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251 * ! Tue, 8/4/2020, 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM Virtual
Statistical Advances in Microbiome Research from Theory to Application — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics, Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute, ENAR
Organizer(s): Ni Zhao, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Chair(s): Xiang Zhan, Pennsylvania State University
1:05 PM Optimal Estimation of Wasserstein Distance on a Tree with an Application to Microbiome Studies
Shulei Wang, University of Pennsylvania; Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania; Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania
1:25 PM A Powerful Microbial Group Association Test Based on the Higher Criticism Analysis
Ni Zhao, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health; Hyunwook Koh, Johns Hopkins University
1:45 PM Power of Microbiome Beta-Diversity Analyses Based on Standard Reference Samples
Mitchell H. Gail, National Cancer Institute; Yunhu Wan, Leidos Corporation
2:05 PM Models for Microbiome Epidemiology
Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard University
2:25 PM Discussant: Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania
2:45 PM Floor Discussion