From Compositional Microbiome Data to Longitudinal Biomarker Analysis: Cutting-Edge Statistical Methods -- JSM 2025

Bayesian GLMs for Analyzing Compositional and Sub-compositional Microbiome Data via EM Algorithm

8:35 AM - 8:50 AM

Co-authors: Li Zhang (Fox Chase Cancer Center), ZHENYING DING (UAB), Li Zhang (Fox Chase Cancer Center), Jinhong Cui (UAB), Xiaoxiao Zhou (Duke University), Nengjun Yi (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

Bayesian GLMs Compositional data EM algorithm Microbiome Sum-to-zero constraint Spike-and-slab priors

Bayesian Survival Analysis for High-Dimensional Compositional Data

8:50 AM - 9:05 AM

Co-authors: ZHENYING DING (UAB), Nengjun Yi (University of Alabama at Birmingham), ZHENYING DING (UAB)

Survival analysis High-dimensional Compositional Horseshoe prior MCMC Soft sum-to-zero constrain

Beyond fixed thresholds: optimizing summaries of wearable device data

9:05 AM - 9:20 AM

Co-authors: Junyoung Park (University of Michigan), Junyoung Park (University of Michigan), Neo Kok (University of Michigan), Irina Gaynanova (University of Michigan)

Amalgamation Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)Histogram Time-in-Range (TIR)Piecewise linearization Wasserstein distance

Estimation and Inference in Cluster Randomized Trials with Few Large Clusters for Binary Outcomes

9:20 AM - 9:35 AM

Co-authors: Zachary Frere, Zachary Frere, Donna Spiegelman (Yale School of Public Health), Fan Li (Yale School of Public Health)

Cluster Randomized Trials Multilevel Models Type I Error Simulation Study Few Clusters Inference

Frequency Band Analysis of Multiple Stationary Time Series

9:35 AM - 9:50 AM

Co-authors: Connor Brubaker (Texas A&M University), Jack Manning (Texas A&M University), Scott Bruce (Texas A&M University), Jennifer Yentes (Texas A&M University)

Spectral analysis Cluster validation Evolutionary algorithm Multitaper estimation Gait variability Stride interval

Joint Modeling of Multiple Longitudinal Biomarkers and Survival Outcome via Threshold Regression

9:50 AM - 10:05 AM

Co-authors: Mingyan Yu, Mingyan Yu, Zhenke Wu (University of Michigan), Michael Elliott (University of Michigan), Sioban Harlow (University of Michigan), Carrie Karvonen-Gutierrez (University of Michigan), Michelle Hood (University of Michigan)

Bayesian hierarchical model Multiple biomarkers Variability Limit of detection Time-to-event outcomes Threshold regression

Variable Weighted Random Forest for Two-Phase Case-Control Studies

10:05 AM - 10:20 AM

Co-authors: Sunwoo Han (University of Miami), Sunwoo Han (University of Miami), Yunbi Nam (Vanderbilt University), Youyi Fong (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)

Variable weighted random forest Two-phase case-control study HIV

From Compositional Microbiome Data to Longitudinal Biomarker Analysis: Cutting-Edge Statistical Methods

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