Name: 2021 Joint Statistical Meetings
Start: 2021-08-08T07:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-08-12

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220764	Tue, 8/3/2021, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Text Analysis Interest Group's (TAIG) Annual Business Meeting — Other Cmte/Business
Text Analysis Interest Group
Chair(s): Kelly H. Zou, Viatris
Text Analysis Interest Group's (TAIG) Annual Business Meeting - Virtual Start Time: 3:00 pm EDT Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://qualtrics.zoom.us/j/92044195481

65 * !	Mon, 8/9/2021, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Causal Inference with Latent Variables — Invited Papers
Mental Health Statistics Section, Health Policy Statistics Section, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, Text Analysis Interest Group
Organizer(s): Booil Jo, Stanford University School of Medicine
Chair(s): Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University
10:05 AM	A Statistical Test to Reject the Structural Interpretation of a Latent Factor Model Tyler J VanderWeele, Harvard University; Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University
10:25 AM	Natural Language Processing Algorithms and Their Relationship to Latent Variable Modeling Brian Lee Egleston, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Slobodan Vucetic, Temple University
10:45 AM	The Deconfounder: What Is It? What Is Its Theory? Is it Useful? David Blei, Columbia University; Yixin Wang, U.C. Berkeley
11:05 AM	Discussant: Mark Van Der Laan, University of California
11:25 AM	Discussant: Kosuke Imai, Harvard University
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

90	Mon, 8/9/2021, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Novel Statistical Methods for COVID Pandemic and Other Current Health Policy Issues — Contributed Speed
Health Policy Statistics Section, Text Analysis Interest Group
Chair(s): Christine Mauro, Columbia University
10:05 AM	Predicting Local Demand for COVID-19 Inpatient Care with a Bayesian Susceptible-Infectious-Hospitalized-Ventilated-Recovered Model Stella Self, University of South Carolina; Rongjie Huang, University of South Carolina; Shrujan Amin, Care Coordination Institute; Joseph Ewing, Prisma Health; Caroline Rudisill, University of South Carolina; Alexander McLain, University of South Carolina
10:10 AM	COVID-19 Spatiality: Regional Surrogate Synchrony in Case Infection Rates Samantha Robinson, University of Arkansas
10:15 AM	Assessment of 12 Months of COVID-19 Outcomes: Africa and Other Continents Obafemi Adegoke. Keshinro, University of Lagos; Kazeem Osuolale, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research; Olukemi Abiodun Keshinro, University of Lagos
10:20 AM	Predictive Model for Hospitalization Due to COVID-19 Presentation Fei Han, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Ian Stockwell , University of Maryland Baltimore County; Morgan Henderson, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Lucy Wilson, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Zach Dezman, University of Maryland, Baltimore
10:25 AM	Network Autoregression of the COVID Burden Marten Thompson, University of Minnesota
10:30 AM	Adherence to Medications Used to Manage Noncommunicable Diseases During and After the COVID-19 Era Presentation Tarek A Hassan, Viatris; Jorge Enrique Saenz, Viatris; Danute Ducinskiene, Viatris; Joseph P Cook, Viatris; Joseph S. Imperato, Viatris (Former Employee); Kelly H. Zou, Viatris
10:35 AM	Boeing Confident Travel Initiative Passenger Screening Model Lindsay Waite Jones, Boeing; Ahmad Nahhas, Boeing; Jan Irvahn, Boeing; Grace S Garden, Boeing; William Ferng, Boeing; Elizabeth Killelea, Boeing; Jason W Armstrong, Boeing; Thomas Austin, Boeing; Stephen Jones, Boeing; Joshua J Cummins, Boeing
10:40 AM	Using Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, and Text Networks to Describe Content and Sentiment of Organization Emails from a Children’s Hospital Figaro Loresto, Children's Hospital Colorado; Nadia Shive, University of Colorado; Lindsey Tarasenko, Children's Hospital Colorado
10:45 AM	Fairness and Bias in COVID-19 Social Distancing Complaints: Evidence from Large-Scale Mobility Data Constantine E. Kontokosta, New York University; Boyeong Hong, New York University; Bartosz Bonczak, New York University
10:50 AM	The Impact of Lockdown Timing on COVID-19 Transmission across US Counties Xiaolin Huang, University of Victoria; Xiaojian Shao, National Research Council Canada; Xing Li, University of Saskatchewan; Yushan Hu, University of Victoria; Don D. Sin, St Paul’s Hospital and University of British Columbia; Xuekui Zhang, University of Victoria
11:00 AM	Estimating the Association Between COVID-19 Vaccine Coverage and Deaths in Connecticut Samantha G Dean, Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health; Olga Morozova, Program in Public Health, Stony Brook University; Matthew Cartter, Connecticut Department of Health; Amanda Durante, Connecticut Department of Health; Forrest W. Crawford, Yale University
11:05 AM	A New Statistical Modeling Approach for Survival Analysis of Cancer Patients: Multiple Myeloma Cancer Lohuwa Mamudu, University of South Florida; Chris P. Tsokos, University of South Florida
11:10 AM	Fair Regression for Multiple Undercompensated Groups Samson Mataraso, Stanford University; Anna Zink, Harvard University; Sherri Rose, Stanford University
11:15 AM	Propensity Score Matched Cohort for Benchmarking Hospital Mortality Using Indirect Method of Standardization Brenda Vincent, North Dakota State University ; Bong-Jin Choi, North Dakota State University
11:20 AM	Assessing Classification Accuracy of Hospitals' Performance on Discrete Outcome Zhou Lan, Yale School of Medicine; Zhenqiu Lin, Yale New Haven Hospital; Haiqun Lin, Rutgers University; Shu-Xia Li, Yale New Haven Hospital; Chengan Du, Yale School of Medicine
11:25 AM	Statistical Modeling of Longitudinal Medical Cost Trajectory Shikun Wang, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Jing Ning, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Ya-Chen Tina Shih, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Yu Shen, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Liang Li, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Ying Xu, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
11:30 AM	Sequential Pattern Mining of Electronic Health Record for Early Diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Ying Liu, Princeton Pharmatech; Cindy Liang, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science; Lily Sun, Stanford OHS; Jeffery Zhang, Princeton Pharmatech
11:35 AM	Historical Aspects of Statistical Approach to Dynamic of Neural Networks Michael Fundator, Affl; National Academy of Sciences
11:40 AM	Does Health Value and Practice Make Difference on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Outcomes Shuying Sha, Scho
11:45 AM	Analysis of the Yearly Transition Function in Measles Disease Modeling Carlo Stefan Davila-Payan, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Andrew Hill, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Xi Li, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Michael Lynch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Sarah W. Pallas, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

92	Mon, 8/9/2021, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Time Series and Finance — Contributed Speed
Business and Economic Statistics Section, Text Analysis Interest Group
Chair(s): David S Matteson, Cornell University
10:05 AM	Short-Term Forecasting with a Computationally Efficient Nonparametric Transfer Function Model Jun M. Liu, Georgia Southern University
10:10 AM	Community Network Auto-Regression for High-Dimensional Time Series Elynn Y. Chen, University of California, Berkeley; Jianqing Fan , Princeton University; Xuening Zhu, Fudan University
10:15 AM	The Hyperbolic Conditional Autoregressive Range (HYCARR) Model Isuru Ratnayake, Kansas University Medical Center; V A Samaranayake, Missouri University of Science and Technology
10:20 AM	Why Are Lumber Prices So High? Matthew Arvanitis, USDA Forest Products Laboratory; Delton Alderman, USDA Forest Products Laboratory
10:25 AM	Mutual Information, Granger Causality, and Point Processes Victor Solo, UNSW, Sydney; Ahmed Pasha, Air University
10:30 AM	Directional Accuracy of MMS Survey of Inflation-Output Forecasts: A ROC Analysis yasemin ulu, SVSU
10:35 AM	Uncovering Dynamic Relationships of FAANG+M Stock Prices Yang Xue, North Carolina A&T State University; Seong-Tae Kim, North Carolina A&T State University
10:40 AM	An Asymmetric Hyperbolic Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedastic Model K.C.M.R. Anjana Yatawara, Missouri University of Science and Technology; V A Samaranayake, Missouri University of Science and Technology
10:45 AM	Information Content of Time Durations in the Limit Order Book Zheting Zhu, University of Manitoba; Julieta Frank, University of Manitoba
10:50 AM	The Specific Indirect Effect of Correspondence Audits: Moving from Research to Operational Application Leigh Nicholl, The MITRE Corporation; Lucia Lykke, The MITRE Corporation; Max McGill, The MITRE Corporation; Alan Plumley, Internal Revenue Services
11:00 AM	On a Quantile Autoregressive Conditional Duration Model Applied to High-Frequency Financial Data Helton Saulo, University of Brasilia; Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, McMaster University; Roberto Vila, University of Brasilia
11:05 AM	Estimating Inequality Process Parameters from Corporate Market Capitalizations Presentation John Angle, The Inequality Process Institute, LLC
11:10 AM	COVID-19 and Auto Loan Origination Trends Jose J Canals-Cerda, Federal Reserve
11:15 AM	The 2020 Global Stock Market Crash: Endogenous or Exogenous? Min Shu, University of Wisconsin Stout; Ruiqiang Song, Michigan Technological University; Wei Zhu, Stony Brook University
11:20 AM	Improving Hedging Portfolios Using Machine Learning via Gaussian Process Hyperparameter Tuning Zihao Chen, Iowa State University; Cindy Yu, Iowa State University
11:25 AM	Mode Prediction and Hedging Portfolio Construction Based on Quantile Regression Through Machine Learning Methods Guoliang Ma, Iowa State University; Cindy Yu, Iowa State University
11:30 AM	Deciphering Federal Reserve Communication via Text Analysis of Alternative FOMC Statements Taeyoung Doh, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
11:35 AM	Estimating Factors in Dynamic Equicorrelation Model Raja Velu, Syracuse University; Zhaoque Zhou , Syracuse University
11:40 AM	Option Pricing with Higher-order Stochastic Volatility Models Md. Nazmul Ahsan, Concordia University; Jean-Marie Dufour, McGill University
11:45 AM	Granger Causality Test in Predictive Conditional Modal Regression Tae-Hwy Lee, University of California, Riverside; Yaojue Xu, University of California, Riverside

132	Mon, 8/9/2021, 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM	Virtual
SLDS CSpeed 1 — Contributed Speed
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science, Text Analysis Interest Group
Chair(s): Jaime Lynn Speiser, Wake Forest School of Medicine
1:35 PM	Applications of Machine Learning Methods to Identify Pediatric Patients with De Novo Acute Myeloid Leukemia from a Real-World Data Set Yimei Li, University of Pennsylvania
1:40 PM	Estimation of a Distribution Function with Increasing Failure Rate Average Ganesh B. Malla, University of Cincinnati-Clermont College
1:45 PM	A Semiparametric Complementary Log-Log Model with Applications in Rare Event Mining Cheng Peng, West Chester University of Pennsylvania; Kai Peng, Ningbo University of Technology
1:50 PM	A Deep Convolutional Neural Network Approach for Predicting Cumulative Incidence Based on Pseudo-Observations Pablo Gonzalez Gonzalez Ginestet, Karolinska Institutet; Philippe Weitz, Karolinska Institutet; Erin Gabriel, Karolinska Institutet; Mattias Rantalainen, Karolinska Institutet
1:55 PM	Subgroup Identification of Elderly Bladder Cancer Patients Based on Mental and Physical Scores: A Clustering Approach Mojgan Golzy, University of Missouri-Columbia; Katie Murray, University of Missouri-Columbia
2:00 PM	Impact of Tweets Pre-Processing Techniques on a Dictionary for Environment Camilla Salvatore, University of Bergamo; Daniele Toninelli, University of Bergamo; Michela Cameletti, University of Bergamo; Stephan Schlosser, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
2:05 PM	Can Machine Learning Improve Correspondence Audit Case Selection? Considerations for Algorithm Selection, Validation, and Experimentation Lucia Lykke, The MITRE Corporation; Ben Howard, The MITRE Corporation; David Pinski, The MITRE Corporation; Alan Plumley, Internal Revenue Services
2:10 PM	Applying Machine Learning Methods for Insight into Textile Recycling Behavior Presentation Brandon King, North Carolina State University; Lori Rothenberg, North Carolina State University; Jeffrey Joines, North Carolina State University
2:15 PM	Empirical Comparison of Multiplicative and Tree-Based Interaction Predictive Models Chinedu Jude Nzekwe, North Carolina A&T State University; Sayed Mostafa, North Carolina A&T State University; Seong-Tae Kim, North Carolina A&T State University
2:20 PM	On Kernel-Target Alignment and Relevant Dimensions in Kernel Feature Spaces Ensuing from the Decision and Regression Tree Ensembles Dai Feng, AbbVie Inc.; Richard Baumgartner, Merck Research Laboratories
2:30 PM	Efficient Semi-Supervised Deep Learning and Machine Learning NLP System to Extract Clinical Measurements from Polysomnogram Laboratory Reports Ioannis Malagaris, University of Texas Medical Branch; David En Shuo Hsu, University of Texas Medical Branch; Yong-fang Kuo, University of Texas Medical Branch
2:35 PM	A Novel Regularized Neuro-Fuzzy Model for Chronic Diseases Outcome Prediction in Longitudinal Dietary Studies Venkata Sukumar Gurugubelli, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Hua Fang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
2:40 PM	Predicting Nursing Graduates Using Machine Learning Models Xiaoyue Cheng, University of Nebraska at Omaha; Li Hannaford, Creighton University; Mary Kunes-Connell, Creighton University
2:45 PM	Classification of Distinct Trajectories in Longitudinal Data with Irregularly Spaced Intervals: A Large Data Application of Post-Hoc Mixture Modeling of BLUPs from Mixed Models Md Jobayer Hossain, Nemours Children's Health System; Benjamin E Leiby, Thomas Jefferson University
2:50 PM	Worldwide Statistics Without Borders and Client to Consultant Bridge Collaboration: Statistical Storytelling in the Time of COVID Michal Czapski, Statistics Without Borders; Joshua Derenski, Statistics Without Borders; Stephen Godfrey, Statistics Without Borders; Michelle Vanchu-Orosco, Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness; SWB
2:55 PM	Multiomics-Based Tensor Decomposition for Breast Cancer Subtyping Qian Liu, University of Manitoba; Bowen Cheng, University of Toronto; Pingzhao Hu, University of Manitoba
3:00 PM	A Prediction Model Method for Optimizing Appointment Overbooking in Health Care Clinics Using Electronic Health Care Record Data Nathaniel O'Connell, Wake Forest School of Medicine; Joseph Skelton, Wake Forest School of Medicine
3:05 PM	What Can Public Data Tell Us About the Quality of Life in Rural Small Towns? Denise Bradford, University of Nebraska- Lincoln; Susan VanderPlas, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
3:10 PM	What Makes You Unique? Ben Seiler, Stanford University; Art Owen, Stanford University; Masayoshi Mase, Hitachi, Ltd

164	Tue, 8/10/2021, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Social Statistics Speed Session — Contributed Speed
Social Statistics Section, Text Analysis Interest Group
Chair(s): Robin Mejia, Carnegie Mellon University
10:05 AM	Retrospective Causal Inference via Matrix Completion, with an Evaluation of the Effect of European Integration on Cross-Border Employment Jason Poulos, Duke University and SAMSI; Andrea Albanese, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER); Andrea Mercatanti, Bank of Italy; Fan Li, Duke University
10:10 AM	Multivariate Small Area Estimation for Continuous and Binary Outcomes: Mapping Collective Efficacy and Crime Prevalence in London Angelo Moretti, Manchester Metropolitan University; David Buil-Gil, University of Manchester
10:15 AM	A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of College Crime in the USA Fatih Gezer, University of Leeds; Xiaoke Zhang, George Washington University
10:20 AM	Embedding Regression: Models for Context-Specific Description and Inference in Political Science Arthur Spirling, New York University; Pedro Rodriguez, Vanderbilt University; Brandon Stewart, Princeton University
10:25 AM	On the Causal Effect of Flipping the Party Order of Candidates in North Carolina’s Nonpartisan Elections Alessandro Arlotto, Duke University; Alexandre Belloni, Duke University; Fei Fang, Duke University; saša peke?, Duke University
10:30 AM	Modeling and Understanding Polarization in News Media Using Dynamic Topic Models Presentation Shane Dakota Bookhultz, Virginia Tech; Scotland Leman, Virginia Tech; Shyam Ranganathan, Virginia Tech; James Hawdon, Virginia Tech
10:35 AM	Polling Errors and Election Forecasting: A Not-So-Hidden Markov Model Presentation Graham Tierney, Duke Univeristy; Alexander Volfovsky, Duke University
10:40 AM	Investigating Similarities and Differences Across States in DVC Scores for Evaluating Redistricting Plans Thomas R. Belin, UCLA FSPH; Cameron T. Rider, C-FIT Redistricting (Coalition for Fairness, Integrity, and Transparency in Redistricting)
10:45 AM	Robustness of DVC Scores to Alternative Density-Variation and Compactness Measures in Evaluating Redistricting Plans Cameron T. Rider, C-FIT Redistricting (Coalition for Fairness, Integrity, and Transparency in Redistricting); Thomas R. Belin, UCLA FSPH
10:50 AM	Modeling Popular Music Genre Preferences Over Time Aimée M. Petitbon, University of South Carolina; David B. Hitchcock, University of South Carolina
11:00 AM	Is Automated Driving Safer? An Application of Survival Analysis in Automated Vehicle Safety Evaluation Soheil Sohrabi, Texas A&M University; Bahar Dadashova, Texas A&M Transportation Institute; Dominique Lord, Texas A&M University
11:05 AM	A Hybrid Approach for Traffic Crash Identification Using Deep Learning and Xgboost Liang Shi, Virginia Tech; Chen Qian, Virginia Tech; Yanran Wei, Virginia Tech; Feng Guo, Virginia Tech
11:10 AM	Evaluating Risk of Eye Glance Patterns by Embedding Based Kernel Two Sample Test Presentation Chen Qian, Virginia Tech; Jingbin Xu, Virginia Tech; Feng Guo, Virginia Tech
11:15 AM	Disparities in Ride-Hailing Usage in the US Wenjian Jia, University of Virginia; Donna Chen, University of Virginia
11:20 AM	Bayesian Criterion-Based Assessments of Recurrent Event Models with Applications to Commercial Truck Driver Behavior Studies Yiming Zhang, University of Connecticut; Ming-Hui Chen, UCONN; Feng Guo, Virginia Tech
11:25 AM	Unified Latent Class Modeling of Score and Rank Data Applied to Grant Panel Review Michael Pearce, University of Washington; Elena Erosheva, University of Washington; Steven Gallo, American Institute of Biological Sciences
11:30 AM	Causal Effect Modification: A Case Study with BPS Data Bryan Keller, Teachers College, Columbia University
11:35 AM	Exact Privacy Guarantees for Sampling Algorithms Implementing the Exponential Mechanism Jeremy Seeman, Penn State University; Matthew Reimherr, Penn State University; Aleksandra Slavkovic, Penn State University
11:40 AM	Unbiased Statistical Estimation and Valid Confidence Intervals Under Differential Privacy Christian Covington, University of Waterloo; Xi He, University of Waterloo; Gautam Kamath, University of Waterloo; James Honaker, Facebook and Harvard University
11:45 AM	Bayesian Estimation of Program-Specific Impacts in the HPOG Program Stas Kolenikov, Abt Associates; David Ross Judkins, Abt Associates

167	Tue, 8/10/2021, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Data Mining and Econometrics — Contributed Speed
Business and Economic Statistics Section, Text Analysis Interest Group
Chair(s): Jonathan R Bradley, Florida State University
10:05 AM	Locally Stationary Quantile Regression for Inflation and Interest Rates Seonjin Kim, Miami University; Zhuying Xu, Indeed Inc; Zhibiao Zhao, Penn State University
10:10 AM	Comparison of US Median Family Income with Canada Through Simple Tables and Age-Period-Cohort Models with Interesting Stories Behind Wenjiang Fu, University of Houston; Li Gan, Texas A&M University; Jiming Jiang, University of California, Davis
10:15 AM	Identification of Linear Rational Expectations Models with Exogenous Variables Peter Zadrozny, Bureau of Labor Statistics
10:20 AM	Income Distribution Determinants: A Compositional Data Approach Rafiq Hijazi, Zayed University
10:25 AM	Statistical Inference for Noisy Matrix Completion Incorporating Auxiliary Information Shujie Ma, University of California, Riverside; Yinchu Zhu, Economics, Brandeis University; PoYao Niu, Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside
10:30 AM	An Application of the LASSO Regression to Assess Poverty on ECOWAS Countries Brian William Sloboda, Uop, Depart of Labor; Dennis Pearson , Austin Peay State University
10:35 AM	Ranking Interestingness Scores for Overdispersed and Heteroskedastic Data at Scale Serge Sverdlov, Microsoft Corporation
10:40 AM	Detecting and Measuring Product Innovation in News Articles Using Google’s BERT Neil Kattampallil, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia; Gizem Korkmaz, University of Virginia; Gary Anderson, National Center for Science & Engineering Statistics, National Science Foundation
10:45 AM	Structural Breaks in Seemingly Unrelated Regression Models Shahnaz Parsaeian, University of Kansas
10:50 AM	Identification and Estimation of Demand in Large Concentrated Markets Saman Banafti, UC Riverside; Tae-Hwy Lee, University of California, Riverside
11:00 AM	Likelihood Specification in Simultaneous Equation Models for Discrete Data Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College; Ivan Jeliazkov, University of California, Irvine
11:05 AM	Identifying Number of Factors in Dynamic Factor Models Contributing to GDP Nowcasting: Bayesian Approach with Horse Shoe Shrinkage Jiayi Luo, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University; Cindy Yu, Iowa State University
11:10 AM	Generating Differentially Private Synthetic Heavy-Tailed Data Tran Tran, Pennsylvania State University; Matthew Reimherr, Penn State University; Aleksandra Slavkovic, Penn State University
11:15 AM	Using Real Estate Data to Improve Business Student Interpretation in Regression Mitra Lal Devkota, University of North Georgia ; Eric B Howington, Valdosta State University
11:20 AM	Improving Weight Representivity of Fixed Quantity Consumer Price Index Products Joshua Klick, Bureau of Labor Statistics
11:25 AM	Shapley-Value-Based Feature Attribution for Risk-Utility Tradeoff in Data Privacy Francis Bilson Darku, University of Notre Dame; Xinxue Qu, University of Notre Dame; Hong Guo, University of Notre Dame
11:30 AM	Are Respondents Changing the Way They Self-Select Their Industry Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic? Sania Khan, US Bureau of Labor Statistics; Emily Thomas, US Bureau of Labor Statistics
11:35 AM	Email Solicitation for the Multiple Worksite Report (MWR) During the Pandemic Kelly Quinn, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; Emily Thomas, US Bureau of Labor Statistics
11:40 AM	Latent Class Modeling of Passenger Airfares in the US Airline Industry Neela D Manage, Florida Atlantic University

246	Wed, 8/11/2021, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Data Science — Contributed Speed
Section on Statistical Computing, Text Analysis Interest Group
Chair(s): Catherine Durso, University of Denver
10:05 AM	Extensions to the Syrjala Test with Eye-Tracking Data Analysis Applications Presentation Eric D. McKinney, Utah State University; Jürgen Symanzik, Utah State University
10:10 AM	Smooth Ridge Model for Computer Experiments Asma Farid, QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
10:15 AM	A Sequential Discrimination Procedure for Two Almost Identically Shaped Real Distributions Silvey Shamsi, Ball State University; Mian Arif Shams Adnan, Bowling Green State University
10:20 AM	Missing Value Estimation for High-Dimensional Data Mian Arif Shams Adnan, Bowling Green State University; Silvia Irin Sharna, Bowling Green State University
10:25 AM	From Research to Deployment and Back: A Computational Framework for Reproducibility and Replicability from Industry Presentation Sergiy O Nesterko, Fidelity Investments
10:30 AM	Creating a Data-Driven Taxonomy Randall Powers, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Wendy Martinez, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Terrance Savitsky, Bureau of Labor Statistics
10:35 AM	Statistical Analysis on Factors Influencing Life Expectancy Meichen Huang, The University of Texas at Dallas; Akash Roy, Duke University
10:40 AM	The Delta-Spherical Dirichlet Distribution and Applications JOSE H GUARDIOLA, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
10:45 AM	Optimized Data Discretization Rita Chattopadhyay, Intel Corp
10:50 AM	Discriminant Analysis Using Quantile Classifier for Corrupted Label Data Masaaki Okabe, Doshisha University; Hiroshi Yadohisa, Doshisha University
11:00 AM	Finite Mixture of Birnbaum-Saunders Distributions Using the K-Bumps Algorithm Luis Benites, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Rocío Maehara, Universidad del Pacífico; Filidor Vilca, Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
11:05 AM	Fast Model Order Identification for Big Time Series Data Presentation Brian Guangshi Wu, Oakland University; Dorin Drignei, Oakland University
11:10 AM	Novel Modeling of High-Frequency Stock Trading Data Yuying Huang, University of Victoria; Ke Xu, University of Victoria; Xuekui Zhang, University of Victoria; Li Xing, University of Saskatchewan
11:15 AM	Fused Mean Structure Learning in Data Integration with Dependence Emily C Hector, North Carolina State University
11:20 AM	Backfitting for Large-Scale Binary Regressions with Crossed Random Effects Swarnadip Ghosh, STANFORD UNIVERSITY; Trevor JOHN Hastie, STANFORD UNIVERSITY; Art Owen, Stanford University
11:25 AM	On the Final Solution of the Jeffreys-Lindley Paradox Presentation Miodrag Lovric, Radford University
11:30 AM	Sample size determination for stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials with imbalance enrollment using a Shiny app Zhuopei Hu, University or Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Ruofei Du, University or Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Songthip T Ounpraseuth, University or Arkansas for Medical Sciences
11:35 AM	Network Visualization and Analysis on T and B Cell Receptors from SARS-CoV-2 Patients Hai Yang, UCSF; Li Zhang, UCSF; Zenghua Fan, UCSF; Tao He, San Francisco State University; Lawrence Fong, UCSF

264 !	Wed, 8/11/2021, 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM	Virtual
Frontiers of High-Dimensional Statistics — Invited Papers
IMS, Text Analysis Interest Group
Organizer(s): Pragya Sur, Harvard University
Chair(s): Zhou Fan, Yale University
1:35 PM	New Estimates of the Wasserstein Distance Between Document-Generating Distributions in Topic Models Florentina Bunea, Cornell University
2:00 PM	Risk Estimation Under High-Dimensional Asymptotics Arian Maleki, Columbia University; Kamiar Rahnamad rad, City University of New York; Wenda Zhou, Flat iron institute
2:25 PM	Second-Order Stein: SURE for SURE and Other Applications Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University
2:50 PM	Discussant: Pragya Sur, Harvard University
3:15 PM	Floor Discussion

280 *	Wed, 8/11/2021, 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM	Virtual
Application of Machine Learning in Clinical Development — Topic-Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science, International Chinese Statistical Association, Text Analysis Interest Group
Organizer(s): Dooti Roy, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Nan Shao, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Chair(s): Zheng Zhu, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
1:35 PM	Application of Digital Medicine in Drug Development Sandeep M Menon, Pfizer; Tim McCarthy, Pfizer; F. Isik Karahanoglu, Pfizer Global Research and Development
1:55 PM	Predicting Patient Adherence in a Changing World Dooti Roy, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
2:15 PM	Automatic Disease Screening of Borderline Personality Disorder Using Electronic Health Records (EHR) Nan Shao, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Marianne Goodman, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; James J Peters VA Medical Center; Chengxi Zang, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University; Zheng Zhu, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Zsuzsanna Tamas, Boehringer Ingelheim; Rachel Ovens, Boehringer Ingelheim; Agnes Koczon-Jaremko , Boehringer Ingelheim; Vikas_Mohan Sharma, Boehringer Ingelheim
2:35 PM	Application of Natural Language Processing in Drug Development Hua Xu, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
2:55 PM	Floor Discussion

283 * !	Wed, 8/11/2021, 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM	Virtual
Statistical Analysis on Social Media Misinformation Campaigns — Topic-Contributed Papers
Social Statistics Section, Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee, Text Analysis Interest Group
Organizer(s): Edward Kao, Lincoln Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chair(s): Edward Kao, Lincoln Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1:35 PM	Understanding and Reducing the Spread of Misinformation Online: Evidence from Lab and Field Experiments Gordon Pennycook, University of Regina; Ziv Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mohsen Mosleh, University of Exeter Business School; Antonio A. Arechar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dean Eckles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David G. Rand, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1:55 PM	Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency’s Impact on the Political Attitudes and Behaviors of American Twitter Users in Late 2017 Brian Guay, Duke University; Alexander Volfovsky, Duke University; Christopher Bail, Duke University; Sunshine Hillygus, Duke University; Emily Maloney, Duke University; Friedolin Merhout, University of Copenhagen; Aidan Combs, Duke University; Deen Freelon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2:15 PM	The Low Hanging Fruit of the Twitter Following Graph Alex Hayes, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Karl Rohe, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2:35 PM	Impact Estimation of Disinformation Narratives Using Network Causal Inference Steven Thomas Smith, MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Edward Kao, Lincoln Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Erika Mackin, MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Danelle Shah, MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Olga Simek, MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Donald B. Rubin, Temple University
2:55 PM	Floor Discussion

287	Wed, 8/11/2021, 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM	Virtual
Classroom Teaching and Pedagogy — Contributed Speed
Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences, Text Analysis Interest Group
Chair(s): Jamis Perrett, Bayer U.S.
1:35 PM	Statistical Literacy Approved for General Education at the University of New Mexico Milo Schield, University of New Mexico
1:40 PM	R Is for Rhyme? Statistics Class 'Stanza Part' with Poetry! Lawrence Mark Lesser, The University of Texas at El Paso
1:45 PM	Alpha Seminar: A Course for New Graduate Students in Statistics Christopher R Bilder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1:50 PM	'Quick Quizzes': A Simple Yet Powerful Learning Tool Elizabeth Jennings McGuffey, Rice University
1:55 PM	Encouraging and Enhancing the Power of Growth Mindset in Statistics Education Ramadha Piyadi Gamage, Western Washington University - Mathematics
2:00 PM	Incorporating Your Own Research in an Introductory Statistics Courses: A Case Study with Podcasts, Web Scraping, and Natural Language Processing Benjamin Williams, University of Denver; Alyssa Williams, University of Denver
2:05 PM	Resources for Teaching Causality in Introductory Statistics Courses Kevin Cummiskey, West Point; Krista Watts, West Point; Robert Lasater, West Point
2:10 PM	WITHDRAWN A Comparison of Online Versus In-Person Examination During the COVID-19 Pandemic Jeffrey Landgren, University of North Georgia
2:15 PM	Education and Pedagogy of Domain-Specific Learning Materials Using Learning Personas Daniel Chen, Virginia Tech; Anne Brown, Virginia Tech
2:20 PM	From Click to Code: Insights from Instructors and Students on Moving from SPSS to R in a Graduate-Level Applied Statistics Course Anthony Schmidt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Louis M Rocconi, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Austin Boyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2:30 PM	Ideas Toward Inclusion: Course Policies, Daily Questions, Biographies Matthew A Hawks, US Naval Academy
2:35 PM	Using Randomized Experiments and Common Midterm Questions to Elucidate Student Learning Trajectories from Simulation-Based Inference Curricula Beth Chance, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo; Soma Roy, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo; Karen McGaughey, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo; Nathan Tintle, Dordt University; Todd Swanson, Hope College; Jill VanderStoep, Hope College
2:40 PM	A Second Course in Data Science Rosanna Overholser, Oregon Institute of Technology; Cristina Negoita, Oregon Institute of Technology
2:45 PM	How to Implement and Assess Open-Ended Projects in an Introductory Statistics Classroom Presentation Allison Davidson, Muhlenberg College
2:50 PM	Strategies for Teaching Methods for Analyzing Data and the Necessary Computer-Based Programming to MPH Students Amanda Rae Ellis, University of Kentucky
2:55 PM	Building and Using Interactive R Tutorials: Experiences from a Categorical Data Analysis Course for Public Health Students Adam Ciarleglio, George Washington University
3:00 PM	Asking Great Questions: Part of a Theory of Communication in Interdisciplinary Collaborations Eric Alan Vance, LISA-University of Colorado Boulder; Heather Smith, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
3:10 PM	Incorporating Statistical Consulting in the Undergraduate Curriculum Wanchunzi Yu, Bridgewater State University; Kevin Rion, Bridgewater State University; Irina Seceleanu, Bridgewater State University
3:15 PM	Can Students Learn Statistics While Playing Games? A Regression Example Ginger Holmes Rowell, Middle Tennessee State University; Shonda Kuiper, Grinnell College; Rodney Sturdivant, Baylor; Andrew Zieffler, University of Minnesota

319	Wed, 8/11/2021, 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM	Virtual
SLDS CSpeed 6 — Contributed Speed
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science, Text Analysis Interest Group
Chair(s): Weijing Tang, University of Michigan
3:35 PM	Estimation of the Mean Function of Functional Data via Deep Neural Networks GUANQUN CAO, Auburn university; Shuoyang Wang, Auburn university; Zuofeng Shang, New Jersey Institute of Technology
3:40 PM	Nonlinear Functional Modeling Using Neural Networks Aniruddha Rajendra Rao, Pennsylvania State University; Matthew Reimherr, Penn State University
3:45 PM	Hyperparameter Optimization of Deep Neural Networks with Applications to Medical Device Manufacturing Gautham Sunder, Carlson School of Management; Christopher Nachtsheim, Carlson School of Management; Thomas Albrecht, Boston Scientific
3:50 PM	Deep Upper Confidence Bound Algorithm for Contextual Bandit Ranking of Information Selection Michael Rawson, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland at College Park; Jade Freeman, CCDC Army Research Laboratory
3:55 PM	Exploring Neural Networks' Ability to Generate Music NOAH Daniel SOLOMON, Bridgewater State University; Wanchunzi Yu, Bridgewater State University
4:00 PM	Efficient Path Following Algorithms and Its Applications to Case Influence Assessment Qiuyu Gu, The Ohio State University; Renxiong Liu, Ohio State University; Yunzhang Zhu, Ohio State University
4:05 PM	TensorFlow Versus H2O, Round 2: Predicting Currency Prices Kenneth Davis, Statistical Significance
4:10 PM	Low-Rank Matrix/Tensor Estimation via Riemannian Gauss-Newton: Statistical Optimality and Second-order Convergence Wen Huang, Xiamen University; Xudong Li, Fudan University; Anru Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Yuetian Luo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:15 PM	Using Machine Learning Techniques to Model Factors That Influence the Intent of a Person to Take a Coronavirus Test Sheila Rutto, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
4:20 PM	On the Algorithmic Stability of Adversarial Training Yue Xing, Purdue University; Qifan Song, Purdue University; Guang Cheng, Purdue University
4:30 PM	A Dynamical View on Optimization Algorithms of Overparameterized Neural Networks Presentation Zhiqi Bu, University of Pennsylvania; Shiyun Xu, University of Pennsylvania; Kan Chen, University of Pennsylvania
4:35 PM	WITHDRAWN: Fair Influence Maximization on Social Networks with Community Structure Octavio César Mesner, University of Michigan; Ji Zhu, University of Michigan; Liza Levina, University of Michigan
4:40 PM	Controlled Group Variable Selection Using Variational Autoencoder-Generated Knockoffs and Reproducibility Evaluation Xinran Qi, Medical College of Wisconsin
4:45 PM	Stability of Text Analytics and Topic Analysis: A Deeper Look at Popular Methods Presentation Mary Milam Whiteside, The University of Texas at Arlington; Mark E Eakin, The University of Texas at Arlington
4:50 PM	Testing Hypotheses in Agent-Based Models Georgiy Bobashev, RTI International; Hang Xiong, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
4:55 PM	WITHDRAWN: Stacked Models and the Explainability Tradeoff in Recommender Systems shaudi mahdavi hosseini, m.i.t.
5:00 PM	An Eigenmodel for Dynamic Multilayer Networks Joshua Daniel Loyal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Yuguo Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

320	Wed, 8/11/2021, 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM	Virtual
Electronic Health Records, Causal Inference and Miscellaneous — Contributed Speed
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, Text Analysis Interest Group
Chair(s): Charles Hall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
3:35 PM	Modified Cox Regression for Modeling Severe Liver Disease Outcomes and History of FIB4 Mulugeta Gebregziabher, MUSC; Jingwen Zhang, MUSC; Patrick Mauldin, MUSC; Andrew Schreiner, MUSC
3:40 PM	Application of the Knockoff Filter to Select Models for Automated Surveillance of Postoperative Infections Yaxu Zhuang, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Robert Meguid, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; William Henderson, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Adam Dyas, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Kathryn L Colborn, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
3:45 PM	Efficient and Robust Semi-Supervised Learning: Estimating ATE with Partially Annotated Treatment and Response Jue Hou, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Tianxi Cai, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Rajarshi Mukherjee, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3:50 PM	Detecting Data Entry Errors in Electronic Medical Records Using Basis Splines Daren Kuwaye, University of Iowa
3:55 PM	Cumulative Viral Load and Risk of Diabetes and Hypertension in People with HIV: An Analysis of Electronic Health Records Adovich Rivera, Northwestern University; Lauren Beach, Northwestern University; Juned Siddique, Northwestern University; Donald Lloyd-Jones, Northwestern University; Matthew Feinstein, Northwestern University
4:00 PM	Identifying COVID-19 Diagnoses Using Unstructured Electronic Health Records Benjamin Ackerman, Flatiron Health; James Roose, Flatiron Health; Shrujal Baxi, Flatiron Health; Patrick Gonzales, Flatiron Health; Sandra D. Griffith, Flatiron Health
4:05 PM	A Novel Semiparametric Approach to Analyzing Enriched Electronic Health Record Data Jill Schnall, University of Pennsylvania; Yizheng Wei, University of South Carolina; Yanyuan Ma, Penn State University; Ravi Parikh, University of Pennsylvania; Jinbo Chen, University of Pennsylvania
4:10 PM	Avoidance of Care: How Socioeconomic Inequities Impact COVID-19 Severity and Outcome Chinyere J Okpara, NYU Langone Health Long Island; Jasmin Divers, NYU Long Island School of Medicine; Megan D Winner, NYU Langone Health Long Island; Meredith Akerman, NYU Long Island School of Medicine; Shahidul Islam, NYU Long Island School of Medicine
4:15 PM	Double Sampling for Data Missing Not at Random: Designs and Efficient Estimation Strategies Alexander Levis, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Sebastien Haneuse, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
4:20 PM	Sensitivity Analysis in the Generalization of Experimental Results Melody Huang, UCLA
4:30 PM	Estimating Causal Measures Using a Generalized Difference-in-Difference Approach Marcelo Magalhaes Taddeo, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA); Leila Denise A. F. Amorim, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA); Rosana Aquino, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
4:35 PM	Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects for Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 Laine Thomas, Duke University, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
4:40 PM	Profile Matching for the Generalization and Personalization of Causal Inferences Presentation Eric Cohn, Harvard University; Jose Zubizarreta, Harvard University
4:45 PM	Trials of Targets Margret Erlendsdottir, Yale School of Public Health; Forrest W. Crawford, Yale University
4:50 PM	Power and Sample Size Calculation for Microbiome Epidemiology Meghan I. Short, Broad Institute; Emma Schwager, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Siyuan Ma, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Lauren McIver, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Jeremy E. Wilkinson, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Eric Franzosa, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
4:55 PM	Random Change-Point Non-linear Mixed Effects Model for left-censored longitudinal data: An application to HIV surveillance Binod Manandhar, City University of New York; Hongbin Zhang, City University of New York
5:00 PM	Design and Estimation for the Population Prevalence of Infectious Diseases with Limited Testing Resources Eric Oh, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia; Alyssa Mikytuck, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia; Vicki Lancaster, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia; Joshua Randall Goldstein, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia; Sallie Keller, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia
5:05 PM	Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Years of Potential Life Lost Attributable to COVID-19 in the United States: An Analysis of 45 States and the District of Columbia Jay J Xu, University of California, Los Angeles; Thomas R. Belin, UCLA FSPH
5:10 PM	Exploration of Covariate-Constrained Randomization for Cluster-Randomized Trials in Which Many Clusters Are Available Amy M. Crisp, University of Florida; Natalie Dean, University of Florida

345 * !	Thu, 8/12/2021, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM	Virtual
Advances in Macroeconomic Nowcasting and Forecasting: Role of Traditional and Nontraditional Indicators and Big Data — Topic-Contributed Papers
Business and Economic Statistics Section, Government Statistics Section, International Statistical Institute, Text Analysis Interest Group
Organizer(s): Baoline Chen, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Chair(s): Peter Zadrozny, Bureau of Labor Statistics
10:05 AM	Back to the Present: Learning About the Euro Area Through a Now-Casting Model Danilo Cascaldi-Garcia, Federal Reserve Board; Thiago R.T. Ferreira, Federal Reserve Board; Domenico Giannone, Amazon.com; Michele Modugno, Federal Reserve Board
10:25 AM	Nowcasting of Advanced Estimates of Quarterly US Private Consumption of Services with Traditional Indicators and Credit Card Payments Data Baoline Chen, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis; Kyle Hood, Bureau of Economic Analysis
10:45 AM	Using Cross-Temporal Hierarchies to Improve Forecasts from Large Data Sets Tommaso Di Fonzo, University of Padua; Daniele Girolimetto, University of Padua
11:05 AM	Are conflict and uncertainty measures useful for macroeconomic nowcasting? An application for Latin America Presentation Javier J. Perez, Bank of Spain; Hannes Mueller, Barcelona GSE; Marina Diakonova, Bank of Spain; Luis Molina, Bank of Spain; Christopher Rauh, University of Cambridge
11:25 AM	Nowcasting GDP in Real Time with a Tone-Adjusted, Time-Varying Layered Topic Model Jasper de Winter, De Nederlansche Bank
11:45 AM	Floor Discussion

384	Thu, 8/12/2021, 12:00 PM - 1:50 PM	Virtual
Next-Generation Sequencing and High-Dimensional Data — Contributed Speed
Biometrics Section, Text Analysis Interest Group
Chair(s): Arielle Kimberly Marks-Anglin, University of Pennsylvania
12:05 PM	Efficient Two-Stage Analysis Approaches for Complex Trait Association with Arbitrary Depth Sequencing Data Zheng Xu, Wright State University; Song Yan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Shuai Yuan, Marinus Pharmaceuticals; Zifang Guo, Merck & Co.; Yun Li, UNC-Chapel Hill
12:10 PM	Statistical Inference from Stem Cell Barcoding Data Using Adaptive Approximate Bayesian Computation Siyi Chen, Rice University; Marek Kimmel, Rice University; Katherine King, Baylor College of Medicine
12:15 PM	A Reduced Rank Regression Model for Microbiome Data Integration Ying Dai, Oregon State University; Duo Jiang, Oregon State University
12:20 PM	SUITOR: Selecting the Number of Mutational Signatures Through Cross-Validation DongHyuk Lee, National Cancer Institute; Difei Wang, National Cancer Institute; Xiaohong R. Yang, National Cancer Institute; Jianxin Shi, National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health; Maria T. Landi, National Cancer Institute; Bin Zhu, National Cancer Institute
12:25 PM	Copula Models for Temporally Conserved Microbial Interactions Rebecca A Deek, University of Pennsylvania; Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania
12:30 PM	An Approach to Summarize Biological Networks Thao Vu, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
12:35 PM	Detecting Differential Expressed/Spliced Transcripts That Are Associated with Continuous Clinical Covariates, Including Survival Time Huining Kang, Univeristy of New Mexico; Xichen Li, University of New Mexico
12:40 PM	Time-Varying Graphical Models for Microbiome Data Sarah Robinson, Rice University; Christine B. Peterson, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
12:45 PM	Enhancing Familial Relationship Inference in Admixed Populations Daniel Yorgov, Purdue Fort Wayne
12:50 PM	Backward Selection for RNA-Seq Differential Expression Analysis Using Pseudo-variables Yet Nguyen, Old Dominion University; Dan Nettleton, Iowa State University
1:00 PM	Tumor classification and survival estimation using metabolic activity scores from RNA sequencing data Jack Goodman, Frank H. Netter SOM; Marcus Alexander, Yale University
1:05 PM	Analyzing Dose Response Effects on Single Nuclei Gene Expression Data Satabdi Saha, Michigan State University; Samiran Sinha, Texas A&M University; Taps Maiti, Michigan State University; Rance Nault, Michigan State University; Sudin Bhattacharya, Michigan State University; Timothy Zacharewski, Michigan State University
1:10 PM	Statistical Methods for Mass Spectrometry Data SO YOUNG RYU, University of Nevada Reno; Sijia Qiu, University of Nevada Reno
1:15 PM	Logistic Tree Gaussian Processes (LoTGaP) for the Microbiome Morris Greenberg, Duke University; Li Ma, Duke University; Zhuoqun Wang, Duke University; Pulong Ma, Duke University / SAMSI; Anthony Sung, Duke University Hospital
1:20 PM	High-Sensitivity Pattern Discovery in Large, Paired Multi-Omic Data Sets Andrew Ghazi, Broad Institute; Kathleen Sucipto, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Gholamali Rahnavard, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Eric Franzosa, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Lauren McIver, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Jason Lloyd-Price, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Emma Schwager, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; George Weingart, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Yo Sup Moon, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Xochitl Morgan, University of Otago; Levi Waldron, CUNY Graduate school Public Health and Health Policy; Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
1:25 PM	Efficient Estimation of the Maximal Association Between Multiple Predictors and a Survival Outcome Tzu-Jung Huang, University of Washington; Alex Luedtke, University of Washington; Ian McKeague, Columbia University
1:30 PM	Extracting Actigraphy-Based Walking Features with Structured Functional Principal Components Verena Werkmann, Indiana University; Jaroslaw Harezlak, Indiana University; Nancy W. Glynn, University of Pittsburgh
1:35 PM	A Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Approach to Covariance Matrix Estimation Presentation Huiqin Xin, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sihai Dave Zhao, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1:40 PM	Variable Selection in Functional Logistic Regression Using Group LASSO James Cameron, George Mason University; Pramita Bagchi, George Mason University
1:45 PM	Graph-Based Trajectory Visualization for Text Mining of COVID-19 Biomedical Literature Yeseul Jeon, Yonsei University of Applied Statistics; Dongjun Chung, Ohio State University; Jina Park, Yonsei University of Applied Statistics; Ickhoon Jin, Yonsei university

389 * !	Thu, 8/12/2021, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	Virtual
Words and Insights via Text Analysis — Invited Papers
Text Analysis Interest Group, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science, Section on Statistical Computing
Organizer(s): Kelly H. Zou, Viatris
Chair(s): Kelly H. Zou, Viatris
2:05 PM	Topic-Adjusted Visibility Metric for Scientific Articles Tian Zheng, Columbia University; Linda S. L. Tan, National University of Singapore
2:30 PM	Measuring the Impact of Behavior Change Interventions Using Free-Text Michael Baiocchi, Stanford University; Jordan Rodu, University of Virginia
2:55 PM	Transfer Learning for Latent Dirichlet Allocation Presentation Tommy W Jones, In-Q-Tel
3:20 PM	Text Analysis for Topic Discovery with Applications for Cross-Reference, Summarization, and Optimized Recommended Reading List Michael Henderson; Jesse Behrens, SAS
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

433 *	Thu, 8/12/2021, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	Virtual
Statistical Approaches in Text Analysis — Topic-Contributed Papers
Text Analysis Interest Group
Organizer(s): Jordan Rodu, University of Virginia
Chair(s): Jared Murray, University of Texas
4:05 PM	Minimizing Conflicts of Interest: Optimizing the JSM Program David Banks, Duke University & SAMSI; Qiuyi Wu, University of Rochester; Luca Frigau, University of Cagliari
4:25 PM	Grains and Brains: An Introduction to Text Regression Using Beer and Television Reviews Michael Crotty, JMP; Clay Barker, JMP
4:45 PM	NukeLM: Pre-Trained and Fine-Tuned Language Models for the Nuclear and Energy Domains Daniel Fortin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Lee Burke, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Karl Pazdernik, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Benjamin Wilson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Rustam Goychayev, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; John Mattingly, North Carolina State University
5:05 PM	On the Need for More Statistics in Text Analysis, with Recent Advances Jordan Rodu, University of Virginia; Michael Baiocchi, Stanford University
5:25 PM	Discussant: Richard Ross, University of Virginia
5:45 PM	Floor Discussion

439	Thu, 8/12/2021, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	Virtual
Topics in Marketing — Contributed Speed
Section on Statistics in Marketing, Text Analysis Interest Group
Chair(s): Liu Liu, University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business
4:05 PM	Capturing Heterogeneity Among Consumers with Multi-Taste Preferences Liu Liu, University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business; Daria Dzyabura, New Economics School
4:10 PM	CATA Data: Are There Differences in Perception? Presentation Fabien Llobell, Addinsoft, XLSTAT; Davide Giacalone, University of Southern Denmark; Sara R. Jaeger, The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited; El Mostafa Qannari, StatSC, ONIRIS, INRAE, Nantes, France.
4:15 PM	Data Visualization for Exploratory Factor Analysis Nivedita Bhaktha, GESIS
4:20 PM	Data Storytelling for Empowering Your Customers and Members John VanderPloeg, Chicago Chapter of ASA; John Lee, Chicago Chapter of ASA
4:25 PM	Relaxing Functional Form in Choice Models Through Gaussian Processes Samuel I Levy, Carnegie Mellon University; Richard Mirman, Dynamic Loyalty Systems Inc.; Alan Montgomery, Carnegie Mellon University
4:30 PM	Bayesian Modeling of Marketing Attribution Ritwik Sinha, Adobe Research; David Arbour, Adobe Research; Aahlad Manas Puli, New York University
4:35 PM	Modeling Time-to-Event Marketing Data: Accelerated Failure Time Model with Cure Fraction Han Wu, Amazon; Vanja Dukic, Amazon
4:40 PM	How Has COVID-19 Impacted Customer Relationship Dynamics at Food Delivery Businesses? Daniel Minh McCarthy, Emory University; Elliot Shin Oblander, Columbia University
4:45 PM	Testing New Versions of the Wage Phillips Curve in the MeMo-It Model Used by Istat Deborah Scaccabarozzi, University of Bergamo; Daniele Toninelli, University of Bergamo; Davide Zurlo, Istat; Fabio Bacchini, Istat; Roberto Iannaccone, Istat
4:50 PM	A Representative Sampling Method for Causal Inference in Social Network Experiments Yanyan Li, University of Southern California; Qing Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sha Yang, University of Southern California
5:00 PM	Shocks, Bubbles, and Crashes in Cryptocurrency Market Min Shu, University of Wisconsin Stout; Ruiqiang Song, Michigan Technological University
5:05 PM	Causal Inference and Machine Learning Techniques for Outbound Calls Strategy Victor S.Y. Lo, Fidelity Investments; Zhuang Li, Fidelity Investments
5:10 PM	Modeling Corporate Culture Willi Cipolli, Colgate University
5:15 PM	The Stories They Tell: My Interactions with the Business and How Storytelling Creates Leaders Ben Barnard, Wells Fargo
5:20 PM	Diagnosis of Bubbles and Crashes in Cryptocurrency Market Based on the Generalized Metcalfe’s Law and the Log-Periodic Power Law Singularity Model Min Shu, University of Wisconsin Stout; Ruiqiang Song, Michigan Technological University
5:25 PM	Modeling Tourists' Length of Overnight Stay in Pokhara, Nepal: Zero-Truncated Negative Binomial and Ordinary Least Square Regression Approach Presentation Nirajan Bam, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, USA
5:30 PM	Model Selection to Forecast the Trend of COVID-19 for the Counties Near Houston, Texas Presentation YOONSUNG JUNG, Prairie View A&M University
5:35 PM	Causal Mediation Analysis with Three Mediators Where Causally Independent and Dependent Mediators Coexist Youngho Bae, Sungkyunkwan University; Chanmin Kim, Sungkyunkwan University
5:40 PM	AN UNBIASED REGRESSION TYPE ESTIMATOR OF PROPORTION IN RANDOMIZED RESPONSE SAMPLING BY USING ANOVA MECHANISM Daryan Naatjes, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Stephen A. Sedory, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Sarjinder Singh, Texas A&M University -Kingsville

5:45 PM	Floor Discussion

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