, UCL
9:00 AM Oracle Inequalities for the Dynamic Stochastic Block Model and Time-Dependent Graphon Marianna Pensky, University of Central Florida
9:25 AM Nonparametrics, Network Information and Efficient Estimation Patrick Wolfe, University College London
9:50 AM The Block Point Process Model for Continuous-Time Event-Based Dynamic Networks Kevin Shuai Xu, University of Toledo ; Ruthwik Junuthula, University of Toledo ; Haghdan Maysam, University of Toledo ; Devabhaktuni Vijay, University of Toledo
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

96 !
Mon, 7/31/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-344
New Statistical Methods with Distributed and Parallel Algorithms — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , International Chinese Statistical Association , Section on Statistical Computing
Organizer(s): Xiaoming Huo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chair(s): Manjari Narayan, Stanford University
8:35 AM Embracing Blessing of Massive Scale in Big Data Guang Cheng, Purdue ; Stanislav Volgushev, Univ of Toronto ; Shih-Kang Chao, Purdue
9:05 AM High-Dimensional Non-Standard Regression Hui Zou, University of Minnesota
9:35 AM Discussant: Xiaoming Huo, Georgia Institute of Technology
10:05 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

107 * !
Mon, 7/31/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-343
Quantum Computing and Its Application in Health Care — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistical Computing , Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
Organizer(s): Sergei Leonov, ICON Clinical Research
Chair(s): Reinhard Eisebitt, ICON Clinical Research
8:35 AM An Overview of Quantum Computing Concepts and Applications in Healthcare Steve Adachi, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
8:55 AM Compute Principal Components on an Adiabatic Quantum System? George Ostrouchov, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
9:15 AM Quantum Computing and Numerical Statistic Valerii Fedorov, ICONplc
9:35 AM Discussant: Alexei Ashikhmin, Nokia Bell Labs
9:55 AM Discussant: Sergei Leonov, ICON Clinical Research
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

118
Mon, 7/31/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-322
SPEED: Data Challenge — Contributed Speed
Government Statistics Section , Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistical Graphics
Chair(s): Thesia Garner, Bureau of Labor Statistics
8:35 AM Income and Expenditure in US Households: a Multivariate Analysis of Consumer Expenditure Fmli161 Dataset Mingzhao Hu, University of Wisconsin - Madison
8:40 AM Creation of a Web-Enabled Framework of a Taxonomy of Terms at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Randall Powers, US Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Daniel Gillman, Bureau of Labor Statistics
8:45 AM Consumer Spending and Federal Reserve Gaurav Sharma, The EMMES Corporation ; Bhanu Shandilya, Mixpanel ; Aditi Pradeep Sharma, UMBC
8:50 AM Correlating Alcohol and Tobacco Use with Socio-Economic Status and Human Capital Investment Dooti Roy, University of Connecticut ; Bibaswan Chatterjee, University of Buffalo
8:55 AM Effect of Mode Choice and Respondent Characteristics on Data Quality - Profiling Respondents to BEA's Annual Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States Ricardo Limes, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
9:00 AM An Analysis of Consumer Budgeting and the Great Recession Robert Garrett, Miami University - Oxford, OH ; Thomas Fisher, Miami University ; Ritu Narahari, Miami University
9:05 AM CE-Based Consumer Expenditure Behaviors Study Zhicong Zhao, Mississippi State University ; Fuyuan Li, George Washington University
9:10 AM Rising to the Challenge: Winner from the BU MS in Statistical Practice Program Eric Kolaczyk, Boston University
9:15 AM Public Use vs. Restricted Use: a Case Study Using the American Community Survey Satkartar Kinney, RTI International ; Alan Karr, RTI International
9:20 AM Energy Expenditure Patterns in the United States Joyance Meechai
9:30 AM Interactive Visualization of Consumer Expenditure Public-Use Microdata Nathan James ; Jacquelyn Neal, Vanderbilt University
9:40 AM An Analysis of Selected Income and Expenditure Data by Education Level John Hanes, Regent University ; Edith Britton, Regent University ; Brian Collins, Regent University ; Senovia Cones, Regent University ; Lawrence Cooper, Regent University ; Emily Grad, Regent University ; Ashley Hall, Regent University ; Robin Robertson, Regent University ; Gloria Robinson-Sessoms, Regent University ; Destiny Simms, Regent University
9:45 AM Identification of Potentially Problematic Prescribing to a Vulnerable Population Ryan Jarrett ; Richard Epstein, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago ; Michael Cull, Vanderbilt University ; David Schlueter, Vanderbilt University ; Kathy Gracey, Vanderbilt University ; Molly Butler, Vanderbilt University ; Rameela Chandrasekhar, Vanderbilt University
9:50 AM Jointly Modeling the Patient and Consumer Centeredness of Health Care Spending — Frank Yoon, IBM Watson Health ; Eli Cutler, IBM Watson Health ; Brian Hochrein, IBM Watson Health ; Gary Pickens, IBM Watson Health ; Hal Skinner, IBM Watson Health ; Michael A Head, IBM Watson Health
9:55 AM Tracking Expenditures Michael Jadoo, Bureau of Labor Statistics
10:00 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

143 * !
Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-316
Advancing Translational Research Using Novel Statistical Analyses for Complex and Omics Data — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics , WNAR , Section on Statistical Computing
Organizer(s): Lynn Lin, Pennsylvania State University
Chair(s): Ethan Fang, Pennsylvania State University
10:35 AM Composition Estimation from Sparse Count Data via a Regularized Likelihood Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania ; Yuanpei Cao, University of Pennsylvania ; Anru Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:00 AM West African Ebola, Zika in the Americas and Direct Likelihood-Based Inference for Stochastic Compartmental Models Marc A. Suchard, University of California, Los Angeles
11:25 AM ODE Reconstruction of High-Dimensional Genetic Networks Through Game Theory Rongling Wu, Pennsylvania State University ; Libo Jiang, Beijing Forestry University
11:50 AM Expression Recovery in Single Cell RNA Sequencing — Mo R Huang, University of Pennsylvania ; Mingyao R Li, University of Pennsylvania ; Nancy Ruonan Zhang, Wharton School , University of Pennsylvania
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

172
Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-345
Machine Learning and Algorithms — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Chair(s): Nicholas Meyer, North Carolina State University
10:35 AM There Has to Be an Easier Way: a Simple Alternative for Parameter Tuning of Supervised Learning Methods Jill Lundell
10:50 AM Streaming Matrix Completion with Automated Rank Selection Milo Page, JMP/NCSU ; Christopher M Gotwalt, JMP ; Alyson Wilson, North Carolina State University
11:05 AM On Data Integration Problems with Manifolds Kenneth Ryan, WVU ; Mark Culp, West Virginia University
11:20 AM A Moment-Based Estimation Procedure for Deeply-Nested Hierarchical Models Ningshan Zhang, New York University ; Patrick Perry, New York University ; Kyle Schmaus, Stitch Fix
11:35 AM Online Anomaly Detection on Multi-Gigabit Network Streams Zheng Gao, University of Michigan
11:50 AM Visualizing the Effects of Predictor Variables in Black Box Supervised Learning Models Daniel Apley, Northwestern University
12:05 PM Matrix-Free Computation of Spatial-Temporal Gaussian Autoregressions and Related Stat-Space Models Chunxiao Wang, Oregon State University ; Debashis Mondal, Oregon State University
 
 

182
Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM CC-Halls A&B
SPEED: Data Challenge — Contributed Poster Presentations
Government Statistics Section , Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistical Graphics
Chair(s): Jessi Cisewski, Yale University
1: Income and Expenditure in US Households: a Multivariate Analysis of Consumer Expenditure Fmli161 Dataset Mingzhao Hu, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2: Rising to the Challenge: Winner from the BU MS in Statistical Practice Program Eric Kolaczyk, Boston University
3: Public Use vs. Restricted Use: a Case Study Using the American Community Survey Satkartar Kinney, RTI International ; Alan Karr, RTI International
4: Household Energy Expenditure and Consumption Patterns in the United States Joyance Meechai
5: Interactive Visualization of Consumer Expenditure Public-Use Microdata Nathan James ; Jacquelyn Neal, Vanderbilt University
7: An Analysis of Selected Income and Expenditure Data by Education Level John Hanes, Regent University ; Edith Britton, Regent University ; Brian Collins, Regent University ; Senovia Cones, Regent University ; Lawrence Cooper, Regent University ; Emily Grad, Regent University ; Ashley Hall, Regent University ; Robin Robertson, Regent University ; Gloria Robinson-Sessoms, Regent University ; Destiny Simms, Regent University
8: Identification of Potentially Problematic Prescribing to a Vulnerable Population Ryan Jarrett ; Richard Epstein, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago ; Michael Cull, Vanderbilt University ; David Schlueter, Vanderbilt University ; Kathy Gracey, Vanderbilt University ; Molly Butler, Vanderbilt University ; Rameela Chandrasekhar, Vanderbilt University
9: Jointly Modeling the Patient and Consumer Centeredness of Health Care Spending — Frank Yoon, IBM Watson Health ; Eli Cutler, IBM Watson Health ; Brian Hochrein, IBM Watson Health ; Gary Pickens, IBM Watson Health ; Hal Skinner, IBM Watson Health ; Michael A Head, IBM Watson Health
10: Tracking Expenditures Michael Jadoo, Bureau of Labor Statistics
11: Creation of a Web-Enabled Framework of a Taxonomy of Terms at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Randall Powers, US Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Daniel Gillman, Bureau of Labor Statistics
12: Consumer Spending and Federal Reserve Gaurav Sharma, The EMMES Corporation ; Bhanu Shandilya, Mixpanel ; Aditi Pradeep Sharma, UMBC
13: Correlating Alcohol and Tobacco Use with Socio-Economic Status and Human Capital Investment Dooti Roy, University of Connecticut ; Bibaswan Chatterjee, University of Buffalo
14: Effect of Mode Choice and Respondent Characteristics on Data Quality - Profiling Respondents to BEA's Annual Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States Ricardo Limes, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
15: An Analysis of Consumer Budgeting and the Great Recession Robert Garrett, Miami University - Oxford, OH ; Thomas Fisher, Miami University ; Ritu Narahari, Miami University
16: CE-Based Consumer Expenditure Behaviors Study Zhicong Zhao, Mississippi State University ; Fuyuan Li, George Washington University
The Speed portion will take place during Session 214445
 
 

214797
Mon, 7/31/2017, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM H-Douglass
Sections on Statistical Computing and Graphics Executive Committee Meeting — Other Cmte/Business
Section on Statistical Computing
Chair(s): Catherine Calder, The Ohio State University, Michael Friendly, York University
 
 

203 * !
Mon, 7/31/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-331/332
Emerging Statistical Methods for Big Tensor Data in Chemometrics and Related Fields — Invited Papers
Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences , Quality and Productivity Section , Section on Statistical Computing
Organizer(s): Ping Ma, University of Georgia
Chair(s): Ping Ma, University of Georgia
2:05 PM Tensor Sufficient Dimension Reduction Wenxuan Zhong, University of Georgia
2:30 PM SPARSE LOW-RANK TENSOR RESPONSE REGRESSION Will Wei Sun, University of Miami ; Lexin Li, University of California at Berkeley
2:55 PM Multiway Component Analysis with Functional and Structural Constraints Nathaniel Helwig, University of Minnesota
3:20 PM Novel Statistical Approaches for Mining Big Text Data Ke Deng, Tsinghua University ; Jun Liu, Harvard University
3:35 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

207 !
Mon, 7/31/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-338
Experiments and Inference for Social Networks — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , Section on Statistics in Marketing , Statistics in Business Schools Interest Group
Organizer(s): Daniel L Sussman, Boston University
Chair(s): Elizabeth L Ogburn, Johns Hopkins University
2:05 PM Massive Meta-Analysis with Experiments as Instruments: Applications to Peer Effects in Networks Dean Eckles, MIT ; Alexander Peysakhovich, Facebook
2:30 PM Unbiased Estimation Under Network Interference Daniel L Sussman, Boston University ; Edoardo M. Airoldi, Harvard University
2:55 PM Design of Experiments for Networks with Interference Alexander Volfovsky, Duke University
3:20 PM A Computational Perspective of Information Propagation in Social Networks Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, University of British Columbia
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

240
Mon, 7/31/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-347
Computationally Intensive Methods for Estimation and Inference — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing
Chair(s): Eric Rose, NC State University
2:05 PM An Effecient Method for Quantile Regression Mei Ling Huang, Brock University ; Ramona Rat, Brock University ; Wai Kong Yuen, Brock University
2:20 PM A Novel Exact Method for Significance of Higher Criticism via Steck's Determinant Jeffrey Miecznikowski, SUNY At Buffalo ; Jiefei Wang, SUNY University at Buffalo ; Daniel Gaile , SUNY University at Buffalo ; David Tritchler, SUNY University at Buffalo
2:35 PM Exponential Random Graph Models with Big Networks: Maximum Pseudolikelihood Estimation and the Parametric Bootstrap Christian Schmid, The Pennsylvania State University ; Bruce Desmarais, The Pennsylvania State University
2:50 PM A Missing Technique for Estimating Univariate Multiple Missing Values-An Advanced Re-sampling Method for Correlated Observations Silvia Sharna, Ball State University ; Mian Adnan, Ball State University ; Rahmatullah Imon, Ball State University
3:05 PM Efficient Solution of Large Fixed Effects Problems with Clustered Standard Errors Thomas Balmat, Duke University ; Jerry Reiter, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
3:20 PM Maximum Likelihood Versus Alternative Regularized Estimators for Logistic Regression Models Gabriel Ruiz, Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside ; Subir Ghosh, Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside
3:35 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

214812
Mon, 7/31/2017, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM H-Key Ballroom 1
Sections on Statistical Computing and Graphics Mixer — Other Cmte/Business
Section on Statistical Graphics , Section on Statistical Computing
Chair(s): Catherine Calder, The Ohio State University, Michael Friendly, York University
 
 

266 * !
Tue, 8/1/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-314
Novel Approaches to First Statistics / Data Science Course — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Education , Section on Statistical Computing , Statistics in Business Schools Interest Group , Caucus for Women in Statistics
Organizer(s): Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Duke University
Chair(s): Andrew Bray, Reed College
8:35 AM Three Methods Approach to Statistical Inference Benjamin Baumer, Smith College
8:55 AM Lessons Learned in Transitioning from "Intro to Statistics" to "Reasoning with Data" Rebecca Nugent, Carnegie Mellon Statistics
9:15 AM A First-Year Undergraduate Data Science Course Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Duke University
9:35 AM Teaching Stats for Data Science Daniel Kaplan, Macalester College
9:55 AM Discussant: Dick DeVeaux, Williams College
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

293
Tue, 8/1/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-326
SPEED: Computing, Graphics, and Programming Statistics — Contributed Speed
Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistical Graphics , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Quality and Productivity Section , Section on Statistical Consulting , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Chair(s): Collin Eubanks, Carnegie Mellon University
8:35 AM Where Does All the Time Go? Measuring Clients' Service Utilization via Time-Tracking Software Dou-Yan Yang, University of Wisconsin--Madison ; Jeff Havlena, University of Wisconsin--Madison
8:40 AM Persistence Terrace for Topological Inference of Point Cloud Data Chul Moon, University of Georgia ; Noah Giansiracusa, Swarthmore College ; Nicole Lazar, University of Georgia
8:50 AM Generalized Bi-Plots for Visualized Multidimensional Projections James Fry, Virginia Tech ; Matt Slifko, Virginia Tech ; Scotland Leman, Virginia Tech
8:55 AM Dynamic Network Community Discovery Shiwen Shen ; Edsel Aldea Pena, University of South Carolina
9:05 AM Maintaining Trial Integrity for Randomized Open-Label Trials Wenyun Ji, Amgen, Inc.
9:10 AM A Mixture-Of-Regressions Model with Measurement Errors in the Response Xiaoqiong Fang, University of Kentucky ; Derek Young, University of Kentucky
9:15 AM A SAS Macro to Create Summary Tables Amy Gravely, VA Medical Center ; Barbara Clothier, CCDOR MVAHCS
9:20 AM Sequential Computer Experiments for Failure Probability Estimation --- a Floor System Example Hao Chen, University of British Columbia ; William James Welch, University of British Columbia
9:30 AM A Network-based Algorithm for Clustering Multivariate Longitudinal Data Matthew Koslovsky, KBRwyle ; Millennia Young, National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Caroline Schaefer, MEI Technologies ; John Arellano, MEI Technologies ; Al Feiveson, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
9:35 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

302
Tue, 8/1/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-311
Bayesian Modeling — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing
Chair(s): Susheela Singh, North Carolina State University
8:35 AM Infinite Mixture of Multinomial Distribution Approximation for Incomplete Categorical Data Chaojie Wang, The Chinese Univ of Hong Kong
8:50 AM A Mixture of Gaussian and Student's T Errors for a Robust and Accurate Parameter Estimation Hyungsuk Tak, SAMSI ; Justin A. Ellis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ; Sujit K Ghosh, North Carolina State University
9:05 AM Sequential Monte Carlo for Dynamic Latent Space Networks Kathryn Turnbull, Lancaster University ; Matthew Nunes, Lancaster University ; Christopher Nemeth, Lancaster University ; Tyler McCormick, University of Washington
9:20 AM Bayesian Inference in the Presence of Intractable Normalizing Functions Jaewoo Park, Penn State University
9:35 AM Hybrid Adaptive MCMC Block Sampling Daniel Turek, Williams College ; Nicholas Michaud, University of California, Berkeley
9:50 AM The LGM Split Sampler: An Efficient MCMC Sampler for Latent Gaussian Models Birgir Hrafnkelsson, University of Iceland ; Dan Simpson, University of Bath ; Oli Pall Geirsson, University of Iceland
10:05 AM A Simple, Fast Sampler for Simulating Spatial Data and Other Markovian Data Structures Andrea Kaplan, Iowa State University ; Mark Kaiser, Iowa State University ; Soumendra N Lahiri, North Carolina State University ; Daniel Nordman, Iowa State University
 
 

303
Tue, 8/1/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-312
Big Data — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Chair(s): James Gilman, NC State University
8:35 AM What's in a Vector? Major Improvements on the Horizon for R and What They Mean for You Gabriel Becker, Genentech Research ; Luke Tierney, University of Iowa
8:50 AM A Divide-And-Conquer Approach for Survival Analysis in Big Data Shou-En Lu, Rutgers Department of Biostatistics ; Jerry Q. Cheng, Rutgers Cardiovascular Institute of New Jersey ; Minge Xie, Rutgers University
9:05 AM Big Health Data Using Probabilistic Record Linkage Bong-Jin Choi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Ke Meng, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Tzy-Mey Kuo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Adrian Meyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Laura Green, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Christopher Baggett, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Anne-Marie Meyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; YunKyung Chang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:20 AM Multi-Resolution Approximations of Gaussian Processes for Big Spatial Data Wenlong Gong, Texas A&M University
9:50 AM A Randomized Algorithm for Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Spatial Autoregressive Models Miaoqi Li, University of Cincinnati ; Emily L. Kang, University of Cincinnati
10:05 AM Sparse Group Fused Lasso in High Dimension David Degras, University of Massachusetts Boston
 
 

307 * !
Tue, 8/1/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-344
Bayesian Computational Advances for Complex and Large-Scale Data — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Organizer(s): Naveen N Narisetty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chair(s): Alexander Giessing, University of Michigan
10:35 AM Bayesian Neural Networks for High-Dimensional Nonlinear Variable Selection Faming Liang, University of Florida
11:00 AM Multivariate Output Analysis for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Galin Jones, University of Minnesota ; Dootika Vats, University of Minnesota ; James Flegal, University of California, Riverside
11:25 AM High-Dimensional Bayesian Computation for Censored Quantile Regression Naveen N Narisetty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Xuming He, University of Michigan
11:50 AM A Variational Bayesian Algorithm for Sparse PCA Feng Liang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ; Yunbo Ouyang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ; Jianjun Hu, Union Bank
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

345
Tue, 8/1/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-345
Computationally Intensive Methods — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing
Chair(s): Kristin Linn, University of Pennsylvania
10:35 AM GENERALIZED CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON LIFETIME PERFORMANCE INDEX FOR THE TWO-PARAMETER EXPONENTIAL LIFETIME MODEL WITH A RIGHT TYPE II CENSORED SAMPLE Danush Wijekularathna, Troy University ; SUMITH GUNASEKERA, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
10:50 AM A Two-Stage Algorithm for Computation of the Exact Distribution of Sums of Spacings Chien-Tai Lin, Tamkang University ; Chung-Tao Lu, E.Sun Bank
11:05 AM An EM Algorithm for Fitting the Generalized Odds-Rate Model to Interval Censored Data Jie Zhou ; Jiajia Zhang, University of South Carolina ; Wenbin Lu, North Carolina State University
11:20 AM A Comparison Study of Some Competing Accelerated Life Testing Models, with Applications to Class-H Insulation Data Debaraj Sen, Concordia University
11:50 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

349
Tue, 8/1/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-Halls A&B
Contributed Poster Presentations: Section on Statistical Computing — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistical Computing
Chair(s): Jessi Cisewski, Yale University
11: Bootstrapping and Cross-Validating Generalized PLS Regressions Using GPU Frederic Bertrand, University of Strasbourg ; Myriam Maumy, Universite de Strasbourg
12: Early Stage Investigator Policy Evaluation: The Statistical Necessities Rachael Walsh, National Institutes of Health, Office of Extramural Research ; Robert Moore, National Institutes of Health, Office of Extramural Research
 
 

359
Tue, 8/1/2017, 11:35 AM - 12:20 PM CC-Halls A&B
SPEED: Computing, Graphics, and Programming Statistics — Contributed Poster Presentations
Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistical Graphics , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Quality and Productivity Section , Section on Statistical Consulting , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Chair(s): Jessi Cisewski, Yale University
1: Where Does All the Time Go? Measuring Clients' Service Utilization via Time-Tracking Software Dou-Yan Yang, University of Wisconsin--Madison ; Jeff Havlena, University of Wisconsin--Madison
2: Persistence Terrace for Topological Inference of Point Cloud Data Chul Moon, University of Georgia ; Noah Giansiracusa, Swarthmore College ; Nicole Lazar, University of Georgia
4: Generalized Bi-Plots for Visualized Multidimensional Projections James Fry, Virginia Tech ; Matt Slifko, Virginia Tech ; Scotland Leman, Virginia Tech
5: Dynamic Network Community Discovery Shiwen Shen ; Edsel Aldea Pena, University of South Carolina
6: Maintaining Trial Integrity for Randomized Open-Label Trials Wenyun Ji, Amgen, Inc.
7: A Mixture-Of-Regressions Model with Measurement Errors in the Response Xiaoqiong Fang, University of Kentucky ; Derek Young, University of Kentucky
8: A SAS Macro to Create Summary Tables Amy Gravely, VA Medical Center ; Barbara Clothier, CCDOR MVAHCS
9: Sequential Computer Experiments for Failure Probability Estimation --- a Floor System Example Hao Chen, University of British Columbia ; William James Welch, University of British Columbia
11: A Network-based Algorithm for Clustering Multivariate Longitudinal Data Matthew Koslovsky, KBRwyle ; Millennia Young, National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Caroline Schaefer, MEI Technologies ; John Arellano, MEI Technologies ; Al Feiveson, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Speed portion will take place during Session 214531
 
 

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Tue, 8/1/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-337
Bayes, Frequentist, Fiducial: BFF in Action — Invited Papers
General Methodology , Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Organizer(s): Nils Lid Hjort, University of Oslo
Chair(s): Nils Lid Hjort, University of Oslo
2:05 PM Confidence Inference Function in Big Data Peter XK Song, University of Michigan, ; Ling X.K. Zhou, University of Michigan
2:30 PM Application of Generalized Fiducial Inference to Biological Sciences Jan Hannig, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2:55 PM Combining Diverse Information Sources with the II-CC-FF Paradigm Céline Cunen, University of Oslo ; Nils Lid Hjort, University of Oslo
3:20 PM A Sequential Split-Conquer-Combine Approach for Gaussian Process Modeling in Computer Experiments Ying Hung ; Minge Xie, Rutgers University ; Chengrui Li, Rutgers University
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

414
Tue, 8/1/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-338
Model Building and Selection — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing
Chair(s): Harold Gomes, US Bureau of Labor Statistics
2:05 PM Local Variable Selection in Sequential Optimization Munir Winkel, North Carolina State University ; Brian Reich, NCSU ; Jonathan W. Stallings, North Carolina State University
2:20 PM Model-Selection Consistency of Forward Selection in High-Dimensional Regression Jerzy Wieczorek, Carnegie Mellon University ; Jing Lei, Carnegie Mellon University
2:35 PM Number of Samples Needed for Model Selection with Confidence Sean Carver, American University
2:50 PM Copula Modeling for Data with Ties Yichen Qin, University of Cincinnati ; Yan Li, University of Connecticut ; Yang Li, Renmin University of China ; Jun Yan, University of Connecticut
3:05 PM A Data-Driven Approach to the Problem of Multiple Testing Nasrine Bendjilali, Rowan University ; Boualem Bendjilali, RVCC ; Wei-Min Huang, Lehigh University
3:20 PM Generalized Mixed Effects Regression Tree for Longitudinal Count Data Xiaoqin Xiong, Food and Drug Administration ; Joel A Dubin, University of Waterloo
3:35 PM Gaussian Mixture Modeling Under Measurement Uncertainty Shuchismita Sarkar, University of Alabama ; Volodymyr Melnykov, The University of Alabama ; Rong Zheng, University of Alabama
 
 

475
Wed, 8/2/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-347
Statistical Computing and Inference — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Chair(s): Nasrine Bendjilali, Rowan University
8:35 AM Bootstrapping General ARIMA Models Maher Qumsiyeh ; Dalton Gannon, University of Dayton
8:50 AM Approximating Probability Distributions in an Extreme Renewal Process Percy Brill, University of Windsor ; Mei Ling Huang, Brock University
9:05 AM SUFFICIENT WEIGHTED BOOTSTRAPPING Khairul Islam, Eastern Michigan University ; Sarjinder Singh, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
9:20 AM Copula Importance Sampling Douglas VanDerwerken, United States Naval Academy
9:35 AM Simulation and Power Analysis of Generalized Linear Mixed Models Brandon LeBeau, University of Iowa
9:50 AM Inference for COM-Poisson Cure Rate Model with Interval Censored Data Suvra Pal, University of Texas Arlington - Arlington, TX ; Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, McMaster University
10:05 AM Studying Crime Trends in the United States in the XXI Century Xuwen Zhu, The University of Louisville ; Volodymyr Melnykov, The University of Alabama
 
 

480 * !
Wed, 8/2/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-341
Modernizing the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Education , Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences , Section on Statistical Computing , Statistics in Business Schools Interest Group
Organizer(s): Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Duke University
Chair(s): Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Duke University
10:35 AM Modernizing the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum Nicholas J Horton, Amherst College
10:55 AM Industry Expectations for Statistics Graduates Hilary Parker, Stitch Fix
11:15 AM Expectations and Skills for Undergraduate Students Doing Research in Statistics and Data Science Jo Hardin, Pomona College
11:35 AM Moving Away from Ad Hoc Statistical Computing Education Colin Rundel, Duke University Statistical Science
11:55 AM Discussant: Rob Gould, UCLA
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

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Wed, 8/2/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-326
Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments for Complex Systems — Invited Papers
Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences , Section on Statistical Computing , IMS
Organizer(s): Ying Hung
Chair(s): Ying Hung
10:35 AM Replication or exploration? Sequential design for stochastic simulation experiments. Robert Gramacy, Virginia Tech Department of Statistics ; Bickael Binois, The University of Chicago ; Mike Ludkovski, University of California, Santa Barbara
11:00 AM Analysis of dimension reduction in Gaussian process regression Minyong Lee, Stanford University ; Art Owen, Stanford University
11:25 AM Stabilizing Gradient Enhanced Emulators with Sparsity Constraints Peter Qian, University of Wisconsin-Madison ; Jared Huling, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:50 AM Sequential learning of deformation models in additive manufacturing through calibration of simulation models Tirthankar Dasgupta, Rutgers University ; Ying Hung
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

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Wed, 8/2/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-347
Software for Statistical Computing — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Chair(s): Yichi Zhang, Harvard University
10:35 AM EyeTrVis: An R Package for the Extraction and Visualization of Eye Tracking Data from People Looking at Posters Chunyang Li ; Jurgen Symanzik, Utah State University
10:50 AM Eye-Tracking in Practice: A First Analysis of a Study on Human Postures Jurgen Symanzik, Utah State University ; Chunyang Li ; Boyu Zhang, Utah State University ; Breanna Studenka, Utah State University ; Eric McKinney, Utah State University
11:05 AM Likelihood-Ratio and $C(\Alpha)$ Tests for ODE Models Yuping Yang, Simon Frase University ; Richard Lockhart, Simon Fraser University ; Jiguo Cao, Simon Frase University
11:20 AM Turning the Tables on Probability Distributions Stephen Mansour, University of Scranton
11:35 AM Standardizing Assessment of Time-Series Forecasting Models — Nicholas G. Reich, University of Massachusetts Amherst ; Joshua Kaminsky, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Lindsay Keegan, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ; Stephen Lauer, University of Massachusetts - Amherst ; Krzysztof Sakrejda, University of Massachusetts - Amherst ; Justin Lessler, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
11:50 AM RCAP Designer: Creating Analytical Dashboards on the RCloud Platform Robert Archibald, Macrosoft Inc ; Ganesh Subramaniam, AT&T ; Simon Urbanek, AT&T Labs Research
12:05 PM In with the New: a Shiny App for Exploring Summary Data Tables from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Emily Mitchell, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
 
 

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Wed, 8/2/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-341
The Evolution and Future Direction of Statistical Computing and Visualization — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , Caucus for Women in Statistics , Section on Statistical Graphics , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Nusrat Jahan, James Madison University
Chair(s): Jiayang Sun, Case Western Reserve University
2:05 PM A girl geek's guide to new research on interactive data visualization for statistics with lots of data Dianne Cook, Monash University
3:30 PM Practical Data Analysis: An Algorithmic Approach Leland Wilkinson, H2O.ai
2:55 PM Discussant: Dalene K. Stangl, Duke University
3:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

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Thu, 8/3/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-340
High-Dimensional Time Series and Applications in Social and Biological Sciences — Invited Papers
WNAR , Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Organizer(s): Ali Shojaie, University of Washington
Chair(s): Ali Shojaie, University of Washington
8:35 AM A Flexible Non-parametric Framework for High-Dimensional Multi-way Data Zhaoxia Yu, University of California, Irvine ; Tong Shen, University of California, Irvine ; Dustin Pluta, University of California, Irvine ; Hernando Ombao, University of California, Irvine; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
9:00 AM Granger Causality Networks for Categorical Time Series: Convex Mixture Transition Distribution Alex Tank, University of Washington ; Ali Shojaie, University of Washington ; Emily Fox, University of Washington
9:25 AM Leaning Multivariate High-Dimensional Point Process Models Garvesh Raskutti, University of Wisconsin-Madison
9:50 AM Eigenvalues of Covariance Matrices of High-Dimensional Time Series Alexander Aue, University of California, Davis ; Haoyang Liu, University of California, Berkeley ; Debashis Paul, University of California, Davis
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

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Thu, 8/3/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-321
Bridging the Gap Between Statistics and Other Data Sciences: Where's the Bridge? Where's the Gap? — Invited Panel
Section on Statistical Consulting , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , Section on Statistical Computing , Statistics Without Borders , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee , Statistics in Business Schools Interest Group
Organizer(s): Jason Brinkley, American Institutes for Research
Chair(s): Jason Brinkley, American Institutes for Research
8:35 AM Bridging the Gap Between Statistics and Other Data Sciences: Where's the Bridge? Where's the Gap?
Panelists: Edward Boone, Virginia Commonwealth University
Randy Bartlett, Blue Sigma Analytics
Mark Lancaster, Northern Kentucky University
Andrew Ekstrom, University of Michigan - Dearborn
Fred Hulting, General Mills
10:10 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

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Thu, 8/3/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-319
Advances in Finite Mixture Modeling and Model-Based Clustering — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing
Organizer(s): Xuwen Zhu, The University of Louisville
Chair(s): Xuwen Zhu, The University of Louisville
10:35 AM Doubly Smoothed MLE in Semiparametric Mixtures Byungtae Seo, Sungkyunkwan University
10:55 AM A Novel Algorithm for Clustering of Data on the Unit Sphere via Mixture Models Hien Nguyen, LA TROBE UNIVERSITY
11:15 AM Merging K-Means Solutions for Clustering Semhar Michael, South Dakota State University ; Volodymyr Melnykov, The University of Alabama
11:35 AM A Finite Mixture Model Approach to Regression Under Covariate Misclassification Jingyu He ; P. Richard Hahn, University of Chicago Booth School of Business ; Michelle Xia, Northern Illinois University
11:55 AM Model-Based Clustering of Big Data Paul McNicholas, McMaster University
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

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Thu, 8/3/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-312
Statistical Computing in Data Science — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Chair(s): Wenhao Hu, North Carolina State University
10:35 AM What Is the the Best and Safest for Me? Data Science Methods Applied to Medical Products and Treatments Carolyn Carroll, Stat Tech, Inc.
10:50 AM Automated Detection of Data Quality Anomalies in 3rd Party Administrative Data Thomas George, Vidoori
11:05 AM Statistical Calculations Through Rational Arithmetic and Conversions Timothy Hall, PQI Consulting
11:20 AM Florida Public Hurricane Model - Estimation of Extreme Losses Florence George, Florida International University ; Sneh Gulati, Florida International University ; Shahid Hamid, Florida International University
11:35 AM Trends and Volatility of Stock Prices Following Occurrence of Specific Technical Patterns James Shine, US Army (retired) ; James Gentle, George Mason University ; Charles Perry, USDA retired
11:50 AM Floor Discussion
 
 
 
 
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