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90 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-Ballroom I
Late-Breaking Session I: National Governments, Coerced Narratives, Creative Language, and Alternative Facts — Invited Special Presentation
JSM Partner Societies
Organizer(s): James Cochran, University of Alabama
Chair(s): James Cochran, University of Alabama
8:35 AM Greece: When Official Statistics Fall Prey to Political Interests — Andreas Georgiou, Consultant-Official Statistics
9:00 AM Formalizing the Independence of Canada's National Statistical Office — Wayne Richard Smith, Consultant and former Chief Statistician of Canada
9:25 AM Statistics at Risk: The Effects of Declining Transparency — Ryan McNeill, Reuters
9:50 AM Integrity, Objectivity, Impartiality, Utility, and Confidentiality — Nancy A. Potok, Chief Statistician of the United States, U.S. Office of Management and Budget
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

132 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-Ballroom I
Introductory Overview Lecture: Computer Age Statistical Inference — Invited Special Presentation
JSM Partner Societies , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Regina Liu, Rutgers University
Chair(s): Vijay Nair, University of Michigan
10:35 AM Bayes, Oracle Bayes, and Empirical Bayes — Brad Efron, Stanford University
11:15 AM Variable Selection at Scale — Trevor J. Hastie, Stanford University ; Ryan Tibshirani, Carnegie Mellon University
11:55 AM Discussant: Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University
12:05 PM Discussant: Stefan Wager, Stanford University
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

200 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-Ballroom I
Introductory Overview Lecture: Data Science: A Collaboration of Statistics and Computer Science — Invited Special Presentation
JSM Partner Societies , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): David Van Dyk, Imperial College London
Chair(s): Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley
2:05 PM Data Science: Collaborations Across Computer Science and Statistics — Lise Getoor, University of California, Santa Cruz
2:55 PM Statistical Learning with Big Data — Robert Tibshirani, Stanford University
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

263 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-Ballroom I
Introductory Overview Lecture: Network Data, Modeling, Analysis, and Applications — Invited Special Presentation
JSM Partner Societies
Organizer(s): George Michailidis, University of Florida
Chair(s): Hongyu Zhao, Yale University
8:35 AM Statistics and Network Science: Overview and Open Problems — Eric Kolaczyk, Boston University
9:05 AM Statistical Network Modeling: Challenges and Perspectives — Harry Crane, Rutgers University
9:35 AM Estimating Biological Networks from High-Dimensional Omics Data — George Michailidis, University of Florida
10:05 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

305 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-Ballroom I
Late-Breaking Session II: Hindsight is 20/20 and for 2020: Lessons from 2016 Elections — Invited Special Presentation
JSM Partner Societies
Organizer(s): Regina Liu, Rutgers University
Chair(s): David Donoho, Stanford University
10:35 AM Missing Non-Voters and Misweighted Samples: Explaining the Great British Polling Miss(es) — Jonathan Mellon, University of Oxford
11:05 AM From Euler to Clinton: An Unexpected Statistical Journey — Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University
11:35 AM Prejudice, Priming, and Presidential Voting: Panel Evidence from the 2016 U.S. Election — Daniel Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania
12:05 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

435 		Wed, 8/2/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-Ballroom I
Introductory Overview Lecture: Quantile Regression — Invited Special Presentation
JSM Partner Societies
Organizer(s): Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chair(s): Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
8:35 AM Quantile Regression: An Overview of Some Recent Developments — Roger Koenker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:05 AM Computer-Intensive Methods for Inference — Xuming He, University of Michigan
9:35 AM Quantile Regression Analysis of Heterogeneous Data in Ultra-High Dimension — Lan Wang, University of Minnesota
10:05 AM Floor Discussion
 
 
 
 
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