Contributed Sessions

Monday, July 17, 2006

M3 - Latent Variable Methods
10:15 AM	M03.1- Latent Trajectory Modelling of Multiple Binary Data K.J. Beath
10:30 AM	M03.2- Assessment of the Diagnostic Tests by Gee and Latent Class Modeling R. Burgut
10:45 AM	M03.3- A Comparison of Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Binary Repeated Measures Data E. Masaoud
11:00 AM	M03.4- Using Latent Class Model for Evaluating the Performance of Diagnostic Tests in Absence of a Gold Standard: A Simulation Study E.A. Kanik
11:15 AM	M03.5- Genetic Association in Case-Control Studies - A Latent Variable Method T. Wang
11:30 AM	M03.6- Fuzzy P-Values and Permutation Tests for Genetic Linkage E.A. Thompson
11:45 AM	M03.7- Modeling Asymmetric Bivariate Ordered Categorical Data Using a Generalization of Gumbel's Bivariate Logistic Distribution M. Salehi
M4 - Survival Analysis I
10:15 AM	M04.1- Empirical Likelihood Inference for Censored Median Regression with Weighted Hazard Functions Y. Zhao
10:30 AM	M04.2- Cox Regression Analysis in Presence of Collinearity: An application to Assessment of Health Risks Associated with Occupational Radiation Exposure X. Xue
10:45 AM	M04.3- A New Semiparametric Estimation Method for the Accelerated Failure Time Mixture Cure Model J. Zhang
11:00 AM	M04.4- Constructing Multivariate Prognostic Expression Profiles for Survival Endpoints D.R. Peterson
11:15 AM	M04.5- Delineating the Effects of Misspecification in a Lifetime Censored Regression Model M.S. Hossain
11:30 AM	M04.6- Using the Log-normal Distribution to Model Survival Data A. Salter
M5 - Ecological Research
10:15 AM	M05.1- Not All Who Wander are Lost: Detecting Migration Patterns of Wild Rats in New Zealand Using Genetic Distance Measures S.D. Miller
10:30 AM	M05.2- Survival and Cumulative Reproduction in Female Red Deer K. Moyes
10:45 AM	M05.3- Zero-Inflated Regression for Modeling Species Abundance in Relation to Habitat: A Bayesian Approach M.A. Rodríguez
11:00 AM	M05.4- Bayesian Modelling with Informative Priors for Ecological Applications S. Low Choy
11:15 AM	M05.5- Direct Methods for Computing Perturbation Analyses, with Application to the Long-Lived Perennial Orchid Himantoglossum Hircinum D. Miller
11:30 AM	M05.6- A Probabilistic Approach to the Estimation of the Magnitude of Stochastic Factors and the Strength of Species Interactions in Community Dynamics C.M. Mutshinda
11:45 AM	M05.7- Fisher's Alpha Index of Biodiversity: 1943--2005 G.P.H. Styan
M6 - Clinical Trials I
10:15 AM	M06.1- Preference-Based Analysis of Treatment Acceptability and Effect in Randomised Trials S.D. Walter
10:30 AM	M06.2- Designing Clinical Trials to Reduce Subjects' Inconvenience and to Allow Flexible Sampling O. Volkov
10:45 AM	M06.3- Genetic Randomization as a Prerequisite for Survival Comparison between Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation and Conservative Drug Treatment M. Pfirrmann
11:00 AM	M06.4- The Importance of Baseline Data in Clinical Trials H.C.M. van der Knaap
11:15 AM	M06.5- Analysis of Stratified Multi-centre Trials with Small Centres Sizes R.M. Pickering
11:30 AM	M06.6- Developing Individualized Efficacy Measures for Clinical Trials D.A. Schoenfeld
M9 - Computational Methods
1:00 PM	M09.1- Selection of Artificial Neural Network Models for Survival Data F. Ambrogi
1:15 PM	M09.2- Using the r-th Order Univariate Hermite Distributions to Analyze Count Data Sets. Some Applications in Agriculture P. Puig
1:30 PM	M09.3- Predicting Functional Independence after Stroke: Logistic Regression Versus Random Forests I.R. König
1:45 PM	M09.4- PRIM-RPCA: A Novel Recursive Bump Hunting Strategy for High Dimensional Data J-E. Dazard
2:00 PM	M09.5- A Recursive Partitioning Procedure to Explore Short Term Effects of Weather on Health R. Miglio
2:15 PM	M09.6- Hurricane Track Prediction: A Density-based Combining Model P. Agati
2:30 PM	M09.7- Biometrics Signal Processing Using FPGA V. Shukla
M10 - Advances In Regression Methods
1:00 PM	M10.1- A Comparison of Classification and Regression Trees (CART), Logistic Regression, Generalized Additive Models, and Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) for Predicting AMI Mortality P.C. Austin
1:15 PM	M10.2- Constraint Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Relative Risks in a Binomial Regression Model J. Wellmann
1:30 PM	M10.3- Statistical Analysis of Olfactometer Data I. Ricard
1:45 PM	M10.4- Poisson Regression when Response Variable Contains Extra Adjustment Error R. Song
2:00 PM	M10.5- Segmented Regression: Some Methods and Case Studies F. Potter
2:15 PM	M10.6- Semiparametric Transformation for Non-linear Regression Model M. Ito
2:30 PM	M10.7- How to Identify Statistically Significant among Several Putative, Inter-Correlated Interactions? M. Abrahamowicz
M11 - Pharmaceutical Applications
1:00 PM	M11.1- A General Technique for Setting Specification Limits in Stability Studies J. Wroughton
1:15 PM	M11.2- Calibrating the Concentration from a Serial Dilution Process J.J.Z. Liao
1:30 PM	M11.3- Smoothing Techniques for Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Profiles (with Conservation of the AUC) N.M. Khutoryansky
1:45 PM	M11.4- In-Study Validation Methods for Biomolecular Screening Assays B.J. Eastwood
2:00 PM	M11.5- Statistical Estimation of Drug-Receptor Model Parameters; Comparing the Performances of Traditional Methods with a Nonlinear Least Square Method Y. Aoki
2:15 PM	M11.6- A New Approach of Diurnal Variation Analysis of Intraocular Pressure in Normal-Tension Glaucoma Using Circular Nonlinear Mixed Effect Model H. Suganami
M12 - Mixed Effects Modelling
1:00 PM	M12.1- Type I and Type II Error under Random-Effects Misspecification in Generalized Linear Mixed Models S. Litière
1:15 PM	M12.2- Multidimensional P-spline Mixed Models: A Computationally Efficient Method M. Durban
1:30 PM	M12.3- Modelling Variances with Random Effects in Non Linear Mixed Models with an Example in Growth Curve Analysis J.L. Foulley
1:45 PM	M12.4- Mixed-PLS Models to Predict Genotype x Environment Interaction I. Dieng
2:00 PM	M12.5- Modeling for Extra-regression Variability in Generalized Linear Mixed Models M.E. Nja
2:15 PM	M12.6- Modelling the Random Effects Covariance Matrix in the Generalized Additive Mixed Model E. Tan
2:30 PM	M12.7- Nonlinear Mixed Effect Modelling for Improving Site-Specific Prediction of Dominant Height Growth of Eucalyptus Globulus Plantations Y. Wang
M15 - Meta-Analysis I
3:15 PM	M15.1- Methods for Combining Individual Patient Data and Aggregate Data in Evidence Synthesis R.D. Riley
3:30 PM	M15.2- Correlations in Multivariate Meta-Analyses: What Associations are Being Measured? K. Ishak
3:45 PM	M15.3- Confidence Intervals and P-values for Meta Analysis with Publication Bias M.D. Henmi
4:00 PM	M15.4- One-Stage Parametric Meta-Analysis of Time-to-Event Outcomes Using Individual Patients Data F. Siannis
4:15 PM	M15.5- Meta-analysis and the Reversed Theorem of the Means M.D. deB. Edwardes
4:30 PM	M15.6- An Asymptotic Correction for the Egger Test in Meta-Analysis C. Lozada-Can
4:45 PM	M15.7- Detecting Outliers in Meta Analysis Using Likelihood Functions as Functions M. Brimacombe
M16 - Missing Data Methods
3:15 PM	M16.1- Analysing Longitudinal Quality of Life Data with Missing Data due to Disease Progression and Death S. Le Cessie
3:30 PM	M16.2- Indirect Missingness Mechanisms in a Selection Model H. Thijs
3:45 PM	M16.3- Robust Likelihood-based Analysis of Longitudinal Data with Missing Values R. Little
4:00 PM	M16.4- Dynamic Linear Models for Informatively Censored Longitudinal Data D.M. Farewell
4:15 PM	M16.5- Analysis of Experiments with a One-Way Design in the Presence of Censored Data L.J. Young
4:30 PM	M16.6- Maximum Likelihood Computation for Retrospective Sampling and Missing Data Problems C.J. Wild
4:45 PM	M16.7- Methods for Handling Covariate Data Missing by Design in Prognostic Studies R. Sutradhar
M17- Spatial Modelling I
3:15 PM	M17.1- Detection of Geographic Clusters of Events R.J. Rosychuk
3:30 PM	M17.2- A Spatio-Temporal Susceptible-Infected Model for Longitudinal Binary Data P.E. Brown
3:45 PM	M17.3- Bayesian Modelling of Disease Rates E. Amiri
4:00 PM	M17.4- Semiparametric Composite Likelihood Inference in Spatial Generalized Linear Mixed Models T.V. Apanasovich
4:15 PM	M17.5- Behaviour of a Correlation Coefficient Estimator for Misaligned Data in Spatial Context N. Desassis
4:30 PM	M17.6- Spatial Smoothing Technique in Field Experiments C.T. Jose
4:45 PM	M17.7- GIS Modelling of the Distribution of Mosquito/Larvae Repellant Plant Species in Kenya for Conservation Purpose F.W. Kahora
M18 - Experimental Design
3:15 PM	M18.1- Bayesian Optimal Design for the Exponential Family Single Path Change Point Problem J. Atherton
3:30 PM	M18.2- A Planning-Tool for Logistic Two-phase Studies W. Schill
3:45 PM	M18.3- Randomized Discontinuation Trials with Binary Responses: Design and Analysis V. Fedorov
4:00 PM	M18.4- Restricted Randomization-Based Inference in Randomized Controlled Trials T. Hasegawa
4:15 PM	M18.5- How to Make Inference from Experiments Conducted on Populations with Different Disease Determinants S.D. Mark
4:30 PM	M18.6- A-optimal Block Designs for 22 Factorial Experiments with 00 Censored A. Gerami*
4:45 PM	M18.7- Optimal Designs for Logistic Regression with a First Order Linear Predictor K.G. Russell

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

T3 - Mixture Modelling
8:00 AM	T03.1- Multivariate Mixture Models to Describe Longitudinal Patterns of Frailty in American Seniors J.T. Connor
8:15 AM	T03.2- A New Variant of the EM-Algorithm for Population Pharmacokinetic Analysis P. Schlattmann
8:15 AM	T03.3- A Simple Procedure for Fitting Two-component Normal Mixture to a Given Data Set A. Hussein
8:45 AM	T03.4- On Mixture Models for Detecting Differentially Expressed Genes in Macroarrays Data C. Delmas
9:00 AM	T03.5- Bayesian Mixture Models for Analysis of Time Series of Satellite Imagery: Monitoring Water Quality Measures C.L. Alston
9:15 AM	T03.6- Rejection Sampling for Mixture Models H. Dai
9:30 AM	T03.7- Estimation of Selective Pressures using Mixture Models D.A.J. Ryan
T4 - Diagnostic And Screening Tests
8:00 AM	T04.1- Evaluating the Predictiveness of a Marker M. Sullivan Pepe
8:15 AM	T04.2- Nonparametric Estimation of Time-dependent ROC Curves L. Antolini
8:30 AM	T04.3- Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian Estimation in Latent Class Models for Evaluation of Several Conditionally Dependent Diagnostic Tests H. Stryhn
8:45 AM	T04.4- Evaluation of Multi-reader Permutation Procedures to Compare the Areas under Two ROC Curves H.E. Rockette
9:00 AM	T04.5- Recent Developments in the Dorfman-Berbaum-Metz (DBM) Procedure for Multireader ROC Study Analysis S.L. Hillis
9:15 AM	T04.6- Multiple Imputation for the Comparison of Two Screening Tests in Two-Phase Alzheimer Studies O. Harel
9:30 AM	T04.7- Design, Ethical and Statistical Challenges when Studying the Performance of New Screening Tests for Cervical Cancer M.-H. Mayrand
T5 - Quatitative Methods in Agriculture
8:00 AM	T05.1- Comparison of the Abundance of Non-target Species in Field Trials for Genetically Modified Varieties - A Confidence Interval Approach in the Generalized Linear Model F. Schaarschmidt
8:15 AM	T05.2- Some Hiccups in Statistical Analysis of Soil Fertility Data P.M. Njuho
8:30 AM	T05.3- The Analysis of Multi-environment Trials in Crop Breeding Programs under Differing Models for Genetic Variance A.M. Kelly
8:45 AM	T05.4- Women and Men Choosing their Prefered Maize Varieties: Modelling Variety Ranks on Criteria Rankings E. Obudho
9:00 AM	T05.5- Examination of Some Variance Components of N-Alkane Estimated Intake and Digestibility in Cattle Grazing on Kikuyu (Pennisetum Clandestium) Pasture B. Kachigunda
9:15 AM	T05.6- Non-Linear Models for Growth Curve of Nigeria Local Chickens S.O. Peters
9:30 AM	T05.7- Function Analysis of the Lactation Curve of White Fulani Cows M.O. Ozoje
T6 - Epidemiological Methods
8:00 AM	T06.1- Estimating the Risk of Secondary Transmission of vCJD: A Hidden Markov Model Approach M. Chadeau-Hyam
8:15 AM	T06.2- Mathematical Modelling of Within-field Propagation of a Disease and its Insect Vector J. Vaillant
8:30 AM	T06.3- Robustness of Prevalence Estimates Derived from Misclassified Data from Administrative Databases M. Ladouceur
8:45 AM	T06.4- Estimation of Gap-Time Distribution with Recurrent Event Data under an Informative Monitoring Period A. Adekpedjou
9:00 AM	T06.5- Gradients and Odds Ratios J.W. Drane
9:15 AM	T06.6- Some Often Forgotten Issues in Statistics Applied to Epidemiology Ch.E. Minder
9:30 AM	T06.7- Testing for Additive Gene-Environment Interaction F. Chen
T9 - Medical Surveillance And Monitoring
10:15 AM	T09.1- Composite Tests Using Matrix Pooling: Minimizing Costs, Maximizing Results B. Hedt
10:30 AM	T09.2- Optimized Frequency of Post-Therapeutic Follow-Up Visits T. Filleron
10:45 AM	T09.3- Combining HIV and AIDS Surveillance Data to Reconstruct HIV/AIDS Epidemics A. Alioum
11:00 AM	T09.4- Survival Extrapolation in Cost-Effectiveness Studies N. Demiris
11:15 AM	T09.5- Improving Interpretability of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) through Appropriate Statistical Methods: Case Studies from the Smallholder Rubber Sector of Sri Lanka W. Wijesuriya
11:30 AM	T09.6- A Flexible Space-Time Scan Statistic for Disease Outbreak Detection K. Takahashi
11:45 AM	T09.7- Simple Measures for Reporting the Magnitude of Small Area Variation in Rates B.N. Murthy
T10 - Pattern Recognition
10:15 AM	T10.1- Iris Segmentation in Human Eye Images A. Basit
10:30 AM	T10.2- Iris Recognition using Corner Detection P. Gupta
10:45 AM	T10.3- An Improved Iris Recognition System Using Zigzag Collarette Area and Support Vector Machines K. Roy
11:00 AM	T10.4- Improving Keystroke Dynamics User Authentication Identifying Discriminating Features F.A.B. Colugnati
11:15 AM	T10.5- Keystroke Biometric Recognition Studies on Long-Text Input over the Internet C. Tappert
11:30 AM	T10.6- A Method for Creating a 3D Face Image from a 2D Face Image S. Morgera
11:45 AM	T10.7- A Statistical Biometric View of Biometric Authentication/Identification P.B. Imrey
T11 - Causal Inference
10:15 AM	T11.1- More Realistic Assumptions for Controlling Confounding in Observational Studies of Time-Varying Exposures M.M. Joffe
10:30 AM	T11.2- Estimating Treatment Effect Heterogeneity for Binary Clustered Data E.J. Mascha
10:45 AM	T11.3- Estimation of Treatment Effect Adjusting for Non-Compliance Using the Intensity Score Method - An Application to a Large Primary Prevention Study for Coronary Events Y. Tanaka
11:00 AM	T11.4- Utilizing Propensity Scores to Estimate Causal Effect in Randomized Clinical Trials with All-or-None Compliance T. Guo
11:15 AM	T11.5- Effect of Age on Fecundability: An Illustration of Differences between Longitudinal and Transversal Measurements M. Chavance
11:30 AM	T11.6- The Complier-Average Causal Effect (CACE) of Psychological Treatment for Depression M. Maracy
11:45 AM	T11.7- Causal Analyses of Censored Survival Data with Time-Varying Treatment S.J. Bond
T12 - Clinical Trials II
10:15 AM	T12.1- Simultaneously Optimizing Dose and Schedule of a New Cytotoxic Agent T.M. Braun
10:30 AM	T12.2- An Experimental Design for Clinical Trials Evaluating Combination Agents C.E. McLaren
10:45 AM	T12.3- Design and Analysis of Crossover Clinical Trials with Censored Survival Data H.H. Song
11:00 AM	T12.4- Nonparametric Inference of Adverse Events under Dependent Censoring M. Nishikawa
11:15 AM	T12.5- Efficiency of Enrichment Designs in Phase II/III Combination Studies C. Chen
11:30 AM	T12.6- Planning for Clinical Trials from Phase II to Phase III: Combine or not to Combine S.J. Wang
11:45 AM	T12.7- Sample Size Calculation for Multicenter Randomized Trial: Taking the Center Effect into Account E. Vierron
T15 - Spatial Modelling II
1:00 PM	T15.1- Posterior Probability in the Analysis of Hospital Dependent Spatial Variation of Health Care Supply V. Barbieri
1:15 PM	T15.2- Misspecified Spatial Structure of Residuals in Ecological Poisson Regression A. Latouche
1:30 PM	T15.3- Joint Disease Mapping in Veterinary Epidemiology: A Multivariate Bayesian Geostatistical Approach E. Dreassi
1:45 PM	T15.4- Non-nested Geographical Scales in Ecological Poisson Regression Models L. Fortunato
2:00 PM	T15.5- Comparing Spatial Models for Data Given on Disparate Scales: A Study Relating Childhood Leukaemia to Benzene Emissions S. Sturtz
2:15 PM	T15.6- The Usefulness of Some Soil Properties and Plant Traits for the Estimation of Spatial Variation in a 3(5) Field Experiment with Pea J. Golaszewski**
2:30 PM	T15.7- A Class of Tests for Spatial Clustering of Health Events Based on Case-Control Point Data T. Tango
T16 - Survival Analysis II
1:00 PM	T16.1- Patient Trajectories as Predictors of Survival L. Billard
1:15 PM	T16.2- Comparison of Algorithms to Generate Event Times Conditional on Time-Dependent Covariates M.-P. Sylvestre
1:30 PM	T16.3- On the Use of Fractional Polynomials to Model Time-varying Effects in the Cox Model W. Sauerbrei
1:45 PM	T16.4- Analysis of Interval-censored Data from Circular Migrant and Non-migrant Sexual Partnerships Using the EM Algorithm K. Zuma
2:00 PM	T16.5- Truncated Probability Models of Age Dependent First Conception Delay and their Applications to Estimate Fertility Parameters D.C. Nath
2:15 PM	T16.6- Response-adaptive Randomization for Clinical Trials with Survival Time Outcomes L. Zhang
2:30 PM	T16.7- Non-Ignorable Missing Covariate Data in Parametric Survival Models K.L. Boyd
T17 - Field Trial Design
1:00 PM	T17.1- Rectangular Experiments: Restricted Randomization or Row-Column Designs? R.A. Bailey
1:15 PM	T17.2- Control Treatments in Agricultural Experiments with Split Units S. Mejza
1:30 PM	T17.3- Neighbour Methods for Field Experiments under Spatial Dependence J.A. Eccleston
1:45 PM	T17.4- Strengths and Limitations of Mega-Environment Identification Using GGE Biplots Model S. Tzortzios
2:00 PM	T17.5- On New Measures of Sustainability S. Basak
2:15 PM	T17.6- Determination of Optimum Shape and Size of Plots - A New Method S. Pal
2:30 PM	T17.7- Construction of Unreplicated, Spatial and Crossover Designs using CYCDesign E.R. Williams
T18 - Microarray Data I
1:00 PM	T18.1- Multidimensional Local False Discovery Rate for Microarray Studies A. Ploner
1:15 PM	T18.2- Instability of False Discovery Rate Estimation from Microarray Gene Expression Data X. Qiu
1:30 PM	T18.3- Testing for Differentially Expressed Pathways in Microarray Experiments A.K.K. Strandberg
1:45 PM	T18.4- Risks and Benefits of Pooling Biological Samples in Gene Expression Studies L. Edler
2:00 PM	T18.5- Deconfounding Microarray Analysis: Independent Measurements of Cell Type Proportions Used in a Regression Model to Resolve Tissue Heterogeneity Bias A. Ziegler
2:15 PM	T18.6- Signal Quality Measurements for cDNA Microarrays T.L. Bergemann
2:30 PM	T18.7- On the Stability of Gene Expression Profiles Derived via Sparse Penalised Likelihood Methods: A Case Study M. Zucknick
T21 - Nonparametric Methods
3:15 PM	T21.1- Choosing the Optimal Size of Multivariate Regression Trees (MRT) M.-H. Ouellette
3:30 PM	T21.2- Nonparametric Error-in-Variables Quantile Regression A.L. Rojas
3:45 PM	T21.3- Rates for Nonparametric Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Log-Concave Densities M.I. Stewart
4:00 PM	T21.4- Nonparametric Tests for Dependent Observations Obtained at Varying Time Points S. May
4:15 PM	T21.5- Rank-based Regression for Analysis of Repeated Measures Y.-G. Wang
4:30 PM	T21.6- Testing for Multiple Change Points under Umbrella Alternatives F. Al-Awadhi
4:45 PM	T21.7- A Lego System for Conditional Inference T. Hothorn
T22 - Dose Finding And Dose-Response Models
3:15 PM	T22.1- Estimating the Dose Response Patterns in a Phase 2 Clinical Trial C. Hirotsu
3:30 PM	T22.2- Bayesian Approaches to Dose-response Calibration Models B. Shafii
3:45 PM	T22.3- Dose-Finding in Phase I Clinical Trials Based on Toxicity Probability Intervals Y. Ji
4:00 PM	T22.4- Adaptive Model-Based Approach for Designing Dose-Finding Studies V. Dragalin
4:15 PM	T22.5- Gatekeeping Procedures for Dose Finding with Multiple Endpoints A.C. Tamhane
4:30 PM	T22.6- Asymmetry in the Dose Response Curve in Relation to the Four Parameter Logistic Model A. Manola
4:45 PM	T22.7- Semiparametric Modelling of a Dose-Response Relationship in the Treatment of Childhood Amblyopia D.A. Stephens
T23 - Estimation Methods For Correlated Data
3:15 PM	T23.1- Generalized Linear Mixed Models with Sparse Binary Outcome Data: Comparison of Estimation Methods M.-E. Beauchamp
3:30 PM	T23.2- The Reliability of Approximate Likelihood Techniques for GLMMs D. Collins
4:15 PM	T23.3- Mixture Spatio-Temporal Modelling Using Biological Population Data G. Tsiotas
3:45 PM	T23.4- REML Estimation of Variance Parameters in Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models Using the SAEM Algorithm C. Meza
4:00 PM	T23.5- Estimating Correlation with Multiply Censored Data E.A.C. Newton
4:30 PM	T23.6- A Simulation-Based Comparison of Methods for Analysing Binary Outcomes from Cluster Randomised Trials O.C. Ukoumunne
4:45 PM	T23.7- Applications of Linear Mixed Models Diagnostics T. Zewotir
T24 - Genomics and Proteomics
3:15 PM	T24.1- Accounting for Dependence in Similarity Data from DNA Fingerprinting G. Hepworth
3:30 PM	T24.2- Poisson Approximation Based Monoisotopic Peak Finding in Mass Spectra Obtained by Combined Fractional Diagonal Chromatography T. Burzykowski
3:45 PM	T24.3- Modelling Peak Intensities from Mass Spectrometry Proteomic Profiles using Zero-modified Distributions J.H. Barrett
4:00 PM	T24.4- Making Sense of Two-Dimensional Gel Images F. Seillier-Moiseiwitsch
4:15 PM	T24.5- A Moving-Window Goodness-of-fit Test to Detect Horizontal Gene Transfer O. Thas
4:30 PM	T24.6- Genomic Instability Measures Following Array CGH R.A. Betensky
4:45 PM	T24.7- Nonparametric Statistical Method for Partial Areas under Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves, with Application to Genomic Studies Y. He

Thursday, July 20, 2006

TH3 - Model Uncertainty And Diagnostics
8:00 AM	TH03.1- Bias of Dimension Estimator Using Penalized Likelihood Methods P. Salzman
8:15 AM	TH03.2- Bayesian Model Comparison Using the Posterior Deviance C. Liu
8:30 AM	TH03.3- Interest of the Interacting Particle Filter for Updating Dynamic Crop Model Prediction C. Naud
8:45 AM	TH03.4- Full and Conditional Likelihood Approaches to Inference in the Presence of Selection Bias J. Bowden
9:00 AM	TH03.5- Semiparametric Models and Sensitivity Analysis of Longitudinal Data with Non-Random Dropouts D. Todem
9:15 AM	TH03.6- Correcting for Model Uncertainty when using Fractional Polynomials to Estimate a Safe Level of Exposure C. Faes
9:30 AM	TH03.7- Effects of Noise in Performance Comparisons of Designs for Model Identification and Discrimination Y. Luan
TH4 - Multiple Testing
8:00 AM	TH04.1- Simultaneous Inference for Ratios of Coefficients in the General Linear Model G. Dilba
8:15 AM	TH04.2- Powerful Short-Cut Procedures for Gatekeeping Strategies G. Hommel
8:30 AM	TH04.3- The Calculation of Singular Multivariate Normal Distribution Functions T. Miwa
8:45 AM	TH04.4- DNA-Motif Identification under Various Kinds of Order Restriction Using Multiple Contrasts X. Mi
9:00 AM	TH04.5- Making One-Sided Inferences in Two-Sided Multiple Significance Testing: Do We, Need We, Control the Family-Wise-Error Rate? M. Hudson
9:15 AM	TH04.6- Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Assessment of Steady State G. Jiang
TH5 - Epidemiological Research I
8:00 AM	TH05.1- A Bayesian Analysis of the Citrus Canker Epidemic in Urban Miami L.E. Jamieson
8:15 AM	TH05.2- Application of Critical Ratios in the Determination of Health Condition Index H.G. Williams
8:30 AM	TH05.3- A Discussion of Upper Limit of Human Life Distribution Based on Analysis of Data on Oldest-Old Survivors N. Hanayama
8:45 AM	TH05.4- The Influence of Geographic Accessibility on the Use of Video Lottery Terminals (VLTS) K.A. Brown
9:00 AM	TH05.5- Mapping Child's Health Inequalities in Nigeria: Contextual Influence of Child's Place of Residence N-B. Kandala
9:15 AM	TH05.6- A Hybrid Approach to Evaluation of BRCA Mutations Prevalence for Ashkenazi Jewish Women I. Novikov
9:30 AM	TH05.7- Challenges in the Analysis of a Randomised Trial of a School-Based Toothbrushing Program for the Prevention of Dental Caries D. Battistutta
TH6 - Methods For Longitudinal Data
8:00 AM	TH06.1- Joint Analysis of Multiple Longitudinal Outcomes: Application of a Latent Cluster Model H. Putter
8:15 AM	TH06.2- Continual Reassessment Method for Longitudinal Binary Data X. Paoletti
8:30 AM	TH06.3- Conditional Generalized Estimating Equations for the Analysis of Clustered and Longitudinal Data S. Goetgeluk
8:45 AM	TH06.4- Detecting Trends in Noisy Data Series: Application to the Detection of PSA Failure, Defined as Three Consecutive PSA Rises in Men Treated for Prostate Cancer C.A. Bellera
9:00 AM	TH06.5- Constructing Autoregressive Models using Mixture Copula Transition Distributions G. Escarela
9:15 AM	TH06.6- Analysis of Spatially Correlated Longitudinal Data R. Ma
9:30 AM	TH06.7- A Tree-growing Algorithm for the Analysis of Growth Curves A. Ciampi
TH9 - Markov And Semi-Markov Models
10:15 AM	TH09.1- Informative Examinations in Longitudinal Data: A Markov Model Formulation with Application to Hepatitis C Disease Progression M.J. Sweeting
10:30 AM	TH09.2- Exploring the State Sequence Space for Hidden Markov and Semi-Markov Chains Y. Guédon
10:45 AM	TH09.3- The Analysis of Local Recurrence and Distant Metastases in Early-Stage Breast Cancer Using a Mixture Markov Model W.-T. Hwang
11:00 AM	TH09.4- Choice between Semi-Parametric Markov and Non-Markov Multi-state Models from Coarsened Observations: Application to Dementia D. Commenges
11:15 AM	TH09.5- A Semi-Markov Model with Interval Censoring and Non-Proportional Hazards Y. Foucher
11:30 AM	TH09.6- A Semi-Markov Model for Biting Time Series R.P. Littlejohn
11:45 AM	TH09.7- A Semi-Markov Model for the Natural History of Human Papillomavirus Infection M. Plummer
TH10 - Methods For Correlated Data
10:15 AM	TH10.1- Checking Statistical Independence W.R. Pestman
10:30 AM	TH10.2- A Weighted Multivariate Sign Test for Cluster Correlated Data D. Larocque
10:45 AM	TH10.3- Differential Evolution Markov Chain for Bayesian Analysis of Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models C.J.F. Ter Braak
11:00 AM	TH10.4- Sample Size Calculation Accounting for Attrition in Cluster Randomized Trials M. Taljaard
11:15 AM	TH10.5- Improved Estimation Procedures for Intraclass Correlation Parameters E. Ahmed
11:30 AM	TH10.6- Bootstrap-Based Inference for Cox' Proportional Hazards Analyses of Clusterd Cencored Survival Data Y.L. Xiao
11:45 AM	TH10.7- On an Efficient Model to Forecast Sensex Data Su. Pal
TH11 - Latent Variable Methods In Health Research
10:15 AM	TH11.1- Flexible Latent Variable Models for Teratology J. Braeken
10:30 AM	TH11.2- Modelling Multivariate Cancer Rates with a Latent Structure Mixture Model T. Bailey
10:45 AM	TH11.3- A Latent Markov Model for Describing the Time Evolution of Multivariate Health Status Index: Application to Delirium A. Dyachenko
11:00 AM	TH11.4- A Comparison Among Indices of Perceived Health Status Based on Latent Class Clustering Models G. Cavrini
11:15 AM	TH11.5- A Latent Class Model for Identifying Distinct Clinical Courses of an Illness: Application to Delirium H. Xu
11:30 AM	TH11.6- Latent Class Multilevel Modelling of Ordinal Dental Data M.S. Gilthorpe
11:45 AM	TH11.7- An Empirical Study of the Classification of Weight Patterns: Latent Class Approach N. Karaagaoglu
TH12 - Quantitative Methods In Genetics
10:15 AM	TH12.1- Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci under the Multivariate-t Model J. Peng
10:30 AM	TH12.2- Powerful Nonparametric Sib-Pair Linkage Methods for Quantitative Traits Y.J. Hong
10:45 AM	TH12.3- Score Test for Linkage in Generalized Linear Models J.J.P. Lebrec
11:00 AM	TH12.4- A New Type of Stochastic Dependence Revealed in Gene Expression Data A. Yakovlev
11:15 AM	TH12.5- Finding Transcription Factor Binding Site : Markov Chain Monte Carlo Convergence D. Nur
11:30 AM	TH12.6- Improved Codominant Scoring of AFLP, Based on Collision Probabilities G. Gort
TH15 - Environmental Research
1:00 PM	TH15.1- Determination of the Main Atmospheric Factor for the Explanation of Ozone Concentrations K.G. Tsakiri
1:15 PM	TH15.2- The Impact of Meteorological Conditions on the Incidence of Respiratory Infections with Fever I. Karagiannis
1:30 PM	TH15.3- Effect of Noise Pollution on Physical and Mental Health of Shopkeepers in Varanasi City M. Pandey
1:45 PM	TH15.4- Risk Factor Variable Selection and Importance Ranking in the Context of Well Pollution E. Acar
2:00 PM	TH15.5- Canonical Correlation Analysis Applied to Environmental Data L. Bellanger
2:15 PM	TH15.6- Comparative Studies of Models for the Assessment of Environmental Pollution: A Case Study of the Bonny Estuary in the Niger Delta, Nigeria E.C. Nduka
2:30 PM	TH15.7- Physical and Chemical Characterisation of Soils in the Natural Habitat of Irvingia Gabonensis (Aubry Lecomte ex O'Rorke) in the Humid Forest Zone of Cameroon E.K. Asaah
TH16 - Infectious Diseases
1:00 PM	TH16.1- Stochastic Epidemic Models for Estimating Transmission Rates of Pathogens A.N. Pettitt
1:15 PM	TH16.2- An Optimal Isolation Policy for Stochastic Epidemic J.V. Arali
1:30 PM	TH16.3- Epidemiologic Study of Animal Populations by Capture-Recapture : FIV in Domestic Cats L. Rouan
1:45 PM	TH16.4- Residual Effects of Proton Pump Inhibitors on the Risk of Community Acquired Clostridium difficile J.A. Delaney
2:00 PM	TH16.5- Flexible Bivariate Models for Serological Data N. Hens
2:15 PM	TH16.6- Use of Stochastic Computer Simulation and Maximum Likelihood Methods to Estimate Sexual Transmissibility of Human Papillomavirus Infection A.N. Burchell
2:30 PM	TH16.7- CVMM: An Agent-Based Model for Comparing and Evaluating Vaccination Strategies C. Hicks
TH17 - Bioinformatics
1:00 PM	TH17.1- Bioinformatic Analysis of Allergens K.E. Basford
1:15 PM	TH17.2- Increasing Classifier Accuracy by Exploiting Background Variable Information using LPLS S. Sæbø
1:30 PM	TH17.3- On the Design of Gene Expression Studies Involving Biological and Technical Replication P.S. Bennett
1:45 PM	TH17.4- Family-based Association Screening Algorithms in Longitudinal Pharmacogenetics Studies for Asthma K. Van Steen
2:00 PM	TH17.5- Regularized General Linear Regression for Genome Wide Association Analyses S. Wagenpfeil
2:15 PM	TH17.6- Statistical Analysis of Dendritic Branching in Hippocampal Neurons R. Jornsten
2:30 PM	TH17.7- Bayesian Hierarchical Models for Combining Genomic Data S.T. Jensen
TH18 - Clinical Trials III
1:00 PM	TH18.1- Estimation of the Causal Effect of Treatment Received and of Treatment Assignment in Randomized Time-To-Event Studies with All-Or-None Compliance I.L. Hudson
1:15 PM	TH18.2- Adjusting for Rescue Medication D.R. Bristol
1:30 PM	TH18.3- Regaining Power Lost by Non-compliance T. Becque
1:45 PM	TH18.4- A Natural History Study to Compare Treatments A. Cnaan
2:00 PM	TH18.5- A New Approach to Assessing Agreement between Quantitative Measurements Using Replicated Observations M. Haber
2:15 PM	TH18.6- Evaluation of Logistic-Normal Binomial Model as an Alternative to Binomial Model in Analysing Clustered Clinical Data S. Samita
TH21 - Capture/Recapture Methods
3:15 PM	TH21.1- The Combined Analysis of Multisite Mark-Recapture-Recovery and Census Data R.S. Borysiewicz
3:30 PM	TH21.2- Marginal Capture-Recapture Modelling E.L. Turner
3:45 PM	TH21.3- On the Bayesian Estimation of a Closed Population Size in the Presence of Heterogeneity and Model Uncertainty R. King
4:00 PM	TH21.4- A Migration Model with Tag Loss L. Cowen
4:15 PM	TH21.5- Local Weather Covariates for Wild Animal Survival D.I. Brown
4:30 PM	TH21.6- A New Approach to Modelling Case-history Data with Missing Individual Covariates B.J.T. Morgan
4:45 PM	TH21.7- Estimation of Births Deaths and Immigration from Mark-Recapture Data R.B. O'Hara
TH22 - Survival Analysis III
3:15 PM	TH22.1- Penalized Likelihood Approach in a Mixture Cure Model P. Joly
3:30 PM	TH22.2- Density and Hazard Rate Estimation for Censored Data Using Gamma Kernels T. Bouezmarni
3:45 PM	TH22.3- Nonparametric Regression Analysis of Restricted Means and Quantiles in the Presence of Right Censored Data K.D. Rudser
4:00 PM	TH22.4- An Analysis of Clustered Survival Data Using a Nonparametric Bayesian Hierarchical Model with a Dirichlet Process Prior S.O.M. Manda
4:15 PM	TH22.5- A Random Time Interval Approach for Analysing the Impact of a Possible Intermediate on a Terminal Event J. Beyersmann
4:30 PM	TH22.6- Multi-Split Tree-Based Method in Survival Analysis T. Shimokawa
4:45 PM	TH22.7- Multi-state Models and Predictive Survival Process M.L. Calle
TH23 - Adaptive And Sequential Methods
3:15 PM	TH23.1- Confidence Intervals and Point Estimates Following an Adaptive Group Sequential Test C.R. Mehta
3:30 PM	TH23.2- New Allocation Rule for Repeated Measurement Designs Y. Liang
3:45 PM	TH23.3- Implementing Two-Stage Tests M. Vandemeulebroecke
4:00 PM	TH23.4- Proof of Concept Trials A.L. Gould
4:15 PM	TH23.5- Sequential Determination of Sample Size for Robust Linear Regression: Application to Microarray Experimental Design L. Briollais
4:30 PM	TH23.6- Sequential Testing of Hypotheses within the Same Stage of a Multi-Stage Phase II Design S. Poulopoulou
4:45 PM	TH23.7- Design Extensions of Experiments With Normally Distributed Outcome and Unknown Variance H.-H. Müller
TH24 - Microarray Data II
3:15 PM	TH24.1- Normalization and Mixed-model Analysis of Novel Multi-species Microarrays to Measure the Evolution of Gene Expression in Primates A. Oshlack
3:30 PM	TH24.2- Microarray Analysis Detecting Small Changes in Gene Expression Shows Involvement of Bone Remodeling in Osteoarthritis A. Tsykin
3:45 PM	TH24.3- Prediction of Cancer Outcome with Microarrays: How Good Can it Get? S. Michiels
4:00 PM	TH24.4- Sampling Genes or Sampling Patients? Strategies for Finding Differentially Expressed Gene Sets J.J. Goeman
4:15 PM	TH24.5- A Powerful Strategy for Detecting Differentially Expressed Genes B. Moerkerke
4:30 PM	TH24.6- A Knowledge-Based Extension of SAM to Indentify Biological Pathways Associated with a Phenotype Y. Yasui
4:45 PM	TH24.7- A New Method for the Detection of Breakpoints and Gene Copy Number Changes in Array CGH Data M.G. Schimek

Friday, July 21, 2006

F2 - Microarray Data III
8:00 AM	F02.1- Analysis of Microarray Data: A Mixed-model Finite-mixture Approach P.C. Thomson
8:15 AM	F02.2- Kinetics Analysis of Microarray Data Using Semiparametric Mixed Models C. Robert-Granie
8:30 AM	F02.3- A Comparison of Parametric and Nonparametric Methods of Normalising Microarray Data M.R. Khondoker
8:45 AM	F02.4- Variance Component Estimation in Microarray Experiments Involving Pooling C.M. Thompson
9:00 AM	F02.5- An Adaptive Empirical Bayesian Thresholding Procedure for Analysing Microarray Data R.E. Walls
9:15 AM	F02.6- Gene Clustering as a Method to Improve Prediction of Missing Values in Microarrays G. Feten
9:30 AM	F02.7- Sample Size Planning for Developing Classifiers Using High Dimensional DNA Microarray Data K.K. Dobbin
F3 - Robustness, Sensitivity And Influence
8:00 AM	F03.1- Robust Estimation in Multinomial Logit Models E. Oral
8:15 AM	F03.2- Influence Function for Phylogenetic Trees A. Bar-Hen
8:30 AM	F03.3- Efficient and Robust Pre-Processing Methods for Handling Multiple Observations per Cell in a Two-way Table N. Malo
8:45 AM	F03.4- Halfplane Location Depth in Statistical Shape Analysis S. Katina
9:00 AM	F03.5- The Power of Kappa A. Blance
9:15 AM	F03.6- Extend Minimum Density Power Divergence Estimates to Discrete Data Problems C. Yu
9:30 AM	F03.7- Sensitivity Analysis of Progression-free Survival with Dependent Censoring P.K. Ruan
F4 - Health Policy And Health Services
8:00 AM	F04.1- Accounting for the Sampling Variability of the Ranking of Mortality Ratios A. Perez
8:15 AM	F04.2- Development of a Diagnostic Tool for a Childhood Psychological Disorder using Multivariate Statistical Analysis D. Young
8:30 AM	F04.3- A Completely Different Approach to Sample Size Planning M.R. Segal
8:45 AM	F04.4- Assessing Migrants'and Refugees' Access to Reproductive Health Services in Botswana N.O. Ama
9:00 AM	F04.5- Total Quality Test to Overcome Worker Inadequacies: An Application in an Italian Hospital C. Scarinzi
9:15 AM	F04.6- The Use of Multiple Imputation to Predict Mortality by Acute Myocardial Infarction A.A. Tahami Monfared
9:30 AM	F04.7- Assessing Populations Choice for Social Network Size Estimation in Scale-up Methodology P. Berchialla
F5 - Joint Longitudinal And Survival Models
8:00 AM	F05.1- Nonlinear Latent Class Model for Joint Modeling of Multivariate Longitudinal Data and Time-to-Event Data H. Jacqmin-Gadda
8:15 AM	F05.2- Bayesian Analysis for Joint Modelling of Longitudinal Data and Survival Events in Mean-Covariance Model Y. Bao
8:30 AM	F05.3- Joint Modelling of Recurring and Terminating Events: Application to Cancer V. Rondeau
8:45 AM	F05.4- Practical Considerations in Spline Proportional Hazards Modelling with Time-Dependent Covariates A. Kawaguchi
9:00 AM	F05.5- The Effect of Follow-Up Frequency in Data with Informative Dropout R.B. Geskus
9:15 AM	F05.6- Mark-Specific Proportional Hazards Modeling Y. Sun
9:30 AM	F05.7- A Joint Longitudinal and Survival Model for Flexibly Incorporating Nonproportional Hazards D.L. Gillen
F6 - Functional Data Analysis
8:00 AM	F06.1- Application of Functional Data Analysis to Assess How Visual Cues Affect Flight Speed in the Honeybee A. Cowling
8:15 AM	F06.2- Gaussian Process Functional Regression Modelling for Batch Data J.Q. Shi
8:30 AM	F06.3- Diagnostics and Model Building for Dynamic Systems D. Campbell
8:45 AM	F06.4- Statistical Inference for A Predator-Prey Dynamical System J. Cao
9:00 AM	F06.5- Diagnostics and Model Building in Differential Equations G. Hooker
9:15 AM	F06.6- Functional Data Analysis of Haemoglobin Control in Dialysis Patients R.M. West
9:30 AM	F06.7- Rolled-upness J.T. Wood
F8 - Clinical Trials II
10:15 AM	F08.1- Customization of Probabilistic Baseline Covariate Adaptive Randomizations for Clinical Trials E.R. Miller
10:30 AM	F08.2- Interim Analysis for Trials Designed Using the Expected Value of Information A.R. Willan
10:45 AM	F08.3- An Adaptive Approach to Designing Longitudinal Clinical Trials W. Yuan
11:00 AM	F08.4- Optimal Adaptive Designs in Phase-II Trials A. Banerjee
11:15 AM	F08.5- Testing for Secondary Endpoint when Primary Endpoint Wins in Clinical Trial either Terminated or Extended H.M.J. Hung
11:15 AM	F08.6- Sample Size Re-calculation Based on the Observed Treatment Difference at an Interim Look K. Uemura
11:30 AM	F08.7- Estimation after the Group Sequential Design of a Phase 2 Biomarker Study Z. Feng
F9 - Meta-Analysis II
10:15 AM	F09.1- Bayesian Meta-analysis Models for Genetic Associations K. Mengersen
10:30 AM	F09.2- Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test ROC Curve Data T. Stijnen
10:45 AM	F09.3- Adjusting for Clustering in Meta-analyses of Individually-Randomized Trials G.P.S. Kwong
11:00 AM	F09.4- Reporting Bias in Systematic Reviews: A Bayesian Meta-analysis of 50 Years of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair L.A.L.W. Jayasekara
11:15 AM	F09.5- Meta-analysis of Clinical Trials with Homogeneity of Variances of Treatment Effects A. Hajivandi
11:30 AM	F09.6- Evaluating the Quality of Clinical Trials in Primary Treatment of Brain Tumors L. Thabane
11:45 AM	F09.7- A Method for Estimating the Agreement in Primary Study Selection between Systematic Reviews J.M. Bland
F10 - Measurement Error
10:15 AM	F10.1- Adjusting for Multivariate Measurement Error in Meta-Analyses A. Wood
10:30 AM	F10.2- A Measure for the Reliability of a Rating Scale Based on Longitudinal Clinical Trial Data A. Laenen
10:45 AM	F10.3- Using Aggregate-level Data to Calibrate Error-Prone Variables, with Application to Measuring Diet D.C. Greenwood
11:00 AM	F10.4- A Bayesian Method for Mixture of Shared Measurement Error Model in Relation to Disease Risk and Exposure to Radioactive Fallout from Nevada Test Site X. Sheng
11:15 AM	F10.5- Validation of Surrogate Endpoints in the Presence of Measurement Error N. Benda
11:30 AM	F10.6- Estimating and Testing Interactions in Linear Regression Models when Explanatory Variables are Subject to Classical Measurement Error H. Murad
11:45 AM	F10.7- Type I Error in the McNemar's Test Applied to the Lab-Driven Medical Diagnosis in the Presence of Multiple Measurement Errors and Detection Limit L.A. Hubicki
F11 - Categorical Data
10:15 AM	F11.1- Combining Multiple Sources of Information to Better Estimate Covariate Effects on the Probability of a Rare Event P.M. Dixon
10:30 AM	F11.2- Semiparametric Bayesian Analysis of Misclassified Binary Data A. Jara
10:45 AM	F11.3- A Score Test for Overdispersion Based on the Generalized Poisson Model Z. Yang
11:00 AM	F11.4- Choice of the Scores for Testing the Association in Ordered RxC Contingency Tables with Open-Ended Categories S. Aktas
11:15 AM	F11.5- Distributions for Sums of Exchangeable Bernoulli Random Variables D. Zelterman
11:30 AM	F11.6- Estimation of Additive Risk Regression Models for Binary Data S. Natarajan
11:45 AM	F11.7- Comparative Assessment of Statistical Tools for Handling Categorical Response Variables from Farmer Participatory Trials P.G.O. Weke
F12 - Multivariate Survival Analysis
10:15 AM	F12.1- An Old-New Family of Multivariate Distributions for Left Truncated and Right Censored Data S.T. Gross
10:30 AM	F12.2- Expected Cumulative Incidence in the Presence of Competing Risks R. Giorgi
10:45 AM	F12.3- Sensitivity Analysis in Case Series with Two Correlated Recurrent Outcomes M. Hocine
11:00 AM	F12.4- Estimation of the Marginal Causal Effects of Initial and Salvage Treatments for Recurrent Diseases X. Huang
11:15 AM	F12.5- Estimation in a Model of Recurrent Events in the Presence of a Terminal Event and Independent Censoring S. Geffray
11:30 AM	F12.6- An IPCW Estimator for Ordered Failure Times Subject to a Common Censoring Process C. Serrat
11:45 AM	F12.7- Dependence Evaluation for Multilevel Models in Survival Data A.C. Pedroso-De-Lima
F15 - Epidemiological Research II
1:00 PM	F15.1- A Model-based Approach to Reconstructing the Incidence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus(HIV) and Estimating the Survival Function with Doubly Censored AIDS Data in Iran N. Shakeri
1:15 PM	F15.2- Applying Bootstrap in Multilevel Modelling of Cardiovascular Disease L. Li
1:30 PM	F15.3- Role of Islet-Cell Antibodies as Time-Dependent Covariates in the Development of Type 1 Diabetes in Nondiabetic Relatives of Type 1 Diabetic Patients S. Yu
1:45 PM	F15.4- Hierarchical Logistic Regression in a Multicentric Study of Multiple Dietary Effects on a Disease Outcome: A Fully Bayesian Approach G. Roli
2:00 PM	F15.5- Methodological Issues to Evaluate the Short-term Health Effects of Weather Conditions: the PHEWE Project A. Biggeri
2:15 PM	F15.6- Statistical Approaches to Environmental Epidemiology of High Risk Areas. The Sardinia Region (Italy) Report D. Catelan
2:30 PM	F15.7- A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of a Continuing Education Programme to Increase General Practioner Provision of Smoking Cessation Interventions B.C. Pereira
F16 - Diagnostic And Screening Tests II
1:00 PM	F16.1- Simultaneous Comparisons of Accuracy, Sensitivity, and Specificity in Diagnostic Trials: Closed Test Procedures with A Priori Ordered Hypotheses J. Kaufmann
1:15 PM	F16.2- Combining Diagnostic Tests by Using Multivariate Logistic Regression for Optimal Classification and Application: Application to Chronic Hepatitis B Data M. Özkan
1:30 PM	F16.3- Comparing Diagnostic Tests: Test of Hypothesis Using Likelihood Ratios A. Barak
1:45 PM	F16.4- Use of Information Theory when Disease State has Three Categories U. Arslan
2:00 PM	F16.5- Diagnostic Performance of Breast Cancer Screening Tests in the Absence of a Gold Standard M. Colak
2:15 PM	F16.6- Prevalence Estimators in Two-Phase Studies G. Vilagut
2:30 PM	F16.7- Establishing an Equivalence/Noninferiority Test in a Two-Outcome Situation E.T. Jolayemi
F17 - Population Genetics
1:00 PM	F17.1- A Penalized Likelihood Framework for Haplotype Probability Estimation P.H.C. Eilers
1:15 PM	F17.2- Composite Likelihood in Fine Genetic Mapping F. Larribe
1:30 PM	F17.3- Identification of the Genetic Model when Using Trend Tests for Case-Control Studies of Genetic Markers L.A. Hothorn
1:45 PM	F17.4- Identification of the Gene-Gene Interactions in the Presence of Missing Data : Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction Approach T. Park
2:00 PM	F17.5- Genetic Dissection of a Complex Trait: Binary End-points Versus Multivariate Phenotypes S. Ghosh
2:15 PM	F17.6- Sequence-Level Simulations with Gene Conversion, Recombination Hotspots and Selection D.J. Balding
2:30 PM	F17.7- Confidence Interval of Allelic Odds Ratios under the Hardy-Weinberg Disequilibrium Y. Sato
F18 - Clustering And Classification
1:00 PM	F18.1- A Method for Identifying Subtypes of Parkinson's Disease Based on UPDRS Measurements P. Guimaraes
1:15 PM	F18.2- Persistent Disturbing Behavior: Clustering Longitudinal Profiles L. Bruckers
1:30 PM	F18.3- Graphical Models in Medical Research: An Example of Classification G. Eslava
1:45 PM	F18.4- On Comparing the Clustering of Regression Models Method with K-means Clustering L.X. Qin
2:00 PM	F18.5- Potts Model Clustering A. Murua
2:15 PM	F18.6- Performance Evaluation of Normal Distribution-Based Classification Procedures A.O. Adebanji
2:30 PM	F18.7- EEG Correlates of Highly Cognitive Mental Tasks for Closed-set Biometric Authentication P. Ramkumar